"Nine, nine of yours have died, Angela," said Rhaek with a laugh as it looked at the old women fighting against two blood videttes. The dangerous black fire could be seen everywhere as she attacked the two videttes; they had been forced on the defensive the moment they had attacked her. The videttes might have the power, but they did not have enough experience to fight against the enemy like this. Still, they are doing fine; soon, more will join after they finish their respective battle. It is going slower than it likes to be, and there are more of them that are getting killed, but human kills are still more. It did not matter if others died, as long as they killed the humans they were fighting; the only ones needed to be survived the vidette, whom it could control, and killing them was impossible. There is only one among the humans who possess the ability to kill them, and it is keeping an eye on her, while others will die with their resistance broken. Hun! He was just thinking that when suddenly its expressions changed, not only its, but also of old women in front of it and all the humans and Grimms who are fighting. Grimms, they have become careful, especially the ones who are fighting in the place where he had appeared. ... "It seemed like there is quite a party going on here," I said as I appeared, and all the eight Grimms and the three humans whom they were fighting stopped and looked at me with varying emotions, mostly surprise and shock. "You six, handle the humans; we will deal with this bastard!" Mazla as it shot toward me with Chanf, the Rock Chipman; both of them are powerful, especially the Chanf; its power is near peak Grand Lord. I looked at the three humans, Lord Singh, Silas Bishop, and Raymond Leon: all three bloody, barely hanging to their lives. The only reason they are alive it's because of Raymond Leon's shields; he had to burn his force to power up those shields, and if I had appeared, he wouldn't be able to last long. He wouldn't last long; he is only hanging by a threat, and the moment he stops using his life force, he will drop dead. The others are not in much better condition, grievously injured; they are now getting pushed back by the Grimms. Those six Grimms want to take the battle as far away as possible; they do not forget what would happen if they remained close to me. Suddenly the expressions of three humans changed, and second later, had the expressions of six Grimms, who saw the injuries of humans were rapidly healing. The one that was shocked the most was Raymond Leon; he saw there is another source of life force appeared in his body, rapidly helping him replenish his life force. 'He better thank me later,' I have extracted the necrotic tree with everything it has; for the method earlier and now for him. It now not only looked like near dead condition, but it was near dead condition. I better find a way to heal it within an hour, or I am going to lose it, which would be very bad. "Old snake," said Mazla as it appeared in front of me, trying to be naughty, calling me old snake. "I am Zaar; whatever of the old snake had left me been burned to ashes by nirvana," I said, and immediately eyes of both Grimms widened in shock. "Though, if you still consider me your friend, you are welcome to hug me," I added as I opened my arms, completely defenseless, but both Grimms did not move even an inch; instead, their auras exploded to their limit. Hun! It was not just they; I felt another powerful familiar aura; feeling it, a smile couldn't help but appear on my face. "Ah, another one of our old friends had come to join for a battle," I said, still not summoning my weapons despite seeing Nras coming toward me with aura blazing. "Zaar, it's a good thing you have survived; I regrated not killing you with my own hand when the old snake dealt with you," said Nras, the Violet Crockman, as it had stopped behind me. "Don't let your guard down, Nras; it is saying it has gone through nirvana," informed Chanf quickly, which surprised it, and its expression has become serious as the other two. "No wonder it was able to get rid of the side effects of merging," said Nras, and its aura, too, exploded, and a huge bloodline phantom appeared behind it before merging back into its body, further reinforcing its aura. "Kill this bastard," roared Chanf, and all three of them attacked while I remained standing in my place. A moment later, all three appeared behind me and attacked with their weapons, and I did not move. I only moved when their weapons reached halfway when suddenly three hands came out of me, with three different weapons, a lance, the halberd, and a long sword, and moved toward three Grimms, who were attacking me without holding anything back. Clang Clang Clang Their attacks clashed against my weapons, and I shook from top to down and even had to take a step back. "You guys are quite powerful," I praised three of them, but instead of being happy, they looked at me with even more seriousness. "It had grown more powerful than last time; don't hold anything back, use everything you have," said Chanf, and the shield appeared in its left hand while Nras greeted its teeth, and a jeweled sword appeared in its hand, replacing its old. Now it was my time to get surprised, two of them had taken out their ancestral inheritance weapons, and they were Grand Lord grade. As it appeared in their hands, their auras grew even more powerful than before; seeing my expressions couldn't help but become serious. "Die, you bastard!" shouted Nras and attacked while at the same time, Chanf and Mazla too attacked. Seeing then, I harnessed even more power and moved my weapons toward them. CLANG CLANG CLANG They clashed, once again shaking me, but this time, I did not take a step back despite defending against the powerful attack. Hun! As they finished, I thought they would take back their weapons and attack me again, but instead, I saw myself surrounded by thousands of fiery lances, shiny blades, and rocky spears while three Grimms kept my weapons locked. Sup Sup Sup "Die!" Three of them shouted in unison, and thousands of attacks came at me at a very fast speed; they wouldn't even take a second to hit me. "Nice attack," I said without moving or even struggling to get my weapons back to defend myself and just watched them coming toward me. Dhub Dhub Dhub As the weapons entered the ten meters radius of me, something strange seemed to have happened to them. They seemed like they had entered the viscous substance, which immediately reduced their speed but a lot before beginning to eat them away; a moment later, they entered the field, and they disappeared. The more came at even greater intensity but had changed nothing; they, too, entered the field and disappeared. This is a move I could not use before; I did not have the necessary strength of soul and body to project this field, but now I have it. There are also a couple of moves I could now use other than this; I am quite excited to use them in the battle. "I thought it was a nice attack, given how three of you had combined your powers, but it is just so-so," I said as I looked at them. "Bastard, don't dare to underestimate us!" roared Chanf and attacked the two with all the fury in the world. CLANG CLANG CLANG They began to attack me madly, harnessing as much the power they could, but even with that, they couldn't breach my defense. Seeing that, I couldn't help but sigh in disappointment, which seemed to make them even more angry as they with even greater fury, but this fury did not seem to bring out as much power as they needed. "You guys disappointed me; especially you, Nras and Mazla; I thought you guys would give me a good fight after our last battle but did not," "I am not sensing that spirit in you," I said, clenching my fist. "You!" said Mazla angrily, to which I shook my head. "We have been fighting the battle of our survival; I could not waste too much time on you, who did not even have a spirit to fight," I said. Immediately alarm flashed in their eyes, and to Chanf and my surprise, Mazla and Nras stopped attacking and began to run away in the opposite direction. "You cowards!" roared Chanf. "You should run away too Chanf when you have time, or Zaar will make you disappear," screamed Mazla from a distance. "It is not strong enough to kill me, you cowards!" shouted Chanf and turned to me, only to see me looking at it with a smile. "You are quite wrong about that," I replied, and it opened its mouth to refute when horror appeared in its eyes when it saw the rose blooming around it. Rose Redemption The rose had not just bloomed around the Rock Chimpman but bloomed around all nine Grimms, around Mazla and Nras, who were running away, and also around six Grimms, who were fighting against three councilmembers at quite a distance. They tried to resist it, attack it, and even burn it, but nothing seemed to work against the roses. The roses kept blooming, and the moment they fully bloomed, the Grimms began to disappear one after another. The first to disappear was one of the six Grimms fighting against the council members. They were the weakest; after them, it was Mazla and then Nras before; finally, it was Chanf, the Rock Chimpman, the strongest of them all. They disappeared, leaving only me and council members on the battlefield.