“We’ll have to use some items then, but do we really need to go there? They’ll die on their own just fine.”
“No, we have to go. We’ll stay behind them and confirm his death before retreating,” Brian said in a final voice, indicating he didn’t want any objection anymore.
And so, Brian took his group towards the front.
Just as they positioned themselves a hundred meters behind Almond’s group, a loud screech rang, and it materialized into force as everyone saw a wide and stingy, spiked wave of energy with eyes coming at them like a shockwave.
A few Immortal Kings made a move, creating a wide barrier to stop this screech shockwave from an enemy Griminion King.
The horizon darkened but also lit up in colors as the first wave of the Griminion Tide was here.
“Damn.”
“I am sweating like a pig.”
“We might die just from their shockwaves…”
“That won’t happen with this many powerhouses fighting. Everyone will adjust their abilities and make them precise, especially the Immortals and above as it’s easy for them,” Zek said.
‘Indeed, same as me. All I need are assets. With my current top speed, I am able to enter Hyper Plane for 26 seconds, and that’s enough time for my brain to come up with new sequences to deal with situations.’
‘Twenty seconds condensed into one instant of reality…Hyper plane is indeed awesome,’ Almond’s eyes glinted, his whole being getting thrilled at the battle that was about to break.
Almond saw Immortal Kings’ groups going ahead and targetting the Griminion Kings monsters.
The sizes of the beasts varied as it wasn’t like Griminion Kings were the biggest. Some Griminion at Immortal rank and lower were bigger.
The first wave of slaughter began a few kilometers away from Almond’s group as all Immortal Kings bombarded them, mainly targeting the Immortal King-rank Griminions.
But then, the Immortal, High-mortal, and Mortal rank Griminions breached past them while they were fighting the Kings.
“They are coming.”
“I am wet. I just peed myself.”
“Fucking focus, guys and gals. Boss Almond will keep us safe.”
Almond at the front narrowed his eyes as he expanded his domain to the 1-kilometer radius.
His domain already had multiple functions with the new sequences that he had previously added, which were all enhanced with him awakening Space Elemental Mastery directly at Mythical-rank’s peak.
Almond didn’t know just what awesome things he could do with it, but he was eager to find out.
‘Target. Let’s start with that Immortal King Griminion.’
Almond’s All-Seeing Eyes activated his will and pierced into a Griminion King—a four-armed dark silver-metallic gorilla with four arms and majestic wings.
It was the one with the most powerful aura, and the most powerful of Immortal King powerhouses were fighting it and its fellow Silveric Storm Gorillas.
But the one with the crown was the strongest Immortal King.
[Silveric Storm Gorilla Leader]
-Rank: Immortal King
-Bloodline: Silveric Shine Drive – Immortal King.
-Ability Power: [Gamma 9283]
-Prana Sea: 3984
-Soul Sea: 3810
-Stats:
— Body Constitution: 3885
— Mental Constitution: 3818
— Soul Constitution: 3810
— Arcane Constitution: 4792
‘He is nearly at the peak of Immortal King, and that Ability power…’ Almond was watching the fight, and he only had one word to describe it from his current perception.
Crazy.
‘Well, I’d need to harvest its Mental prowess, so here we go…’ Almond’s eyes flickered.
The All-Severing Blade severed the Gorilla’s mental prowess while Almond felt his senses, brain capacity, and mental aspects getting a huge boost.
‘Holy shit.’ Almond’s eyes glowed as the world he was perceiving changed entirely.
“Attacks incoming!”
“Fuck!”
The Griminions had arrived and laughed their attacks as the projectiles zoomed toward Mad Nuts members. In a blink, they saw light, and the attacks were in front of them, mainly from Immortal-rank Griminions.
However, Almond simply created a portal in front of the incoming projectiles that Griminions released and gave them back right behind them from a second portal.
*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!*…
The Mad Nuts were watching only with defense ready, but mainly, being ready to provide soul energy to Almond the moment he nudged them.
And what they saw caused their jaw to drop.
But it was just the beginning as the crowd of Griminion arrived and a messy fight began with them at the forefront.
Almond’s eyes glinted, and he teleported the entire group way high in the sky as the Griminions continued their momentum and clashed with Immortal-rank Groups.
Brian’s faction was amidst them, and they were instantly overwhelmed.
“Bombardment!” Almond waved his hand as ten giant cannon barrels materialized below the group facing downward, each one having a 10-meter-wide hole!
Almond’s figure blurred as he crossed the speed of light and entered the Hyper Plane, gaining 26 seconds of process in an instant.
The ten giant cannonballs lit up with golden patterns before tiny motes materialized inside them, shining brightly.
‘Release.’
*Swoosh!(
Each mote was like a flexible laser beam or rather, a thread, as the ten cannons released exactly ten thousand threads, which were the top-quality nano-structured blades improved with his Mythical-rank Space Elemental Mastery, making them condensed with offensive attributes of his elements with the aim to maximize pierce power.
The thin threads with nano-blades in them sliced through Griminions and killed tens of them at once before forming into a net, ultra-thin yet sharpest, vibrating as well as moving in a formation with ultra-fast speed for higher penetration.
Every Griminion beast hitting the net straight up shattered into small pieces, even the Immortal rank Beasts, because Almond just emptied his entire reserve of 1,000,000 refined Prana in this single move, and his Arcane Constitution was already at 574.
Since he gained Gorilla’s attributes and boosted himself, his computational powers were off the charts, and his Arcane constitution was increasing each second.
The Mad Nuts had their jaws dropped straight to the ground, hundreds of meters below, as they saw the scenery of slaughter by Almond.
“Mother of fucking death, what the fuck?!”
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!”
“My god…”
Alas, the net only lasted for three seconds, but it still killed a lot of Griminions because they were rushing at high speed and got screwed.
Almond used 100,000 soul energy and refined Wild Prana into 1,000,000 in a couple of seconds as everyone felt a powerful surge of wild Prana around them due to Almond breathing in with his Prana Art.
Right after that, ten people also got a signal from Almond, and each one provided Almond with 10,000 soul energy, keeping his Soul Sea full.
Zek and Karven looked at each other with a speechless expression.
Just at the survival event, it didn’t seem like they were that far from Almond, but now, he was simply too strong for them.
“Oh shit, look guys! Crimson River faction is getting fucked up!”
“Stinking potatoes, serve them right!”
“Heh, how dare they threaten our boss.”
Almond’s eyes glinted as he made a move, sealing space around Brian and freezing him just for a moment as one projectile attack and a close-range attack were about to hit him from two Immortal Griminions.
One was like a giant floating lizard without wings, burning in green flames and shining claws, but it had sharp spiky fur all over its body, and another was a Lion-Tiger dual-headed Griminion that looked much corrupted based on its unstable energies and changing body patterns.
Brian broke free in less than a second by bursting out a stream of dark blue and red aura from him as the potency of Almond’s moves wasn’t that strong compared to Brian as Brian had 2.8k Arcane Constitution.
However, he still got screwed by Almond’s intervention because Almond timed the spatial lock cleverly.
“Brian!”
“Fuck, get him out of here!”
“Retreat!”
Almond narrowed his eyes. ‘He didn’t die.’
“It looks like he’ll be the pain in the ass again,” Karven released a hollow laugh.
“If I had a higher Arcane Constitution, I would have killed him right now.” Almond clicked his tongue and turned to the front lines.
“Boss, a group of Griminions is coming up at us!”
“There’s three Immortal-rank Griminions on that!”
Almond’s eyes flickered as he veiled the group in a spatial layer, making them invisible from all senses and visibility.
“Eh? They changed their direction.”
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Almond sat down cross-legged in the air and said, “Relax and watch. We don’t need to fight now, but keep an eye around in case a Griminion with space affinity manages to detect us. I’ll be watching these seniors and focus on increasing my Arcane constitution for now.”