Finally free from the world of shadows; the monstrous Wechuge experienced a level of exhaustion that they had never before. It was somewhat amazing that such a creature could eveired. However, at the same time, there should be no surprise that there was some price to be paid for what it achieved.Having literally jumped to a new universe through a real-time depi of a single world. In addition they passed through the atmosphere of the p - a great distaer literally crossing over limbo without so much as a pitstop. Usually it was the game system that covered the costs but that eldritch elk decided to take all that taxation onto themselves.Whether they desired it or not.In respohat eerie body of theirs seemed to almost bee fluid, melting uhe unfiving pressure of their as, but they remaianding. If anything it seemed its fierce maw was smiling maliciously as its three hollow eye sockets erupted with new found kindling. Slowly those crimson fres followed the various humanoid races dang around in front of itself like a gluttony watg the meat sizzle on the grill.An inhumanely long bck tongue fell from it’s maw to p around its ja-like arms slowly eheed its fming mantle. Within its grip was a rather simple matte bck Kusarigama which possessed zero embellishment. A on that was designed for pure efficy. “几ㄖ山 山卄丨匚卄 ?尺ㄖㄩ卩 ?ㄖ 丨 卩丨匚? 卂 千丨?卄ㄒ 山丨ㄒ卄 千丨尺丂ㄒ…”| Now which group do I pick a fight with first… |The digits that ed around the released it as it cwed at the ground in order to unch itself toward the fighting militia. Instantly they were atop the person. Deg there was o pn ahead when it came to dealing with some measly mortals who were waving around their sticks & stohat cwed hand came toward the back of the head of an unsuspeg guard - a fact which truly made it impossible to know whose side they were on - as a malevolent aura shrouded their hand. With a smooth a they dragged the astral proje of the humanoid out of their head. An a that caused their health bar to drop by a signifit amount as the monster greedily bit into the spirit.

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  Battle Enter System (Beat’Em’Up) ActivatedPreparing Battlefield

  12x South-Port City Security: lvl 30~40 D - C vs 15x South-Port City Security (Enlightened): lvl 30~35 D+ - C+vs山乇匚卄ㄩ?乇 Reaper of Sins: lvl 1 Ex

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  Although things only got fusing from there (at least for Wechuge) as the world itself got real weird all of a sudden. Some extravagant eic music began pying as their surroundings subtly ged - at least it was subtle at first. Those winding alleys only got longer and more fusing. The width also increased as if to freely hold all of them, allowing for a far greater range of motion, while the most ing thing of all… Was the fact that the self-procimed demi-god could only watch.It was as if someone had pressed pause on time itself; letting space freely to the demands of whatever entity was behind this. Things only got stranger as suddenly - from out the brick walls and crete floor - metal branches with TV’s began to erupt out. Those TV’s soon flicker to life as an ungodly amount of statiaged to even overe the bag tra the monster's ears.A few seds ter… Faces that that creature began tnise appeared within the distorted ss with their own faces distorted in pain. It did take them a few seds of time t, most of the ges had already been plete even if that surprisingly only took mere moments as well, causing them to tilt their head. Their fusion was visible to those whhe horror just a few feet from them… Well it was hard to actually uand the expressions of a literal animal skull.On closer iion those voices were only appearing on those closest to the mighty monster; a fact that made sense. Sihose were the faces of those it snacked on. In addition it felt a strange e to those ss which allowed it to experiehe resurfag of a memory which helped expin this.Within the “Fighting Game” gehere was an obvious issue… How do you ha? The answer was simply to create a parallel space to store those who were fighting - allowing for those involved to truly let loose without w about the world around them. That world, however, would be influenced more acc to the strength of a party.For the security teams this meant simply making their standard city more suitable fhting while for a boss it lead to a massive shift. A shift exactly like this.Often it came with amazing bohat undoubtedly mesh well with the moveset of the boss creature yet unfortuhe Wechuge had little knowledge of their own limits. They could not fully uand what those ss happened - nor why sirens began to sound as crimson lights erupt out the walls as if warning of a ing disaster. Yet, as the theme song repced the stand music, they could not help unleash their building up adrenaline in the only way a monster like them could.*ヨ尺ヨヨ~廾丹山*Soon a tdown formed but it only took a single ghat the 12 regur guards were nowhere near ready as that number went down from 5. Thankfully the beast took the initiative to have a taste of one of their souls; letting them recover some of their mueeded energy. Although the fear that those mortals were released…“?乇ㄥ丨匚丨ㄖㄩ丂…”| Delicious… |That ever tasty spicreased in iy as those weaklings couldn’t help themselves - it was difficult to uand what Wechuge said but it was not hard to uand that hungry look. Not to mention the system message did not do any favours. What it did not like was the ck of rea from those bsted enlightehey still had a kind smile on their face despite being within its might presence.fusing sidering the o apparently took a bite out of was one of them if the hat popped up over their head was anything to go by. Annoyingly their attack didn’t seem to do as much damage as they liked.In the “real world” this kind of thing would result in instah but the enlightened securities soul was far more resistant to being dragged out their whole body. Alternatively it filled them with far more energy than even a whole normal soul would have. The obvious answer being this was due to a perk of levelling.Sadly there was no time to it more thought to this as the tdown reached zero. With that the pandemonium tinued once again however it surprisingly wasn’t Wechuge who moved first. There should always be a dey in how fast a meatbag react yet that didn’t stop the “enlightened” from tinuing their assault. Although that did not help their panion who was in the monster's grasp - damage to the soul was not something one could ignore. Being stunned due to the snag, they were uo react as the massive maw opened up wide to quite literally bite their head off. A siing ch echoed through the alley.Flesh & blood seeped through their fangs as the rest of the body slumped dow, even after that, there was no sign of those mind trolled security rushing toward them. That beast hardly cared about the details of that, however. If they were truly being mind trolled then why would they react to another random puppet's death? It did not dwell on the important; charging toward another enemy with their on raised up high with full fiden cutting the poor bastard in half. Somehow that was not the case. The human was more focused on the monster in the first pce (havihe one fighting its prior meal) so was more than ready to move his shield to stop the on.Normally Wechuge couldn’t care less about such a pitiful attempt at defending like that… Except this time it turned out not to be so pathetic. The shield held firm against their attack as a well traihrust caused a short sword to pierce through the inky-fme mantle which made up the monster's body. For a moment that thing from nightmares pletely froze resulting in the security member retreating away with relief.“Although it has soul attacks like bahey don’t seem to physically and aren’t too tough sihey were affected by physical attacks!”That was wrong. Howbeit, it was true that they were affected by the physical attack. It was not due to an overwhelming level of pain or fear causing them to be stunned like the security thought - instead it was pletely due to the shock born france. When has the mighty being ever been harmed when in their purest and stro form?hus, evehe feeling was akin to a pat on the back more than an actual attack, that creature found itself pletely frozen. In hindsight it should have been obvious that their meagre skill would catch up to them and was actually fortunate such was brought to their attention now. So, to aent, Wechuge was a little thankful to these humanoid mortals.Although… More than that…Was the overwhelming rage they felt!If their on was useless against that shield then they would just o pry that shield from their hands thehem with it! Sadly things didn’t turn out that easily as the human used a well pced [Shield Bash] to stun the monster while aook advantage of this to thrust a spear into its shadow adororso. A fact that gave those meat bags enough fideo cheer… Certainly doing nothing to assuage Wechuges unyielding ahey hadn’t practised their close quarter bat because there was no reasonable way to push themselves when everyone was so weak. Usually someone would get to fight against some low level mobs and build up their experience before fighting against well trained npcs so it was never a problem that the monster sidered. Unfortuhat ht was right in their face making them even ahe anger doing little to help make them use that genius mind of theirs - although their own massively superior intellect could also ironically be bmed for the arrogance which caused this. Those pesky flies were only hurting its pride but that was enough.Fortuhat same intelligence helped them realise that doing the same thing over and over would just result in the same result. Except meat bags were limited by their stamina while, obviously, a superior spiritual entity was not. Wechuge being one of those very entities.Additionally they could hardly focus on the monster when their attacks were clearly aplishing little while having their corrupted colleagues cutting them down more skillfully. Plus it was not as if the monster's attacks were pletely void of effect. Their attacks did not piece the securities armour but did mao deliver a mighty impad knick pces where the armour was lightest.Though that did nothing to repair Wechuge’s pride.“I thought you said physical attacks worked?!” “How would I know; I’ve never seen an undead like this!” Their panicked voices echoed out as, by now, there were only a total of five security personnel while the enlightened had only lost two. Both losses due to getting in the way of the monstrous elk rather thao the staunch resistahey were putting up.By now they had realised that the one bar h over the “undead” hadn’t even lost a sich despite all the attacks they had been sneaking in. They had even mao hit it’s head but it merely turned into a bed mist just as they were about to celebrate. Leading to the startling prehension that they were just annoying the thing all this time; a terrifying though based on how quickly it could take them out o finds a k in their armour.Things weren’t looking good…