When facing death, a guardian is always taught to remain calm. As the bright red light closed the distance between heaven and earth, Itham began to get calm as he asked these questions to himself.
"I will not go down without even trying."
[Ding! The host has activated one of the unique skills, 'Aura of Arcane Energy.] Suddenly a blue wave of mana started coming out of Itham.
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"Everyone, if you want to survive you all would need to transfer your mana to my body." Even though Itham would feel tremendous pain during the entire process, he had no other choice but to do it. This was their only way of surviving this calamity.
All the powerful zombies standing around Itham didn't hesitate even for a second. From their hearts, they started transferring their mana to Itham's body. If one looked closely then you can see countless ropes made out of transparent energy linking Itham with every powerful zombie that was standing around him.
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The colors of the ropes were different for everyone. There were all kinds of colors of ropes linking with Itham's body. The ends of the rope were touching a random part of Itham's body and were rapidly transferring mana to his boy.
[Mana [100+]
[Mana [50+]
[Mana [100+]
[Mana .....]
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At this moment Itham wanted to let out a scream of pain. Only he can describe what he was going through at this moment. This much pain was worse than death itself. Itham was experiencing so much pain that his mind was on the verge of a mental breakdown. Itham knew that if he loses his concentration even for a second then he lose his consciousness and everyone including him here would die.
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[Aura of Arcane Energy (level 1): - A special skill that is only possessed by certain lucky people in the world. When this skill is activated, the user will gain the ability to accept foreign mana and use that mana to create an Aura sheild.
Note: - When this skill is activated, the host will face pain that is even worse than death. If the host will is not strong enough to endure the pain, the skill will fail and the host body will explode due to having too much mana in the body.]
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Just when the red light that seems to indicate the end of this world was only 3.5 km away from the ground, a light blue energy dome with mysterious runes patterns on it formed 10 meters above the ground.
The zombies who were hesitating a little about giving their mana to Itham, after seeing the energy dome, started transferring more and more mana to Itham.
At this crucial moment, the value of each second was more precious than gold itself. Everyone was resting their hope of survival on their faction's leader Itham.
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Time seems to have slowed down. Each second felt like a minute. As more and more mana was transferred to Itham's body, increasing the amount of pain that he was experiencing, the energy dome above their head continued to expand and also become more and more durable.
[Mana [100+]
[Mana [50+]
[Mana [100+]
[Mana .....]
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Almost 20 km away, Isaac, Aleesia, and Zeno watched the scene in a mix of shock, surprise, and many other emotions that constantly flashed in their eyes.
While Issac knew about the power of his Executioner of Nightmares, Zeno and Aleesia were not aware of what Isaac's weapon could do. But now seeing the red bright light that seems to shine even 20 km away, they were convinced.
The shock they felt at this moment was just too huge for them.
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"It looks like Itham is making an energy dome in response." Zeno shook his head with a smile. He was ready for some explosion. Before he hated explosions but for the first time in his life Zeno was eagerly waiting for the calamity, the explosion to take place.
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The energy dome that was once light blue in color and was about 20 meters in size, now with everyone's mana had expanded to become dark blue in color and 1 km in size. As more and more mana was being added to the barrier, multiple layers of transparent barriers were being formed.
Mana from all the high-level zombies was creating something that would normally be called an ultimate barrier but unfortunately, they were up against a weapon that had the power to even seriously injure a Peak 7th-order existence.
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Standing behind Isaac, she was invisible in others' eyes. At this moment, Lusha, the Dragon Empress looked at the scene with lots of interest. But she also felt pity that an existence having this kind of super-rare skill was Isaac's enemy. As for whether Itham will die or not, Lusha will leave that to fate. She does not wish to ruin the fun.
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When the spear that was surrounded by a 100 meters long red wave of mana was only 1 km away from hitting the ground, a sharp shrill sound was heard all over Eastfox city. When the gigantic spear was only 100 meters away, Itham then realized what he was up against.
Just the pressure from the spear was enough to cause thousands of level one zombies whose bodies were too weak to handle the atmospheric pressure bought by the spear. The ground beneath Itham violently trembled.
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"You can't get past a barrier that was made using everyone's mana." Despite breathing heavily, there was a smirk on Itham's face.
However, the Executioner of Nightmares wasn't going to stop from Itham's words. The 500 meters long spear stuck to the 7-layered energy dome above the eastern part of the slum.
Opposite to their expectation, the spear did not stop even for a second. It was like when a stone is thrown at a glass window, the spear broke the seven layers of the energy dome in less than one second.
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Bang!
Loud glass-shattering sounds were heard all over the city before that sound turned into the sound of a loud explosion.
Before Itham and others who were exhausted after spending all of their mana could react, the spear stuck to the ground beneath Itham, completely turning his entire body to a meat paste.
Boooooooooom!!!!!!!
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As if a nuclear bomb has been dropped on Eastfox city. The entire city shook from the explosion. A huge wave of fireball rose in the sky then a black cloud of mushrooms appeared in the sky.
When the spear struck the ground, a wave of fire spread in all directions. Before the zombies could react, their bodies were burnt down and turned to ash due to the intense temperature.
Even Isaac, Zeno, and Aleesia who were standing 20 km away from the explosion site felt the earthquake.
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For a moment Isaac thought that he was watching how a nuclear bomb brings calamity. There was no doubt what he was currently witnessing was the most frightening thing that he has seen in his life.
[Ding! You have killed Peak-second order Itham. Your EX has been stored.]
[Ding! You have killed Peak-first order zombie. Your EX has been stored.]
[Ding! You have killed Peak-first order zombie. ....]
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Ignoring the messages, Itsuki stared at the huge wave of black smoke and dust that covered the entire eastern part of the slum. Even though Isaac has killed more than 15,000 beings, he didn't have even a trace of regret in his heart.
The 'heart of Ice' skill was helping Isaac in keeping his heart calm. There is no doubt that his attack must have also killed some humans who were still hiding in their homes. But compared to the 15,000 zombies that he just killed in one attack, the deaths of 100 people did not bother him.
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To others, this might be seen as cruel but to Isaac, this was necessary to gain control over the Eastfox city.
[Ding! The host has killed 15,000 zombies with a single attack while still being a first-order. The host had done something that no one on this planet has done before. The host has made a new record. A new achievement that no living being has managed to accomplish. The host has received 100 Dharma Points.]
Isaac was neither happy nor sad seeing this message. These 100 dharma points were gained at the cost of 15,000 lives. If Isaac had some way of turning zombies back into humans, then he wouldn't have chosen this path.
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At this moment, a man with black hair was watching the destruction that was taking place in the Eastern part of the slum.
"Who would possibly have the power to launch such a destructive attack?" This man was known as the lord of this City, he was the head and patriarch of the Greadsorn family. Currently, the head of the Greadsorn family was completely shaken up by seeing the destruction.
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After getting the quest to take back control over the entire Eastfox city, he and his forces were working day and night to kill all the rebels. Grandsorn was very disappointed to know that there were so many people who rebelled using the chaos.
Before getting the quest, he was thinking of taking his time to kill his enemies while keeping the casualties to a minimum level. But now he no longer cared about casualties. Only the result mattered.
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"I have to send someone to investigate the whole situation." Standing on the roof of his castle, the man sighed as he watched the eastern part of the slum burn in flames. A part of his heart was aching seeing his own Eastfox being destroyed like this. But another part of his heart was worried about the person who could launch this kind of frightening attack.
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The alternate title of the chapter: - The approach of the calamity [II]