"Son! Don't play around!" Garut was speechless.
"Hahahahaaha!"
Nai narrowed his eyes. Garut Son's throw seemed to agitate the slimes forward. "Careful! They're coming!"
Like a monster that can haunt a person with nightmares every night. All the human-skin slimes stomped on the ground and started running towards them creepily.
"What a way of running! So ugly!" The former village chief wanted to regain his face, so he angrily shouted and attracted the slime's attention.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Behind him, spear after spear flew out and started shooting towards the slimes. However, with their slow throws, and the targets were further away.
They were just wasting their weapons. "Stop! Give me the other spears! Use the axe instead!" Garut shouted below as he threw one spear after another.
With an accepter's strength, he can easily take down one or two slimes with three to five spear throws each. All spears thrown by him would seem to zoom in a few seconds away in the slime's eyes.
Whereas in the eyes of another slime, Nai's spear doesn't even show itself before they are pierced!
"This disparity. Huff~"
A few minutes later, Garut could already feel his arms sore from all the exertion he had done. Breathing heavily, he decided to catch his breath and pull down the spear away.
"Ruler, my arms are almost sore. But my legs aren't!" Garut gritted his teeth as he made up his mind in a flurry.
Nai shook his head and said, "Your spear throwing is fast, but your feet might not. You'll die in close combat! Rest first!"
That's right, although he seems to easily turn the slimes into dust. That was just because of the speed and miracle water combined into the spears.
In close combat, his feet would just drag him down. He shook his head and slowly drank some of his precious miracle water. "Alright! I'm not thinking straight just now!"
Seeing Garut accepted his persuasion, Nai felt somehow relieved. He looked down below as he said, "Go below; the regular men won't be able to kill any slimes without getting a few meters with them."
And if they really came near them, these people would die. In short, they had no use except to move around and pass the weapons around them to him, and they watched the battle like an excited audience.
Garut nodded and immediately climbed down the stairs as he helped his people fight. Nai returned his attention to the battlefield. No matter how many he killed, the slime coming out of the dark fog seemed to be endless.
"At this rate, we won't have enough spears. And I will be forced into closed combat." Frowning; he didn't like this.
This tiring battle of life and death also felt exciting, but in reality, he wasn't a genius at fighting. All he knew was to fight fairly straightforwardly from afar.
"If that comes to it, I can only adapt." A small spark started burning in his heart. This is why he didn't like being a leader in a chaotic period.
Peaceful reigning is much more acceptable.
He can just enjoy the throne and let the talented do the work. But here? The ruler has to do the heavy work.
Ah!!! Once, I had my descendants pop up like balloons in this century. I won't have to work too much like this.
Killing is just too nerve-racking for the brain and body. "I wonder if there really is an ability that can affect reality like this fog. So far, there's no clear indicator of a destructive ability ever appearing. Wait!"
Nai's eyes lit up suddenly; he remembered what happened this morning just now. That seems to be an ability. Rock spurts out from the cracked, spider-net-like ground, with him as the center of a two-foot-deep and five-meter-wide basin pit.
Is that really an ability?
Why do others seem to know their abilities and how to activate them while I don't?
Perhaps I can at least try it. Not before the spears are all used!
Ripppppppp!
Ripppppppp!
Ripppppppp!
Bang! Dust rose up from the recoils of his throws. Until the very last spear was in hand, Nai stood looking rather grumpy in his heart.
In the end, it still comes to this, huh? I'm curious when this will be over. Don't tell me there's an army of these slimes hiding in the fog.
As the battle went on, the weapons in their hands dwindled until only the axes, which were not much use, were left. The bonfires around them were already blown out by the ghostly wind.
The fog moved slowly, creeping into their territory bit by bit.
"Hoh!" Puffing his chest out, he gathered his courage and started charging down the enemy ranks! Who knew if they even had a ranking between them?
"Who cares! Let's go and die!" Nai felt he was a hypocrite. One moment he was saying he was not fighting in close combat, but here he was holding two one-handed axes in each hand, charging forward like some sort of beast on release.
It's because of them. Giving me this kind of responsibility! Ahhh! Kindness! This protection isn't meant for them! It's only for myself and those who are part of my family!
Such thought suddenly appeared in his heart, anger, irritation, and crazed emotions swelled up in him, fueling the raging fire in his heart. That's right, I'm a ruler, but so what? I had already given them things and knowledge.
Even helped them in that herd accident. Giving them a place to live and even using his mud and stones as well as fish to survive in his territory!
They're too much! I'm no nanny! I'm Nai! How could you use my kindness like this? In his eyes, he suddenly found it hard to calm his mind.
His reasons were gradually blurring; something within him seemed to be coming out. Hate! Hate! Hate!
What have I been doing before? Why am I doing this right now? Leaving his wife to protect the others? I'm neither the hero nor the protagonist of this series!
I'm no villain! I'm just one lucky man who regained his youth from the cruel times. Passed the acceptance phenomenon of this extraordinary world. Gain the strength and the greatest wish he so desires.
Power, nah. Speed? Nah. How about longevity? Yes!
That's why: how dare you exploit me?
The fire mixed with surging anger in his heart exploded. His muscles bulged as he put strength on his feet and legs as he jumped up!
With bloodshot eyes that looked like those of a beast, he calmly observed the slimes looking at him from mid-air. Ten meters above the ground, the force that lifted him vanished.
Gravity once again took hold of his weight and made him descend! With both feet pointing to the ground. All kinds of emotions vanished from his heart.
In his eyes, the surroundings suddenly stopped. His descent seems to have been forced to slow down. Rationality consumed his whole mind.
He remembered his stomped just a few hours ago. As long as he can remember that feeling. He felt like he could do it much grander than back then.
That is because on the battlefield, he has no such concern for destroying everything!
In his empty heart, a brown colored flower suddenly bloomed and exploded with colors. This is it!
He found it!
Let everything cave in for me!
[Land Step]!
BAAANNNGGGGG—!
Grumble! Grumble! RUMBLE—!
The clear mind can clearly see it. When his feet touch the ground. Brown mist came out of his body and seeped out like a snake drilling underground.
The ground caved in meter by meter, widening foot by foot. Like a trampoline being jumped on. A ten-meter-wide and five-meter-deep crater spread out as Nai with the center.
The impact caused cracks to crawl outward like lightning strikes. The ground caused by the ground's seismic aftershocks rose up and turned into spurs that pierced through the bodies of the slimes.
Everything that happened in his eyes seemed very slow, but to everyone else, it was a disaster that a human can't do.
Is this something a human can still do?!!
Can an acceptor really achieve this?
Shocked and speechless, Garut stood rooted on the ground, being swept away by shockwaves that spread outward! He was sent flying away before hitting the castle's foundation-like walls.
Ugh—ah! Damn it! I'm going to die from your recklessness, not in a fight!
The villagers, on the other hand, all ducked their heads inside the temporary shelter as they closed the doors.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
However, the shockwaves entering the holes of their shelter still caused them to have ringing in their ears.
It was as though a 10.10-magnitude earthquake had caused the earth to shake. Causing tremors far more intense than the first one that immediately followed.
At the same time, howls of misery came ringing out on everyone's heads.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh—
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh—
Such a familiar voice, Garut smiled weakly as he heaved deep, heavy breaths while his body ached from the impact just now. Blood flows a bit from his ears and nose, in the end, he fainted.
Even the villagers who were having temporary ringing ears cried out as headaches came from the screaming voice coming directly into their heads.
"AHHHHHHHH! HELP ME!"
"STOP IT, PLEASE!"
"MAKE IT STOP! Make it stop! I'M DYING!"
Their five orifices let out a few streaks of blood.