Villain transmigration: The doll maker.-Chapter 101:Massacre

My feet sounded on top of the dying corpses of beasts as we ran across the valley trying to use as little time as possible to get across the valley.

I was cutting through the beasts that were trying to get past the boundary I had established. It was easy, but my attention had been snatched by the two rapidly advancing monstrosities that had noticed my disruption.

They were further down the valley, a distance away from us but that didn’t worry me.

In my calculations, by the time they got to us, we would have crossed the hoard.

It was easier to fight them on the other side than in the middle of the valley.

Unless...

"Incoming!"

I shouted and sliced the sword at the incoming boulders, but didn’t stop running; more followed, each slowing our pace as everyone tried to cut or dodge.

The two monsters bulldozed through the crowd at a terrifying speed as they broke the valley walls and threw the pieces at us, clearly trying to slow us down.

Class II monsters could easily raze a city to the ground and now we were dealing with two strength-type beasts.

"Kianah and Donovan, go for the class III they’re all sneaking through the right. Luna and the others deal with the oncoming boulders this things are getting faster and more annoying. "

The orgre specifically was running much faster than the more clumsy heavy-set cyclops.

The valley shook with each of their footsteps causing a small earthquake to envelope the ground.

The beasts that had been scared of the boundary I had set started to rush towards us, suicidal, each trying to run from the approaching monstrosity.

I sighed and turned to glance at my companions. Each of them was engaged in their own battles as they fought through the converging tides.

I turned my attention back to the ogre.

This was becoming more annoying than I wanted it to be. It was better to get it over with quickly.

I lifted my free hand into the air and channelled my mana towards the sky.

’Ice showers’

Hundreds of spells appeared above the hoard as my mana started to challenge itself into the spell circles.

This was one of the reasons I hated large-scale spell casting, it drained mana faster than normal and maintenance was just as costly although the benefits were better.

I didn’t like the feeling of my mana being drained.

I waved my hand down and large icicles ran down from the circles in rapid succession and pierced the crowd below.

This was the fastest way to just get rid of them.

Shrieks and roars filled the valley but my attention was focused on the two monsters that were pierced but still able to survive through the torrent of falling ice.

’Haste’

I rushed through the showering flesh and blood of different colours zapping through the crowd while using my blood manipulation to prevent any splutters from reaching me and killing any beast that had somehow managed to survive the ice rain.

The orgre noticed my approach and raised the club it was holding and tried to hit me but I side-stepped and it hit the ground.

It sent a massive shockwave filled with dust and flesh into the air. Most of the victim beasts directly hit the valley walls.

Large splinters scattered around as its weapon broke.

’Blood manipulation ’

My senses went into its body as I mapped the movement of its blood and stopped its flow into the beating heart.

The brute didn’t notice since I hadn’t touched the blood in its heart but the body.

After a few moments of aimless swinging, it started to slow down. I watched it all in fascination.

While I had experimented on beasts i have never dubbed into larger beasts.

My space wouldn’t allow it.

’I wish I could take it with me’

I ran up its up its up and sliced my sword down at the place its heart was currently located without cutting into the still beating heart.

I plunged my hands inside the still-warm body and pulled out the heart. It was almost as large as my torso.

I still beat in my heart as though trying to cling to the last leg of its life while the pumped out blood spluttered around.

I placed it in my storage space.

I had originally planned to take some of its organs and cells after we had crossed but it seems my plans went haywire again.

"Master....behind you!"

Luna’s shout rang through the battleground. A shadow fell over me as the approaching loud footsteps came to a stop.

I chuckled. I had been waiting for the next big guy.

The cyclop.

I swung my sword before it could react directly cutting through the skin and until an inch from the heart.

’Blood manipulation ’

The blood in its body solidified into threads as the heart was cut out of its body and floated out unimpeded before it could even react.

The still beating heart landed on my hands.

It was just as big and healthy as the ogres.

I really wanted to take their bodies but they would take up useless space and I wasn’t in a conducive position to collect experimental materials.

That was why I had settled for the heart.

"Lucian.. most of the beasts have scattered."

Seraph said while looking up at me. I was still standing on top of the ogre’s body.

’Clean’

All the blood and gore that had stuck to me during the fight washed away as the spell passed over me and everyone else.

My gaze turned to the battlefield, which was more of a slaughter but it didn’t stop me from referring to it as a battlefield.

"This is a lot."

My spell had already been retracted and what was left were impelled monsters and icicles that had turned red from all the blood that had been sprayed.

My spell had managed to kill almost three-quarters of the beast and the rest seemed to have escaped before I could reach them.

I sighed heavily.

I seemed to have reduced the burden of the hoard on the western duchy.

While the troll forest bordered our duchy more, some of it stretched up the western duchy and the hoard would have definitely gone there.

That didn’t really worry me much since I was sure the smell of blood would attract more beasts.

"We should le..."

I didn’t get to finish my words, the ground below us shook violently causing me to almost lose my balance.

I jumped down the ogre and looked towards the valley entrace but no more beasts were entering the valley.

"My mana is being absorbed!"

Kianah shouted in panic while looking around. She tried to move towards me but she seemed to be stuck.

I lifted my leg, or tried to but couldn’t move an inch. Something was very wrong.

Then it happened, my mana started to drop at a rapid speed. Despite my mana pool trying to create more to to fill the declining gap.

It was still dropping. I glanced at the others and they all seemed to be going through the same state.

"Look, the blood is disappearing!"

Abelion shouted the panic more evident in his voice. The blood from the whole battlefield was being absorbed into the ground.

What was under the ground? It had gone undetected despite my senses sweeping across the whole valley.

"It’s a spell, there seemed to be a spell on this valley and we just activated it by killing the beasts. "

I said in resignation. The pattern was becoming more visible under me. I didn’t know what type of spell it was but it seemed to be older.

Below ground were almost translucent broken spell lines and patterns. The blood from the beasts was acting as a form of connection to the broken pieces of the spell and we were the conductors.

"Its an ancient spell.."

Seraph said having noticed the spell forming.

"What kind do you think it is?"

Kianah asked, panic present in her eyes. I could see her trembling slightly.

"I don’t know but we’re not going to stay here and find out."

Since I had a large mana pool i was able to hold up pretty well despite the rapid decrease of my mana but the others weren’t doing so well.

I had to do something.

I circled my mana fighting against the decrease. Spell circles formed above the eyes of the spell as I got ready to unleash my power.

As though noticing my attack, the spell flared and a white light enveloped us.

"Shit... It’s a teleportation spell."

I shouted to the others before the light fully enveloped them and we all fell into white nothingness.

I couldn’t even feel the usual spatial rift that happens when teleportation is activated.

This was instant, we fell into what looked like a bottomless pit for a second then a warm light enveloped us.

"Where are we?"

I said in confusion after my eyes adjusted to the dim light of what looked like a cave.