บท 50: Enter Slaughter Lord
The new arrival truly appeared like a shadow, from head to toe, he was garbed in a strange material, that somewhat looked leathery but seeing of the looser parts moved, it definitely was closer to some fabric.
The only piece of clothing that seemed to stick out of what looked like some sort of tunic that seemed to have the same general shape of placement as tassets.
"Why the long faces?" he asked in a deep voice with an amused tone, seeing that everyone but the wretch seemed frozen in place.
He did a sudden movement with his right arm, breaking everyone out of their dazes as a tall swordstaff suddenly appeared out of thin air, the whole thing was as dark as he was except for the blade, who seemed to have some purplish coloration depending on the angle you looked at it from.
"I am but a lone warrior in search of a worthy opponent, I won't kill you all instantly..." he began explaining how he was going to conduct the 'fight'.
He said that he was going to match their exact weapons and fighting style to fight against each of them and that only someone capable of holding their own when he was literally matching their own fighting styles and power would be able to see him fight with his own.
Axio just sat down at a distance while rolling his eyes as he listening to this guy, he wasn't completely blind and since he was feeling threatened at all, he was able to pay closer attention to him, he hadn't gotten to analyse Vlasfimia much at all compared to now.
With his, absolutely crap, mana usage he could clearly see that this guy was either a master at concealing his mana or he actually didn't have any!
The truth was that he didn't possess most types of energies, even some that should be part of the basic package for anything that wanted to actually think and be intelligent, he only had lifeforce, which for some reason was much lesser than what should be necessary for him to operate.
But the wretch wasn't even attuned slight with anything other than mana, so he had no clue about this.
"You can all attack at the same time, I'll even allow to make a strategy, look, I'm covering my ears" he said as he placed his hands against the spot his ears should be.
If one looked from afar, it would completely seem like he was mocking them but he really was just giving Otrera the best chances he could, he always did it everytime he faced opponents that were clearly below him, just to give them a chance to show what they could do.
The guild members weren't certain what to do, on one hand, this guy had the most oppressing presence they had ever seen by far, even the oldest members that had know the guild founder were certain that she didn't have such a strong presence, not even close.
On the other hand, it was one against, like, twenty of them.
The list of great figures and heroes that died because they were overwhelmed by sheer numbers was quite long since that was the go-to method to deal with strength, one drop of water was harmless but when thousands struck in the same spot one after the other, you would feel the pain.
Cine, Kop, Aterre and Elta gathered and their rough plan was spread to the rest while Axio could be seen chilling as got comfortable, snacking on some eyes and tongues gathered from his fallen minions.
He had already put stitches so his almost sliced off arm didn't need to be held in place, now he just needed to wait until these high-level adventurers are taken care of for him, the best part? He was going to get all of the XP!
'Ah, it's too easy' he thought, had he not received help from one of his kin, he would have had to blow the entirety of this floor up, which would have needed for him to wait until Souriceau gathered more explosives, much more.
Hoarding so much of it would have been certain to attract unwanted attention before he could even think of going through with his plan.
It had also allowed him to understand a bit more about the crystal, thanks to this guy explaining a few things.
If he was to be believed, there were two ways for the crystal to do its thing and bring someone into existance, either it was automatic, like with The Heretic, they appear because for whatever reason, something or someone links to them in some way.
Vlasfimia had recognised the silver knights as imitating someone that was relevant enough for him to be able to pop out.
In the case of this one, Axiolypito had had to do something for him to manifest since nothing here was relevant enough to his history for him to show up, so the wretch had had his minions plant the crystal into the ground of the dungeon.
Apparently, this had allowed him to hijack the dungeon and replace the monster meant to be sent with himself.
While he was casually thinking about all that, the fight had already begun for about a few seconds and all of the members that were too weak for Axio to bother learning their name had been slaughtered.
After getting rid of the extras, he casually engaged the four core members, somehow matching their styles and power perfectly despite the fact that he was being ganged up on.
It was honestly quite troubling to see him having no problems whatsoever, he could evade attacks or takes hits head on, while neither having the capabilities to become a formless shadow or wearing a heavy suit of armor.
And despite swinging his ever changing weapon without adding anything to the mix, he cleaved through shadows and blocked space slashes as easily as Axio looked down on others.
'I might need to step up my game...' for now, he wasn't anywhere near this level but it shouldn't take too much time for him to be above them, or so he believed.
Quickly enough, Elta decided that this wasn't going to work out, after all, Kop and Aterre had already been killed and Cine would already be too if she hadn't been a shadow elf.
He had quickly decided that Elta was the strongest of the four and just dispatched the rest quickly.
In retaliation, she unleashed the biggest space slash she could muster, cleaving the whole floor and causing something unexpected, the floor caved in, revealing a much larger space hidden beneath the supposedly last floor of Defy.
"The climb back is going to be long" remarked Axio, way above everyone and everything else as was seemingly floating down rather than falling.
"This is very disappointing, this world and mine are completely different power-wise, they weren't as strong as I first assumed" commented the man in dark as he jumped from rock to rock until he reached the same level as Axio.
"You already killed them?" Inquired the wretch.
"Yeah, I got the elf while in a shadow and for the last one, I just flung back one of her slashes right back at her, it really is a shame! I was too quick and forgot to account for the differences in worlds" he shook his head as he started to turn ghostly, handing the crystal back to Axiolypito.
"By the way, it isn't my fault but I think my existence has brought some luck to someone other than you" he said before completely vanishing, leaving only the yellow-eyed one that spewed nonsense all day.
"What?" the wretch, landed to the ground without a problem, right in front of some floating orb.
"What did that even mean?!"
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