Jin continue moving forward, killing the goblins in front of him one after another.The more he killed, the happier he felt.
"I'll kill a few more and then I'll head back Hehe."
"But if I keep moving forward, I'll really be late, and they'll notice I'm gone… hmm" Jin scratched his head.
"Alright, I'll just kill a few more… just a few then I'll return."
Jin kept moving until he reached a vast area in front of him filled with tens of goblins and some lizards.
"What a view…? Why there is a lot of them here?" Jin muttered, sweating as he stared ahead.
And then he discovered the reason… He saw a Corrupted Leader laying on the ground surrounded by bunch of goblins and lizards.
That creature was about five meters tall, with a massive body covered in scarred, wrinkled skin as if it had suffered severe burns.
His limbs were full of swollen muscles that protrude irregularly, covered with sharp bumps and swollen blisters.
His face was even more terrifying, there were no distinct features except for his small eye balls, and a wide mouth stretching across half his face, filled with jagged, uneven teeth and dripping with sticky saliva.
His nose had been reduced to narrow slits, from which hot breaths escaped, and his ears were twisted, with sharp spikes jutting out from them.
Just looking at that creature made Jin's body shake, sweat pouring down his forehead… he knew too well the terror of a corrupted leader.
"Fuck... I should go back."
Jin turned around and saw a huge lizard with its claws raised standing behind him.
"Oh shit!" Jin jumped back quickly.
The lizard roared and swung its claw at Jin.
Because Jin had backed up, he now found himself in a wide area filled with dozens of monsters that had noticed him…
"Ah fuck, this is bad ... this is really bad!" Jin looked nervously left and right, surrounded by creatures on all sides.
Sweat poured down his forehead, as he laughed nervously "fuck..."
He imagined the Blood Sword once again, and it appeared in his hand as the surrounding creatures screamed and rushed toward him.
Suddenly, a papaer appeared in front of him written on it,
"You are about to die. Do you want to enter Combat Mode? [Yes/No]"
Jin stared at the message in shock "Huh… what… die?!"
He looked up and saw the Corrupted Leader standing on his feet!
And the other Chaos creatures nearby were also moving together towards Jin.
With a Corrupted Leader present, the monsters lost all independent thought as any Corrupted Leader could control the lesser creatures and control their movements.
This meant certain death for Jin…
He swallowed hard and said, "Yes."
Suddenly, Jin lost control of his body…
"Clang !" He quickly blocked a lizard that leapt at him with his bloody sword, then he moved back as another bunch of goblins charging at him.
Jin moved quickly, killing the first and second goblins with a single strike, then he moved between the others two in front to cut their guts in a horizontal swing.
He parried an attack from one of the lizards that jumped on him with the edge of his sword.
And suddenly, another lizard taller than the rest lunged at him with incredible speed and struck his body with its feet.
Jin dragged his sword along the ground to slow it down, just as two goblins jumped at him from his right side.
"Swoosh!" Jin shifted his body to the left then he swing his sword to slice the two goblins in half.
Then Jin jumped backward, leaping into the air.
Jin plunged his sword into the upper part of a goblin's mouth that had jumped on him, lifted it, and threw it forward with all his strength at another goblin in front of him.
He then stepped back and cut down the remaining goblins that had approached him from behind.
Dozens of goblins were sliced by his sword, and dozens of blood sparks flew as he shot them from the bloody sword towards other lizards and goblins.
But throughout all of this, the Corrupted Leader didn't move an inch, he just stared at Jin as he slaughtered the creatures around him…
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a goblin, your stats have increased."
He kept moving and moving, killing and killing ...
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a Lizard, your stats have increased."
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a goblin, your stats have increased."
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a Lizard, your stats have increased."
He killed and slaughtered a lot more without stopping...
It wasn't long before the paper suddenly appeared again, and was written on it...
"Combat Mode time has ended. Returning to the normal state."
After that Jin regained control of his body again but...
Even though Jin had slaughtered nearly all the goblins and lizards around him, four of them remained, in addition to the corrupted leader himself...
Jin was panting, his muscles aching, and his mana was about to run out, which meant he wouldn't be able to use his Blood Sword for much longer.
He looked at the Corrupted Leader and the remaining creatures, who were already starting to move toward him.
Pain and frustration were clear on Jin's face as the situation was truly dire...
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Alucard and Yumi with a complicated expressions stared at the pile of corpses in front of them, the bodies stacked on top of each other.
They suspected the massacre might have been caused by Chaos creatures fighting each other. It wasn't unusual for Chaos creatures to kill each other sometimes.
"So… should we head back?" Alucard asked, glancing around.
"Mhm" Yumi nodded in agreement.
Just as they started to move back, they suddenly heard the howls and screams of creatures coming from the north.
Both of them quickly turned toward the sound.
"Something's going on over there" Alucard's eyes were fixed on a mountain slope in front of them.
"Should we check it out quickly?" Yumi asked.
Alucard paused for a moment thinking then said, "We can take a quick look, It will be interesting to see Chaos creatures fighting each other."
Yumi nodded, and the two of them headed toward the sounds.
It didn't take long before they discovered the cause of the the creatures screams.
A white-haired boy was standing there, facing dozens of monsters alone.
If anyone truly focused on that boy's fight, they would have been completely captivated by the beautiful sight before them… a deadly sword style and graceful, lethal movements cutting down dozens of goblins and lizards easily.
But neither Yumi nor Alucard was paying attention to him.
Both of them froze where they stood the moment their eyes met the gaze of a certain creature in the center down there…
It was the Corrupted Leader.
The moment the two of them reached the edge of the slope, he sensed them and turned his face toward them.
The reason the Corrupted Leader had remained still all this time instead of attacking Jin was because he had already noticed the presence of two other people above the slope.
So he watched them carefully, ready for them… that Corrupted Leader was both smart and terrifying.
Although Alucard and Yumi had never seen a Corrupted Leader in their lives before, they knew exactly how terrifying this exact creature in particular.
Yumi swallowed nervously and whispered, "Is that… Brakus?"
Alucard stared at the creature and replied quietly, "Yeah…"
Yumi bit her lip. "Then what should we do?"
Alucard answered, his body was shaking, "We have to kill it."
Jin didn't realized it earlier, but there was a very important detail from one of the Chaos Creature lectures that he forgot.
He was lucky... he was able to escape certain death thanks to the paper that appeared before him, which warned him that he was about to die.
His death wasn't guaranteed because of the lizards or the goblins, nor even because the Corrupted Leader was nearby.
The real reason was much deadlier.
From the moment the three of them stepped into his territory, Brakus had already poisoned them all.
Brakus have a unique ability that allowed him to turn the air around him into deadly poison and the survival rate from it was 0%
The only way to get rid of the poison was to kill him... and eat some of his flesh in a day.
Even though killing a Corrupted Leader as students might be extremely difficult—perhaps even impossible—there was no other option.
Either they kill him… Or they wait for their certain death.
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Jin stood there, panting as he was watching the four remaining creatures rushing toward him.
He raised his blood sword and bit his lips.
At the very least, he wanted to die while trying.
So he shouted and charged at them " Ahaaaaa "
He cut off the head of the first goblin that came from his right, then in the same moment bent his body forward and stabbed the third goblin in the throat.
The third goblin was about to jump at him from the left, but suddenly two ice arrows shot through the air and pierced its skull, killing it instantly.
Jin pulled his sword out of the goblin's throat and looked toward the creature that had just been killed.
As for the fourth goblin, it was already dead after another icy arrow flew toward it.
Jin turned his head back and saw Yumi and Alucard walking towards him, he was surprised to see them here.
But there was something far more urgent than asking questions or talking.
The moment after the fourth goblin died, the Corrupted Leader started moving toward them.
When Jin heard the creature moving, he quickly turned to face it and raised his sword again.
Suddenly, the monster lunged forward at terrifying speed and rushed straight toward Jin.
Within seconds, he reached him and raised his fist to punch Jin's small body.
But at that moment, Alucard stepped in front of Jin and raised his shield, blocking the incoming punch from Brakus.
"Ting!!"
The sound of the punch crashing into the shield rang out loudly.
Alucard was pushed backward by the sheer force of the blow and barely managed to stop himself from being sent flying.
He bit his lip and dragged his shield along the ground to slow his momentum before finally stopping several meters behind Jin.
That punch was terrifyingly powerful!
But the Brakus didn't stop there. After his punch was blocked, he had already rushed toward Alucard.
However, Yumi was already beside Alucard at that moment.
She placed her hand on the ground, and an ice wall as tall as Brakus suddenly rose in front of them.
Although the ice wall won't stop Brakes completely , it will buy both of them two precious seconds to move.
"Boom!"
The ice wall shattered into pieces when Brakus's body slammed into it.
Yumi sprinted to the left while Alucard moved to the right as he was preparing his shield.
The two split up in different directions to distract Brakus and attack him from multiple sides.
Brakus suddenly roared and charged after Alucard again.
It seemed Alucard had truly angered him when he blocked his punch before…
As Brakus got close, Alucard jumped backward while raising his shield into the air.
In the next instant, he threw the shield straight at Brakus's face like a spear.
The shield moved spinning incredibly fast and slammed hard into Brakus's face, making him stagger and pause for a moment.
Then, as if pulled by a magnet, the shield flew back into Alucard's hand.
He grabbed it and immediately started running again.
At that moment, Brakus seemed ready to chase Alucard again but suddenly several ice spears shot toward him from the left.
Brakus raised both of his arms over his head to protect himself, but the ice spears still pierced through his arms.
He screamed in pain as the icy spears stabbed into him.
Then he bent his legs and suddenly launched himself into the air at terrifying speed, heading straight toward Yumi, who was already running.
Meanwhile, Jin watched the two of them in shock…
Both of them were incredible strong, skilled, and perfectly coordinated.
But Jin felt like he was useless...
He didn't want to just stand there watching them fight while he do nothing.
So the moment the Brakus leaped toward Yumi from the sky, Jin dashed forward and positioned himself directly beneath him.
Jin was completely focused, his reaction was fast and In a single precise second, he imagined himself holding a Spear.
A blood spear formed in his hand, and he immediately threw it upward at the Corrupted Leader above him.
The bloody spear pierced through Brakus's left leg.
Making the creature suddenly lost its balance in mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground.
Of course, Yumi didn't waste such an opportunity.
She instantly created several ice arrows and fired them straight into Brakus's back when he fell to the ground.
The icy arrows planted themselves deep into his back, causing the Corrupted Leader to howl like a pig being slaughtered.
The scream was so loud that all three of them had to cover their ears.
Then something about the Corrupted Leader suddenly changed…
Suddenly, the Corrupted Leader began to heal all his wounds, and black smoke began to rise from his body.
The three of them can clearly see the muscles in his body tightening, while his size slowly began to shrink.
He had was five meters tall before… but now Brakus is only about two meters tall !
After few seconds of that, Brakus stood up and looked toward Alucard who was on the right side.
Even though Yumi had dealt more damage to him, Brakus was so spiteful that he still turned his attention back to Alucard.
"Damn it…" Alucard cursed under his breath as he raised his shield in front of him.
At a terrifying speed so fast that the three of them could barely even see it the Brakus suddenly rushed toward Alucard and delivered a powerful kick.
The moment Brakus's foot slammed into Alucard's shield, a loud "Ting!" rang out.
In the next instant, Alucard was sent flying backward from the force of the kick, his body crashed straight into the mountain behind him.
The mountain was already several meters away from him, but that insane kick launched him through the air at deadly speed into it.
When Alucard's back slammed into it, a blood spilled from his mouth.
"Ughhh…"
Then he collapsed onto his stomach as he screaming in pain.
Yumi and Jin both went pale when they saw all of this happen in just a second.
Biting her lip, Yumi quickly sent several ice spears flying toward Brakus.
But Brakus simply turned to look at her and easily blocked every single spear with his hands.
The spears shattered against his arms as he prepared to rush at her again.
This time he was even faster than before, as Yumi barely managed to dodge his deadly kick that was coming down from above...
She shifted her body and jumped backward just in time, as Brakus's foot slammed into the ground where she had been standing a moment ago.
The ground broke instantly, and cracks spread in every direction due to the force of the kick.
But before Yumi could even try to do anything else, Braccus had already moved his hands towards her.
His palm slammed into her side, sending her flying as she rolled across the ground for several meters.
" Aahh ! " Yumi screamed loudly
Then the creature walked towards Yumi as she was writhing in pain.
Alucard moved his head slightly to look at her when she screamed.
He was coughing up blood too, completely unable to stand from the pain, and he tried to scream to make the creature leave her alone, but he couldn't.
Brakus reached Yumi and lifted his foot up, ready to crush her skull.
But suddenly, the ground beneath all of them began cracking even more, causing Brakus to lose his balance for a moment.
And in that tiny fraction of a second…
When Brakus lost his balance due to the shaking ground, a flying blood arrow struck the back of his head, piercing straight through his skull in an instant.
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a Corrupted Leader your stats have increased."
The cracks in the ground spread even further until the earth shattered completely.
Jin, who had run out of mana, collapsed on his back...
Alucard, still lying on the ground in shock, unable to move…
Yumi, who was writhing in pain on the ground…
And the Corrupted Leader, whose skull had just been pierced…
The ground cracked beneath them all, shattering completely making them all fell together into the abyss.
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On a rainy day, inside a massive hall, the King of Marta gathered his council.
There, surrounded by saints and military commanders, the shocking news that the royal families had hidden for so long was finally revealed...
Sixteen months ago, the heirs of Shanzo and Artevalia—Alucard and Yumi—disappeared without a trace inside a Level One Gate.