Chapter 1275 Intense Battle
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Anastasia charged towards Yuki and company without even doubting, fully confident in her own strength, which she had been forging and growing since she made a pact with the Deep One.
CLAAAAASH!
Her spears grew longer through a mere thought of her mind, as she imbued them with the chaotic power of the Deep One and her own, distorted Stigma's power of Oceans, which merged into a spiraling attack of abyssal black oceans.
"[Abyssal Ocean's Spears]!"
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
However, Yuki utilized her own powers to counterattack and intercept her incredibly strong blows, relying in the power of her Divine Beast Spirit and her own growth, the muscles around her body started to swell as she fueled herself with the might of the White Tiger.
"[White Tiger's Might]! [White Tiger's Heavenly Claws]!"
Her muscles swelled and enhanced her strength over ten times temporarily, as she imbued the very aura of the white tiger divine beast spirit into her own muscles. At the same time, her claws grew to an enormous size, encompassed by a golden light made of the spiritual aura of the white tiger, which temporarily materialized into enormous, gigantic claws!
CLAAASH! CLAAAASH!
With two powerful swings of her claws, Anastasia was quickly forced to step back, the pure might of Yuki's attacks shaking the entire underground and generating countless cracks around the floor, walls, and ceiling. The clash of their attacks generated sparks of black and yellow lightning, illuminating the dark halls.
"Tch! You're merely struggling pointlessly!" Roared Anastasia, the monstrous sea snake-like jaws opened furiously and attacked Yuki, attempting to bite her. Yuki barely held on as she used her White Tiger Claws defensively.
CRASH! CRASH! CRAAASH!
Yuki was overpowering her seconds ago, but it took Anastasia to imbue some more of her powers into her own, gigantic body to quickly push Yuki back!
"Oi! Are you girls going to just stand there or what?!" Yuki complained.
"RAAAAAH!"
However, help quickly came, as Tisha jumped into action. Her ice elf body didn't stopped her from exerting a power equal if not superior to Ice Giants in her current Rank, Divinity overflowing across her gigantic Ice Blade as she swung it vertically and horizontally while being in midair, seconds before falling over Anastasia's head!
"[Divine Ice Blade Arts]: [Blizzard's Catastrophe]!"
SLAAAAASSSHHH!!! FLUOOOOOOSH!
A powerful slash with the power of a gigantic, all-freezing blizzard fell over Anastasia, immediately slicing through her giant sea snake head and then beginning to freeze her surface, the damage was tremendous and substantial, as the impact of such a gigantic attack generated a wide explosion, pushing the giant sea snake several dozens of meters away!
BOOOOOOOMMMM!!!
"GRAAAAAHHHH…!" Anastasia groaned like a beast, hitting the ground once more.
BAAAM!
Yuki was left shocked! Tisha had surely grown much stronger than when they first meet long ago. The Ice Elf Warrioress had only been improving herself further and further since she became one of Drake's subordinates. And now proudly stood as one of his physically strongest retainers.
"Y-YOUUUU!!! YOU DAMN PESTS!"
The voice of the Deep One merged with the voice of Anastasia she groaned in fury. Several magic circles appeared around her, as she fired hundreds of beams of chaos against them.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOOM!
Countless explosions continued one after the other, shaking the halls and braking apart the walls, ceiling, and floor into pieces. Rubble exploded everywhere. The beams were fast, deadly, and precise. Yuki, Tisha, Sapphire, and Pekora had to evade them at all costs, but often times they had to unleash strong blows to intercept them, destroying the beams seconds before the reached them.
"GAHAHAHA! Let's see how much you can handle the power of CHAOS!" Anastasia laughed as she decided to continue using this strategy, firing as many beams of Chaos as possible everywhere.
"Not for long." Said Pekora, hitting the ground as her powerful magic was ready. Several Spirits reacted to her magic and commands, as the ground started shaking and roots and branches grew everywhere around Anastasia. "[Divine Nature Spirit Magic]: [Nature's Rage]!"
She fused her own Spirits into the Magic as well, as the roots wrapped around Anastasia's body while she started trying to fly away. Sadly for her, the hall in here was narrow, and she was unable to have all the space she could had desired to escape! Additionally, from the branches and roots, several giant sunflowers popped up one after the other.
This was Pekora's Sunflower Nature Spirit, one of her oldest Spirits that she had been rising since it was a tiny seedling spirit, it was now a radiant divine spirit, a Sunshine Sunflower Spirit, and it possessed the ability to multiply by fusing with her magic!
All Sunflowers shone brightly, Anastasia was unable to react in time as this happened in just a few seconds!
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
The Sunflowers immediately started shooting gigantic beams of divine-level spiritual sunlight against Anastasia, blasting her entire body countless times. Her hard scales started breaking apart and her shadows were destroyed quickly, weakening her severely as she screamed in agony!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"GRYYYAAAAAAEEEGGH…!" She screamed. "Unnnggh…! T-The light! My body…!"
She saw in horror as her scales were falling apart and her flesh was being covered in deadly, bleeding wounds. She screamed, furiously like a beast she started to bite and tear apart the plants wrapping around her body, which only made her take even more damage!
"RAAAARRRGGH!"
CRAAAASH!
She finally freed herself from the roots, furiously diving down from the ceiling to the floor where Pekora was located, and opening her sea snake jaws, unleashing a devastating Chaos Breath Attack!
FLAAAAAASH!
BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!
The enormous Breath Attack reached Pekora and company in an instant! A devastating explosion covered the entire hall in seconds… Anastasia had imbued a great deal of power into that attack. She was confident there was no way they could had easily survived that.
"Hahahah! It seems my victory has come- Huh?!"
However, she was left flabbergasted as she saw Sapphire standing in front of the other three girls, her Stigma fully activated as her Familiar and her Divine Magic merged into an intricate, magic-sealing barrier that took most of the damage dealt and sealed it within the barrier's own magical structure!
"That damned Sealing Magic of yours!" The Deep One roared in frustration.
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