Recovering strength through battle (Part 2)

From above it could be seen that a purplish crab with golden carapace, almost twice as large as the one Alusec killed was standing on a body of waves that extended like a pillar from the ocean below. The eyes looked a lot fiercer than the one Alusec killed earlier and there was a majestic aura coming from it.

The crab stabbed Alusec from behind with its huge claws, creating a hole that covered his entire chest region. shhhhhhssss! sounds could be heard with the smell of meat being cooked. The entire pincer was larger than Alusec's whole body and only the tip penetrated his chest but it was enough to cover half of his body. The claws were glowing crimson and sizzling hot because the Crab could change its body temperature at will.

"A PUNY MORTAL DARES TRESPASS INTO MY TERRITORY AND MURDER MY SPAWN!" The voice of the crab echoed in Alusec's mind. This was the Eruelis Crab Lord. The leader of the turf where Alusec trespassed into.

"Being a sacred king doesn't give you the right to be cocky.." Alusec blurted out those words while spitting out more blood and holding on to the pincer.

The crab was shocked to find out that Alusec could still speak while being impaled.

At the sacred king level, mind communication was possible for every being that cultivated. Alusec couldn't perceive the crab lord presence because he was on its turf and had a higher cultivation base than him as he was currently at the star transformation level.

Alusec placed his two palms on the blood-soaked claw and shouted out,

"Taleki controlling art." Immediately after Alusec said that sentence, some runic symbols appeared on the part of the pincer that was stained with blood.

The claw withdrew itself from Alusec's body and started thrashing around.

The crab stared at it's claw waving around in shock because it had lost its sense of control over that part of its body.

The art that Alusec used enabled him to snatch control of anything that his body fluid was stained with. It could be his sweat, urine, blood, e.t.c.

So long as his body fluid touched anything or anyone he could be able to control that part that his body fluid was on.

The outlines in the ocean traveling in straight lines finally got to where Alusec and the Crab lord were. They encircled Alusec and their leader and leaped out of the ocean.

Ten large looking purplish crabs having the same features as the one Alusec killed earlier, the only way to differentiate them was some were slightly larger while some were smaller.

While the were in the air, head for Alusec, the crab lord right claw suddenly glowed bright crimson, with shhhhh! sounds coming from it and moved.

Crack! Crack! Crack! sounds were heard as the crab lord attacked them with his claw, stabbing into three of them in one go.

Three of it spawns died with a confused look in their eyes, wondering why their lord would bring about their demise.

The crab lord tried using his left claw to attack Alusec, when suddenly it's right claw stabbed into it's left shoulder with intensity, making it's left pincer disconnect and fall from its shoulder and fall into the ocean below them. Fresh blue blood jetted out like a river out of its empty shoulder, staining the ocean but after some seconds the blood stopped flowing.

The crab lord stared at Alusec with hate and killing intent, "YOU DAMN MORTAL..." Alusec could hear the voice of the crab in his mind.

The rest of the crabs were surprised to see their leader attacking itself.

It was like a tug of war between them as Alusec floated above the region with a huge charred hole in his chest with his internals visible, his body quaked from the stress of controlling such a huge claw while the crab struggled to regain control.

One of the seven crabs that were left understood that Alusec was the cause of the issue and leaped at him.

Just as it was few feet away from Alusec...

Swipe!

The crab lord claw slashed horizontally at it, cleaving it into two halves.

Just like that four crabs at the moon transformation level had lost their lives.

The rest of the crabs were afraid to go close to Alusec in fear of their leader attacking them.

The crab lord eyes were red as it finally regained control over its right claw and ordered his spawns to attack Alusec who used flickering steps after losing control of the pincer, to distance himself more than a hundred meters away from them. The six crabs hesitated a little bit, thinking their leader may attack them again but they couldn't disobey so they had to comply.

Alusec was in the air, breathing heavily and sweating profusely, "Huff! Huff! Huff! I never knew that a sacred king could give me this much trouble." he stared at the crab lord who had only one claw left and it's spawns approaching him.

"It's troublesome to keep fighting like this," Alusec said after checking out the huge hole in his body and clapped his palms together.

Pah!

"Regeneration"

A transparent glowing spherical light covering his palms and expanded from his palms to all over his body. When the light got to where the hole was, his body was seen closing back up like he was never injured.

The crabs approaching were shocked to see the hole close up like it was never there because their leader's claw had a kind of curse on it that could stop regenerative abilities.

Originally, it shouldn't have been able to pierce Alusec's body in the first place since his body was impervious to such but because of the curse and the fact that Alusec was currently weakened, it was able to pierce his body but that couldn't stop him from regenerating.

One of the reasons why Alusec was the most feared God in his heyday was because of he couldn't really be killed, even if you cut him into a million pieces or burnt him to ashes, he would still regenerate from nothing but no one could even get him to bleed when he became the most powerful.

On his way to Godhood, Alusec had died several times but when he regenerated from nothing only him knew that there was a cost for that.

The crabs finally got to where Alusec was. Two of them jumped in the air, besieging him from the front and behind while the rest stayed down waiting for the right opportunity to attack.

The two of them threw their claws forward, trying to turn Alusec into a shish kebab.

"Time flicker... form two."

After Alusec said this, everything slowed down. Alusec could see the pincers of the crab, heading towards him In very slow motion almost like stopping time.

Alusec turned around, held the pincer of the crab behind him, dragged it, and slammed its body into the one in front of him.

Crash!

Time went back to normal as they crashed into each other, flying away into the distance.

These one's we're not yet at the moon transformation level, so immediately Alusec slammed them together, cracking sounds were heard. Even if they didn't end up dying from the damage they would still be heavily injured.