Chapter 375 Another Corpse Doll Downed

[The goddess 'Artemisia' says that the Autonomous Corpse Puppet before you, contains a third of the Soul of the Entity; 'Methik Ifoumien'.

She states that destroying this puppet and its soul fragment, is guaranteed to put him out of commission, in a state where he would be effectively no better than a cripple.

He is also guaranteed to lose a certain percentage of his skills as well.]

Seeing this message made Evan's eyes gleam with a dangerous light, one that instinctively made Methik back away in fear.

However, such an action was futile as the moment he took a step back, the distance between him and Evan had been reduced to zero.

As for what happened next?

**BOOOOOMMMM!!!!

Even Methik himself did not understand what had occurred, all he knew was that Evan had done something and that something dealt great damage to both his physical body, and his soul.

Meanwhile, Evan casually walked towards Methik with a sword that still had a reddish gold aura spiralling around it, cracking his neck once more, before disappearing and reappearing beside the fallen Methik.

Without hesitation, the boy thrust the sword downwards, intending on stabbing Methik who was laying on the floor, but the demonic hand senior member sensed existential danger in Evan's blade and rolled out of the way to avoid the attack.

***KAABOOOMM!!!!

Two explosions rang out simultaneously.

One of which; was Evan's vortex hitting the ground, while the other was from the grandmaster level Dullahan that was sent flying by the Brigade captain.

The Undead Creature cracked its neck and stood up immediately after, with Evan's eyes widening as he appraised the creature.

"A knight of the Theoregrim Family!

Vazgan's direct subordinate!"

Hearing Evan's words, the Dullahan's body turned in his direction, and upon sensing the destruction aura coming from him, it flared its' magic power and took a single step that spanned the entire distance between the two of them.

The magic power-filled sword of the Dullahan cut through the air at breakneck speed, however, it did not hit its target, merely striking the empty ground where Evan was standing a moment before.

"Elemental Vortex!"

The Dullahan instantly reacted to Evan's shout, coating its whole body in magic power no more than half a second before the swirling mass of multi-elemental attributed aura slammed into its back and sent it flying for the second time today.

Mid-air, the Brigade Captain blitzed in behind the Dullahan and unleashed a strike with his sword, knocking the undead to the ground with enough force to form a deep crater in the ground.

Just when the Dullahan thought it could have a break, a gigantic arm constructed of black demonic energy grabbed its body tightly with a grip it surprisingly could not break out of, before tossing it up into the air.

Another gigantic demonic energy arm construct, with this one wielding a similarly large long sword that was encased in dark red flames, slashed down towards its defenceless body immediately after.

Keeping up the trend, the Brigade captain flashed in again and unleashed a lightning-quick blow targeting the large crack in the Dullahan's armour, with his sword succeeding in shattering the amour and piercing the flesh of the undead underneath.

The force of the blow knocked the Dullahan away and sent it flying out of the manor area, with the Brigade Captain not even wasting a second to go after it.

As for Evan, his pupils darted around rapidly, before locking into a certain location as he kicked off the ground and dashed towards that Direction.

Naturally, Methik, the unlucky soul who was Evan's target, was immediately caught as the young hero directly punched the side of his head with a fracture imbued fist.

Methik cursed the past him who decided not to stuff this particular corpse puppet with explosives since it had a third of his soul, as he held what was left of his right arm after Evan's vortex had shredded it to pieces.

And then, a fist suddenly slammed into the side of his head, cracking his skull, while dealing him another dosage of that soul-rending pain that made him feel like his existence was at risk.

And indeed, it was, as Evan's Blessing of Destruction's True Damage attribute was slowly destroying that piece of his soul with every successful attack.

"Thunderclap."

Blocks of golden lightning appeared behind Methik and formed into a wall, before folding in a 'clapping' motion right after his body crashed on it.

Just like the young spirit who owned the skill, Evan tossed a ball of bright red flames towards the unfortunate Demonic hand senior member just before the wall fully folded.

**BOOM!!

"GRUUUAAAAHHHH!!!"

The screams of Corpse Doll Methik resounded across the noisy battlefield, with Evan turning his gaze towards the two Deadly Sin siblings as he spoke.

"Did any of you spot Count Falos?"

"Nope."

"What about Amelie? Where is she?"

"The Bishop went to assist the paladins who were combating the Dullahans that appeared."

A frown crept up to Evan's face upon the mention of Dullahan, remembering the direct subordinate of Vazgan he just saw now.

'That Dullahan is not supposed to be here.

Something is strange.

I have to end Methik quick and figure out exactly what the variable are.'

With that thought, he said a few words to the Deadly sins and dashed off towards Methik as he pulled out a transmitter from his inventory and placed it on his ear.

"Ralphie, Get ready."

After saying that, he tilted his head to the side to dodge the incoming spear of darkness, and jumped up to dodge the wave of black liquid that swept across the ground, before kicking off a void step and blitzing towards the one-armed Methik.

From then on, it became a beat down, with Evan hitting Methik as fast as he could while making sure each blow was infused with destruction essence that slowly chipped away at his soul fragment.

He concluded the rain of punches with an energy blast to the stomach that drilled a large hole in Methik's torso.

Dragging the near-dead corpse in his hands, Evan walked towards the gate of the manor estate and looked at the scene of the knights and soldiers making short work of the undead and Demonic hand members.

"Everything is according to plan, however, the appearance of that Dullahan is unsettling.

I hope we don't have to go with Plan B or C. That's too much work."

Evan spoke to himself as he gazed at the crumbling mansions in the distance, with explosions ringing out as an A ranker assisted by Mages of Kasteblum battled a grandmaster-level lich in the air.

He then dropped the body of Methik on the floor and picked up a sword on the floor that belonged to a fallen soldier, before imbuing it with destruction essence and stabbing it into Methik's chest.

"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Methik's pained scream, the scream of a man having his very soul being destroyed, rang out loudly, attracting the attention of multiple soldiers and their undead opponents.

But besides those two groups, Methik's skill also attracted one more existence. The existence who had kept themselves hidden since the start of the attack despite being the one in command.

There was a whooshing sound as a blade crossed a distance of over a kilometre in just 5 seconds.

At the same time, Evan's spine suddenly turned cold and he felt an oppressive aura bear down on him.

All the knights and soldiers that were within the blade's line of movement, from its starting point to its destination, had their bodies sliced into pieces at speeds that they could not comprehend, dying before they could even realize that something had moved.

Evan who had sensed the incoming danger from a kilometre away, took a certain set of actions in a certain order, within the next four seconds after sensing it.

He jumped to the side, in the opposite direction of the incoming attack and activated two skills while doing so, a series of actions that took four seconds in total.

Before Evan's legs could completely land on the ground, the blade shot through the air and had already reached a short distance of less than one meter away from piercing the young hero's skull.

At this point, everything seemed to be in slow motion for Evan.

More than half of his body had already been enveloped by the power of his blink skill, almost completely disappearing from the trajectory of the incoming weapon, however, the blade was far faster than he had expected.

His elemental shield was also active, creating a thick barrier made of water to slow down the blade for a least half a second, enough time for him to completely disappear and reappear somewhere else.

However-

**WHOOOOSSHHHH!!!!!

-this proved to be completely unnecessary as the blade was stopped before it even reached his elemental shield.

The ground beneath cratered as a result of the force and resultant shockwaves, with spider web-like cracks spreading out for nearly a hundred meters before stopping.