Chapter 114: Spiritual Fusion
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{Spiritual Fusion}!
A unique technique that Urbosa and Merkite had just discovered as they cultivated both Mana, Ki, and Spiritual Energy together.
Usually, every beast-kin would develop their own Spiritual Magic, it was often the simplest elemental spirit magic, but there were rare cases where talented people could create contracts with spirits or even create spirits themselves, such as Hekita.
However, although Urbosa and Merkite showed the most basic ability to just gain magical power and strength through spiritual energy, as they continued cultivating and improving themselves, eventually...
Something was born.
Within their Elemental Spiritual Core, a new power blossomed as they reached Rank 5. Each Rank of Cultivation granted a special ability to the wielder, which could also manifest into even more different powers based on their initial talents.
And the talents of Spiritual Energy and Mana were often never variables originally, surprising Bing Xue each time the cultivation of her disciples resulted much differently than it should.
When the twins reached Rank 3, they forged Spiritual Beast Physiques of tremendous power, enhancing their spiritual powers and even granting them something called Spirit Bodies, a second body made of spirit that, when merged with their original body, could double their stats or make them go even higher.
At Rank 4, they reached the Martial Soul Realm, awakening a Martial Soul. Their soul changed, becoming incredibly powerful and attaining the power to manifest outside of their body. With this, they were able to encompass themselves in their elements, which their Martial Soul had absorbed, becoming Elemental Spiritual Martial Soul.
And once they reached Rank 5, the highest Rank anybody taught by Bing Xue had reached, they attained the Martial Aura Realm, the power to combine the Martial Soul with their Physique, generating a mighty Aura that can encompass the body and become solid.
And through the natural ability of their Aura, further merged and upgraded with their Spiritual Powers, a new Ability manifested within their growing Elemental Core.
And that was {Spiritual Fusion}!
The ability to combine their Souls and Physiques manifested in their ability to combine their Spiritual Powers, which, because they were already connected to their bodies and souls, practically helped the twins become a single entity, adding each other’s powers into a single being and fusing all their skills and techniques as well.
Although a temporary form, its presence itself was already frightening!
RUMBLE!
The skies above rumbled as heaven and earth trembled and shook. Leos' eyes widened as he noticed his sword was stopped from reaching the twins by their bare hands!
CLASH!
“What?!”
As his mighty sword was blocked by her bare hands, the figure of the entity that was born from the fusion of Urbosa and Merkite emerged, and the smoke dissipated, revealing a tall wolf woman whose fur had become completely silver, with black patches across her shoulders, legs, and arms.
She was over five meters tall, with a mighty, muscular frame and a feminine beauty akin to that of a beast goddess. With four large arms covered with glistening silver fur and sharp, black claws, her long tail waved by the wind produced by her body, long and fluffy, ending on a black-colored tip.
The armor the twins were wearing didn’t disappear, fusing together as they merged, as Bing Xue had modified their weapons to possess Spiritual Power as well, fusing together once they used Spiritual Fusion.
A golden armor covered several parts of their body, resembling giant dragon scales emanating thunder and winds, and even their spears fused into a single, enormous spear with a sharp blade at each end.
“How did you…?!” Leos muttered, feeling the intense presence of Divine Power within them.
Yes, Divine Power!
Although it was quite faint, because the twins had reached Rank 5, and were only one Rank from reaching Rank 6, the Realm of Immortals, their power was now evolving.
A spark of immortality surged from within their very being, combined as one, with spiritual and elemental energies further mixing up with Ki and Mana.
Now, they were quite even.
“Do you think you have the time to talk?”
The giant wolf goddess spoke with a furious tone of voice, her voice the combination of both Urbosa and Merkite’s voices together. As she stopped Leos’ sword, her hand tightened, and then her sharp claws shattered the weapon instantly.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
“Huh?!”
As the sword was reduced to mere fragments in front of the prideful warrior, he quickly and desperately summoned a hundred swords of spiritual light, mixing them with the divine power of his armor, formerly a sword, and the divine blessing of the barbarian god given to him.
“Don’t you dare mock me! {Holy Spiritual Blade Rain}!”
The wolf goddess glanced as hundreds of swords reached her; the four eyes she possessed, two gold and two emerald, seemed to emanate a different aura altogether.
She wasn’t the same as before.
“Mocking you? I am doing no such thing.”
With a mere thought, her Aura surged, a mighty shockwave similar to an {Immortal Intent} surged from her body, and thunder and winds combined into a powerful storm, destroying the projectiles coming towards her.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As they exploded in midair without ever reaching her, the fusion reached Leos, her four eyes shining with divine spiritual energy.
“Leos, former King of the Beast Tribes... Your time is due! You will now pay for your sins!”
As she reached him, Leos desperately unleashed his powerful Aura, resembling a group of dozens of roaring golden lions, attacking the fusion with claws, fangs, and beams of spiritual light.
“SHUT UP!”
With a mighty roar, the former king of the beast tribes clashed against Merkite and Urbosa, now fused as a single entity. Her claws, legs, and spear pierced through his manifested aura with ease, tearing apart and beheading the lions, and then reaching his side once more, moving at lightning speed as her body suddenly became pure thunder and wind.
“For all of those that have died... For all the innocents that have been enslaved and killed because of your betrayal, because of your selfishness!”
“SILENCE!”
Leos twisted his body barely in time, intercepting an incoming barrage of blows with his steel claws, only to realize the twins combined spear easily pierced through them, leaving countless holes across his body.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
“Ugh?!”
His hands were torn apart, and so were his arms, destroyed as explosions of thunder and winds engulfed most of his body. Then the spear reached his throat, about to finish him off.
“NOOO!”
With a furious and beastly roar, he opened his jaws, biting the spear as thunder and winds constantly ravaged his face, only for his sword’s melted form to continue replacing more and more of his body.
“I won’t die! I AM THE KING OF THE BEASTS!!!”
His armor erupted with all his power at once, generating a giant shockwave of light that lightly pushed Urbosa and Merkite’s fusion a few meters, the twins noticing the former king’s body having mutated even more, even the interior of his mouth and his flesh merging with the liquid gold of the sword.
“Grahhh… GRAAAARRRGH!”
He had gone mad with power; the divine beast spirit powers imbued into the sword, now turned into armor, were going completely crazy. Perhaps the last beastly instincts left behind by the divine beast spirit they used to make this sword were now trying to take him over as a vessel of destruction and vengeance.
Now resembling a giant metallic lion made of black and gold metal, Leos rushed towards the twins, shattering the ground around him and making the skies rumble. The twins intercepted his powerful bite attacks with explosions of thunder and winds as they conjured giant swords of their combined elements.
“This is what happens because you’ve used the body parts of a divine beast spirit to make a weapon!” they roared in unison. “You’ve transgressed our greatest traditions and desecrated the very beings that once protected us, SINFUL BEAST!”
With their power unified as one, their spear grew several times larger, spinning around and piercing through Leos' body dozens of times, leaving holes that were being rapidly regenerated over and over again. Leos attacked back with countless claws and beams of light. The two divine beasts clashed above the skies, constantly shaking them, and explosions of elements covered the heavens.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
“GRAAARRRGGH!”
The relentless lion reached the fused twins, grabbing them with its giant claws and trying to devour their faces off with their massive, metallic jaws. Within its crimson eyes, the two noticed tears coming out. Not from Leos, but from the Divine Beast Spirit that had been turned into a monstrosity.
“Nnnggh…! Forgive me!”
While gritting their teeth, their giant and muscular arms lifted, their hands reaching the massive metallic head and then twisting it with tremendous, thunderous force, tearing off Leos head off and then blowing it up with thunder and winds!
BOOOM!
For a moment, the body stopped moving and fell from the skies, showing the wounded, headless neck of Leos bleeding out over the grasslands.
“Hahh… Hahh… we did it?” they wondered. “This… Ah!”
RUMBLE!
However, in that very moment, a shockwave of spiritual and soul energies surged from the corpse. Their eyes widened to see Leos’ presence appear again, fusing with the armor once more.
His very soul, contaminated with the barbarian god’s blessing, did not want to leave its body yet!
“No… No… NOOO! I WON’T LOSE…! I AM… THE KING… OF BEASTS!!!”
The black and gold metal encompassing his corpse started to twist and shapeshift constantly, revealing hundreds of lion-like heads and beastly tentacles and claws constantly surging from its metallic and flesh fusion.
“GRUOOOHHHH!”
With a monstrous and almost eldritch scream of both agony and wrath, the lion beast king’s soul started to shake the entire battlefield, his form growing larger and larger and larger, its tentacles piercing the bodies of participants, draining them of their blood and souls.
“I WILL FEAST ON ALL OF YOU, VERMINS!”
As they saw this immense destruction, the twins decided to end it once and for all.
“What a monster! Just how far is he willing to go to not accept his punishment for his sins?!” they sighed. “Let’s end this!”
FLUOSH!
Their Divine Spiritual Power surged from their body, fusing with their spear and then their body, gathering a giant storm of thunder and winds, forming a massive entity.
Everyone could see it above the skies. Bing Xue smiled as she glanced at the scene, feeling proud of what her beloved girls had achieved.
“I knew they could do it.”
RUMBLE!
“ROOOAAARR!”
A gigantic wolf emerged, made completely out of divine spiritual elemental energies of thunder and winds, at over fifty meters of height. It descended towards Leos' enormous, aberrant fleshy and metallic body, opening their jaws and engulfing him in a destruction explosion.
BOOOMMM!!!
The explosion was caused merely by their bodies colliding with one another; the fusion quickly opened their massive wolf jaws, biting and tearing through Leos apart as their powerful spiritual elements burned and turned him into ashes.
“Gryyyaaaeeggghh!”
The scream of agony from Leos echoed as his entire body was being devoured and torn apart, over and over and over again!
“N-No…! STOP…! STOOOP!”
“ENOUGH! Accept your death!”
With a mighty howl, the twins suddenly grew two more wolf-like heads from their transformed fused body, tearing through Leos and even destroying his very soul, covering it with countless bites.
Crack, crack…!
“I AM…! THE KING OF…!”
CRACK!
“THE KING OF BEASTS…!”
Crack, crack…!
“STOP…!”
CRACK!
“STOOOP!”
CRASH!
“THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING TO MEEEE!”
Struggling until the very last second, Leos gave his last scream as his soul and body shattered into pieces, never to recover ever again.
BOOOM!
An explosion of accumulated divine spiritual energy erupted from his body, engulfing the two twins as their fusion quickly deactivated, their bodies falling over the grasslands, covered by powerful divine essence that was slowly absorbed by their bodies.
“Well done.” Bing Xue appeared by their side, not as a doppelganger but as the real deal, waving her hand and healing them. “Very well done, my love.”
As she helped them recover and regain their consciousness, Bing Xue suddenly noticed something behind her.
A huge lump of black and gold metal is still groaning, along with the mixed, tiny soul fragments of the Divine Beast Spirit.
“Gryeeggh…! Guuugghh…”
“How relentless you are, so you’ve survived…”
For a moment, she considered vaporizing it and ending its suffering. Yet she could still notice, within its red eyes, the intent to live.
Leos was no longer there anymore, but only the agonizing victim of the schemes of the barbarian god.
As a merciful and righteous Venerable, Bing Xue took pity on it.
She extended her hand as the metallic, slime-like creature slowly walked towards her hand and then was teleported inside her Inner Realm.
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