"Ghostly Stutter" was used to the highest efficiency he could achieve. He avoided using "Solary Dive" as the movement was too linear and didn"t have many uses in a messy battlefield.Before long, he entered the dept of the beast wave, and the long-legged spider had turned into a towering figure in his sight.
Fell swallowed his saliva, and he couldn"t help but think out loud. "How the h.e.l.l am I supposed to kill something this huge?", he licked his dry lips and continued forward.
As he slaughtered one creature after another in his advance, he saw a scene that made every hair on his body to raise up, and a cold shiver traversed his body.
He saw the humongous spider-shaped creature move; to be more exact, what moved were the purple tendrils that were near its chelicerae. Gooseb.u.mps filled every surface of his skin when he saw what followed. Among the sea of creature that was attacking the city, the spider was gobbling a few beasts next to it.
"Cannibalism?", he thought before adding. "That can"t really be considered as cannibalism as they"re not really from the same species… But still, why the h.e.l.l aren"t they avoiding her?"
His mind reeled from panic as he had come to understand that even the less intelligent creature could recognize the fierce spider as a danger, especially when it wasn"t hiding its feasting from the other.
"It"s… as if they aren"t even noticing its actions!", he screamed in his thought while glancing at the numerous beast that stood next to the long black pillar-like legs.
He swiped his surroundings with his senses and noticed that the spider"s blood essence was growing with every creature it gobbled. "It"s using this opportunity as a free meal…"
"Does it mean that whatever is controlling those beasts isn"t affecting the spider!", he a.s.sessed in a split second. He figured that his thought was rational enough for them to be close to the truth, a horrific and ghastly truth.
"Now that I think about it, although the other strong beast didn"t act differently from the rest. They seemed to be animated with their own thoughts."
The winged monkey had been focused on hunting the weaker MechSuit and had flashed odd human expression when consuming their blood. The t.i.tanic snake wasn"t left any time to act on its own, but the resentment it had shown felt from it clearly showed it was intelligent.
When those thoughts were linked together, the possibility of the spider being highly intelligent was highly probable.
He continued pushing forward in a relentless manner and, at some point, was less than a hundred meters away from the giant spidery creature. As soon as he entered that perimeter, he felt as if he had plunged inside of a pool. Invisible webs crisscrossed through the entire zone around the gigantic creature.
"I might have underestimated it…", he thought with a bitter smile on his lips. "But I still gave my word, and I"m not leaving without taking you down.", he stepped forward with determination weighing his walk.
He focused his senses around him and noticed that the invisible wave was made with a power similar to the one of soul cultivator. He gazed at them for a long moment with puzzlement flashing in his eyes, his hand approached one of the nets, and he hesitated for a moment before clenching his fist around it.
His figure shivered for a moment. Then, his eyes lost his focus in a moment, and his amber-colored eyes turned cloudy. He appeared in his soul palace and noticed that long thread of purple color had appeared there. He felt an ominous yet bewitching aura suffuse from those thick twitching threads.
An odd expression flashed on his ego body, and it could be seen that he was facing difficulty facing a strange power. He opened his lips with difficulty, and from every single inch and parcel of his spirit appeared his voice.
A strong determination could be sensed in his tone. "Begone!", trembling resounded from everywhere in his spirit palace, and the expression flashing on his ego body changed. From being lost, with apparent incomprehension, pure frenzy savagery appeared on the face of his ego body.
The white permeating every inch of his soul palace, flashed for a moment. Then, as if a river of blood was being poured inside of it, it changed to vivid crimson, red, color.
The cloudiness in his eyes disappeared, and a clear as day killing intent burst away from him in an explosive shockwave.
"I see… Contrary to your huge size, you"re actually quite the underhanded creature.". With every word that left his lips, his breath condensed in front of him due to his blood boiling in his veins. "I despise s.h.i.ts like you!", he briskly said through his gritted teeth.
Growls resounded from everywhere around him. Numerous red eyes were locked on his figure, and he couldn"t help but break his sight from the humongous creature and focused his senses around him.
Strangely, the beast wave was once again showing signs of hostility toward him. The apparent fear that existed in them had disappeared, and he was back to the point where every creature was trying to get him.
"Oh, now even you guys forgot about me?", he mumbled while pondering on the strange event. He thought deeply with a serious expression for a few seconds before raising his shoulder in defeat.
"Not too bad for it to be like this.", Fell said with a vicious smile flashing on his lips. "I guess I won"t have to run behind you bunch of spineless beasts.", he said before dashing forward.
His body turned into a whirlwind, sharp and speedy, and he disappeared under the attack of the numerous beasts. Inside of his body, in his soul palace that had now turned a vivid red, a ghastly veil was hanging in a part of it. Shrieks, squeals, and screech escaped from the scattered souls that const.i.tuted the surreal tissue.