crashing towards Thirio who smiled, with a shift of his Will, the energy in the air responded as ready soldiers that crashed into the waves before they could impact his body.
*Boom*
"He's an Extreme, everyone scatter!," shouted someone within the group.
"Too late," Thirio stood in the air above them with a 5-meter dragon that shone with azure starlight coiled around his body; suppressed within Thirio's area of influence the beast-men were all neatly slaughtered by the dragon in the seconds that followed.
"Peak, mid-stage extreme, along with fine tune energy manipulation, you're a lot stronger than I expected leader," hints of praise could be heard within Amore's voice as she looked at the aftermath of the short but informative battle.
"Let's clean up quickly and move on before checking the loot."
Finished with the clean up, they passed through the waterfall of energy and into a deeper section of the Core realm.
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All through the Core realm intense confrontation took place as everyone was rushing toward the center of the realm.
Within a swamp a team of red skin orcs, with compacted muscle grinned at the dead half-step rank 5 beast before them as they released bellowing war cries as the blood from the beast rose and entered their bodies.
In another location A fair skinned, slivered hair and eyed elf looked at the dead, served body of the beast and humanoids with an impassive gaze. Flicking the blood from her rapier she returned to her team before moving forward.
Such scenes of carnage played out within the realm one after another as everyone moved forward.
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*Pant*
Thirio took deep breaths while calming the raging energy within his body while looking at the golden skin elephant that laid dead before his team. It was a peak rank 4 beast that seemed to have awakened some of its ancestral bloodline making it stronger than most half-step fifth ran beast.
The battle left him shocked as other than Rian who had shown too much of his strength, he learned that both Amore and Vasilias were at the peak of the extreme realm and the power they both burst forth with was shocking to say the least.
They made swift work of the beast material before Thirio led them to a hidden area for them to recover, "I'll say that we are almost to the edge of the middle region of the realm now and shouldn't be too far from the inner area," Rian was the first to break the silence among them.
Nodding at Rian, Amare thought for a moment, "how far are you both away from the peak stage of the extreme realm."
Rian remained silent for a while before opening his mouth, "I'm currently suppressing my breakthrough to the peak stage in search of an opportunity to achieve a multi stage jump."
"I'm pretty much the same as Rian, but with a few tricks I should be able to handle any peak extreme stage expert below completion."
Having rested enough the group moved on.
"Well, well, well, seems we found some good sources of seed to bring back to our tribe girls," following the voice a group of female orcs strode into the path of Thirio and the others.
Other than the green skin with light sliver tribal markings and fangs barely peeking from their bottom lips, Thirio noted that they weren't much different from the muscular women of the human race.
"Three extreme realm males, I Sharn, have made a great discovery for our tribe. Now obediently come with me," her completion stage aura exploded from her body, while peak stage aura rose from the three behind her.
"Thirio my brother, don't tell me this was something you saw coming so you cleared yourself of the duty to step forward," whispered Vasilias with a bitter smile on his face.
"How would I know this was gonna happen, I'm just as shocked as you at this shitty situation," sighed Thirio as his eyes glanced at the mission floating at the corner of his eyes. He got it the moment he stepped into the middle area.
-Show Your Worth-
-Having finally join the stage, Sin of Greed, Gluttony and Lust look forward to your performance-
-Force submission - cripple or kill 3 peak stage extreme fighter or 1 completion stage fighter-
-Each additional fighter grants bonus rewards-
-Reward: 3 astral spirit embryo, rank 2 drops of Purification liquid, 10 rank 3 Astral crystal and 1 budding realm energy comprehension stone.-
Thirio wondered if this was a by-product of his mission, but he doubted it and could only chalk it up to his own bad luck.
Staring at the prey she had commanded to move, Sharn frowned, an oppressive force rushed from her body to engulf the party of four, when an even more overbearing energy devoured it and came crashing down on her and those behind her.
Shock flashed in her eyes, locking gaze with the only woman from the other party, "you're quite strong but this alone won't be able to restrain me. I leave the men to you guys, don't kill them, cripple them if necessary though."
Amore glance at those behind her before vanishing from sight with Sharn, leaving the other 3 to face each other.
Wasting no words they each dashed off with an opponent of their own.
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Vasilias looked at the Orc before him with a twinkle in his eyes, "you have quite the attractive body, if you submit to me and become one of my maids I'll spare your life," eyes trailing the full body before him with lust.
"If you submit to me I'll let you fuck me right here, but you'll belong to me after. Ha ha ha, what do you say to that,"
Eyes focused on the jiggling breast of the laughing Orc, Vasilias could only sigh, "sadly you don't have the qualification to say those words me," a sharp light flashed in his eyes as his demeanor changed as an overwhelming presence engulf the Orc as she watched all the light slowly drain away within a 9-meter radius around them.
With a bellow she tried to exert her own influence on the surrounding energy, but as with the light it was devoured by the encroaching darkness while her body and soul swiftly followed.
Looking at the now empty area as light returned, Vasilias headed towards Amore's direction.
'If I can get her to owe me a favor, a grab of that succulent ass may not be out of reach, my brother Thirio I have faith in you which is why I won't offer my help,' his excuse for abandoning his friend set, Vasilias rushed toward Amare.
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Rian nodded to himself when he sensed no one from the surroundings aside from his opponent, who gazed at his body with lust filled eyes. He wasn't a stranger to carnal pleasure but now was not the time or place.
"Let's end this quickly," dashing forward as his left hand from the elbow down was covered in light blue fur, his finger switched to gleaming claws and with a swipe of his hands a line of blood spurts from the Orc's neck.
"Gravi…" was all she made out before her head slid from her neck.
Grabbing the storage device from the body, Rian slowly made his way towards Amore's direction.
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Thirio looked at the Orc before him in exhaustion, to be honest, she was the weakest and as such he had no real interest in her aside from to help with the completion of his mission and to gauge where he stood against other races that had innate strengths and abilities from birth.
"You could always test that ability that you unlocked after entering the Extreme realm," Vadne said.
"The prodigal pervert has returned but, that's not a bad idea, let's go with that."
The energy within Thirio's body pulsed as it soon started pulsing inbeat with his heart as a peculiar energy emerged from his dantin\an and started circulating around his body.
The changes it brought was immediately shown, as a savage beast-like aura engulfed his body pumping destructive energy into his surroundings, while he remained calm and collected, unaffected by the savage impulses brought by the energy.
His silver eyes gained a tint of red, his silver hair turned black and grew into a wild mane of hair that came to stop at his waist. Clenching his fist, Thirio felt the surging strength and energy within it; he could feel that all his base strengths were almost tripled in this state but it exhausted a huge amount of stamina and energy.
Taking a step forward, Thirio vanished as the ground behind was uprooted from the shockwave left by his movement. Unable to control his new strength he ram right into the stunned Orc, ripping her body to shreds while tearing a path of destruction in the forest behind her before coming to a stop.
"So this is the power of the evolution I chose and this is just the early stages. The exhaustion of energy is insane though, I could last at most two minutes before running on empty."
Thirio smiled while going back to search for the Orc storage device before leaving for Amore's location.
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Amore sat on the charred body of the Orc Sharn; looking at the golden waterfall of energy in the distance she knew that was where the real carnage would begin.
"Let's hope nothing bad happens now that we're at the last stretch of this race. Attribute Imprinting here I come."