Chapter 60 - Firm Mind, Vigorous Body, And Thousand Enemies! (2-Last)

Whoosh!

Swish!

Thud!

The sound of wind blowing and bodies falling sounded everywhere where Nash's body moved, his sword vanishing and reappearing from time to time as it sliced the creatures into halves without much less of a struggle!

His body was like a panther, moving to and fro between the hord of creatures whose number now reached the hundreds, and with seemingly lightning speed he claimed their lives from their blind spot without showing the slightest of mercy to them!

Swish!

"And that was number five hundred and forty." severing the last creature's head of its body, Nash exhaled a great amount of turbid air to calm his slightly fast-beating heart down and looked around.

Sliced corpses on top of each other formed small piles, deep crimson blood flowing around and down at the edges of the rock pillar in an almost stream-like manner while the air was filled with the putrid and irony smell everywhere all around him.

Currently, the whole place felt like scenery from somewhere hell, making Nash's face form a somewhat disgusted look; no matter how strong one was, seeing the sight of a real slaughter for the first time was something no one could avoid to feel sick about. And if somehow there really was, that someone was just simply too sick in the head or went through so much that seeing a few corpses and sliced organs could not move them by the least.

Tremble!

While Nash watched the hellish scenery around him with a disgusted grimace, the space before him began to tremble once again before another hord of creatures emerged, circling him from all directions.

'150, each of them pretty close to Level 9, huh?' Nash thought in his heart once he evaluated the strength and numbers of the creatures in front of him with a few glances.

Each creature had the same appearance as the original 15 statues at the start of the trial, the only difference was their numbers and their strength, which was barely away from getting on the same level as Level 9 Mortal.

However, although their numbers were so big and maybe others would feel it was completely hopeless to survive if all of them attempted to attack them at the same time, Nash was pretty confident in his strength to emerge as a victor even with such a seemingly great disadvantage!

Hence without wasting any more time, Nash tightened his grab on his Soul Breaker, and with a powerful push with his feet on the ground, he dashed forward, starting his rampage for the 9th time in about a bit less than an hour!

Whoosh!

Swish! Swish! Swish!...

In less than 10 minutes later, the small army of creatures finally fell before Nash, and although there were a few times where one or two creatures were able to dodge or repel his attack, in the end, each and every one of them fell before his sword, all of them ending up as dead that increased the number of corpses on the rock pillar even more!

[Congratulations! You have successfully completed the Third Trial, Thousand Enemies!]

Nash felt joy when he heard the notification in his head, but even before he could have had the chance to celebrate the following happened;

[Proceeding to choose your opponent according to your performance in the first three trials!]

[Choosing...]

'Huh? Choosing an opponent?' Nash felt confused by the sudden change of events, but soon the results emerged, giving rise to a shocking gasp to escape from his mouth.

[Selection has been completed!]

Tremble!

Once the final notification vanished, Nash watched as the space in about four to five meters away from him on a single point began to crack and split, slowly growing in a size from which a huge and humungous being appeared with steps that shook the entire ground below his feet!

"That thing..." Nash immidieatly seemed to recognize the emerging creature as it had the exact same appearance as one of the main statues that were destroyed back in the main hall.

It was a massive and humungous beast with a towering height of four meters. Its skin was a deep raven, as dark as ink while under its seemingly rock firm skin where even its jutting veins were struggling to remain visible, bulging muscles twitched every time it moved!

But the most terrifying trait of the creature was not its bulging muscles that threatened to explode like swollen balloons filled with water or the bestial face that could cause a heart attack to the weak-willed, but the fact that it had six arms, each holding different weapons such as a giant hammer, a massive greatsword, a huge dagger, a ridiculously long spear, a scythe, and a whip!

Each weapon was so massive and terrifying-looking that Nash was pretty sure that with just one alone that creature would be capable of wiping out an entire army, much less with six different, each granting different benefits to its holder when used!

[Soulfragment of the Alpha from the Wielder Race, Latael, the Ancient Fifth desires to challenge you!]

[Final Trial, Against The Ancient, now begins!]

Whoosh!

Immidieatly as those words were said, the scenery around Nash changed, turning the rock pillar he was standing on into a vast and seemingly endless green grass field with the only thing visible on the horizon being the blazing sun!

As for the piles of corpses and rivers of blood, all of them have vanished, leaving only Nash and the beast named Latael alone with nothing else around them! Even the irony smell was replaced by fresh air, making Nash's body feel refreshed whenever he took a deep sniff through his nostrils!

"ROOOAAARR!"

TREMBLE!!!

"Argh..." Nash grimaced painfully when he heard the great roar that shook even the land around him and was about to blink when his pupils shrunk to the size of a needle and without a second thought moved.

BOOOM!

The ground shook fiercely a second later when Nash jump away, and the spot where he just stood a moment ago now turned into a deep pit with a diameter of twenty meters, with Latael standing at its bottom with its huge greatsword pierced deep into the center!

'He is fast!' Nash felt as cold sweat appeared on his back when he witnessed just how ridiculously fast and powerful Latael's previous movement and strike really was!

If it were not for him already being at the Ascender Rank, Nash was pretty sure that right now he would have been turned into meat paste without the chance of remembering what hit him just now!

'Soulfragment of the Alpha from the Wielder Race... the Ancient Fifth... Wait... Soulfragment? Can it be that there exists a real Latael somewhere in the other dimensions just like Aruer?' when such a thought hit Nash his whole body trembled upon the tiny possibility that a creature such as Latael truly existed somewhere in the other dimensions!

'No, that is impossible. If there were, I am pretty sure I would have heard about such a terrifying existence even if I was doing nothing but mining day and night! But then why did the voice say Soulfragment?'

Nash tried to think about an answer to the many questions that suddenly appeared now in his mind, but alas, he was not given the time to think for a long while. As a fact, even before he could have thought about anything else, he watched as Latael's figure in the crater blurred and reappeared on his side with his spear already trusting toward the center of his head with tremendous force!

He moved with such brute force and so much momentum that the very moment his muscular feet touched the ground, the earth split and shattered into debris, forming a huge pit below him almost instantly!

However, this time Nash was not caught by surprise but even anticipated such a thing to happen, hence instead of dodging he quickly raised his weapon and pushed his feet to the side to take up a solid stance!

'Although he shows terrifying strength and speed, his aura is still on the same level as mine, so I will be able to take his atta-'

Just before Nash could have finished his line of thought, the spear already struck his weapon with a force that felt at least twice as heavy as the meteorite he has smashed into pieces in his second trial, and without him having the chance to resist even for a single second, his body was sent flying like a cannonball!

BAM!

Nash's body flew through the air with speed akin to a bullet and in just a split second he already traveled several miles before slowly starting his descent and hitting the ground several times prior to coming to a complete halt!

BOOOOOM!

Dust and debris flew everywhere in a ten-meter radius where Nash's body just crashed into, while Nash himself struggled to stand up from the deep crater he was just laying in a second ago, blood flowing down his skin from the wounds on his body and the corner of his mouth!