In the sky, the three Divine Avatars fought the Corrupted with everything they had, but not only was their cultivation inferior, but their enemies were also deploying skills that overwhelmed them entirely.
Every Corrupted unleashed a Negative Force Field, similar to that of the Depravitas, that weakened the senses and affected the minds of intelligent life forms near them.
Although the God Cores' defenses blocked most of the force field power, it still diminished at least ten percent of the Divine Avatars' battle power.
One of the Corrupted sent a fist toward a Divine Avatar. The attack not only carried superb precision and martial skills but there was also a whirlwind around it, enhancing its speed and power.
A body possessed by a Depravita and turned into a Corrupted did not experience a loss in battle power, and things did not end there. The creatures were also able to deploy the spells and abilities of the original owner.
Whether this copying ability was due to them having devoured the God Core and integrated the memories inside the seed of consciousness as instinctive knowledge or something else was unknown at the moment.
The Corrupted sent the Divine Avatar flying away, and twisters appeared in each arm as he slapped his hands together, firing a barrage of wind blades charged with a dark foul aura.
Agonizing pain appeared in the Divine Avatar as those blades not only cut him deep enough to reach the bone, but the foul aura in them also affected his mind.
It was a perfect chance for the Corrupted to march toward the wounded Divine Avatar, but his bloody eyes narrowed as he saw one of his "comrades" appear by his side.
Hate and the desire to devour the other filled the eyes of the two Corrupted, but they did not dare to disobey the command given by Zatiel and focused on their enemies.
Now that he was undisturbed, the wind Corrupted focused again on the wounded Divine Avatar, and his body obtained a phantasmagoric state, making his speed skyrocket.
As soon as the wind Corrupted appeared in front of the Divine Avatar, it sent two punches covered by whirlwinds at the same time.
Luckily for the Divine Avatar, the short altercations between the Corrupted allowed him to regain some control over his body and properly defend against those punches.
Zatiel saw everything from the ground, and his Rex Somniorum Eye analyzed the Corrupted's every move and how the Depravitas controlled them from inside their brains.
He had deactivated the force field of his Sacred King Aphotic Dominion, so the fight would not end immediately.
'Their superb battle skills must be related to how the Depravitas allow their instincts to guide their moves. They ultimately let go of complex thoughts and allow their minds and instincts to act like one.'
For the Neo-Demon, it was easy to see behind the Corrupted's battle style. He found it very efficient, and it was similar to his since he also relied on his intuition during a fight. Still, there was also an analytic part that allowed him to change his battle style at any second if the battlefield required it.
'The fact they can use the Corrupted's original power is a pleasant surprise. As for the physical and energy strength remaining the same after the possession, I assume that is due to the Depravita's amorphous nature capable of constant change, making it so that there is no rejection between them and the body.'
Usually, when a soul possesses a new body, there is a level of rejection between the two, which leads to a deterioration of the centers of power, regardless of the possessor's soul force. Still, the Depravitas did not have that problem.
'Those Divine Avatars were at the Pseudo Rudimentary Form. After consuming the God Cores, the creatures were at the Initial Seed Stage, so they were technically at the same cultivation stage. If they were to possess a Rank 8 Divine Avatars, they would not be able to express their full power.'
Asking the Seed Stage Depravita to control a Pseudo Rudimentary Form life form was like asking a four-year-old child to wave a wooden sword, something extremely easy. Nevertheless, asking the same Depravita to do the same with a Beyond Falsehood Stage body was like telling the child to use a 4-kilogram broadsword.
Zatiel was extremely satisfied with the Corrupted, and the fact that even if the enemy destroyed them, the Depravita inside would suffer no damage at all was fantastic. The only downside of those creatures' battle styles was the absolute lack of teamwork and how they would stop mid-fight if one of their own just got near them.
If the Depravita could let go of their hate and hunger toward their kind, the Corrupted would have already wiped out those three Divine Avatar. However, the Neo-Demon knew that those creatures would never change their nature.
Only one question remained in Zatiel's mind as he saw the battle in the sky, and it was not related to the Corrupted. The Divine Avatars must know there is no way for them to come out victorious, and the more the battle carried on, the less power their self-destruction would unleash.
Suddenly, the Neo-Demon's eyes narrowed, and he glanced into the distance.
'I see, they were buying time. Well, it is not like it matters. Actually, that is better for me.' Zatiel smiled as he ignored the Divine Avatars in the distance and focused again in the sky.
The Neo-Demon thought about how to improve the Corrupted battle style, and an idea came to his mind.
'A.I. Chip. Use the information collected on the Depravitas and Corrupted to generate a battle formation for them. Deploy it to the Depravitas in the most straightforward way, and be sure to adjust it whenever we add a new Corrupted.'
Zatiel sought that the Depravita would help him during a battle, and he could not divide in his mind when he faced truly powerful enemies, so he left the task for the always trustworthy A.I. CHip.
"Bip... Task assigned.
Generating Depravita Battle Formation.
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Depravita Battle Formation Completed."
The next second, they Corrupted froze for a moment as a stream of messages reached the Depravitas. Although they loathed following orders, these came from Zatiel, and they did not have a choice.
The A.I. Chip followed Zatiel's instruction to the letter, so the guides did not affect the Corrupted's individual battle power.
Confusion appeared in the Divine Avatars when they saw the Corrupted froze, but they were all assaulted by a sense of imminent danger the next second.
Each of the Corrupted sent their enemy flying away with their most potent blast, and immediately after that, the three converged on a single target.
The unlucky Divine Avatar saw with horror how a rocky Corrupted embraced him with so much strength that almost shattered his arms, so the other two would send punches charged with a whirlwind and magma blowing up his head.
That superb teamwork shocked the surviving Divine Avatars, and before they could even get hold of themselves, the three Corrupted flashed toward one of them and killed him.
The last Divine Avatar saw how the Corrupted now focused on him, and since there was no way out, he chose to self-destruct.
Sadly, a blue lightsaber pierced his head before he could carry on.
Zatiel severed the karmic bond between the golden giant and the God before looking toward the north of Gods' Tomb and seeing how the more than one hundred and fifty Divine Avatars gathered there.
