The question from Volts left an unanswered result, leaving Volts with nothing but pity stare. Explaining with simple words could not give him any rest, as words need to be in such detail to describe but Akira had no idea what was Volts moaning about.
Akira knelt and healed his wounds rapidly, regenerating through bones and flesh.
Volts had not seen Akira was capable of using such advanced magic only to assume he had abilities of blood magic yet his healing had surpassed any healer he'd known.
As his bones began to organize, his flesh began to join together, Akira groaned with a twitching body. Exhaled a sigh of relief, Akira's bones from his legs returned his ability to stand. Volts clenched his teeth and his eyes squeezed.
"Why? What if you died? I'll be the one who blamed myself! I don't deserve your kindness! Every time, EVERY DAMN TIME! They would go and save my useless life. They gave up their own lives just for me. Why? Damn it wh-" Akira's fist connected his cheek, leading him bruised in shock. The eyes what Volts saw were not pity but shame.
"Don't deserve kindness? Don't deserve crap! I don't know what you've been through but, enough about it!"
"Don't take life as something you can toss away like trash, I've seen people work hard to achieve and die miserably just to have nothing at all and you say that to my face? Don't you dare say that in front of my face!They sacrificed for you not just for your sake, but for the countless lives you'll help!"
"They handed their lives to you, died for you, and you just said you don't deserve it?! You ungrateful jerk!" Akira's veins popped in his fit of rage, confused by how shameless Volts was.
"All I hear is that they're far better than me, they're willing to save a life by exchanging their own. And you just spit out an entire pile of bull crap and just think their life was a waste! How would they feel?!" Akira's words made Volts' pupils dilate as he stood silent.
Volts was speechless, and his eyes as he stared blankly in deep thought.
"Although I didn't die, you better keep your mouth shut and be thankful to those who died for you. Or else, I might have had you killed and didn't save you, even if I don't kill humans. There's nothing I hate more than people who aren't grateful to live."
Akira exhaled deeply after saying everything he needed to say to make Volts understand their reasons.
"Enough, If you're coming then come! I don't want to waste my time, or that creature will come after Kazoru next!" Akira leaped and left Volts behind in a speechless state.
"..." Volts didn't say a word, Akira's words pierced his heart and he began to feel something.
Akira jumped from building to building and chased after the Metamorian. Suddenly, someone screamed.
"KYAAA, PERVERT!" Citizen screamed.
"Huh? Where?" Akira was confused and looked around him. He saw nothing until he realized...
It turned out, after which Akira turned around, his butt and his back were exposed.
Akira stopped for a moment and went to his inventory, wearing his spare clothes.
Meanwhile, 9 warriors tried their best to put a stop to it, only to deal minor damage to the Metamorians and failed. The two warriors up front were the striker team, leading the offensive manuevers only to be squashed by a brick to one of the warriors face. The fate of the other warrior was no better, her eyes were shrunk by its brutality, not even for long after she blinked, her head was pulled out along with her spine.
The middle team had to watched in silence, helplessly trying to damage the Metamorian. Their fast speed caught them off guard, one of the mages, a guy who was standing between the two Metamorians. "N-No... Fire magic!" Trying to escape and burn them, his fate was met with a grueling death as the two Metamorians flattened his body until it was no shape of a human.
"No... NOOOOO!" The girl screamed in agony, crying and trying to save her friend. Her head was squeezed tight, crushing her skull as she tried to kick it off her. Failed miserably and died.
Four was dead, the other two melted by their blasts. Only three survived and left by using a mix of water and fire to escape.
"Fools, your resistance will only cause you more casualty. Bring me Kazoru!"
Akira, clothed and ready, resumed his pursuit in high speed. His teeth gritted, witnessing the lives had taken, vowed to take action to decrease more casualties.
"Hm? Wait... You're alive?"
The man was surprised to see Akira unharmed, he observed his body somewhat still attached and pristine. Savanth had few informational guidance to give him, so he did not expect Akira to be such a trouble to kill.
"You'll pay for those lives you've taken!"
Akira drew his scythe and was ready for battle.
The man gulped loudly, observing Akira with his acute detail. The man launched his orders at the Metamorian to proceed with another attack, conjuring an energy blast from its mouth.
Akira made an effortless dodge by hopping left and right while throwing his blood slash at the metamorian.
The slash hit the Metamorian, but didn't leave a single scratch, giving Akira a face of disbelief.
With a new plan, Akira jumped and cut open its chest and used his vampire while also paralyzing it. However, it didn't work as well, the blood from this monster had no substance related to blood. It was a strange liquid, non-biological.
Fist gripped tight, the monster landed a punch on Akira and flew him far from the tremendous strength.
Blown away by the impact and smashed into the building, Akira coughed blood with significant damage to his internal organs–his stomach.
"Not so strong now, aren't you? This is what happens when you interfere with our plans." The man warned.
Akira chuckled, careless of what might hit him. "I do what must right, I stop what must wrong."
"That's what I do!" Akira stared fiercely.
The man furrowed his eyebrows, his body feeling the shiver from that stare.
"Your ignorance shall be your end!" The Metamorian released its blast and unexpectedly, Akira threw his scythe directly into its mouth, filling it with the tip of his blade.
The Metamorian exploded because the scythe's blade blocked the opening of the blast. The man was taken aback Akira's quick thinking.
Akira's body flickered and quickly strangled him.
Akira, with his fierce glare, made the man agitated as his legs felt numb.
"A-24!" He summoned another Metamorians to break free from Akira's stranglehold. Akira didn't loose his grip, only to dare him to blast himself with him.
"What's wrong? I dare you to blast us. It's not like I'll die from that pathetic blast." The man continuously grew ever more nervous.
"Curse you! I swear, I'll kill you and that general's brat! After Celine has already been terminated I will have both your heads!"
The mention of Celine's name, made Akira's loosen his stranglehold and the man broke free instantly and was taken to safety by his Metamorian.
He panted while cursing Akira, "Fuck... aghhh!" The chokehold gave the man a mark around his neck.
Akira didn't even catch him again, he was in a state of silence, his eyes darkened, trying to pull the pieces together. Celine... The name rang a bell, but that name had been long since heard.
"Celine..." The mention of her name and had been addressed terminated, left Akira muttered with a silent anger.
"Celine? What have you done to her?!" Akira yelled the man.
"Ah, if you want to know. She's in front of you." The man pointed at A-24.
"..." Akira believed him, he had been sensing strange phenomenon that he tried to shrug off. The smell, the voice though crooked, his Keen Instinct couldn't lie. There was no doubting it.
It was her.
"These Metamorians were designed to be the peak of humans. These hideous creatures are what you called morphed humans. During your busy fight with Savanth, she led herself to us. We slit her throat and use her corpse, reanimating her into this perfect creation. To all the metamorians, we created them by just kidnapping warriors or citizens, so technically you just killed..."
"A brainwashed human." The man heartlessly smiled.
Hearing that story did not calm Akira down, his rage was fueled more. It was a story he never thought would be this twisted, a world filled with cruelty and brutality.
"You monster..."
"My, my, don't feel the guilt. These creatures aren't humans anymore, but more of a human monsterization. They have no feelings, no guilt, no remorse, just one command can already set them up to destroy everything we desire. Even if they were your friends or family before their deaths, they still follow our commands." The man smirked with malice.
Seeing the Metamorians' faces made Akira realize how horrible and suffering Celine and the people had gone through as they were being controlled to become an awful monster who wrecked the city.
Akira flickered behind him and took him by surprise. A-24 engaged, but he split it in half.
"Wh-Wha-" Before Akira could punch the man's tooth out, the remaining Metamorians served him as his shield but his punch joined them and sending them 300 blocks away.
In fear of his rage, the man panically screamed A-25 to A-30 to initiate combat.
Akira stood there in silent anger.
[BLOOD MAGIC: MANIA BLOOD SLASH]
Akira went wild and launched a devastating attack by swirling his scythe all over his surroundings, slashing and destroying every building near it.
In those slashes, he killed three Metamorians. Then Akira moved on to the next metamorians by jumping, shattering the ground, and killing the two Metamorians with a single slash and a head strike.
The man was in awe that he was able to kill 7 metamorians at once.
Akira then landed on the ground violently, creating a dust explosion. Akira took a small breath before he stood up as he faced forward.
"Incredible, what an animal! What a show!" The man commented.
As he was standing on the dust screen, Akira scowled at him, blood streaming from his mouth, and pointed his scythe at him.
"Killing innocent and controlling them into a monster? You scummy trash! I won't let you control anymore of them!"
"Oh... You thought this is the end? Too bad..." He didn't flinch, and proceed with the back up plan.
"Activate, regeneration!" The man chuckled, activating the Metamorians regeneration.
"You put up a magnificent show, yet, you just contributed to this creature. They are now strong because of you. For that, I shall give you my utmost gratitude."
'Huh, they've reached their limits... Is that brat that strong?!' The man muttered in silence, speechless. He knew that these Metamorians were 10% of their full potential hence they were incomplete. However, Akira reached 10% of their limits, which exceeded his expectations.
"...Their aura... It's menacing..." Akira immediately smeared blood once again on his blade, feeling the suspense. Akira noticed that they weren't like normal and had become stronger than ever. His Keen Instinct detected a gap in power between him and them, though Akira would win, he knew his mana would slow him down now that he almost reach the end of his mana.
Outnumbered, Akira pushed forward with steely confidence.
'If I use blood blade in long periods of time, it could be trouble. Blood blade only lasts for a minute fifty... If I use more mana, I'm cooked.'
Akira rushed to attack once more, slashing down his opponents on a whim. However, they continue to regenerate with ease but far more slowly than Akira's. His strategies were only to rely his physical strength and regeneration proved not sufficient in the fight, making him approach more evasively.
Death was the least of his worries, but ending it quickly would decrease major damage caused. The Metamorians quickly outnumbered him, facing with struggles to stand even further.
"End of days, and end of your life. Are there any good warriors around here? Seemingly not. You, however, praisable efforts and you are truly indeed worthy of a warrior. In that case, you will prove useful as my new puppet."
The man launched the last order, that was to finish him off.
[ELECTRICITY MAGIC: STUN GUN]
The Metamorians were stunned, all their attacks were canceled, leaving a spare time for Akira to heal quickly and keep his distance. "Volts?" Akira giggled in surprise, seeing Volts coming over to help.
Volts had joined the fray.
"If we want to win, then let's do this together! Truce?" Volts elaborated and extended his hand with sudden words from him. It would appear Akira's words changed him, and now he was willing to work together.
"Truce." Akira smiled and shake his hand, calling a truce.
Volts and Akira then gazed fiercely at the man and the Metamorians. They had finally worked together and were ready for the second round.