The Abyss Of Insanity [1]

Cipro froze. He could not sense Bella's life force anymore. This could only mean one thing. Ninth Finger of the Crimson Hands, was dead. This was a heavy hit to their organization. While Bella was not in top 5 strongest Fingers of the organization, she still was ranked 7th out of the 10 fingers.

"Garou, we already lost Bella, we need to be careful." The identity of the Crimson Hands members was not a secret. Garou was the Tenth Finger, Bella was the Ninth and He was the Seventh.

In terms of pure strength, Cipro was the strongest of the trio. He was also the smartest. Their chances of winning before were around 81%, while with the loss of Bella, it was around 50%.

As he was distracted, a white sphere of energy slammed at his back, sending him flying away. The pain was unbearable. He coughed out blood, his eyesight was not improving, only getting worse and worse.

He thanked God that he had trained sensing the world without actually seeing through his eyes, to prepare for the worst, getting blind.

However that did not really help him in this situation. He was getting attacked right and left, he could hardly even see where he was. It seemed he had to use 'it'...

While his Death Exo Power was extremely powerful, it was being negated, since light and darkness could easily dodge his attacks. That was annoying him a lot. Man… Life was harsh.

~~

Ren chuckled, as he looked at what remained of Bella, nothing. Everything inside several kilometers was turned to nothing. The only reason Albion and the rest did not notice it is because they had moved far away from the pool, while Ren and Bella had fought near it.

Man, Bella's Exo Power looked very cool, he wished he had it. He really hoped he had it, really badly.

"I mean, who doesn't like a power which increases your power by several times?! That would make me so powerful!"

"Ah, that took a chunk of my reserves. I shouldn't overdo it like that next time… Now I have to hunt the other two Crimson Hands Members."

Of course, with his Chaos Power, he was automatically near SS Rank, what could a simple S Rank Slayer do to him?

Honestly, he could probably destroy the Crimson Hands Organization single handedly, and without much pressure. The only threat which could be to him was Rei, a Pure Energy Manipulator could be scary.

However, he still did not know most of the members of that organization, so he better had to get rid of the two others before they got annoying, 7 was easier to deal with than 9. Ren shot forward, heading towards the other battlefield.

He did not notice a silver energy the size of a molecule enter his body. Ren just felt a small itch in his back, before shrugging it off, he did not stop his running.

However, inside his Exo Source a large mutation was happening…

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Albion sent another sphere of light at the Tenth Finger,Garou who released a yell of pain as the attack hit his arm. Kashmir attacked again with his spear, leaving a hole in Garou's left arm. The man gritted his teeth and roared,"You brats!" He swung his right arm in the air, in the shape of a claw, and Exo Particles gathered to take the form of a claw, which flew at Kashmir.

The spearman frowned and did a spectacular back jump and dodged the attack, Laura took this as an opportunity and threw one of her knives coated in darkness at Garou who blocked it with his fire, however a second knife stabbed his shoulder, going through it.

"I'll fucking kill you brats!" The man himself roared, as his eyes turned red, he was experiencing incredible pain. " Hurry up you fucking dumbass!" He yelled in pain, at his 'friend' Cipro, who was deep in his thoughts.

"Here." Cipro said with a cold voice. He raised his scythe in the air, a large amount of Exo Particles gathering, forming a dark gray sphere, Albion frowned, and started sending waves of Light Exo Particles at him, trying to interrupt Cipro.

However, another wall of Death Exo Particles stopped them. " The Laws Of The Ancient decided long ago, that death was something only the God Of Death Hades, and a few selected others could use Death to their advantage."

Cipro started talking, as the sphere became bigger and bigger.

"A few thousand years had passed since that decision, and humanity started to oppose it. A clan rose from the ashes, the Gold Clan. Hades supported them, and even gave them the ability to use Death, however it was too powerful for every single one of them."

He continued, the sphere was now bigger than him, at around 2 meters.

"Thus, Hades decided to only give it to a selected one, which in this generation was me,Cipro Gold. At the age of 12, I got bored of my clan, who got too cocky with what power we had, thus I exterminated it."

The sphere reached the size of a house. It seemed like it was about to stop getting bigger and bigger, the surrounding nature was dying, turning gray in color.

"I'll now show you why they call me a Death God." Cipro finished, and for the first time, a smirk appeared in his face. He slammed his scythe in the ground, and laughed loudly.

"Ancient Law, opposed by humanity, controlled by Gods, spread, Ryoka, LORD OF DEATH!" Cipro roared as he swung his scythe, the spherical ball flying at the trio. Their expression was dark, there was no way they could stop that, they had no time to react.

Garou laughed, enjoying the last moments of the trio which made a lot of problems to him. The sphere neared the trio… It was less than five meters away...Three...Two...

"I'm just in time…"

A voice rang out, surprising Garou and Cipro.

"Do your shit, Soul Reaper!"

A shout spread across the battlefield, and the two Crimson Hands members could swear they saw Hades himself before Cipro's attack. No… It was something beyond Hades himself, something even more fearsome.

It was Death itself.

"Reap!"

The last word rang out, and the battlefield was enveloped in several colors of an energy, gray,black,purple,dark purple and many others. The next moment, nothing was visible.

The trio, Albion,Laura and Kashmir had barely managed to escape far away remaining unscathed from the attack, they sweated when they saw the destruction before them. Albion's dark expression was replaced by an expression of fear and confuse.

He could swear that he felt Ren's Exo Particles at that last moment, but he also felt something different, a second Exo Particle just next to Ren… His sword. It was impossible, while Slayer Weapons could technically gain Exo Particles through the absorbing of Hollows, the act of actually holding the Exo inside it was impossible.

The Slayer Weapons absorbed the Exo Particles, further evolving themselves, they never held on to it. Unless… The Weapon was conscious. But that was not possible, no weapon could possibly gain consciousness.

He tried his best to look at the battleground, or at least what was left of several buildings , which had been reduced to nothing by the many attacks which had happened.

"Thanks god everyone evacuated the second I contacted the police, at least they let us deal with this shit by ourselves. I can't really blame them though, it's hard to find a S Rank Slayer to participate in this shit."

The battleground was covered in dust, which made it harder for him to see.

~~

Cipro coughed blood, he was extremely wounded. His left side of his body had been all slashed, he lacked all his left side, he was cut in half. The only reason he was still alive was because he still had a full head intact, and also because of his death power.

The damage done to his body was enormous, he could not even feel pain anymore, it was as if it was cut from his body. All his sensory receptors had died, together with his nerve system. It was purely out of sheer luck he was still alive.

But not for much longer. He moved his eye, with whatever power was left out of him, and looked at Garou… or what was left out of him.

Nothing.

He wanted to gulp right now, but he lacked the power, or even the stomach to do it. Garou was dead, Bella was dead and soon he would also die. Just what monster had Rei provoked?

Cipro just started laughing loudly.

It seems that they wouldn't be the only ones to die… soon the others would also follow them… He could make fun of them in hell.

*stab*

Cipro felt something cold pierce what remained of his chest, he looked down only to see it was a blade. He turned his head around, to see a silver haired devil. Ren.

"I hope you enjoyed the surprise. My sword was really getting anxious, it wanted your soul." The silver devil grinned, and Cipro chuckled.

He was wrong. He wouldn't meet the rest in hell. He would have no soul to even go to the afterlife. His eyes turned blank, as his soul was sucked inside the sword, soon Garou's soul entered the sword, just like Bella's soul had done.

The soul shook, as if announcing it was extremely satisfied. Ren smirked," I guess you had enough of feeding off weak hollows, Only such powerful beings satisfy you… No they don't come close to doing it but it's the closest thing to it."

Soul Reaper. A sword he had found in the streets. Some might ask how the hell can something like that happen?

The answer was that 'Soul Reaper' was a sword with a consciousness, it had an entity inside it, which desired strong souls. The only reason he had gotten it is because he was chosen by the sword to be its master.

It had been 5 years since that fateful day. Ever since then, Ren had feed hundreds if not dozens of thousands of souls to the sword, Ren estimated the number to be around ten thousand or so. Which in five years was a lot. In 1826 days he had nearly feed ten souls daily to the Sword.

The silver haired boy grinned again, for what seemed the hundredth time for today, and started walking towards where his team was, half of which had evacuated to a nearby place, and sheathed his sword.

Today, was undoubtedly was a very satisfying day for him.

He liked it, a lot.

He wondered…

When would be the next time he'd have such a destructive battle with so many powerful people?

If only he knew...