"We are landing soon. This planet is a wilderness with only beasts, so let's be careful. We'll land on a greenish region."
Leo announced as the spaceship started flying towards the planet.
"It's been six days in the spaceship, so I was getting bored anyway," Alice said, rubbing her palms. She wanted to use more of her Quirks and fight.
"Mhmm." Lia nodded in agreement as she was also eager.
But the keenest was Rei, as he quickly wanted to unveil the mystery of his Aspect and at least learn a bit more by defeating the first guardian.
…
After landing at the foot of a mountain with some empty area to park the spaceship, the squad got out and started moving in the forest.
They moved together because this planet was more dangerous.
The beasts here were slightly more powerful, but they stood no chance with four of them together.
They landed here near noon and finished in the evening as Rei gathered 1000 Phantom energy.
Rei's taint was removed, but Lia's and Alice's taint remained.
Alice still needed to invoke seventeen obedient spirits, while Lia needed to feel more pleasure. After a couple more sessions, Lia's taint would vanish, but Alice's taint would take longer to erase.
"Alright, I am returning to the room. I want to defeat those guardians and transform this Aspect."
"Take it easy, Rei," Leo said as he noticed Rei was ferocious and worked up today. "Haste makes waste."
"Haha, worry not. I am just excited about it," Rei said with a grin before leaving.
"Lia-sis, Leo, do you want to go out again if you are not tired? It's only evening, so we can spend a few more hours outside," Alice said, her toes rubbing against each other as she got antsy.
She was not tired, and it was the same for Lia and Leo, so she wanted to do more [Spirit Invoking] as she had yet to get any obedient spirit today.
Leo nodded.
"Alright. I have nothing to do, and Terrana also wants to do some outings, so I'll connect her to our comm watches."
"I can't leave you alone, you know? Haha, I'll also come with you," Lia said with a smile.
She was getting better at controlling her ability, so she wanted to practice more and hone her physical combat senses as well. Moreover, she must go with them to protect them with her [Bond Barrier] Quirk in case some danger befell them.
…
'Wait… If I activate Phantom Mausoleum while in my physical body, will I entirely transport there?' Rei thought, feeling a bit tethered.
He was just about to activate the Aspect but stopped himself.
The crow also said to tread it carefully, so if he physically went there and died, it would be stupid.
Taking a deep breath, Rei first used [Reach For Shadows] and arrived inside the phantom realm before activating his Aspect.
Rei appeared outside of the door once again and nodded. 'Good.'
He thought he would appear inside the hall and was ready to fight.
Pushing the door open again, he saw the harpy statue instead of an alive harpy. 'So it returned to the statue.'
'Dark Port.'
*Growl~*
Tom came out of a shadow portal before rubbing its head against Rei's face.
"Haha, I got it."
Rei fed 100 phantom energy to Tom, filling its tummy before it was ready to fight as the big cat bared its fangs at the statue.
Rei walked forward and touched before infusing 10 Phantom energy in the statue to activate it like the last time.
"Get ready," Rei said, his fists shining as he spent some phantom energy to use Shatter Enchant on both of his fists.
Tom was also ready with its claws shining with shatter enchant.
*Screeee!!*
The statue cracked open and revealed the demonic Harpy as it screamed.
Rei took the first strike as he jumped and squarely punched Harpy's face, sending it flying as she crashed into a wall.
But the Harpy seemed to have taken very little damage as it opened its mouth angrily, intending to release something.
Rei quickly dodged to the side without thinking, and half a second later, a swirling dark green beam hit the floor where he previously stood.
'Fuck, this will kill me in one hit.'
Rei sweated a bit but also felt excited.
*Roar!*
Tom also jumped high in a decisive pounce as it bared its claw at the Harpy's chest.
However, Harpy glared at Tom instead of dodging as some power pulsated from her wings before a gust of wind sent Tom flying backward.
'My punch did nothing, huh?' Rei thought as he focused. The Harpy turned its attention to him and flew quickly with its sharp talons aimed at him.
Rei rolled to the side again, dodging the grab and quickly getting up for another attack as he somersaulted backward before hitting Harpy's head with his heel and smacking it on the ground.
*Crash!*
'Tom, its eyes!'
Rei commanded Tom while he quickly clawed Harpy's wings in an attempt to break them.
*Crack!*
The shatter-enchanted Rei's hand clawed its left wing and broke it off!
*Screeee!!*
*Roar!*
Tom also arrived and clawed its eyes, causing the Harpy to scream louder as its body started shining.
"Back off!"
Rei shouted as he quickly backed off upon seeing the glow.
*Dhoom!*
A swirling of powerful, sharp winds burst out of its body. Although Rei and Tom backed off, they were still hit by a few wind blades.
Rei's left arm was cut off near the elbow area while another wind blade grazed his right shoulder.
Tom was also injured with slashes all over its body, but its limbs were intact.
Rei and Tom were injured, but Harpy seemed bloodless, as no blood oozed out from her wounds.
The Harpy flew up despite having only one wing, as if she commanded the power of winds. A dark green aura started swirling around her while her eyes glared at Rei.
'Tom, attack!'
Rei commanded Tom to attack since Rei was facing him while Tom was behind her.
But as if she had eyes behind, she zoomed toward Rei and dodged Tom's attack by doing that.
Rei quickly rolled to the side and dodged her dangerous talons before trying to kick her but failed.
However, Tom also arrived once again with a pounce and stabbed its horn into the Harpy's back before digging its claws into her body, stubbornly gluing to it.
"Nice, buddy!"
Rei took this chance to spend more phantom energy as his limbs glowed due to using Shatter Enchant and attacked the Harpy.
*screee!*
The dark wing that swirled around the Harpy suddenly activated, throwing Tom away while Rei cursed in his head but continued.
'Fuck it!'
He punched the wind swirls, shattering them apart. His hand was injured, and pain assaulted his mind again.
But he was determined to win and continued with a powerful kick to her stomach, as that was the only place he could reach after punching.
*Crackk!*
Harpy's stomach cracked as Rei's kick literally blasted it and sent it flying.
*Boom!*
The Harpy exploded into bits after crashing into the wall, shocking Rei and Tom.
'What the…'
Rei thought for a moment before reaching a conclusion. 'So we were supposed to hit her when she activated her power. That was the weakness, huh?'
He wryly smiled and shook his head.
*growl~*
Tom arrived and licked Rei's face while asking for a treat.
"Fine, ha-ha. Here you go."
Rei patted Tom's head and infused 100 phantom energy in it, healing all of its wounds.
*Burp*
Tom burped shortly after that and fell asleep on the floor.
'Now let's see….'
Rei turned to where the harpy statue stood once and saw a pedestal rising on that top, with a mysterious symbolic sphere floating on it.
The white symbolic sphere had magical dark green patterns as it pulsed mystically.
Rei stretched his hand and touched the orb before it vanished inside him.
*Badam!*
He felt some mysterious power course through his mind as his consciousness returned to his physical body.
*Badam!*
His heart was beating faster and faster while some aura swirled around him.
'What is happening?!'
[Congratulations. You have gained a unique skill, Wind of Chaos: Arvale]
Rei was dumbfounded as he heard the voice while also seeing swirls of dark green wind permeated with a black aura surrounding him.
[The unique skill, Wind of Chaos: Arvale, is currently too strong for you. It will be sealed to minimum rank, and you will have to gradually learn and evolve it.]