Bloodstar System: Infinite Evolution Through Beast Slaughter

Chapter 43: Buffs Maxed Out!

The beast swarm in the distance began to churn.

Several peak Rank Three Voidbeasts roared and tried to rally the others, closing on Joren from every direction.

They meant to bury him under numbers.

Too late.

With [Lithe Form] and [Bloodthirst Frenzy] working together, Joren had already become too fast for the eye to follow. One black figure blurred into many.

Clang!

A single slash crossed the air.

The four Rank Three Voidbeasts were still suspended in their attack poses when their bodies separated cleanly into halves.

[Killed Rank Three Voidbeast. Bloodstars gained: 100.]

[Killed Rank Three Voidbeast. Bloodstars gained: 100.]

[Current stacks: 200/500.]

Double amplification.

The power from [Bloodthirst Frenzy] would not last forever. Once the killing stopped, the stacks would begin to fade.

So he could not stop.

Less than five hundred meters remained between him and the twenty Rank Four lords.

Those massive beasts had halted.

For once, they were not charging.

They were watching him.

What was this human?

What was he doing?

Why did his aura feel more savage than theirs?

Joren bared his teeth at them.

"Let me finish stacking first."

"Then I will deal with you."

He turned and plunged back into the collapsing lower level beast swarm.

Blood burst into the air.

Limbs spun across the battlefield.

The number kept rising.

Three hundred.

Four hundred.

Four hundred and fifty.

The entire region had become his slaughterhouse.

This Beast Tide had come to drown the human defense line.

Instead, one man had torn straight through it.

The swarm broke.

Then routed.

At last, Joren drove his fist through the skull of the final Rank Three Voidbeast in his path.

A crisp chime sounded in his mind.

[Ding! Bloodthirst Frenzy has reached maximum stacks: 500/500.]

[All attributes increased by 500 percent.]

Boom!

A red shockwave erupted from Joren and punched into the sky, blasting away the dust and blood mist around him.

Fivefold amplification.

The killing had done more than fill his stacks.

It had brought him an ocean of Bloodstars.

[Bloodstars: 18340.]

[Consumed 1280 Bloodstars. Breath Severing Slash raised to Mortal Perfection.]

[Consumed 650 Bloodstars. Helios Furnace Scriptur raised to Mortal Perfection.]

[Helios Furnace Scriptur: 2000/2000.]

[Breath Severing Slash: 2000/2000.]

[Bloodstars: 16140.]

Joren slowly raised one hand and closed his fingers.

The air burst in his palm with a thunderous crack.

"So this is what full stacks feel like."

Across the battlefield, the Rank Four lords that had stood there radiating pressure all took a step back.

Roar!

One of them could no longer hold itself in check.

The Violet Thunder Ravager.

Its body stretched over eight meters. Purple arcs crawled over its hide, and among the lords gathered there, it was one of the fastest and most explosive.

A middle stage Rank Four predator.

It could not tolerate a small two legged creature pressing that kind of aura against it.

The beast vanished into a streak of violet lightning.

The distance disappeared.

The air tore open around it with a piercing blast.

A normal Rank Two Warrior would not even have seen it move before those fangs closed around the throat.

Joren simply raised his hand.

Smack!

The slap cracked across the battlefield.

His right hand landed first, smashing into the Violet Thunder Ravager’s enormous head.

Its skull warped.

Half its face collapsed.

The huge body bent through the air at an impossible angle and crashed into a ruined building like a violet meteor.

Dust exploded skyward.

A moment later, the Violet Thunder Ravager staggered out of the rubble.

Still alive.

Trying to run.

Joren was already moving.

"You attacked first."

"So you die first."

His hand closed around the Black Gold blade on his back.

"Breath Severing Slash."

The blade came down.

This was no black fan of light.

A pillar of darkness split the battlefield.

The air twisted around it. Even the surrounding light seemed dragged toward that single line of absolute black.

When Joren killed the Golden Armored Rhino King, he had relied on timing and a weak point.

When he killed the Bloodrage Tyrant, he had traded wounds.

This time, none of that was necessary.

Fivefold power.

Pure suppression.

[Ding! Killed Rank Four lord class Voidbeast, Violet Thunder Ravager.]

[Gained Bloodstars: 1000.]

[Detected plunderable Talent: Thunder Dominion Blue.]

[Consume 1000 Bloodstars to plunder?]

"Plunder."

No hesitation.

Crackle!

Violent current appeared from nowhere and flooded through Joren’s pores.

[Plunder successful. Obtained blue Talent: Thunder Dominion.]

[Talent Description: An ancient thunder beast seems to dwell within your body. The flow of your blood becomes the hum of high voltage current. When the Talent is fully activated, lightning floods the air within twenty meters. Every strike is accompanied by a piercing cry like a thousand birds screaming at once.]

[Talent Effect: Grants control over thunder. Your attacks carry high voltage lightning damage with powerful paralysis and penetration. Electrical stimulation permanently increases neural reaction speed by 100 percent.]

Crack!

A violet arc snapped between Joren’s fingers.

The Black Gold blade, once dark from hilt to tip, was now wrapped in a thin layer of purple lightning.

A thunder blade.

Paired with the fivefold speed from [Bloodthirst Frenzy]...

The remaining Rank Four lords finally reacted.

At that level, savagery outweighed reason.

The death of one of their own did not frighten them.

It enraged them.

The Titan Ape at the front raised both fists and brought them down.

Boom!

The earth rolled like a wave.

The road shattered into countless chunks of stone, all of them blasting toward Joren like artillery shells.

The signal had been given.

The rest charged.

The next second, more than a dozen massive figures moved at once.

Some vanished into shadow.

Some filled the air with poison mist.

Others spread their wings and dove from above.

Boom!

A giant stone hand smashed down where Joren had been standing, crushing the ground into fragments.

He was already above the stone beast.

Purple lightning wrapped the Black Gold blade as he drove it straight into the creature’s eye socket.

Pfft!

Its granite eyelid was hard as iron, but against a blade carrying high voltage current, it gave way like soft cake.

Electricity flooded through its skull.

The stone beast never even managed a scream. Its enormous body locked in place.

Then came a hiss from the side.

Green venom shot through the air.

A Rank Four Venom Spider Empress.

Joren had only just pulled his blade free.

No room to avoid it.

Sizzle!

The venom splashed across his left shoulder. His reinforced combat suit dissolved almost at once, followed by skin and flesh. The corrosive sound scraped at the ears.

Bone showed beneath the wound.

Pain hit hard.

The poison entered his blood and was immediately scattered by the force of his Vital Force. New flesh crawled across the injury, sealing it at a speed visible to the eye.

Joren turned.

His eyes, already red from Bloodthirst Frenzy, settled on the giant spider.

"Spitting at people?"

"Disgusting."