CHAPTER 38: [38] BEAST TIDE!

But Levi wasn’t given any time to rest at all!

The pack of Rank 6 Shadow Wolves, took advantage of the opening, as they moved, their speed so fast they were like ghosts in the cave as they attacked.

Theg were silent and just like predators, their shadowy forms were insane, making them almost invisible in the dim cave.

Three of them leaped from behind the Devil Ape that had been thrown backwards as they flew into the air, their terrifying claws extended, aiming to rip out his throat from three different directions at once.

Behind him, Levi heard a soft voice shouting. "Watch out!"

It was the girl. She had stood back up and her yes was filled with fighting intent as she held a thin, elegant rapier in her hand, and a faint, shimmering aura surrounded her.

"My name is Lucy. I’m really sorry!" she shouted over the roar of the beasts. "I didn’t mean to lead them here! I was just trying to survive!" She looked genuinely apologetic, her expression very innocent as she apologized.

Levi didn’t have time to care if she was sorry.

He was too busy fighting for his life. He ignored her and focused on the three wolves descending upon him.

He didn’t use his `Crimson Thunder Step`. His new Rank 7 speed was more than enough.

He body flashed as he transformed into a blur.

In a split second, he moved, sidestepping the first wolf.

His hand moved as he withdrew his cleaver, slashing at the air which transformed into a silver beam arc in midair.

His Level 8 Cleaver mastery, sliced cleanly through the wolf’s neck.

His waist twisted, avoiding the second claw as his body dropped low to the ground, and swung his cleaver in a rising slash that met the second wolf in mid-air.

The slash instantly split it in two from buttom to its head.

He finished the spin, his momentum moving him as he cleaved one more time, using the force into a powerful, horizontal slash that cleanly separated the third wolf, sending its top half flying across the cave.

Three kills in less than a second. It was his highest kill record so far as his reaction speed had also increased drastically.

But for every beast he killed, two more actually took its place. The cave was now completely filled with monsters.

It was incredibly chaotic.

Levi fought at the center of the gathered beasts, his Cleaver slashing through the monster tide, creating a silvery arc circular barrier as though he was a living rotor.

Monsters below level 7 were killed in a single attack. His legs, arms, shoulders and even his head turned into a killing machine

Void energy surged out of him like a tsunami and he suddenly activated his `Inferno Slash`, and his blade was roared into flames. As he leapt upwards, dodging a tackle by a rank 7 beast as he slashed through the level 7 spine as though it was made of paper.

As he landed, a Rank 6 Armored Boar charged him, its tusks glowing with a deadly light as it pierced towards him like a tank.

Levi licked the blood off his lips as he stomped his feet to the ground.

"Boom!"

The ground shattered to pieces as he moved like a bullet, arriving before the beast as his flaming cleaver slammed into the boar’s armored head,

"BOOM!"

The air exploded as shockwaves of force and fire blasted off the surroundings like a small grenade.

The boar’s head was smashed to pieces and its horn fragmenting, sending fragments of horn through the entire surroundings, sending the smaller beasts flying.

He was like a god of war, Every punch shattered bones, every kick collapsed chests. And every slash cleaved through bodies. The ground beneath his feet started to pool with blood and guts.

But Levi wasn’t alone, the girl Lucy, was also there with him.

She was not as strong as him, but she was surprisingly effective. She held her own against the weaker beasts, her rapier moved rapidly as she slashed through nearby weaker beasts.

She would use a strange, illusion-based technique to make a beast see a false image of her, and as it attacked the empty air, she would then flash at its side, her weapon finding a weak spot in its neck or eyes as she attacks.

They were forced into a back-to-back position, as they attacked and killed the beasts.

Levi took on the strongest beasts, parrying or injuring them back.

While Lucy ,handled the weaker ones that slipped past his guard, perfectly complementing him.

At this moment, The Devil Ape, had recovered from their first clash.

"Roooar!"

It roared in even more fury as it charged again.

This time, it was not alone. It was joined by a Rank 7 Stone-Shelled Rhino, a creature whose charge could break through a panel 8 defenses.

They attacked him from two sides, trapping him in between them as they moved with lightning speed.

Levi’s eyes flashed with a crimson light and he didn’t even think of retreating.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

He stomped his feet one after the other as they dug deep into the ground like a clamp, making the entire cave tremble from the intense force.

"Pipe Down!!!"

He roared as he activated inferno slash, cleaving at the ape’s fist while he grabbed the rhino’s horn with his left arm as the two attacks collided into him.

"BOOOOOM!"

As he parried the Devil Ape’s fist with his flaming cleaver, the impact creating a shower of flints that lit up the entire cave like fireworks.

At the same time, he used his free hand to catch the horn of the charging rhino.

His muscles bulged as though inflated as the the veins on his arms expanded and wriggled like snakes underneath his skin as his muscles trembled, violently counteracting the massive force from the Rhino.

For a moment, he held them both. The sheer, raw power of the scene was breathtaking.

"I. Said. Down!!!"

With a deafening roar of his own, his cells trembled, as he squeezed strength from deep within his body, unleashing power like a raging tide.

He blasted the Devil Ape back and then spun as he threw the massive beast straight into a crowd of smaller monsters, clearing a path like a bowling ball hitting pins.

But the fight was taking its toll.

The berserk monsters didn’t feel pain.

They didn’t feel fear. They just kept coming.

He knew he couldn’t keep this up forever. He had to end this.