They knew that defeat was not an option, not when so much was at stake. Their determination and resolve only grew stronger as they faced the relentless onslaught of the corrupted enemies. Each of them fought with all their might, pushing themselves beyond their limits in order to protect their world from the spreading corruption.
Reign continued his fierce battle against the enemy leader, their swords clashing with incredible force. Despite his exhaustion, Reign refused to yield, his determination unwavering. With a swift motion, he unleashed a series of lightning-fast strikes, each blow aimed at the leader's weakened defenses. The leader, realizing he was at a disadvantage, tried to counter, but Reign was too quick.
With a final, decisive strike, Reign pierced the leader's heart, only for the body of the leader to collapse, turn into corruption, and then reform again a couple of meters away from him.
This had happened three times already.
The enemy leader was weaker than Reign, had it not been for the corruption which was giving him a body that was seemingly immortal, this battle would have been over by now, but no matter what Reign did, even when he used his light to blast the insides of the enemy leader, he could not truly kill him.
'Any ideas of how to get rid of this bastard?' Reign asked Aethion who sighed and nodded.
'The only thing I can think of is to destroy his soul, without a soul, he will naturally cease to exist, even the corruption shouldn't be able to bring him back, but that's the thing, he has been on guard against soul power for some time now and has not used it at all.'
'He is definitely waiting for you to attempt to damage his soul and defend against him, and if the battle gets prolonged, well, we both know that time is on their side as the corruption is making him stronger and stronger, as it is doing to the other combatants of his faction.'
'The longer this battle continues, the harder it will be, especially for the others, those monsters that the corruption keeps spawning are not weak, some are almost as powerful as Tier VI combatants, they will be overwhelmed if nothing changes.'
Reign nodded his head inwardly, fully aware of what Aethion was telling him. He knew that the battle was progressing in a way they didn't expect it to progress, in quite a bad one.
The origin of corruption had been the one thing they kept in mind while planning the attack, they knew that the origin would definitely be an issue, they just never expected it to be this big of an issue. They never thought that the corruption would suddenly take over the entire base and continue spreading, devouring everybody that was there and leaving nothing left.
They had no idea that the corruption could create such monsters by itself, without having to be controlled by the enemy combatants, and that the monsters it created were so difficult to destroy.
Still, it was not as if the battle they were currently taking part in was impossible to be won.
'The true origin is still below the ground, it hasn't shown itself yet, it is merely expelling all the corruption that it has outside, making the area look like this, so you need to be ready to continue fighting even after the leader is dead.'
Reign nodded inwardly again as he continued cutting the leader up, destroying his body without showing an ounce of emotion. The leader's face was definitely changing bit by bit as he found himself unable to do a single thing to Reign in his current form. He was overwhelmed, not being able to even defend against his attacks.
The other Tier VI combatants had noticed it as well, as did Wolf and the others who were all in smiles.
"See, even though you guys are tough, as long as our boss is stronger than your boss, we will win," Tank said with a smile as he stared at the man who can make distortions in the air.
His arm was broken, a part of the other one was missing as Tank had managed to slice it off during a downward slash a while ago. The bone could be seen, but it was healing thanks to the corruption, as was the broken arm as well. Stay connected through m-v l|e'-novelhall.net
Still, with only one hand usable, the man was finding it nearly impossible to stop Tank, especially since the latter was not holding back at all and had used his mark.
He clicked his tongue in annoyance, but in his eyes, one could see that he truly was worried about what was going on. If their leader did indeed lose, then they would soon follow in his footsteps as Reign's immense aura was making it a bit difficult for him and the others to battle normally.
It was placing a bit of pressure on them, even from afar, which was both incredible and horrifying to them.
"Come on, don't you have anything else to show me, any more power-ups?!" Reign asked with a wide smile as he cut the leader in half, the latter's face showing pain and anger.
"If this is all, then I'll just continue killing you until you truly die!"
"I refuse to believe that you can keep this up for much longer anyway, you're far too weak to do so!"
Reign's words made the enemy leader's face change more and more, his anger evident and his frustration at being able to do nothing but die over and over again easily noticed by Reign who continued doing the same thing over and over again.
He had already killed him 20 times since he transformed, and he was not about to stop.
'Get ready, I can sense his soul power moving, he's not doing it properly, his anger is making him sloppy.' Aethion said with a smile as he moved the soul power inside Reign, ready to defend against whatever the enemy was about to do and to counterattack.