[10 minutes until the ‘Extermination Team’ arrives!]
Stark did NOT want to show his powers in front of anybody, which was why he planned to go further inside the rift to begin with: the bunny-masked man, his other identity, was so famous that if he ever used one of its attacks in front of others, they would immediately recognize him.
So maybe… just maybe… his talent did indeed summon the monster, but it also took into account the fact that everyone would leave, letting him kill it peacefully?
‘It’s a weird talent…’ Stark didn’t know how it worked, but every time it activated, it somehow distorted reality to make things happen whether they were good or bad to him, ‘Well, can’t really think about that now with THAT thing coming…’
The giant ghoul-like monsters, with its giant arms, legs, and wings, was still rushing at Stark, its purple aura surrounding its entire figure.
‘Perception…’ of course that was the first thing he did.
…
[Name: The Corrupted Ghoul (EVENT ELITE)]
[Level: 85]
[HP: 300000]
[Strength: 3726]
[Stamina: 4024]
[Speed: 1873]
[Defense: 3372]
[Skills: Venomous Spit, Shadow Wings, Sonic Roar, Nightmare Gaze, Shadow Strike, Corrupted Regeneration, Death Form…]
…
‘…’ Stark was actually perplexed: that thing had better stats than Sierra, even though she was supposed to be an apostle of the ‘Godless Demon’.
Maybe that thing was even stronger than her…? After all, it was a rare event elite that only appeared once in a while…!
“SHADOW STRIKE!” the giant ghoul raised one of its rugged arms, with sharp skin and claws, and then slammed it down towards Stark.
With quick reflexes, Stark dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the deadly strike.
No matter how strong that thing was, it was extremely slow compared to even normal enemies since its body was big and easily spottable.
“SHADOW STRIKE!” it tried yet again to hit Stark, but this time his wings just activated [Dash], propulsing him away from the radius of the attack.
Each [Shadow Strike] left a semi-deep crater on the ground it struck, and shimmers of purple aura were even left there, corrupting it.
It hit again, and again, and again… until eventually…
“Hah~ Hah~~ GROOARR~” the monster roared again, its tongue dangling from its mouth.
“AURA SMASH… MERGE!” while the monster was busy recovering some of its stamina after trying to hit Stark dozens of times, he on the other hand crouched down slightly and held his right arm’s wrist while summoning his three crimson fists and merging them into one.
And after only a few seconds of controlling this overwhelming power…
“SMASHHH!” he launched the giant fist toward the beast.
Obviously, it couldn’t avoid it.
“-53524!” its defense was high, but the damage was still incredible.
And in addition to that…
[Enemy Stunned!]
The Corrupted Ghoul suddenly staggered back from the impact, its enormous body trembling under the force of Stark’s attack, and then… it stopped moving altogether, its body stunned.
A single crimson fist has a 30% chance to stun an enemy, that is true, but when you merge them all together… that chance climbs all the way to 60%.
Taking advantage of the opening, Stark lunged forward.
The two arms of the ghoul fell to the ground in a giant thud, their owner unable to do anything other than move its pupils and watch the human run at full speed toward it.
‘Thanks for the stairs,’ Stark smiled as he jumped on the black hands and began running up the arms toward the face of the ghoul.
‘Clone FRENZY!’ he also summoned his clones beside him, and they also began following after him.
The reason he didn’t just instantly use [Heaven’s Wrath] on the monster was because he wanted to try something.
After a few seconds at full speed, he reached the face of the ghoul, its giant eyes, which were half his size, looking at him, and its purple pupils trembling slightly: it was scared.
“CRIMSON SPEARS,” all three Stark summoned 9 spears, then sent them all toward one of the specific eyes.
~PIERCE, PIERCE, PIERCE~
“GROOOOARRRHH~” the ghoul cried, now able to move its body slightly as the stun effect was slowly going away.
“-79736!” was the damage the spears caused, but that’s not all…
~POP~
Its right eyes completely exploded when the spears hit it, meaning it could only see with one eye now.
“GROOOOARRRHAH~” the ghoul kept crying, then began agitating its head.
“Guess I’m out…” Stark grinned as he jumped out of the way and fell back on the ground with a thud.
“-1726!” of course he received some damage for that, but his domination armor took it all, meaning he hadn’t suffered any injuries.
And as for the clones that remained on the ghoul’s face… they held on for a bit, and there was simple reason for that: Stark had an idea he wanted to try.
“AURA SMASH… MERGE!” both clones began charging up the giant crimson fist while taking their stand, making sure not to fall.
Stark called this new possible attack the ‘Clone Suicide’.
And as the clones charged up the merged crimson fist on the ghoul’s face, Stark braced himself for the impact.
Of course, even Stark had a hard time controlling his merged crimson fist the first time he had used it, even though he had a lot of aura.
But what about clones? They don’t have as much aura as Stark, and their mastery is also very bad.
Which means…
~BOOM, BOOM~
When they would try to use that super strong attack, they would just explode, and send out all the aura in a radius close to them.
“GROOATHZHHAHZ~” the monster almost looked like it was having a seizure as it began to shake frantically and move in all sorts of direction, its face was blasted by two super powerful explosions after all.
“-79372! -80401!”
It held its face and roared, the blast almost exploding half of the face it had left.
The Corrupted Ghoul, its remaining eye wild with fury and pain, turned its attention back to him.
[Corrupted Ghoul HP: 6967/300000]
‘…’ it was almost dead, ‘Let’s end this…’
Stark raised his right arm and traced a circle around the ghoul, then…
“HEAVEN’S WRATH!” he summoned his skill, and the crimson spark in the sky appeared above the beast, its speed wouldn’t allow it to escape too since it was still too damaged from all these attacks.
Basically… it was Stark’s win.
Or so that’s what he thought.
Since… the beast stopped moving altogether, closed its remaining eye… and the purple aura around it suddenly became 10 times as overwhelming.
“CORRUPTED REGENERATION, DEATH FORM,” it immediately activated its most powerful skills as Stark didn’t even let it use the other ones.
And so… the battle wouldn’t end so easily.
