While taunting the seemingly too calm overseer, I was already theorizing how did he manage to survive and put out the raging 'Cheer'.

Supposedly, Sand, or as described by him later, the enlightenment processor, was the one and only 'Corruption Administrator' who somehow sacrificed himself to draw enough power from the 'Corruption core' or what he called an 'Enlightening Core', probably using the space elements existing in the core to throw the burning elements into one of the space channels that seemed to be in abundance in this special gate…

The reason I was able to receive his blood essence was due to the fact that his sacrifice was still due to my influence, I truly didn't expect that the skinny Sand was actually the core control of this base but in the end I managed to benefit from his action so it was better that way…

'No wonder that cry seemed familiar…'

Of course, he may have used the superior corruption elements in the core to suppress the burning elements as well, or any other method that's only known by him, but the result would still be the same.

Right now, I needed to deal with that overseer, and the first step was to taunt him and rid him of his deceptive behaviour, making this into a battle of punches instead of a battle of wits…

"You think taunting me would make me go berserk and kill you at one go thus relieving you from the misery of being my gate to infiltrate the Light Domain?"

"If so then you should forget about it, there are better ways to relieve my anger other than killing you, after all, you only need one hand to open the gate, hehe… we will have lots of fun together…"

'Huh?'

"Did the shock of losing your subordinate really affect you that much? Or is it because you lost in your own deception game?"

"Blabber all you want, let's start with cutting your other hand then, you won't be needing it anyway!"

appearing by my side out of the sudden, an elemental ark blade passed by my right hand, severing it from my arm, but unexpectedly no blood gushed out…

"What about now, I guess that hurt enough to help you stop your cocky attitude, right?"

As I had already checked his stats using my 'Eye of Knowledge', I pretty much had the confidence to deal with him as long as I spent a little extra effort…

[ 'Demon Commander (Mid-Tier)' lv.200

Strength: 30.00

Constitution: 29.69

Agility: 25.23

Intelligence: 30

Dark Element (C): 19.9

Special skills:

'Dark Blade (Intermediate)' lv.3

'Deception Command' lv.10]

But… it seemed like he wanted to make this even easier for me…

"Well, thanks for the opportunity 'Sir' overseer, your speed seemed a little tricky but you helped me out…"

"What? Wait, wh..."

Dark blood gushed out as both arms of the overseer dropped to the ground…

"Gahhhhhh! What is the meaning of this, you are but a bug whose level can't even surpass half of mine! How could your speed outclass me!"

"Well, like you said before, underestimating me did cost you a lot and it will still do to this point."

I used my 'Telekinesis' to retrieve my hand which went flying away just now before it hit the ground, as I finally got the chance to check the limits of 'Unbound Vitality' while using it as an opportunity to literally disarm the overseer.

The blood not gushing was also do to my use of 'Telekinesis' to keep every blood vessel unharmed, while sealing the ones cut by the dark blade.

Putting me hand back in position, and removing the seal, my skin and flesh suddenly moved as if it was alive, attaching itself to my hand and returning my it to its rightful place, which made it look as if the strike of the overseer never did anything…

'Oh, the effect is even better than expected…'

"Thanks for the experimental opportunity as well! As thanks I will relieve you from your corrupted life in no time so you won't have to deal with the pain for long!"

For a fighter specializing in blade techniques to lose both arms in the midst of battle meant that this was practically the end for him...

Considering the fact that his Agility was a bit too high, and the fact that he was a true peak 2nd stage special Dark Elemental Master (unlike the fake variant shaman) who had a specialized intermediate 'Elemental Armament' skills, dealing with him would have been possible but still troublesome, so his act of giving me this opportunity due to still underestimating me this much was quite helpful, as such I truly planned to end his pain fast.

"No! This isn't the end of me! You wouldn't understand how much I struggled to reach this point, being a front commander who is to start our Sacred advent!"

"Even if you kill me, you still won't survive what's coming- "

I immediately dashed towards him, I could already sense that he…

'Lightning Style, Sword streaking through the sky'!

"Did you truly believe that I will let you stall for time to self-detonate, taking me down with you, you really are too loyal to your cause…"

"No! You can't be allowed to surv-"

"Goodbye."

[ You have absorbed the blood essence of a 'Demon Commander (Mid-Tier)', purification in progress… ]

[ You have received 16,259,367 EP! ]

[ You have leveled up! ]

[ You have reached level 75! ]

Severing his head from his body, I thought deeply about what he said, after all, such a 'Demon Commander' was only a Mid-Tier demon, in contrast, other than the Brigade members who I didn't check their abilities and levels for now, the rest of the humans seemed too weak to even handle this commander…

Was humanity truly doomed, or were the true experts of humans hiding too deeply…?

As I pondered on this matter, I suddenly felt as if a mountain was put in my back as a very deep fatigue penetrated my bones, overwhelming me to the point of collapsing to the ground…

'I guess with a greater effect comes an even greater side effect...'

I stared at the burned rock ceiling as I sighed...