All MILFs are Mine Chapter 296: Anyone else wants to die ?

Rees remained paralyzed on the frozen earth for ten agonizing minutes, his eyes fixed vacantly on the sky while his limbs refused to obey.

Then—

Movement returned.

"...I can move," Rees whispered, his voice thick with shock.

Mana began to seep back into his skeletal frame. He flexed his bony fingers before forcing his body into an upright position.

"Sir Leon..." His voice shook with emotion. "I must find Sir Leon."

Lowering his head, his eyes searched the terrain.

Massive, jagged indentations had been pressed deep into the soil.

"These are the tracks of that Rexian Bear."

Rees began to follow the trail without a moment's hesitation.

After less than three minutes of frantic travel, a heavy, metallic scent saturated the air.

A crimson path of blood stretched across the ground, vanishing into the mouth of a cavernous rock formation.

The scene suggested a desperate struggle; it looked as though Leon had tried to flee the cave only to be hauled back into the darkness by the beast.

"Oh no..." Rees breathed.

Entering the cave, he began to venture further into the gloom.

Step-step-step-step-step

The sound of his footsteps rang out hauntingly in the silence. Clutching his wand with white-knuckled intensity, a single mantra echoed in his mind.

’Please don’t be dead... Please don’t be dead... Sir Leon... you’re stronger than this.’

Thud

His foot suddenly collided with a heavy object.

Initially, it felt like a boulder, yet it possessed a texture far softer than stone.

"I should have recovered enough mana by now..." Rees muttered. "Illuminate."

A pale, glowing orb of light flickered into existence at the tip of his wand.

The moment the light touched the floor—

Rees recoiled, stumbling back two full paces.

"H-How is that...?"

The obstacle his foot had struck wasn't a rock. It was one of the Rexian Bear’s severed heads.

The decapitation was savage and crude.

The creature's massive jaw had been pulverized, with shattered teeth littering the cave floor. It appeared as though someone had gripped the upper and lower jaws and forcibly ripped them apart.

"What the hell happened here...?" Rees whispered, his voice low and trembling.

Despite the mountain of questions rising in his mind, he bypassed the head and pressed deeper into the cavern.

Blood painted the walls, and the ground was scarred by deep gouges. While signs of a brutal fight were everywhere, the claw marks and impact craters were gargantuan.

Far too large.

"These... these aren’t Sir Leon’s marks..." Rees realized. "They’re the bear’s marks..."

He broke into a run.

Splash

His foot suddenly dipped into a shallow pool of warm liquid.

"Hm?"

Rees directed the light orb downward and...

It wasn't water.

It was fresh, boiling blood, with steam still rising from the surface.

"Rees..." A steady voice drifted from the depths of the cave. "Is that you?"

"Y-Yes, sir Leon!" Rees shouted back immediately. "Where are y—"

He raised the light higher and went rigid.

Standing before him was the carcass of the immense Rexian Bear.

Its second head had also been torn away. The jaw was annihilated in the same fashion as the first. The massive frame was twisted into a grotesque shape, its ribs collapsed by a monstrous force, and its spine crushed down into its chest cavity.

And perched atop the mountain of flesh was...

Leon.

He was completely soaked in gore.

His eyes burned with a vivid, merciless crimson light.

A wave of terrifying bloodlust radiated from him, so potent that even Rees, despite being undead, felt a chill of terror strike his Necro-heart.

"S-Sir Leon..." Rees instantly dropped to one knee and bowed his head.

Thud

Leon leaped from the corpse, landing softly beside him. Strands of long black hair hung over his face, which was matted with blood.

"Care to explain," Leon asked in a calm tone, "why I woke up inside that thing’s mouth..."

His eyes flickered toward Rees' arm.

"...and why you’re missing a fucking hand?"

"Y-Yes, sir," Rees answered quickly.

As they exited the cavern, Rees recounted the entire ordeal... every incantation, every choice, and every desperate risk he had taken over the last hour to keep Leon alive.

...

Ten minutes later,

"I understand," Leon noted. "You did well, Rees."

He halted for a moment.

"And... we’ll deal with your hand soon. I will find a corpse for you to get a new hand from."

Then, he looked down at his own state.

"But first... I want to take a shower."

Leon suddenly crouched, pressing both palms against the earth.

Rees blinked. "Sir... why are you...?"

Hup

Before the question could be finished, Leon shot upward.

It wasn't a simple jump; it was a violent launch. He soared over fifty meters through the air before plunging directly into the river below.

SPLASH

"...Wow," Rees whispered, stunned, as he began to make his way toward the riverbank.

...

Splash

After rinsing the blood from his skin, Leon emerged from the water.

His body had undergone a transformation. He was lean, yet significantly more muscular, with every motion radiating a quiet, lethal power.

Rees was already waiting at the shore.

"Rees," Leon said, his expression unreadable. "We’re going home."

"Y-Yes, sir," Rees replied, following in his wake.

Leon looked at his shirt, which was still saturated with blood. Without a word, he stripped it off and threw it aside.

They traveled in silence for the next five kilometers.

Then, abruptly—

Halt

Leon stopped in his tracks.

"S-Something wrong, sir?" Rees asked, looking confused.

<Sixth Sense>

Swish

Catch

Leon’s hand snapped up, snatching an object out of the air without even turning his head.

Rees spun around, searching for the source of the attack.

"There's nothing here..."

Leon opened his hand.

A slender needle lay in his palm, dripping with a green substance.

<Inspect>

[Name: Blue Moringo’s Needle] [Rank: B] [Description: A projectile fired from a Blue Moringo’s tail. Coated with lethal poison capable of killing a target within seconds.]

Leon slowly turned his gaze toward the forest.

His eyes flared red, and a cruel grin spread across his face.

’The bloodlust...’ Rees thought.

’It’s intensifying. Even the surrounding mana is warping. What did that core do to him?’

<Glitch Point>

Crimson dots flickered across the trees surrounding their position.

Swish—Swish—Swish

Three more needles whistled through the air at high velocity toward Leon.

He merely tilted his head...

’right... right... left.’

The projectiles missed him completely.

"Instant Kill," Leon whispered.

<Instant Kill>

[All targets are killable!!]

"Kill."

His pupils turned a void-like black.

Steelweb armor manifested, flowing over his body until he was encased in dark plating.

Swish

In a flash, he was gone.

"Uhhuh...?"

"Uwhuhuhu...?"

The Blue Moringos—green, simian creatures with long, needle-tipped tails—chirped in confusion as Leon vanished from their sight.

A shadow loomed behind the one that had fired the first needle.

"Searching for me...?"

"Kwehh—!"

Leon seized its head and twisted with a speed so savage it was monstrous to behold.

Once.

Twice.

Crack—Crack

Thud

The body slumped to the ground.

The remaining moringos froze, their eyes bulging and fur bristling in sheer terror.

"Anyone else want to die?" Leon asked softly, his glowing red eyes locking onto them.

"Huhuhuhuhu...!"

"Huhuhuhuhuhuuu...!"

They scattered instantly, swinging through the canopy without a single backward glance.

"Good," Leon remarked. "I didn’t want blood stains on me again."

He vanished once more—

—reappearing instantly in front of Rees.

"Let’s go."