Shit!!" Enzo cursed as he quickly jumped into his shadow and created distance between himself and the new arrival.
His mind was still processing what was happening but his body knew danger when he saw it. In about 2 seconds, she had covered the distance between her and Enzo and was already barreling towards him again.
She looked like Victoria, the Red hair, long legs and luscious skin. All of it resembled Victoria just like a clone, however there was something off about her.
As Enzo phased through another shadow in panic he caught a glimpse of what reflected in her eyes.
It was incredibly similar to what was in the eyes of the infected but much deeper and much more profound.
"This is bad," Enzo muttered, thinking of what next to do as she completely destroyed a giant rock in the distance.
This clone of Victoria had closed the distance between his leaps in seconds. It was hard to strategize under these circumstances.
But Enzo had no choice, he had to think, and fast.
'She's fast, and incredibly strong, driven like Victoria, I haven't even clashed with her once and I already feel like she would rip me to shreds. What can I do?'
Enzo thought as he continued jumping, moving further and further away from the altar of the sentient blood.
"Quick, she had distracted him. Let's speed up the process!!" Dandan said to Kara and they rushed towards the sentient blood's altar.
Once the sentient blood became a god, it would exert control over the laws of this world, by that time, Victoria would become an insignificant flea to it.
But first it needed to evolve.
And what better way to evolve than to consume the life force of a myriad of monsters.
Pulling a lever on the altar of the sentient blood pool, Dandan broke into a smile.
The wanton death caused by Victoria was planned, the sentient blood's vessels were an extension of its power, but like said…it was just an extension.
If it needed to evolve, taking in all the bodies' life force was crucial. It was like preparing a pot of soup.
The ingredients could be prepared separately, but only together would it form the final shell needed for divinity.
-wooooo
In the distance the life force energy flowed from the battlefield and rushed towards the altar riding the wind.
"The process has started," Dandan fell to his knees and bowed to the pool, reverence filled in his body movements and tone.
Kara followed suit of course as they worshipped their ascending god. When all was said and done, they were the sentient blood and it was them.
Its evolution was their evolution.
"Hm?" As Dandan groveled he noticed a whistle in the air resulting in him having to turn away but in the next second.
Splat!!
A figure burst right through him in an instant blowing him apart like a watermelon.
Enzo had just taken a turn by the altar a second ago and with this Victoria's clone followed closely….too closely.
"Fucker!!" Kara cursed as she fell to the ground crawling towards the pool and eventually falling inside.
That thing was crazy.
This clone of Victoria was actually not a making of the sentient bloodline. Rather it was made by the red sun legion.
It was the result of their years of research and experiment on Victoria. They brought her here to extract her life formula, but failed, however they were mad geniuses after all.
So they created a clone, extremely similar to her, using her DNA and blood. If they were to fail it would be tasked with killing her and stealing whatever power she had left.
Unfortunately, this thing was flawed and met the sentient blood before it could carry out its mission.
It had been thoroughly refined and swallowed by it.
"Is it getting faster?" Enzo thought to himself as he ran around the subterranean hellscape.
This thing clearly wasn't as strong as Victoria was, a flawed copy in fact. But with time it seemed to be getting less and less flawed.
"I have no choice, I have to at least stop it from evolving more than it is doing right now" Enzo said as he suddenly threw himself into the air and turned around.
[Innate skill activated: White radiance]
[Description: Using the energy source of the user, White radiance increases the strength of the user by an entire realm. Lasts for 5 minutes]
Suddenly his body burned with a bright light, one that burned through the darkness of the subterranean hell. It felt like he alone stood before everything below the heavens as a burning star.
The Skeleton bioarmor gave him the boost needed to fight against the likes of Dandan and Kara two great terrors, beating them to a pulp even, but with the boost of the white radiance skill?
"5 minutes"
Enzo had pushed realms above what he could handle normally..
He dove down immediately, his hands cocked back like cannons pulled back as he approached Victoria's clone with terrifying speed.
One blurry figure with Red hair and a bright star rushed at each other in the darkness and clashed.
-boom!!!
The echo from which reverberated through the air as dust picked up and the ground below caved in.
"Die," Enzo cursed as he twisted in the air, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth while he aimed his sand drill at her neck.
The momentum of falling had given Enzo an extra boost to tank that attack from the clone, but upon impact it was clear who had the upper hand between the two.
And it wasn't Enzo.
Grinnn!!
As the sand drill pierced towards her, the clone using her second hand quickly grabbed Enzo by the wrist and threw him into the ground.
She didn't stop there however as she slashed down with her claw-like nails looking to pierce his head.
Fortunately, with a twist Enzo was able to dodge and phase into a shadow on the ground.
But instead of running away he rose right behind her and launched another flurry of attacks.
He wasn't going to let her grow more powerful, her being an obstacle to his ultimate victory only meant one thing.
She had to die, and Enzo didn't mind being her executioner, even if it killed him.