Chapter 5: The Sweeping of Gutter Part 4

The monster that had been screeching tightened its stance again. Adis realized the strange posture and prepared to maneuver to avoid being hit by the monster.

GROARGHHHH!!!

The Tarnished People jumped high, carrying their massive bodies and corrosive mucus falling from the big mouth in their stomachs.

"Now!" Adis also took advantage of the momentum to roll forward while forcing his sore leg to move. After that, he dragged his feet towards the corner of the room.

Once again, Adis avoided the deadly attack, but the indirect impact that he didn't think about was a severe shock. Correct. The shock caused by the impact of The Tarnished People's body pushed Adis's body forward.

“Ouch!!—ah. Hah… huh... hah.”

(Almost, I almost hit the reception desk....)

“D-damn monster... just a moment, j-just wait a little longer. I will get out of this place.”

Adis returned to continue his mission. Thanks to this push, he reached where the tube was. However, after Adis took it from the emergency box, it turned out that the object was not functioning as it should.

Adis' expression paled and when he turned around, The Tarnished People were ready to shoot corrosive slime at him.

Feeling like the world is falling apart, and there is nothing he can do to turn things around. Adis took small steps. Knowing very well that his position was unfavorable, especially with limited space for movement, he took small steps.

The small steps taken by Adis were none other than his last effort.

GROARGHH!!

The Tarnished People shot the slime, but out of nowhere a mysterious voice told Adis to raise his right hand.

-Raise your hand!

“H-h-huh?!” Adis raised his hands up while closing his eyes.

Adis's hand emitted a very dazzling light. The light not only gave off a fragrant warm aura but also dazzled and dispelled The Tarnished People's corrosive slime.

—Thank you for being my first friend.

“H-huh?”

(This... sound....)

As soon as Adis opened his eyes. He found that the monster that was trying to end him was no longer moving. Its immense body was stuck on a large pointed rock, making it look like a skewer of a monster.

“W-what happened? So, whose voice was that?”

—[Mission Successful] The foul soul are free. The soul that was born pure, but turned away from the truth, now crawls from the bottom of the abyss of darkness. To achieve forgiveness, the Birth bearer will punish those who have been tarnished.

The notification panel appeared right in front of Adis.

—Got Soul of Dependance x1, White Soul x50. Your deepest soul will receive the gift.

“Ugh—ackh!—w-what is this? What happened to my body?” Adis fell to his knees while hugging himself.

After The Tarnished People were defeated. His body succumbed to white flames, and as his soul disintegrated into dust and white remains, a transparent ball of light emerged, engulfed in white flames.

The ball of light then broke and entered Adis's body.

He could only curl up in pain as if something had entered his body. Adis couldn't fight and surrendered until his consciousness disappeared.

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“G-Goy! Wait for me—aghhh!”

"I-I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do anymore."

Yogi, Septian, and Faisal did not expect several Death Knights would discover their hiding place. A monster, which could be described as an astral creature, entered the grocery store through the front door.

Yogi himself couldn't believe what he saw. Their group not only encountered monsters like The Tarnished People but also other monsters that could not be put into logic, such as Death knights, headless undead, rodent creatures attached to electricity poles, giant faces with big mouths, and so on.

Previously, they had left their previous hiding place because there were too many people. With sheer courage and courage, they looked for another hiding place.

However, unexpectedly, they managed to find a wholesale shop that was still intact. There is also still a lot of food supply there. Yogi also asked his two friends for their opinion on the grocery store and they agreed to Yogi's proposal to make it a temporary hiding place.

However, without them realizing it, a group of death knights emerged from the ground and immediately grabbed Septian's legs and knocked him down. Feeling helpless and hopeless, Yogi shouted loudly while hitting the death knight's hand with a wooden block.

“Get out of my way! Stay away from my friends! Gahhhh!!”

Faisal also helped, but he didn't last long because his legs were shaking, and immediately fell down.

The death knights rose completely. They all have the same equipment, but not identical. There are those who only wear destroyed armor, torn chain vests, no armor and just a spear, or complete armor while holding a sword.

Unfortunately, Yogi's efforts were in vain because the death knight's arm was stronger than he expected. Apart from that, they also didn't seem to be in pain, and thanks to the attack carried out by Yogi, now all their attention immediately turned to Yogi and Faisal.

The first victim to be punished was Septian. The frizzy-haired young man found his left leg split open and torn apart by the mouth of the death knight, who pulled him from beneath him.

He screamed hysterically and the louder the screams became, Faisal, who previously wanted to get up, fell again in a miserable condition. His body was shaking violently and his teeth were grinding wildly.

“Gahhh!! It hurts!!—My leg, m-m-my leg! Help me!—Arghhhh!!!”

Septian kept asking his two friends for help, but what he got was a look of despair. The two friends' faces were very pale. For a moment, Yogi thought about leaving the two of them, but after seeing an army of death knights surrounded them.

His desire to help as a social creature was shattered. Leaving his two friends helpless, Yogi ran into the grocery store while mumbling and apologizing to both of them.

Faisal's screams for help were clearly audible as soon as he opened the front door. Yogi couldn't look away at all and continued to enter the deepest part of the grocery store, only to hear insults and curses from his two friends.

“Bastard... what actually happened? Why did it suddenly become like this?”

He never thought he would be in a situation like that. Yogi thought that the shaking that hit his university's faculty building was just an earthquake.

However, unexpectedly, the shock turned out to be a disaster that exceeded his expectations.

“There was no signal. The electricity was also out, the city was in chaos, the streets were bloody, and corpses were everywhere. Is this the apocalypse?"

A panicked Yogi was now huddled under a large table at the very back of the grocery store. Meanwhile, the death knights entered with a clack-clacking sound from the dry jawbone cavity.

Their form is half skeletal and flesh. Gives off a foul smell like stale food and has fragile steps like an elderly person. Even so, the horror that emerged from their presence was enough to make anyone shudder and panic because of the overwhelming sense of terror.

However, what is now a big question for everyone in the big city is not only about the appearance of monsters. However, the weather changed drastically and gave rise to black snowfall.