Leveling Up by Seducing Milfs-Chapter 111. The Corruption Core
Sebastian showed up on his shoulder and then looked at the horrible thing and just sighed hopelessly. "Well, this is exactly the kind of nightmare fuel I expected."
"Any chance we can just politely ask it to move?"
The beast roared, which was a clear answer to Sebastian’s question. Rick’s chest hurt from the sound, and his teeth rattled. "F-Fuck...! It attacked through my heart just with a sound as ugly as that...!"
The beast charged right away, but then Carmilla faced the charge head-on. As she got ready, sword raised in a defensive stance, her Guardian’s Resolve reached its highest level.
The beast’s huge claw hit her sword, and the shockwave it made cracked the stone floor under her feet, but Carmilla stayed strong because her Unbreakable Bond with Rick gave her the strength to take hits that would have killed a normal warrior.
Rick yelled, "Carmilla’s got aggro!" as he moved to the side of the creature. "Natasha, try to attack it from a clear distance!"
"I’ll help with close combat!"
Natasha didn’t waste time hearing what Rick said. Ice magic came out of her hands in quick bursts, making giant spears that flew toward the beast’s legs. The first two hit their mark, freezing the creature’s right leg in a block of ice that held it in place.
Rick fully activated his partial dragon transformation. He felt scales erupting all over his arms and chest, and his eyes burned with golden fire.
He lunged forward and used his claws to attack one of the creature’s many limbs. The impact ripped through the corrupted flesh, and dark ichor sprayed all over the floor of the chamber.
The beast screamed in anger and pain. Rick hadn’t even noticed its tail until then, but it whipped around at an alarming speed and hit him in the ribs.
Rick heard bones crack as he was thrown back and hit a pillar so hard that it left a crater in the old stone. "Nrrgggh...!!!"
"Rick!" Carmilla’s voice was full of both fear and anger.
She hit the beast again and again, her sword cutting through another limb with a blow fueled by her need to protect.
Rick groaned and made himself stand up again, even though he could taste blood in his mouth. Through his bond network, he felt both Liora and Sylvia react to his pain.
Liora’s divine energy pulsed with concern from Valdris, while Sylvia’s rage in the Northern Peaks flared so intensely that Rick half expected to see the sky turn red.
"Don’t worry, I’m alright..." he said to calm the tension between them all.
Natasha methodically froze the beast’s limbs one at a time, using her Frost Mind to figure out the best way to hit them with inhuman accuracy, but every time she froze a limb solid, the beast’s corruption would grow stronger, and the ice would break and shatter.
The creature was healing itself almost as quickly as they could hurt it.
Natasha yelled, "Normal attacks aren’t enough to kill that thing!"
"The corruption is healing it faster than we can break it!"
Rick made a choice after wiping blood from his mouth. "Alright then, let’s change our plan!"
"I’m going to use the Spirit Unity now!"
He used the power that combined all of his bonds into one huge wave of energy. Rick could feel the energies flooding through him right away.
Carmilla’s red protective flame and Natasha’s ice blue clarity came together. The golden divine light from Liora reached across the distance from Valdris, and the fierce dragon fire from Sylvia burned through their connection from the Northern Peaks.
The four energies didn’t just combine together. They merged together to make something that had never been seen before.
Rick’s body started to glow with layers of red, blue, gold, and crimson auras that pulsed in perfect time with each other. The power was almost too much for his body to handle, and he could feel the timer in his head counting down from sixty seconds.
But for those sixty seconds, he couldn’t be stopped.
"I can feel it." Rick clenched both his fists. "This is... the power of all the MILFs I’ve fucked!"
Rick moved faster than anyone should have been able to. His claws, now covered in a mix of fire, ice, and divine light, ripped through the beast’s healing flesh like it was paper.
Carmilla’s blows turned into giant explosions of protective rage that broke corrupted limbs with just one hit. Natasha’s ice magic got stronger, and it made frozen spears the size of tree trunks that punched through the beast’s body.
The creature tried to fight back, but the combined strength of four bonded powers working together through three warriors in perfect harmony was simply too much for the creature to handle.
Rick could see the beast’s regeneration trying to keep up, then failing, and finally stopping completely as the damage built up faster than the corruption could fix it.
"TOGETHER... NOW." Rick yelled, and all three of them hit at the same time.
Carmilla’s sword went straight through the beast’s center mass with all the power of Guardian’s Resolve behind it. Natasha’s last ice lance came from the other side and froze the creature’s core in an instant.
"GRAAGGGHHHHHH!!!" Rick’s dragon fire breath, which was made stronger by Spirit Unity, burned the beast from the inside out.
Before it blew up, the monster let out one last, deafening scream. In the air where it had stood, light and darkness fought for control, with the light winning in the end. The monster broke down into pieces of bad ash that spread out across the room.
[+150 EXP: MAJOR BOSS DEFEATED]
When Spirit Unity’s timer ran out, Rick fell to one knee. Taking away that much power all at once felt like someone had taken out his insides and put in lead.
His vision was blurry, and he would have fallen if Carmilla hadn’t caught him. "I’ve got you," she said, and she held him up with no trouble, even though she was worn out.
"Take a break for a minute."
Rick’s chest rose and fell as he tried to catch his breath. "Hah... hah... hah... phheeeww..."
His muscles screamed in pain. "Not now... the core is close... I can feel it..."
He made himself stand up, leaning on Carmilla’s shoulder a lot. Natasha looked just as worn out, and her usual ice-blue skin was even paler than usual, but her eyes were set.
She pointed to a huge door that had been hidden behind where the beast had been standing and said, "Through there."
They could see a pulsing purple light beyond it that made their skin crawl just looking at it. "Let’s go."
They stumbled forward together, helping each other as they got closer to the last room. Rick tried to focus on the doorway, but the demonic writing on it seemed to move and change.
The overwhelming sense of corruption in the room felt as if invisible hands were pushing against them, trying to force them back.
When they crossed the threshold, the sight that met them took Rick’s breath away.
The room was huge, like a cathedral. And in the middle, held up by strands of pure evil, was the core.
It was a huge crystal structure that was at least fifteen feet tall and pulsed with evil purple energy. There were what looked like veins on the surface that pulsed in time with a heartbeat that Rick could hear echoing through the room.
In that room, the whispers were so loud that they were deafening.
It wasn’t words anymore, but many screaming voices all asking for the same thing.
"JOIN US... POWER... ETERNITY... SUBMIT... GIVE IN... BECOME ONE... ENDLESS STRENGTH... NO MORE PAIN... SURRENDER..."
The mental attack was too much to handle. Rick thought his Unbreakable Will was having a hard time keeping the voices away.
Carmilla gritted her teeth next to him, and Natasha’s hands shook as they both tried to keep their minds strong.
"Simultaneous concentrated assault," Natasha gasped, her tactical mind still working even though she was under a lot of stress.
"All... together...! Carmilla’s sword, my ice magic, and Rick’s dragon fire!"
"We hit it all at once."
