After slightly over a week of nothing, the corruption had returned.
But not like before.
In the past, there would be one or two sources of corruption that would give birth to a couple of corrupted areas.
Gabriel would be able to feel the main corrupted area that was placed first and in charge of dividing the corruption that was coming to the jungle and spreading it to form more corrupted areas.
It was relatively simple, and it was easy to stop it, one would have to start attacking the main area, which would defend itself, using the corruption to do so and slowing down the creation of corrupted areas significantly.
Destroying the source would make the main area weaker and weaker until finally, it would just run out of power, or be destroyed by the opponent.
Well now, the issue was the fact that Gabriel had already sensed 5 such main areas, and the number was still on the rise.
"I can sense more and more corruption making its way to the jungle ... this ... this has never happened before," Gabriel said with apprehension as he stared at Reign and the others.
"I haven't been able to sense it before, the corruption before it would get in the jungle, but now, I can clearly sense it making its way here, there's just so much of it, it's just so powerful."
"I ... I don't know what to do, you ... you won't be able to take it all down on time!"
"Calm down for god's sake." Reign said as he walked toward Gabriel.
"Tell us where the corrupted areas are, all of the main ones."
"Beast, send a message back in Doncaster and Wilkashere, all the Tier V combatants present are to come to the jungle, I will give them authorization to use the portal and come right over here, I don't believe Gabriel would mind it."
"I don't mind." Gabriel quickly said as he continued staring around, his face showing the concern he had.
"The other humans are on the move as well, one of the main corrupted areas has appeared near their base, they are already fighting against it."
"So the Enclave is also fighting, that's good, we'll need all the help we can get."
"Hey, what about the places, the ones where the mana surges are, has the corruption attempted to take over any of them?"
"No, at least not yet." Gabriel shook his head before sighing.
"But I doubt that will continue for long, the places with mana surges are perfect for them to use and create the Spawns, and if they manage to create multiple spawns and attack us, we won't be able to survive."
As for Reign, he only had one thing to do here, destroy the source.
It turned out that what happened the last time was not the complete truth. The source was indeed weak to light and feared it, but other attacks worked as well, it was just that one wouldn't be able to see the damage before the source was at a critical point.
They knew that because of what Greenie did the last time.
He grabbed his hammer and started swinging it and hitting the source with everything he had, and even though it seemed futile and useless, he didn't stop, thanks to that, they were able to see the damage that the source had taken and then destroy it.
Of course, Reign wasn't going to do such a thing.
He was capable of destroying the source much faster and easier, and that was what he was going to do right away.
Reign walked over to the source, his swords slowly starting to shine a brilliant white light. Even though it was not attacked, the source was visibly getting nervous, the hole was shaking and the voices from the other side were not as frequent as they had been mere moments ago.
Reign lunged, appearing in front of the source right away before stabbing down with both of his swords.
The corruption was quickly manipulated by the source, creating a shield in front of it, but it would not be enough as the two swords stabbed through the shield with relative ease before continuing down and stabbing into the hole.
Reign then exhaled before pouring his mana into the swords, increasing the brightness of the light and the intensity it brought with it. The hole started shaking, and shaking, and shaking until the corruption was completely gone.
Reign took out his swords, glanced down at the hole, and grimaced.
It was now just a regular hole, but that ... that was not quite good for them.
The runes and symbols, Reign's light had almost completely destroyed them, only some small traces remained.
"Dammit!"
"It's fine, there's more sources to take down, more runes and symbols to copy, just make sure to lower the intensity a bit the next time, stop before the source is completely destroyed, and everything should be fine," Beast said from the side as he stood up.
"There's nobody around that I was able to see."
"Tch, they have escaped quickly once again." Reign said as they all moved toward the wyvern while Wolf looked around with slight suspicion.
"Hey, you got something?" Reign asked Wolf who shook his head.
"Not quite, I'll have to see one or two more such places first."