Cleaver Of Sin

Chapter 580: Light Beam

As Asher ignored the colossal wooden titan and its shockwave attack, he teleported directly toward Number Four, his body appearing atop the titan’s shoulder in a blur. The moment he arrived in place, his rapier flashed forward with blinding speed as he aimed to decapitate the man where he stood.

But Number Four’s reaction was instant. With a mere thought, the vines that made up the titan shot upward, covering him in a thick, swirling barrier of vines. Asher’s rapier flashed in a blurry streak of speed as he reduced the barrier to splinters in real time, yet as he did, the vine barrier simply regenerated, matching his speed effortlessly as though it possessed a will of its own.

Asher immediately vanished from where he stood, his body flickering into existence within the barrier itself. Since the man had decided to hide within it, he simply teleported into the vine barrier. But Asher met no one within; Number Four was already gone, his body swallowed by the colossal titan. The moment Asher appeared inside, another wave of spiked vines shot outward from the barrier as though Number Four had already expected him to teleport into it.

Asher did not bother to dodge. His body simply became illusionary as he phased through every single attack, each spike passing harmlessly through him as though he existed outside the fabric of reality itself. He vanished immediately from where he stood once more, appearing above the colossal wooden titan as he floated with effortless calm. Before the titan could even act or react to his presence, an enormous current of Astra energy surged through Asher’s Astra veins, while light affinity flickered upon his palm as photons gathered with rising speed and terrifying force.

Without missing a beat, Asher pointed his palm downward, and a gigantic golden beam of light tore downward with ridiculous force, as though the heavens themselves had chosen to intervene. The colossal beam of radiant brilliance slammed into the wooden titan with erasing force, and like a knife passing through butter, the colossal wooden titan was immediately reduced to shards and splinters before vanishing in totality.

The beam continued downward without mercy, slamming directly upon Number Four as the man failed to block in time. The earth beneath Number Four’s feet tore apart under the intense light energy beam, his scream tearing violently through his throat, yet it was drowned beneath the overwhelming humming sound of the incandescent attack.

Before Number Five and Number Six could even react to what had just occurred, Asher’s attack vanished as he abruptly halted it. Number Four seemed to have become a mere husk of what he once was. His body was charred, battered, and barely recognizable; bones were broken, flesh torn apart, and blood splattered violently across the ruined ground beneath him.

But his tenacious vitality allowed him to continue living despite such devastating injuries. Without hesitation, and with pain coursing relentlessly through his veins and mind, he activated another skill of his.

Vitality Drain

A skill he had created himself that allowed him to heal by sapping vitality directly from trees and plants. With that, his Astra energy flowed outward, blanketing the battlefield as he attempted to drain whatever trees remained beyond their battlefield. The effect was immediate and dramatic; he was instantly covered in a glowing green aura as his injuries began to mend and vanish before the naked eye.

But Asher did not simply stand and watch him recover. He moved, his body flickered from where he hovered, teleporting directly before Number Four. Before the man could even blink, his perception of the world violently tilted as all he saw was a flash of silver.

His head soared through the air before hitting the ground with a heavy thud. A moment later, the body followed, collapsing onto the earth with a dull, lifeless bang as blood splattered violently like a crimson fountain from the stump where his head had once been connected to his neck.

Asher’s eyes shifted toward Number Five and Number Six, who were now staring at him with dark frowns upon their faces. Asher did not immediately rush forward. Instead, his gaze drifted slowly across the battlefield, and he could still see the same golden boxes scattered throughout the air and space.

He did not react to them. His purple eyes simply shifted back toward the two remaining opponents, but Number Five was already gone. The moment Asher’s gaze had shifted toward one of the golden boxes, Number Five had reacted instantly. His scimitar screamed toward Asher’s throat in a blur of black steel.

But it was futile. With Omni Perception, Asher had already seen the attack before the man had even fully initiated it. His rapier swung upward effortlessly as he parried the attack aside with graceful precision. In the same motion, Asher’s foot left the earth with thunderous force, tearing violently through the wind barrier as it shot toward Number Five’s temple.

But the man vanished from where he stood, and in his place, a monster suddenly appeared, replacing him in an instant. With bone crushing force, Asher’s foot slammed into the creature’s skull with an unforgiving impact. The monster’s head exploded like an overripe watermelon beneath the blow. Blood splattered violently across Asher’s face and body, yet he did not react in the slightest.

Instead, he shot forward again, his velocity ripping through the battlefield as he arrived before the remaining two in a flash of motion that seemed to distort space itself, his rapier danced toward Number Six’s throat with lethal precision.

Number Six’s reaction was instantaneous. The moment she heard the wind scream and felt its barrier shatter, she reacted immediately. Her golden box appeared beneath both her feet and Number Five’s feet.

But before the golden box could swallow them whole, Asher’s Astra energy pulsed in perfect control as he tapped into his spatial affinity. Immediately, the box beneath Number Six’s feet vanished entirely, and in its place appeared nothing more than an ordinary stone from the battlefield.

Number Six’s eyes widened in pure shock and horror. She watched helplessly as Asher’s blade drew closer toward her neck with every passing moment. She knew she could not dodge. She knew she could not block.

And so, her Astra energy surged desperately as she formed an Astra barrier in front of herself, hoping to stall the attack for even a split second and mitigate its force just long enough to react.

But Asher did not fall for it. The moment he sensed Astra energy being manipulated, he reacted instantly in the spur of the moment. Reading Number Six’s intentions as easily as one would read a child, space bent to his will once more, the surrounding space warped calmly around Virelass as Asher swung her forward, and at the precise moment his blade was about to meet the barrier, his rapier simply phased straight through the barrier as though it were nothing more than thin air.

His rapier sliced cleanly through her throat with a world wrenching squelch. The chilling sound of metal meeting flesh echoed across the battlefield as a thin silver line swiftly appeared across Number Six’s throat, as though it was always meant to be there from the beginning.