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"Sorry about that..."

Souta took a deep breath as he controlled the blood flowing inside his body to turn into needles piercing through his skin.

The emotional instability was really a problem for him.

He can\'t go on like this.

He had to find a way to eliminate this problem or else it would create a disaster for him.

"Hu~"

Souta glanced at his hand. He opened and closed his palm repeatedly feeling the energy coursing through his body.

Somehow, he only had half of his total energy left. Was his energy consumption ever this high before? No, he should have a lot of energy left since he was only fighting for a few minutes.

The only possible answer for this was something was happening in his real body.

"If that\'s the case then I have to finish this as soon as possible. If I have all of my artifacts, this battle would have been concluded at this moment. Unfortunately, I had to finish the trial first."

Souta frowned as he stared at the three monsters. Now that one of them was gone it would be easier for him to eliminate them.

He couldn\'t help but grin at this situation. Light gathered in his left hand and darkness gathered around his right hand. His right hand right now was made of pure blood. He sacrificed it to kill one of them.

Well, that wouldn\'t happen again since he calmed down.

The river of blood above slowly flowed around Souta. It flowed on his hands before it turned into sharp swords.

"Ahhh~ the dual blade..."

The blood swords emitted a strange light before they received an enhancement from his class ability. At the same time, hundreds of blood spears formed above Souta.

In the next moment, Souta launched himself at the three monsters. Seven shadows immediately appeared beside him and wielded the blood spears.

Whoosh!!

At this moment, Dreaming Venomous Primate already broke the skills that Souta used to keep him busy. He arrived in front of Souta and the two battled once again.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Souta was calm right now. He was forcing himself to stay calm. He observed the movement of his enemy before he precisely launched a counter to damage them. Unlike before, Souta was using the [Sword Mastery] to the utmost limit.

He was like dancing in the air. His aura was sharp and his mind and body were in tune. He was pressuring the Sovereign of the Mind Region with his finely honed sword skills.

Souta was using a weapon made of blood. It wasn\'t comparable to dark grade but it was enough to hold for a while since his energy was coursing through it. It was also enhanced by his class ability. Well, even if it was shattered he could simply create another weapon using blood. 

Souta was good at hand-to-hand combat but it never gives an added boost. He was a person that was training almost every type of weapon.

[Weapon Mastery]. Most of the weapons that he was practicing were slowly keeping up with his sword skills.

That\'s why...

Dreaming Venomous Primate took a step back, outside the range of Souta\'s sword. But he didn\'t expect something. Souta\'s sword turned into a long spear that pierced his shoulder.

"What?!"

He was surprised. He saw a blade moving to his neck.

Bang!!

Dreaming Venomous Primate realized that his subordinates had helped him from suffering an injury.

Souta wasn\'t surprised at all. He wasn\'t fighting one monster but he was fighting four monsters right now. So it was within his expectations that they would save each other from suffering injuries from his attacks. Luckily, their coordination wasn\'t great. It seems that they rarely ganged up against one person.

The blade that was blocked by the monster suddenly turned into a whip that wrapped itself around the monster.

"I got you..."

Souta smiled evilly. He pulled the monster towards him and swung the sword in his other hand.

[Crimson Moon]!!

The crimson-colored energy blade landed on the monster\'s body. Then, the whip turned into countless spikes that tried to burrow itself inside the monster\'s flesh.

Souta didn\'t stop at all. The four spider limbs on his back fired [Bestrou], swallowing his target\'s body.

The other two monsters tried to help but Souta moved the river of blood and the seven doppelgangers to hold them for a few seconds.

Souta created another sword as he approached his target. He swung his sword and he followed it once again.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

In just a second, he slashed his sword thousands of times. Each slash generated a force that could destroy an entire mountain in this land.

[Crimson Moon]!!

Souta slashed once again and this time the monster was shredded apart.

Two down...

Souta exhaled and stared at the remaining monsters. Just like what he said before, it would be easier after he killed one of them.

Now that two of them were dead, it would be much easier to finish this.

"Well, well, well, just a little bit more and this will be finished."

Souta smiled devilishly before he charged at them.

Meanwhile in Planet Plunyx...

Eilish already entered the space gap and found that Souta was out of his mind, causing destruction everywhere. She didn\'t have a choice but to step up and do her best to stop him.

"If Souta managed to get out of this place... The folks of this world would be forced to rewrite their map. A country, mountain, river, or anything could disappear."

Eilish cast her magic to the limit. She didn\'t hold back at all. She was facing Souta, after all. She recalled the time when they first met. At that time, Souta was weaker than her but now, Souta possessed strength above her level.

"Just what is happening to you, Souta..."

Eilish said as she gritted her teeth. She was lucky that Souta was just in his base form and wasn\'t using any of his abilities. He was simply swinging his sword in any direction, sending a powerful strike everywhere that shook the entire space.

"I don\'t know what happened but I needed to stop you."

An energy blade flew and shattered the barrier around her. Then, it was followed by a second one that blew her thousands of meters away.

Blood flowed from the corner of her mouth as she stared at Souta\'s figure with concern in her eyes.

"Ugh... I can\'t..."

Eilish was breathing heavily. She placed her hand in her back pocket and took out a potion.

Huh?

She stared ahead with wide eyes.

What happened?

Souta\'s right hand exploded, turning into a bloody mist.

Now, that she saw it. She observed his condition and noticed that bruises were appearing around his body out of nowhere.

"What is this...?!"

This entire situation was strange.

Eilish raised both of her hands as a wave of energy blade flew in her direction. She cast several barriers to protect herself.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The energy blades easily shattered her barriers. It landed on her body causing a sword wound. She was blasted away into the far distance.

"W-What... H-He grew stronger...?"

Eilish couldn\'t believe it. Souta was stronger right now than a few minutes ago.

...

Swoosh!!

Souta was floating in the air with two blood swords in his hands. He was staring at the dark sky with droplets of blood on his face.

"Ah, if I was you... I would simply accept death."

Souta said to the Dreaming Venomous Primate and the last one of the four monsters. He just killed the third one a second ago. This shocked his opponents as fear slowly invaded their hearts.

He looked down at his hand and felt his power coursing through his body. He didn\'t know why but his stats were increasing tremendously at this moment.

His emotion was also fluctuating and it was getting harder to control. He could hear voices whispering in his ears. It was clouding his mind.

"What is this...?"

Souta muttered. He took a deep breath and focused his attention on his two opponents. Although his emotion was fluctuating right now, his stats had increased so he could end this battle easily.

No, he should end this right now before he goes out of control.

Who knows what would happen once that happened...

Boom!!

A large amount of energy and bloodlust burst out of Souta\'s body. It spread throughout the entire area causing the space to tremble.

With a boom, Souta launched himself like a rocket toward his opponents. He tightly gripped the swords in his hands.

[Crimson Moon]!!

A red energy blade flew out.

The power of gravity bore down trying to restrict the sovereign and his subordinate\'s body. Hundreds of black tentacles rose from the ground and the seven doppelgangers attacked once again.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of blood spears rained down at the two.