"Show me what you got." the clone said to Roy, who was staring at it with bone-chilling indifference as if he was looking at a corpse.
"I don't have time to play with you," Roy said in a throaty voice stuffed with venom as his killing intent materialized, causing the temperature to decrease rapidly. It was hot in the cave, but all of a sudden, winter descended. "I will finish you in one move!" he added as he raised his sword and pointed it at the clone, who looked confused.
'Weird. Why and how did the temperature decrease? Is he the cause of this phenomenon?' the clone thought as the gap between them lessened.
Roy's killing intent took the form of countless threads unseeable by the naked eye. They appeared around him, following his will to coil around the sharp surface of the white sword in his grip, dressing it up in red. The sharpness of the moonlight sword increased uncountably as a result. It became sharper than any weapon he had known.
Previously, he was only able to scratch the surface of the now-red ape with the moonlight sword, but now with his killing intent in play, he was confident about chopping up its clone.
The clone pounced on Roy, not noticing anything weird. Even the clone of a 20-year-old aura monster had no way of seeing Roy's killing intent. It was truly an invincible trump card. It was not only invisible but also had the property of amplifying his attack by numerous times without letting his opponent notice it.
If only the clone knew what it was up against, it wouldn't have dared to confront him face-on.
Just as the shadow of the ape clone fell on him, Roy tightened his hold on the hilt of the sword as he raised it above his head. The very next moment, just as the clone's claw was about to pierce his throat, he swung it in a downward arc with wind-raising shockwave-producing might.
Boom!
As the sword moved downwards, bolts of black lightning surrounded by a red hue flashed out of its tip.
The first one exploded on its claw, tilting it away from Roy's vital point in a flash and sucking away all its vitality, eradicating the magic that made it possible. The claw failed to even scratch him before it crumbled to dust.
The second and third were seen exploding on the eyes of the clone, throughly blinding it.
The clone didn't feel pain as it couldn't register it, but it was not further from the truth that it had lost its vision. However, its attack continued relentlessly.
It didn't slow down and continued its descent on Roy, opening its bestial jaws to chomp his head off.
It met his sword as a result.
What happened next would have left the red ape gaping if it were here.
The moonlight sword sliced through the clone whose defense rivaled its creator as if it was a hot knife passing through butter!
The clone was chopped apart from the middle and cut into two equal halves. Due to inertia, the two halves of its body flew past Roy from each of his sides.
Thud! Thud!
The two halves landed heavily on the ground, producing dull thuds and raising dust.
『Ding!』
『You have slain the clone of the Sunfire Ape』
『Three soul essence and one drop of false Sunfire blood has been detected』
『Would you like to extract them?』
The system's notification rang in Roy's mind. He was putting away the sword when he stopped, and his eyebrows raised. The expression on his face said he wasn't expecting this.
"I didn't think I would get multiple items for killing a clone. Aura beasts older than ten surely are full of surprises," he said as he threw the sword into the subspace.
"Yes!" he said.
『Congratulations! You have obtained 3× soul essence and 1× drop of false Sunfire blood』
He didn't know what they did, but now was not the time to inspect them either.
"Now that I have slain the clone, it's time to attend to some serious business," Roy said before he smashed his foot on the ground.
The following moment he could be seen bolting out of the opening as the entire cavern collapsed.
Just like Shadowless, he noticed the footstep left behind by the furious ape after stepping out of the now-destroyed cave and followed them to catch up to the beast.
It hadn't been a minute since the ape left the cave, but considering its speed, it won't be long before it caught up to Delilah.
Her life was in danger!
"Hopefully, Shadowless will be able to buy some time," he said as he heard a howl coming from ahead.
The red ape felt excited when it saw a curvaceous and feminine figure appearing at the edge of its vision. This figure was holding a tree while running at maximum speed. It was none other than the woman who had stolen the dusk tree.
"How dare you steal what's mine?!"
The red ape's bestial roar pierced the air like a javelin thrown by a war god and slapped her ears again, echoing in her mind so many times that she felt her brain numbing.
"Damn, it's here!" she cursed under her breath as she mustered up all the courage she could to keep her legs from falling asleep.
Bathump! Bathump!
She was running so far that her heart began beating so rapidly that her heartbeat became audible, and she didn't have time to register her fears.
"Little runt, you must be dreaming if you think you can run away from me!" The red ape let out a deafening roar, its eyes blazing with fury. It had never been treated with such disdain before.
First, an anomaly appeared out of nowhere, giving him endless headaches and spoiling his plans, and then, a mere weakling stole its years of hard work and was now thinking it could get away from it. How utterly detestable!
