A fierce crimson aura enveloped Alex's body which burst forth like a huge waves of tides crashing against the seashore.
The ground on which he stood started to crack as it was unable to handle the pressure emitted from his body.
Alex's sword started to glow with a crimson hue and layer after layer of mana enveloped the sword and covered it wholly while the mana points he had became close to zero.
Alex didn't want to take any more chances and decided to give his all in this final blow.
His mana heart started to beat fiercely by pumping more mana to his blood and vessel which increased his breathing to help his body to deal with the shock of using the power attack.His long hair fluttered as high-speed winds burst past his cheek.
A suffocating pressure emerged from his sword which dyed the entire surrounding in blood red frightening everybody out there.
It looked as if Alex had become one with the blood,there was no playfulness on his face.
In fact, they had never seen such a serious and stern expression on Alex which made their hair stand in fear.
It looked as if Alex entire existence had changed
The Byk growled loudly and, opening its muzzle, shot a mighty beam of light towards Alex which seemed to devour and destroy everything that stood in its path without a hint of mercy.
"Haaaahhh!"Alex took a deep breath and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, he thrust with his sword and stabbed the air in front of him." Piercing Thrust!!"
A huge concentrated gust of pressure left Alex's sword which surged towards the beam of light and collided with it.
The scorching beam of light that was coming at Alex as if it met an obstacle stopped advancing in an instant and at the next instant, the beam of light was torn apart and was split by Alex's stab.
DUUUUSH!
BOOOOM!!
The beam of light burst into two halves and a powerful shockwave spread across the area resulting in a massive fissure formed by a huge explosion which moved towards the Byk.
A sudden concentrated mass of pressure tore the beam fired by Byk and hit him and swept him away.
A huge mushroom shaped cloud of dark flames rose into the sky.
A few moments later when the dust and flames dispersed everyone looked at the scene with a hint of solemnity as they saw a huge shadowy figure still standing on its legs.
But to their surprise, Alex put down his sword and started to walk back.
The dark flames finally extinguished and as the dust settled, they saw the Byk standing with it's mouth wide open and it had huge bloody hole in the chest and the mid-portion of his body had disappeared.
"We won."
"We survived."
"Hail to his Highness."
"Victory to his Highness."
Loud cheers erupted out of everyone's mouths when they saw Alex finally defeating the Byk who could have killed the countless beasts if left alive along with them causing irreversible damage.
[You have killed a half-step Epic rank, Byk.You have earned 300 experience points.]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have.....]
Alex ignored it and just put his stat points into magic so that he can get some mana to use a spell.
As everyone ran toward Alex to congratulate him, Alex looked at them and said"It's not over."
Hearing Alex's words everyone frowned and stopped in their tracks.
"Your Highness! What do you mean? Is there another monster out there?" Aeon asked while he raised his vigilance and observed his surroundings.
Alex shook his head and said"The monster had been taken care of. Now we have to eliminate the primary reason for all this happening."
"The air around this part of the forest is corrupted by the gas which is invented by those scums."
"It's a type of addictive thing that slowly erodes the monster's senses and makes their body go on a rampage as the gas corrupts the mana. If we leave this place like this, the entire place would be turned into a haunted place full of vicious beasts who will attack like maniacs which in turn would force the beasts and monsters to escape outside the forest."
Alex after explaining to everybody walked towards the secluded place which was devoid of any vegetation.
He extended his hands outwards while swivelling his fingers in a rhythmic motion.
"Storm Caller." Alex shouted while doing hand signs.He can do silent casting but he didn't want to reveal this even to his soldiers for now.
Air started to ripple around him and started to circle him at high speed.
It looked as if a storm was originating from Alex's body that wanted to sweep across the entire area.
A huge vortex of wind pressure appeared in the middle of the forest which swept the entire forest with strong gales.
Creating a huge cyclic tornado, Alex pulled all the air into it.
Swish!Swish!!!
With one hand, he controlled the motion and rhythm of the tornado while with the other hand, he filtered the air.
The air that was loaded with toxins was quite heavy and was darkish in colour, so it settled down in the lower half of the hurricane while the upper part released the air which wasn't infected with the toxins.
In this Alex created a superficial air purifier and ran it across the whole area trying to cover as much area as he can.
His face had already become pale due to the loss of mana which had suddenly been used by him.
If not for the mana heart working in full swing, and acting as a piston of an engine to replace the mana, Alex would have already lost his consciousness while trying to maintain the spell.
Alex looked all around while his senses swept down the entire area looking for the remaining senses.
Seeing that he collected everything, Alex slowly lowered the speed of the motion of the wind and let the upper half of the purified air disperse and go back to the atmosphere while he kept the lower one still circulating.
Peru stared at the blackish mass of gas with a grim expression.
He can perceive how terrifying that thing was and could cause huge destruction.
Peru wished that the person who invented this should have disappeared from the face of this world so that a thing like this would never be used.
Alex's body was hovering in the air due to the wind carrying him up as he was at the epicentre of the vortex.
He looked around the swirling mass of air and raised his hand and shot the mass of gas up into the sky.
As soon as Alex discerned that the mass of gas had clearly reached a certain height for him to carry out his next operation, he started to cast another spell and shouted.
"Flame Solaris!"
Looking up, he just snapped his fingers which created a terrific scene in the eyes of the onlookers.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Following his snap, a huge explosion occurred which set the entire sky on fire and it spread across the whole sky like a wave of fire that covered the entire sky with flames of dark clouds heating up the entire area and raising its temperature by a few margins.
Alex looked at the scene with a satisfied expression and felt that his consciousness was feeding away as he used his last drop of mana which he had squeezed out from his mana heart.
But before he could fall down, everyone surrounded him and caught him from falling down.
