Seth let out ragged, misty breaths, his frame hidden behind the tree; he pressed himself close to the bark to reduce the chances of the outline of his frame peeking out from the other side.
The raging defiled four-eyed monkeys rampaged as Seth, who was hiding, could be seen in quite a sorry state. It wasn't that he wasn't strong enough to face them; it was that these defiled seemed to have access to unlimited corrupt essence.
Meaning without the ability to one-shot them, killing them was practically impossible, as they seemed to heal with corrupt essence, their bodies almost immortal and unfatigued.
Like they had wells of endless vitality, facing them was practically a despairing situation—the humans were supposed to have the greatest stamina due to their new binding trait.
