I smirk at him before going inside and grabbing the nuking arrows I've been saving as well as the brooches of essence which I've been storing essence into to pull out at later dates. "bye~" I wave goodbye as I decide to cull the corrupted tyrant wolves first.
As I arrive it seems as they were able to make only 1 offspring, making the number 29. starting to nuke the first area. As Red scales and Silverworn sneak to the back I let out the first nuke.
BOOM
The ground shakes as 5 are taken out instantly
[you have slain a corrupted Demon]
[You have slain a corrupted demon]
Since it's the same principle's as destroying the whole body, I feel a trinkle of essence flowing in as well as my body growing in power. "I might have made my nukes too big…" as now there is at least 15 demons sensing me now, even though they are extremely injured, I don't trust myself to keep up, so using decreasing my weight with my tunic I play tag with the murderous wolves while cackling like a buffoon.
[1498/2000]
I dash around like a rat trying to dodge and hide from the ravenous wolves. In the mean-time Silverworn and Redscales have penetrated through the back, Reaching the devious Tyrant. By charging the spear with a soul-cores worth of essence and launching it through the air, the heavy spear weighing the amount of car thrusts deep into the skull. But sadly, anatomy is very different for nightmare creature.
It lets out a rumbling roar. Enhancing the nearby wolves. I sigh, realizing killing this overgrown mutt is the only option.
***
"fuuck" the demons chasing me get faster and stronger and without using essence like I am currently I'll die. I turn use a rope memory to spin around and split the head open of one of the Demons.
[you have slain a corrupted Demon]
I summon a long sword, its ascended in rank but it has the quality that it sharpens depending on the enemy and your rank. It's the perfect weapon for a fight against a corrupted as an awakened. I take a deep breathe, and charge forward, currently the out of the 15 chasing me only 3 were not too injured to keep up, but killing them fast is an imperative so I don't get overwhelmed. I already took out 1 so 2 remain.
I sigh heavily swapping to a plate-mail armor. I charge forward, gathering momentum using my flowing fighting style. I significantly boost my speed by using essence and catch one of them off guard, a deep gash on its neck landing. While my sword was in the other tried to target my body but I let go of the sword and jump away.
The demon wolves smirk as if thinking they got me. But I flip them off and use the other enchantment of the weapon. my sword vibrates, agitating the wound making it worse before flying out and into my hand, slicing the cheek of the other. They growl angrily realizing they have been played. I throw my sword like a spear, another unexpected attack it barely dodges but I pull the sword back into my arm, realising I've closed the distance while throwing the sword. It tries to block.
The key word is 'tried'. straight through its jaw, decapitating it on the spot.
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
"ah shit. I'm so tired" I put on my monocle and crush the shards in the body of all three, too lazy to open them properly. I feel some essence flow in but its not enough, barely filling a 16th of my soul cores. I use one of my brooches, filling my soul cores back to 100%
[1534/2000]
The second wave of demons are coming, all of them being of medium health but 6 in total. I look behind them seeing that the other 6 are too critically wounded making them too slow to keep up. I grin and equip my grey tunic, and dash past the corrupted wolves to the severely weakened ones. Though they try to keep up, my speed is even higher than before so they struggle to. I easily pass by with a taunting smirk and throw my sword to an unsuspecting, close to death, ragged wolves I kill one instantly.
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
My sword zips back into my arm for another, this time it wasn't a clean kill it landed on the wolves shoulder, I pull it out with its enchantment, too close for the severely in injured wolf to dodge or block. I cut its head off, rolling on the floor. The other demons scream in anger. I sense that the other 6 are nearing, so I focus on swiftly dispatching the rest and taking the shards, but I realize that's not possible so I crush up the shards embedded in the corpses using my essence seeing monocle and run again.
When they regroup fully I summon my bow and launch a nuke arrow, with only half of my core. They all die this time, since all of them are critically injured.
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
"10 corrupted demons. All of their bodies completely destroyed." I feel essence pour into me
[1678/2000]
" I killed 5 with the nuke arrow, 3 with my skills, 2 with a surprise attack, and 10 with the nuke. The remaining 9 are with the Tyrant.." I dash forward, using the tunics enchant of lightening my body. I enter the cavern where Redscales and Silverworn are battling.
***
They pant heavily, currently as the main body is coming back they are struggling to keep up with the 9 coordinated demons, and the extremely lithe, flexible and tyrannically strong were wolf king.
Landing another strike on a him has become utterly vexing, as only one of them can continuously battle the demon, the other has to defend themselves, while the Main body had it easy, that was because he crippled most of them while they had to fight fresh nightmare creatures and all together, and the buff of the Tyrant is distance based so they are currently at the strongest…
"ahh Fuck!" they both say in unison, as Redscales gets clobbered by the Tyrant, And Silverworn gets tagged team by the 9 wolfs. As the main body rushes closer, he pulls out not one, not two but THREE nuke arrows. The clones sigh in relief, as they are close enough to be unsummoned and vanish into thin air, surviving the encounter.
BOOOOOOM
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
[you have slain a corrupted demon]
3 brooches immediately are drained, but I still have 2 more left, refilling my core to max. I resummon my clones with their gear. They're forms are heavily battered but only on the inside. All demons have been killed with only the heavily injured Tyrant remaining.
"suck it dweeb~ this is why prep time matters~" I summon my long sword while Silverworn and Redscales summon their respective weapons. I chuck my sword at the were wolf, but it tilts its head to the side avoiding it with ease. I grin and pull it back using its enchant. I graze its neck only slightly, reacting much faster than expected, "damn" I whisper as Silverworn and Redscales are already putting pressure.
game plan is to charge continuously with my sword, preparing to lob its head off cleanly, while Silverworn and Redscales try their best to stall for time and divert attention, using many memories without using too much essence.
I gather momentum by continuous movement, using the flowing water sword style, I feel like I'm at my strongest, with my understanding of the sword being very rudimentary but nonetheless exceptional, being [Physically Gifted], the conditional enchantment reaching its peak, reaching the mid-way point of a Transcendent tier.
I am at my highest point in my current history.
The stalling has become pointless as I reach the apex of power and precision, the clones back away, before the werewolf realised, I cut off its incredibly thick and matted neck with a powerful swing.
[you have slain a Corrupted tyrant, demented ruler of the K9's]
[you have gained a memory]
I smile, and collect the corpses, or whatever's remaining.
[your soul grows stronger]