"Damn it, are both of them monsters?" The leader of the Blood Blade Squad shouted, sweat flying from his forehead.
"Were we really planning to interfere in this fight and help him? Their physical power is almost at the level of a Blood Warrior. This is terrifying." The leader of the Blood Hands Squad clenched his teeth in fear, not only because of the crushing aura, but because of the intensity and brutality of the battle.
"For that monster to reach this level of raw physical strength… it's possible. It isn't a cultivator, but the result of many blood experiments. Even so, that power is terrifying in every way… It isn't only at the peak of Blood Trainee Stage, its physical strength has almost reached the beginning of Blood Warrior strength." The elder muttered to himself as if he had seen the most illogical thing in his life.
The dust was still hanging in the air when the change began… A faint, fierce, tense aura rose around Ashen's body, heating the air with a wild blood pulse.
Ashen activated the Blood Rampage.
"Am I seeing illusions or what?"
"Who is this boy… a five-star Blood Rampage… even in the sacred domain it is extremely rare, almost nonexistent."
Almost everyone gasped in shock as if seeing the strangest thing in their lives.
As for Ashen, his muscles swelled, his veins glowed with a dark crimson color, and his breaths turned into sharp exhalations like a tiger preparing to strike. The ground under his feet shook — not from his weight… but from the savage pressure radiating from him.
On the other side…
The giant monster began to twist, its organs shivering, its body glowing with liquid blood light— the liquid gathered… coiled… feeding the flesh… to form the Blood Manifestation. A terrifying, dense blood layer that fluttered around it like a curtain from hell, producing a sound like a boiling pot of trapped souls.
Blood Rampage
vs
Blood Manifestation
Two powers created for killing.
And yet… neither of them retreated.
In the third second only… their power exploded.
Ashen disappeared — literally disappeared — only his voice was heard: "Hh!" In one instant… he was under the monster's chest. He had flown fourteen meters into the air in less than a second.
His first strike wasn't a punch… it was a hammer of flesh.
BOOM!
The monster's chest caved inward, its flesh rippling like mud, and it was pushed several meters back, its giant feet carving trenches into the ground.
But the Blood Manifestation wasn't just a shield… it was a living entity. Every time the monster was struck, its blood pressure rose and thickened, as if it drew strength from the pain itself.
The monster countered immediately: its massive arm came down from above with a palm strike capable of crushing a fortress.
Ashen raised his arms and took the full hit.
The sound of air breaking… then rocks shattering behind him… then an explosion.
Ashen was driven into the ground like a stake.
The ground beneath him collapsed ten meters downward, his body sinking into a bloody pit, but the Blood Rampage refused to let him fall.
Ashen roared wildly: "AAAAAAH!!"
He shot upward like an arrow, his fist filled with energy, striking the monster's blood-soaked jaw. The jaw literally exploded — dozens of human faces on its sides began screaming, their voices distorted and crazed, as if souls were trapped inside the flesh.
The monster moved its other gorilla-like arm with terrifying speed, a sweeping strike meant not only to hit Ashen… but to destroy everything around him.
The air itself exploded. The ground cracked open. Thousands of stone shards shot in every direction like sharp rain.
But Ashen… had seen the attack. The Blood Rampage raised his reaction to a savage level. He stepped on one of the monster's giant limbs and disappeared again.
He appeared behind the monster's back. Hundreds of human arms blocked him in a disgusting, disturbing scene, but Ashen didn't even blink. His leg burst with blood energy, and this time his kick wasn't human… it was the kick of a beast.
DOOM!
The monster's body was thrown forward, crashing through a stone pillar twenty meters thick like a small mountain, smashing it like wet wood, then rolling across the ground for thirty meters before stopping.
The Blood Manifestation began boiling around the monster, sticking to its flesh, forcing strength into it again. The creature's throat rose with a heavy roar, its voice terrifying, shaking the sky.
The Blood Rampage around Ashen pulsed stronger, growing more violent.
Both of them… became stronger with every hit they received.
The monster charged like a hell train — Ashen charged like a blood missile —
Only ten meters between them.
Five…
Three…
The world exploded.
There were no words to describe that collision. Stone fragments became like bullets. The ground exploded from below, the air exploded from above. Even the old cracks in the earth widened until some reached depths of darkness.
A giant of blood…
against
a beast of flesh.
Equal strength. Mutual destruction. Blood burst from the monster's flesh. Ashen's bones cracked… but did not break.
Severe wounds covered both bodies, yet neither retreated.
Both of them… were only searching for a chance to crush the other.
And still… the real battle had not even begun.