Chapter 46 The One Called The Annihilator
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Echoes of various sounds, emanating from both the adults and younger serpents, continued to reverberate throughout the expansive evergreen area where Karsha awoke.
Having surrendered to the pull, Karsha continued to float four meters above the ground toward the statue, while everyone else kept their faces to the ground, chanting the slogan.
As the statue finally came into view, Karsha was able to see its appearance. To his shock, however, he couldn\'t discern the true likeness of the person the statue was meant to represent. All he could make out were the two longswords sheathed behind the figure and the long hair tied into a ponytail, with only a few strands falling on the side of his face.
He tried squinting his eyes to see if he could discern who the statue represented, but alas, he couldn\'t make out anything clearly. There seemed to be distortions when he attempted to focus his eyes, so he gave up and continued to float slowly.
As he approached within 10 meters of the statue, two beams of light shot from its eyes and entered Karsha\'s forehead. His vision darkened for a moment, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself standing on scorched earth.
He stood at the center of a blazing battlefield, with corpses littered all around. The air was thick with the smell of burnt flesh, and the ground beneath him was wet from the continuous flow of blood, resembling a waterfall.
"I am peace, I am darkness
I have no mercy. I am mercy
I have no sadness. I bring sadness
They shall call me evil, But I am evil, I am good, I am both
They don\'t like to say it, but I am their worst nightmare
I am their nightly dreams. I am their dream.
They call me by many names: the berserker, the asura, the devil, the carnage, the destroyer.
I have no preference, but I prefer to be called by my true name
The Annihilator..."
A voice spoke, and as Karsha listened, his body on the outside started to change. His eyes, which had a blueish-red hue, turned dark red. They glowed with such a murderous intensity that those with weaker wills would wet their pants at the mere gaze.
His slightly less frail body also underwent a transformation. His muscles and biceps began to form, his stature increasing by a few inches, making him appear somewhat over 6 feet 2 inches tall.
His red hair elongated and now flowed freely down his back. A new dark cloak-like armor materialized around his body, and two dark swords could be seen sheathed behind him.
"My legend shall be known across the stars
Gods shall cower at the mention of my name
I shall cleanse the star of filth and restore the legend of the great Inquisitor.
THE ANNIHILATOR."
When the voice ceased, Karsha felt his vision darken once more, and when he opened them, he found himself staring at the statue. However, this time, he could see the face clearly.
The face staring back at him was his own. It looked exactly like him, and the striking thing was that he could see the statue\'s mouth move as it spoke.
"Your legend has just begun. You are the Annihilator, the one with destiny dancing at his fingertips. You write your own destiny. You do not play by the rules, nor should you think fate plays by them.
Become who you are meant to be because if you fail, the whole universe and the ones you call your loved ones will be annihilated.
Fate is a bitch dressed in white."
"Hahahahahaha!" Laughter filled with pain, anger, and sorrow escaped Karsha\'s lips. His eyes exuded a dark smoke, and his long hair flowed gracefully in the air, "And they shall know my name, The Annihilator, killer of Gods."
"All hail the Annihilator." All the purple tail Anacondas hailed his name as he descended. His dark eyes returned to their usual blueish-red hue, and the armor and swords vanished.
However, his now handsome self remained unchanged, and all the wounds on and in his body had healed. His armor was completely burnt, and the Grey Scale armor was also gone. He was left with only his trousers, yet he didn\'t seem to care.
Once on the ground, he walked toward the woman who bore a striking resemblance to his mother. "Thank you for saving my life. I owe you a debt of gratitude," he spoke with a genuine smile. He appeared to have found a sense of purpose, something to work toward.
"Don\'t get me wrong, Ayarr only fished you from the river when she saw the mark. What saved your life is that necklace around your neck." The woman said, pointing at the necklace, "The person who gave you that necklace must really love you because sealing that much life force would render them weak for many years. They might not even be able to cultivate again," she continued.
Karsha, who knew who gave him that necklace, arched an eyebrow as he held onto it. He had tried inspecting it when June gave it to him, but no data showed up; he assumed it was just an ordinary necklace.
But now that he knew how much had been sacrificed to ensure his safety, a wave of guilt washed over his heart. "It\'s one thing to want to save your mother and another to go this far just for my safety. Why would she do something like that?"
"Is there a way to reverse the effect?" He couldn\'t let such a woman waste her life for his sake.
"Yes. The person would have to awaken her constitution, and once they did, the effect would be reversed," the woman replied, leaving Karsha to ponder it.
"How can she awaken it?"
"It can happen naturally, or since you are a human, you can use one of your medicines to help her. I believe they call it the Constitution awakening pill." Ayarr, who was listening to his mother, raised her eyebrow. She knew her mother was knowledgeable, but she hadn\'t seen her geek out like that before.
In the second phase of the legacy memories, he got many recipes, most about constitutions. So he immediately dived into it, and within a few seconds, he got what he wanted and more.
\'Constitution awakening pill and Constitution strengthening pill. That will do the magic.\'
"Are you an alchemist? You seem to know more about it," Karsha asked as he took a meat from his space ring and started chewing. A little snake girl standing behind the woman looked at the meat with a drooling face.
"Here you go," Karsha, who had noticed her gaze on the meat, took out one and gave it to her. "Thank you, big brother."
\'Big brother\' Once again, Karsha was taken aback. Ayarr looked at her sister with a small smile like her mother.
"I don\'t know about alchemy. I just read from books I got from the humans that infiltrated this Sanctuary year again," The woman answered. Karsha immediately understood who she was talking about.
The Lonely Healer, Xian\'s grandpa, Xian had already told him about his grandpa, so he immediately understood who she was referring to. He wouldn\'t blame her since they were just defending their home.
\'If there was someone to be blamed, then the fools who decided to attack the Anaconda should be blamed,\' he said inwardly.
"But still, the fact that you found a liking to it is commendable. Not many can learn alchemy or even memorize the names of pills and recipes," he remarked.
The woman just smiled weakly. "I needed to, after all. The gray-scale cobra poisoned four of our shadow guards during that battle, so I started looking for ways to save them."
"And were you able to help them?" Karsha asked. The woman, Ayarr, and Starr, all three of them, shook their heads.
In response, Karsha just removed his cauldron and began heating. "You saved me, so let me return the favor". Saying that he started concocting Earth-grade pills. He already has enough venom to create more than 1000 pills.
Two hours later, he stood up and handed four pills over to Ayarr\'s mother. "Just put it in their mouth, and they will wake up in a few hours." He has already concocted enough pills to help him last few weeks in the wild, so giving them four seems like nothing to him.
"Thank you." With teary eyes, the lady thanked her and hurriedly left the room with Starr.
"Thank you for saving me from drowning." Karsha, who is now with the Serpent Assassin, decided to use the time to thank her. She was the one who saved him from drowning, after all.
Although the necklace saved him, he knew he wouldn\'t have survived if Ayarr hadn\'t pulled him out of the water. He had a brush with death but managed to survive, all thanks to the beautiful serpent lady standing before him. Had he not wasted time taking the orb and the core of the Tier 6 Mutant cobra, perhaps he would have been able to escape without having to jump into the waterfall.
But now that he was alive and had managed to get a look at one of the Savages he would be fighting, he knew he had to make adequate preparations, and that started by breaking into the Grandmaster Stage.
He still had the breakthrough quest to complete. He would have to kill six Tier 5 monsters and 1 Tier 6 monster to break through, but since the system had been upgrading for the past two months, he had to wait for all the Tier 5 and Tier 6 monsters.
Had it not been for the system undergoing an upgrade, he would have already reached the next bottleneck from the massacre he caused in the Crimson Spire.
< Ding! The system will be upgraded in the next 10 minutes. The host is advised to be in lotus posture during the process >
Just when Karsha was about to strike up a conversation with Ayarr, the system message appeared. "Please, kindly take me back to the cave; I have to rest for a few hours," he asked, and without any objections, Ayarr led him back to the cave.
The moment he entered, he sat in a lotus posture and waited patiently for his best assistant to come online finally.
< System Upgrade successfully >