Reign took Aethion's warning to heart. He knew this battle was unlike any he had faced before. The entity was a being of immense power, capable of manipulating corruption to its will, and the two humanoid monsters were seemingly immortal. This required more than just brute strength; it needed strategy and precision.
He glanced at the two humanoid monsters, now fully reformed and advancing towards him again. Their movements were synchronized, fluid, and unnaturally fast. They were no ordinary creatures but extensions of the entity's will.
"Keep them busy, but don't waste too much energy on them," Aethion's voice echoed in Reign's mind. "Focus on the entity. He is the true threat."
Reign nodded subtly, launching himself into the air to gain a better vantage point. As he ascended, the two humanoid monsters followed, their agility almost matching his own as their bodies mutated, wings sprouting on their backs. The entity watched with an amused expression, clearly enjoying the spectacle.
Drawing on his powers and channeling his mana, Reign summoned his light, allowing it to envelop his swords. He then dived back towards the humanoid monsters, slashing through them with renewed ferocity.
This time, instead of simply cutting them apart, he infused his strikes with his light, attempting to disrupt the corruption within them, doing his best to blast it away and make it more difficult for the two to recover.
The effect was immediate. The light-infused cuts slowed the monsters' regeneration, causing their movements to become more sluggish. Reign took advantage of this, creating a momentary opening and shooting towards the entity.
The entity, sensing the imminent threat, reacted swiftly. With a flick of its wrist, it sent a torrent of corruption towards Reign. The black waves crashed against Reign's light barrier, causing sparks to fly as the two opposing energies clashed.
"You're persistent, I'll give you that," the entity sneered, its voice dripping with malice.
Reign gritted his teeth, pushing forward through the onslaught. His light barrier strained under the pressure, but he didn't falter. He closed the distance, his eyes locked onto the entity's glowing orbs. Just as he was about to strike, the entity vanished, reappearing behind him in an instant.
"Too slow," the entity whispered, unleashing a blast of corruption at point-blank range.
Reign barely had time to react, twisting his body to avoid the brunt of the attack. The blast grazed his side, searing pain shooting through him as the corruption ate into his flesh. He retaliated with a powerful burst of light, forcing the entity to retreat.
Despite the pain, Reign's resolve only hardened. He couldn't afford to let the entity recover more of its power. He needed to find a way to disrupt its control over corruption and weaken it further.
"Focus on its connection to the corruption," Aethion advised. "It still hasn't taken all the corruption back, it is still acting as an external source of power, not his own, if you can sever that link, even temporarily, it will weaken significantly."
Reign nodded, adjusting his strategy. He summoned more of his light, this time channeling it into a concentrated beam aimed directly at the entity. The beam pierced through the air, striking the entity's chest and forcing it to stumble back.
Wolf, Shadow, and Greenie continued to battle the humanoid monsters, their coordinated efforts slowly wearing them down. Wolf's fiery sword cleaved through one of the creatures, the flames searing the corruption and preventing it from fully regenerating. Shadow darted in and out of the fray, his speed and agility allowing him to strike at vulnerable points.
Greenie, with his immense strength, pummeled the other monster, his blows leaving deep dents in its corrupted flesh.
Even then, the two monsters were not stopping. Their bodies still functioned even when injured, if you cut off a hand, it would quickly move to attack you, and parts of the body of the humanoid monsters would even quickly change, mutating and attacking the three with everything they had.
Their limbs would twist and more limbs would appear from them, and parts of their bodies would part, showing the corruption within that would soon turn into something else that the monsters used to attack them.
In a short period of time, the two humanoid monsters had changed completely and were now complete abominations, no longer looking like humanoid monsters at all.
Reign's attacks on the entity were relentless. He was charging with everything he had, using up all the mana in his body and fusing his lightning and light to deal as much damage as he could to the entity which had turned into a massive monster thanks to the corruption.
No matter how hard he tried, however, he was barely able to deal damage to the entity which continued attacking him and tanking all the attacks that left little more than cuts on its body.
'Aethion, Jared, I need some advice!'
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'How the hell do I defeat this bastard?!'
'From my calculations, with how powerful the master is in the moment, and how powerful the enemy is, victory is not possible.'
Jared's voice echoed in Reign's head, causing him to almost slow down for an instant and be hit by the entity.
'He speaks the truth, I thought we could perhaps cut off the corruption and weaken this bastard, but he was just playing around, the corruption was acting like an external source of power, and he had absolute control over it from the start.'
'Defeating him truly is impossible, the huge body he has is as powerful as a Tier VIII being from what I can notice, and each attack carries the same power with it, you are lucky he is slow, however.'
'I don't think it will last long though, so even though you can't win, that doesn't mean you have to lose.'