67: Monster

With immense panic in his heart, Corey ran, no, he did a mad dash seeing the three lightning bolts zip towards Becca. [A/N: I know this contradicts the last paragraph in the previous chapter so just ignore it and continue. I'm too tired to change it.]

'Move.'

'Move.'

'Please Move.'

'Please fucking move faster!!!'

Screaming internally while urging his body to move faster, Corey could only look as he saw the distance between Becca and the three lightning bolts reduce to at least a meter.

Just a second was all it would take for the three lightning bolts to reach Becca and turn her to burnt meat.

'No.'

Corey's heart sped up rapidly and his pupils dilated as he could do nothing but watch the end of one of the few people he truly cared about.

Becca who had just regained her balance was able to see the lightning bolts coming for her life. Surprisingly she was calm and was not panicking or fearful.

Why?

She doesn't know.

Maybe it's cause she knows there was nothing she could do to save her life. She was just a healer who did not have any powerful offensive nor defensive skill.

Ever since she joined the survivor group she had never been in a precarious situation such as this.

'Is this the end for me?

Do I regret asking for the ability to heal people as my wish?'

This were Becca's last thoughts as the three bolts of lightning were now mere centimeters away from her.

But just as she had accepted her fate and just when everybody including Corey thought Becca's end was in the next second, like a shining knight coming to the rescue of a damsel in distress, Luke stood in front of Becca, a shield in his hands.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three loud bangs resounded as everyone had wide open eyes as they looked at the scene with various expressions.

"L-Luke?"

Becca stuttered as she recognized the back of the 'knight' in front of her.

The 'knight' turned towards her and when Becca saw the bloodied and broken arm of the 'knight' holding the destroyed shield which saved her life, she quickly placed her hands on top of his injured arm and a yellow light spread out from her hand unto the arm, healing the injuries little by little.

"Are you okay?"

The 'knight' asked in a caring tone causing the damsel who was in distress to look up, seeing the handsome face of the knight, she was slightly dazed for a second before she recovered and she nodded, showing she was alright.

"Good."

The 'knight' nodded then looked at his healing arm for a second before he looked at Kyle, an expression of anger appeared on his face.

'How dare you target my main source of stress relief. I've not gotten Ashley yet so how dare you bloody target her. I'll kill you in the worst possible way you bastard.'

Just as Luke had this thought, his eyes widened before it turned into a smirk when he saw what Kyle was doing.

'Heh. Before I kill you, you should at least kill that bastard first.'

(Meanwhile Corey)

Corey whose eyes had dimmed thinking he was going to lose somebody he genuinely cared about was rooted on the spot seeing Becca survive.

He didn't care if it was Luke that saved her.

He didn't care why he saved her.

All that mattered to him was that Becca was safe, Becca was alive, somebody he cared about didn't die.

And that the monster in him did not have a chance to fully revive in him.

He could keep on suppressing and destroying the monster in him slowly.

He exhaled then inhaled heavily as he tried to calm his emotions, his body and his heart, but the next second he felt his skin tingle in danger, but he was too stunned and not ready to dodge the incoming danger.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Numerous fireballs and lightning bolts hit Corey causing smoke to rise at the spot he was in.

Kyle who was the perpetrator of all this attacks raised his right palm up and then he slammed it down on the floor.

Knowing that Corey was a cockroach, he just had a feeling that Corey would survive his previous attacks so he used another offensive magical attack.

"Ortus, Blazing Inferno."

The moment he spoke both in a foreign and known language, an intense fire rose up from where Corey was located, reaching at least 20m high.

"Corey!"

"Shit!"

"What the fuck!"

Numerous exclamations of shock, fear and anxiety rang out from the crowd watching Kyle's frightening magical attacks.

Kyle stood and without pause he pointed a finger at the sky.

"Descent Of The Lightning Sword."

The skies rumbled and darkened as the only source of light were the numerous streaks of lightning flashing round in the skies before it formed a giant sword made out of lightning.

Shock, despair and fear appeared on everybody's face as they felt a huge amount of pressure bearing down upon from the sword.

Even Mrs. Ashley felt the pressure since never in her life did she think Kyle was this powerful as a tier 0 human.

"How can he unleash such an attack like this without backlash. This is almost a tier 2 attack."

Mrs. Ashley muttered as she looked at the lightning sword in the air with immense shock.

While everybody had fear in their eyes, she did not. In her right hand was a palm sized circular object with lines and symbols on it.

She rubbed it a few times, a conflicted expression on her face as she looked at the attack then at Corey.

Meanwhile Kyle seeing the lightning sword fully form three seconds after he unleashed the skill, swiped his hand down.

"Aki."

BOOM!

All who were looking at the lightning sword only saw a flash of light before the sword disappeared from their vision and a loud clap of thunder resounded in the sky and the earth, causing the dark clouds in the sky to dissipate.

"FULL COUNTER!!!"

Just when everybody thought Corey's end was near, a shout full of rage shook everybody as to their immense shock they saw a bloodied, burnt and bony Corey holding two swords in a cross-like manner on top of his head.

The sword of lightning was at the blade of the swords, trying to destroy the swords but a strange force from the sword was trying to repel it.

The twin fog swords and the sword of lightning trembled intensely as both fought to destroy each other.

"RAARRRGGHH!!!"

Corey shouted and with extreme adrenaline, he pushed past his limits causing his already damaged body to be more damaged.

"FUCK OFFFF!!!!"

And with a roar, he unleashed his all and sent back the sword made out of lightning back to the sky.

Silence

Pin drop silence permeated the surroundings as everybody including Kyle and Mrs. Ashley had expressions of disbelief as they looked at the panting bloody, charred and bony figure called Corey.

Although he had a somewhat short and lean figure, in their eyes, he was no longer a human but a monster.

They did not know how a human could remain standing and breathing with Corey's condition.

Various parts of his body were burnt and at some places, one could see the exposed bones of Corey.

"Stop! Where do you think you're going?"

A shout filled with anger and slight fear resounded in everybody's ears drawing their attention away from Corey to the arguing duo, Luke and Becca.

"Of course I'm going to save him!"

Becca shouted back with a tone filled with anger, worry and fear. She looked at Corey and saw him standing still, the only sign that he was alive was the sound of his heavy panting.

She tried to run towards him again but Luke stopped her much to her annoyance and anger.

"Stop!"

"What do you mean stop!

Can't you see he's dying?

Do you want to see him die?!

Stop wasting my time and let me go!"

Becca shouted back, this time, her tone was filled with immense anger seeing Luke still holding her arm. She tried to wrestle her arm away from his grip but she could not.

How could a healer like her be stronger than Luke who invested more in his strength be compared to her, not to mention that her physique was weaker than his.

"Don't you value your life?! What do you think would happen if you join their fight?!"

Luke who was already annoyed and frustrated by the fact that Corey was still alive albeit barely, was more annoyed seeing Becca repeatedly rushing to help Corey. It made him want to grit his teeth in anger.

He could not just tell her that the main reason he didn't want her to help Corey was because he didn't want to see him survive, so he tried to convince her by giving her sensible reasons.

After speaking, he looked at Becca and saw that she still had that desire to help Corey which just made Luke grit his teeth in frustration.

'You bitch, you'll suffer for this!'

Luke viciously thought internally, then he pointed at Corey.

"Look at them! Do you want to die? They're both monsters! If you go, you'll- Huh?"

Just as Luke was speaking he turned and looked at Corey, wanting to gesture more but the moment he did, his eyes bulged with extreme shock as he saw a scene which could only be described as absurd.

Becca who was already very angry at Luke had a confused expression seeing his shocked expression and when she looked in his line of vision, her expression was not much different, though there was a little bit of relief deep in her eyes.

It was not only Becca and Luke who had shocked expressions, everyone including Kyle and Mrs. Ashley had extremely shocked expressions as they all saw Corey's injury healing at a pace visible to the human eye.

Meanwhile Corey who was actively using mana to speed up his regeneration, looked at the broken twin fog swords in his hands with an indifferent expression, then he dropped it on the ground.

He clenched his fists repeatedly and as he was doing that, he heard a voice.

"What are you?"

Kyle who was extremely tired and was absorbing mana from the surroundings to refill his almost empty mana core had an expression of extreme shock as he saw Corey, no, the monster in front of him heal from the extreme injuries he caused.

"First, your reaction time is extremely fast for somebody at your level.

Your pain tolerance is extremely high.

You have an absurd skill which can deflect magical attacks.

Now you have extremely fast regenerative abilities?

What the fuck are you?!"

Kyle asked with an expression bordering madness, frustration and anger.

Meanwhile Corey just looked at him with an indifferent expression before he looked at his fist which he clenched then unclenched.

He then looked away from his fist and looked at Kyle, a person whom he almost truly cared for.

He closed his eyes for two seconds before he opened them back, the indifferent expression was gone and a cold expression was what appeared on his face.

"I'm the person that's going to kill you."

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[A/N: For those that have a problem with the fight scene between Corey and Kyle, I'll explain it tomorrow.

I'll also say a few things concerning Corey and Becca.]