828 Killing A Blood Heir
The Federation suffered significant losses due to the Abyssals in Crimson or as they called themselves, Blood Heirs.
Four of them appeared so far.
Alec Everblood conquered the Hellsong of Uranus.
Alvira Everblood destroyed Oyan of Saturn.
Vlad Striker who crushed Elone of Mars.
Veritas Strike decimated Noir and Yoid of Jupiter.
"Master, which one should we target?" Boo asked with an apprehensive expression.
Varian glanced at the holograms of the four Abyssals and focused on the Abyssal that he first came into contact with.
Alec Everblood.
The torture Commander Batran went through flashed in his mind and Varian's eyes chilled.
"This guy." He pointed at that bastard.
Boo nodded and they entered the teleportation formation.
Varian checked upon Batran whose physical injuries were now half healed. It'd take an hour at least for him to wake up.
Then, Varian came to the room Enigma was healed at and his expression softened. He was worried about Sia mostly, but he was also slightly worried about Enigma.
What occurred to Batran shook him from the core and Varian was having second thoughts about even allowing Sia into the battlefield in the first place.
"For her safety, it's best if she stayed in the Ghostship…"
The sound of Enigma's gentle breathing filled the room. Looking at the silver-haired woman's sleeping face, Varian realized she had rarely shown such a peaceful expression.
'She's caught up in one thing or another all the time.'
Enigma was fine fighting two nightmare Abyssals. But since she sent Seth to Pluto to help him, she had to fight three nightmares. Otherwise, the Blood Heirs wouldn't have been able to sneak attack her.
Even though he didn't intend for it, he was responsible for her condition.
Without Enigma's participation, the level 9s of Mars weren't able to stop the Nightmare Abyssals.
Out of the sixty planetoids of Mars, fifteen had fallen. A whopping 25%!
By hook or crook, the army had killed a few nightmares, and right now, only four of them were still alive.
But the army had no solution to stopping these four.
Every powerhouse they could deploy was already deployed and engaged in fighting.
The only good news was that these nightmare Abyssals were recuperating from injuries and wouldn't attack for an hour or two.
As Varian's thoughts continued to drift, Boo flew over with a piece of news. "Master, we are about to reach the planetoid Alec Everblood is on."
Varian clenched his fists and smiled.
— — —
"What? How did Vlad suddenly disappear? Isn't Enigma knocked out?" Alec Everblood frowned as he casually waved his hands.
Lightning arcs left his fingers and bombarded the human army scrambling back to the military base.
He had destroyed the level 8 of this planetoid and was about to travel to the next planetoid when news came out that Vlad Strike—the Blood Heir who found Enigma and was about to kill her—was missing.
Alec's mood was spoiled and he vented his frustration by killing the human soldiers. With every lightning bolt he dropped from the sky, thousands of humans were killed.
The Abyssal didn't care. The level 7 humans on the planetoid couldn't threaten him. So, he only focused on communicating with his fellow Blood Heirs to find Vlad's situation.
After all, other than Sovereigns, Enigma was the number two hunting target. She was severely injured and fainted. It was the perfect opportunity to kill her. Missing such a chance was unacceptable!
"Damn pests! Why can't these humans just die?" Alec gnashed his teeth and raised his hands.
Lightning snakes crackled around his fingertips and coalesced into a huge lightning sphere.
The human army that was just getting into the military base panicked at the sight.
They had turned the defenses on and erected a hemispherical barrier. But with the half-battered barrier, there was no chance of blocking the full-fledged attack of this Abyssal who was likely at the peak of level 8.
Alec's lips curled up and he clenched his fists.
A yellow light flashed in the sky and the lightning sphere reached the military base in a blink.
The fifty thousand soldiers in the military base and nearby channeled their aura as they decided to not to accept death without fighting.
The lightning sphere broke the barrier on contact and the small lightning arcs leaked out of it and rained down on the soldiers.
Hundreds of explosions sounded as everyone who came into contact with the lightning arcs turned into ashes on the spot.
The level 7s in the military base gritted their teeth and rushed to the lightning sphere in a desperate attempt to slow it down and buy time for the soldiers to escape.
Alec watched them with interest. Even if they did succeed, which was highly improbable, he'd make sure to kill every last soldier. Of course, the Abyss Army wasn't going to sit still either.
Whether he acted or not, the human army was doomed.
"Vlad, I'll avenge you with the lives of a million hu—"
A muffled sound broke out from the sky and something crashed into the ground. A giant crater spanning five miles was formed in the blink and a thick curtain of dust rose all the way to the clouds.
The level 8s Abyssal commanders who were overlooking the situation were shocked at the sudden event and extended their senses to the crash site.
"Wha—"
Before they could even react, a golden light blew away the dust, and Alec Everblood appeared above the crater.
His armor had several cracks on it. There was a deep horizontal cut starting from the edge of his right shoulder and ending just at his neck. Blood was spilling out like he was a fountain and the wound was so deep that even his bones were visible.
'The attack was supposed to slit his neck, he barely avoided it and got his shoulder cut!' The level 8 Abyssals realized something and felt their bodies go cold.
Alec Everblood ignored the injury and stared at the man floating in front of him.
A handsome young human was looking back at him with a ruthless gaze.
Alec's killing intent surged and was about to envelop Varian. If used properly, killing intent would cause a psychological shadow on the enemies and result in them not using their full power.
The Blood Heirs also had a terrifying killing intent and using it, they killed enemies as strong as them!
'Even if you're strong, I can still greatly injure you!' Alec's eyes turned red as his bloodlust reached a new peak.
The thick red mist surrounding Alec, his killing intent, enveloped Varian. But Varian's expression didn't change in the slightest. He didn't even blink.
Alec's eyebrows jumped at his lack of reaction and an ominous premonition filled his heart.
'Wait, how is—'
He didn't even have the time to think as a blue light flashed in the sky and Varian teleported in front of him. His fist was about to smash the Abyssal's head.
Alec hurriedly put on his lightning armor and was about to elementalize to avoid the physical attack.
But Varian's psychic power struck his mind and prevented Alec from fully elementalizing.
Then, the space around him solidified while an invisible force appeared out of nowhere and held him in place.
The temperature of his body plummeted and Alec's blood almost froze.
As if it wasn't enough, a foreign lightning mana entered his body and prevented his own lightning mana from putting up a solid defense.
Unable to fight back even in the slightest, Alec lately realized the horror of Varian's strength.
With so many powers, how could anyone at the same level fight Varian?
If they aren't careful, even level 9s would experience a fatal blow under the deadly combination of these powers.
'Thankfully, Sanguik will kill him.'
That was the last thought in his mind before Varian's fist blasted his head into pieces.
