Chapter 55 Killing machine
With his terrifyingly high speed that was even higher than the average human before the Primordial Ascension by several times, Dilan emerged in front of the closest Kobold.
Its scales were reddish-brown and were gleaming in the afternoon sunlight.
However, those proved to be futile against Dilan. With shocking speed, he lunged out at the Kobold.
But instead of trying to pierce through its head using the razor-sharp Clawed Gloves, Dilan’s hand reached out for the Kobold’s neck.
Holding it with an iron grip, each claw on the glove pierced into the Kobold’s neck, causing a severe amount of bleeding.
Just a moment later, Dilan inserted a trace of mana into the right glove, increasing its endurance and sharpness.
Through this, and Strength that was five times higher than the average human, Dilan killed his opponent.
The sound of bones breaking reached his ears as he snapped the Kobold’s neck.
The Kobold had not even been able to pierce out with the tightly clutched spear before its life was taken away and its grip on the spear loosened.
Dilan just smiled at this, before he hurled the dead body into the most crowded area of charging Kobolds.
None of the Kobolds had expected Dilan to be able to kill one of them so easily.
But this was not enough to be vigilant against him as the Kobolds’ wild instincts showed the deepest hatred towards him.-.
They were not able to hold back in at all and charged toward him with their highest speed.
Because of that, the Kobold leader reached Dilan first, showing him an ugly grimace as it attacked with the longsword it wielded.
Its speed was, at least, on par with Dilan’s when the [Thunder Step] ability was not activated.
Unfortunately, there were still two seconds left before he would have to supply one more unit of mana to the ability to keep it sustained.
His higher Agility and speed made it possible for him to twist his body and evade the longsword.
Turning around to face the Kobold yet again, he lifted his hands holding the Kobold’s spear in order to block the sword slash, but Dilan changed his move in a fraction of a second.
He couldn’t risk losing the weapon, or his hands, and he didn’t know the extent to which the Clawed Gloves would protect his hands, after all.
Cutting through the air, the Kobold’s sword whooshed past him as a small breeze brushed into his brown hair, while Dilan kicked hard at the sword arm.
This was everything his higher speed was able to accomplish.
However, it was more than enough as a bolt of lightning lightly grazed his face.
Little currents of electricity burned his cheek, before hitting the Kobold leader’s lower body.
The Lightning strike Kathrine had fired pierced through the Kobold’s abdomen and tore out of its body at a terrific speed before hitting one of the Kobolds that were extremely close to the Kobold leader.
‘Good job, girl!’ Dilan appraised her attack in his head before he regained his composure.
Yet, instead of continuing to deal with the Kobold leader, or to use the Trash+ graded spear, Dilan threw it toward the Kobold leader with all his might.
The Bronze monster was currently facing other problems than Dilan, which distracted it for a moment.
Its stance had been inconvenient while the gaping hole in its abdomen worsened the entire situation.
Staggering back due to the pain that shot up from its abdomen, the Kobold leader clutched its stomach. Dilan saw his opportunity and threw his spear towards it, the Kobold leader was too late to react.
Piercing straight through the left side of its chest, the spear halted only after the entire tip disappeared within the monster’s body.
Knowing that the monster was done for, there was no need for Dilan to focus on the Kobold leader anymore.
Dilan’s attention switched to the other Kobolds that were ready to attack him using various melee weapons.
However, Dilan was not afraid of them because he had already finished his analysis of their Agility and Strength.
With that in mind, he used up one more unit of mana to prolong the effect of the [Thunder Step] ability, and simultaneously inserted some mana in both of his Clawed Gloves.
There were still more than two dozen Kobolds left, and Dilan was the last one to rely on someone else to kill all of them.
He was hellbent on killing every single Kobold with his own hands.
Thus, he catapulted himself ahead while leaning forward.
Dilan’s head nearly touched the ground for a moment, just for a cold and wild glint to manifest in his eyes as he tore open the throat of the Kobold he emerged in front of.
His high Agility and Strength made things much easier, even more so with the use of a powerful ability and useful equipment.
The Clawed Gloves made things so much easier.
Though he was enjoying the killing, some part of him was beginning to nag him, telling him that he was slowly transforming into a bloodthirsty monster; a beast that knew nothing but how to use its body to kill.
It was a creepy feeling.
Unfortunately, this was not the worst because Dilan didn’t dislike the feeling when his hands sensed how each of his attacks deprived his opponent of their lives.
Shivers ran down his spine, while a maniacal excitement gleamed in his eyes.
Just a moment later two bolts of lightning shot through the most crowded area of the Kobolds, killing a total of five at once.
Two more were severely injured, but Dilan simply ignored them as he ended the lives of the other Kobolds first.
He didn’t even bat his eyelid when blood splattered on his face, which made it seem as if he was a machine with the sole aim to kill.
Was this really the case? Was Dilan slowly turning into a killing machine that was devoid of any emotions?
For a few seconds, he felt as if he didn’t know this Dilan, and stood frozen on the spot while the battle came to an end.
It was as if somebody reached into his mind and switched off a button.
His entire demeanor returned to normal in an instant. Dilan looked around to see if the Bronze Kobold leader was truly dead.
A mere glance was enough to tell him that. Afterward, he turned in all directions to see if monsters were attacking them.
But there were none from the looks of it.
Calmly bending down after he ensured that there were no monsters, Dilan pulled the Essence crystals out of the monsters he killed.
Meanwhile, he ignored the Bronze monster for the time being as he was not sure what Kathrine had planned.
But she didn’t even take a glance at the Kobold leader and instead made her way towards the Kobolds her bolts of lightning had killed.
She ambled towards her target and absorbed every Essence crystal the moment she came in touch with it.
Kathrine moved with a hunter-like grace; relaxed but watchful and alert.
Thus, she was done even before Dilan had pulled out all the Essence crystals. He didn’t absorb them yet, but that was mostly because he would level up.
And leveling up felt a little bit weird while moving around.
It was nothing serious, just a weird, itching sensation in his mind.
Thus, he didn’t expect to see a Bronze Essence crystal flying toward him the moment he turned to Kathrine.
As he was holding more than a dozen Essence crystals in his arms, he was unable to catch it.
It hit him straight on his face, just to fall in the small batch of other Essence crystals.
Seeing the way he scrunched his nose, Kathrine tried her best not to laugh out.
‘So that’s funny?…’