The whole earth beneath me suddenly collapsed and numerous tentacles like before spawn out of it completely engulfing both of us in a cocoon of darkness or at least that what he thought was doing .
But i was still saying clearly what was exactly going on and the smirk that he was currently having on his face as he said :
Much stronger than me, hope you still have this same opinion after me fully devouring you , you might even beg me to plant a Devouring Seed in you .
The moment he said that last part, i felt as if an electric current suddenly passed through my brain, as i remembered that i witnessed that Devouring Seed of his and its effects on the last minutes of Javo, could this be the him he asked me to kill .
He still wasn't in hurry to take action but i was, the sudden realization that just hit me had me contemplating on quite different matters especially the Gluttony that i remembered old man Larn called to me about earlier .
The abnormal behavior of both Javo and the monsters that were under his command and most importantly the creature in front of me repeatedly saying that he wanted to devour me too .
He was the Gluttony, the one responsible for it all and the one that took Javo in as a subordinating under him, the Devouring Seed was what led him to consume his deer friend and if i'm not wrong it could be related to how was he swapping places with his minions to avoid getting hit by my attacks .
~Clang~ .
He again tried to attack me yet he failed once again but i was able to counter him this time by directly punching him but the moment he got near the edges of the black sphere that we were both currently in it actually helped him to reduce the impact of the punch but the damage he took wasn't that apperant for some reason, maybe the work of the weird sphere that we are in .
He appeared as if teleporting and stood in a bit distance away from me as he said :
What , why your punch is a lot weaker now , are you trying to tickle me, or are you possibly doing this intentionally to allow me reconsider allowing you to become my subordinate, sadly i'm more interested in the strength boost that i will be able to get after completely devouring you , so you have to forget about getting out of here , you will be a part of me from now on .
Is that so ? .
It's s...
Just as he was about to finish his sentence he was dumbstruck by the hole that i made in the wall of sphere that we were in, i say a hole but it is more like i destroyed half of the sphere with just a punch and and i then began to get out of the sphere while fighting against those tentacles that were trying to hold me back until the sphere regenerate .
I got out and he soon followed but the sphere was still not dissipating for some reason but the tentacles were actually beginning to regenerate even faster .
I wasted no time since there wasn't much time before the second army of high ranking monsters join the battlefield and if that was allowed to happen it could most likely mark the end of the lives of those low ranking Adventurers and could deal a devastating blow to the moral of possibly the whole kingdom troops .
I went directly towards him and stroke his face but suddenly i felt as if someone or something was actually pulling me from behind and if i already didn't have a guess on what might it be, i would be having quite the shock on this happening .
The culprit was actually that black sphere of his from before now fully restored, it was currently holding into me using its numerous tentacles trying to fix me in my place and i believe it was trying to poison me and what made me more eligible to believe so was the purple like substance that it kept on releasing while it held into me .
It wasn't fixing me completely down but it was reducing my attacking speed by a big notch , giving him the advantage of easily being able to evade my attack and not allowing me to evade any of his attack but at least he was only still using physical attacks that was completely and utterly useless against me .
You are completely done for, the tentacles of mine have a powerful poison imbued into it, capable of easily dealing with a normal SS Rank Adventurers with quite ease, you are a lot stronger than an SS Rank Adventurers just from the point that you are still standing outrightly and you looked quite unharmed too and for such a long period of time , but i believe you are just being stubborn and acting tough , aren't you .
I paid his taunting no mind, but things can't be left to continue going on like this , i need to get rid of those lousy tentacles that kept on binding me , what i would have paid to have my sword or any sword for that matter .
Let's first get rid of that annoying thing that keep on holding me back, so we can grant the last wishes of Javo and avenge those victims that had previously fallen to him and the kids from before, not to mention removing that cocky expression from his face .
A straight approach like before could do the trick, i turned towards the black sphere and went on punching it but here was the weird part, my punches weren't doing any damage to it, the moment my punch made contact with the surface of the the sphere, it actually shape shifted and successfully parred my attack by some way absorbing the place which i decided to target .
Now this have become a lot more troublesome than i first expected it to be , wait a minute i can use the tentacles that it was binding me to it in my favor since even if it could absorb parts of its shape to parry my attacks what if i just smashed it completely with one attack and i already have that kind of attack on my mind .
I was fully focused on the sphere and wasn't even aware of the huge bat that was currently hovering in the air quite a distance above us , the moment i was about to commence my attack the bat came crashing down on me saying die human in a tone that i had become quite familiar with but there was no much time to dwell on this .
The bat like being came crashing at me from the sky in a quite dashing fashion catching me completely off guard while opening his mouth quite wide to swallow me up but sadly for him he won't get what he want .
The moment that the huge bird was about put me in his mouth and even though i was taken by surprise, my Hunter's Instinct skill wasn't , it allowed me to be able to completely counter any attack that befell me and this time was not an exception .
I find my right leg which was rooted to the ground just now suddenly and instinctively and as naturally as it could get, rose up entirely from the ground and without any delay came down crashing on the said creature without even a second delay .
Completely smashing his head to the ground like an axe, the kick of mine was able to shatter his whole head to a bundle of meat and a pool of blood, the color of its blood was actually gray and the moment it came to contact with the sun rays it actually began to evaporate out of nowhere .
Then the tentacles of the sphere became more agitated as if i had stepped on its tail or something of sorts as it actually began to change the shape of its tentacles to different shapes of weapons and all were aimed at me but these attacks were all futile .
Suddenly the sphere actually began releasing lighting and fire with blade of winds began to be conjured and take a shape and form, its look with the flashing magic circle that was now appearing on it looked as if it was going berserk or for me it looked like those games at the children's amusement park that i used to see in my old world .
Suddenly without any notice, i actually noticed that the earth beneath me was beginning to change shape to a shape that i only saw once but it was quite recent so i don't got much of a chance to forget about it , The Domain Of Scorching Flames that Javo used and even acquired it during our battle yesterday, so there's no way i wouldn't be able to recognize it .
Since the moment that it appeared, i was engulfed in the same familiar fire column like before but this time the sphere added something new to the argument and that was the stones of magma that kept targeting me in the column of fire and the moment that i was a bit late to deflect or destroy these magma rocks they would hit me as their target and push me out of the column and the moment that i was out of the column a new fire column would appear from the ground beneath me and the process will start again .
If someone else other than me had to endure such a thing, his body would have already turned to ashes a long time ago but for me i have both magic resistance and especially fire resistance , so if anything the scene actually appeared to be ridiculously funny to me .
I really need to began taking this whole situation a bit more serious especially since the last attack that was made by that huge bat just now .
The moment that i turned to see the bat corpse that was just beside me i was startled to find out that the corpse that was in the vicinity just now actually disappeared .
Could it have been burnt by the Domain Of Scorching Flames just now was my guess wrong, that Gluttony didn't have any relation with the huge bat just now but that can't be right , right ? .
In the end i did hear his same voice coming from the mouth of the huge bat, not to mention him miraculously disappearing the moment the bat appeared .
Most importantly how was that sphere even able to use the skills of Javo , could he really be able to empower himself by devouring others , the only thing that i was quite sure of was that his survival otherwise that sphere as i presumed it to be a part of him would have dissipated a while ago .
Enough is enough, i thought as i punched a magma stone coming my way shattering it and turning it to ash, i then take two to three steps forward with the sphere being clueless about my movements thanks to how fast my speed was, i then hurriedly went to firmly catch one of those lousy tentacles of it .
I then without further delaying i jumped in the air pulling the whole sphere together with me to the air and making it losing most of its maneuver on the ground, it tried to burn me again, but i didn't pay it much of an attention , then i waited for the right moment when it gets a bit more higher above me in the air, then used the tentacle that i held and grabbed a bunch of the current unmoving tentacles before using them to pull that sphere and began moving it in a circular motion with quite ease before slamming it completely to the now fiery ground shattering both the sphere and the ground completely and making a hole so deep that left the impact of the action just now on the body of that sphere to the imagination .
The skill he was using effects disappeared marking its end and telling me that mission accomplished .
I looked around to see if that creature was still around the area but other than the massive hole and the now barren ground around me there wasn't even a sound of footsteps, i wasn't sure on whether did he escape or where exactly did he go to, but seeing the carcass of a monster that i wasn't aware of his existence just now give me a quite clear idea of where was he .
I exhaled a long breath and directly disappeared from my original place heading directly to the battlefield where i expected my next skirmish with that Gluttony to happen .
With my speed it took me two seconds to reach the battlefield and the scene that i saw left me quite speechless and filled with so much anger and hatred towards my fellow humans and not just the monsters .
The lower ranking Adventurers previous formation was now in shambles and a lot of casualties and bloodshed had already been caused and those who were alive were severely injured and the legion was now already being forced to retreat towards the city walls .
Yet, no one was coming from the walls to support them, most if not all the high ranking Adventurers were watching the scene that was unfolding in front of them without having any intention to go and help supporting the lower ranking Adventurers , who was sadly beginning to fall at a disadvantage even with some of the high ranking Adventurers like old man Larn fighting with them .
The clerks were actually allowed entry to the city so they instantly fled from the battlefield and was currently on the city walls, i was able to see the angry expression on the face of the princess as there were 5 to 6 made trying to calm her down including the Sword Saintess hero, i was able to see the same angered expression on the hero Shiru too , but not even the bit of remorse on the Kibas faces nor on that Yamada , it was as if what was going on in front of them had nothing to do with them .
Aren't they supposed to be heroes, so why were standing there like that and not trying to help, what was exactly stopping them , whatever or whatever was stopping them he won't be able to stop me .
I came dashing towards the battlefield and i created a straight line of blood while making my way towards the city walls, each of the monsters that was in my way exploded the moment they came near me and took merely a punch to be able to achieve something like that , i lost count of how many i killed but it was quite enough number to turn the bustling battlefield into complete silence with all the parties coming to a sudden stop to see and understand more clearly what just happened .
I reached the top of the city walls completely discarding the body parts of monsters that was currently on me and looked up in the direction of the princess and saw that she was looking at me appearing on the battlefield as if she had found the most brightest hope she could have ever dreamed of, that veil of hers was still blocking me from seeing what exactly her current facial expression and features were like but the now happy smile that was apperant gave me all the information that i wanted .
I hopped on the city walls completely disregarding the barrier that surrounded the city and appeared in front of the hero Shiru .
And walked to him and asked about why was the high ranking Adventurers weren't helping down there .
He wasn't the first to answer, the guards were they all brandished their swords at me while telling me to get back in position while noticably quivering but they kept the strongmen act or they at least tried to .
But Aura Of The Strong will be able to fix that the moment my Aura engulfed the whole area, all the guards on the walls dropped their weapons and they all began to shiver, the prince was still engrossed in his own mind but was still aware of what just happened as he was staring at me in an absent-mind like fashion .
I was still waiting for an answer so i completely discarding of the dumbstruck expressions on the faces of the two Kibas and the weird glint that appeared in the eyes of the sword saintess and Reince .
Shiru san , care to answer me ? .
Shiru cleared his throat and was about to answer but then the princess actually beat him to it as she said in a soothing and crisp like voice that it was all the work of the Nobles, they have bought most of the high ranking Adventurers and asked them to not interfere or participate without the clear order of the representative of the noble house that bought their services which led to the current situation that i'm seeing .
I nodded and thanked her for her most appreciated help , but out of curiosity i still asked her about what was she just trying to do and her answer was quite unexpected .
She said : If they won't try to help, then she will go to the battlefield and help support these guys herself .
And that what led Reince and the others to try to stop her , i looked at her as if waiting for her to say that she was surly jesting just now, but seeing her stance and feeling her stubborn demeanor i understood that she was really not .
What with your look, do you have a problem ? .
In contrast, i was just a bit taking back by the courage and the pure determination and will that your highness had showen to help in easing the burden of those who were suffering even if it meant doing this by your own hands that i couldn't help but being a bit moved by it .
Thanks for the the encouragement, you have also done a great job, i like you , i like it i meant i like the good job that you have done .
I paid his stuttering no mind and asked if she would willingly allow me to handle the situation with those high ranking Adventurers and she nodded at me in response of .
I wonder why was she so trusting towards me, was it something that Hana told her about me that made her become this trustworthy towards me, now was not the time to dwell much on things like that .
I got the permission that i wanted and i already have a clear idea of how to change the mind of those high ranking Adventurers .
I then began to head in the direction of the high ranking Adventurers, but was still keeping an eye on the now resuming battles on the battlefield .
How ? .
Huh , yeah right i almost forget that you are here hero Yamada .
He still replied to me with the same answer : How ? .
I was already on a tight schedule and had no time to waste with the type of this guy, so i just decided to ignore him currently since a lot was currently on stake right here right now and just as i was about to pass by him, he suddenly outstretched his weapon holding hand and put the spear in front of me as if telling me not to take another step forward .
I Looked At Him In The Eye And Told Him :
MOVE .