Book 6: Chapter 42

Book 6: Chapter 42

Scarlet

Well that’s unexpected.

Not sure how it happened, but the moment I felt all of the hairs on the back of my neck standing straight up, I jerked my head in a seemingly random direction. Then my senses lock onto... something... far in the distance. So far away that it’s on the other end of the universe.

And what I sense has me narrowing my eyes ever so slightly.

This... huh.

I sense a massive crack in the middle of space. One with an enormous black claw stretching through it and emitting a powerful wave of void energy that’s annihilating everything it touches. Meanwhile what must be millions of void creatures are flooding out of the cracks appearing in space around the large one.

Just a single claw from the Voided Overlord is half the size of a damned planet

That’s rather frightening.

And that isn’t even considering the fact that the power it’s radiating. That void energy. It’s stronger than anything I’ve seen before.

Stronger than me.

I’m certain it’d kill me without too much trouble even after my powerup from reaching Class VI.

And... I’m supposed to kill the thing that claw is attached to...

I focus on it for several seconds before sighing.

Well, damn.

How am I supposed to kill something that powerful? Not to mention big.

If its claw is that large, just how big is the Voided Overlord itself supposed to be?!

Not to mention that energy. I could fight against it for a bit, but it would definitely devour me eventually.

Which leaves me no other choice.

I’ve grown more used to controlling my magic, and doing nothing more than creating basic Red Plague blood anywhere I want and controlling it has become rather simple.

I grimace as I remember my poor house.

My grimace fades again when it begins to shake my concentration. So I refocus on the spells for the next day or so. At least until I decide to stop for now.

And as soon as I do stop, the droplets of blood slow down to a crawl, and the void creatures I was slaughtering finally begin to attack again.

But I just focus on my stomach, because I feel kinda bloated. Like I’m full after a really large meal. Multiple meals.

I glance down before lifting my shirt a little, revealing no signs of an overly sized stomach. Just some faint abs. The same sight that I’ve seen for years.

Well that’s good at least.

Guess I can’t devour nonstop, though. Which is a pity.

I let my shirt fall while stretching a little. Then I focus on the Voided Overlord again, just to sense how powerful the energy is in comparison to me.

Only to find that it’s grown stronger since I last sensed it.

Well, shit.

Right. It’s mark.

I’m not the only one growing stronger, even if it only has a single claw in the universe.

Although...

I furrow my brows.

At the very least, I do seem to be growing stronger at a much faster rate than it is.

Probably because only a single claw is in the universe.

All it’s using to devour things with is the energy let off of the claws.

I watch it for several more seconds before refocusing on my current location.

Well, time to train in the use of my body some more before I crush some unfortunate planet on accident.