"Crackle!"

Blood-red lightning exploded beneath Levi's feet as he launched himself at the two remaining lieutenants!

The axe-wielder's eyes went wide. "Defensive Formation!"

She and the warhammer user moved with perfect speed, their backs nearly touching as they prepared to receive Levi's charge from either direction.

The woman's twin axes began to glow with a sickly green light. "Poison Axe Art: Venomous Spiral!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

She spun like a top, her axes creating a whirlwind of poisoned energy that expanded outward in a protective barrier! Anything that entered that vortex would be shredded and poisoned simultaneously!

The warhammer user slammed his massive weapon into the ground. "Earth Titan's Stance: Immovable Mountain!"

"BOOM!"

The earth beneath him erupted, stone flowing up his legs and solidifying into armor that covered his entire lower body! His feet sank six inches into the ground, rooting him in place! In this stance, his defensive power would increase by at least 200%!

Two veteran fighters using their strongest defensive techniques in perfect coordination!

Against a normal opponent, this would have been an impenetrable fortress!

But Levi wasn't a normal opponent.

He didn't slow down. Didn't hesitate. Didn't try to find an opening in their defense.

Instead, he activated a new ability—one he'd unlocked from crossing the second Slaughter Mark threshold.

"Slaughter Intent!"

"Bang!"

His accumulated killing intent, which had been an invisible pressure, suddenly became visible!

Crimson energy erupted from his body, swirling around him like liquid smoke! The energy twisted and coiled, then began to take shape—

Four massive phantom arms materialized behind him, each one three meters long, translucent and glowing with blood-red light!

Combined with his physical four arms, he now appeared to have eight arms total—four real, four made of pure killing intent!

"What The actual fuck?!" the warhammer user was stunned.

Levi moved like a meteor and collided against them.

"Eight-Armed Star Annihilation!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Eight attacks struck simultaneously!

His two upper physical arms slashed with his saber and punched at the axe-wielder's spinning vortex!

His two lower physical arms clawed at the warhammer user's stone armor!

His four phantom arms of killing intent struck everywhere else—attacking from above, from the sides, from angles that physical arms couldn't possibly reach!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The axe-wielder's poison vortex shattered under the overwhelming assault!

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The warhammer user's stone armor fractured, chunks breaking away like a collapsing dam!

Both lieutenants were driven backward, their feet carving trenches through the ground as they struggled to maintain their positions!

"Impossible!" the woman shrieked. "What kind of monster are you?!"

Levi's lips curled up as blood rushed up his head in giddiness. He was euphoric at this mement as he laughed like a mad man

His four phantom arms suddenly coalesced, merging together into a single massive fist of solidified killing intent—easily two meters across, glowing with concentrated crimson energy!

"Slaughter Fist!"

"WHOOOM!"

The massive phantom fist shot forward like a ballista bolt, moving faster than either lieutenant could dodge!

"SHIT!" The warhammer user threw himself in front of the axe-wielder, raising his weapon horizontally to block!

"KA-BOOOOOOM!!"

The Slaughter Fist collided with the warhammer with a sound like a thunderclap!

For exactly ine third of a second, the warhammer held.

Then—

"CRACK!"

The weapon, which had been forged from Tier-2 dimensional beast materials and had survived countless battles, developed a fracture line down its center!

"NO!" the warhammer user gasped.

"Crack!"

The weapon shattered into three pieces!

And the Slaughter Fist continued forward, now diminished but still devastating!

"Bang!"

It struck the warhammer user square in the chest!

The man was launched backward like he'd been hit by a truck, his body flying twenty meters before smashing through a tree trunk thick enough to require three men to wrap their arms around!

"Crack!"

The tree toppled, and the warhammer user disappeared beneath falling branches and leaves, his body making no sound—unconscious or dead from the impact.

The axe-wielder stood alone now, her weapons trembling in her hands as she stared at Levi with undisguised terror.

"Two down," Levi said, his four physical arms spreading wide while his killing intent continued to swirl around him like a crimson storm. "Just you left."

"I… I yield!" the woman suddenly screamed, dropping her axes and raising her hands. "I surrender! Please, I don't want to—"

"Too late."

Levi's blood-red eyes showed no mercy, no compassion.

"You tried to steal what we risked our lives for. You said you'd torture us and kill us. And now that you're losing, you want mercy?"

He took a step forward, and she took a step back.

"How many people have you robbed? How many cultivators did you kill when they refused to hand over their treasures? How many begged for mercy that you didn't give?"

Another step forward. Another step back.

"I… we were just… we didn't mean…"

"Thunder Step!"

"Crackle!"

Levi appeared directly in front of her, so close she could see her terrified reflection in his blood-red eyes.

All four of his physical arms moved as one.

Four cuts from four different angles, all converging on a single point—her throat.

"Gck—"

The axe-wielder's eyes went wide. Her hands rose to her neck, trying to hold the blood in, but it was already too late. The cuts were too deep, too precise.

She fell to her knees, then collapsed forward, her life bleeding out onto the forest floor.

Levi stood over her corpse, breathing heavily, steam rising from his entire body as his regeneration healed his body but he could hardly feel any pain as adrenaline rage and the asura physique numbed him.

Three down.

The entire exchange had taken maybe forty seconds.

Behind him, the sounds of combat still raged Marcus and his team fighting desperately against the thirty-two subordinates and the Level 1 Fiend Warrior leader.

Levi turned to assess the situation.

It wasn't good.

The Silverpeak students were holding their own, but barely. They'd formed a defensive circle around the caged Golden Wyvern cubs, using combined techniques to keep the bandits at bay.

Ren had created a dome of ice that provided cover, while Kai superheated sections of it to create steam explosions whenever enemies got too close. Lyra darted in and out of the smoke, her twin swords flashing as she targeted anyone who tried to breach the perimeter. Marcus, despite his broken spear, was using pure Astra energy manipulation to create barriers and projectiles.

But they were exhausted, outnumbered, and slowly being overwhelmed.

At least five of the thirty-two subordinates were down—wounded or unconscious—but that still left twenty-seven fresh enemies, all Level 7 Genetic Soldier or above.

And hovering above the battle, watching with cold calculation, was the leader.

The Level 1 Fiend Warrior hadn't personally engaged yet. He was letting his subordinates wear down the students, conserving his strength for the killing blow.

But when Levi emerged from the treeline, all four of his arms covered in blood, the leader's eyes widened with shock.

"My lieutenants…" he whispered. "You killed my lieutenants…"

His gaze swept over Levi's transformed state—the four arms, the blood-red eyes, the small horns, the swirling killing intent—and something in his expression changed.

Shock became anger. Anger became rage. Rage became absolute fury.

"You Killed Then!" the leader roared, his voice so loud it actually interrupted the battle.

"You deserve Death!"

His aura exploded outward, and Levi realized he'd miscalculated slightly—this wasn't a fresh Level 1 Fiend Warrior. Based on the sheer density of his Astra energy, the man was closer to Level 2, maybe even Peak Level 1.

"I'LL RIP YOU APART!" the leader screamed. "I'LL TEAR OFF EACH OF THOSE ARMS AND BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH THEM!"

He drew his weapon—a massive greatsword easily two meters long, covered in runes that blazed with orange light.

Then he descended like a falling meteor, the ground exploding beneath his feet as he launched himself at Levi!

"DIE!"

"BOOM!"

The greatsword descended with enough force to split a boulder!

"Ahhhhhh!"

Levi roared as he raised all four of his arms, channeling Astra energy through his crimson scales!

"Eternal Dome!"

"WENG!"

A spherical barrier of crimson energy materialized around him, it was reinforced with his killing intent, the crimson energy mixing with the gold to create a barrier that looked like solidified blood!

"KA-BOOOOM!!!"

The greatsword struck the barrier!

For one second, two seconds, three seconds, the barrier held!

Then—

"CRACK!"

It shattered, just like before!

But those three seconds were enough!

Levi had already activated Thunder Step, phasing through the breaking barrier as he dodged to the side!

"BANG!"

The greatsword struck empty ground, carving a trench five meters deep!

"You're fast!" the leader snarled, spinning to track Levi's movement. "But speed won't save you! Not from me!"

He slashed horizontally, the greatsword moving so fast it created a visible shockwave!

"WHOOOM!"

Levi ducked under the attack, feeling the wind pressure tear at his hair even though the blade missed by inches!

He countered with all four arms!

"Asura Strike!"

"BANG! BABG! BANG! BANG!"

Saber, fist, claw, claw—all four attacks converged on the leader's torso!

"Clang!"

But the man's Astra energy formed an automatic defensive barrier that absorbed most of the impact!

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