Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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“{Demonic Frenzy}!”

My eyes suddenly glowed bright red as I felt taken over by an extreme sense of bloodlust, I moved Querlax up, down, left, right, and to the front, slashing and piercing through the moles and tearing them to shreds, my damage augmented as they burned in the flames produced by this scythe.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

As they exploded into pieces, I saw four more coming from below, grabbing my legs with their giant claws and pulling, tearing them apart and then destroying them, only to realize they were…

Well, wood.

“Surprise.”

I smiled, as I activated another ability from within Querlax, my entire aura of nature and spirits changed, turning deep red, blazing with the flames of the depth hell.

“{Minor Demonic Authority of Bloodshed}”

TRUUUM!

The demonic authority that Querlax possessed which made the Lich that wielded him quite decently strong was this power, my muscles suddenly felt tougher and stronger, I felt much more agile and also my senses were immediately augmented through the roof.

As five of those moles came at me at the same time, I felt the power of this new authority ability flowing through every inch of my body, even my appearance changed, as my scale wood armor turned black and red, and my draconic horns became pointier and black, like those of demons. My skin even turned red as my hair blazed like crimson flames.

[You have activated the {Minor Demonic Authority of Bloodshed} from your Demonic Weapon: Querlax!]

[While in this state, your Attack Power, Physical Strength, Agility, Senses, Dexterity, and Vitality increase by 250%.]

[However, your Soul Essence, Lifeforce and Spirit Energy is constantly burned! It is recommended to not use it for prolonged periods of time, as it could cause great damage.]

[Other side effects may include Mind Corruption or Demonic Mutation, it is recommended to use this technique for less than 1 Minute.]

Don’t worry, Voice of the World, I know my limits, and… even if I used this for longer than one minute, I also know ways to counter such side effects.

After all, I don’t have a halo for nothing.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

I swung Querlax, Morpheus, and Irene with blazing fury, explosions of demonic flames erupting as I destroyed the ground beneath me, the moles were cut apart, cleaved in half one after another.

I leaped into battle and charged forward at full power, cleaving and tearing more and more Moles as they came, without giving them a single second of rest.

More emerged from beneath, above, and from my sides, attacking every inch of my body, but I rapidly parried their blows or simply tanked them by giving away pieces of my wooden body and regenerating them easily.

My draconic armor had been enhanced and turned into some sort of demonic armor, which had actually become stronger, absorbing the corrupted aura of the monsters and weakening them as I endured their blows.

“SHYAAAAGGH!”

Dozens of moles saw me as a threat and ran towards me, piercing the ground and the ceiling, the walls and the floor, and yet I smiled, facing them as I gathered all of the demonic flames I could into Querlax, while using Morpheus and Irene to further boost its magical power with Nightmare and Spirit Elemental Power.

“Go to hell,” I said, gripping my weapon tightly and swinging Querlax at full force against them in n horizontal slash.

“{Infernal Explosion}!”

The slash pierced through the moles as they rushed towards me, their giant claws and hard defenses were of no use, the slashing waves cut through them and tore them apart, as a massive explosion of demonic flames engulfed everything else.

BOOOMMM!!!

The explosion blew up a piece of the caves, which trembled. I quickly deactivated the frenzy mode I had entered, rapidly spreading my roots and forming crystals made of crystalized spirit energy to hold that part from collapsing.

“A-Ah, phew…” I sighed in relief. “I might have gone a bit too far there… Hahah…”

“Yeah…” Mark nodded. “But you were incredible… That’s a fierce side I haven’t seen that much before.”

“Aaah, it’s part of this weapon,” I said. “But it’s a bit of a berserk-like state, so I’ll keep it for emergencies, I was just testing it… Hm, is everyone done already?”

“Yeah, you hunted almost all of them mom…” Elena said. “You’re not even letting us have some fun…”

“R-Really? Sorry…” I apologized. “But we’re in kind of a hurry right now, I don’t think we can afford to take our sweet time hunting some monsters that show up occasionally after all… I hope you understand your mother’s reasoning behind this.”

“It’s fine I guess,” Elena shrugged.

“I was able to do a lot on my own!” Gabriel said, as he flew above a pile of several moles.

“Master still hunted the most, she’s awesome,” Katherine nodded.

“Huh that was pretty dope not going to lie,” Rita said. “Whitey also did a lot of bombarding stuff, he’s a walking nuke of light now.”

“Chuuu!” Whitey was proud of what he had become now.

“Heh, alright then, let’s continue,” I nodded. “First we store these…”

I quickly stored all the mole corpses possible before moving forward. I also cleansed the area from any leftover miasma using my domain and terrain expansion abilities, spreading grass and flowers on my steps.

There were no more moles coming either, so those were probably only the team they sent here, or maybe they were just around? Whatever the case, I can feel a lot more signs of life down there.

“Here we are, thankfully this one place isn’t blocked with boulders like the other,” I said, looking down at some makeshift staircase leading down, deeper into the caves. Perhaps over three hundred meters deeper, falling from here could prove fatal to most.

We walked downstairs while keeping silent, looking around curiously but without moving, the third layer was different as well, now without any caverns but being a gigantic underground cave, there were no corridors or anything, just a wide, gigantic underground area.

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