Lord Raymond took out his totem artifact, which is also strange little compared to the regular totem artifact and the reason why he chose his current path.

  It is a ten-meter long violet color metal-wood tree; this tree has no leaves, just branches, and on the branches are tiny shields hanging. There are a total of thousand of shields of various shapes and styles.

  The totem artifact is called 'Tree of Shields.'

  It is said he had found it in the first ruin he had explored and merged his totem seed with it, making it its totem artifact.

  There are very few artifacts that have the capability to do that, and I have only heard about three. The shield my mother had placed inside me against the curse is also a similar type of artifact; it seemed to have belonged to the fiance of my mother.

  "No. 4, No. 7, go,"

  Lord Raymond said relaxedly, and two round shields flew out of the tree, and, on the way, their size began to change rapidly till their height had reached five meters.

  CLANNG CLANNG

  The next moment two powerful attacks of the Grimm Monsters clashed against shields, and they bore it without any problem; even Grimms are not surprised by it. As if they know this is going to happen.

  He is an Aegismancer, the most powerful we have ever got, and he is quite good at it. If he ever reaches the level of Grand Lord, he will be a terror.

  With the aegis of Lord Raymond above them, Leonard and Danielle begin their attack again, this time with even greater power.

  Danielle again begins to blast the cannon bubbles into the corrupted ocean while Leonard begins his intense attacks against the Rock Bearman, waiting to finish it off as soon as possible.

  The Rock Bearman seemed to have used some method to heal most of its injuries in a few moments of break; it had gotten, but now they have begun fighting again, the injuries begin to pile up in its body again at a much faster rate than before.

  "Hahaha, I am done with my preparations," said the Aqua Apeman as it laughed out loud while finally coming out of the corrupted ocean.

  BANNNG!

  Danielle did not stop attacking, seeing it coming out, and targetted its body with the bubble cannon. It hit it, exploding the Grimm into pieces.

  Hun!

  It had surprised me, but only for a moment; my eyes became apparent when the dark water burst out of the ocean and formed another Aqua Apeman, which looked real visually that one could not find any fault in it, but as the last figure, it is also fake.

  BANNNG!

  Danielle still blasted it into pieces but appeared in another place a moment later. Unless she has a definite strategy, she will never be able to kill it.

  "Human, you should stop attacking me and start thinking about how you are going to save yourself because I will kill them all in the next second!" It said, shocking nearly everyone who was watching.

  Danielle stopped attacking it and glared at it intensely, "While you were uselessly attacking me, I have corrupted all the humans; now all of them will die!" It said to the horrified humans who had stopped at its proclamation.

  The only ones who did not stop were Lord Raymond and Leonard, who are still fighting against their enemies.

  "All of you humans, die!" It shouted loud and clutched its huge finger into the fist as if wanting to crush all the humans present on the battlefield.

  "Council," Simon called out, but not a single council member replied; even Grand Lord did not reply, even their eyes did not move off the screen. It is like they did not hear the loud call from Simon.

  A second passed, nothing happened, and the mighty pose of the Aqua Apeman became a little awkward as it looked at humans who should die in great confusion.

  "Do you really think I wouldn't see your invisible corruption spreading into the humans and wouldn't do anything to prevent it," said Danielle and waved her hand up; as she did, a tiny bubble came out of the humans?

  The small bubbles came out of every human; these bubbles are tiny, each one the size of an adult fingernail, and inside them contain a dense corruption.

  The Aqua Apeman was shocked seeing it while a smile couldn't help but appear on my face. If she hadn't done this, I would have been very disappointed in her.

  The world corrupting ocean and the empire of the mist; both of them are domain type Grand Arts, but the world corrupting ocean contains a lot more offensive power than the empire of the mist.

  The previous hosts of this art used it as an army killer weapon; they would lay the waste to armies within minutes, and nobody would even know how it happened; the corruption is invisible.

  While it may seem like what Danielle pulled off is a normal thing, it is not. Even Grandmaster wouldn't be able to save most of the humans from the corruption; even I would have quite a problem pulling something off at this scale.

  It is due to this reason would Matron Mavis had taken an immense risk to kill the previous host of this art.

  Each Grand Art is dangerous in its own way, and the more comprehension they get, the more dangerous they become.

  Snap!

  "Now that you have shown your move, it would look very bad on me if I did not show you mine," she said and snapped her fingers before anyone could even do anything to stop her.

  POP POP POP

  The moment after she snapped her fingers, a loud popping sound began to ring out. It is like thousands of giant bubbles are popping at the same time, but it is not the bubbles that are popping up but the Grimm Monsters.

  They are exploding into the dust, tens of thousands by a second.