CHAPTER 1639: STRONG REACTION (2)

King Kashou had a strange reaction to these strange creatures that were coming out of the ground since he didn’t recognize them at all.

But the moment that I saw them, I knew what these were.

These were the same creatures that we had faced whenever we had to deal with the corruption energy.

Since these metal things were filled with corruption energy as well, it wasn’t strange that these things would appear.

The only thing that I was confused about was where they had come from.

The way that they appeared was as if they were coming out of the ground itself.

"The metal...is it releasing the corruption energy and creating these things?"

"But if it is...then this must be a powerful defensive reaction. It must be reacting to the fact that I’m trying to destroy it with the divine energy earth, so it’s releasing these creatures to fight back."

"What are you doing? They’re coming at us!" King Kashou said when he saw me just standing there in a daze.

However, there was a reason why I wasn’t worried.

After all, it wasn’t as if we had come alone.

"Woosh!"

There was a burst of white flames that suddenly fell down from the sky at the strange creatures that were coming at us. The moment that these white flames made contact with the strange creatures, they just disappeared without a trace.

After releasing the flames at these strange creatures, Joan gave a roar from above that seemed to catch their attention.

Once she had their attention, all of the strange creatures started charging in her direction.

The only thing that they faced were the same white flames.

These strange creatures had clearly never faced anything like this before, so they weren’t certain how to deal with it. But once a bunch of them had been taken care of by the white flames, they didn’t actually keep charging at it.

It seemed that they had developed an instinctual fear towards it.

King Kashou couldn’t help being amazed and a bit terrified by the flames that Joan released.

But seeing how easily the strange creatures fell gave him the wrong idea.

"Ha, ha, ha, it doesn’t seem like they’re that strong. Then let me join in as well."

As soon as he said this, he pulled out a large sword from his cloak which seemed quite hard to hide. After pulling this sword out, he charged at the nearest strange creature to him and swung his sword out at it.

However, this sword didn’t actually have any holy magic buffing it or any divine energy infused in it.

That meant that the only possible outcome was...

"My sword!" King Kashou cried out in shock when the strange creature caught the sword that he was swinging. The strange creature didn’t even raise a hand to catch it, it just simply let the sword hit its body.

The moment that the sword hit its body, it wasn’t actually able to cut through it and sunk into it as if it was stuck. Then there was this strange black energy that spread across the surface of the sword from where it was stuck in the strange creature.

As this strange black energy spread, it seemed like it was swallowing his sword.

It seemed like it was corroding the sword at the same time, destroying it bit by bit.

In the end, King Kashou had no choice but to let the sword go before that black energy reached his hand.

After all, he had no idea what it would do to him. But judging by what it did to the sword, he didn’t think that it would be anything good.

But there was a sad look that was on his face as he watched his sword being swallowed by the dark energy.

In the end, it almost seemed like he was about to cry after the sword disappeared.

I couldn’t help shaking my head with a faint smile when I saw this.

I could have helped at any time, but I didn’t since I wanted to let King Kashou know about the dangers of these strange creatures. With this kind of experience, there was no doubt that he wouldn’t look down on these strange creatures anymore.

So I said, "Burn them away."

Joan gave a nod before gathering her flames once more.

When the strange creatures saw that Joan was gathering her flames again, they tried to run. But midway while they were running, it was as if there was something that suddenly stopped them.

It seemed that whatever had summoned them was stopping them.

It seemed that they were bound by the metal line under the ground to protect it, so they couldn’t actually run away.

But in the face of the white flames...

In the end, they couldn’t even approach Joan before they were completely wiped out by her flames.

At the same time, the flames purified the dark energy that had surrounded King Kashou’s sword.

After it was purified, the remains of it fell to the ground in front of him.

King Kashou was cautious in picking it up, but he eventually picked it up and took a close look at it.

After taking this look, he looked at me with a bitter smile as if he was saying, "Couldn’t you do that sooner?"

I just ignored him as I continued wiping out the strange creatures with Joan.

This time, I had started summoning the divine energy mist to start weakening them

After all, it wasn’t just me who was attacking them.

The priests had also stopped healing and were currently attacking the strange creatures with their holy magic.

The demi humans also participated since it was their town that had been turned into a battlefield, but there wasn’t much that they could do against the strange creatures since they couldn’t deal with the corruption energy.

That was why the priests had to keep saving them when they charged at the strange creatures.

My mist helped in keeping them safe as well.

Other than that, I was using the Staff of Earth to attack the line of metal under the ground as well.