" Carroñero Queen!!! " Shiro shouts when it happens as the humanoid form of the Queen just killed three of the Soul Knights with her hands.
"Hrrssssskkkkk! "
"A...kkhhh... " the Soul Knights just said his last words as the Queen took his Stabbed Astral Core and took it from their Astral Bodies.
" Mhm~...., your Astral Energies smells nice... "
" O how long I've had eaten a Soul's Astral Core? "
" Thousand years? Hundred years? " she says as she then eats the dead Soul Knights' Astral Cores.
Seeing that, the other Soul Knights begin to react to it as they immediately unsheathe their weapons, drawing out their abilities to immediately deal with her.
[ Astral Soul Ability: Soul Nails ]
[ Astral Soul Ability: Soul Cutter ]
[ Astral Soul Ability: Soul Fire ]
[ Astral Soul Ability: Harvest Scythe ]
[ Astral Soul Ability: Soul Poison ]
" Poison..., huh? " she says after hearing such words and accepts their attack.
" Die you murderous Hollow! "
" This is for our comrade! "
" All of you are useless... " she says as she then transforms her body parts, summoning a giant scorpion tail from her back she then sliced those knights with ease using the tail's sharp sting.
[ Spirit Weapon: Picadura de Escorpión ]
" Hmm~ so annoying... "
" You Soul Knights died too easily, so disappointing," she says to the Soul Knights she just slashed.
" Ooh~... it seems one survives the slash... " she says as she sees one Soul Knight managed to dodge her sudden attack earlier but is still heavily wounded.
When she sees the poor soul, she approached him and at that very moment, she was attacked by large Ice Lance out from the ground and from above she was slashed by an Ice-made sword so sharp that she have to transform her Spiritual Body Neck, changing it into an armored and layered neck that shields her neck's bone from that very attack,
"( Such a cold weapon... )"
"( Thank goodness I transformed it right on time... )" she says while Captain Raymond who slashed her tries his best to make his sword slashes her neck.
" Dammit, you... "
" Hmph, such a futile effort... "
" Especially from a lowlife such as yours," she says immediately attacking Raymond using her Scorpion Tail but it was immediately halted by Shiro who already equips back his
"( This guy, Captain Raymond... )"
"( I think he seems like a tolerable person and not the type of guy who immediately judges everyone around him based on their standards. )"
"( I need to keep guys like him... )"
"( It's rare for me to have someone friendly to me anyways. )" Shiro thinks to himself.
" Captain..., are you alright? " Shiro asks as Raymond then decides to fall back and takes Shiro with him.
" This is nuts... " he smokes while analyzing the whole situation.
" It seems this Hollow Spirit Woman had already unlocked many abilities in her new Humanoid Form. "
" Usually, when a Spirit decides to transform their body into a more humanoid look, their ability usually shifts or had some time to change thus making them quite weak and vulnerable in that process... "
" But this... "
" This is different... "
" What do you mean, sir? " Shiro asks in the midst of Raymond's analysis as he analyzes what just happened.
" She now had completely mastered her humanoid form... " Raymond says and asks Shiro if she was like this when he fights her earlier before he came in.
" No, she wasn't, back then her form was bigger than this and more monstrous... "
" She also doesn't have any signs of preparing her transformation or whatsit during her battle with me... " Shiro explains as he also adds that he never thought that the Carroñero Queen can even transform.
" I see... "
" By the way, young Hollow... "
" What Stage is this Hollow Woman at? " Raymond asks Shiro Shiro immediately answered that the Carroñero Queen is an Ascendente or an Ascender Spirit.
" I see, so she was already closer to the stage of Monarch, huh? " Raymond says as he decides to go full force.
" Then there's no need to hold back... "
" We need to use our full force to deal with this, Monstress... " Raymond says to Shiro but was replied with a silent stare.
" What...? " he asks as he then sees Tracker 101 behind him also staring at him with silence as the two of them look at him with doubt if that was a good plan.
" Oh come on, are you kidding me...? "
" You guys want to retreat now... " he says to the two boys who can only doubt his intention of fighting her, right after they heard the word 'Monarch' coming out from Raymond's very mouth.
" Look, I know that the word 'closer to Monarch' already gave you both a death flag, but seriously..."
" If we don't fight her and run, we all are going to be doomed since she won't probably let us leave!!! " Raymond says as he points to the queen who approaches them.
" Of course, I will never let you all leave... " she says.
" All of you are so despicable towards me today... "
" Destroying the beautiful nest that I had spent many years of effort in making it. "
" Killing my spawns that I've made using my whole Astral Essence... "
" And for the last, you even dare to attack me...! "
" Those things that you've done just now, are certainly can't be forgiven! "
" And because of that... " the queen unleashes butterfly wings from her back and turns her hands into a mantis scythe which shocks Shiro as it looks just like his own Mantis Scythe Weapon that he had.
" Wait a minute, what does her scythe look like? " Shiro equips his Spiritual Mantis Scythe Weapon, trying to see what he seems to find similar in both his scythe and the Queen's scythe which the Queen also notices about this after she sees his Scythe.
" Oh, it seems we had the same Scythe, young Ordinario... "
" How convenient... "
" It seems there is something more in you that I've never noticed just before, fufufu... "
" But don't worry, after this battle, we will find out soon enough," she says as she starts attacking.
" Right after I hurt you! " she says as she then attacks the three of them with all arsenals that she instantly had.