"Clovis…" Christina gasped, noticing the change in Clovis' expression.
His eyes were filled with bloodlust and killing intent. In fact, a part of that killing intent was coming toward her as if he couldn't recognize his friends anymore.
However, Clovis had truly beco a monster.
The beasts kept coming toward him, but Clovis actually leaped toward them. He swung his blade, sending forth a ranged attack much stronger than anything he had released before. It reached almost 30 ters and cut more than 20 beasts at once.
He had a big smile on his face, as though the killing was exciting.
"This is…" lody gasped. The mont Clovis lost control of his body, the cara had beco frantic. Clovis moved like a madman but at the sa ti, the movent wasn't as polished as what he was supposed to have.
It was true that his physical abilities had gotten stronger, but his previous skills felt like they were erased.
Even the ranged attack was sothing that the current Clovis replicated by swinging his sword as strong as possible.
If the real Clovis was the one handling that strength, he would be able to unleash an even stronger ranged attack.
The problem ca from Luci.
When looking at Clovis' current condition from afar, Luci furrowed her eyebrows. "This doesn't look good."
"Yeah. We have to stop him later. For the ti being, we'll let Clovis kill as many beasts as possible while tiring himself out. Once we reach a certain threshold, Christina will stop him." lody nodded. She was able to grasp Clovis' plan in an instant even though she wasn't aware that Clovis wanted to overuse the Perfect State.
Christina couldn't help but agree. If Clovis was exhausted, he shouldn't be a threat anymore. They just had to make sure Clovis wasn't that far from them so that they could rescue him before stopping him.
That was when Luci dropped a bomb.
"No. I'm not talking about Clovis' current state or our current situation. I'm talking about Clovis' condition, specifically his body condition."
"!!!" lody raised her eyebrows. "What do you an?"
"That's the level of strength he is not supposed to have. I know that unique ability is supposed to be beyond one's limit, but this is not it.
"I can't be sure because I'm seeing it from this far away and it's dark, but from the looks of it, he is exerting much stronger strength than what he's supposed to have.
"You can say that he's overworking his muscle to the point where it might start getting torn up at any mont.
"Once that happens, Clovis' condition might not be good… Even the recovery pod won't be enough. He will need to rest for at least a few weeks.
"Right now, it should still be fine, but we can't let him exhaust himself. At a certain point, we have to stop him so that he doesn't destroy his own body."
The mont lody and Christina heard Clovis' condition, they couldn't help but gasp. They had never thought about this. That was right.
Even though the unique ability was like a superpower. Clovis' unique ability was to draw out his potential in five affinities. It didn't draw that potential out of nothing. It was basically sothing he unleashed from within his body.
In other words, Clovis' body should be the main concern.
"We have to stop him!" Christina bit his lips.
"Wait. It's fine for now. If we stop him now, he might not be able to kill more beasts. At this rate, we won't be able to rescue him. We should let him kill a bit more beasts before stopping him. It will be better if we can stop him before he breaks his body, but even beyond that limit for a couple of minutes should be fine. Clovis would have no qualms if he was hurt for one or two days.
"And with him losing his mind like that, his skill is not used completely, so stopping him should be easy." Luci stopped them.
Although she wanted to argue with her, Christina had to continue dealing with other beasts that ca in their way. She simply didn't have ti. They should conserve their strength until that ti.
And that was 12 minutes after Clovis went berserk.
"Now!" Luci shouted. "We only have 3-4 minutes to save him!"
In those 12 minutes, Clovis had gone around the nest, killing more than 500 beasts with his ranged attack. In fact, he had been using the ranged attacks in most of his attacks, which should exhaust him quite a bit.
Now that there weren't many beasts that stood in their way anymore, Christina and Luci hurriedly chased after Nathan while lody remained at the entrance.
Luci cut down the beasts standing in their path until they could see the path to Clovis.
"There he is. I will kill the beasts around him. You handle him, Christina."
Christina nodded. To lure Clovis out of the beasts' encirclent, Christina used her unique ability on Clovis.
"!!!" Clovis abruptly turned around and charged ahead, cutting the beasts standing in his path. "Hihi…"
Clovis had a big, creepy smile on his face as he excitedly rushed to Christina. Once she was within his range, Clovis released his ranged attack.
Christina finally understood why Luci said he was breaking his own body. The mont she received that attack, she was being pushed back for seven ters.
'This strength is not possible. He was supposed to have only Tier 5 human's strength even with his normal Perfect State and those artifacts. But this is… already near Tier 6…' Christina was stunned, but this wasn't the only reason. "But…"
Seeing Clovis charging straight at her, Christina raised her shield.
Clovis looked like he wanted to cut her through that shield, but Christina used the unique ability and directed his swing toward her shield. It was strong enough to almost knock down her shield, but Christina noticed the side effect of this Perfect State. "As Luci said, you don't have any of your skills!"
Clovis spun his body to launch another attack, planning to beat her with his speed.
However, the sword felt like they were getting sucked by her shield, missing her once more. Christina then tilted her body forward and clenched her fist before punching him in the cheek. "You are nothing but a child with a bit more strength. Just get back already!"
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