First Fight

As the punch flew in the mosquito's direction, it couldn't react and was sent flying to a nearby tree, crashing into it.

The winged devil remained motionless, lying on the ground without any movement for a while. The weird boar thought it had won and slowly walked to its enemy's position.

All of the sudden, the mosquito got up and sprayed some sort of green liquid onto the boar. The latter didn't expect this and received a direct hit, it staggered a few steps back as it let out a pained cry.

The mosquito used this chance to fly up and began its barrage of assaults on the boar, the latter was confused and could only swing its fists around aimlessly.

'Oh! It seems to be some kind of venom that blinds the boar's senses.' Achilles commented on the side while paying attention to every detail of the fight.

The battle continued for a while with the mosquito gaining an absolute advantage over the fight while the weird boar could only punch around randomly, desperately hoping to catch the flying insect.

When the boar was completely worn down by the venom and the heavy wounds caused by the mosquito's strikes, the latter swooped in to finish off the dying animal.

Out of the corner of its eye however, it saw a silhouette flew toward it. The insect's instinct got alarmed and it automatically dodged to a side, avoiding the axe by a close margin.

Achilles clicked his tongue in annoyance when he saw that his surprise attack missed its target. He was hoping that he could kill the mosquito when it was not keeping its guard, but the damn thing's instinct was sharp enough to save its life.

The mosquito was not happy that it got interrupted in the middle of its business, so it sprayed out the green fluid again to blind Achilles. He had anticipated this so he quickly jumped to avoid the venom. Before he managed to feel relieved, the insect tried to attack him again with its monstrous speed.

'Shit!'

Kang!

He swung his axe diagonally to deflect its strike but unfortunately got blown away instead.

"Argh!"

Achilles coughed up some blood inside his mask as he felt his organs slightly injured by the attack. The Corrupted was the same level as his, but its raw strength and speed were simply at a different height.

'OK...how the hell do I kill this bastard?' He wiped the blood from underneath his mask while glaring at the mosquito which kept hovering in its position without moving, as if taunting him.

Achilles glanced at the boar a little and noticed that the venom was starting to weaken and the weird monster was regaining control over its senses.

'Need to finish it by the next strike.'

He enchanted the axe with essences and his eyes grew bright red within the eyes' sockets of the black skull. He stood up wobbling before steadying himself and gripping tightly onto the axe.

The mosquito responded to his action by flying at terrifying speed toward his direction once again. Achilles didn't react in any way but only stood there, waiting for the insect to come.

When it was merely inches away from Achilles, his eyes grew even brighter as he muttered:

[Obey.]

The giant mosquito froze slightly and before it managed to regain control over its body, Achilles dashed to its left side and swung his axe horizontally.

The insect got chopped into two pieces and it spurted out a pool of blood everywhere, some of it stained on Achilles as his body dyed a red color, making him look extremely fearsome.

He didn't rejoice over his victory but swiftly arrived at the boar that was about to regain its senses as he raised his axe high and swung it down vertically, the boar got torn into 2 pieces of disgusting meat and more blood stuck on Achilles.

As soon as he confirmed that there were no more threats, a wave of exhaustion hit him due to his injuries and his essences pool got drained a large percentage of the total amount, which made him have to use his axe to stop himself from falling face flat onto the ground.

"Haa...haa...shit!"

It wasn't his intention to use "Will of The Dominator" since it costs too much essences that would put him in a dangerous situation if being used recklessly. But he simply had no choice since if the fight had prolonged any further he would have no choice but to flee for his life.

Most Corrupted shared a hatred towards Divine beings so there was no doubt that once the boar returns back to normal, the mosquito would team up with it to kill Achilles first.

Fighting one Corrupted was already a near-death experience for him, two would just mean he loved courting death.

"Better deal with this and flee ASAP before any other horrors get attracted here." He said quietly to himself while glancing around the bloody battlefield with a grim expression.