"So angry? Could it be that the ones I killed before were your companions?"
White brain matter splattered with blood, Clementine kicked Enderi away, a joyful smile on her lips as she watched him crash heavily into the wall. Especially when she saw Enderi, like an unkillable cockroach, shakily get up from the ground again, Clementine felt completely thrilled.
This kind of toy that can't be broken no matter how you play with it, that will stand up again and charge at her no matter what she does, that expression of unyielding anger after being knocked down... It's just... just too great!
Opposite her, Enderi, who had just straightened his body, didn't answer Clementine's question, but just raised his head and stared at her, his bloodshot pupils giving off the feeling of a frenzied beast.
"Die..."
A hoarse roar came from Enderi's mouth, and the next second, he charged towards Clementine again like a beast, a series of afterimages trailing behind his rapidly advancing body, appearing in front of Clementine in the blink of an eye.
"Ah, how boring. Why don't you shout something like, 'How dare you kill my companions!'? Abusing and killing that kind of person is the best entertainment, and your attacks are so boring."
As soon as the words left her mouth, Clementine suddenly raised her head, a brutal light flashing in her eyes. Her body instantly completed the process from stillness to acceleration. With a slight tilt of her head, she dodged Enderi's punch, while the short swords in her hands danced, the sharp blades easily cutting through Enderi's body.
Then, her slender and powerful right leg suddenly lifted, and amidst Clementine's unrestrained laughter, her foot, clad in a metal combat boot, slammed hard into Enderi's chest. Accompanied by the clear sound of bones breaking, Enderi flew out like a cannonball.
This series of movements, including dodging and attacking, was completed in less than a second. In the eyes of the others on the side, they only saw Enderi rushing towards Clementine at high speed, and then flying back even faster, with a large number of fatal wounds appearing on his body.
"Cough... cough... Wah!"
A few seconds later, Enderi, who had stood up again, covered his chest and coughed loudly. Through the gaps between his fingers covering his chest, it could be vaguely seen that Enderi's chest had obviously collapsed, the rotten flesh mixed with fragments of white bone.
"Enderi, are you alright!"
At this time, a young man walked to Enderi's side and steadied his swaying body, looking at the wounds all over him and the white brain matter exposed after his skull was blown off. Such injuries would have been enough to kill an ordinary person hundreds of times over.
But now, Enderi was not only still alive, but even fighting vigorously, and the injuries on his body were also rapidly recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"I'm fine."
Enderi raised his head and glanced at his companion beside him, then looked at Clementine in the distance, who was licking the blood on the blade of her sword. That perverted, murderous appearance made the killing intent in Enderi's heart even deeper.
Just a few days ago, it was this woman who, in front of his eyes, with the same smile as now, brutally murdered all of his carefully cared-for younger siblings.
Even now, Enderi still clearly remembered that scene. That evening, Enderi, who had just worked hard all day to obtain enough food, returned to the dilapidated warehouse that they regarded as home with several companions.
However, when they pushed open the door and walked in, they saw the cleaned warehouse floor covered in blood. His younger siblings, who had been playing and chatting with him in the morning, calling him Enderi-brother, were all hanging in the air.
The limbs of their bodies had been twisted to the extreme, and some of their bodies had even been cut open, their internal organs all missing. Only bright red flesh and vaguely visible bones remained in the empty abdominal cavity, and clusters of internal organs were piled up randomly beneath the corpses.
And in the innermost part of the warehouse, behind the many corpses, this woman was standing there, holding their youngest sister, Sona, in her arms, using a short sword to cut off Sona's flesh piece by piece, the sound of Sona's crying in agony echoing throughout the warehouse.
The evening sunset shone through the dilapidated roof of the warehouse, turning the entire warehouse blood red, and also shining on Sona and Clementine. At that moment, the seed that Lu Minghao had planted in their bodies instantly developed and began to grow rapidly.
It was just that Enderi and his companions at that time didn't know anything about this, and even if they did, they wouldn't care. At that moment, they only had one thought in their minds, which was to kill Clementine and save the only surviving Sona.
It was a pity that even though Enderi and the others had the blessing of the Gluttony and Lust Sin powers, they, who had just been invaded by the Sin powers, were no match for Clementine in terms of strength or experience.
They could only rely on their powerful immortality to barely withstand Clementine's attacks. In the end, they were able to survive because Clementine had already had enough fun at that time. In the end, Enderi and his companions could only watch Clementine take Sona away from there.
Afterwards, Enderi and the others, filled with despair, anger, and powerlessness, collected all the limbs and corpses of the dead and buried them in that dilapidated warehouse that they regarded as home. When Enderi and the others buried their dead family members and walked out of that dilapidated warehouse again.
Originally, they were still wary and guarded against the power that Lu Minghao had given them, but they completely accepted this power, and even began to frantically pursue it. In less than half a month, Enderi and the others frantically searched for traces of Clementine and Sona, whom she had taken away, in the fortress city of Yeyaran Til.
At the same time, they began to frantically enhance their strength. Under the indescribable whispers in their minds and the instinct after being eroded by the Sin power, the entire slum gang was swept away by Enderi and the others, and all the dead became a part of them, transforming into their strength.
At the same time, the Eight Fingers members hidden in the fortress city of Yeyaran Til also noticed the actions of Enderi and the others. After sensing the Gluttony and Lust Sin powers on them, those Eight Fingers members who had already become Aberrants in the dark also began to act.
On the surface, the entire fortress city of Yeyaran Til began to become chaotic because of the crazy behavior of Enderi and the others, and in the dark, many Aberrants began to vigorously promote forbidden knowledge, transforming many civilians and soldiers of Yeyaran Til into Aberrants.
In addition, with the cooperation of the city lord of Yeyaran Til, who had already been devoured and replaced by an Aberrant in secret, it could be said that the Gluttony and Lust Sin powers began to spread wildly, causing the city, which was only slightly chaotic because Enderi and the others were frantically searching for Clementine and devouring to enhance their strength, to completely go mad.
As for why the Kingdom hasn't discovered the situation in the fortress city of E-Rantel, it's entirely because numerous Eight Fingers Aberrations have already been lying in wait at every exit of the city, allowing no one to leave, completely sealing off the city and turning it into a paradise for Aberrations.
“Hey, aren’t you going to attack?”
At this moment, Clementine, who had been waiting impatiently, tossed the short sword in her hand with a bored expression. Her crimson eyes scanned Enri's body, which had mostly recovered. She had already figured out how to inflict the greatest pain on Enri without killing him.
By the way, this method was learned from Sona, who had been taken away before. In order to properly 'bully' these toys that wouldn't die so easily, Clementine had put a lot of thought into experimenting with her various ideas on Sona.
“Well then, here I come!”
As soon as she finished speaking, Clementine slowly lowered her upper body, grabbed the ground with one hand, and pointed the short sword at Enri with the other. She resembled a female leopard crouching on the ground, ready to hunt, exuding a deadly sense of threat.
Whoosh!
In the next second, Clementine's toes pushed off forcefully, and her entire body shot out like an arrow, appearing in front of Enri and the young man in the blink of an eye. Seeing this, the young man who was supporting Enri hurriedly pushed Enri away and clumsily raised the longsword in his hand, chopping down at Clementine.
“Heh! Water Flow Acceleration!”
Looking at the longsword chopping down in front of him, Clementine revealed a cruel smile. The martial skill 'Water Flow Acceleration' was activated instantly, and everything in front of him slowed down. Clementine easily dodged the attack, and then her body appeared in front of the young man in a strange posture, and the short sword in her hand pierced out like a rainstorm.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
The special short sword easily pierced through the young man's body, and the sound of flesh being pierced echoed in the air. Crimson blood dripped from the tip of the sword, exploding into brilliant blood-colored flowers in mid-air.
Thud!
Seconds later, when Clementine stopped attacking, the young man's body slammed heavily on the ground, his entire body covered with thumb-sized holes. When the young man struggled to raise his head, a pair of empty eye sockets appeared on his face.
“Don’t worry, your eyes will grow back after I feed you.”
Opposite him, Clementine squatted on the ground and looked at the young man with a smile. On the short sword in her hand, two pupils were strung on it.
“Oh right, I forgot to tell you, I personally confirmed that eyes can be reborn, and not just eyes, but even other tissues. I’ve experimented on that little guy before, remember you called her Sona before, right? She’s such a cute child that I can’t help but bully her, and even become a little addicted.”
“Sona, what did you do to Sona!”
Instantly, whether it was the young man who was seriously injured by Clementine, Enri on the side, or the other young men and women, they all looked at Clementine and questioned her. Especially the young man in front of Clementine, when he thought of that cute, sensible Sona, who always called him brother, being subjected to all kinds of inhuman torture by this pervert.
The anger and rage in his heart were completely ignited, and the body that had already been eroded by the Gluttony Sin to the breaking point instantly began to distort. The skin and flesh on his body began to wriggle and proliferate continuously. Dark red tentacles suddenly grew out of the holes in his body, and the empty eye sockets began to tear apart, distorting into two large mouths full of fangs.
“Roar!”
In the next second, a completely frenzied roar rang out from the young man's three giant mouths. Tentacles lashed out at Clementine like a storm, and as the body continued to grow larger, tentacles under his feet plunged into the ground. The original stone floor began to wriggle, as if it had come to life.
“What or rather, what kind of monster are you!”
Faced with the sudden change, Clementine's rich combat experience allowed her to activate all of her martial skills at the first moment, dodging attacks while retreating. After reaching a safe enough place, Clementine looked at the indescribable monster in front of her and the surrounding land and buildings that were constantly being activated and turning into flesh, and asked with a solemn expression.
Even as the ninth seat of the Slane Theocracy's 'Black Scripture,' who had been doing all kinds of dirty things for the Slane Theocracy, she had never seen such a monster. Even those experimental subjects that she had cleaned up, who had been crazily modified by the Slane Theocracy's mages, were not like this.
“Die!”
Opposite her, the young man who had completely transformed... or rather, the Aberration, had no intention of answering Clementine's question at all. The bloated, huge body charged towards Clementine at a speed that was completely disproportionate to its size.
In just a short moment, it appeared in front of Clementine, and hundreds of tentacles directly smashed into her body. With a loud bang, Clementine's body turned into a black shadow and slammed into the wall.
“Cough... what the hell is this monster?”
Large mouthfuls of blood and shattered internal organs were spat out with Clementine's cough. After feeling that her body could move slightly, Clementine reached out and grabbed the already activated wall and climbed out, raising her head and looking at the monster standing in place without moving with lingering fear.
If the wall she had just crashed into hadn't turned into something similar to flesh for unknown reasons, absorbing and halving the impact she received, then Clementine had no doubt that she would have been evenly smeared on the wall in that one blow, and the kind that couldn't be wiped off.
“Hey hey! You’ve got to be kidding me, right?”
In the next second, Clementine, who had been somewhat fortunate to have survived, couldn't help but tremble with fear when she noticed the surrounding situation. Following Clementine's gaze, the originally ordinary city was now filled with a large amount of purplish-black aura.
All the ground and buildings had turned into flesh-like tissue, constantly wriggling and expanding. This feeling was as if Clementine was currently located inside the body of a huge, indescribable monster.
Moreover, besides these, Enri and the others were constantly absorbing those purplish-black auras in the air. Along with this, Enri and the others' bodies, like the previous young man, began to distort and twist.
In less than a minute, Enri and the others had completed their transformations, turning into monsters with different appearances but equally indescribable exteriors. At this moment, all of these monsters were staring intently at Clementine.
