Chapter 750 - Another Ambush?!

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The entity felt humiliated!

The monstrous Hivemind raged as it began to feel like it was an utter fool.

And its small and non-divine soul felt weak and pained.

"Agggrr…"

It had yet to reach a level of power where its soul could truly evolve into something rather strong, and its body which was the most overpowered thing, wasn't that overpowered either now that it was being sealed by the tree.

However, it still had its cult and others that obeyed his whispers…

"Kill that girl! Kill that vermin! Fast…! Quickly!" he roared.

His orders emerged as oracles within his servants.

The woman at the side of the Duke of Yggdra received such oracle as her eyes opened wide.

"Are they ready already? They're taking way too long! My Dark Lord has contacted us! He desires the girl's death at all costs!" she said.

The Duke swallowed saliva, feeling a bit overwhelmed.

"W-Well… They're technically…!" muttered the Duke, nervous against the domineering woman.

"Then bring them out and do it! Whenever she walks outside town, chase her and slaughter her painfully!" she said.

"Y-Yes…" said the Duke.

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Manationia had a hearty breakfast and then decided to move to the Adventurer Guild.

Although there were a lot of quests regarding exploring the Labyrinth, she had no intentions of going there.

Why? It was too much of a hassle, she was better off exploring the forest, it was also closer to the city and had things available for her easily.

"Hmmm… I will just take some of the extermination quests…" she thought.

She quickly moved out of the guild and ran to the outside of the town, there, the beautiful greenery of the jungle greeted her sight.

She began jumping around trees using her increased agility and enhanced body strength, as she started to look for the beasts.

A group of Titanosquids quickly showed up in front of her, right below the treetops.

It was a large group, and herd of around twenty of them eating together the plants around.

There were even little babies.

She sighed and decided to look for a loner.

Although she could easily deal with the entire group, she didn't wanted to, pitying the little babies wandering around and their mothers.

They were just having a good life by themselves, why bother them?

Titanosquids were like elephants on Earth. They wandered around the wilderness in big groups, protecting their young, which a female usually only gave birth to one and would raise over many years.

But sometimes there were males that would go on themselves, mostly on heat, looking for the groups of females.

These were often lonely and wouldn't protect their children, sometimes even attacking the kids so they could get a chance with a female…

Those were better targets, nobody would miss them if they went missing a bit, although Manationia made sure to not just slay every single male, or the population would easily go down…

"There!"

Manationia found an old male, covered in scars, one of its tentacles was even missing, it seemed that it had a long life.

CLASH!

She flew towards it and sued her leg, kicking it into the ground.

A swift death, the creature died almost instantly.

She quickly deposited it inside of her shadow and continued moving forward.

However, she suddenly realized something odd.

Three figures were a dozen of meters away from her.

They might just be animals.

But they were not, they exuded enormous auras of darkness.

"Manationia…"

Octo quickly realized this.

"I know, once more they're coming for me… This is a good place to deal with them."

Manationia quickly stopped her march as she stood over a tree branch…

There were three large males that showed up, not in black clothes, they seemed to wear aristocrat clothes, and looked a bit familiar.

Manationia quickly realized they were advisors of the Duke that she sometimes saw with the Duke when he came to talk to the people in large shows.

But why were they chasing her down? They were fighters?

She already knew that they were evil if they were obeying the cult.

But still! It was quite weird.

She squinted her eyes at them as they looked at her resentfully, their eyes were crimson-red and they seemed to have lost all their sanity.

What was just happening right now? What was up with these guys anyways?

They were acting very strangely, Manationia felt a bit of fear, a dreadful feeling emerging behind her back as she swallowed saliva and gritted her beak, she quickly began to enhance her entire body with many spells since the moment she sensed them, thankfully.

"Youuuuu…!"

"Kill!"

"Kill her!"

The three spoke as if they were zombies, possessed by a dark force.

"Manationia I think these guys are weird… they're being infused with some strange dark power!" said Octo.

"I know!" said Manationia.

"Ah, they're coming!" said Octo.

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

The three bastards reached up to Manationia and suddenly changed, shapeshifting!

Their bodies exploded as their muscles began to expand and grow, their skin turned black and so their feathers… their legs turned monstrous, sharp claws emerged over their feet, and their beaks turned metallic and enormous!

Even horns grew over their heads!

Manationia could feel a lot of mana coming out of their bodies!

They were somehow being enhanced by some strange method…

"GRAAAA!"

One of them roared angrily, clashing against Manationia's, she swiftly evaded, but his beak attack was so strong that the entire tree was cracked open and fell over the floor!

BOOM!!!

"W-What the…?! What's going on? T-This is new…!" said Manationia in surprise and a bit of fear, looking at the monsters approach her relentlessly!

"GROA!"

Another one of them reached to her, using its foot and claws, it clashed against the tree branches and destroyed them, forcing her to fly using magic.

A third on attempted to attack her from behind as she ran away!

"Ngh…! I won't back down even against you!" she roared angrily, as she filled herself with bravery and unleashed a powerful spell!

"Eternal Blazing Cage!"

FLAAAASH!

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