Two figures stood at the rooftop of the Bone family mansion, their gazes directed southwest. Of the duo, the old man had a gaze filled with admiration, his body drenched with sweat. He smacked his lips, marvelling at the sight before him.
"How much can you observe, Heima?" He spoke, his eyes unable to break focus from the sight.
"I can just detect the colours from this distance, despite their size," Heima replied, turning her eyes green. Suddenly, she felt a shock pass through her forehead, making her eyes bleed. She hurriedly deactivated her skill, heaving ragged breaths as she knelt on the floor.
"I…" She struggled to breathe, a small puddle of sweat had formed on the floor beneath her, "I've never seen something so…vast."
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. Let's get a closer view." Jyovic Bone said, transforming into an 8 metre tall bone giant. Pulling Heima within the hold of his palms, he sprouted a pair of wings to his back, taking off to the sky.
Despite it being a bit later than noon, the heat and light coming from the south-west direction shadowed the ambient sunlight, further increasing the temperatures of the surroundings. The moment they passed through the barrier after gaining permission from Ancestor Marble, it became evident.
Waves of heat broiled, igniting the gases in the air, creating a sea of flames for tens of kilometres at a stretch. Jyovic Bone resisted the heat, mending the outer surface area of his giant form that was evaporating as he gained altitude.
Finally, after achieving an altitude of more than 4 kilometres, they had finally arrived at a spot that was sufficiently cool enough for observation. The wings on his back flapped at a consistent speed, maintain a steady altitude.
The moment he opened his palm, Heima climbed over, traversing his arm using the spikes growing on it, sitting on his shoulders. The two watched the battle below. A moment later, they noticed many lights zooming towards their location.
One after the other, Tier 5 Warriors and Espers arrived, carrying the promising younger generation of their respective families, hoping to widen their horizons. They hovered in the air, making use of a myriad of Skills, separated from the Bone family duo by a certain distance. No one uttered any sound, their senses focused on the battle below.
Huge solar flares appeared out of the miniature sun, like flaming arms as they punched at the small dark sphere trapped around the edges. The dark sphere tried to teleport numerous times, each of its escapes hindered by the destructive attacks of the flaming arms, and the tremendous gravitational pull originating from it.
"Grandpa," Heima whispered, craning her head towards his ears, "How many of such attacks can you withstand?"
"Not even one," Jyovic Bone shook his head, letting out a forlorn sigh, "The heat will evaporate me by the time I get close, not to mention receiving it directly."
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At a certain sandy beach, one situated on a tiny island in the middle of the sea, a man appeared, surrounded by 2 humans and 3 Frenzy Beasts. The man was a Tier 5 Transformer while the other two humans were Tier 2: one Esper and the other a Warrior. Of the three Frenzy beasts, two were Tier 2 while the remaining one was a Tier 1 youngling.
"The greater the strength, the higher the chances of getting discovered; enter the sea and try to survive." The man spoke. The Tier 1 Frenzy Beast was a mix between fish and human, the first of its kind.
The Frenzy Beast had the upper body of a human attached to the lower body of a fish. The ends of its hands had fins, similar to its back where a large fin grew. Its neck was covered with gills while a gelatinous substance covered its nose, ears, and mouth. It jumped across the sandy shores before entering the sea.
No sooner had it entered did the three humans and 2 Frenzy Beasts teleport out of the island, heading towards a different area. The man dropped off each at remote locations, using his powers as a Transformer to teleport to locations farther away from each other.
He had finally dropped the last Frenzy Beast in a desolate spot, situated next to a winding forest, "You have the body of the Floating Spiders. As long as you take refuge here, Light will not hunt you down. Even he doesn't dare provoke the Floating Spiders without a justifiable reason."
Saying his piece, the man teleported towards a mountain, planning to hole up in the region and conserve his strength. The region suddenly brightened as a flash of light appeared and disappeared. The body of the man disintegrated until nothing remained of him.
After the man had disappeared, the Floating Spider inspected its surroundings, gazing at the thick vegetation with caution. The moment it took a step forward, a thin thread of silk emerged, attaching to its back. With a tug, the Floating Spider was pulled, brought to the air, and transported hundreds of kilometres into the thicket of the vegetation.
A massive globe, its boundaries made up of silk hovered in the air, hundreds of metres from the ground. A single silk thread attached to the ground, its thickness equivalent of a man was all that anchored the structure.
As the Floating Spider was helplessly pulled past the silk globe, it noticed hundreds of such similar shaped globes, their sizes ranging from a 10 metre radius to a kilometre. The biggest silk dome spanning a radius of 2 kilometres showed some disturbance as the silk extremities that made up the structure opened up, revealing the dense cluster of Floating Spiders roaming about within it.
As they parted way, a gigantic Floating Spider, 30 metres tall crawled out, standing before the tiny floating spider. It vibrated the surrounding air, pronouncing a language, the contents of which were automatically translated to it.
"I wanted to research you since long ago. In this entire world, you are a unique existence." A thin strand of silk wrapped around the tiny Floating Spider. Unable to mount any form of resistance, the tiny Floating Spider could only surrender itself to its fate and watch itself turn into a cocoon. It was then kept into custody by the massive Floating Spider.
Tier 6 Frenzy Beast—Floating Spider!
A streak of light appeared, colliding into the cocoon, breaking past the silk wrapping by seeping through the gaps that had yet to close. The entity within was destroyed, disintegrated into the tiniest of pieces by the light. By the time the Floating Spider managed to react, the streak of light disappeared, making it seethe with anger.
"Light!" It shouted, the massive silk globe shuddering along with its shout, opening like the maw of a colossal beast. It took a good while for the opened silk columns of the globe to settle down, returning to its previous position.
Another humongous silk globe, even bigger than its own, appeared, revealing a 50 metre tall Floating Spider from within, crawling out through the cluster of Floating Spiders. Its appearance sent a wave of fear and worship into every Floating Spider present, including the Tier 6 Floating Spider.
Rhachis Ancestor Web, the first Tier 6 Frenzy Beast to emerge from their race walked out, gazing at the other Tier 6 Floating Spider, communicating through their own language, "It is better this way. I support Light's action. Space is capable of turning our own into her and capable of collapsing our race within a day if she went all out. Moreover, something that even the cunning humans hadn't figured out after researching for more than half a century, I don't think we can do any better."
…
The streak of light stopped above a certain mountain, turning into the figure of Rhachis Ancestor Light. He focused his gaze into the crystal lens held in his hand, sending a beam of light through it, making it fall on the ground.
'I've already destroyed more than a hundred subsouls. There should still be more that have escaped from Lost City before Dawn launched his attack. I should head into the ocean next,' Finalised with his thoughts, Rhachis Ancestor Light turned into a streak of light, heading south.
He stopped after a fraction of a second, gazing at the line-up before him, focusing on the four Tier 6 Frenzy Beasts. To the back stood a colossal Frenzy Beast, its mountainous body balanced across the water surface. Seated on its forehead was a semi-humanoid person, his appearance known to every human. Clutched in his hands was a human, a Tier 4 Esper, her struggles unable to even scratch the semi-humanoid person.
"Parasite," Rhachis Ancestor Light muttered, his expression turning solemn, preparing for battle. Seeing his actions, the semi-humanoid person laughed, producing no sounds. Immediately, a parasite drilled its way out of the lady's head, its body composed of four rings.
The lady immediately died, her body stripped of all its moisture, leaking out of her eyes. A small rumble erupted from the Colossal bawling Sheep, its high pitched cries reverberating everywhere.
Immediately, except for the semi-humanoid person, the other four Frenzy Beasts vacated the area, escaping. Rhachis Ancestor Light had created a gap of more than a hundred kilometres between them, emitting intense light that formed into five massive light eagles.
He sent a light eagle each to confront the four Frenzy Beasts, making the final hover beside him, watching the Colossal Bawling Sheep in anticipation.
The semi-humanoid person smiled, looking at the Wisdom Parasite held in his hands, planning to gain information through it. He opened his mouth, intending to swallow it. It was then, the water beneath the Colossal Bawling Sheep parted way, making it plummet downwards, disorienting its balance.
The huge body of the Colossal Bawling Sheep was surrounded by water on all sides as it fell, with not a single drop of water touching it, creating a gap of 100 metres. It could notice the sea bed below, approaching it fast.
"Reef," The semi-humanoid person muttered, his expression changing. As if incited by his words, tens of thousands of water droplets emerged out from the water column, heading towards the semi-humanoid person, like a hail of bullets.
The moment the hail of bullets closed in, they turned into a column of water supporting the Colossal Bawling Sheep, forming into a platform for it.
"My sheep can control water; too bad for you, Reef…" His words were cut short as a light eagle severed the parasite in his hands, diced into hundreds of fragments, the friction caused as hence burning up the rest.
The moment the parasite had been destroyed, the light eagle vanished, the same as the surrounding water reverting to their usual, filling up the void that had formed in between.
"You've become stronger once again, Light," He muttered, opening his clenched palms, gazing at the minute scratch marks that had appeared there. He then watched the seawater rushing into him, submerging him deep within it.
A moment later, he rose, accompanied by the Colossal Bawling Sheep on whose forehead he sat, carried towards the surface. The moment he appeared, he noticed the four Tier 6 Frenzy Beasts return, their gazes vary as they watched the Colossal Bawling Sheep in silence.
"Losing a little bit of moisture wouldn't have affected you four in any way." He lamented, gazing at the sky with frustration.
'If I could get the Floating Spiders to my side, then these useless four could serve as a gift to them. The humans are planning something once again. At this rate, annihilating them will become increasingly difficult.' He sighed, commanding the Colossal Bawling Sheep to return to their home base.
'Let me find the reason that man claimed you as a counter to me.' He laughed, unbothered by the previous conflict; opening his other palm, he revealed two Wisdom Parasites, one with a single ring while the other had three rings.