Bloodstar System: Infinite Evolution Through Beast Slaughter

Chapter 44: Continuous Plunder!

Bang!

The stone beast’s skull exploded beneath his feet.

Using the recoil, Joren launched himself forward like a violet drill, tearing through the air toward the Spider Empress.

Two Gale Hawks intercepted him in midair.

"Move."

Joren did not even look at them.

One backward sweep.

Crackle!

Fast.

Charged.

The moment their claws touched the edge, high voltage current locked their bodies stiff. The blade force followed and cut both hawks in half.

Blood rained from above.

Joren tore through it without slowing and crashed straight into the Spider Empress.

Pfft. Pfft. Pfft.

Seventeen cuts.

One second.

Every slash landed on a joint.

That was the terrifying perception of Sevenfold Bladeheart.

The final strike was a kick to the Spider Empress’s cluster of eyes.

Boom!

The giant spider flew backward like a cannon shell, smashing into the beast swarm behind it.

It did not move again.

Roar!

The Titan Ape finally reached him.

More than ten meters tall, muscles bulging under fur that stood like steel needles.

No strange ability.

No elemental power.

Only strength.

A fist the size of a truck came down with enough pressure to choke the air.

Joren had just landed.

His last burst of force was spent, and the next had not yet gathered.

No time to dodge.

Then do not dodge.

His left hand closed into a fist.

Middle stage Rank Two Vital Force.

Fivefold amplification.

Everything went into one strike.

Fist against fist.

"I will break you!"

Boom!

A visible shockwave tore across the battlefield.

Several nearby Rank Three Voidbeasts were thrown off their feet before they could attack.

Crack!

Joren’s left arm folded under the impact.

The bones broke in three places.

His whole body was driven into the ground, legs buried to the knees.

The difference in raw strength was still too great.

Even with a fivefold boost, a Rank Two Warrior could not match a peak Rank Four Titan Ape that had built its entire body around power.

The Titan Ape beat out a victorious roar.

It raised one foot to crush the human beneath it.

And opened its chest completely.

Exactly what Joren had been waiting for.

"Thunder Dominion!"

Vital Force burned through his body hard enough to swell the veins beneath his skin.

The Black Gold blade screamed under the load. Purple lightning thickened across it until it almost looked liquid.

His strongest attack so far.

"Breath Severing Slash!"

The blade rose from below.

A violet crescent.

Silent.

It had already outrun the sound.

The Titan Ape’s iron fur and hide offered no more resistance than butter beneath a heated blade.

Pfft!

The edge entered through the lower abdomen, climbed the chest, cut through the collarbone, then burst out beneath the jaw.

The wound was so smooth that blood had no time to spill.

The heat sealed it black.

The savage light in the Titan Ape’s eyes faded.

It looked down at the clean line through its chest, unable to understand how such a thin piece of metal had opened it.

Then the ten meter body collapsed like a falling tower.

Boom!

Dust rolled across the ground.

Joren stood beside the corpse, breathing hard.

His face had gone pale.

That burst, combined with taking the Titan Ape’s fist head on, had consumed nearly half his Vital Force.

[Ding! Killed peak Rank Four Titan Ape.]

[Gained Bloodstars: 1500.]

[Detected plunderable Talent...]

There it was.

Joren’s attention sharpened.

The Titan Ape had been the strongest lord among them. Its Talent had to be exceptional.

[Available Talent to plunder: Primal Might Blue]

[Talent Description: You possess strength great enough to move mountains and fill seas. Every attack carries high frequency shock force. This force ignores most physical defense and strikes directly at the target’s internal structure.]

[Effect: Strength increases by 500 percent. Attacks deal 30 percent true damage that ignores armor. Chance to trigger Shatter, directly breaking the bones or weapon of anything struck.]

True damage.

Joren’s pupils tightened.

In a world where Voidbeasts were wrapped in hide, scale, and armor, what could be more tempting than a power that ignored defense?

A direct answer to every armored monster.

"Plunder."

Boom!

His muscles shifted beneath his skin.

Compressed.

Rebuilt.

His frame remained lean, but every line of his body took on the hard quality of carved marble.

Power sat beneath every inch of skin.

[Host: Joren]

[Realm: peak Rank Two Awakened Warrior / Rank Two Psionic Master]

[Bloodstars: 16640]

[Talents: Sevenfold Bladeheart Blue, Lithe Form Green, Undying Body Blue, Bloodthirst Frenzy Blue, Thunder Dominion Blue, Primal Might Blue]

Six Talents.

Five of them blue.

The remaining Rank Four lords froze.

Fear moved through them.

This human made no sense.

They could not kill him.

He only grew stronger.

Every time one of their kind died, the aura around him changed again.

A Rank Four Frost Direwolf let out a low growl.

Even the sound shook.

Retreat.

It had to retreat.

The Frost Direwolf turned first and kicked off the ground, becoming a white blur as it fled deeper into the Beast Tide.

That was enough.

The first stone fell.

Then all the rest followed.

The remaining lord class Voidbeasts broke at once.

Howls.

Hisses.

Creatures that normally ruled entire regions and treated humans as food scattered in every direction.

They crushed lower level Voidbeasts beneath their feet without slowing, desperate only to get away.

At the rear of the Beast Tide, more than a dozen mountain sized lords fled with fear plain across their faces.

"Running now?"

"A little late."

Boom!

Joren vanished.

Bloodthirst Frenzy at full stacks.

Thunder Dominion doubling his reaction speed.

Primal Might flooding his body with strength.

He appeared behind the slowest creature in an instant.

A Burrow Spider King.

The beast was as large as a truck. Its eight spear like legs tore at the ground as it tried to dig down.

"Come back."

Joren reached out and caught one rear leg.

Before the staring Voidbeasts around him, he hauled the spider clear off the ground.

Several tons of armored flesh.

To him, it moved like a broken tire.

He swung it once and smashed it into the earth.

The shell shattered.

Joren planted one foot on its abdomen.

Green fluid burst across the ground.

[Primal Might, Shockwave]

A high frequency vibration passed from his foot through the Spider King’s entire body.

The creature screamed.

Its organs, nerves, and brain were reduced to pulp in the same instant.

[Killed Rank Four Voidbeast, Burrow Spider King. Gained Bloodstars: 1000.]

[Detected plunderable Talent: Spider Sense Blue.]

[Consume 1000 Bloodstars to plunder?]

"Plunder."

[Plunder successful. Obtained blue Talent: Spider Sense.]

[Talent Description: Your nervous system and sixth sense have fused into an invisible web of perception. Any malice aimed at you becomes as clear as movement across a spider web. On the battlefield, death always arrives half a beat too late.]

[Effect: Grants full circle perception without blind spots. Predicts danger 0.5 seconds before it arrives and precisely locks onto the source of hostile intent. Absolutely counters invisible and concealed units.]

"Half a second..."

Joren closed his eyes.

At that exact moment, killing intent stirred inside a patch of shadow to his left.

A Phantom Mantis.

Early stage Rank Four.

It had been waiting there all along, its shell blending into the surroundings like optical camouflage.

Waiting for a flaw.

Now it saw one.

Its scythe shaped forelimbs cut through the air without a sound, aimed at the back of Joren’s neck.

The blades were about to fall.

A hand wrapped in lightning caught the descending joint.

The Phantom Mantis froze.

Its compound eyes shifted with something almost human.

Even a Psionic Master at the same rank would have struggled to find it.

How had this human known?

"Found you."

Joren opened his eyes.

Under Spider Sense, the malice pouring from the mantis shone brighter than a searchlight in a mine.

Crack!

His fingers closed.

The iron hard joint shattered.

The mantis shrieked and tried to tear itself free, retreating as it sacrificed the limb.

Joren’s left hand formed a fist.

Primal Might erupted.

Boom!

The punch stopped short of the creature.

It struck the air in front of it.

The shockwave did the rest.

The Phantom Mantis’s back burst open in a cloud of blood.

Everything inside had already been liquefied.

Its body folded to the ground, the camouflage fading until dark green armor became visible again.

[Killed Rank Four Voidbeast, Phantom Mantis. Gained Bloodstars: 1000.]

[Detected plunderable Talent: Phantom Thorn Blue.]

[Consume 1000 Bloodstars to plunder?]