Versatile: Alternate World

The first village that I have spotted is still functioning just fine. I also don't feel the negative energy the Scourge is giving and even if they are part of the cult, the scourge should have already corrupted them and turned them into monsters. That is the effect of the dark light that escaped from the body of the necromancer priest. This is why I skipped the first village and went to the second village which is just a few distances away from the first village.

And as I expected, the village is already covered by the scourge that is seen in the previous village. If only Leona had the ability to breathe fire, I would have already ordered her to scorch down the whole village to burn. If I didn't destroy this village as soon as possible, it is clear that it will be creeping straight to the first village I saw, killing the villagers, or perhaps corrupt and turning them into the same creatures as those guys and I don't want that to ever happen. If ever, I want to avoid killing actual angels.

Compared to angels who are "blessed" by the Dark Light, the angels who got corrupted by the monsters would either die and become their food, or get corrupted, turning them into literal zombies that are not dead but also not living at the same time. Pretty disturbing most of the time and you would rather have to mercy kill them before they fully turned into monsters that no longer recognize themselves. It was so bad that if not for them acting inhumanely, you would think you are killing actual NPCs who did nothing wrong. Depending on how you view the NPCs, you would either get really guilty doing so or just not feel anything at all.

Either way, this village must be destroyed before they even progress to spread the scourge.

"Leona, land nearby and be on the lookout for enemies. If you spot any hostile enemies, kill them on sight."

Leona quietly landed in the nearby area of the village where the monsters in the village won't detect Leona's landing but not far enough for us to easily reach the village. As soon as we landed, I resummoned Lucia and the Desert Wolves. With the wolves having marvelous teamwork and lethality in their kills, they are easily capable of bringing down multiple monsters without Lucia or my help.

"Master, it seems this village is much bigger and the residents are much more numerous than the previous one."

"You wanna back out, Lucia? I can allow you to skip this one as I have no problem killing the monsters with me and the Desert Wolves just fine."

"No way, Master. I rarely have the chance to fight since you are already getting stronger so having a chance to fight back against enemies like this prevents me from being rusty."

"Then, let's do our job and get some killing. These guys won't just die by themselves. Monsters die if they are killed after all."

"Isn't that pretty obvious?" Lucia smirked hearing my remark.

I controlled the shikigami that I last summoned before. Since we are here to help, it didn't need to self-destruct to save itself from being damaged further. Using it as the first to step into the village, the monsters immediately noticed our approach and angrily jumped toward us to fight.

Just like the first tactic that Lucia did before, she raised a wall made of flames but this time, she made sure to make it while the monsters were about to pass through. Because of that, the first greedy monsters that wanted to attack us first were immediately caught in a fire and immediately got engulfed in flames completely, killing them after a few seconds.

SQUEEEEE! SQUEEEEE!

The noises of the monsters being fried to death are something I would never like to hear ever as they are just capable of being capable of making me feel goosebumps. To think that these guys were previously angels, they have really fallen off too hard that I don't think I can see them in the same way as before.

I used the [Kekkai] to take out most of the monsters and then drop them into the flame wall, to burn them faster, It was much easier to master it as the [Kekkai] can be used to move around objects by containing them inside and move it. This made the progress to the battle faster for me rather than waiting for the flame wall of Lucia to die down. With this method, I reduced the potentially multiple monsters still skittering over there.

​ After a few seconds, the flames finally died down and the moment they did, the Desert Wolves pounced and started tearing them apart. For me, I changed into the two pistols on both hands and started blasting. Lucia hurled flames after flames and just like before, she added her punches to her attacks, blasting them to pieces like nothing.

Then, while we are dealing with the smaller and lesser monsters, a monster that looks similar to the Necromancer Priest from before appeared. The only difference is that the monster looks feminine and it is much bigger compared to the one I fought before. And not only one, but there are two. In fact, they look identical and the clothes that their previous selves still remained on their body looking at them, it seems these two seem to be twins as they have the same face structure and they both wear the same shirt with only different coloring in them.

"Be careful. These guys are tougher than they look. Let me take care of them. Back me up, Lucia. You guys, continue to shred those little critters before they can do something else."

"You got it, Master."

Kurogane, one of the wolves barked as a sign of affirmation before they continue to brawl with the monsters.

I changed my weapon's form into a katana following the same blade that my Shikigami used before to kill the previous necromancer that turned itself into this kind of monstrosity. As those guys appeared, my Shikigami entered to battle stance and changed their arms like a katana, just like the previous Shikigami did.

The two ant-like twins didn't like that we are there, ready to fight. It screeches and gives out annoying sounds before using its bladed feet to stomp down on us as they are bigger than us. One slice and those blades can fatally hit me and I would bleed a lot.

After easily dodging them, I slide to the other side and went for a slice on the softer parts of the legs of the first twin and effectively cutting it off. But one leg is not enough. I did another after the monster started screaming in pain. The monster just wails there, allowing me to go and cut off these f*ckers' feet without much problem.

Despite losing a leg, this monster moves around like they still have the leg they have. Seeing that it has yet to do anything that would make them become more pathetic than they should be, I went to its blindside. It tried to use its gas attack that can melt metal but I easily evaded it and went straight to the rear end leg. Without a sense of hesitation, I sliced off the second leg and the ant-like monster screamed in pain.

It still didn't fall down so I decided to go and pump up the number of my attacks. Another slam attack is about to occur so I immediately stabbed its little thorax and make a big opening on its thorax by cutting it open. It screamed so bad that my ears felt like it was about to fall off, but I made sure that they will fall down after tearing apart their thorax. Although the thorax is the middle part of this monster separating its humanoid form and its insect form, that doesn't mean that it wasn't necessary for me to tear apart its thorax.

After cutting another leg, I pulled out a scroll that contains the [Hellfire] skill. Tearing it apart and aiming it at the broken thorax, it is now much easier to know why I did that thing. The open thorax made all of its juices that are normally available on its body drop out of its system and slowly lose its health. With [Hellfire] popping off, the thorax will not just remain the same.

SQUEEEEEEEE!

The thorax got burned to the point where the [Hellfire] didn't leave single ash behind after burning it immediately. The upper half of its body fell to the ground while the  abdomen of the monster limped and fell the ground,

The humanoid form of the monster tried to recover its abdomen but Lucia easily burned it in flames. I didn't want it to fully recover so before the little f*cker can regenerate its body, I kicked the humanoid form of the monster. She might look like a looker back when she was alive, it was a shame that she decided to use and offer her beautiful body into the darkness.

"Goodbye."

SLASH!

A single slash using my Katana slices off the head of the monster, immediately killing it in the process. Now, time for the second twin.