Earth's Greatest Magus

[Fusion Bolt]

Zapppp!!!!! 

A loud thunderous sound boomed loudly as the powerful Tier 7 spell blasted towards the monstrous centipede creature. It sped through the air leaving a multicolored erratic trail and landed on the Royal Centipede's body, creating more cracks on its golden carapace and stunning the creature for a good few seconds.

ROOOAARRR!!!

A man of dark hair streaked across the ground like lightning and leapt into the air. His body only traveled above the ground for a moment as his feet quickly landed onto the creature's back.

The shining spear in his hands twirled before being raised high in the air. The next instant, it stabbed and penetrated deep into the creature's head. 

White blood that bore a disgusting stench gushed out from the wound and splashed upon the figure, but he was not perturbed by it. Instead, the glint in their eyes turned sharper.

ROOOAARRR!!!

"Die, you vile creature! Die!" shouted the usually calm figure, as he once again raised his arm up and bright rune symbols appeared in the air, a sign that a spell was being cast. The darkened sky rumbled powerfully.

[Call of Thunder]

An instant later, a massive thunderbolt crashed down from the sky. It descended toward the spear and struck the huge body of the Royal Centipede. A loud, deafening shriek erupted as it shattered a huge part of the creature's carapace, burned a large chunk of its head and splattered its white gooey blood into the air.

The figure quickly jumped from the back of the squirming Royal Centipede and dashed dozens of meters away from the creature. His breath was ragged, but his piercing gaze never left the Abyss creature even once.

Moments later, a smile seemed like it was about to appear on the man's face, as he was finally able to avenge the four members of his team who unfortunately died fighting against the stage 7 Abyss creature.

However, a second later the body of the Abyss creature who was supposed to be dead was suddenly covered in a golden glow. Then, it shook and started moving again. Dust quickly rose in the air as the creature slowly stood up.

The man was taken aback, as he believed the creature should have died by his final, decisive strike. But then, seeing the golden glow that enveloped it, something suddenly popped into his mind as his mouth spurted out a word.

"Rebirth! It's an Abyss creature that can cast rebirth spells! I should have known!!" The man scolded himself, his expression extremely grim.

The man was none other than the one Emery met before, Magus Enforcer Hyokai who was tasked to complete the failed mission of the Andora planet. But now, the man was raging in a rage that couldn't be suppressed; he couldn't accept the fact that he would fail so terribly on such a mission.

"Urrghh!!"

A conflicted expression could be seen on his face as his eyes stared at the gradually recovering Royal Centipede. Then, at this moment, he looked at the item in his hand. A bottle that held the Spirit Soul of his four enforcer comrades. Gritting his teeth, he made up his mind.

Retreat!

However, just as he was about to flee from the area, Magus Hyokai suddenly noticed something bizarre. Not only was the Royal Centipede able to be 'born' again, he could also feel the ten thousand Abyss creatures in the area changing as well.

"What?! They are evolving!?" Shock was evident on his face and in his voice. "Impossible! This is happening too fast!"

The magus threw his gaze around the crater and saw that this impossibility was indeed happening. As such, he swiftly put both of his hands on the ground and cast another powerful Tier 7 spell.

[Fusion Web]

In a matter of seconds, the entire surface of the crater lit up brightly with multicolored rays as every inch was covered by a huge lightning net. Immediately, the net did its job and held all the Abyss creatures within it.

"Arrgggg!!" The magus screams as he spends all his spirit pool covering such a huge area.

The ten thousand Abyss creatures caught by the net screamed and roared loudly as their bodies quickly scorched and turned to dust. At the same time, the entire crater itself started to collapse and Magus Hyokai used the last remaining energy he had to fly away from the collapsing crater.

BOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!

A few seconds after he flew out, a powerful tremor shook the earth, flattening the crater and devastating such a huge mountain. Thick smoke of dust soared into the air as debris of various sizes fell from the destruction.

Magus Hyokai was once again seen gasping for air, to the point that he could no longer move and was forced to kneel among the rubble. 

"This should delay it for at least a day.." thought the magus as the ground suddenly shook. Before he could understand what was happening, the ground split in two and from within it several scythes shot toward him while he was losing his balance.

"Arrgghhh!!"

A painful scream escaped from the magus' mouth as the scythes managed to inflict several severe injuries. Unfortunately, the nightmare wasn't over yet.

Magus Hyokai watched in trepidation as a huge centipede rose from the rubble and the human figure visible at the bottom of its head opened its mouth.

"You… No escape!"

Immediately, the creature's scythes were swung at the magus, cutting his limbs apart without the slightest hint of mercy. Another miserable scream resounded through the air as scarlet blood gushed out and dyed the ground.

Unfazed by his sorry state, the creature swung its scythes once more. However, at the last moment, Magus Hyokai grabbed the pendant on his chest and crushed it to activate a life-saving spell. His body was quickly enveloped by a bright light and disappeared.

Seeing its prey manage to escape, the creature once again roared in anger.

Emery was watching the whole event with the help of the spirit creatures, he was devastated to see the enforcer's team lost in the fight, when he thought he has seen enough, the monster suddenly rotated its head towards a particular light that was floating in the air, raised its body a little and stare directly at Emery's eyes

"Human…"

Emery was shocked to see this and his body reeled backward. He had witnessed everything that happened, and he didn't expect to see the Abyss creature to know and stare at him.

He was completely stupefied when the creature spoke. Or to be exact, it was the figure and face of Commander Raynor who spoke to him.

"Human…. Die!"

Knowing that he was two thousand miles away from the creature, Emery mustered up the courage and opened his mouth to ask the question he wanted to know the answer to.

"Why… Why are you doing this?… why are you killing humans…?"

The creature was silent for a while as if it was processing the question.

"Human.. destroy everything… We will destroy human…!!"

Those were certainly terrifying words for a creature that could easily annihilate a team of magus enforcers to utter. However, Emery quickly noticed that the creature was saying something strange and ask,

"We…? Who's we?"

This time, the creature did not answer. Instead, Emery saw that it wasn't looking at him anymore.

It turned its body, rising towards the south.

It took Emery a second to realize that the creature was staring toward his real location or rather the base of Platoon 3 and with his shock, Emery's vision returned to the tower. His heart beats rapidly and his hand trembled violently as realization dawned upon him

"It's… coming here!"

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Written by Avans, Published exclusively by W.e.b.n.o.v.e.l,