Chapter 4434: Dead "What did you do?" it asked, with eyes filled with shock, fear, and confusion. "Can’t you tell?" I asked and moved toward it with the attack. It reacted fast and moved back defensively. Rip! My sword cut through its stomach, giving it a large cut, which is not easy, given the tough protection. The pus armour and its inheritance armor are not easy to cut. Though my target was to cut it into two, it had dodged it on time. "How?" it asked. Even the large pink eye seemed to be confused. "It’s a secret," I replied and moved for another attack. My target is the itornas; once it is dead. The host will die as well. It is for this reason that I brought it out. When it is inside, it is protected by a powerful shell. In the fusion mode, it is outside. Most importantly, when it is inside, its sensory powers are very strong; I didn’t want it to discover my efforts and taunted it to bring out. Now, I want to kill the Itornas. "You will not!" it roared, and suddenly, steam began to emanate from its body. As it happened. Its slow movement became faster, and it disappeared from its spot. It didn’t run away. No, it just appeared behind and attacked. I reacted immediately and turned, bringing my sword forward to defend against the attack. CLANNNNG! I defended, but it shook me. Nearly forcing me to take a step back and overwhelm my armor despite my strings covering it fully. "You know, this will be the end of you," I said, but it grinned. "For great itornas, I will happily lay down my life," it replied and attacked while I shuddered visibly. This is how great the effect of Itornas is. It is burning itself for the power, and there is a hint of self-preservation in its eyes. CLANNNNG! "What will happen to it after you are dead?" I asked as I defended. This process is irreversible once it starts. It couldn’t be stopped, even Itornas couldn’t stop it. "You will become the next host of the great master," it replied and attacked again. CLANNNNG CLANNNNG CLANNNNG! I defended attack after attack, but it kept attacking me madly, with its attack getting more powerful, intense, and somewhat unpredictable. I watched it as I defended. I didn’t hurry to attack; I don’t want to make the wrong move. "That will never happen," I stated, but I laughed while launching another attack. "Everybody says the same thing," it replied, and suddenly, it became even faster with sticky steam coming out of it, becoming denser. CLANNNNG! I defended, taking a step back, and it was already behind me, attacking again. "They may have, but this time, it will be different. I will kill you and also the Itornas inside you," I stated and defended against attack. Unlike the one before, it didn’t push me back. Though it did shake, and I had to move everything, I had to defend against the attack that came after that. Its attacks become powerful by the second as it burns itself for more energy. While it happened, the long pink eye remained focused on me. I could not see even a shred of worry in the man’s eyes. It instead focuses on its survival. Itornas has no care, but for themselves. They will sacrifice every host, no matter how precious it is, without a thought, if there is danger to their survival. Soon, a minute passed, and we were clashing fast and hard. Seeing it, a powerful monster that is only slightly weaker than it, coming toward us, had stopped in its tracks and retreated a few steps. Even if it has realised how dangerous things are, the further it remains, the better it will be for it. It should because this sticky steam coming out of it is highly infectious. Even the monster as powerful as it is would infect, if it is not careful. Though most of it is focused on me. As I had said, every action of Itornas is focused on survival. Since its host is burning the essence to save it, it is moving to infect the next one. I will not let it infect me. My defences are airtight; they are not letting even a speck inside me. They enter my armor, but that’s where they stop. They could not go any further. However, they are trying and trying very hard for it. Using different tactics, but my formation reacts to them and stops. It is so effective that my clone barely has to interfere in that, but they are keeping watch and making changes in these formations as they get more data. CLANNNNG! I defended against another attack and tightened the strings further. They have moved into the places on and formation changed to better counter it. The moment, I did. It slowed down considerably, giving a chance to dodge the attack, and appeared in front of it. I appeared in front of it and attacked; my target was its face. The eyes, to be exact. Puch! The hosts tried to retreat fast, and even thick pus armor appeared in front of it, but that was not enough to stop my sword, and it pierced through it. It went from one end and came out on the other side, but it didn’t get torn. At the last moment, it had ejected itself out of the body and was now running very fast. Father, then I could move. The itornas is nearly powerless, but it has incredible speed. It was moving at that speed when it suddenly stopped with its eyes widening in shock. "Do you think I would let you escape?" I asked with a smile, and the next moment, the formation burned across the strings covering it. Of course, I had a section of strings around it. The moment it moved out of the host, they enveloped it. I am not going to let it escape. It will die here. Ehhhh! The strange voice emerged, the formations burned, and I poured more power. A second and a half later, I gained a victory as it disappeared. Hun! I was relieved when I noticed something and countered it. It’s not an attack, but a message. I had destroyed it, but not fully. I hope the structure collapses or the information inside. I don’t want to be on the hit list of these bastards.