Chapter 159: Fight

"What was that just now.....?"

This time, Lukas’s heart was filled with true terror. If Natasha had not been here, he might not have noticed anything different at all, treating everything as normal. The blood-soaked floor, the broken windows — all of it would have never revealed its true form.

With a grim expression on his face, Lukas walked outside, a deep sense of intense foreboding filling his heart.

Natasha already seemed to have guessed something and silently followed Lukas out of the house.

Meanwhile, at the entrance, Lukas’s eyes scanned the surroundings, a solemn expression on his face. Similar to his room, the outside had also undergone a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree change. Gone were the proper streets with merchants and awakened flowing around. Instead, in their place were streets filled with blood and broken corpses.

In one glance, Lukas noticed over a dozen corpses of both men and women, their eyes widened open and filled with terror, making it clear their last moments had been very painful.

Lukas took one deep breath to calm himself down and asked out loud,

"What is going on in this city...?"

After saying those words, he turned to Natasha with urgency written all over his face. She must have noticed something at first.

Lukas thought Natasha might have known something.

However, facing the searching look in his eyes, Natasha immediately shook her head.

"Don’t look at me like this. In the end, although you are powerful, you are still young. I was already suspecting something when I first saw such a large church dominating the city. Most likely, a star monster had already used this city to invade Earth, gaining total control..."

Her words dropped like a bomb out of nowhere. Lukas’s expression fell to its lowest point.

A star monster invading the city and controlling everyone... that was straight out of a horror movie, something at the same scale as the Star Mother incident, maybe even beyond that.

Then if some star monster was controlling everything, what about Rosy... would she also...?

When his train of thought reached this point, a dark possibility popped into his head.

No... this is not possible...

Suddenly, an unbearable amount of anxiety filled his heart, making his chest ache instantly as if something had stabbed him with a cold and sharp dagger.

Natasha also noticed this terrifying change and could not help but ask,

"Are you okay...?"

Lukas took rapid deep breaths to calm himself down while muttering,

"No... she is okay... nothing will happen to her..."

He repeated those words in his head on repeat, trying to calm down his body. It was not Cole who was reacting to this, but the original lingering obsession that wanted to protect his younger sister at all costs.

When it realized his younger sister might be in danger, that obsession came to life.

Lukas realized if he did not find her, or at least make sure of her well-being, this obsession would not let him rest in peace.

"I will have to find her..."

Lukas muttered out loud.

"Find her?"

Natasha turned sharply in his direction.

"What are you talking about? Forget about it. You are not going to find anyone here. The moment the star monster arrived in this city, every single human would have been killed without mercy, while some capable ones would have been turned into slaves to help maintain the facade."

Her words were cold and brutal. Natasha could tell there was someone who was really close to him living in this city, but for some reason, the more Lukas resisted, the harder and colder she became with her words.

"No, I can’t just give up like this... not until I find her or at least find her dead body..."

Lukas was determined. He was going to find Rosy. Natasha’s words made it clear his younger sister might have fallen prey to the mysterious monster, but Lukas, however, was not going to believe it until he confirmed it with his own two eyes.

The chill in Natasha’s heart intensified further when she noticed Lukas’s determined gaze.

"Are you out of your mind? The fact that you are alive now is simply because I used my strength to bring you out of the illusion, while the monster that invaded this city is at least at the sequence-four level. You might be strong, but against such an opponent you are nothing more than a crawling baby."

Lukas finally could continue hearing her words.

"Then what do you want me to do? Give up and watch my sister die...?"

At this moment, Lukas felt an unrelenting amount of anger fill his head, an emotion so intense that even he was surprised.

"Calm down, Lukas. At this rate your anger will not do you any good. First let me call for backup. As we are now, we are no match."

"Moreover, such a major disaster has happened, yet the authorities have not been alerted. Whatever this monster is, it is extremely cunning. Stay alert, it might already be watching us."

Those words finally forced Lukas to calm down, enough to understand the severity of the situation.

Indeed, she was right. He was letting his emotions get the better of him.

Once he calmed down, Lukas quickly realized the situation they were in now was even more dangerous than Roaring Dragon Settlement. At that time, he had already had time to escape, but as it stood, he was already too deep into enemy territory. Even simply escaping was not going to be easy.

While Lukas was not paying attention, the surroundings seemed to have started to change, becoming even more suffocating and eerie. From the corners of the city, multiple shadows emerged. The flesh and blood lying on the ground seemed to come together to form large grotesque monsters.

In a brief amount of time, at least three six-feet-tall creatures with builds like ghouls surrounded Lukas’s former house, step by step moving closer.

"They are already here. Stay alert..."

Lukas was forced to stop thinking after hearing Natasha’s warning. Shaking his head, he quickly spotted the eerie-looking monsters moving closer. Taking a deep breath, he turned to Natasha and said,

"You call for reinforcements. I will deal with them."

Hearing those words, Natasha smiled and shook her head.

"No need to push yourself too much. I have already called for reinforcements while you were busy."

Already called for reinforcements...?

Lukas was stunned. When had she called for help? Why had he not noticed?

However, he could not give it much thought, as the monsters were already too close to them.

At this time Natasha took the lead, saying,

"You take care of the one on the left. I will deal with these two."

Lukas nodded, shifting his focus to the lone monster in the distance.

"Roaaar!"

As if seeing Lukas’s gaze, the monster let out a petrified-laughter-like roar. Thousands of faces appeared on its skin, all of them giggling with crazed smiles on their faces.

"Hehehe... come join me. We will play together..."

Saying those words, the monster bent its knees and jumped.

Lukas had already blinked when the monster’s horrifying face appeared right in front of him. A sharp tongue shot out from the monster’s mouth like a whip, moving instantly.

Lukas dodged the strike at the very last second, appearing hundreds of meters away.

Boom!

The place where he had been standing was hit by the whip-like tongue. Immediately, the ground caved in, blasting the main entrance of Lukas’s former home to bits and pieces, sending stone and dust flying in every direction.

They are too fast for something so bulky...

Lukas commented while sucking in a breath of cold air.

While his own strength had grown most dramatically, the monsters he was facing were also growing stronger and stronger, to the point that in each fight he was facing monsters multiple levels above him.

Even though he had multiple talents, they could not bridge the gap.

Countless thoughts flashed through Lukas’s mind as, in this crucial moment of life and death, he realized his weakness. Although he had talents, most of them were only at the first sequence. To make them worth more, he needed to level up to the second sequence.

Meanwhile, in the distance, Natasha was not struggling as much as Lukas. She was able to hold off two monsters on her own.

Lukas noticed this and once again realized the difference between second sequence and third-sequence blood awakened was greater than he had earlier thought.

Just then, the monster jumped at him again. This time, Lukas was more prepared. The moment he noticed the movement, Lukas unleashed gravity pressure in full force, barely slowing down the monster enough to dodge the attack without teleporting.

Although his star energy reserves had doubled, it was not to the point that he simply did not care about the expenditure. Each step that he took had to be strategic, to extract as much value as possible.

Maybe this time the monster had used too much force or something, but its tongue got buried into the ground.

Lukas’s eyes widened.

He pointed his arm downward, and immediately the entire earth froze solid, partially locking the monster in place for some time.

Then Lukas’s right hand twitched.

Sovereign grasp was activating, targeting one of the faces that looked more prominent.

Immediately, with a sickening tearing sound, the face was forcibly ripped out, flying directly into Lukas’s hand.

However, before he could observe it anywhere close, Lukas crushed it.