Bloodlust

Chapter 21 - Spreading Crimson

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To him, It was probably just another day.

For Alicia? This was a hellhole that she stepped on.

The battlefield that was once filled with sand were now decorated with limbs severed from reunion, Heads scattered or stabbed into the ground, Legs bent in an unbelievable degrees, body parts that were barely recognizable

She didn't understand it at all. Just how fucked up can his so called ability be?

"KILL HIM! AVENGE OUR FALLEN BROTH- AAAAAGH"

Even when Kalt'sit explained it to her about his ability to affect emotions and oripathy, She still didn't understand how in the world does it lead to him going insane. Alicia scratched her head as she took deep breathes through her rebreather she commissioned for in case she had to go through trials like this. Although even after all of that, she still had a question in mind

'How is he still up with that amount of weapons lodged into him?!'

Bloodlust kept on mindlessly attacking and decapitating people with an unusual amount of weapons stabbed on his chest, most were constantly reused by the monster as the weapons he  grabbed always broke on use

'Even if he keeps getting impaled, he somehow angles it to avoid the weapons hitting his heart...' Alicia looked in despair as she saw another streak of blood splatter the crimson ground, The scream of the grunt only came out as another noise as the scream of the other grunts were louder

"COME ON!!! YOU WANTED ME DEAD RIGHT?! DO IT YOURSELVES!"

He screamed with joy in his voice as he opened his arms wide, Attempting to taunt the already aggravated Reunion. He immediately leaned forward to prevent another stab with the use of the weapons impaled on his chest

Using the opportunity, He sliced the grunt's hand and kicked them to the air before throwing a spear from his back to impale the grunt.

Alicia used the last bit of her mental strength to hide herself behind a rock, A Rock that has been flung by him during his slaughter which killed Ten grunts. Conveniently, it is quite enough to hide her, the rest of the operators who were still in the field during that time, and a small group of traumatized grunts 

The operators themselves were at a lost from the event,  Even if she wanted to get them out of the field for their mental sake, She risks them getting misidentified by Bloodlust and getting them killed. 

"Kalt'sit, How lon-"

"Doctor, I am trying everything I could to get there faster, Please hold out a bit longer..."

She already wished she was here to begin with, Alicia slumped down on the ground and tried to ignore the constant screaming on the battlefield. She glanced to her side, seeing two huddled reunion grunts murmuring about the end of the line

She tried to at least comfort them as strange as it would be, but figured that it would only make things worse. After all, She was the one who commanded him in the first place ( Technically ). 

"To everyone that is still on the field, Please keep your heads down and don't get out of cover" She warned her operators, who only nodded in response as they tried to keep themselves busy from the screaming grunts

All that was left to do was pray that Kal'tsit's plan actually worked out

─── ⋅ ∙ ∘ ☽ ༓ ☾ ∘ ⋅ ⋅ ───

[ . . . ]

I see them in the distance, cheering me on.

It made me smile at least, Its been a long time since i saw my family smile like that.