Chapter 37 - Game or Hell (6) (1/2)

Blinding light filled the place, a great amount of mana was released in the surroundings together with the swing of the sword.

The sharp sword intent assaulted all creatures around. Even Aleen and the other humans felt it, despite the sword intent not being directed towards them; on the other hand, the monsters were killed instantly with the release of the skill.

Their bodies were cut in hundreds of small pieces in a second while their carapaces, gifted with strong defenses, were unable to protect them for even a second.

Even the level four was unable to endure in the slightest. In a moment, it had a frightened expression, and in the next, not even its head could be seen.

When the light finally receded, a gruesome scene of destruction and blood appeared before Aleen.

Pieces of flesh and destroyed organs filled the place, and blood from the monsters splashed from their remains dyeing the ground, trees and people still alive completely in red.

Only D'vina was unblemished, holding her greatsword down like an angel delivering judgment to the sinners.

'Beautiful…' Aleen thought while calming down his beating heart, he was unable to decide if the image was beautiful or terrifying.

Aleen suppressed the desire to throw up and looked to the surrounding, observing the bodies of dead monsters and the twenty meters of circumference hole created after D'vina's attack.

For the first time, Aleen truly saw the destructive power that a level five is able to produce.

Until now, Aleen had found a level five's strength underwhelming; after all, the document he read about mana said that a level five was equivalent to a tactical weapon and that even a technological advanced army would have trouble stopping one.

But though the fight between level five he saw last game was incredible, it was far from being at the level of a tactical weapon.

Even when D'vina told him that a level five's mana was suppressed inside the game, he continued underestimating their power.

But now, seeing the destruction that D'vina was able to cause with one attack, Aleen finally understood why level five are considered tactical weapons.

'If she is already so strong with her mana suppressed, how strong is she normally?"

Aleen suppressed the sense of astonishment and looked to the figure of D'vina that was walking towards him while sheathing her greatsword calmly.

"Are you fine?"

"I am, thanks…"

D'vina looked to his wounds and hesitated slightly before extending her hand. Helping him to stand up, D'vina spoke.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault."

"No no." Aleen shook his head frantically. "Nobody could have expected that the level four monster would hide between the weaker monsters."

"You are mistaken." D'vina said while giving a soft sigh. "One of my skills can be used to feel the surroundings, but I did not use it until now to save mana. Even using it with the minimum output and without any attack power can help me to understand completely the situation twenty meters around me, but because I thought that it was impossible for a monster below level five to ambush me, I decided to not use it and save the mana for the moment I have to face the queen, unexpectedly, it ended almost causing your death."

Aleen didn't know what to say hearing D'vina's words. Certainly, he was a bit upset about D'vina negligence, but thinking about it, D'vina technically did not have any obligation to help him and despite it, she apologized when she could have kept silent about it.

Making a wry smile he simply waved his hand.

"Don't worry about it, besides, you ended saving me, don't you?"

"You are right, but I used around twenty percent of my mana in that attack. I don't know how strong the queen is, but I will have trouble if the battle becomes a battle of attrition."