Is this really a Game?!

Reign's words echoed around the battlefield, and the others responded with grim nods, as they were well aware that the clock was ticking out. They had slightly over 3 minutes left to survive this battle, and they knew that they would probably lose their full strength in about 30 seconds.

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( AN: Yes, the previous two battles took place in a span of less than 3 minutes as they are all moving faster than sound at this point. )

The towering gorilla-like abomination didn't know this, thus it was still fighting with its full strength, charging at them without planning on conserving any energy.

Even if it did know that, however, they doubted it would start fighting defensively, waiting for their energy to be depleted before ending the battle by slaughtering them in their normal forms, where they would be weaker than usual thanks to using the marks and going all out.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Well then, let's go, let's hit this thing hard and fast." Reign said as his wings started glowing and he crouched down before suddenly exploding forward, the ground behind him exploding, fragments bursting behind, hitting some of the weaker creatures and even killing a couple of them.

The moment he moved, the others moved as well, following right after him, with only Shadow suddenly disappearing in the shadows below, not appearing near the gorilla as the abomination had expected.

That was done on purpose as the gorilla had learned from before that each time Shadow disappeared into the shadows, he would appear near him, or far away if the two had already clashed.

Because of that, when he disappeared this time, the gorilla immediately glanced around itself, fully expecting to see Shadow behind or next to him, and attacking him immediately, only for that to not happen as Shadow appeared behind a creature that was some 100 meters to the left of the abomination, hiding behind it while stabbing it in the neck.

Only an instant was needed for Reign to close the distance between himself and the abomination, who had now glanced to the side, which was perfect for him who quickly slashed forward, aiming to catch the monster by surprise.

He cut the stomach of the gorilla, cutting through the thick hide and causing blood to spill out. The wound was deeper than the one on the arm thanks to the fact there were no bones where he cut, that, coupled with the immense sharpness his sword had after he had caused both the light and darkness coiling around each of his swords to vibrate with great frequency.

The abomination roared, baring its jagged teeth before raising both fists into the air and then slamming them down at Reign. There was a deafening crash that followed after the fists struck the ground as a shockwave passed through the battlefield, the ground cracking as chunks of earth flew in all directions.

Reign was nowhere to be seen, however, and the abomination's eyes constricted as it felt a presence suddenly appear in front of it.

Two long, black daggers suddenly stabbed deep inside the gash Reign had inflicted on the monster, penetrating deep inside before the darkness ventured inside the wound, causing a slight tremor to pass through the body of the gorilla that quickly swiped with its arms, actually hitting Shadow who didn't have enough time to dodge.

He was sent flying away, three of his right ribs broken, his right arm twisted to an unnatural degree, and yet, he was smiling.

He had poured everything he had into those daggers, and most of the darkness there had made its way inside the body of the gorilla.

"Let's see who you deal with that, you damn bastard," Shadow said as he stared at the gorilla with red eyes.

This was the first time he was able to stab this deep inside and pour so much of his darkness inside the abomination, and the result was obvious right away. The monster stumbled for a moment, its eyes clearly showing the shock it felt from the immense pain that was coursing through its body as the darkness started corroding it from the inside.

Even worse than that was the fact it couldn't do anything about it, it couldn't focus and use its mana to try and combat the darkness as Jin and Aelrinder struck right after Shadow.

Jin had been gathering energy since Reign appeared, getting ready for an explosive strike as his hands glowed a dark orange light, while Aelrinder's yellow wind was completely enveloping the blade of his spear, so tightly compressed that even Aelrinder didn't dare unleash it while he was close to the enemy in fear of injuring himself from the power of the blow.

Aelrinder stabbed forward, sending the wind forward.

All that could be seen was a yellow ray of light that struck the abomination instantly. This was the first time during this battle that Aelrinder and Jin had the time to focus only on channeling their mana and preparing it for an attack, and thus, they made sure that their attacks would be devastatingly powerful.

The wind struck the abomination, hitting it between the shoulder and chest, piercing through completely, leaving a hole that was about a meter in diameter. Even though such a wound would have been fatal for a human, completely destroying the left side of the body, to the large gorilla, it was not even close to being fatal.

Aelrinder had not only poured most of his mana into that attack, he had even used another charge of his star power, the last one he had, to boost the attack to the utmost.

It was a serious injury, that much was certain, and from now on, it would no longer be able to move its left arm as fast as before, nor would it be able to pour as much strength into it, but it was far from being dead.

"Now!" Aelrinder roared as Jin got into a horse stance, took a deep breath, and then suddenly punched forward, his body moving forward by 2 meters, disappearing in an instant as a shockwave spread from his body.

There was no sound from the punch, the shockwave passed, and then a powerful explosion that was tightly controlled by Jin suddenly showed itself. The explosion took place right inside the hole that Aelrinder had created.

A small red dot first appeared inside the wound, and then, it exploded, causing the ground to tremble.

Only then did Aelrinder hear the sound of Jin's punch, which was much faster than sound, reaching perhaps even Mach 5. He was disoriented for a moment, even after he had made sure to use mana to defend himself against the shockwave that would pass through him after the punch, he still took some slight damage.

As for the gorilla, the explosion enveloped it, a powerful orange blast that suddenly caused half of its body to be in immense pain.

A red ball appeared around the left side of its body, the explosion controlled in a radius of 10 meters, Jin not allowing it to be bigger, but not being able to make it smaller as the control needed for that was above what even he could do.

As the explosion ended, and the orange ball was gone, a shocking sight was left.

The gorilla's left arm was gone, parts of it on the ground, scorched completely while its ribs were visible, black from the immense heat, as was half of its body.

And then, as the gorilla stared at Aelrinder and Jin, who had wounded it so deeply, a low growl of pain and anger escaping its mouth, it froze, as Reign appeared right above it.

Reign slashed down, and the gorilla weakly lifted its right arm to block, only for nothing to hit it as Reign's wings clapped, and he immediately appeared on its left side.

"Why would I hit the uninjured part, you idiot?!" Reign shouted as he stabbed forward, two lances of light and darkness appearing in his hands as they penetrated deep inside the body from the horrifying wound left by Jin and Aelrinder, who had used most of their mana in order to do so and were now in a pickle.

The two quickly grabbed the injured Shadow and were now battling against the abomination that had arrived. They attacked with other creatures that charged forward, noticing their tired and weakened states as their marks started dissipating.

The gorilla froze and then collapsed, the light and darkness destroying its organs and heart, killing it as Reign panted heavily, his wings scattering in the wind as his transformation started undoing itself.

"Dammit, just a moment more!" Reign shouted as he flapped his wings, appearing near Jin and the others and slashing forward, causing two powerful arcs of white and black lightning to erupt, killing many regular creatures and injuring a couple of abominations before his transformation ended.

Now, the four were left surrounded by the monster and abominations weakened from using their full power. They had to defend, and hope that Wolf and the others would be able to defeat their opponent soon, otherwise, they would die.