Red and black blood smeared around the dry and cracked ground. An ugly corpse was lying on the ground. Pungent smell of the dead was apparent in the place. A person was standing atop the corpse holding an azure sword that was embedded on the back of a Deathcrier’s corpse. His robe was turned to ragged, on his right shoulder were three deep wounds that oozes blood and streaked down to his fingers. Suddenly not far from that person. A lady hoarsely shrieked, her body were crooked while her hands and legs were shaking intensely, her hair was disheveled that covered her agonized face. A glowing green light would flash behind her disheveled hair.

“Xiao Lin! Don’t let that evil carry you into damnation!” The weak person who wield an azure sword anxiously shouted, raising his bloodied right hand to the lady named Xiao Lin.

An aura of death started to gather around her body while hatred and resentments were slowly swallowed her thinking and it was clearly reflecting in her eyes. Suddenly, a surge of powerful death energy rose from the cracked ground that glows with mysterious green colored light. It rushed upwards, blowing the sands while it enters towards the lady’s orifices.

The lady maliciously cried with a hint of resentment. Deep green color of light suddenly seeped out from her eyes and it drastically crept all over her body! Her porcelain white skin turned green as protruding deep shade of green scales appears on every part of her body. A pointy and sharp green crystals were attached on her elbows while two black horns with several green colored cracks were on her forehead. She has turned into a Deathcrier! But it turns out that she was different from a typical Deathcrier.

When she’s in drastic transformation, her body slowly lifted upwards. Her clothes were already turned into nothingness revealing her tempting body but it was changed to a green scaled body. Her transformation lasted for only several breaths of time. With a thunderous clap along with her eyes opening with glowing green light and the death energy surrounding her body instantly dispersed!

“No! Xiao Lin! It can’t be!” The person’s voice was shaking as if he witnessed an absurd scene. His body swayed, his strength was fading and his grip with his azure sword started to loosen. With no energy to muster from his body, he couldn’t helped but kneel on the back of the Deathcrier’s corpse.

When the person with his scintillating crimson eyes witnessed the scene, his brows creased as if he was considering something. But his face quickly become indifferent again. Fading into the shadows.

“X-Xiao L-lin” The kneeling person tried to muster his strength, pulling his embedded weapon and hardly raised his body. His face turned stiff and blank, eyes were dull and lifeless. He weakly started walking towards the transformed lady dragging his lifeless azure sword on the ground trailed with thin line that emits a dull azure light. His movement was unnatural. When he took his steps, he sometimes would sway from either left or right, even almost falling into the ground.

Xiao Lin already finished her transformation, and the first person she saw was the person who wield an azure sword. She screamed, her voice were high pitched, stinging the very ear of any person. Then she crossed her arms and suddenly swiped forward to the weak azure sword wielder. Crossed green energy claws manifested out from her swipe rushing with an intent to kill.

Instead of evading her attack. The person who wield an azure sword only closed his eyes taking the attack defenselessly.

‘Tsk, how stupid’ A scintillating pair of scarlet eyes, flashed across a dense fog.

But before he could act, the already flying crossed green energy claws suddenly dispersed!

The mutated Xiao Lin in front of the azure sword wielder, was shaking her hands as if she was controlling it not to harm him. The brows furrowed in confusion. The eyes that glinted with green light welled up some tears turning the monster in deep confusion.

The azure sword wielder realized that he didn’t die, wondering, he opened his eyes and saw those glistening tears that fell from the corner of the mutated Deathcrier Xiao Lin. He was baffled but soon replaced by delight. Thinking that Xiao Lin still have a chance to be save!

He walked in a fast pace towards her while dragging the swords behind him. Though he moved slower than normal, but he was still faster than the snail. After several seconds passed, the shaking Xiao Lin and the weak azure sword wielder stood face to face, distancing themselves with one and half meter. The scintillating scarlet eyes hidden deep in the dark fog were surprised before blending back again in the shadows.

“X-Xiao…ugh…Xiao Lin…please wake up!” He was struggling yet excitedly uttered those words to her.

Xiao Lin screamed in agony and the pain in her head were clear, as her clawed hands clutched on her head. Falling down to the ground, kneeling.

With a thud sound, the azure sword wielder came crashing down on his knees as he was facing so close to her. He reached his bloodied hand to her face.

The struggling Xiao Lin, abruptly stopped shaking.

‘Not good!’ The scintillating scarlet eyes flashed with dull red light.

With a furious stomped, he instantly left the hiding spot in a red light, faster than an arrow and quicker than sound. He moves like lightning speed.

Before Xiao Lin could launch a sneak attack. A resounding sound from a punch erupted, blowing her away from here recent location.

The azure sword wielder was shocked by the sudden turn. In front of him, there stood a person whose back was facing him. Snapped by his anger, the azure sword wielder furiously shouted.

“What the hell did you do!?”

The azure sword wielder placed his sword forward and stabbed it on the ground, but the shaking of his hands and the clanking of the sword were clearly indicating that he don’t have any strength to fight anymore. Still, he tried to stand up, though barely.

‘I just did what I see fit.’ The person answered.

“You! ...” The azure sword wielder wanted to retort but his wounds flared up, spurting some blood as he fell down to his knees.

The person in front of him almost tainted by those bloods, fortunately, an invisible energy turned the blood into smoke.

‘Look at yourself, you were already a bedraggled person.’ The person turned his head and faced the azure sword wielder, revealing his scintillating scarlet eyes with a glint of scarlet light.

The azure sword wielder was shaken when he looked at the eyes of the person in front of him. But before he could say something, the person with scintillating scarlet eyes slowly raised his right hand and a brilliant red light flashed from his hand. And a sudden force erupted, clutching the body of the azure sword wielder. Grabbing all the death energy that looms around the wounds of the azure sword wielder.

‘This is all I can do, I’m not an elf that could heal you completely.’ The person with scintillating scarlet eyes retracted his gaze from the azure sword wielder and turned his head back to the disheveled Xiao Lin from a distance.

Still couldn’t fathom what was happening, the azure sword could only nod himself and took a peculiar green pill and ate it. He sat crossed-legged putting his azure sword on his lap, he then took a complex gestures. Three streaks of green light appeared and revolved around his body. A surge of healing energy bathed himself healing the wounds all over his body. The blood that trickles on his hands was turned into smoke.

While the azure sword wielder was healing on his wounds, the person with scintillating scarlet eyes and Xiao Lin started to take their move. At the same time, the two leapt off the ground darting to each other. A fist filled with scarlet colored energy and a claw filled with green colored death energy clashed for the first time.

Booming sounds echoed around the place, turning the dry and cracked grounds into a crater as the two exchanged blows with intensity.

At some point of their clash, those scintillating scarlet eyes glinted with bizarre light. A pulse of aura erupted from his body, clenching both of his hands and took a rhythmic stance. Xiao Lin who was nearing to him also performed an incantation and three soul spears manifested atop of her head. She waved her index finger and the three soul spears flew ahead of her rushing to the person who owns those scintillating scarlet eyes.

‘1st stance, Heat.’ When he saw the incoming deadly three soul spears the person with scintillating scarlet eyes started with a unique rhythmic footwork.

‘2nd stance, Agility.’ His stances didn’t stopped there as he casually uttered his second stance and white energy revolved around his feet making his footwork into a blurry shadows. But the stance didn’t stopped there.

‘3rd stance, Charge.’ With a shout, he smashed the ground with his right foot charging himself to the speeding soul spears. He and the three soul spears were only an inch away. If only the distance will also be cut then he would be skewered to death by those deadly soul spears.

And when the mutated Deathcrier Xiao Lin saw this, she sneered.

‘4th stance, Evasion.’ But before the three soul spears could kill him, an impossible feat occurred. He zigzagged himself from the three deadly soul spears evading them in a nick of time.

Xiao Lin shrieked in shock, but she didn’t dally as she was just behind those spears. With a wave of her claws, sonic waves of green claws manifested in front of her, clawing the approaching person.

‘5th stance, Power Up.’ Ignoring the devastating manifestation of green claws, he placed his feet and skid on the ground. Then he pulled his right arm backward while placed his left hand forward, a deep scarlet started to gather around his right fist.

Sensing the deadly crisis, Xiao Lin screamed in high pitch mustering all the power inside of her into one powerful energy ball. Placing her two claws in front of her, a large green energy ball siphoned all the death energy around the area.

‘6th stance, Disintegrate.’ As the momentum kept building up, his fist suddenly unclenched and turned into clawed hand lurching and grabbing the large green energy ball.

Seeing the hand of the person whose eyes glinted with scarlet eyes, Xiao Lin gritted her teeth and pulled her both hands and quickly pushed it back forward to the green balls. The green ball exploded and flew like a cannonball and rushed towards the person in front of her.

But before it could erupt its explosiveness, the clawing hand of the person who made the stances. Clenched the green ball. And with a pop, the green ball was disintegrated like a bubble.

The mutated Deathcrier Xiao Lin was confounded by the sudden event. Feeling indignant, she screamed loudly and a sonic wave of sound blades rushed towards the man in front of her.

‘7th stance, Devour.’ The person ignored her attacks, turning his clothes into ragged. Blood spurts from his body as sound blades slashed at his body.

The woman was delighted but it quickly turned into an alarm. A demonic hand suddenly grabbed her head and a suction force erupted from the palm of that demonic hand.

Then she screamed in pain until her voice became hoarse, shrieking as if her soul were ruptured by those demonic hand that clutched her head.

After an incense stick to burn, Xiao Lin slumped down to the ground as she lapsed into unconsciousness. The bizarre horns, the green glowing scales and any other factor that a Deathcrier could have were gone. Returning herself back into a human.

‘Humph, you’re lucky that I’m here.’ He said tiresomely. Thinking that it was troublesome to banish evil spirit after recently waking up from his deep slumber.