Corrupted Massacre Festival

Achilles and Sia clashed head-on with the monstrous, nearly unstoppable horde.

The former increased his speed and jumped on top of a creature, raising his axe high and swinging down violently.

The beast's head was severed in two as it fell down lifelessly.

Thud!

Achilles pulled the axe stuck within the bloody skull out before heading for two more coming his way.

He was once again impressed by his newfound strength since he just took down a Higher Evolved without a sweat on his forehead — a task that used to be inhumanly difficult and could only be called an injustice.

'Heart of The Devourer is crazy...' He thought in admiration before dodging a strike headed at his face.

He cut off the abomination's arm in one move, which made it shriek loudly in pain.

Before he could kill it, the other one was mindlessly approaching him which made him scoff a little and sidestepped.

Boom!

The abomination directly attacked the one that had just lost its arm, and they tumbled onto the ground.

Achilles utilized this chance to sneak up behind the Corrupted that tried to sneak attack him, he chopped off its head instantly.

'Sneak attacks are unacceptable...' Achilles thought shamelessly.

The Higher Evolved that was under the headless corpse was struggling to get up, Achilles dashed next to it and raised one of his legs up, turning the head into a bloody pulp.

'I wonder how is she faring?' He turned to look at the other side of the battlefield, and saw that the little elf was slaughtering Corrupted much fiercer than he could achieve.

'Impressive...Guess I have to hurry as well.'

He sprinted deeper into the warzone and clashed with four Corrupted, two of them were Lesser Surpassed — Something that a Divine of his level should be afraid of and run away from at first sight.

...But Achilles was not the same weakling as before.

...He was now much, much stronger...and deadlier.

He jumped at the weakest of the bunch, then activated the "Mantis' Armament" and used his left hand as a knife to completely destroy the monster's retinas.

"GARGHH!!!" The Corrupted wailed in pain but Achilles could not bother about it as the rest was heading his way.

He jumped high into the sky as the other three crashed into the blind one, killing it entirely.

'As stupid as usual...'

If there was one thing great about fighting Corrupted — they were too dumb to have an actual strategy in battles. This made it incredibly simple to kill them, as long as one has the necessary power, of course.

He landed on the ground and was about to rush at the three again when suddenly, a fluctuation in their essences appeared.

'Essences blasts.'

Achilles realized what they were planning and backed away swiftly. And just as he had anticipated, the three abominations were gathering essences in their mouth.

Moments later, they unleashed the three glowing spheres headed his way.

Achilles thought that he was safe from this distance but...he could not be wronger than that.

'Too fast!!!' The three bombs were moving at a much faster rate than he could imagine which made it impossible to dodge.

All he could do was covered his vitals and braced himself for the explosion.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Three loud explosions sounded out as a cloud of dust was raised up high. The three beasts were about to jump towards the dust cloud to eat the body when all of the sudden...

Two red lights appeared from behind the smoke screen, and as the dust cleared off, it revealed the tattered figure of Achilles.

His armor had broken somewhat from the explosion and his body was covered with small burns.

[You three...are going to die for that.] He spoke as the gleam in his red eyes shone brighter than ever.

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[Huh?] Sia's heart jolted a little as if an electric current just ran through her.

Meanwhile, a cat-like Corrupted jumped at her from the side, intending to bite her with its ferocious teeth.

But unfortunately, the poor creature was held in the head by Sia before she squeezed with the grip of her hand alone.

No blood was splattered on her beautiful figure as the cat was disintegrated into smithereens instantly.

She still looked the same as she was before the battle — captivating and untainted by the bloody warzone.

But she couldn't care any less about that right now.

[Darling...] She muttered as a worried look appeared on her exquisite face.

Her heart just had a bad premotion that something terrible may have occurred to him.

She wanted to come into rescue him from whatever was harming but that uncomfortable feeling soon disappeared.

Sia sensed that Mark's life was not in danger anymore. However, she knew very well that he was probably injured and desired to rush by his side right now.

[No, we need to trust darling.] She listened to her inner voices and decided to trust her lovely man.

Another Corrupted with terrifying speed was running towards her, but she did not even look at it before slicing the thing in two pieces.

[Who's next?] Sia muttered as her mood became angry and annoyed.