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The Acraepoids that swarmed in like floodwater were like locusts that blocked the sun.

The sun was blocked. Their surroundings became dim.

The dark, infernal flames on top of each of the Acraepoids were burning furiously. They held their swords across their chests. There was a thick scent of battle will as they charged at the seemingly powerful soul slaves.

The two-headed lightning giant was around thirty meters in height.

One of his heads appeared like a giant crocodile while the other seemed like a ferocious wolf. Both pairs of their eyes were burning in pale violet soul fires. The crackling sound of lightning enveloped their body, igniting sparks as the lightning jumped from one place to another.

Roar!

A half-meter wide lightning arc flew off from the huge crocodile head. It was red in color and had a very effective melting property. The Acraepoids wailed as their bodies were melted into a gooey mess.

Its wolf head too shot out a lightning arc that was half a meter thick, but this time it was blue in color. Where the lightning had pa.s.sed, freezing ice followed. The Acraepoids that were swept up by it fell from the sky as their bodies became frozen from the path of the lightning.

A distorted-looking hand, made up by a streak of lightning, suddenly emerged from the giant's chest to grab hold of a level one sword-wielding Acraepoid warrior.

"Aughh…"

The Acraepoid warrior who tried to sneak up on the lightning giant was crushed in the palm by the distorted hand of the lightning giant.

The Acraepoid warrior waved his sword around at the giant's lightning hand. There were infernal energies that accompanied each stroke of the blade as it landed on the giant's hand but to no avail.

Plop! The Acraepoid's body ruptured as it was pulverized by the lightning giant's hand.

"Hmph!"

A cold grunt came from the side of the lightning giant. As the Acraepoid warrior waved his blade, a stroke of infernal energy more than ten meters long landed on the giant, causing the giant to howl in agony. The distorted hand that emerged from its chest was chopped off by the Acraepoid warrior.

The eyes of the crocodile-head that was launching fiery red lightning arcs lit up.

As it was turning to the powerful attacking Acraepoid, it was slashed by a few other Acraepoids with their flaming infernal powered-blades. Finally, the crocodile head of the lightning giant, who had ma.s.sacred a huge number of Acraepoids, had been severed.

"Howl…"

The wolf head beside let out an agonizing wail in its final moments, before being slashed by hundreds and thousands of infernal-powered blades from each side.

The powerful lightning elemental giant, which had followed the sorcerer's will into more than ten foreign worlds, has finally come to the end of its life.

Filled with battle scars, its damaged soul file was extinguished.

In a thunderous explosion, it turned into a huge lightning arc and disappeared.

Behind them, tens, and even hundreds of thousands of Acraepoids blew through the lightning arc zone and swarmed toward the strange creatures that were coming in from the Burrow World gate.

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The bone creature that was surrounded by a cloud of highly toxic black aura shriveled into a ball like a porcupine; its spikes were facing outward.

It launched its venom-tainted spikes outward, hitting the flying Acraepoids with deadly precision as they fell from the sky in pain.

The creature was rolling around endlessly.

The powerful bone creature was trying to buy time, begging for a chance to complete the sorcerers' will as it continued to slaughter the ever-increasing numbers of Acraepoids.

One by one, the soul slaves in the expedition fell and died in this strange, foreign world.

The bone creature was the only one remaining at the frontline. It could only look on at the endless swarms of Acraepoids pa.s.sed it by and headed toward the world gate at Grimm, who represented the great sorcerer's will.

Clack!

A strange sound came through. The shriveled bone creature was stunned for a moment.

This sound…

He could suddenly remember it all.

In its younger days, it was just a bottom feeder from the world it came from. It had to spend every day living in fear as it had to scrounge up food left by the apex predators. They were creatures that could chew up his bone spikes and armor which it is most proud of easily.

Until one day, an ominous blood moon appeared on his world. A life form known as the sorcerers descended upon their world along with the great sorcerer's will.

They brought with them fear and catastrophe. They brought with them endless slaughter.

Those who dared to defy the sorcerer's will, be it the apex predators or the lowliest creatures were wiped off without mercy.

Those were the last memories of its home…

Thousands of years pa.s.sed unknowingly. It had become so powerful, its bone spikes and bone armors became tougher than ever.

It became so powerful that the images of the past apex predators became clouded.

Clack! Clack! Clack!

Strokes of blades infused with the infernal energy were being driven across his body. In the end, the boney creature was dismembered like the rest of the soul slaves. Its soul fire was torn to pieces, consumed by Acraepoids who have fallen into a killing frenzy.

The two-headed lightning giant and the bone creature were but a small representation of what had happened to the soul slaves.

The rest of the soul slaves that had never stopped fighting for the great sorcerer's will and survived to become the elites were overwhelmed by the attacks of the Acraepoids. They swarmed in like tidewaters, blocking the sun out as they lay down despair in their paths. One by one, the soul slaves were mutilated; their soulfires consumed.

In front of the world gate, the number of soul slaves, bestowed upon Grimm by Black Isotta became fewer and fewer.