pappabearbooks Chapter 1331: Fated Encounter
Chapter 1331: Fated Encounter
Chapter 1331: Fated Encounter
It took a surprisingly short time to convince the guardian beasts of the Noya Sacred Forest to join the righteous cause to save Aigas. They were a logical bunch, and it appeared they had been looking for viable ways to protect their home and the surrounding area. It was common for guardian beasts to consider the territory outside their forest as their responsibility. Some beasts had even begun campaigns to save villages and towns nearby during the Great Trembling (though those were few and far between).
The great tiger which was the leader of the guardian beasts in the Noya Sacred Forest was accompanied by forty other powerful beasts. The Noya forest was massive, and it appeared that the beasts it nestled had grown so strong as a result of the challenges in climbing up the power ladder in such a heavily populated place. The great tiger, Oum, as he was called, had a distinguished ring of light - a Crown - with a star in it floating over his head, like Karima and Azila. He was an Ascended beast.
He seemed pleased to see a fellow enlightened beast in Azila, and on the way to another Sacred Forest, he engaged the Great Mane Mountain Ape in a discussion about the value and significance of ascending. They discussed about Permanent Havens, the next stages of a Majestic Territory for beasts, and the closest they could reach to Divinity. They shared their yearning for such a power. It was strange seeing non-human creatures show such intelligent bonds.
Unlike Hauza, Oum wasn't racist. He was quite interested in the Stark Troops and Unlimited Stars. Grim entertained all his questions, most of which concerned where their Order had come from.
Indeed, the average strength of the Troops was terrifying. Because of Skullius' gift before everyone left for the mission, everyone had a purple core or above now, and the Stark Troops' powers did leak through their Granted Armament to be noticed, unlike the Stars. Grim gave Oum vague answers about the Order that served to some degree.
He made sure to make up for it by sharing the qualities of his Hidden Class, however. The moment he revealed that his powers allowed him to obtain the traits of multiple beasts, Oum damn near started calling him brother, as did other beasts.
Grim had a suspiciously large number of topics to engage them with, and apparently, they all related to some of the 'struggles' he mentioned going through while in his beast forms, much to Yuyui's surprise. Hauza merely scoffed at this.
Yuyui and Grim rendered all responsibility to incoming enemies to their Stark Troops. Because most of the Cavern weren't threats to them, they delegated the affair of dispatching them to their underlings who dealt with them swiftly and cleanly.
They sent beams of Aggrante shooting up at the dark enemies in carefully aimed strikes, and never missed. Only once or twice had some of them been forced to use their personal skills. When they did, their beast allies were shocked.
None of the Stark Troops used more than one attack to deal finishing blows to the hoardes of Cavern. How well-coordinated and disciplined they were in killing the erratic enemies began to scare some of the guardian beasts at a point.
How in the world did a single fireball kill two thousand Cavern?
How come a single cross slash with an axe cut a dozen enemies into a dozen million pieces?
What do you mean that mental attack was so strong that it forced the enemies to fly off and target their own kind as enemies in other parts of Pelian?
It hardly made sense.
Even Hauza started having thoughts.
...!!!
A terribly loud voice seemed to call from every direction and closed in on the party. It had a horrific effect imbued within it, one that compelled with an intense authority.
All the beasts in the party, including Azila and Hauza, suddenly fell to the ground, instantly
forced asleep.
However, the Stark Troops and the Unlimited resisted.
The Stark Constellation on their foreheads sparked furiously, spitting branches of yellowish
red lightning everywhere. It defied the compulsion cast upon its users!
"Oh? That's a first," the voice came again, a lot softer and lower.
Yuyui and Grim had already ascertained the location of the enemy.
No. Enemies.
They immediately prepared for a confrontation, but then something within Yuyui pulsed in
both acknowledgement and warning. She narrowed her eyes.
'It was only a matter of time, I guess,' she thought.
It appeared someone from the four enemies, all of whom seemed to blow in using the wind as transport, felt the same thing - the resonance Yuyui felt.
"Well, I never imagined we'd find you among a cluster of beasts. Colour me both surprised...
and underwhelmed."