[Host has undergone a critical injury]
[Passive skill: Super Fast Healing will now activate]
[Super Fast Healing cannot fully heal the injury: Reason: Soul points critically low]
[Soul Points -5]
[Your soul points are empty]
[Host will now run wild]
After reading thest notification floating before him, Ss immediately felt dizzy and copsed.
Caleb stood there, his expression a mixture of confusion and anger. When he finally saw Ss fall, he clicked his tongue and turned toward his friends, signaling for them to leave before anyone could spot them.
"Let''s get out of here, guys. The bastard''s dead," Caleb dered as he walked back to where Sammy and Carlos stood.
"Huh?" Sammy stammered, his face pale with terror, his eyes locked on a specific spot behind Caleb.
"What the hell are you—" Caleb began, frowning, but when he turned to see what had shaken Sammy, his eyes widened in shock, and his jaw dropped.
Ss, who had been lying motionless just moments ago, was now rising to his feet as if nothing had happened. With a calm, deliberate motion, he gripped the hilt of the de lodged in his chest and yanked it out without uttering a sound.
"What the hell?" Caleb gasped, disbelief flooding his voice. "Am I seeing this right? Is his wound healing... at an insane speed?" He swallowed hard as he watched the gaping injury on Ss''s chest seal itselfpletely, leaving no trace of the stabbing.
Once fully healed, Ss stepped forward, and as he moved, the group finally saw his transformed appearance in full.
His once neat hair had turned sharp and bristly, like the quills of a porcupine. His muscles had be more defined and bulkier, vicious ws, and his eyes had turned pitch ck. Beneath them, dark veins pulsed visibly, spreading across his arms and legs like twisted roots.
His mere presence was menacing. Just looking at him sent shivers down their spines.
"A demon..." Sammy muttered under his breath, cold sweat dripping from his face.
"What the hell happened to him? He was supposed to be dead! But instead, he''s turned into this... this freakish mutant!" Caleb''s voice trembled, his bravado reced by raw fear.
Ss stopped a few meters away from them, standingpletely still, his gaze locked onto them with an eerie silence.
"Hey, guys, don''t let him scare you!" Caleb shouted, trying to rally his courage. "He''s still just Ss Griswold. This is all an act to freak us out—don''t fall for it!"
Caleb''s words seemed to bolster Sammy''s courage, and with a loud battle cry, Sammy charged forward without hesitation.
**SLASH!**
A thin white line shed through the air, followed by a heavy thud as Sammy''s head tumbled to the ground like a ball. His body followed shortly after, blood spraying in all directions as his life was snuffed out in an instant.
''What... what just happened?'' Caleb froze, his mind struggling toprehend what he had just witnessed.
One second, Sammy had been charging, and the next, his head was rolling across the floor, while Ss remained standing in the same spot.
''Wait... his ws... they''re dripping with blood...'' Caleb''s mind raced as the horrifying truth hit him. ''He attacked Sammy so fast, we didn''t even see it. Just how fast is this guy?'' Panic seized him, and all the confidence he once had evaporatedpletely.
Carlos, however, was too enraged to be paralyzed by fear. He stepped forward, his face twisted in fury, and stretched out his hands, palms open wide.
"You... How dare you kill him like that!" Carlos roared, summoning five long ice spikes that floated in the air for a split second beforeunching toward Ss with deadly force.
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Ss vanished from his spot, reappearing directly in front of Carlos in the blink of an eye. Before Carlos could react, Ss''s ws shed, and his head was severed clean from his body.
Blood sprayed like a fountain as Carlos''s headnded at Caleb''s feet, followed by the copse of his headless body.
Caleb''s heart sank into his stomach, his face ashen with terror. His shirt clung to him, drenched in cold sweat, as though he had been submerged in water.
''This guy... he''s a devil!'' Caleb screamed internally, his heart pounding violently in his chest as his gaze remained glued to Ss.
''I have no choice but to run.'' Caleb''s mind finally settled on a decision, and without hesitation, he spun around and sprinted toward the door that led to the main academy building.
As he ran, something unnerved him—there were no footsteps behind him. No one was chasing him. Driven by curiosity, he risked a nce over his shoulder, only to find that Ss had vanished.
"Where is he?" Caleb muttered, scanning the area frantically. His heart nearly stopped when he turned his gaze forward again. There, standing directly in his path, was Ss.
''Shit... shit... shit!'' Panic coursed through Caleb''s veins, and in a desperate attempt to flee, he tried to turn and run the other way—but there was Ss, standing behind him as well.
"Please! Please, don''t kill me!" Caleb pleaded, his voice shaking. "I''ll give you anything! Look, I''ve just transferred all my tokens to you. Please, spare my life!" Caleb frantically made a quick transfer, hoping to buy his life.
But Ss didn''t seem to be listening. It felt as though the person before Caleb wasn''t Ss anymore but a wild creature driven by an insatiable instinct to hunt and kill.
"Please... I''m the only son..." Caleb whimpered, tears spilling from his eyes, his voice filled with desperation and regret.
Ss stared at him for a moment before reaching out and gripping Caleb''s head with one hand. His ws sank deep into Caleb''s skull, and a glowing blue aura began to flow from Caleb''s body into Ss''s.
[Soul Points: 10/100]
[Soul Points: 50/100]
[Soul Points: 70/100]
[Soul Points: 100/100]
Even though his soul points were fully restored, Ss didn''t stop. He continued draining everyst bit of Caleb''s soul, his hunger insatiable. As the seconds passed, Caleb''s body began to solidify, turning into a lifeless, petrified husk.