When the gate went open, weird creatures appeared. They looked like large eyeballs around two meters in diameter, and they had a tail.
[Living Eyes Lv??]
"Living Eyes?" Aldred frowned. Such weird creatures, but they looked just like it because, unlike other monsters, these ones didn't have scales or tough skin.
Suddenly, one of the Living Eyes stared at a beautiful girl and fired a light-purple laser beam. To their astonishment, the skin on the face of the girl peeled, revealing the flesh and muscles inside.
The girl screamed in panic, but the skin all over her body began to peel. Her beauty was nowhere to be seen as blood gushed out.
An old man was struck by the purple light, and his wrinkled skin turned to prosper, and his face became young again. He could feel his muscles were stronger than before, and his back pain was no more.
Everyone thought that was a good thing, until the man became younger and younger, became a baby, and lastly back to a speck of sperm.
On the other side, a young man met the opposite fate. Instead of turning younger, he turned older. His fair skin turned wrinkled, and lush hair fell off as white hair replaced them. He screamed for help, but it was too late as his body became so dry and skinny, and then he died of old age.
Everyone screamed in panic, running away from the Living Eyes.
A petite lady got struck by the beam, and her whole body experienced a vicious mutation. Thick hair grew on her hands, and her mouth elongated, as she turned into a werewolf.
"NO! I don't want this. I don't want any of it! Return me my look!" Eventually, even her mind was turned into that of a wolf and she began to thirst for meat.
Aldred activated his godly eyes and saw that the people who got struck by the beam would get disintegrated, teleported to a random place, vicious mutation, organ failure, internal bleeding, peeling skin, and even zombification.
"NO! Somebody, help me!" Nali shouted at his friends for help as his young skin wrinkled.
His friends swam away from him, their faces showed a clear disgust.
"What are you doing? Quick! Do something!"
"Since you are going to die, we are not pretending to be your friends anymore, Nali."
"You arrogant fuck! We just follow you around because you are strong. At first, I was simply annoyed by your arrogance, but you throwing your own childhood friend was my limit."
"Now rot and die, you rat!"
Nali widened his eyes before his whole body became dried and he died.
A purple beam struck the man in power armor, but the man lifted his arms so an electronic field blasted out, and it deflected the beam in another direction.
"No wonder Duria cannot be underestimated," Aldred said.
A purple beam came at him at a high speed. Aldred opened a portal in front of him, and the beam entered it.
Another portal opened itself beside him, and the beam came out, lunging at one of the Living Eyes. Suddenly, the creature shook, and its body slowly turned into stone.
The stone then cracked as something came out of the weird creature. It was an orb. Aldred used his water manipulation to bring the orb to him.
[Living Eyes' Essence]
Consumable
– Collect the essence to obtain its power
1/100
"Ohh, I can turn people into sperms if I collect enough of these? Bartrem, kill them for me."
"Wait!" the Lizardfolk shouted. "These weird creatures are not as weak or stupid as you think!"
Bartrem and the soldiers did not listen to the Lizardfolk and charged forward.
The Living Eyes focused their attack on them, but Bartrem shouted: "Cutting Edge!"
It was a signal for the soldiers to send out a powerful arc toward the enemies, and they did it seamlessly.
Dozens of bloody red arcs shot toward the purple beam and devoured it before the arcs struck the Living Eyes. The struck creatures were minced to pieces.
The bloody red arc that was coming from the skill 'Execution Strike' had been further improved. Not only did it cut anything it passed through, but it could also now explode in powerful energy that dealt slashing damage around the area.
So when the arc cut a chunk of the creature's body, an explosion followed it up, and further cut the body into smaller pieces.
The soldiers kept on using 'Execution Strike', sending wave after wave of arcs.
All the creatures were killed, and Aldred took all of the orbs.
[Living Eyes' Essence]
Consumable
– Collect the essence to obtain its power
78/100
"Nice," Aldred said. "Let's find more of them. I cannot wait to have a skill that can turn someone into a sperm."
"Why would you want to do that?" Mary asked.
"Just because."
After Bartrem and his soldiers cleared all the monsters, the man in power armor, the Lizardman, and the silver-haired girl could not help but nod in amazement. To gather this many Elite Gold Rank, and make them obedient was a tough endeavor.
Elite Gold Ranks were arrogant because they knew they would become Diamond Rank in the future. This let them hard to put in a group, especially under the direct order of someone in the same rank.
The silver-haired girl looked at Aldred. Now that she took a proper look, she felt a mysterious yet powerful aura from the man, and not just that, the ladies behind him were also very powerful. Especially the tanned-skin girl with minimal clothing. She felt ancient power within that woman.
'Who is he? How could he gather a force this powerful?' she thought to herself.
When Bartrem and the soldiers helped pick up the orbs, they all felt something in the water.
Something heavy.
Something big.
The water felt denser, and their body felt heavier.
It was harder to breathe as well despite using a special spell or device.
"What is this feeling?" Aldred frowned.
[You have been inflicted with slowness x 1000. For the next three minutes, you cannot move.]
