Back on the ground, Mark had one eye closed with his two fingers pointed towards the anima like a gun.
"That's a good angle right there. Stay juuust like that."
Mark activated the [Demonic Void Apostle] constitution as he saw the anima hanging in the air. It was at the perfect angle for a clean cut and Mark wasted no time to start slicing it.
[Void Slash]!!
Slash!
Slash!
Slash!
Slash!
More and more slashes suddenly flashed across the air and decimated the anima! Tearing it apart and splitting its body into more than twenty pieces before its body parts fell to the ground. Mark dropped his hand after he was done and he turned around with a bored look in his eyes. That was too quick.
Mark didn't even have to put any effort into that fight and he couldn't help but think it was too boring.
The female superhuman who had been watching the fight was wide-eyed as she saw Mark completely obliterate the anima in seconds. Her mouth was ajar and she could feel sweat dripping down the back of her neck. So this was the power of the SOVEREIGN. No wonder they are seen as forces of nature! Mark killed that Calamity like it was nothing! He even played with the calamity like it was a child!
Is this really the same monster that would have killed all of them in seconds?
Mark turned to the area where Tina was fighting against the low-level calamity and he saw that she was just about done with it. The anima was trying to get close to her, but she was keeping her distance using her flight skill and sending massive lightning bolts towards the anima to slow it down.
Tina finally used her Celestial Fury skill to strike the anima and a massive hole was torn through its body as it flew into a building behind it.
Tina turned off her skills and swung around to see that Mark was watching her. She waved happily and flew over to him like a puppy coming to its owner.
Mark frowned curiously as he started walking forward while giving out orders.
"Tina, use your lightning to immobilize it. Keep it within a small perimeter and make sure it doesn't hit any buildings. You, go help out the superhumans that are trapped in its vicinity. Evacuate the injured and tell the rest of them to retreat. Go."
"Yes, Marky~!"
Tina wasted no time as she immediately went to do as Mark told her, but the A-rank woman was a little more reluctant. She was not a part of Mark's guild and she did not know why Mark would be ordering her around so casually since she was obviously older than him. It felt slightly demeaning to be taking orders from someone who was almost half her age.
But Mark's order was the best course of action to take right now. And since Mark was obviously the strongest person here, it was only sensible that she does as she was told for now. She reluctantly nodded and called the other two superhumans she had been with to follow her as she jumped off the building to go and help out the injured superhumans.
As long as she was not going anywhere near that thing, she didn't mind doing as she was told.
Mark stood on the roofs edge for some time, just watching the monster dance around like a drunken beast and he wondered if that was the Anima Lord that the system told him about. If it was, then what the hell was it supposed to be? There was no way an Anima could look like that. Aren't anima creatures that evolved from animals that lost their reasoning? What sort of beast could look like this?
No, this thing is not natural. I really don't want to admit it, but those faces don't look like any animal I know. They almost look like human faces.
Mark's eyes narrowed as this thought passed through his mind and he grit his teeth in irritation. Mark had a feeling this would be related to what happened to Arit somehow, and he did not like it.
But first, how in the world did it get here?
"Hey, Pat, are you seeing this?"
Mark spoke into his airpod, and Pat's haughty voice came back to him, but this time, it sounded sick. Like Pat just finished puking his stomach out.
[Ugh, fucking hell. I shouldn't have eaten that burger while looking at the satellite images. What the fuck is that thing? It looks like a scientific experiment gone wrong.]
Mark nodded and told Pat that he had no idea either.
"It definitely doesn't look natural. Is there any way you can track where it came from? Maybe a path of destruction or even an aircraft that might have dropped it from above?"