They noticed me coming, with many looking behind me for the host, who is dead.
The itornas had been harvested, with their essence strengthening me, and my body lying in my core. Once I finish studying it, I will feed it to the plant.
It is very nutritious, with the energies of the itornas along with law residue.
It shocked many, including villagers, but soon a smile appeared on their faces while frowns and anger appeared on the faces of the hosts, with a few moving toward me.
Though they stopped a moment later, as if ordered, and only one came forward.
They all cannot come at me, and most importantly, they are not my match. Whoever ordered them knows it. Its why only the most powerful came at me.
He was fighting Prime Kasil and was now coming toward me.
Kasil didn’t chase him; he just looked at me with a grateful smile before moving to help the villagers who were facing trouble against the Itornas.
The one coming at me is not as strong as the one I had fought earlier, but it is stronger than the one I had fought in the forest.
Most importantly, it’s very good at defence.
It is a tall man of horse-beastman race, with a dark blue coat and violet. He is another handsome man, turned ugly by the itornas.
It’s even uglier now with the fusion mode active.
"What happened to Kirster?" It asked as it stopped in front of me. "Oh, that was his name," I replied. It had not told me its name even when we had fought for minutes.
"Well, it’s dead," I added, and could see the anger blazing in its eyes, but it didn’t attack immediately.
"You hid well. You are powerful than we had expected," it said, and I smiled before moving forward with my full strength.
I am not holding back on anything, especially when my strength is constantly increasing. I had not even absorbed half of the essence harvested from Itornas earlier.
It was a very powerful one and is sending a thick, powerful essence.
I wish I had absorbed it all before coming here, but I couldn’t do that. I am not worried, worst comes to worst, I will bring out my shield.
Hopefully, that won’t come to that; there are fewer fingers on my one hand here who could force me to bring my shield, and they are all busy fighting the powerful itornas.
I appeared in front of it and swung my sword, while it exploded in its full power and brought a grey sphere forward.
Covered in pus, enhanced by the Law of Metal.
Its law power is quite enviable; the variant of Metal Law, which I would have loved to have.
He defended against my attack, and I could feel the power of the spear—the law of metal with the power of absorption, both physical and energy.
Though that didn’t save it, as it shook a little.
"I thought you would be stronger," it said, and it’s mocking me. It’s a fair expectation, given I had killed the one quite stronger than it.
My power lies in defence. In the complex, powerful formation of inheritance, which let me fight against enemies a lot stronger than me.
"It had underestimated me," I replied and attacked again.
CLANNNG CLNNNNG CLANNNG!
It defended the attack and then another and another. It had only defended, but the more it does. The more confused it would become about my power, and the doubts began to seep into its heart.
It controlled that for a while, before finally, it lost its patience, or rather, was ordered by its master and attacked. Google seaʀᴄh NoveI~Fire.net
I defended with a grin appearing on my face, which seemed to make it angry, but I controlled those emotions and attacked again, appearing behind me.
I turned and defended, but it attacked from above and then from the front.
I kept defending with a smile on my face, irritating it further. Reinforcing its belief that something else is going on, and I am not the one who had killed the itornas earlier.
It’s not surprising its feeling that the itornas was very strong. It had sent me back like a broken doll.
Another reason is that I am quite important to the village, and they have someone guarding me. That person is the one who had killed the Itornas earlier, not me.
I let its thoughts fester while I defended it’s attack after attack after attack.
Soon, it began to attack me with greater confidence. Using the risky manoeuvres, while I just kept defending using the same power I had used in my first attack.
Which seemed to anger it even more.
Seeing that it is using every bit of its power to fight me, while mine remains unchanged from the beginning. Making it feel like I am playing with it.
It is what itornas does, and now I am doing it to them.
"Bastard!" it cursed and intensified its attacks. Harnessing more power, taking greater risks. It even began to lay the bigger traps in the opening, but I didn’t move to take even a single one.
It made me frustrated, while I fought with a smile on my face.
It’s not like I am not feeling anything; the smile is just a mask to hide what I am feeling. I am also frustrated that I couldn’t use my powers, such as the strings, the way I wanted.
If I could do that, I would have finished it by now, but now I had just defended while strengthening my energy.
Seconds passed, and its attack became more desperate. I could see the deep rage at the pink, and that is affecting the host, making it more reckless.
Though it is also making harnesses more powerful.
Seconds passed, and it appeared behind me and attacked with its pus-covered spear.
It had done it hundreds of times, and I had defended, by bringing my sword back, but this time. I didn’t do that. Instead, I harnessed all the power I had been holding back and spun, avoiding the spear by less than an inch.
Appearing in front of it with a sword in front of its eyes, which are shocked.
At the start of the battle, I used all my strength, but since then, it had increased a lot, and now, I had every speck of that to my sword.
The defensive methods appeared in front of my sword, tore through it, and reached the big eye. It’s when it had finally abandoned the host.
Usually, the itornas do it before that, but this one stayed for a fraction of a second.
It escaped through the same route as other itornas, from the back, but this time, it used all its energy for that, given its blurring speed.
I could see hope in its eyes, before suddenly a big hand appeared out of nowhere and captured it.
The moment it did, I felt the attacks coming toward me from various itornas, but not a single one had reached me. Others moved and defended me against it.
While the itornas simply disappeared along with the hand. Leaving no trace behind.
I am still getting strengthened by the most powerful one. It will also provide a powerful strengthening, not as much as it, but still powerful.
I thought about it only for a moment before I shot toward the other hosts.
There are still many more, and I will try to kill as many as possible and send them to my core for the harvest. It’s the least I could do to take full advantage of their abilities.