Chapter 100: [101] Blood Refining Fruit!
The Blood Refining Fruit wasn’t unguarded. Far from it.
The clearing was filled with dark cultivators—at least fifty of them, possibly more. They weren’t the weak Level 1 or Level 2 Genetic Soldiers that Levi had been picking off throughout the settlement. These were elites, the core strength of the dark cultivator base.
Levi’s eyes swept across them, analyzing their power levels with the perception granted by his cultivation. Most were Level 4 to Level 6 Genetic Soldiers, with at least a dozen Fiend-Warriors scattered among them ranging from Level 1 to Level 5.
And battling desperately against this massive crowd were the academy’s top ten Elite Class students!
Levi recognized several of them from earlier. Lucifer Fraust, ranked tenth, wielded twin daggers that blazed with purple flames as he fought against three Fiend-Warriors simultaneously. His movements were graceful, almost dance-like, as he weaved between their attacks and countered with precise strikes that left burning wounds.
The seventh-ranked student, a girl with brilliant green hair, had summoned a massive plant creature that emerged from the ground beneath the platform. The plant was like a carnivorous flower the size of a small building, with petals lined with teeth and vines that lashed out like whips, grabbing dark cultivators and crushing them.
The fourth-ranked student, a young man with golden armor manifested from his Astra Soul, fought at the forefront of the battle. His fists struck with the force of sledgehammers, each punch creating shockwaves that scattered groups of enemies. But even as Levi watched, three dark cultivators managed to flank him, their combined attack leaving a deep gash across his back that spurted blood.
And still fighting in the sky, though now much lower and closer to the platform, was Aldric Frostborne. The number-one student was locked in combat with what had to be the dark cultivator leader—a peak Level 9 Fiend-Warrior whose power was so immense that the air around him literally distorted.
The dark leader was a middle-aged man with a gaunt face and eyes that had turned completely black, no whites visible at all. His body was covered in the same demonic runes that decorated the statues, and dark energy rolled off him in waves. In his hands he wielded a staff topped with a human skull that leaked black smoke.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Ice and darkness clashed repeatedly! Each exchange created shockwaves that knocked nearby fighters off their feet. Aldric’s Frozen Domain spread outward, covering the ground in a layer of ice, but the dark leader’s death energy corrupted it, turning the ice black and causing it to crack and shatter.
The battle was intense, chaotic, and incredibly dangerous. Even the top ten students were being pushed to their limits. Several of them were already wounded, and the dark cultivators kept coming, their numbers seeming endless.