Necromancer Of The Shadows

Zorda didn't feel any pain, just icy coldness when his body started to turn into an ice statue.

The coldness coming out of Zorda's body was so high that even the air around him started to crystallize. The bullet had struck him at the very top of his right shoulder and even though he tried to stop the coldness using his powers, it was useless because the power of the bullet was just too high.

Noticing he couldn't stop his body from turning into an ice statue, Zorda made a split-second decision and cut off his right shoulder, getting rid of the part that was struck by the bullet. Zorda's severed arm dropped to the ground and the moment it dropped...

Woooooosh!

The arm exploded into icy dust and a burst of cold energy sealed tens of kilometres of area in ice.

Even though he cut off his shoulder and lost his right arm, Zorda didn't show any expression on his face. He didn't care about the fountain of blood that came out of his wound and looked at the far distance behind him.

Blaze, who threw away the Solarian Sunfruit was also stunned when Zorda was attacked and looked behind him.

Upon looking behind, they noticed a giant black bird flying in their direction.

"Isn't this the monster that was beaten by Voidscar?" Blaze muttered in a shocked voice as she watched the black bird flying in their direction.

The tree monster became restless when it saw the giant black bird because it could feel that similar to it, the bird was also a Rank Three monster.

It shot tens of black branches towards Zorda and tried to take away the Solarian Sunfruit from him. But Zorda was on high alert, and the moment he saw the tree monster making its move, he quickly backed away from it. At the same time, deep red miasma started to come out of his body that destroyed all the branches that the tree monster shot towards him.

As Zorda dodged the attacks of the tree monster, tendrils of blood started to come out of his wounded shoulder and slowly, his entire arm started to regenerate.

"The ability of blood demons to heal themselves using their blood is really enviable," Blaze muttered in a low voice as she backed away from the fighting scene and started to heal herself.

She was looking at Zorda, who was surrounded by the black vines and trying to destroy them and at the same time, her eyes were focused on the giant black bird that was rapidly approaching them.

Zorda also noticed the rank three bird that was coming closer and would reach him in less than thirty seconds.

'I need around one minute to regenerate my arm,' Zorda thought without showing any expression on his face.

Though he could defeat the Rank Three tree monster, he knew that he would have to use a lot of energy in order to defeat it in a short amount of time, and it would be dangerous for him to use his energy carelessly in the current situation.

Especially when he knew that other than the rank three bird, there was also someone else who attacked him earlier using an ice bullet. Another problem that Zorda was facing was that the tree monster didn't have blood in its body.

The ability of blood demons to control blood was lower than that of most vampires, but in rare cases, some blood demons are born with surprisingly high affinity with blood that could even surpass high-level vampires, and Zorda was one of them. If he uses his Blood Zone, he can easily control the blood flow of the people who enter his Zone.

"I hate people who don't have blood in their bodies," Zorda tried to hide his annoyance and noticed the bird monster was very close.

"It seems it can't be helped," Zorda suddenly stopped dodging the tree monster attacks. The tree monster's giant eyes lit up when it saw this, and hundreds of sharp branches and vines came towards Zorda like whips.

Zorda looked at hundreds of attacks that were coming towards him and just when the attacks were about to strike him, his blue skin glowed with red light and his muscles swelled up. His black eyes shined brightly, and the flow of time around him slowed down.

He suddenly took a martial arts stance, and all of his power gathered around his left fist.

"Blood Boost!" He said in a low voice, and in less than a second, punched thousands of times in front of him. The power of his punches gathered at the same spot and the next second... BooooooooooooooooooooM!

A powerful force moved forward from the spot where he had punched, and everything within a few thousand kilometres in front of him was destroyed. The tree monster roared in pain as its branches and vines were shattered and cracks appeared all over its bark-like body. At the same time, the force of the impact sent it flying tens of kilometres away.

Zorda's left arm was shaking and his blood flow was in a complete mess, but he used his control over blood and tried to act as if he was completely fine.

He took a deep breath to calm down his rapidly beating heart and turned around to look at the black bird, which stopped around one kilometre away from him.

The bird was hovering just below the gloomy black clouds of the second layer and was looking at him coldly.

The aura of the black bird was on par with the tree monster, but Zorda and Blaze's gaze didn't linger on it for more than a second because upon taking a closer look at it, they realized someone was standing on top of it.

Both of them narrowed their eyes when they saw someone standing at the top of the black bird and thought the person who could tame a Rank Three monster must be someone very powerful. But when they looked at the figure who was standing at the top of the bird closely, their eyes opened wide because the person who was standing at the top of it wasn't even a Rank Two Core Evolver.