The Annihilator: Killer Of Gods

Karsha walked out of the destroyed cave, now wearing his black leather armor. At this point, calling it armor was an overstatement—it looked more like a cloth. Karsha's appearance was modern, with his armor resembling a superhero costume, minus the cape. He looked incredibly handsome, and with the sunlight brightening his face, Ayarr couldn't help but gulp.

Karsha slowly walked closer to her. "You stayed behind, huh?" he asked. Ayarr nodded, unable to find the words. The current Karsha was an eye-catcher, his charm overwhelming. Seeing how dazed Ayarr was while looking at him, Karsha wondered what the problem might be. He looked at himself but couldn't identify anything that would cause such a reaction.

"Ayarr, are you alright?" he asked. Her silence puzzled him, so he turned to the one person who could help. Ayarr snapped out of her reverie when Karsha spoke. Shyness quickly took over, and she hid her face by turning her back to him.

Karsha was flabbergasted. He knew Ayarr was shy, but this was beyond mere shyness. Gently, he touched her shoulder to turn her around. However, when his hand touched her, he felt a shiver run down her body, instantly making her stiff.

Karsha quickly let go and smiled, immediately understanding what was happening. For a moment, he cursed his good looks. Beasts are sensitive to everything; their senses are sharper than humans, and so are their feelings. What humans may feel at 1% intensity, beasts feel at 10%.

This meant that while Karsha's charm wasn't strong enough to make married women run from their husbands to chase after him, it had a profound effect on beasts.

'System, do something about my charm,' Karsha quickly commanded the system. Shortly after, he approached Ayarr. "You can open your eyes now," he said. Although the system had masked his overwhelming charm, his good looks remained unaffected. He could, of course, take the Appearance Transformation pill, but that was something Karsha would never do.

Ayarr opened her eyes and met Karsha's gaze, quickly hiding her face again, but not before he caught a glimpse of her red cheeks. 'Her shyness is definitely not normal,' Karsha thought to himself before focusing on his next objective.

When his affinity for the fire element reached the High Level, a fire skill appeared in his mind. It was a simple skill but one that could further enhance his already robust physical defense. The skill required him to cover his body with his flame, creating an armored look.

To most people, it was a difficult thing to do, but Karsha was an alchemist. He had already mastered the art of flame control, where he enveloped the cauldron with his flame to maintain uniform heat control throughout the crafting process.

In fact, Karsha had over a hundred different techniques for this type of fire control in his mind. He had only mastered a mediocre one for his alchemy, but now that he needed this new skill to become more powerful, he reached into those hundreds of techniques and selected one called [Serpent Swim].

This pill fire control technique allowed the alchemist to create strands of flames and wrap them around the pill immediately after they formed, protecting the pill from excess heat. Many alchemists failed to attain higher ranks for their pills mainly due to their recklessness with flame control.

The purity of a pill is determined when extracting the essence from the herbs. However, the quality, which determines the rank of the pill, depends on how well you control your fire and how powerful your flame is. With poor fire control, the pill will burn, reducing its quality. In this context, burning doesn't turn the pill black; it essentially burns away the vital nutrients of the pill.

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But with the Serpent Dance technique, the pill formed would be protected to a certain degree. Karsha didn't want to create just armor; he wanted a form of fire protection that would safeguard his vital organs instead of his whole body.

Yes, Karsha planned to coat his internal organs with fire, making them even more protected, thanks to his Iron Body and Symbiotic Armor. It was a tedious process, but Karsha mastered it in just three hours. He even went ahead and created two diagonal rings that wrapped around his body from the shoulder to the waist and another layer that protected his legs from the toe to the knee.

Ayarr watched all this with admiration. Karsha was different in her eyes. They called her a genius in their race, but seeing Karsha, she felt inferior. She finally saw what a real genius looked like and paled in comparison.

After accomplishing his goal, Karsha turned to the Fire Beam skill and decided to test how powerful it had become now that it had received yet another tier upgrade. After testing the skill for a while, he concluded that unless his life was in danger, he would never use the [Agni Sword] ability of the Fire Beam skill.

The Dark Prince Hell Art was another option at his disposal, and since he knew the upcoming battles would be tough, he planned to use it. But first, he wanted to use this time to assimilate his strength and try to break through to Level 6 before taking on the next task. If he started raining down swords right away, he'd miss the chance to fully integrate his power.

The Mask of Malevolence was also in his arsenal, along with his [Eternal Demon Gaze], which had grown stronger thanks to the ghostly beings absorbed in Shadowcoil's soul. Although it was still too weak to be of much use in the upcoming battles, if he could weaken the Overlord first and then activate the domain, he might be able to intimidate it or even render it catatonic for a few seconds.

The remaining Overlords were too powerful to rely solely on the domain. Using it mid-battle could backfire, so he decided to save it for when the Overlords were exhausted.

After reviewing his skills, Karsha retrieved the Book of Annihilation and accepted the next task. But when he saw the details of his next opponent, his world seemed to crumble.

[ Task Accepted ]

[ Not to burst your bubble, but the infamous Sader's Ice Strike is beyond your comprehension. And don't believe everything you see. ]

[Name: Crystalisk]

[Rank: Tier 7 Terror Mutant]

[Title: The Ice King]

[Strength: 28,000]

[Defense: 26,700]

[Health: 50,000]

[Attack Power: 28,000 ~ 36,500]

Skills: No known Skills

Weakness: No weaknesses

Rewards: Hidden

[Note: The Crystalisk doesn't have any known weaknesses, but using fire-based attacks has a high chance of killing it.]

Karsha was at a loss for words. He had expected the upcoming tasks to be fierce and knew the stats for the remaining Overlords would be incredibly high, but he never imagined that the book he had relied on would become useless.

There were no weaknesses to exploit, and no skills to plan against. Even though he had the stats of his next opponent, he didn't know what to expect. The attack power was staggering; the snake's base attack power was even higher than Karsha's most explosive attack power.

"How am I going to kill something like this?" Karsha muttered under his breath. The snake was clearly out of his league. The current Karsha couldn't compare to it in the slightest. Given the snake's explosive strength, even if he lowered its stats using the domain, just a few attacks from it could destroy him.

He first had to lower the snake's HP, bringing its stamina to the red before applying the domain. If he managed to survive until then, he might just be able to kill it.

"I guess it's time I use the Dark Prince Hell Art." Although he wanted to use this chance to break through, facing such odds meant he had to let go of his lofty aspirations and go berserk for the time being. Killing the snake was the plan now, and after witnessing the might of the Dark Prince Hell Art back on the Red Planet, Karsha knew the snake wouldn't survive even a minute against it.

But while Karsha was making plans, he forgot something very critical—something he would soon discover.

'Guys, I guess training is over. Come rest; we'll resume the hunt tomorrow morning,' Karsha used his connection with the Shadow Guards to contact them. With a clear plan in mind and the Dark Prince Hell Art ready to go, he was confident he could complete the task faster than expected.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Shortly after contacting the rest of the Shadow Guards, they returned, exuding various auras. Karsha could tell they had enjoyed the last two days. Despite Tier 7 and even some Tier 7 mutants still being around, they didn't panic because there was no Overlord left to intimidate them.

Once they arrived, Dhaka reported his findings. According to him, chaos reigned in every section of the danger and calamity zone now that their Overlords were dead. However, seven Tier 7 Dark Mutants still remained, guarding a cave-like abode, never bothering to interfere with the chaos.

Hearing this, Karsha knew something strange was happening on the island, and he intended to find out before returning to the human world. He had ten days left, and whether he survived the upcoming battles would depend on his abilities. This was meant for him.

His destiny as the Annihilator would begin the moment he slayed the last Overlord. Should he fail, only death awaited.