Versatile: Alternate World

That move clearly pissed off the leader as he immediately composed himself to fight back. Although he is eager for a fight, my mind wanders to what is happening. The effect of the Dark Core should still be in effect but for some reason, the monsters that should be already trying to go to me are not even coming. It was like the effects were nullified and all the monsters that are in the vicinity chasing me before are all killed. All that was left standing is me and the cult leader.

"You need to die!"

"Just come at me."

He has weird footwork that immediately allows him to move forward without stepping a foot to the ground. I can think of how he can do that and I think that was due to his wings. Although it was hidden, I can say that it was still functioning like normal. Perhaps he is using it to take advantage in a battle.

His attacks are also unpredictable at times. It was like I am facing a player in a PVP tournament. I have to keep a defensive posture as the cult leader is very fast. I have to at least get used to his movements before I make a proper decision.

"What now, are you just going to remain on the defensive? Is this the guy who has destroyed most of my secret bases and my first phase of plan able to do?!"

"Your taunts are worthless to me but I will give you a B for at least trying."

PING! PENG!

Our swords clashed and he started applying pressure to his sword. I also did the same. I am not going to lose to a cult leader like him. He was about to say something but I hated idle chatter when fighting so before he can do so, I kicked his balls. However, when I kicked him there... I didn't manage to kick anything. It was like he is missing a pair of balls hanging there. Moreover, he didn't grimace in pain as most men do when kicked in that area.

That's when I immediately realized that this angel is not a man. And I am calling this angel a "he". This one looked like a man, but this was actually a woman. No wonder even though she looks like a man on her face and she has a manly voice, she has a bit of a feminine body. If she intentionally made herself look like a man, then I am genuinely impressed as I didn't know this angel is a woman.

When my kick didn't work, I changed tactics and kicked her in the abdomen instead. If she has no balls, then kicking the abdomen will be the better option. She didn't expect the two kicks in a row so she fell down to the ground once more but this time I am not going to be merciful and pulled out the Pain Delivery and pulled the trigger.

BANG!

However, even though she fell to the ground, she is still pretty agile and she easily rolled over to dodge the gunshot. She immediately get back up and tried to lunge the sword in my direction. I kicked it off to at least try to disarm her but her hands are gripping the sword hard enough that my kick was not strong enough to release her grip from it.

Since my disarming failed, I made a step back and changed my weapon into a Hook and Chain to catch her off guard.

CLANK!

The chain wrapped on her body and the hook latches on her skin causing her to scream in pain as the hook dig deep the chain tightened. She was not expecting the form of my weapon to turn into a hook and chain.

Then, I pulled her with the chain. I didn't think I would use it to pull a person instead of a monster but I can say that it is much easier to do so than doing it on a monster. As her body gets closer, I immediately grabbed her neck before slamming her to the ground.

"GUHK!" she puked blood.

"I would have killed you right here and now but I still needed you for the last step or else everything will fail. Bye."

I immediately left after doing a slam down on her. As much as I want to kill her right away, she is not the key to completely stopping the Scourge. If she died, the scourge will continue and the main problem will persist and the thing that I am trying to prevent will remain. Of course, once the final showdown with the final boss of the first phase is done, I could kill her if she will remain resisting.

Leaving her there will allow her to survive. She has a curse that she cannot kill herself so if she wanted to die, she needed to be killed by someone else. She cannot be killed by monsters and she will not be killed if she orders someone to kill her either. The only way for her to die is to be killed.

Yep. The main reason for her starting a cult is to die. Then, the main boss who is taking advantage of this decided to use her so that she will be able to fulfill her wish of dying. And the order of the boss? Create a cult, spread his name and the scourge, and make a great sacrifice for him. In short, the cult she is making is just a big group that sacrifices all of its members to become something like food for the dark being. I can easily fulfill her wish but I can't do that just yet. I need her as a catalyst to kill the final boss of Phase one.

After getting out of the facility, it seems whatever the effects that caused the nullification of the Dark Core's effects are now gone the moment I stepped outside of the facility. It is clear that she has some sort of nullification effects that made these cores not effective so now that I am out of the vicinity of it, the effects are back again. Well, so be it. The last core is all that is left.