Chapter 182: Corruption Destroyer

Chapter 182: Corruption Destroyer

But first, she had some System messages to look at. Of course she had ignored them as there were more pressing matters to attend to. However, before she continued further, it was best to see if there was anything worth looking at–and it seemed there was.

Title obtained - Corruption Destroyer: Well done Astrid, you removed the filth from the bodies of over 100 hundred corrupted! No disease can stop your rampage, now go forth and eradicate the rest!

| Intelligence +60

| Wisdom +50

| Damage against Corrupted is increased by 25%.

| Clearing the Corruption spots within one’s body is 50% easier.

Thanks Pupil. Astrid nodded. Right now, it was an upgrade over Void Metal Emergence. Sure, it increased the power of her void attacks, but she couldn’t use them as much as she liked. It took time to power them up, and the her right now still struggled to control them fully. And judging by the fact she now had to face an army of the Corrupted, it was the smarter choice.

Void Metal Emergence -> Corruption Destroyer

Happy with the choice, she once again looked at her other Title. It was the main reason she was able to fight against monsters at such a high Level.

King Slayer: You really showed that king who was the boss! You have defeated an enemy one-hundred levels above your own!

| 75% extra damage against enemies one-hundred Levels above you.

| 65 added Intelligence.

| 50 added Wisdom.

No doubt it would be a long time before she changed this one. It enabled her to fight monsters far higher than her, and that also meant that she could Level up at an insane pace compared to not only her peers, but even those a lot older than her.

However, she obtained it because she was crazy enough to fight a monster one-hundred Levels above her in the first place even with the high chance of death. Astrid smiled at the remembrance of the fight. The image of using Mind Domain against the Tree King would be plastered within her thoughts for a lifetime. Using her domain to counteract its own domain. Making it fall through the air, it was unable to use its roots to dig into the ground.

Which led her to a strange thought. It seemed that the king of trees was unable to use its own domain despite her Mind Domain being a mere illusion. That meant what the reciprocants of her special ability truly thought that they were in another world. It wasn’t simply a thought of being in an illusion, but her enemies were truly cut off from using their advantages.

It was truly her domain, and the only way to counter it was to break free of the illusion, or simply have a high enough Intelligence to counter it from the get go.

Shaking her head, she moved onto the other messages.

You defeated - Corrupted - Level 221!

| Extra experience is granted for defeating an enemy many levels above!

“Whatever,” Astrid said with a smirk, and faster than Brett could react, she pushed him as Omni-kinesis filled her body with a titanic strength. His body was slung straight into the abyss.

“You biiiiiitt–”

Astrid chortled. Holding her stomach, she leapt in after him–as did the others with a wry smile.

From feet first, she flipped over until she was heading down head first. With her speed of flight, she met up with Brett in a second. Flipping over again, she rested her arms behind her head.

“Ashtrid, getsh control of me thish inshtant!” Brett shouted, but with his face being distorted by the high speed wind, his voice came out with a lisp.

“You should see your face!” Astrid laughed. She created a true illusion of Brett as he fell. Face and all. Just like himself, the clone's mouth was flapping in the wind. Brett’s brows turned into a frown, and Astrid made sure to replicate that as well.

“Alright, don’t have a heart attack old man,” Astrid said and slowed down his descent until she brought him to a stop.

The others were also descending at a rapid pace. She made sure first to slow their fall, before stopping them altogether; just like she had done with Brett. The last thing she wanted to do was to displace their internal organs by abruptly stopping their crazy descent.

Leena giggled once she saw the terrified look of Brett’s clone hovering by the side of them.

“Laugh while you can, I’ll get revenge.” Brett spat, but it was clear he wasn’t really upset. It was actually the opposite once he saw Leena laugh.

“Well that was something.” Daniel took a breath as he looked up. The only thing he could make out was a never-ending black. It was as if they had just descended into the depths of purgatory.

Astrid continued to bring them down for around ten minutes until she spotted a large pair of doors below thanks to her dark vision. Stopping in front of them, she could already hear murmured sounds like crashing, fighting, and the odd screams that almost blended with the other sounds.

Without waiting, she pulled open the heavy doors with her mind. A chaotic scene of destruction met her eyes. It was just like back on the surface. Buildings were shattered, fires burned the wood within the structures, causing a dark plume of smoke to pervade the entire surroundings like a hazy mist.

Taking a step in, her boots squelched against the soaking floor. With a quick glance, it was nothing but a red mulch. Astrid upturned her nose, and hovered a foot above the ground to avoid the gore underneath.

It didn’t take long before the sounds of corrupted screams entered her group's ears. They were approaching. She didn’t know if they could smell them, hear them, or if they had other means of detection, but they were coming.

“Astrid, remember, you are releasing them from their suffering,” Leena said as Astrid grimly nodded in reply.

While Astrid was bringing them down the elevator shaft, Daniel already made it clear what their objective was. Astrid would head on deep within and obtain all the corrupted’s attention, while Daniel and the others would make their way to the shopping district where the survivors were located.

Sure, they could have come down the shaft where the shopping district was, but if the corrupted were all focused on attacking, then they would pinch them from behind.

Astrid agreed with the plan. However, her mind wasn’t filled with excitement like it always was before a fight. For she knew that not long ago, her enemies were once the residents of her home. She had most likely passed them by, or maybe she even knew some of them personally. Now she had to kill them, for there was no cure for their souls.

All she could do was take away their eternal suffering.

With a breath, she shot into the air, and headed straight for where the red hearts were the most dense.