Bro, I'm not an Undead!

(A/N: Bonus Chapter).

Within the blink of an eye, what had been an ice covered landscape turned into a hellish ground with all the moisture drained from over a seven mile radius.

Barely ten seconds had passed from when the General opened his mouth to release a dreadful storm of fire to now, yet…

Skullius was shocked by this level of power as he compared this to the feats that he had seen from the Galemonger back in Inhone City.

In terms of genuine threat, he didn’t know which to scale above the other as this bastard was definitely a contender.

The Cluster General could sense Skullius’ surprise and this helped him deduce a few things.

“I’m starting to realise that I was a fool to believe your lies. You may not be afraid of dying but you certainly serve no higher power if the likes of this is enough to surprise you,” the Cluster beast said to Skullius.

The orange halo with pink patterns still revolved around him and the Cluster General who, as the wielder was immune to the Nullification effect. Hence him using any skills was still impossible.

“You can believe whatever you want,” Skullius said.

The Cluster General seethe within. He couldn’t tell if Skullius had some other plan or not. He seemed too… nonchalant.

Of the Fire Breeders behind the Cluster General, one of them was torn from the control of his lord as afterwards, he was given an order.

“Go and notify the others that it is safe to come out now.”

The Fire Breeder nodded as he flew down.

“Before whatever you plan to do comes to pass, I’ll slaughter everything in sight and reach a higher Tier. Then, we’ll see who will be able to stop me.”

Unlike within the Cluster where there were no varied means of evolving except by simply being groomed by the chaotic energies that made up the Cluster to begin with, here… there was bound to be many creatures to kill.

Yes.

The Cluster General believed that he would grow much faster, perhaps inventing a better way of merging with the eggs he produced in the process.

Maybe he would even—

“Lord! Loooord!” the Cluster General shifted his gaze down to see thousands of his Fire Breeders flooding out of the exit to the Cluster.

What?

His messenger was yet to re-enter the Cluster and tell everyone that it was safe to come out, so what was this?

Panic could be sensed from the faces of the Fire Breeders and the Cluster General couldn’t help but wonder what it was now!

“LOOORD!” one of his guards shot to his position with a terrified expression.

The Cluster General was about to search for what was wrong by using his control over the Fire Breeders but, what had them all panicking quickly showed itself!

From the giant gaping hole on the flat surface of the sliced mountain, a figure with lime haired shot out, her figure zipping through the air as she stepped on the crowded Fire Breeders that were flying haphazardly through the air, ascending with every step on the unsuspecting Cluster beasts!

She wore a half vicious, half terrified expression, her movements looking undecided and clumsy, but she steadily rose, her speed completely stunning the stronger Fire Breeders which she was targeting!

As for what she did to them…

This girl, Yuyui, zipped over the back of fourteen Fire Breeders in an instant and a half, leapt up high towards one of these targets of hers with her hand that was balled up and swung down!

There was nothing in her balled hand though!

She swung as if she held something, with a distance remaining between her hand and her enemy!

What the hell?!

Demion’s Dance was in her other hand, but she wasn’t using it!

But, this seemingly void-of-logic move worked well still, because…

FWIIISH!

The Fire Breeder in Yuyui’s sights was split in half!

Yuyui kicked off this dead body in the air and started to race on the backs of the Cluster beasts that had finally started to have half a mind to split up.

Unfortunately, before they could, Yuyui killed dozens of them as she swung her hand with spectacular speed that dazzled the onlookers, Skullius included!

Even if she had a blue core, she couldn’t be that quick on her feet!

‘What the flesh is going on?’ Skullius thought as his sockets blazed. He was beyond surprised at this visual, but in the next second, he was even more so!

Yuyui looked right up to where he and the Cluster General were, the harsh winds blowing away hair from her forehead.

…!

A dark coloured eye with an ice blue iris opened wide, its pupil looking at the Cluster General and his sword.

***

Five minutes prior….

The moment Yuyui felt something slide into her hand, a mental instruction of what to do flowed into her mind.

To her surprise, this was from Ferex!

A part of what the Hound was preparing was finished. Something to integrate into his new body. But for now, he would use it to help his master through Yuyui.

At first the girl hadn’t know what the heck it was that she was made to hold in her hand, but clarity soon came.

If what had been fed to her could be expressed in words, it would be…

‘It’s me, Ferex, master’s Apostle. I’m going to use your mana to make myself stronger and you have to use me to kill these enemy bros. Trust master. Just SWING me. I’ll tell you how to move and extend some of my magic arrays to you as well. Make sure to keep moving.’

Hooo….

Just like this, Yuyui had both been enlightened and encouraged.

What she wanted had just landed in her hands!

A means to fight.

‘Thank you,’ she said as she built up her resolve some more.

A cute, angry look flashed on her face as she did as Skullius had said before.

She SWUNG what was in her hand towards the guard that was pulling on her hair!

The Fire Breeder was sliced in half at an angle!

Hot blood was spilled, the creature screeching horribly as its torso was split in two!

Yuyui huffed in breaths with her mouth open while she gazed down at her kill.

Huff, huff.

Killing from up close was much different from how she had done it before with Demion’s Dance but accepted it.

Also, she was pretty surprised by the strength of this sword.

How was it so easy to slice through such a powerful this Fire Breeder with this weapon? Wasn’t he that strong Cluster beast that had fought the blue skinned creature two days ago?

Despite this, Yuyui kept her eyes on the prize.

The Fire Breeders around her were startled by the sudden death of a guard, the rest of the higher levelled Cluster beasts rushing her as they angrily sought to stop her.

Unfortunately for them, Yuyui felt hundreds of little complex weavings of mana crawl into her body, empowering her with miniscule amounts of power individually but collectively…

“YAAAAAA!” Yuyui screamed as a mind-boggling burst of power filled her flesh, almost making her lose control of herself.

This was the best thing she had ever felt!

Right then, in her mind…

‘There are eighteen enemies coming towards you. Don’t worry about the number or their strength. This form of mine doesn’t just harm the body. It is also geared towards damaging the soul. If I exert myself I can also harm multiple targets at a time. So don’t be afraid to use me. Now, as for how you attack…’

What would have been a dialogue of a few seconds m was cut down to a mere split second as Ferex used a speedy mental depiction of how Yuyui was supposed to attack!

And despite how terrifying this was, it was true!

Ferex had turned himself into a weapon, one that could harm the soul!

pA n,dan0vel.c0m It wasn’t him simply using his Hide which had an ability like that.

This was linked to his visit to the Temple of Unlusted Tears.

His visit that ended with him asking Bassbion to take a look at her sword!

A sword that could injure the soul and body!

One didn’t need a book to understand the rest.

With renewed vigour and the requirement of a supreme level of combat art being completely unnecessary, Yuyui immediately set to attack her incoming enemies all at once, raising the unseen weapon in her hand under Ferex’s instruction and outputting as much mana as she could!

A pulse, like a wind that ran through atmosphere blew outwards, smacking every one of the incoming enemies!

“EEEEEEEAAAAAAAAKKK!”

Horrendous screams were heard as hidden under the flesh, the souls of eighteen Fire Breeders had been smitten by an unforgiving, unseen force.

An unblockable, intangible ability beyond their level of tolerance!

Though only fractures appeared on their souls and in great number, the Fire Breeders collapsed, convulsing on the ground, powerful and weak alike!

Yuyui’s face lit up!

This was incredible!

She felt this FIGHTING SPIRIT that had been awakened by Skullius continue to grow, her forehead twitching violently as a result!

Her emotions were acting up in ways she hadn’t thought they could outside what she was used to.

The eye on her forehead felt and reacted to it.

As the Fire Breeders remained a distance from her, apprehensive as they felt and saw a dangerous threat from this green haired woman, Yuyui rushed to pick up a sword that had been dropped by one of these Cluster beasts.

Demion’s Dance.

She would be damned if she left her master’s sword here.

There was too much she felt from just seeing this sword now, and all of this culminated into one thing.

A final twitch from her forehead as the Eye of Dispersal pushed away the skin that covered it and showed itself fully!

***

Back to the present.

As soon as Yuyui’s Eye of Dispersal gazed at the Cluster General, the beast felt the energy from his great sword immediately die down, the halo around him Skullius vanishing completely!

Just like that, effects of a skill at the Legendary level merely faded!

….!

“You too.” the Cluster General was shocked as his face turned feral while gazing down at Yuyui who was fast losing footing!

“This wasn’t how I was going to go about this but I’ll play along with this one…” Skullius’ voice sounded from the Cluster General’s hand, thirty two spots of light immediately lightning up the air as they shot bolts of Levin!

The Cluster General scoffed madly as he returned his focus to Skullius, his thick hand exploding with a recalescent flame that blew up some of Skullius’ bones, turning them to dust while his skill continously struggled to reforge his body!

‘I’m no fool,’ the Cluster General said as it looked at Skullius’ socket flames with indignation. Even though it spoke with Skullius in the mind, it still opened its mouth to exhale.

“Master!” Yuyui down below called at the top of her voice.

Quickly, the lime haired girl swung the unseen weapon she held with all her might!

The object flashed, crossing the distance towards Skullius and the Cluster General!

Skullius’ body continously broke down from the heat and flame, but he wasn’t discouraged at all.

He stared down the General without flinching.

Blaring against his mind, a familiar mental signal caused him to focus on something that remained out of everyone’s view, his sockets flaring excitedly.

‘I have had enough of you. Burn to ash here and I will await your return with your so-called master,’ the General growled in Skullius’ mind while the flame that spurned from its hand reached a baffling temperature!

Skullius’ body started to crumble rapidly!

This wasn’t something his bones could handle!

But would it all end here?

‘Not today!’ Skullius shot back at his opponent, the thirty two sparks of light focusing their Levin on his arm which regrew instantly, just quick enough to feel the handle of something heavy reach his hand with decelerating motion, perfectly positioned for him to thrust at the Cluster General’s mouth in the next split second…!

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