Jin continued moving forward, killing the goblins in front of him one after another. The more he killed, the happier he felt.
"I'll kill a few more and then I'll head back. Hehe."
"But if I keep moving, I'll really be late, and they'll notice my absence. Hmm." Jin scratched his head.
"Alright, I'll just kill a few more… just a few, then I'll return."
Jin kept moving until he reached a vast area in front of him filled with hundreds of goblins and some lizards.
"What a sight! Why are there hundreds of them here?" Jin was sweating as he looked ahead.
And then he discovered the reason… He saw a Chaos Leader sitting on the ground surrounded by hundreds of goblins and lizards.
The hideous creature was about two meters tall, with a massive body covered in scarred, wrinkled skin as if it had suffered severe burns.
Its limbs were filled with swollen muscles protruding in an irregular manner, covered in sharp protrusions and swollen pimples.
Its face was even more monstrous, with no distinct features except for glowing red eyes, a wide mouth stretching across half its face, filled with irregular sharp teeth and drooling with viscous saliva.
Its nose was reduced to two narrow slits emitting hot breaths, and its ears were deformed with sharp spikes protruding from them.
This creature was called "Brakos," and Jin had seen it before in a book about Chaos Sciences.
"Damn, I don't think I can face a Chaos Leader in my current state… I have to return."
Jin turned around and saw a massive lizard with a large sword standing behind him, looking at him.
"oh fuck, how didn't I notice it ! …" Jin jumped back quickly.
The lizard roared and swung its sword towards Jin.
Now Jin was in a vast area with hundreds of monsters that had noticed his presence...
"Oh Shit, I'm in a real mess," Jin looked right and left with no hope, surrounded by creatures everywhere.
Sweat poured heavily from his forehead, and he laughed nervously. "Hehe, I guess I have no choice."
He then drew his Blood Sword again, causing the surrounding creatures to scream and begin attacking him.
Suddenly, time stopped for Jin, and a message appeared in front of him:
"You are about to die. Do you want to enter combat mode? [Yes/No]"
Jin stared at the message. "Hah, wha- death!"
He looked up and saw the Chaos Leader above him!
Jin hadn't noticed it above him, and the number of Chaos creatures attacking him was indeed more than he expected.
This was immediate death...
Jin swallowed hard and said, "Yes."
Suddenly, everything returned to normal, and time resumed, but Jin had lost control over his body...
"Clang!" Jin's body quickly blocked the Chaos Leader above him and fell back as dozens of goblins attacked him.
Jin moved his body, killing the first and second goblins with one swipe, and danced among them. He blocked the attack of one of the lizards with the edge of his sword.
The Chaos Leader charged and threw Jin's body away.
Jin dragged his sword across the ground to reduce his body's speed and two goblins jumped on him from the right side.
"Swoosh!" Jin's body moved with incredible speed, slicing the goblins in half.
Jin charged forward, leaping into the air.
"Blood Breeze…" Suddenly, Jin's sword emitted sparks of blood in the shape of rings, killing dozens of goblins in its path.
The Chaos Leader charged with incredible speed on its hands and feet like a raging bear, opening its mouth to bite Jin.
Suddenly, Jin drove the sword into the upper part of the creature's mouth, lifting it up and throwing it forward with his strength.
Jin then fell back, killing the remaining goblins that attacked him...
"What… how can I move with such agility!" Jin was astonished by what he was seeing.
He cut through dozens of goblins with the edge of his sword like paper and threw dozens of blood sparks to sever the heads of many others.
At the same time, he easily blocked all the Chaos Leader's attacks.
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a 'goblin,' your stats have increased."
He kept moving and moving, killing and killing ...
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a 'goblin,' your stats have increased."
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a 'goblin,' your stats have increased."
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a 'goblin,' your stats have increased."
He killed and slaughtered dozens without stopping; it was a one-sided massacre. After nearly an hour of killing...
"Ding! Congratulations, you killed a Chaos Leader 'The Brakos,' your stats have increased."
Jin's strength gave out, and he fell to the ground, spitting blood.
"Ugh, my body hurts… ugh, damn it…"
He looked at the dozens of corpses in front of him. "Wait, there are hundreds of them, hahaha."
Jin coughed violently, bleeding from his mouth. "fuck, I'm going to pass out…"
He grabbed his cheek and slapped himself. "No, I can't pass out now."
He got to his feet and climbed atop a pile of the creatures' corpses. "Ugh, I did all this, hahaha."
Jin looked and saw one of the goblins crawling in front of him. "Heh, it seems you're suffering. Let me end your misery."
Jin moved towards the goblin, swaying left and right as he thrust his sword into it, killing it without mercy.
Then he checked his stats:
"Statistics"
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*Title: The Corruption
*Rank: Reborn Entity
*Artifacts: 0/1
*Weapons: 0/1
*Summons: 0/1
*Kills: 327 / 500
*Ancient Souls: 1/5
*Mana: 70/120
*Souls Army: 327/50000
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"Hmph, not bad, I suppose." He said with a sinister grin.
"Should I push forward and slaughter more? Haha," Jin's voice was cold as he stared ahead.
"I don't think going back is an option; I'm dreadfully late!"
Jin swayed unsteadily on a rock, his breaths ragged and labored. The world around him began to blur, his strength waning with each passing second.
Suddenly, a voice pierced through his fading consciousness.
"What the hell is going on here?!" Alucard's voice, frantic and urgent.
Jin's head turned sluggishly towards the sound, and he saw the silhouettes of two figures hurtling towards him.
A girl with long, flowing white hair, her form barely distinguishable, rushed towards him in a desperate dash.
Without warning, the ground beneath them began to tremble violently.
"What's happening?!" Jin's thoughts scrambled as he struggled to make sense of what is happening around him. His vision swam, darkening at the edges.
The ground shook very hard, throwing Alucard and Yumi to the ground. "The ground—it's collapsing!" they screamed, their voices filled with terror.
Jin, dazed and on the edge of unconsciousness, watched helplessly as the ground fractured and gave way. The solid earth crumbled, exposing a vast Abyss below.
Alucard, Yumi, and Jin were pulled into the Abyss void.
As they fell into the abyss, Jin's final glimpse was of their fading, terrified faces disappearing into the darkness...
Later, in a public square teeming with grieving crowds, the tragic news spread rapidly. Four months had passed since the heirs of Shanzo and Artifalia—Alucard and Yumi—had disappeared without a trace ...