Chapter 1232: Ch 1232: Facing Death for the First Time

After reviving, Ann was feeling extremely angry and frustrated. She had never though that she would die in the hands of a few rank 9 individuals. This was the greatest shame of her life.

So she wanted to erase this shame on her with her own hands. That was why, when she looked at Shin and his party, her eyes were blazing with anger and killing intent.

Facing those pair of burning eyes, a chill ran down everyone's spine. Immediately Tatsumi used the strongest barrier that she had and Shin went to attack her once again with all his might.

Fortunately, because of his cautious nature, Shin had not let go of his combat ready state even after the Blue skinned lady was dead. So he was immediately able to start the battle at his peak, matching Ann move to move.

But this time, Ann was way more ferocious than before in her attacks and Shin was having an extremely hard time. Not only that but she was also continuously trying to attack the barrier protecting the village while not caring about taking Shin's attacks which were doing very limited amount of damage to her.

That way, she was forcing Shin to protect the village and his friends, making his aggression toward her useless.

Shin's current extremely powerful form had a very strict time limit and he could not maintain it for a long time. That was why, the current situation was extremely troublesome for him.

The more time passed, the more in danger Shin and his friends would be. So Shin needed to defeat Ann as soon as possible. But unfortunately, he had no ways to do so.

Shin could also feel that the time limit for his full powered state was approaching very soon. And this was making him to feel despair.

In this situation, he was trying his best to throw whatever attacks he had. Their strongest combatant Shuzu was already out of this battle and Shin was also going of join her very soon. And after that, who was going to stop this mad woman ?

And as Shin was still thinking about this, a decent amount of his star souls finally hit their time limit. And as soon as that happen, the overpowering feeling that Shin was experiencing disappeared and he fell into an extremely weakened state.

Noticing this, an insane smile appeared on Ann's face that was filled with filled with cruelty, joy and ruthlessness. Then she focused her power of Rot in her fists and went to deal the finishing blow to Shin.

That was when a massive shield appeared before Shin and blocked this attack. Actually calling what had happened blocking was kind of a lie. The shield was unable to block the hand even for a millisecond and was pierced through very easily.

But then, as the Rot filled hand reached the person who was behind the shield, very miraculously, it stopped. And the time this brought was enough for Tatsumi to teleport Shin inside the barrier.

But the person who was now standing outside of the barrier blocking the attack of a rank 10 powerhouse with his rank 7 strength, Kashimo, started to wither away and soon turned into dust.

Actually, the force of the punch had not hurt him at all. But Kashimo had no way to withstand the effect of the rot and that was the reason for his death.

As for how he had managed to block the full force attack of a rank 10 powerhouse with his rank 7 body, it was all because of a broken skill that he had gotten.

The name of this skill was Indomitable Body. This made his body to shine in a dark black luster and gave him the ability to withstan all kind of physical attacks without moving even a little for 5 seconds. And the punch of even a rank 10 powerhouse was very much included in the all kind of physical attack list.

This was the reason why Kashimo had managed to save Shin's life. But his Indomitable Body was unable to prevent the effect of the Rot, so he had lost his life in the process.

Just like the soul killing aspect of Shuzu, this Rot also left a trace of rot on the soul. That was why, even after resurrection, one would immediately die because of that Rot on the soul.

This was something that others also understood and it broke their hearts. Kashimo was a big brother figure to the four childhood friends and he had always been with them. So his sudden death made them sad, frustrated and most importantly extremely angry.

Nakamura was the closest to Kashimo. As both of them were not as great as Shin in terms of talent but still wanted to support their friends, they had spent a very long time coming up with various ideas.

This way, the closeness between them had reached a new degree. So much so that they had even given their virginities to the same woman at the same time.

So seeing such a good friend dying was a massive shock to Nakamura. Obviously he was aware of the fact that his and all his companions lives were in danger becose of what they were but still, seeing a close friend dying was still too much for Nakamura.

At this moment, only one thought was in his mind. And it was about how much he hated seeing his friends dying and he did not what to see this happening again.

With this thought filling his mind and his frustration pushing him forward, Kashimo was able to push himself to a new degree and reach the rank of 8.

But that was not all. He used a forbidden ability that his class provided and he feed his life to one of his legendary summons.

Immediately a massive centipede appeared and devoured his body. After doing this, the power of this centipede reached the rank of nine. After that, being fueled by the anger that his recent snack had, the centipede attacked Ann.

But even this massive rank 9 insect was nothing before a rank 10 powerhouse like Ann. So in just a few seconds, this centipede was tore apart and withered away. The last gambit of Nakamura where he sacrificed his life failed just like that very easily.

Now with two of their member gone and two of their strongest being incapacitated, Tatsumi and Raphaela faced the Blue skinned maniac lady while protecting the youngest member of their party, Ellie behind them.

So could these two ladies be able to even do anything to Ann whom even Shuzu and Shin could not defeat together.