"The bullets won't work on the monster...We need backup! I repeat! We need backup." When the 5th cop was killed, the sheriff or whatever he was felt the severity of the situation and immediately called for backup.
I knew for sure that he wasn't calling for some random cops to join the party but some people who actually deal with monsters and weird creatures, also known as crusaders. They had the abilities and power to stop or so he thought.
I saw from afar Claire and Luke watching the scene with pure horror. Claire, who was pulled away from my clutches a few minutes ago, was eager to come to stop me but Luke held her with all of his strength trying to shove some sense into her clouded mind.
"He can't hear you, Claire!! If you go there you will die!" He shouted angrily.
"But Eli!!! I can't let him keep on killing people!!! We need to help him, Luke!"
The conversation going on reached my ears, all of my complicated emotions became even more chaotic. I felt the guilt in my heart intensify to an unimaginable level.
The policemen retreated before I could catch anyone else, but with a quick move, I caught one of them and added him to the number of victims.
Those that came to help, ran away while also asking for help themselves. How ironic!
But their futile attempts of keeping their dear lives became nothing but loud screams and horrific cries. My body moved like an experienced predator plucking preys like flowers and instantly consuming them.
A few seconds were enough for me to kill every single cop on the scene.
[Life essence detected.]
[Life essence consumption initiated.]
[Life essence consumed successfully.]
[Life essence required for update: 100]
Almost 20 cops got exterminated in a few minutes. In normal cases, such occurrences required national attention from the country itself. It would easily make me a worldwide wanted criminal, even a proper trial will become a luxury for me.
*Boom* *Boom* *Boom*
A huge impact stronger than anything I ever felt before sent me flying like a ragdoll. I ended up hitting one of the school walls creating a big hole in it.
"Ugh.." I groaned with a slightly pained expression. If not for the black liquid working its magic, I would've probably turned into meat paste in an instant.
I looked at the reason for this rough attack, there were 3 silhouettes standing slightly far away. The three of them were pointing their hands at me with serious looks.
I need instantly that they were the backup the late sheriff called for.
"Three crusaders...I hope this will be enough to stop the liquid." I muttered as I left everything to these newcomers.
I watched as they spoke quietly and coordinated their movements swiftly encircling me. I was trapped in all directions with no way of escaping, if I wanted to run away that is.
When I observed each one of them. They looked more like cosplayers than actual fighters with the medieval-looking armors and weird items they had.
These were probably items they bought or took from the portals. These funny-looking clothes worked like games as they granted them additional abilities.
In this case, they wore silver armor formed of a chest plate, arm guards, and leggings that roughly covered their thighs. All of them wore identical armor to each other.
"We're going to attack him all at the same time, use the 3rd formation." One of them suddenly spoke out loud and jumped at me while pulling a sword out of his hilt.
The attack wasn't that fast as I dodged it easily, He then swiped horizontally as a continuation of his attack. For some reason, the black liquid evaded the blade every single time even though it should've been able to destroy the sword easily.
While I was dealing with this courageous lad, the other 2 started attacking me from afar with magical attacks of some sort.
They were able to conjure pointy rocks out of the palm of their hands and send them flying like a javelin hitting me in different areas.
All of that didn't do much, but the way they worked together made it slightly difficult for the black liquid to move freely.
Then, I felt it. The black liquid that didn't show emotions before suddenly became angry. How did I know? For some reason, I felt deep inside of me that this liquid was actually getting pissed from the crusaders. It was a weird feeling born from a connection I had with it.
I could sense its intentions and desires, desires to eat everything that had life essence inside of it no matter how minuscule it was.
This liquid was not an intelligent creature by any means, I scratched that idea from my head the moment I felt its irritation. It was more like a coded program guided by someone or something to just consume everything that stands in front of it. This irritation it felt was nothing but a result of the failure of achieving the only task it had.
"There is definitely someone responsible for all of this." I gritted my teeth in frustration as I watched the 3 crusaders struggle to deal with me.
They exchanged positions in milley and long-distance attacks. Each time my body tried to catch one of them they slipped away like a fish before continuing to attack me relentlessly.
All of that naturally didn't mean that I was at a disadvantage or anything. I gravely underestimated the black liquid abilities as it was way stronger than expected.
The speed that it moved at was by no means that of a normal creature, it made my normal body more flexible and adaptable to all kinds of situations. Hell, it made me do moves that could break my bones if done in normal circumstances.
Another thing to take note of is that this black liquid is inexhaustible. No, seriously, even after 15 minutes of constant fighting, the speed it was moving at didn't decrease at all, in fact, considering that it already understood the patterns of the trio, it became, even more, faster than before, it just shows how out of this world this thing is and puts a lot of question marks on how it ended up choosing me as its host.
"Fuck! This thing dodges every single attack no matter how fast it is...I can't keep this rythme for long...Mailou! kaith! we need to find another way to beat it." One of the three crusaders finally succumbed to his exhaustion and frustration.
They were prolonging this fight just for another group of crusaders to come for help. But when they found that this liquidy creature didn't attack them, some useless arrogance sprouted in their hearts and the fame they would get for killing it clouded their minds. What was just wasting time turned into a full-on plan to kill me.
It was quite idiotic to do so, especially when they didn't know anything about the creature. This is what they will soon discover...in a painful way that is.
[Due to the prolonged exposure to a certain skill. Gluttonia Learned the skill]
[Gluttonia learned the skill: "Stone Manipulation" ]
Suddenly, a new message appeared in front of me...
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