Episode 147 – Seven (1/2)

Previously:

Kiel and Elaru are waiting for the results of their Muni entrance exams Meanwhile, Nelaira’s squad finally sees the end of the Valley of Eternal Snow Unfortunately, a Tainted takes them by surprise and beheads one of their comrades before anyone could react

Episode 147 – Seven

The tea weren’t in vain All of them almost instantaneously jumped away and spread out Elibu didn’t hesitate to use their Acceleration enchanted boots to widen the distance alel coe size, coet theh

The creature’s long, sli sound painful to the ear

A single instant, and their logistics officer, who responded a beat sloas severed in half, his facial expression eternally stuck in a grimace of shock

Subsequently, thepeople, rather, it slowly shook all of its body parts free fro above the ice, it stopped oncesnow from its body

It felt neither heat nor cold It cared not about staying clean

But this particular snoith a lingering scent of divinity, made it feel inherently uncomfortable Like an itch that one unconsciously wanted to scratch

As the snow fell off, a grueso muscles permeated with countless black veins was revealed The creature that otherwise resembled a lupax, looked as if it was skinned, without any fur or hide, with all of its muscles fully exposed Several parts of its body appeared to be festering, black and white puss flowing out with each flex of itssmell reached Nelaira’s squad, everyone hastened to cover up their ht of Tainted, thus everyoneout

Well, everyone but the logistics officer, who had been cut in half ahalves of his body see to the creature, because it co towards the gory ulp and the entire upper half ed into its stomach

The monster let out a satisfied snort, its breath visible to the naked eye Yet, the breath didn’t turn white upon contact with the cold surroundings No What spread into the air was so very black A wisp as black as its pitch-black eyes

It turned its ugly head towards the lower half of the ain However, it didn’t get to s its prey this ti and weaving theirtheir spells Nelaira’s attack caround and is

The attack wasto briefly restrain itsattacks connected

One of Aurel’s swords inserted itself into the creature’s opento skewer it fro for its eyes

The Tainted reacted fast, cla down its jaws around the sword but couldn’t shi+eld its eyes froled eye sockets and let out a deafening screech of fury

Yet, before it could lunge forwards, it found its front legs encased in ice, courtesy of the teah for the Tainted to crack the ice and set itself free, but at that point, several arrowheads had arrived above its head With their tips pointing doards they slammed into the creature’s head with a force of a ha behind large black holes

Before they could lodge theht shi+fted to beco around theholes in its head, a normal creature would have been dead beyond the shadow of a doubt But the monstrosity didn’t even flinch On the contrary, when a searing hot whip arrived in front of it a ed to avoid it

Its speedy dodge caused the whip to zoo lower half of the deceased logistics officer

The overwhel stench of burned ed towards its ne behind it a trail of crushed gray snow

Yet, the target of its hate was neither Nelaira who is nor Laica who destroyed its eyes It wasn’t Aurel who attempted to i holes in its head

The Tainted felt no pain, no pride, no fear, no fatigue

It felt neither happiness nor sorrow

The only thing it could feel was endless hunger

What it couldn’t stand was being stopped froed towards the ielder without hesitation

Unlike its assailants who couldn’t spread theirtainted by the Ink, it had no such inhibitions It didn’t need eyes to see

Forget the eyes, out of all the mundane senses it had always found its sense of s to be farof ice and snow, the creature ran nierated that its target’s acceleration couldn’t keep up

The whole tea its path in various ways, sharp icicles, walls, holes; everything just to give their coed to impale it quite a number of times, it did little to slow it down Non-lethal injuries to a creature with no sense of pain did very little

The only thing it achieved was to make the creature leave black footprints that resembled tar on the pure white snow

In et Yet just as it was about to bite down, a loud slae andwound remained as the proof that Aurel’s broadsas there The shadow of the broadsword could barely be seen as it flashed around the battlefield as if teleporting,in its path

Unfortunately, even though the creature’s lunge et, there was still the tail

The tail that swished with such speed that it couldn’t even be seen

A tail to which a hair’s width of a distance was so that could be traversed in an instant