Journey Of A Legend

Chapter 38: Seperated

"We have company then."

Hearing what Greg just said, the three looked toward where he was looking and saw six figures slowly walking in their direction.

As they came closer and closer, Greg saw that out of the six figures, one had body deformities.

Its eyes were fully white, while huge bone pieces were coming out from its shoulder, knee, and elbow, making anyone seeing this feel disgusted and terrified a bit.

Feeling the danger, all the four began to back away slowly.

"We shouldn't fight them. Especially with that one. It gives out a terribly strong aura. If it would be alone, I would say we stand a chance, but now that there are five more, no.", said Joe, while looking at the one with the bones.

Greg nodded and said as he was turning around, "Yeah, I agree. We should escape from here as soon as possible."

Emma and Mila looked at each other and started to run away, while Joe and Greg followed them closely from behind.

However just as they ran a few hundred meters, Greg and the others heard that behind their back the six creatures started to run too.

"They are coming!", shouted Greg toward the others, while shooting backward a black smoke.

Unfortunately, his attack wasn't a threat at all because of the distance and was easily dodged by the creatures.

Mila, Emma, and Joe seeing as the six creatures were insanely fast and it was a matter of time they caught up with them, their faces changed.

Feeling that their situation wasn't looking good, Greg turned toward the three and said, "Joe, you protect them and run to the city. I will try to distract them until then."

"Are you sure? They are Soul Collecter ranked creatures. You don't really stand a chance against all the six.", asked Joe with a serious expression.

"I will be alright. Like you said, I can run the fastest here.", answered Greg with a smile and in an instant, he turned around, while his body started to shine and accelerated toward the six ghosts.

Joe couldn't do anything, because Emma was a non-combatant healer, while Mila was only a Manifester ranked fire user, which is useless against ghosts. So if he stayed back and fought alongside with Greg, if somehow other creatures appeared, the two girls would be hopeless without him.

So seeing as Greg has already left, Joe sighed and said, "Let's get out of here. He will be fine."

Emma and Mila nodded and with Joe, the three started to escape toward the city at a faster speed.

As for Greg, he was running toward the creatures with his accelerated speed.

When the distance between him and the six were less than a hundred meters, he stopped and summoned his fairy above him, while black gloves appeared on his hands.

However just as he was waiting for the six creatures to attack him at once, something unexpected happened.

Out of the six, five ignored him and ran past him with insane speed, while the creature with bones stopped and looked at him with an expressionless face.

"Don't think I will let it!", said Greg as his fairy pet slashed toward the creatures with tremendous power, cutting trees in half in its way.

*SWISH!*

*CLANG!*

However, just as the wind blade was about to hit the five creatures, the bony creature appeared out of nowhere and deflected the attack with its body.

Greg wanted to slash a few more wind blades, but before he could, the creature before him jumped toward him, ready to cut him into pieces.

Dodging to the side, Greg made sure to shoot a black larva toward one of the creatures in the hope to take control of its body.

Seeing as his small larva was luckily attached itself to the creature in the distance and started to crawl slowly up, he was satisfied and turned his gaze toward the monster before him.

"Now it's just a matter of time until I can take control. As for you...", said Greg and dodged another slash from the creature, while looking at it with an ice-cold expression.

Using Alice's speed boost ability, he appeared before the creature, and in an instant, he kicked toward its head.

*BANG!*

With a strong kick, he hit the creature's head, but nothing happened. The creature didn't even budge an inch, but just looked at Greg with its expressionless face.

Feeling something was wrong, suddenly his leg turned slightly numb.

Knowing that this was because of his sixth sense ability, he jumped backward without hesitation, and a second later the creature chopped where his leg was.

"This ability is really a lifesaver.", thought Greg, and using Alice's earth element, he clenched his hand into a fist and punched it into the ground.

After ranking up into Manifester rank, now he could not only make the ground tremble, but also use the earth itself.

For example, now he can easily cut out huge pieces of the earth just with his legs or hand and manipulate it to a limited extent.

As his hand was buried into the ground, Greg tore his hand out almost instantly and a huge crack with a width of one meter started to spread toward the creature with rapid speed.

Feeling the danger, the creature jumped to the side and a moment later, a huge earth pillar with terrifying sharpness broke out from the ground, in the hope to kill it in one hit.

"Tck... Too slow."

Greg seeing as he couldn't even injure the creature, clicked his tongue, and with Alice's wind element, he appeared next to the bony monster in less than a second.

Switching back to the earth element, he kicked toward the creature's waist, while his right feet left deep trails in the ground.

*BANG!*

With a powerful kick, he hit toward the creature, but just as his leg was about to touch its waist, the monster caught it with its hand, while raising the other one high into the air.

Seeing as the creature was about to cut his leg off, Greg wasn't scared at all, but instead, he just smiled.

"Got you."

In an instant, as he said that, a sharp earth pillar broke out from below the creature, piercing it from below to top.

Seeing as the monster couldn't run away this time, he raised his hand and shot black smoke at its body.

The eyes that had been as white as the naked body, turned to black and the mouth stretched wide in a deafening scream, because of the pain.

*SCRREEEEEECH!!!!*

The ghost's scream was like iron nails dragged over a rock. It clenched its head in pain as the black larvas were crawling into its skin and melting away the bones.

Greg grabbed his ear to soften the loud scream, however, a second later his eyes widened because of shock.

He watched the scene before him as the creature started to cut its own body up into pieces like a madman.

First, it's legs after that it's left arm, then lastly he pierced it's chest and tore out its own heart and with a sudden move, it smashed the still-beating heart without hesitation.

In an instant, as this happened, a strange scene occurred before him.

The body started to rot with the black larvas on it, while a half-transparent figure floated out from the dead body.

"So this is how a ghost looks like.", tought Greg as he was looking at the creature from head to toe.

Its appearance was the same as the body, except it had no face, and the bones not only came from its elbow, knees, and shoulder, but also from every part of its body.

The most disturbing sight was its chest. All the ribs were wide open, while a small beating heart could be seen on the inside, making anyone seeing this sight disgusted.

"Your present look is much more unappetizing than the one before, that's for sure."