Against a Mutated

As the two Corrupted jumped at Achilles as their shadows loomed over his head. He pushed himself back to avoid the impact of their landing.

Boom!

Pieces of debris flew everywhere but he remained unscattered since he had already retreated to a safe distance.

Before he could counter-attack, a fluctuation in the Mutated's essences appeared as multiple small-scale light orbs gathered in front of its mouth.

Achilles assumed for the worst and distanced himself as far as possible.

And just as he had suspected, the bullets' speed was much faster than they were prior!

Not only that, the bullets were firing at a practically unpredictable trajectory.

[Shit!]

Achilles tried to shift his body to dodge an incoming bullet but the thing changed its course and flew straight at his chest.

Luckily he managed to crouch down before the very last moment — or rather, he fell down and avoided the thing by a close margin.

Boom!

It exploded right behind him but Achilles had no time to pay attention to it as three more were heading his way.

He jumped to a side and dodged two of them and the last one hit his leg.

Achilles was blown away by the strike but remained unharmed as he had timely activated the "Mantis' Armament" to defend himself.

He rolled on the ground like a human rag doll for while before stopping with his face figuratively kissing the ground.

He wasn't even able to catch a breath before sensing the two Corrupted from earlier running at him.

They raised their razor-sharp claws up high, intending to tear him apart. As their hands came closer to him, Achilles' red eyes shone a terrifying gleam before he said in a low tone:

[Kneel!]

The abominations halted in their steps as the Evolved one knelt on its legs while the Surpassed one's body shook intensively.

Achilles' body disappeared from where he was before appearing behind the Surpassed, he raised his axe high and swung it at the beast — decapitating all its limbs.

"GARGHH!!" The monster shrieked loudly in pain as blood profusely leaked out from its limbs.

When he was about to kill the other one who was still kneeling on the ground, the Mutated lunged at him from behind as it tried to attack him.

Achilles had anticipated this action and immediately responded by grabbing the creature who was wailing on the ground and throwing it at the Corrupted.

The creature didn't expect this and collided with the limbless monster, which made them both fall to the ground.

Before the former was able to push the latter away, Achilles' figure showed up in front of it. He stood silently stared at the thing for a while, and raised one of his legs up and brought it down — completely crushing the thing's head into a bloody pulp.

After a moment, he turned his attention back to the last one of the bunch — which started running away when desperately when noticed his gaze.

The Evolved had seen how the human in front of it killed the two Surpassed with ease. It was not going to lie there to wait for the same fate to happen to it.

It wasn't able to run for more than 10 steps before its head suddenly flew off as the Corrupted watched its headless body fall.

Splash!

The abomination's vision went black entirely.

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[After that, I cleared out a few more that got in my way before came here to hug you like this.] Achilles explained as he enjoyed the feeling of the white-haired beauty in his embrace.

Sia felt her face heating up for a second before composing herself, she caressed Achilles' hair while asking in a tender voice:

[You must be tired, aren't you?]

[I've already told you, I'm fine. And besides, we need to kill that thing.]

The couple acted like actual husband and wife without any particular care about their current relationship.

Achilles was always wary of Sia, but after today's events when they spent their time together, most of that doubt had been broken down.

Now he didn't think much about her origin, why was she so interested in him? Et cetera...

Well...other than the fact that she knew his identity though. But they would cross that bridge later.

[Right.] Sia nodded after hearing what Achilles said.

[You called someone prior to this right? When will they arrive?] Achilles asked while still staring beyond the walls.

[We did but...they were at the furthest position away from this section.] She spoke in a tense voice.

[How long do you think before they reach here?]

[20 minutes at least, maybe....]

[Then we'll keep fighting but try to reserve your stamina as much as possible. After the cavalry arrives, we'll deal with the leader.] Achilles said as he slowly backed away from Sia and looked at the horde that was now less than 50 meters away.

[Got it.] Sia nodded in understanding.

[...Still up for that bet?] Achilles asked her with a smirk.

[...You know you're going to lose right?] The little succubus replied with a seductive smile.

[Who knows? I might win by some lucky chance.] He shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly.

With that said, the two figures vanished from where they were and arrived in front of the horde.

Another bloody hell ensued upon the poor Corrupted by a red-eyed devil and a grey-eyed demoness in human skin.