43 It’s time

'Who was it?!'

The man jumped down and landed before the disintegrating corpse of the Abomination. No matter how he studied it, he couldn't find any trace aside from the weapon that the Abomination owned the last time he saw it.

He crouched down and extended his finger to touch the ashes, and it glued to his fingers. He sniffed the ashes, causing the ashes to slither towards his nostril. If anyone saw it, they would accuse him of using illegal drugs.

"The food disintegrated by its own born Law. The Abomination's characteristic is that their body was born by the Law of annihilation. The fact that the food before me died because of its power confirmed that it was already dead.

But no matter how I feel it, there was a third party between the conflict of its weapon and the Abomination," He conveyed what he thought to happen to the food he stated.

He stood up and looked towards the direction where the Abomination's power started to contaminate the lively forest into the eerie, withered, and barren forest and which the pollution started expanding.

However there seems to be something that prevents it from happening, as the air, which was full of animosity, slowly thinned, and from the man's calculation, after three days, the pollution would completely disappear.

"It can't be a human of this world nor a beast could have possibly done this to an Abomination. Furthermore, the food before me could be considered as a unique one, since the weapon it owned before he turned into Abomination was slowly awakening its spirit which its power complement to his characteristics." He further contemplated to whom and what could be the reason why would this happen.

"Damn! I just let him roam for a moment and eat him right after I settle down the plan. In addition, if I gift the weapon to the Leader. I could have gained his attention, and maybe given me the resources to rank up to the knight rank, and I can have the power equal to the leader.

Who would have thought that there was someone who messed up my plan?!" He exploded as he came to the last word of his statements.

Pouring out the enraging emotions fuming inside his heart. He let his emotion explode, and his body disappeared. He then reappeared before the Tree and swipe his right claw, causing the tree to be sliced before it knew that it was cut.

He then disappeared and reappeared again to another tree. This cycle continues before the raging man, with a black cloak that fluttered with the wind alongside whenever he disappeared, calm down and had his deep respiration while his eyes radiated crimson blood.

He licked his lips, which caused his tongue to pour out with blood from the cut made by his sharpened fangs.

"Wait for me to find who you are! And I will devour your blood and let your animus control you before I also devour him until I'm satisfied. As long as I get the taste of your blood, not even your family or blood related will be exempted!" He declared before turning back and walking towards where his plans commenced.

"Might as well continue finding food or make them…. Keke kekeke"

His giggle continued to reverberate throughout the dead silent forest like a wicked madman who was enjoying the moment before he committed something savage.

***

"Achoo! Who was it? talking behind my back?" Clover complained while rubbing his nose. He had just stopped his cultivation when his nose suddenly felt itched and he couldn't help but sneeze.

However, his body was full of vigor and he shouldn't have been caught sick, right? So the only explanation as to why he sneezed was because of someone behind talking in his back.

"Forget about it."

He looked to the east, where the upper part of the sun was visible through the horizon. The sunlight hasn't touched him yet, since the sun didn't wholly come out of its cave. As he continued admiring the moment, he immediately sat up and grabbed the rapier sword before sheathing it on his scabbard.

"Now that the path for the QI to take has been cleaned. I can now temper my viscera, but for me to break the bottleneck without a proper place to perform it is impossible. That time when I was tempering my bone, it was because I have no choice and I have been confident that no beast would take advantage of that time since the killing intent I have accumulated given the many beasts I killed.

But now, it is uncertain since the fact the Abomination shows to me and even targeted me, verified that in the large forest. Not only beast existed, but also Abomination and maybe wicked human." He concluded.

He continued, "Furthermore, Time is running out. Every second I waste could be the time Eleanor and Rose should have suffered from this ordeal."

He gripped the rapier sword lightly, causing the rapier sword to stop its tantrum and forget the grudge he had with his master. Moreover, he felt that his master was anxious and he wanted him to help him or comfort him, but alas…

He could only send signals through their souls' communication, and he couldn't even say to him his precise gender.

"Whoop!"

He held his breath while hopping down to the ground. He then continued walking towards the Bear's Carcass before he closed his eyes and unsheathed the rapier sword for less than a second and sheathed it again.

If anyone saw what happened in the blink of an eye, they couldn't even acknowledge that the sword left from its scabbard, aside from the fur which suddenly floated upwards and unconnected on its skin, which confirmed to them that there indeed happened.

Clover then picked up the floating fur before it landed on the ground. Although there was still conspicuous, viscous blood sticking in the fur. He didn't mind it before putting it on his back, wholly covering his bare naked body.

If anyone Clover watched him upfront, then they could only gauge his appearance with only his body which was covered with Claw mark, and the leaves covering his private body parts. His head wasn't exempted and was covered with black fur, which gave him an impression that he came out alive in the death jungle.

His flying knives which rested on his left shoulder were concealed by the black fur, utilizing its purpose for assassination. The hilt of the sword was a little sticking out, but with the wooden scabbard covering its body, anyone would only suspect that the sword was nothing but a low-quality one.

Clover then looked once more to the sun who was still taking its time to wholly come out, before he muttered in a cold voice.

"It's time."

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