CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE BATTLE WITH SUPERHUMANS (SHADOW VOID)

The view was truly spectacular. This was another version of humans on the surface of the earth. They are almost one thousand, they were like specks of dust. Each of them was divided into groups with their leaders in front of them. There were ten groups in total. Unyielding and domineering with unmatched arrogance. The vampires, The Lycan, fire benders, earth controller, wind controller, hybrids, werewolves, shadow bender, Chinese cultivator, and the ninjas. The vampires had black clothes with red capes which gave them a gloomy appearance. They all had red eyes but the brightness of the eyes varied. The lycan were all wearing shining black armor while the fire benders all had a mask which was red on.

"Let's get it right, I'm Richard Eno. You cannot overpower us so you better surrender" The leader of the vampires said as he stood up and looked at them with haughtiness while speaking with an arrogant tone

#Strength: 60

#Agility: 48

#Defense: 71

He used his analytic eye on the vampire leader and that was the result he was given. He did not bother to answer, he just raised his two middle fingers to show the sign "f*** you". The people watching at home all looked on. They already accepted their fate. They wanted to see how this set of people who were the first to oppose these superhumans would end. There is no doubt about it, they will die.

Richard Eno was not angry, he just smiled.

"Looks like you saw the easiest way towards hell but you are choosing the most difficult ones, I wish you luck," He said as he raised his hands.

"Are you the strongest in your various organizations?" Mark asked.

"Yes," Richard answered.

"This will make it easier, if I can just kill you, then that means I've destroyed the cream of the corps for the mercenary ground," He said while his eyes shone with a glint under the face mask.

"At least get past us first" Richard answered. They floated from the water and landed on the ground.

"Kill" Richard Eno commanded and the soldiers there rushed towards them like flocks except for for the strongest leaders.

The earth below them changed into dust, and while spikes came out from the ground, they just floated up. Fireballs were hurled at them but a wall of chaotic energy surrounded the four, they were not able to get past the chaotic wall. They were disintegrated and turned used to strengthen the chaotic energy.

"Attack him, he will soon run out from the strange energy" Richard Eno commanded with confidence. Another barrage of attacks rained on the wall but nothing happened. What they did not know was that he does not have a source of power, he is the source of the power himself so he can never run out of power. The only thing that can happen to him is his body getting stressed due to the overexertion of power. Attacks continued raining down but it could not do anything.

"Get closer" Richard commanded. They rushed towards the wall, intending to ram it with their numbers thinking that it won't be able to take it. They got to the wall while Richard was already laughing, he could already see victory at hand. No one can withstand the barrage of that kind of multitude.

"It's finished," The people watching from their various homes all thought. They've been caught amidst a multitude already, they could probably not survive again.

"Tsk, not interesting, even though I'm surprised by how he was able to get stronger quickly from his initial strength but he is just a weak ant. Looks like we don't have to use the weapons again" Mia said while sipping her wine.

"Yes it will save us a lot of money," Tiger said

"What a pity, I want to see it in operation," Mia said while clicking her tongue in distress.

"Clang" The glass cup fell from her hand to the ground when she saw the next scene that happened. Everyone watching also turned wide-eyed including Richard Eno and the twenty leaders, They looked in terror at what just happened. The soldiers collided with the wall but what they were expecting did not happen. They thought the barrier would just resist for some time before cracks appeared on it and it would shatter but it suddenly turned from a solid state to a gaseous state. The people that got in touch with it turned into pools of blood immediately. Over two hundred people from all sides all turned into pools of blood that entered Mark's body through the ground. The remaining quickly fell back while looking in horror.

The battle just took another turn. Richard watched on with wide eyes. He thought the battle had been in the palm of his hand from the beginning but he was being played.

"Just what I needed" A voice was heard.

"Arise" the same voice was heard again and immediately, like from the depths of hell, shrill voices which made the people shudder were heard. Shadow rose from the ground. The soldiers felt terrified because their allies one moment ago had now been turned into shadow undead.

"What ability is that" Richard Eno thought as he squinted his eyes. The leaders from the primordial forest who were in the white house, the ones in battle, and the humans who were watching the battle all had one thought in mind.

"The ability is too terrifying" They were all wide-eyed. An ability that could allow to raise shadow undead as soldiers.

The chaotic energy wall went back into his body, he was already feeling burdened but this time ten shadow soldiers were surrounding him. "Devour to your heart's content" He gave the command. The shadow pointed their palm forward and shadows rose from the newly risen shadows and entered their bodies.

# They have already reached your stats, upgrade to be able to increase their stats.

He was informed, and he looked at them. Something was already condensing little by little on their body. They were already different from the day he first raised them. They already turned from their blurry phase to a more realistic object. Their body shape was now becoming more distinct. He continued to filter the shadows while making each of them stronger to the maximum before adding them to his arsenal while being oblivious to the stares being directed at him.

Everyone's attention was focused on this blindfolded handsome youth. He was the one wielding this terrible power that could raise shadow undead to become his minions.

"That means once given time he will grow enough solider to actually" They could not imagine what would happen once he was given enough chance.

Tiger and the leaders in the white house were all looking at the screen with furrowed brows. Back on the battlefield, the expression of the warriors turned from surprise to fury when they saw the way Mark was using their colleagues.

"Kill" They all shouted as they rushed towards him but at the same time, Amelia chased forward while the royal blue fire burned out from her body. "Bam" she stamped her feet and the blue flames quickly spread to the enemies, anyone that it touches will freeze.

"Terrifying ability" The people watching could not close their eyes, they didn't want to miss the scene. They thought that only the blindfolded guy was strong enough but he also had teammates with terrifying abilities. In just some seconds, almost three hundred warriors had frozen into an ice sculpture. They were frozen dead, nothing could break or melt the ice. They all became ice statues.

"Retreat" They all retreated to the back of the leaders. The fire bender leader was set ablaze immediately with red hellfire, She stamped her feet on the ground, and the red fire then moved towards the blue fire to counter it. They both stopped for some seconds before the blue flames started to freeze the red flames albeit very slowly. She looked at Aerith while she was surprised. Aerith stopped the blue flames.

"Arise" another set of shadow soldiers arose from the ground but the leaders were surprised about Aerith. First, a flame that could freeze and it also went to the extent of freezing the hell fire. These groups were very terrifying and only two of them showed part of their ability yet half of the soldiers they bought were already dead.

The battle fell into stalemate, They watched how Mark's shadow soldier continued to rise while he continued to absorb the blood essence from the battlefield unconsciously but they could not do anything because they were gauging the strength of these terrifying individuals. Mark soon finished raising fifty shadow soldiers that had already reached the maximum stat they could reach at that moment. He looked up

"Kill and devour" He commanded. The fifty shadow soldiers moved forward, the leaders wanted to move forward to kill them.

They stroked once and twenty of the shadows dissipated but they soon reformed again to their surprise. They wanted to strike again but they suddenly felt danger, they left the shadow solider while trying to defend themselves from the four. They looked at the four youths with hostility while their soldiers surrounded the shadow soldiers. They soon smirked,

"You will die here and your shadow undead are also not useful' Richard Eno mocked Mark when he saw how Mark's shadow solider were cornered.

"Is that so" Mark just smiled mischievously. The leaders looked at him with their bodies tense in alert ready to make a move if he wanted to move, but what they thought would happen did not happen. Instead, his shadow separated from his body and covered the battlefield. It expanded.

"Shadow void"