Those new plants quickly grew, and then they made vines appear that grabbed Luke’s arms and legs. Their grip was so powerful that he was unable to move from the spot. Shalia tried to burn them, but the flames quickly spread through the vines and began to burn Luke as well, forcing her to stop. However, that had been a bad move... The plants opened in the middle and showed something like a mouth, and then the teeth were some thorns that easily pierced his flesh when they bit his limbs...

Luke clenched his teeth due to the pain while the thorns reached his muscles and began to rip apart the flesh. Rina began to heal Luke, and Shalia used her blue flames to burn the plants to a crisp as fast as possible, but not before Luke could snap. Rage and Berserker were activated, and Luke dashed toward the plant woman much faster than before.

Her friends moved to protect her, and the dwarf swung his ax to activate the gravity effect, but then Luke used Stinger several times in a row to approach. In the end, he ended up hitting the fish man before the gravity effect could take place, and while the trident stopped Luke, his charge pushed him backward several meters until the effect of the ax finally took place and affected both of them. Luke began to suffer damage again, and eventually, he overpowered the fish man, making him fall on his knees and making him fall when he used Sonic Blade at point-blank range.

Before Luke could continue, the giant woman tried to stab his back after the dwarf stopped the effect of the ax. However, Luke turned around fast enough and punched her glaive, and for the first time, Luke managed to win the exchange and push her away, but then the annoying plant woman made some more of those annoying plants emerge from the ground. Still, Shalia was prepared for that and froze the area around Luke, turning the plants into ice sculptures instantly... They were weak against that element.

In any case, while Luke was enraged, he couldn’t think of using Concentrated Strike to cause more damage with each of his hits. Still, it seemed that things wouldn’t be so simple since the Overlords were even more cautious than before. Now they finally could see how Luke defeated their friend... His physical parameters increased exponentially with the boost he just received by getting enraged and for being wounded. His physical parameters increased exponentially, and they were still increasing... With each level up.

"Luke... You need to calm down a bit," Rina said.

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting?" Shalia asked. "He needs this rage to be able to fight them. Also, don’t heal him too much, if he keeps his health below fifty percent, things will be easier for him."

Rina was aware of that. Never did the words no pain, no gain make so much sense... Still, she wished that Luke didn’t have to be like that to win and survive. She felt that with his desire and anger, he was turning into what he was fighting against...

Although not much time had passed since the start of the fight, the overlords realized that they couldn’t take Luke lightly. With the support of the elves, he was too dangerous... So, they assumed their most defensive formation. The giant woman stayed in the front, focusing only on stopping Luke’s attacks. In contrast, the others focused on long-ranged attacks.

They kept using that tactic since it worked rather well, and even though he wasn’t showing it, Luke was getting tired, and the wounds were piling up. Eventually, the giant woman saw a chance when Luke staggered after the gravity field hit him. It was clear that it wasn’t an act since his knees were bleeding due to the broken bones. She charged with all her might and focused one hundred percent on the attack. Thanks to that, Luke was unable to block her glaive completely, he only half parried it to the side... But the weapon pierced Luke’s left shoulder. A few centimeters above his heart. However, before she could move her weapon downward... Luke’s right claw pierced her right elbow all the way to the other side.

The shock caused by the pain paralyzed the giant woman, and before her friends could help her, Luke twisted his claw and then cut off her arm. At that point in time, she couldn’t do anything else but scream in agony.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh!" The giant woman screamed.

She let go of her weapon, but even though Luke would usually take it for himself, he ignored it. Shalia was the one who took it with her magic just in case. Regardless, when Luke went for the kill, her friends finally intervened. The dwarf tried to cut Luke’s neck, but he blocked the strike with his claws. Meanwhile, the fish man and the plant woman tried to target the wound on his left chest. While Rina was trying to close the wound and stop the bleeding, Shalia used fire magic to stop the enemies’ projectiles. Before they could try to attach the cut-off arm, Shalia also burned that to a crisp.

The giant woman managed to retreat despite the pain while her friends bought her some time. Fighting with one arm and without a weapon didn’t seem like a good idea, so it was clear what she was planning. The others also began to slowly move away to their fortresses... Even though they studied Luke for a while and came up with the best members against him, it didn’t seem like their strategy was going to work...

Luke dashed at them to finish her off, and while the others tried to block his path, Luke knocked them down since he combined several of his skills. Stinger, Heavy strike, Stunning Blow, Concentrated Strike... Even though the dwarf and the fish man joined forces to block his attack, they were knocked down by the sheer power of a single punch that made the area tremble.