章 31: Battling an Abomination (3)

"Even that didn't work?" Clover was stupefied. Before gaining his composure and clearing his mind. "Do Abomination undying? I don't believe it! This Abomination before me should be a unique one because of the weapon he is holding!"

[That's right, host. The Abomination in front of you doesn't have a core, so killing it by beheading, or as long as you manage to destroy its brain, is enough to kill it. However, because of the half-spirit rank weapon he is holding, he is nothing but a puppet connected by the string from the hand of the weapon.] A cold, emotionless voice chipped in.

As Clover's senses were tense and heightened, the sudden voice inside his mind didn't startle him. Instead, he ponders over what God's Record meant, and then it dawned on him, "So that's how it was! Then I should try to use the method I came up with and try to break the connection between the two of them!"

His gaze landed on the hand holding the weapon—who was overexcited and utterly failed to control its body, which caused a slow, awkward walk of the Abomination. He took out a flying knife towards his left shoulder, and only four of them rested on the latter.

Holding the weapon like he was holding the dagger, he took a deep breath and try to sense the contamination on his body. "I have been contaminated almost fifty percent of my body, and I'm still not pretty sure if it will fasten the infection due to a sudden adrenaline rush!"

As he was hesitating whether to initiate his plan right away, a chilly, reserved voice resounded in his mind.

[God's Record detected a tainted substance spreading to the host body.]

[It will affect God's Record if it will not be treated immediately.]

[God's Record has to handle the problem since the host hasn't yet reached Rank 2 to have the power to solve this kind of problem.]

[Conclusion: The host doesn't have yet the power to resolve the problem himself. God's Record has to spend thirty percent of the accumulated expenditure to cleanse the Host's tainted body.]

[Cleansing is in the process…]

[5%....30%....60%...]

While God's Record's sudden action startled Clover, he immediately closed his eyes when he felt a revivifying, refreshing, cooling feeling spreading to his body. Even the narrowly thin tear on his cheek wasn't exempted and returned back to normal.

Thankfully, while in the middle of the interruption, the Abomination didn't have time to attack Clover, as it was even facing the problem it faced. Although the crimson-colored rapier knew that Clover was unguarded, its emotion only caused a sudden surge in the Abomination which was now confused about what to do. With the weapon pointing itself in a certain direction, the Abomination follows it while muddled.

Phew

Clover exhales a cooling breeze, contrary to what he breathed out whenever he was done cultivating. It was like he was done extracting all the juice in the bubble gum before expelling it out of his mouth; the smell of what he breathed earlier was similar to this.

"It's been ages since I feel so refreshing. It was like I had just taken a long bath, back from the time the earth hasn't changed," He exclaimed, as he was smiling ear to ear. He then focused his attention on the enemy ahead of him and then leaped without hesitation, unlike before!

He tried to take advantage of the fact that God's Record hasn't finished the cleansing. Stepping foot at the distance where he would be contaminated, his face didn't change as he continued going towards the weapon—or precisely the hand which gripped the weapon.

Swoosh!

The crimson-colored rapier which had long consumed the fresh blood of Clover, was startled by the sudden action of his enemy. He didn't have time to give signals to the Abomination, since the Abomination had long reacted when Clover stepped foot on his boundary. Surprisingly, out of instinct, the abomination uses its right leg to attack the enemy!

Clover's expression didn't change, as he uses his left limb to protect his head and his body, before slashing with his right hand gripping the dagger towards the Abomination's wrist. The Abomination's body form, which was caused by its kicked—its right hand was exposed.

Both of them attacked each other with both of their intentions were perfectly executed! They didn't hold back, even though both of them could be potentially injured, yet, as if unfazed by the attack of the enemy, they focused their full attention on their offensive attacks!

Slash! Bang! Crack!

Clover first managed to attack the target - the wrist of the Abomination - which caused the crimson-colored rapier to fall with the chopped hand firmly gripping its handle. But a moment later, the right leg of the Abomination finally contacted the left upper limb of Clover, which caused the latter to fly to the other the distance.

Both of them accomplished their mission completely, yet it seemed it was a draw—or not. Clover's left forelimb's bone was broken; to the point that it was bending to the other side. While on the other hand, the Abomination's wrist was completely cleanly cut off, with no blood coming out of it.

While Clover tried to comfort the excruciating pain brought to his mind, the Abomination only stand where he was insensibly like a statue. It brings a sensation like a string was cut off by the person who was controlling it, thus which was why he was standing there dazedly.

It was then the crimson-colored rapier turned into scarlet, dimly lit as if it was using its power. The cut right pale hand, which was still firmly gripping the rapier, suddenly turned crimson, as if the blood was stuck inside. A blood thread crawled out of its wrist and slowly slithered towards the chopped wrist of the Abomination.

Blood thread after blood thread crawls out to slither towards the chopped wrist of the Abomination. Veins pop out of the latter's forearm like a snake or a worm, eating the blood thread that caused it to enlarge its body.

Moments later, as if the thread shortened, the chopped right hand slowly floated and flew towards the direction of the chopped wrist of the Abomination. They were instantly attached to each other smoothly, due to the blood thread acting like a plug.

The Abomination's body twitched as if it was still programmed by the weapon's supervision. Moments later, both of them turned their attention to the man sitting, who was dumbfounded.

"What was that?!"