Chapter 86: Corrosive and dead
It was the first time Malvoid lost like this.
He was half-dead. Dragged on the ground like an object.
Slowly, Malvoid opened his eyes.
He looked left and right.
He whispered.
"Where am I?"
He was still being dragged.
Near the tower.
The monster kept dragging him.
Malvoid thought,
If I avoid decomposition... will that help in my situation?
Immediately, Malvoid gritted his teeth.
An aura radiated from his body.
I may be broken... but I can’t give up.
So stand. Move. Move, MOVE!
Malvoid’s body moved.
The next second, his clothes tightened around him.
He stood up. Like a half-dead man.
His bones trembling.
"I... can’t."
The moment he said that —
He was thrown up toward the tower like a projectile.
A monster caught him in mid-air.
The flying monster carried him to the tower.
Suddenly, Malvoid gathered his energy.
And threw a slash.
He grabbed the monster’s body as support and jumped.
This is not the end... but the beginning.
[ BERSERK MODE ACTIVATED ]
Malvoid fled.
The monster chased him.
But Malvoid was far faster.
Flee Master skill.
His intelligence was converting into strength and speed.
He saw a goblin ahead.
Cut off its head. Sliced it to pieces.
And devoured it all.
Meanwhile, the monster lost Malvoid’s trace in the forest.
It looked around.
"Where is the insect?"
Malvoid’s aura radiated from him.
He was breathing like a beast while running.
Eventually the monster sensed where he was.
It lowered its gaze and ran toward him.
But Malvoid was still far ahead.
In the place where he covered the girl with wood —
She woke up.
Ate the bread he left.
She tried to push the trees away, but they were too heavy.
She looked at the sky, thinking.
Meanwhile, Malvoid was approaching with speed.
He lifted the tree.
Gazed at her.
"If you don’t want to die, follow me."
And picked her up.
Berserk Mode deactivated.
Malvoid ran west, into the forest.
[YOU HAVE RECOVERED 5% OF YOUR VITALITY]
He was recovering slowly.
Every step was painful.
He saw another small house.
He stopped
.
"There are two choices left. You can go back to a place where you’re in danger, or hide."
She replied immediately.
"Hide."
Malvoid cut down trees and built her another shelter.
Like a grave.
He buried her, Silva, deep.
"This looks like a grave, right?"
Malvoid nodded.
She saw the small greenish scars on his neck.
She reached to touch them.
Malvoid grabbed her arm.
"What were you trying to do... But you must hide now.
Because... I’m not a hundred percent sure I can win this battle."
She entered.
"I will bring you food later," Malvoid said.
He built it so she could push the wood off if necessary.
As soon as he covered her with wood,
minutes later she felt cold.
She lit a fire beside the shelter and started singing, disappointed.
Is it even possible to escape this place?
She asked herself, looking at the sky.
Then she felt something strange.
A goblin was approaching.
She pulled out her dagger.
"Fresh meat."
As the goblin moved toward the camp,
she threw a stone.
The goblin looked left.
And its brain stopped functioning.
It was already dead.
She whispered.
"Now you can’t see us anymore."
At that moment, Malvoid thought,
It will be dangerous for me to enter this place... but.
He smiled maliciously.
No... I will take the risk.
Before that, he dug around the place and set traps underground.
Then Malvoid entered the small shelter.
An owl flew out immediately.
Malvoid slashed it.
The farther the monsters are from the Sector Boss,
the slower the information transmission.
She can see simultaneously through many monsters’ eyes only when they’re close.
To see through another monster’s eyes, she has to focus on one or two.
There were 2 men and 2 women.
Well-dressed. Well-fed. Compared to the others.
They all stared at him.
And spoke.
"We know who you are... And we don’t need any help from you.
Better follow the Queen’s order...
And one day you will live normally."
Malvoid walked out of the place.
"So... they want to be transformed into monsters."
At that moment, Malvoid remembered.
"It was not Floor 2 Sector 10...
But Floor 3 Sector 10."
Malvoid smiled a little.
"I will survive."
He gazed around.
"So if I’m here...
There’s a possibility other adventurers came to this place too."
Meanwhile, as the owl died,
the information reached the Sector Boss of Floor 3 Sector 10.
She smiled in her room near the open window.
A breeze blew in.
She had blood in her glass and drank it.
Her eyes shone like a demon’s.
Sofia was beside her.
Then she ordered Sofia to kill Malvoid.
Sofia left the place.
Accompanied by other monsters.
They attached themselves to her and moved toward the forest, slowly.
Meanwhile, the monster was approaching Malvoid with speed.
But Malvoid was taking his time, setting all his traps.
Malvoid devoured every monster he saw.
And regained all his vitality.
But his mana was low.
Vapor rose from the monster’s wounds.
The monster spoke.
"How can you use mana?"
Malvoid answered.
Instant boost.
He cleaved the monster’s right arm off.
Malvoid smiled maliciously. Like a demon. Like a psychopath.
The monster jumped back.
Malvoid cut a tiny rope.
Trees snapped and yanked it away.
Pushed it to the left.
The monster’s leg fell into another hole.
Malvoid spoke.
Instant boost.
[ UNLIMITED MANA FOR 1 MINUTE ]
His sword shone red.
He threw a heavy slash.
"Mana Blade."
At once he sent a Holy Sword.
The forest dried up from the corrosive gas.
It killed every monster around.
But it didn’t reach the small house.
Malvoid was gaining EXP every minute.
[EXP... EXP...]
[LEVEL UP]
[LEVEL UP]
Malvoid spoke.
Instant boost
Instant boost
He grabbed the monster’s face.
Breathed corrosive gas onto it.
His own body radiated corrosive gas too.
More toxic than before.
It burned Malvoid slowly.
He wasn’t fully protected from his own gas.
But for the monster? It melted him away.
"Now you can cry."
Malvoid did it from his experience with decomposition.
His skill: melting himself to kill his enemy.
[CORROSIVE SKILL HAS INCREASED TO LEVEL 5]
"You will DIE!!!!"
[YOUR VITALITY HAS DROPPED TO 40%]
Malvoid smashed the monster’s skull into the ground.
Punched its face with a fist full of mana.
Every second, his body burned and melted.
Bones showing. Teeth exposed.
Then he stopped.
The monster was dead.
"Hahaha! I HAVE WON!"
He shouted in joy.
[ BERSERK MODE DEACTIVATED ]
But the gas didn’t dissipate.
It kept burning his skin slowly.
The trees were melting away.
Malvoid fell down.
His eyes were melting away.
[WARNING: 00:45:55 LEFT UNTIL DECOMPOSITION]