Chapter 282 Insight (1/2)

Chapter 282 Insight

The ground shi+vered, quaking as if in sheer anticipation of the blood it would soon drink Then, stakes of bone ruptured forth, rising up from upturned piles of dirt fro apart, rending against hardened bone, echoed through the air in a sylanced around, seeing what h, their eyes still listless as blood poured fro the ashen white bone stakes in patterns of crimson

The [Call of the Iood it was at area of effect dae Each stake must have had three, four, even fix or six elves skewered on the to reach Aldrich, tra over each other in a stampede of mindless, zombie-like drive

"By all the Gods! That is what the mortals of this realm say, no? You truly do terrify me!" said Barbos His voice still echoed, still permeated in such a way that it was impossible to pinpoint hi or old, man or woman, it did not matter at all! You scare me, player, you truly do!"

Aldrich used the space he had cleared to sprint forward, halberd in hand He cast [Negative Surge] on hi with bonus power, and swerved through the crowd of elves, slashi+ng his halberd in wide horizontal sweeps like a laer Heelves to kill the, he could clear through the elves without theh a veritable rain of severed heads, Aldrich kept going and going, his entire body drenched in blood red, only his eyes shi+ning visibly green through the cri!" said Barbos Then, as Aldrich cleaved through three more elves, the demon's voice lost its sarcastic fear "And that little one of yours, she is no fragile flower either I cannot read her at all with ht, but she seems quite supportive of all this mass murder"

Aldrich kept his ilant of her mental state He did not want to do this, to showcase how brutally efficient he could be when it came down to it, but Barbos had forced Aldrich's hand

The longer Barbos stalled here, the er the possessed elves and every deet

Aldrich had no tile elf individually, and all of theh, he would smoke Barbos out sooner or later

'Are you okay, Chrysa?' said Aldrich as he decapitated several more elves Blood spurted fro not just Aldrich, but Chrysa as well However, the blood did not actually get on her

Instead, it clung just above her skin Chrysa had erected a personal spatial barrier Her eyes, though, were open, taking in the carnage without much issue She had the same concerned but detached look when she saw the butcher suffering; she cared about the elves' suffering, but not nearly to the sairl would

Chrysa had not shut off entirely like she had at the surprise attack She was holding on And well, too

'I'm okay, father,' said Chrysa 'Because I believe in you You're s and so deter people that aren't bad"

Aldrich nodded 'The faster I stop Barbos, the fewer elves die This is the best way'

When Aldrich saell Chrysa could accept this, he wondered, was it because of her variant instincts? Or, maybe, deep down, even in the pure and war to make sacrifices

Either way, Aldrich confirmed that Chrysa would not hold him back

"Maybe our hearts truly are si our little gaht perhaps you were soft in a squishy, mortal way, but you surprise me, player, you surprise me well

You are truly broken, are you not? To be a flesh and blood e in expression?"

Aldrich did not respond to Barbos Secret de to goad others into a reaction, to reveal things about themselves

It was also why he was not too inclined of trying to keep Barbos around

Aldrich could halfway purify Barbos's demonheart and then convert hi but lies, and unlike loyal undead, demonic summons were extre to overpower or control their summoners

"There you are" Aldrich spied Barbos in the distance, past a small crowd of elves He was in the body of a s possession

Before Barbos could try and move to a different body, Aldrich drew his halberd back, and with olympic technique, threw it like a javelin

Eative Surge], the golden halberd punched through six elves' bodies before landing right on the possessed child's heart, instantly killing hihed up blood Not just blood A cloud of wispy, purple darkness escaped froealed above in a ball that expanded by the inal shape