Bro, I'm not an Undead!

After summoning the first corpse which he ‘brought to life’, Actuass conjured another circular ring of runes from which spawned a second corpse that was once again invaded by the greenish black fumes that rose from his body.

It was a woman this time, her skin pale, which contrasted well with her aged and dirty pair of dark pants and off white, thick shirt.

Short, brown hair had grown on her body during her years of life but nothing else but a once pretty face could be determined with certainty from her features in her current state.

These two corpses stood before Actuass as on top of jerking and twitching about in their positions, their decoloured eyes gained greenish black pupils, this development bringing forth a change in their demeanour as they both took deep breaths.

While this was happening, SoSei, the green skeleton burst towards Revia with a speed that eclipsed that of anyone other than the Paladin Champion in the city.

It ran into houses and the shielded people before shooting up with a horrific force as it flew towards Revia who was perched atop one of the higher roofed houses.

Her attention had been on what Actuass was doing but for a brief moment, she gave this skeleton her attention, her agility and dexterity when she clasped her scabbard and blade handle with such a quick motion being so fast that she had more free time to decide on what to do next.

Right when SoSei reached her, pulling back its arm and launching a textbook straight punch at her, Revia felt the intense level of weight behind the punch vividly!

She literally felt the winds howling as they gathered, preparing for the eruption that would ensue should what this creature’s version of a casual punch landed!

‘One of these is enough to tear me apart even with my armour….’ Revia thought as her brows wiggled.

Her figure vanished like a ghost right when the punch arrived, a cataclysmic explosion flattening anything within a 70 meter radius!

The ground sank in on itself even when the skeleton had hit nothing but the house, just the sheer force behind its punch barrelling into the ground like a massively heavy sphere digging into the crust!_.

Revia’s image flashed a few tens of meters away from the scene, sixty civilians behind her donning terrified expressions as some began to vomit.

They had all been saved by Revia from the area as even with the hazy light barriers shrouding them, the Paladin Champion wasn’t sure if they would have still survived that massive attack. The power of Valis’ staff was probably stretched thin.

She vanished once more and appeared before the skeleton which then dashed towards her, its speed increasing with each step on the shattered ground!

Revia felt the bubbling of power within her.

The boost she had received from back when Actuass gave that strange monologue was acting up again!

Her life energy continuing to pile on within her body while being unable to escape!

From the initial 30% increase in her strength, she could tell that now, she was 55% stronger as her muscles greedily held in the life energy which was supposed to leak out with time!

Just as Actuass had explained. Her body was unconsciously reacting to losing too much of the life energy, an supposed effect from facing this mysterious man.

‘I don’t know what I can do to stop this. It feels like breaking the natural flow of nature. I have a feeling that my body normally can’t just stop leaking life energy on its own. This man probably has the means to force his opponent’s bodies to develop this ability. It’s probably temporary too, meaning I’ll burn out soon. Is that what he’s hoping for? Heh, if that’s the case, I’ll do what I do best. End it quickly!’ Revia thought as the faint light around her intensified.

At this point, SoSei was right before her, preparing to launch some more amateur hour style attacks at her!

She had to deal with this skeleton first to get to Actuass, but so far, it had shown itself to be impervious to damage from her attacks.

This meant…

“I’ll just try a little harder..!”

SoSei swung its fist in a straightforward and childish manner towards Revia’s face, the force behind the punch being almost twice as heavy as the previous one!

Revia bobbed her head, ducking down!

A flurry of punches came from the skeleton, each being dodged by Revia whilst carrying a force that generated whirlwinds behind her that blew structures apart!

Revia dodged as she sought for any weak points on this skeleton. Head, chest, arms, legs.

There didn’t seem to be anywhere she could hack until it broke!

As the skeleton furiously launched these powerful attacks that eventually turned into mini tornados that ravaged the city of Evic, its speed increased substantially, its footwork improving during this exchange which wasn’t an exchange!

From the way it looked, this thing would only keep on increasing in power and speed!

Revia knitted her brows and decided to go on the offensive. She might as well try to hit this thing with her strongest moves before it grew to rival her in the one thing she was confident in.

Speed.

To do that, she had to cut off it’s growth.

She withdrew her sword and flung it with incredible speed into the sky behind SoSei!

The object flew while creating a white trail in the blue skies illuminated by the large star, Revia switching to blunt damage dealing!

With a flash of brilliant light, she launched 550 jab punches into five different sections of the skeleton with her full strength; head, chest, spine, pelvis and shoulder!

The sounds that ensued caused those with weak hearts to faint as they were akin to multiple thunder strikes ringing all at the same time!

SoSei drew back while all around, the ground couldn’t take it, shuddering and wailing!

Yet… no damage registered on SoSei at all!

‘I shouldn’t be surprised..’ thought Revia before she dodged a fistival of seemingly rage filled blows from the skeleton before launching an epic uppercut into its chin!

A circular arc exploded outwards, SoSei being launched upwards like a rocket, flying at an angle towards the trail that had been left by the sword milliseconds ago!

Revia stormed from her position, appearing a very long distance away, near the borders of the city in the air as shockingly, she caught the blade she had threw and sheathed it while staying afloat!

She got into stance as SoSei whom she had punched with all her might flew in her direction!

Her eyes honed in on this figure as she drifted I’m midair at a slower speed, clutching the blade and the scabbard with unreal focus.

“First UnForm Blade Technique, Rend!” Revia called, drawing her sword with a barely discernible light as when it came out of its scabbard… it could not be seen except for its handle and guard!

However, a crackle and thundering screamed, echoing across the city as it almost seemed like the sky had shattered like glass!

After the ferocious noise, something flew towards the crust from the altitude at breakneck speed and blew a wide crater into ground that ignited with flame momentarily!

After this attack, Revia’s hand could be seen vibrating at an intense frequency as she descended, her eyes zooming through the dust to see if she had managed to do any damage.

The result….

A shallow but long mark could be seen running from the SoSei’s back, running from its shoulder blade, ribs and spine in a slanting fashion.

Revia smirked.

‘It’s better than nothing. Now to—’

Revia suddenly plunged to the ground at a ridiculous speed that left even her stumped!

She was pulled to the ground, slamming face down into the hard crust of Aigas before she even realised what was happening!

…!

After she left a human shaped crater into the ground, she instantly responded by extending her mana outwards to support herself but still found it to be extraordinarily difficult!

Slowly, she barely managed to crawl up, lifting at least one leg off the ground from a kneeling position.

Revia gritted her teeth as she looked ahead, her eyes bloodshot as she felt an immense tugging on even her skin!

A bulky man in a sleek, dark armour with orange rings all over it stood with his arms crossed in front of his chest with his one foot before his body in a stomp!

He was over a kilometre away but Revia felt this strange effect bubbling from his body which released explosive waves of power, the greenish black in his eyes giving Revia a bad feeling.

When she looked at the ground, she saw it sinking into itself like a swirling whirlpool, rocks and all but it wasn’t real. It was just a realistic illusion to enhance the effect.

The more she looked at it, the more she felt her body loosen as it was dragged back down, her mind losing focus!

The Paladin Champion shook her head and mustered more of her strength as she stood.

With her body mostly stabilised, she finally saw the terrible scenes around her which resulted from the strange technique!