Chapter 205: Tapped into the Power

Seems like the Soul Contract worked. So this is what it feels being in a soul contract. I could feel whether the monster is close or far away from me. And I feel like... it'd do anything I ask of it. I need to think of a name for this... then... "Faye. That'll be your name. Come out!" This time, she spawned infront of me disconnected from the phoenix.

I hopped on the phoenix and Faye followed. "Take care of Yefa!" I still don't know where she is but she's in good hands.

Zeta then jumped on the phoenix. "I'm coming with you." Zeta then pulled out something from his inventory which looks like to be a... trident? "Find Yefa and cure her. Hmm... I forgot you don't know her. Just take care of any living beings that you see."

"Come on!" The phoenix flapped its wings and flew incredibly quick. "To the cyclops!" The phoenix's speed was too fast for us. It's getting incredibly difficult to hold on. We barely caught this phoenix when it was still our enemy.

"What's this cyclops?"

"Its a hybrid!"

"Hybrid!?"

"Yeah."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well... see for yourself."

The moment we got there, the place we were before wasn't the same. The trees, the ground, the structures and the kingdom a kilometer away... They were all gone. It was a giant wasteland. At the distance we saw the gigantic cyclops fighting someone. It was Herold. With his quick maneuvers, he barely manages to dodge the amount of tentacles the cyclops is smashing everywhere... Well... it doesn't look like that the cyclops is the one doing that. The tentacles looks like it has a mind on its own.

Zeta couldn't help but be amazed at what he just saw. "So that's a hybrid? A cyclops with tentacles... I have to research more about this. And its gigantic size... I can feel that this thing is dangerous. And from here..."

We could feel the winds of those tentacles smashing everywhere.

A single movement of that tentacles sent shockwaves everywhere. Either destroying the environment by the sudden gust of winds that was extremely powerful, or simply attacking in random places hoping to hit something. That cyclops wasn't right in the mind. Well, I can understand that since they're not exactly the intelligent type of species.

Herold by himself can withstood the amount of barrage of the whips of those tentacles. He goes in, unleashes stabs faster than my eyes could see and he immediately retreats. And those cuts that he just did were instantly regenerating.

"That's an incredibly scary regeneration. Especially for the cyclops' size." Zeta then raised his trident, "Water's Rage!" My sword and shield glowed and I could see Herold's weapons glowing too. He looked over to us and immediately flew to us.

With his swords raised, ready to kill, I ran up and blocked his attack. "Hey!"

"Oh, Precia!" He lowered his weapons. "I thought you died from the Phoenix. And uh... Zeta? Fancy meeting you here. Are you the one that did this?" Herold showed his weapon to us.

"Yeah." Zeta responded. "With the Water's Rage, there'll be millions of microbes inside that sword. Once you damage the enemy, they'll continue to take small amounts of damage. And the best part is that the microbes will start eating the part where you wounded the enemy, preventing them from regenerating."

"This is great. I don't have to worry about anything anymore. Alright, thanks, I'll be going now." Herold jumped off and flew straight at the cyclops.

I then ordered Faye, "Faye, go support us from above! Let's go Zeta!" The both of us jumped off and flew straight at the cyclops. And in the corner of my eye, I already saw a tentacle heading my way. I raised up my shield, "Immovable!" And fully absorbed the attack. I could only feel the gust of wind that was headed our way.

"Frozen Field!" The ice started from Zeta then began to spread throughout the cyclops' body. But its tentacles were too strong so it easily destroyed all of that. "Dark Star Fallen!" A meteorite filled with dark energy spawned out of nowhere and fell into the cylops' back. A gigantic hole... maybe five meters of its flesh was completely pierced through by that spell. The cyclops' movements stopped and so did the tentacles.

"Did it... die?" I questioned.

"I don't... know. Keep your guard up." Just a few seconds after he said that, its back began to regenerate in a terrifying rate."

Herold rushed in and took this chance. He held up both of his daggers up and let it do its own thing. As if like nothing was hitting the cyclops but more and more wounds were opening up on its back. Herold was disappearing and reappearing aiming directly at its vitals and joints.

He started off with a giant slash on its back then went straight down and cut the tendons of the cyclops on its feet. Making it falter. The cyclops fell on its knees and it was completely unprotected from anything. Herold's ferocious attack as he cross the kilometer long body.

He disappeared completely. We couldn't see him anymore. "So this is how powerful Herold is..?" Zeta muttered.

"Yeah... to think that he has gone such lengths to the point that we can't see him when the cyclops' body is around a kilometer in height." I added.

The first was its bottom body. Herold's insane speed managed to cut of its legs simultaneously, chopping it into pieces for further safety so that the cyclops won't regenerate.

The cyclops' regained its consciousness, shouting in pain as its voice was completely heard throughout the entire area. It began to cry and lash around like a baby. But each of these lashes serve more and power the longer it lashes it out. The mountains, hills, structures, living beings below, everything that was near it is pummeled to the ground.

Hundreds of tentacles were heading onto Herold but Herold stood his ground and cut off any tentacles that was heading his way. "HAAAAAAA!!!" Each and every tentacle was cut perfectly as any of it gets even barely in his range, it'll definitely get cut. "Million Rain!"

"Suddenly, his movements slowed down..? Or not? It was like I'm seeing his movements before he even does it. There's like an outline of his body showing the path of what he's going to do." I couldn't understand what was happening.

"Huh!?" Zeta's face turned into an amazement. "Million Rain, a class specific skill than can be unlocked at level 1000. It isn't telegraphed moves that its showing. Million Rain mimics everything that you do with the same power and damage behind it. It mimics the action done by the user and repeats it. So that means that if Herold slashes a powerful swing once, it'll get repeated a hundred times or even more than that depending on his mana capacity with the same power and no drawbacks."

Herold swung his sword once and I saw at least twenty more afterimages that did the same thing. Everything that was infront of him got instantly obliterated. He moved away and trails of his afterimage can be seen. He started his berserker method again.

He completely disappeared from our sights as he travels around the cyclops' whole body, slashing everything open to worsen the wounds.

All we could see were his after images slicing and dicing the things he also travelled to. A few seconds later, its arms fell off and the tentacles were trying to reconnect itself. But the spell that Zeta casted were completely preventing it. The cyclops had no more weapons at its disposal other than its eye. But Herold knew this and instantly destroyed the eye without hesitation.

For his final performance, his attacks began to move faster and faster until the cyclops completely froze in place. The moment that he was done, everything fell apart as if its just realizing that it has been cut. This is the first time that I've seen how powerful Herold is.

The cyclops couldn't move, couldn't do anything with its tentacles or even use its eyes to release skills... It was a completely one sided fight. But Herold wouldn't have won if he doesn't have anti-healing spells. But even though Zeta helped him a lot, his strength was still far beyond that of the cyclops.

Is that what it means to be strong..? That's... amazing. I couldn't help but be amazed on the feat that he just did. "Woah..." If only I could get stronger, to the point that I won't fall behind with anyone... that'd be the greatest feeling.

Zeta scratched his head, "I forgot to help. I only watched. I couldn't begin to understand how powerful Herold really is."

"Is everything... over?" Yefa came to us with her body still heavily damaged by the phoenix.

"Yeah. I think so. Alright, I'll be leaving you now. Go do the jobs we were tasked to do. See you all later."