It was said that there was a reason why humans always adapted to the environnt and evolved continuously.
It was because they were programd for the sake of 'survival.' It is their natural instinct.
When faced with the unknown, that instinct would awaken.
After all, the unknown, the thing that the brain can never comprehend, is the thing it wants to destroy.
The feelings in Reiner's mind could be explained in such a manner.
"What is this?"
Feeling the crimson aura oozing from their target, he asked himself.
Astron Natusalune.
The last-ranked student of the academy…..The student with so random rumors floating about him…..
The student was their target for so reason, even though he was such an insect that he didn't deserve their ti.
He thought Astron was soone who offended the wrong people when the order to kill him in the mid-terms ca. Even though the operation was risky, they thought they could easily kill him and leave the place.
However, the scene in front of him was sothing he would never expect.
SWOOSH! With a sudden burst of speed, Astron's body shot forward monstrously.
He shouldn't have been able to move, let alone lunge like that. The injuries he sustained and the corrosive attribute of the Ruinscreechers should have been eating him from the inside.
But, as if to prove him wrong, his dual daggers danced in the air, their crimson aura trailing behind them.
SWOOSH! SLASH! Each strike beca a deadly flurry as he moved with animalistic grace and precision.
"This is crazy," Reiner mumbled.
The way the guy was moving was insanely efficient as if he was already experienced in the act of killing.
"No. He was born to kill."
The crazed smile on his face when he was moving was proof of that. Even though he was a demon contractor, he never once made such a face when killing people.
'His smile reminds of him.'
The Ruinscreechers were caught off guard, their enhanced ferocity no match for his newfound speed.
SLASH! SLASH!
Blood sprayed through the air as he carved through them with ruthless efficiency. It was a dance of death in the darkest of monts.
With each strike, the crimson energy entered the monsters' bodies, and sothing strange happened.
The crimson energy circulated in the monster's body and slowly returned to the boy. The Ruinscreechers fell one by one.
But the strange thing was that the monsters' bodies slowly started losing their color.
"SCREECH!"
The monster's scream in agony echoed in their heads as if to remind them that they were here for a mission.
'What am I doing?'
Reiner imdiately composed himself.
'This mana is affecting .'
And he realized. The crimson aura released by that guy was affecting him, disturbing his thoughts by evoking sothing primal.
'I was scared.'
As he realized that fact, anger enveloped him. He didn't know what this guy's deal was, but he was angry at the fact that a re human, a re student, dared to make him scared.
"That guy is crazy….I want him so bad….I want to kill him; I want to see what expression he is going to make."
Hearing this annoying girl's voice made the anger inside him boil more.
"Fucking bastard." He mumbled, looking at the cockroach before him.
Astron's injuries were getting healed whilst the color of the monsters' skin was slowly turning grey.
As if he was sucking their vitality.
"Annie, attack him."
The imdiate reaction ca from Reiner as he started manipulating his demonic energy.
"Don't order , you fucker."
SWOOSH!
The girl took a cautious step forward, a nacing scythe clutched in her hand, and suddenly she appeared right before him. With imnse precision, she lunged at Astron, her sights set on his throat.
The swiftness of her attack was impressive, but Astron was prepared for their imminent assault, his body enveloped by a swirling, crimson energy that had transford him into a killing machine.
SWOOSH! Astron's heightened instincts and agility enabled him to deftly sidestep her deadly strike. Her scythe narrowly missed its intended target as it whistled past his neck.
"Ah….It is so good." The girl laughed heartily as her scythe continued to attack the boy.
CLANK! CLANK! CLANK!
The scythe t with the crimson-coated blade as sparks flew. The girl's demonic energy t with the crimson-colored mana, creating a unique spectrum of color.
anwhile, Reiner first compressed his demonic energy, activating the skill he got after contracting.
「Demonic Materialization. Blades of Hell. 」
The skill unleashed his demonic energy, fashioning shadowy, tentacle-like blades that rapidly propelled toward Astron with murderous intent. Their speed was so fast that it was incomparable to the Ruinscreechers before.
Dash.
SWOOSH! However, Astron was also no longer injured. Since he had already sucked the vitality of the monster and his injuries were healed, the crimson thoughts in his head were also cleared to a certain extent.
But even then, sothing was fundantally different. The beastly instinct was still there, harboring inside him.
The desire to kill and spill the blood was still there, but right now, he was able to keep more of his sanity.
He instinctively leaped backward.
Astron's enhanced agility allowed him to evade the first wave of Reiner's demonic onslaught, narrowly dodging the lethal blades that sought to end him.
'I am getting out of mana.'
He thought, but the girl didn't give him the ti.
"Co here, play with more."
SWOOSH! 「Seal of Death」
She imdiately appeared right before his face, her scythe charged by the demonic energy.
CLANK!
He deflected the scythe with his dual daggers. However, things were never ant to end here. The demonic energy spread through the environnt.
"Kurghk!"
And following that, an eye appeared right behind him, and blood started spilling from his inside.
"How is it, do you like my gift? ~Slurp" With a cruel and sinister grin, the girl reveled in his pain, even licking his blood from her fingers. "Ah….You taste good." The sadistic pleasure she derived from his suffering was evident in her malevolent expression.
However, because he was injured once again, the crimson mana around him got stronger.
'I need to replenish my mana back.'
He knew he had to replenish his energy. With the way things were going, he wouldn't be able to continue using his mana anymore.
Mana coursed through his veins as he attempted to use the last reserves of his crimson mana to push the girl back.
「Common Dagger Arts. Final Technique. Serpent's Dance」
SWOOSH! He bolted towards the girl, his daggers moving rapidly like a serpent.
CLANK! CLANK!
His dual daggers clashed forcefully with her nacing scythe. It seed, for a brief mont, that he might succeed in creating so breathing room.
"Ah…So good…." SHATTER!
But just as victory appeared within his grasp, suddenly, sothing unexpected happened. The blade he was holding in his hands to clash with the girl shattered, unable to overco the battle.
"Huh?"
Sothing wasn't right about the dagger. It was sothing that was provided by the academy; it wasn't a weapon that would easily break under such a force.
Therefore, he didn't consider the possibility of the weapon breaking; he never did, and the shock of his dagger's abrupt destruction left him montarily frozen, his crimson aura montarily wavering as his instinctive reaction was delayed.
"Ah….I love it, I love this expression so much….."
In that crucial mont of hesitation, the girl seized the advantage.
STAB! Her scythe, radiating with sinister energy, pierced forward and found its mark. It drove through Astron's chest with a grueso, penetrating force.
"Argh!"
Astron's cry of agony echoed through the chamber as the ghastly scythe pierced his body.
Even though his ntal strength was high, sothing about this girl made it different.
His vision blurred, and a searing pain consud him as he felt the cold, malevolent tal tear through flesh and bone.
"Do you like it? My attribute, corrosion…."
The girl's malevolent smile remained as she pressed forward, savoring the sensation of Astron's lifeblood splattering onto her as her scythe remained embedded in his chest.
"Burghk!"
Blood spilled to the ground from his mouth once again, but this ti, there was no crimson mana to support him. He had used his last resources in the fight, and now his mana reserves were depleted.
'I need to grab the potion.'
Even though his consciousness was about to slip away, he didn't give up.
SWOOSH! However, both the girl, Annie, and Reiner knew what he was thinking.
SLASH!
The black blades traveled in a second and imdiately slashed his right arm, containing the bracelet given by the academy.
"Arghk!"
SPURT! THUD!
With a groan, his arm severed as blood started spilling to the ground.
His consciousness was slipping away as the darkness threatened to claim him.
"Let's fini-"
Just as Reiner was about to confirm that Astron was dead, suddenly, a voice ca from his earbuds, startling him.
[Reiner, Annie! Soone is coming to our location. We need to get out of there, now!]
The mont he heard it, he imdiately tensed up. While trying to kill him, they spent so much ti, and now their identity was at risk.
"We are leaving. He is dead anyway. And, boy, Lady Miller sends her regards."
Without spending any more seconds in the place, both Annie and Reiner imdiately left the place, leaving the boy lying on the ground with a pool of blood ford underneath him.
CRUNCH!
Though, neither did they hear the crunching sound, nor could they see the small green-coated needle on the girl's clothes….
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