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Reign took Aethion's warning to heart. He knew this battle was unlike any he had faced before. The entity was a being of immense power, capable of manipulating corruption to its will, and the two humanoid monsters were seemingly immortal. This required more than just brute strength; it needed strategy and precision.

He glanced at the two humanoid monsters, now fully reformed and advancing towards him again. Their movements were synchronized, fluid, and unnaturally fast. They were no ordinary creatures but extensions of the entity's will.

"Keep them busy, but don't waste too much energy on them," Aethion's voice echoed in Reign's mind. "Focus on the entity. He is the true threat."

Reign nodded subtly, launching himself into the air to gain a better vantage point. As he ascended, the two humanoid monsters followed, their agility almost matching his own as their bodies mutated, wings sprouting on their backs. The entity watched with an amused expression, clearly enjoying the spectacle.

Drawing on his powers and channeling his mana, Reign summoned his light, allowing it to envelop his swords. He then dived back towards the humanoid monsters, slashing through them with renewed ferocity.

This time, instead of simply cutting them apart, he infused his strikes with his light, attempting to disrupt the corruption within them, doing his best to blast it away and make it more difficult for the two to recover.

The effect was immediate. The light-infused cuts slowed the monsters' regeneration, causing their movements to become more sluggish. Reign took advantage of this, creating a momentary opening and shooting towards the entity.

The entity, sensing the imminent threat, reacted swiftly. With a flick of its wrist, it sent a torrent of corruption towards Reign. The black waves crashed against Reign's light barrier, causing sparks to fly as the two opposing energies clashed.

"You're persistent, I'll give you that," the entity sneered, its voice dripping with malice.

Reign gritted his teeth, pushing forward through the onslaught. His light barrier strained under the pressure, but he didn't falter. He closed the distance, his eyes locked onto the entity's glowing orbs. Just as he was about to strike, the entity vanished, reappearing behind him in an instant.

"Too slow," the entity whispered, unleashing a blast of corruption at point-blank range.

Reign barely had time to react, twisting his body to avoid the brunt of the attack. The blast grazed his side, searing pain shooting through him as the corruption ate into his flesh. He retaliated with a powerful burst of light, forcing the entity to retreat.

Despite the pain, Reign's resolve only hardened. He couldn't afford to let the entity recover more of its power. He needed to find a way to disrupt its control over corruption and weaken it further.

"Focus on its connection to the corruption," Aethion advised. "It still hasn't taken all the corruption back, it is still acting as an external source of power, not his own, if you can sever that link, even temporarily, it will weaken significantly."

Reign nodded, adjusting his strategy. He summoned more of his light, this time channeling it into a concentrated beam aimed directly at the entity. The beam pierced through the air, striking the entity's chest and forcing it to stumble back.

"Impressive," the entity snarled, its voice filled with anger. "But it won't be enough."

The entity's form shimmered, and more corruption arrived at his body, coalescing into a massive, writhing mass. It lashed out with tendrils of darkness, each one infused with destructive energy. Reign dodged and weaved through the onslaught, his swords flashing as he deflected the attacks.

Meanwhile, the two humanoid monsters had recovered and were closing in again. Reign had to split his focus, dealing with them while keeping an eye on the entity. It was a precarious balance, one that required every ounce of his skill and concentration.

Aethion continued to provide guidance, helping Reign anticipate the entity's moves and exploit its weaknesses. The entity was powerful, and it was definitely a being that stood near the top of the leveling realm, or perhaps it was even a being that managed to Transcend at its peak.

They had no idea just what the entity was, they had no idea what race it was from, why it had come to Earth, they knew nothing of it, but they had to defeat it, that much was certain.

Reign fought with everything he had, his movements a blur of speed and precision. The humanoid monsters were relentless, their strikes coming from all angles as they moved with an eerie synchronicity. Each time he cut them down, they reformed, their corrupted bodies knitting back together almost instantly.

Reign's light-infused attacks slowed them, but it was clear that defeating them outright would be an uphill battle, their regeneration was simply too powerful.

"We'll take care of them!"

A huge sword made out of fire suddenly appeared and crashed down at the monsters with immense speed and power, striking one and cutting it in half, the flames burning both halves, seemingly fighting against the corruption that was trying its best to obliterate them.

Wolf had come with Shadow and Greenie while the others stayed back, still fighting against those of the enemy faction that remained. With the corruption no longer increasing their power, the enemy combatants were unable to fight evenly against them and were on the losing side.

Even without Wolf, Shadow, and Greenie, the battle was completely in their favor, with the head priest no longer being able to utilize the corruption and fight with it, having to resort to using his soul-based attacks, which led to Wolf's wounding him gravely mere second ago and leaving him to be defeated by Ivan who had switched opponents with Beast who was still in his fused state.

Reign merely nodded at the three before speeding off and charging at the entity who clicked his tongue in annoyance as he observed the situation.

Persistent little gnats," the entity hissed, its malevolent eyes narrowing. "Very well, let's see how you fare against this."

The entity raised its arms, and the air around them crackled with dark energy. Corruption swirled into a vortex, drawing in the remaining traces of it from the battlefield. The ground trembled as the vortex intensified, pulling debris, dust, and even the lifeless bodies of the fallen towards it. The entity's form began to shift, growing larger and more imposing as it absorbed the gathered corruption.

Reign charged at the entity, his wings propelling him forward with blinding speed. He slashed with his swords, aiming for the heart of the monstrous figure. The entity countered with a swipe of its massive, clawed hand, sending a shockwave of dark energy that Reign narrowly dodged.

Wolf, Shadow, and Greenie continued to battle the humanoid monsters, their coordinated efforts slowly wearing them down. Wolf's fiery sword cleaved through one of the creatures, the flames searing the corruption and preventing it from fully regenerating. Shadow darted in and out of the fray, his speed and agility allowing him to strike at vulnerable points.

Greenie, with his immense strength, pummeled the other monster, his blows leaving deep dents in its corrupted flesh.

Even then, the two monsters were not stopping. Their bodies still functioned even when injured, if you cut off a hand, it would quickly move to attack you, and parts of the body of the humanoid monsters would even quickly change, mutating and attacking the three with everything they had.

Their limbs would twist and more limbs would appear from them, and parts of their bodies would part, showing the corruption within that would soon turn into something else that the monsters used to attack them.

In a short period of time, the two humanoid monsters had changed completely and were now complete abominations, no longer looking like humanoid monsters at all.

Reign's attacks on the entity were relentless. He was charging with everything he had, using up all the mana in his body and fusing his lightning and light to deal as much damage as he could to the entity which had turned into a massive monster thanks to the corruption.

No matter how hard he tried, however, he was barely able to deal damage to the entity which continued attacking him and tanking all the attacks that left little more than cuts on its body.

'Aethion, Jared, I need some advice!'

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'How the hell do I defeat this bastard?!'

'From my calculations, with how powerful the master is in the moment, and how powerful the enemy is, victory is not possible.'

Jared's voice echoed in Reign's head, causing him to almost slow down for an instant and be hit by the entity.

'He speaks the truth, I thought we could perhaps cut off the corruption and weaken this bastard, but he was just playing around, the corruption was acting like an external source of power, and he had absolute control over it from the start.'

'Defeating him truly is impossible, the huge body he has is as powerful as a Tier VIII being from what I can notice, and each attack carries the same power with it, you are lucky he is slow, however.'

'I don't think it will last long though, so even though you can't win, that doesn't mean you have to lose.'