Chapter 2386: Intense Battle
Chapter 2386: Intense Battle
"GRAAAAHHHH!!!"
The gigantic three-meter-tall polar bear-shaped Frost Spirit Chimera Titan roared, his powerful aura shaping his entire surroundings, covering everything with Frost Flames of the Cosmic Realm, and summoning hundreds of smaller Frost and Fire Bear Elemental Titans out of nowhere.
Its fiery red eyes glowed brightly, as its entire body emanated a deadly aura of cosmic and corrupted divinity. The polar bear instantly glared at its closest foe, the machines that had been slaying the "children" of his master.
"YOUUUU!"
With a monstrous roar, the giant polar bear jumped towards the much smaller machines, Eduard and Michaela swiftly evaded the titanic frozen bear claws coming down, spreading Cosmic Frost Flames everywhere they hit!
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
"Why is that thing attacking us so much?" Eduard wondered.
"I don't know... Is it upset we've been killing the flame and ice monsters?" Michaela asked. "GRAAAAHHH!!! PROTECT MASTER... PROTECT MY PRINCESS!!!"
The polar bear wasn't completely monstrous, it could clearly speak through an obsessive, mad voice that seemed to carry a will, a soul of its own.
This wasn't actually so rare, as people that had powerful wills and souls, even when turned into monsters, would sometimes remain the ability to speak.
Even though their very sense of selves had been twisted, their own minds, now on a constant spiral of insanity and beastly instincts, can perceive the world.
But perhaps not how everyone else does.
Celica, who had just arrived in the scene with Truhan, immediately knew why this was the way it is!
"A polar bear...?!" she wondered. "Wait, I remember him! There was a Polar Bear God among the Gods serving Skadi! I remember he was very dedicated to Lazuli, like his guardian!" "But he's damn insane now!" Truhan grabbed the sphere containing one of the ice fairies from the titan they had just defeated, freeing the unconscious person inside and giving them to Celica. "Shouldn't his mind be in some sort of slumber like the person I just rescued?" "I don't know..." Celica said. "I think that the Chaotic Miasma that infects every monster we've seen so far make their minds go insane. It is after all a trait that the Outer Gods have, right?"
"T-That's... maybe that's it?" Truhan wondered. "Well! Not like it solves anything, we have to stop him! Let's go!"
"Yeah!"
Celica and Truhan emerged into the battlefield at the same time as Kizuato, Meiji, and the rest of the monkey-kin finished slaying the two elemental spiritual titans, freeing the unconscious people inside their cores.
"Look! It's Truhan and Celica! They finally made it here!" Kizuato said.
"We have to hurry and gather up with them! They won't be able to handle that thing on their own!" said Meiji. "Spirits! Please give me your powers!"
All of Meiji's Spirits overflowed with new power, after having been turned into a Spiritual Chimera Beast and then being reborn as new and powerful Divine Spirits, they had evolved through the Origin System's Leveling power, becoming stronger and larger.
Their appearances had regained some of their original forms, although they looked much grander now, made entirely out of spiritual crystal, the crystallization and solidification of spiritual energy that most spirit beings are made of within the Spiritual Plane.
The reason why most living beings in the Spiritual Plane are made of Spirit Crystals unlike the Spirits from outside of this plane, is because due to the tremendous concentration of Spiritual Energy everywhere, their bodies are naturally pressurized into crystalizing to maintain their existence.
Normal spirits, once they enter the Spiritual Plane, either undergo this change or die, crushed by the Plane's own Spiritual Energy which is constantly trying to merge with them, and because of this, Meiji's original spirits, except for Brontes who had evolved into a completely different being by recalling and regaining her previous life powers and race, turned into new forms.
"Oi Meiji! Use your Spirits to attack that thing from afar and distract it!" Yukan called, the burly and tall monkey-kin held with his hands a pair of huge axes, imbued with divinity and cosmic energy, they were cosmic egos. "We'll hit it once it is distracted! It's our only shot!" "True!" Goruden nodded, the golden-furred monkey-kin with a burly yet not so burly body, a perfect balance between muscles and speed, he was holding a huge golden spear and a shield tis time. "We're all damn physical fighters, so you're our only proper shot at it, bro!" "No, if we let Meiji handle everything on his own again, he'll end up wounded like before!" said Jinsoku, the black-haired monkey-kin with sharp eyes and ninja-like clothes, holding a long katana and equipped with many knives and shuriken. "My primary attacks might be all physical, but I can attack at long-range without problems, I'll assist Meiji and cover his back! When fighting giant monstrosities like these, there's no other choice!"
"Okay! Thank you so much you guys!" said Meiji happily. "Hah, if we only we had the mechs again! But they all ended breaking back then, and Charlotte said that they were still being remade using cosmic materials!"
"Indeed, if we had those things would be much more easy, but they broke because they couldn't go against powerful monsters imbued with greater divinities or cosmic energy," said Jinsoku. "It's a pity but... We can't have the same thing as those guys."
The monkey-kin rushed into battle as the domain of the polar bear expanded, large towers of freezing azure flames spread everywhere, as smaller polar bears made of frozen flames and ice emerged one after another.
"GROOOHHH!"
"GRUUOOHH!"
"GRAAARRGH!"
The monsters started rushing in, each one being over thirty meters big, small creatures compared to their summoner, but they came in by the hundreds!
"Careful!" Kizuato roared. "We're breaking in!"
He jumped into midair, swinging his burly arms as his eyes blazed with Mana, Spiritual Energy, and Divinity all at once, both of his blades unleashing a storm of fire and light.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
Three of these giant bears were instantly split apart into pieces, exploding and disappearing, there was no core inside of them and no person to worry about, so they could go all out.
"RAAAAAHH!"
Yukan roared mightily, his axes swinging down as the ground around him trembled, lifting up
at the moment of his attack to unleash several consecutive earth spikes.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!