Abyss crawling part 7: The ancient symbol of evil

When Liliana's figure disappeared, the horde of monsters went frenzy at them from all directions. Ilirielth clenched her teeth, the memory of the hopeless battle in the rain of monsters flooding her mind. She tried to think of something but there was nothing she could do. At that moment, a big hand rest on her head.

" Don't worry."

She turned to her friend with eyes full of hope. She only saw his stats, not his skills, maybe he had a skill that could turn the table. Just as she thought he indeed had something like that. Suddenly, it felt like the whole 'sky' crumbled. The corrupted dragons froze, one by one free-fall to the ground. Not just them Ilirielth too, her legs and arms gave up, and her face fall flat to the earth. A "sorry" could be heard from Iliriendil, as he helped her to get up. If she could move her arm she might have punched that face, at least he should have warned her before he did that, she almost passed out.

They jump to dodge the falling bodies of corrupted dragons. To Ilirielth's surprise, they all seemed to be dead before they drop to the ground. She had seen what her friend could do but not on a large scale like this. There were still some left, those's wills were strong enough to stay in the sky and couldn't move as if they were petrified. There were terrified debuffs on their status. It would take them some time to move again. Those underground didn't seem to be affected by Iliriendil's murderous intent, but just as their feet passed the range of Iliriendil's ability, they immediately drop dead creating an invisible boundary.

" W-Wait."

Ilirielth tried her best to mutter some words before Iliriendil killed them all. She realized this might be the greatest chance for her to get some experience. For the past months, there was barely any monster who dared to come at them, but at the moment there were thousands.

" Could you leave a few alive for me? Just cripple them a little."

She didn't have leisurely time to make a clearer explanation. Leveling up in this world was not simply just killing the monster, you have to battle against them. The system distributed the experience based on the contribution. If Iliriendil left them at their death door she would gain next to nothing. The only case a person could gain full experience from the last hit was that all the ones who fought except for that person were dead. Iliriendil gave her a nod, he seemed to understand what she meant.

A few monsters made it past the boundary missing some of their limbs. Ilirielth did not leave Iliriendil's side, she patiently waited for those monsters to come.

In the monitor room. A Liliana was eating popcorn while watching the bloody mesh Iliriendil created, and the image of Ilirielth cutting down the monsters, she sighed.

" I didn't know he could do that. Did I just mistakingly make the princess more useful?"

" Fascinating. No matter how many times I see it."

Cronley smiled at his eye glued to the monitor. Ilirielth's image didn't register in his eyes. He watched the replay of the scene when Iliriendil killed these dragons at the slowest speed. Even when the speed was 1/1000, Cronley couldn't see anything at all. There was a massive mana reaction from the surroundings when Iliriendil release his murderous intent. He still had the information about his research on Iliriendil's body. There was no way a creature with those stats could create that much mana. So what was the secret?

" Oh I had an idea Cronley, why don't we release one of your toys? You know, the things that had those strange halo shape on them?"

" I beg you pardon your highness, whatever you do—"

A monitor buzzed, its screen became green, and a million binary codes ran wild on it. Cronley sighed, he knew that when Liliana went into her mood, nothing could stop her.

" At least please don't pick anything that had the red flag. Those were only a few mutations away from being uncontrollable."

" Cronley, I'll be mad if you keep treating me like I'm stupid. Let see… Nope, that'll kill him, not this one either, I'm curious to test if this world could survive three days against this but I should hold that back for now, not this too, even a nuke was better than this. Hmm… a thing that was weak enough. This is hard…"

The computer screen stopped, and inside it was green skin, sharp ears, a figure was small, comparable to a child, the face was full of pimples wearing a thug-like smile.

" I guess this should do."

Liliana smiled as the container status changed.

It was less than 10 minutes Ilirielth gained more experience than she normally did in 10 years. Her level went up to 200. Just a bit more she could get to the limit break. Ilirielth cheerfully cut down the monsters, she could feel her strength gradually increase by seconds, the more she cut the easier her sword went through the monster's body.

Iliriendil seemed to understand what she wanted as he gradually did less to each monster she faced. When Ilirielth was a few points from gathering enough exp to break her ascension. There was something strange. The wave of monsters seemed to regain their consciousness, they screamed and tried to run away from the two. Hearing their pitiful cries, Ilirielth couldn't help but feel awkward. She could chase and cut them down from behind but she didn't. Since living here she developed some feelings for the monsters.

Although all the creatures of Mordox were said to be malicious and evil. They still knew fear, they still had their own habitat. They hunted and rested. Just like every animal. Mordox or not Ilirielth couldn't kill creatures that did nothing and had no will to fight. Well, except for one. Ilirielth rushed forward to cut a monster in half. It had a kid figure and green skin, there was no mistake. In this world, this creature was the most disgusting creature that was hated even more than Mordox. Since the beginning of history, they were the symbol of chaos and evil. They were said to invade this world soon before Mordox. While Mordox's purpose was to corrupt or destroy every living thing, the final goal of this thing was just pure destruction.

Ilirielth became nervous as she looked at the corpse under her feet. Some called them Demons of the Moon, some called them Hell Spawns, but they were widely known by humans as 'Goblin'.