Locked and Loaded

In the end, everyone was forced to abandon the residential area, fleeing with tears streaming down their faces, their sobs echoing the pain of being treated like mere cattle, their existence reduced to mere sustenance for another's hunger. 

Reign decided to inflict further damage, taking the lives of couple dozens more before returning to the site and beginning to absorb everyone present. He could not let all this dead bodies go to waste .

[Level up + 1]

[Level up + 1]

He leveled up two more times, bringing his level to 17.

Reign decided to also speed up the absorption process, and allocated two more skill points to Bone Eater, enhancing his ability to quickly consume corpses. 

And even with that, it still took him a while, the process of absorbing hundreds of dead bodies consuming time. 

During this gap, those who managed to escape had enough opportunity to call for backup.