"Well... It doesn’t matter either way, I might as well kill you and her both for real this time. No hard feelings, that just how things are, now then I will make this quick."
Adam said nothing more.
With a flicker of motion, his body surged forward, less like a man and more like a living missile tearing through the air. The ground cracked beneath where he launched, the sheer pressure from his takeoff enough to ripple the floor like as if the stone itself was liquid.
His destination... Berreta and Alcey.
His intent... Complete annihilation of the two at the same time.
The sound was sickening, like a cannonball punching through wet meat.
Adam shot straight through Berreta’s chest. The force of impact tore a doll-sized hole in her torso, ribs disintegrating, lungs collapsing, her spine snapping in two with a brutal crack.
Blood erupted in high-pressure jets.
Flesh parted like silk.
Bone crumbled like dried ash under a warhammer.
Berreta hit the floor hard, crumpling in a twitching heap. Her body spasmed in a rapidly spreading pool of blood, limbs trembling violently as her ruined chest gushed red with each fading heartbeat.
Her scream echoed in layers, pain, rage, disbelief, all blurring into one tortured cry that rattled the stone walls.
Her voice tore itself apart, growing louder, more animalistic with each second.
But Adam didn’t stop.
Even as Berreta writhed in agony, he shifted his gaze toward the second target.
He already drill a hole through her chest, and Alcey was next as he fly towards her next his speed undeterred even from piercing Berreta in the way he did.
Unlike Berreta...who, despite everything, could managed to raise some resistance.
Alcey could do nothing.
Her essence was contained within the Soul Orb, suspended like a fragile star over the stone pedestal.
"Stay away from me!!"
She shrieked, pure terror rippling through her voice.
But fear meant nothing to Adam.
He didn’t even blink.
Lightning surged across his body, using Veracious Lightning, glowing red, it cracked violently over his frame.As the energy wrapped around him in a perfect storm.
He flew through the Soul Orb like a meteor smashing through glass.
The orb didn’t shatter instantly, but the moment of impact reawakened every old fracture Adam had left during his last attack.
While new cracks spiderwebbed violently across its surface, forming and deepening until the entire vessel screamed in protest.
Lightning didn’t just strike it externally either... this particular lightning also invaded it internally, and started destroying it from the inside out as well.
It slithered into the orb’s very essence, not burning it, but unraveling it at the conceptual level.
The laws that held the orb together, it’s stability, permanence, and identity, were chewed away by red arcs of truth-born destruction.
And in time it finally gave him, as Adam body started to burst forth through more and more.
As result seconds later, he passed clean through.
And behind him, the Soul Orb exploded into millions of small pieces.
Inside, Alcey’s finite world, her personal spiritual plane no larger than a modest village.
But not like that mattered now, as she was annihilated in an instant.
Trees, sky, memories, and form, all turned to dust.
The lightning devoured everything with zero mercy.
Her voice screamed once.
A horrible, soul-shredding sound of someone dying beyond the physical could be heard.
But like all things in nature, when death claims them... silence follows.
Her cries were cut short as she was erased at that moment.
But unlike the rest when death claims them.
There was no resurrection.
Or no Clear Tower for Alcey Sidhe.
Only true oblivion, and non-existent.
Everything Alcey was, or could have been, had been erased in that moment.
Adam stood at the epicenter of the chaos, surrounded by the remains of two broken women
One twitching in agony, the other gone in every sense.
He didn’t gloat over his merciless work.
If anything, Adam felt a quiet satisfaction, not for the cruelty itself, but for eliminating two potential threats who could’ve complicated his final battle with Alustus.
At this moment he simply floated there, watching the Soul Orb’s final glimmer vanish into nothingness.
Then, without ceremony, he turned to the other corpse, or dying body of Berreta.
He waited for her to die as well, whereby he will confirm the kill right after.
Both she and Alcey had been peak A-Rank monsters, dangerous, well-respected, each a pillar of great power in Alustus court.
And yet, they fell like fodder before Adam.
But just as Berreta’s body went limp, just as the light in her eyes threatened to fade forever...something rather unbelievable happen.
Adam paused at the sight.
The massive, gaping hole he had torn through her chest began to glow faintly.
Then a dark aura flooded the wound.
It shimmered over her body, slick and unnatural.
Flesh began to knit itself together at a disturbingly rapid pace. Muscle reconnected, veins regrew. Bone cracked as it snapped back into shape, re-forming perfectly.
Within seconds, her chest was whole once more and every and all injuries was healed.
Berreta’s body twitched, as she open her eyes and began inhaling air or rather the Monster World natrual toxins rapidly.
Her back arched as she inhaled sharply, her lungs fighting to function again.
Then she exhaled in a long, ragged gasp, her eyes widening with panic.
She stared down at her chest for a moment, a phantom pain still lingered there as she touched the space where her heart had been pierced, her face reflected both horror and relief.
But that relief was short live, as her memory caught up to her, and she remembered how she even ended up in this situation.
Her first thought being Alcey.
She shouted in fear, but it was already too late.
Because as she looked around, it was not long before she froze.
The Soul Core, was no longer above the pillar, and she could no longer sense her monster energy.
Which meant only one thing.
Berreta looked up slowly, and her gaze met Adam’s
Her eyes widened in raw terror at the realization, it all happen so quickly too.
She began backing away without realizing it, arms raising to shield her face, trembling violently.
"P-Pl-Please... please don’t kill me!"
She shouted a d stammered, her voice breaking into sobs.
"I’ll do anything, just don’t...please!"
There was no pride or calm left in her, only the deepest, most visceral fear.
Unlike Alustus and Alcey, she was not a warrior. As powerful as she might’ve been by the world’s standards, her gifts were not suitable for direct combat.
Rather she was more of a support type of Monster.
A healer and a buffer.
A woman that was born a Lust Demons, and Monster Kind.
She was half Minotaur and Succubus, and shaped more by their fertility and nurturing traits, rather than their more prominent offensive nature
And now, she stood before a being who didn’t need either.
Adam remained still, his expression hidden behind his bone mask.
His decision was already made.
He didn’t raise his weapon again.
Instead, he opened a portal using Memory point.
The memory of the location bypass time and space itself
And beside him a rift formed, a two meter swirling passage of memories between two places here and there.
On the other side lay the gravity planet where Minerva had once trained him. The environment alone had nearly crushed Adam to death for months on end.
She wouldn’t survive a single hour there, muchless a minute.
Even with her regeneration, she would be crushed, healed, crushed again, until her energy ran dry and her body gave out. It would be a slow, grinding death. One Adam wouldn’t even need to watch.
But he didn’t want to waste his time fighting someone with resurrection bullshit, it was too time consuming so he decided this would be for the best when dealing with immortal type enemies like Berreta.
Nature would do the killing for him.
Meanwhile Berreta stared at the portal. She couldn’t see what lay beyond it, but her instincts screamed at her not go passed it.
She backed away again begging.
Then, suddenly...her body lifted itself into the air. As she lost all control of it.
Adam was controlling her blood inside her being leaving no room for her to fight back for control.
She floated helplessly toward the rift, pulled like a puppet on invisible string’s.
His hand raised, ready to cast her inside, she was only a meter away from being expelled out of the Monster World, and into some unknown universe in the Human Multiverse.
But before he could even do that, the unexpected happen.
In one last ditch effort to save her life.
To survive at all cost.
Berreta made a decision that would forever change her life.
Or that what she hope for in this moment.
"MY TRUE NAME IS EMPUSSA!!"
The moment those words left her lips, Adam.gave her a puzzled look, why would he care about some random impure’s name.
It changed nothing at all, but before Adam yeeted Beretta’s ass into the portal.
His system spoke to him as her voice rang in his head.
The System called out to Adam.
’Hmmm what is it System, I am kind of bussy murdering my enemy comrade at the moment, can’t this wait?’
He casually asked in a bored tone.
To which the System replied.
『This half-demon has just given you her True Name. As a result... she now belongs to you, because of this action she is now loyal servant, or rather slave in this case』
Adam blinked in suprise, shocked by this revelation as he responded out loudly.