LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 170: Shouldn’t speak
The cycle of suffering continued for the Sapient Infection Canzer.
Each time it cloned itself into thousands and thousands more, Atlan's skeletal body with the strength of a Pre-Intern Savior emanated an intense frost that froze everything that came into contact with him.
With the thousands of clones frozen and unable to move their bodies, Atlan unleashed the aura of an Angel with his pure white wings.
The added pressure from the Canzer's weakness was enough to push them over to their death. Their minds chose to destroy their bodies rather than stay even one second in close proximity to the holiness of Atlan's Angel Wings.
As the tens of thousands of clones shattered into chitinous particles, the lone Sapient Canzer watching everything unfold from a distance felt the pain that all the clones experienced.
It wailed on the ground, thrashing and flailing its whole body to try and free itself from the torment in its mind.
The worst part of it was that it couldn't die. It didn't physically get harmed by the deaths of the clones, it only got affected mentally.
Its once greatest strength, its mind, had now become a curse that doomed it to an intense suffering that would never end.
"($*@)(*@)(*$"
'Stop…please…I give up….'
Its voice was hoarse and weak. It couldn't take the hellish punishment from the skeletal creature any longer. It would rather beg on a human's knees rather than experience another cycle of pain in its mind.
The clones increased by 5 times each time Atlan killed them. Because of that, the pain that the lone Sapient Canzer felt was five times greater than it was before. It put an increasingly greater hell on its mind.
The only way for this to stop was to beg for forgiveness from the human. His powers were far too strong for even millions of clones to be enough to kill him.
The frost he emanated didn't discriminate with numbers. As long as it had something to spread to, it would continue to bring a freezing winter to anything that comes close to those infected.
The lone Sapient Canzer crawled toward Atlan's skeletal figure. Even though its body didn't permit it to bend like that of a human, the Canzer disfigured itself to prostrate itself to him.
"$(*@)(@*$)(%&"
'Please! I beg of you! Stop this madness.'
Even if Atlan hadn't understood the Canzer's words, the symbol of surrender and deference was universal.
Atlan raised his hand and brought down the fury of a Pre-Intern strength onto the lone Sapient Canzer.
BOOMSHHH
The lone Canzer disintegrated into mere atoms as Atlan destroyed its very being with a single punch.
His strike created a tremendous force that reverberated around the violet grassfields. A shockwave followed through that shattered the tens of thousands of frozen clones around them.
Atlan stood on the crater by himself.
He looked up and saw the clones repairing themselves into their full chitinous bodies.
But instead of attacking him, they quickly jumped back and prevented the cold from spreading to them again.
The lone Sapient Canzer reformed its body and bowed in front of Atlan for his mercy.
It raised its chitinous arm and snapped.
Behind Atlan, another hole manifested in the ground that led back to the Masamune District Remedium where he could reunite with his teammates.
The thousands of clones bowed their heads to him, showing him respect after this loss.
With the battle finally over, Atlan let go of his transformation.
The rotting skin in his skeletal body slowly shed off as muscles, veins, and organs grew alongside his bones to form his human body.
The flesh in his head slowly grew back as his face returned to its normal human look.
The cold, oppressing aura that he emanated slowly vanished as if it were all an illusion. He was back to looking like a fragile human whose body looked like something the Sapient Canzers could break like a twig.
However, they knew better. This human hid a power that could kill thousands of their clones in mere seconds. And it didn't even take much effort. He just stood there and killed all the Sapient Infection Canzers that dared to get close.
Atlan turned around and looked down the hole back to the Masamune District Remedium.
"(#*$&@)(*@)(*$(*%&#(*&(&$#$#((*&(*&@#)#@($"
'We will let you go this time, human. But we will be back stronger and better. When we come and wage a war with the humans, you will be the last one we kill. You will watch as we desecrate them as you have desecrated us.'
The lone Sapient Canzer muttered their plans under his breath.
Although they were forced to back off against Atlan today, that didn't mean that they lost this fight.
They considered it a draw.
They couldn't kill him, and he couldn't kill them.
It was so confident that they would be able to kill Atlan next time that it even dared to say its plans to kill him just seconds after they begged for him to spare them.
Atlan stopped in his tracks and sighed. Enjoy exclusive content from empire
"Canzers shouldn't be able to speak," Atlan muttered under his breath.
He looked back at the thousands of Sapient Infection Canzers.
The lone Canzer never would have thought that Atlan understood its words. If it did, then it would have known that it signed its own death certificate.
Atlan used his Thermal Vision as he surveyed his surroundings. There were tens of thousands of clones in front of him, some of them hovering in the air, and some of them stayed on the ground.
He focused his vision at the very back of the pack.
There was a very large number of clones closely grouped together—too close. There was an endless space behind them in the expanse of the violet grass fields, yet they chose to stay so grouped up together that they were standing shoulder to shoulder with practically no space in between them.
He looked down at the group and saw that deep underground, there was a small object glowing dark blue—the same coldness as the Sapient Canzers.
The clones watched as Atlan raised his hand and pointed at a random space in the distance.
It was only a couple of moments later that they realized where he was pointing at.
Atlan took a deep breath and uttered, "Begone."
His Cherubic Retribution LifeSkill activated and locked onto the object underground.