Reincarnated Hero System

Evan landed on the floor not too far from them, his eyes narrowing as he looked at the monster. Artemisia glanced in his direction as she noticed that he seemed to be restraining himself and she immediately figured out why.

The boy had powerful area-of-effect attacks that could completely engulf this creature.

However, such attacks would DEFINITELY create a scene, and it was only just yesterday that they’d created a scene and attracted more monsters.

What if they created a scene that invited more of this type of abomination, of this type of Forsaken Divine?

It was for this reason Evan hadn’t used Mesarthim to nuke this thing already.

“Guys, we need space. There’s a clearing up ahead. Let’s go.”

The trees around them were limiting their movement ranges and also served as throwing weapons for the monster which had picked up two and flung in their direction.

Beatrix stopped the flying trees in time and then turned on her heel to sprint out of the labyrinth of trees along with Evan and Artemisia.

Behind them, the monster roared in fury, hurling wind vortexes that tore through the air like invisible blades.

Artemisia coated her legs in lightning and her body flickered as she dodged the vortexes, while Beatrix’s body phased out of the physical third dimension, with the vortexes passing harmlessly through her as she teleported across the forest floor.

One moment she was solid, the next a ghost, untouchable.

Evan teleported repeatedly, avoiding the trees flying towards him. When he couldn’t dodge or his line of sight was obstructed, he used elemental shields to deflect the brunt of the vortexes.

They weaved through the forest, dodging the monster’s attacks as it smashed through trees like they were nothing. The sound of cracking wood and the roar of wind filled the air, and the ground beneath their feet trembled with each of the monster’s steps.

Just as the clearing Beatrix had spoken of came into view, Evan chanced a glance over his shoulder and his heart almost leapt into his throat.

The monster he had concluded was far slower than them had caught up and was hot on their tail!

Evan’s eyes widened as he realized what had happened—The creature was now using its own wind vortexes to propel itself forward, firing them behind its large body to blast through the air like a bullet.

This wasn’t the kind of action expected of a creature with an Intelligence Stat that said “unavailable”. This was the kind of tactical move expected from a smart creature that knew how to adapt mid-fight.

The grotesque sound of muscles tearing and bones popping accompanied the monster’s unnatural movements as it charged forward.

Golden blood oozed from its face, but it didn’t slow down. If anything, the creature seemed immune to pain, driven by nothing more than pure instinct.

The three teenagers burst from the thick woods into the open clearing, fanning out and immediately taking their positions.

The monster leapt into the middle, landing with a sickening crunch as its fists slammed into the earth, sending cracks spiderwebbing out from the impact.

Each one of them roused their magic powers, ready to end the creature in a single combined strike.

Evan pulled back his sword and began swirling his aura around his blade, the air warping as a vortex began to form. Beatrix raised her hand, light condensing around her like a miniature sun and Artemisia cupped her palms together, where flames, earth, water, and wind began to coalesce, ready to unleash a powerful elemental strike.

Sensing the imminent danger, the monster let out a bone-chilling roar, and with a sudden movement, it slammed its fists into the ground.

The cracks beneath it widened, and enormous chunks of earth were ripped from the ground, propelled toward the teenagers at sonic speed.

But Beatrix was faster.

She snapped her fingers, and space itself bent to her will, distorting into wormholes in front of each of them, and then warping the incoming boulders away.

In the next instant, the wormholes opened behind the monster, launching the rocks back at their sender. They slammed into the creature, knocking it off balance.

“Now!”

At Evan’s command, they all unleashed their attacks in perfect unison, but the monster wasn’t done yet. It threw both hands forward in a desperate counterattack.

Two massive wind vortexes burst from its palms, swirling with divine energy, hurtling toward Evan and Artemisia’s oncoming strikes.

**BOOMMM!!!

The clash was explosive.

Evan’s vortex met the monster’s, and for a moment, the space around them seemed to twist and bend. The wind roared, spiralling out of control as the air between them distorted.

Flames flickered within the storm, and the ground beneath them quaked violently, cracks forming as their attacks collided with such ferocity that it felt like the earth itself was going to split apart.

Artemisia’s elemental combo collided with the second vortex, sending ripples of divinity through the air. The elements raged, fire and water clashing with the divine wind, releasing waves of divinity as both sides struggled for dominance.

But Beatrix’s attack found its mark.

While the vortexes clashed with Evan and Artemisia, her concentrated beam of light came in from the front, striking the monster square in the chest.

The sheer power of her strike ripped its skin apart, exposing the golden blood beneath. The force of the impact sent the monster flying backwards, hurtling through the clearing and crashing back into the sea of trees from which it had emerged.

For a brief moment, it seemed like victory was in sight, but Evan and Artemisia pressed on, not willing to take any chances.

They poured more power into their attacks, their energies slamming into the monster’s body relentlessly.

Suddenly, the earth beneath the monster cracked open, and with a violent rumble, it surged upward, forming a massive wall of rock and dirt in front of the beast, blocking the attacks from Evan and Artemisia.

Their combined power smashed into the wall, splintering it, but by the time they broke through, the monster had already regained its footing.

It roared once more, raising its fists high before slamming them into the ground with enough force to send shockwaves through the clearing.

Immediately, Evan cancelled his vortex and turned around. Artemisia and Beatrix almost instinctively turned back, but they forced themselves to focus on the one in front of them.

They, just like Evan had sensed it.

The earth wall that had shielded the monster in front of them hadn’t been conjured by the creature at all—something else had created it.

The energy had moved through the ground, and the source of the divinity that created that wall was behind them!

Turning sharply, Evan’s eyes landed on another abomination, smaller than the two-meter-tall monster they’d been fighting, but its presence was far more suffocating.

It stood at eye level with Evan, a disgusting mass of twisted flesh and grotesque organs. Its chest was an open wound, with a nightmarish array of mangled, rotating entrails, their slimy surfaces slick with a mix of golden and red blood that dripped incessantly.

The flesh seemed to churn in an anti-clockwise motion as though it were alive, constantly writhing and squirming.

The monster’s face was a horror unto itself. Skin peeled away, revealing exposed sinew, and just as Evan’s gaze fell on it, the creature’s head split open, forming a grotesque, gaping hole.

Without warning, it unleashed a deafening roar that sent a beam of crackling divinity and sonic energy barrelling toward Evan. The sound ripped through the air, making his ears ring with a piercing pain.

Evan instantly broke out his draconic form, his horns releasing white-gold arcs of energy that crackled, amplifying his energy as he opened his mouth wide and unleashed a powerful breath of prismatic flames.

The inferno surged forward and collided with the monster’s beam of energy, instantly overpowering it and swallowing the beam in a torrent of fire.

With a bone-rattling roar, the flames engulfed the monster’s head, searing its skin and flesh. The creature’s twisted body writhed as its hide bubbled and blackened under the intense heat.

Its head snapped back from the sheer force of the blast, and for a moment, the air filled with the crackling sound of burning flesh.

Yet, despite the powerful blaze that Evan’s flames wrought, the creature refused to fall.

It rose from the inferno, its burnt flesh bubbling grotesquely, struggling to heal itself but failing against the overpowering prismatic flames that clung to it.

The monster moved as though it felt no pain, its body still dripping golden blood as it readied to strike again.

Meanwhile, the first monster, which had already risen to its feet, slammed its fists into the ground and warped the terrain under his feet.

Evan teleported out of harm’s way, appearing a few meters away with a glare locked on the second creature. His hand shot out, and glowing chains materialized in the air, snaking toward the second monster’s neck.

The Everlasting Chains wrapped around the abomination’s throat, glowing with an icy blue light as frost crept along their length and turned the monster into an ice sculpture.

The chains tightened, and with a fierce pull, Evan yanked the monster off its feet, dragging it through the air.

With a powerful swing, Evan slammed the second monster into the first, the collision echoing through the clearing with a thunderous crash as the two creatures tumbled into each other.

In that moment of collision, Beatrix used her Time Bomb skill and hurled the orb of temporal energy at the monsters.

Simultaneously, Artemisia unleashed her combined magic, a swirling beam of flames, water, earth, and wind that shot forward at sonic speed.

Just as their attacks were about to land, a dome of earth erupted from the ground, surrounding the two monsters in a protective barrier. The combined magic clashed against the dome, sending tremors through the ground but failing to break through.

Evan immediately swung his blade and used World Sunder, cleaving through the dome like it wasn’t even there and crumbling it into dust.

But as the barrier crumbled, the two monsters leapt in opposite directions, moving with a speed and agility they hadn’t shown before.

Evan’s slash cleaved through where they had been, missing them entirely.

‘They didn’t try to block!’

The monsters—these two Forsaken Divines, were wary of him.

The thought crossed his mind and then in the next second, he confirmed it.