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Chapter 13 - Project Asura

Such a fearsome creature being blind was a blessing, that is if the corpse daisy was merely a bumbling flesh flower, it grabbed one of the devourers and snapped off one of its fingers, stuffing it into the creatures body.

The devourer struggled its bones snapping and contorting, its shrieks piercing the air and causing all around to feel dizzy, no one was strong enough to breach the torrent of devourers, their long-range weapons and abilities bouncing off its body, their attacks serving littler more than to irritate it.

The struggling devourer rose, its head twitching from time to time as it looked around, this only lasted a few moments before it had it's head smashed in, the corpse daisy could insert parts of itself into other creatures taking their senses for its own, but it just so happened the devourers themselves where not suited to its needs, and the otherwise suitable vessels too fragile, and so the fearsome creature thrashed about, indiscriminately spreading death madness and rot.

"This is quite bleak", standing on a small cliff like clearing

A purple skinned large feminine like woman with green grass like flowing hair black sclera across all five of is eyes and a wide mouth with its sides sewn shut, next to her was a man with metal cuffs and pale white tattoo- like marks running along the length of his arms and lower sections of his mouth, his long and unruly grey hair resembled spider silk was flowing in the wind, his dark midnight like skin contrasting heavily with the shiny white sand of the planet and cool twilight from the planets blue star.

His eyes where a deep purple and on his hip rested a blade, his silent gaze falling on the battle field with indifference before he turned it to the man by his side, this man appeared to be the only human of the group but was wrapped head to toe in dark clothing, exposing only the area around his eyes.

Under the gaze of his midnight colored superiors gaze he nodded and placed his palms together his body fading into the environment, like a string being unraveled, soon he appeared next to one of the front liners pulling the man back just before he was slashed by a devourer's claws.

He rubs his stomach and undoes his mouth, his dark drown skin having signs of being burned around his mouth area, he inhaled, his chest swelling in a manner that shouldn't be anatomically possible, he cupped his hands over his mouth like a pipe and exhaled.

Blue flames gushed forth from his breath and rapidly expanded like a hungry wave eviscerating the bodies of the devourers, some had survived, the flames clinging to their bodies they mad a mad dash forward until the man clicked his tongue.

Those ensnared by his flames had them sink into their bodies, they soon swelled with glowing light and burst like bombs bringing death to even more of their species, wisps of vapor poured from the corner of his lips and nostrils.

"Great job sneaky". The large woman slammed into the ground causing it to fractur, she punched one of the devourers causing its skull to collapse the rocky debris from her landing taking shape, forming into an axe. "Excellent".

She swung the battle axe with fervor, each blow cleaving the abominations into two with little to no resistance, she was like an almighty lumber jack in a forest of dead rotting trees, although some had avoided her altogether and circled her to continue their charge, the man she had addressed as sneaky shook his head he made signs with his hands while muttered some words under his breath, beads of sweat running down his exposed face before swiping at them.

A large wind blade swept across them peeling the creatures in two with only a few of them able to dodge, before those ones could recover however their bodies twisted and burst as the mans hands contacted their bodies, like he was distorting their bodies.

The other two were performing grand feats the man with midnight skin and ash lips calmly walked towards the corpse daisy, the abyss beasts almost seemed to not be paying him any mind, those that did would have their bodies suddenly cut into two.

All that approached him died, those that sought to harm him died, those he looked at died, those his body touched died, those he gazed at died, cut apart and reduced to lifeless mounds of bisected flesh, the man responsible however seemed indifferent, like this was merely a predetermined outcome.

The midnight skinned man took a deep breath and straightened his back and everyone blinked, all they had done was blink, but he was already standing in front of the beast, recognizing his presence the creatures body tensed and its swung its tail with all its might.

And yet there was nothing, no sound, not even a gust of wind, the beast had simply not moved, black lines rapidly traced themselves across the beasts body, its flesh falling away into neatly cute bloody cubes of contaminated meat, the category three commander class abyss beast had simply died.

The commanders death was swift and so strange that everything and everyone had paused in awe and horror, the night skinned man looked at the remaining beasts and tilted his head to the side before raising a single finger, his lips moving as his finger spanned across them.

"Everyone get down!" The giantess shouted, striking the ground and toppling over the people on the defense team with she herself throwing her body to the ground and lying flat on her stomach with her hands covering her ears.

The midnight skinned finger had stopped moving uttering a single word, his voice serene and calm, clear and comforting, yet so far reaching it swept over the battle field like a wave, it was spoken slowly, grasping all attention, it was such a mundane word.

"Cut". The man mand of black had given his command and so it was, There was no object that dared to remain whole.

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