Chapter 245: UFOs Above Buenos Aires
Listen While Reading: Hiroyuki Sawano – Sea of Fire ＜OrCH＞ ft. (Vocal: Eliana) | Epic Battle Music
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(A few minutes ago…)
“Are you kidding me right now?! I thought big sis sent us to eliminate some monsters, but those are literally UFOs!”
“Calm down, Ruby; we can handle this much. We’ve been growing really strong, after all. Just think of them as giant, metallic, and flying monsters, dear.”
“What?! No, I can’t; they’re literally UFOs!”
“Looking at them, they don’t really look like your typical flying saucers; they’re more like jet-shaped spaceships. They have got huge dinosaur heads as decorations in the front; maybe they’re from reptilians! Are they real?!”
“Juan, you’re not helping with that!”
Above the skies of Buenos Aires Argentina, a large group of Saurian Spaceships hovered, preparing giant laser beams to obliterate the humans and clear the area for the Saurians to occupy for the extraction of resources.
These resources, which they couldn’t find in their world, included things such as the Magical Element of Mana, crystallized in various places and even underground, and also the resources from the Monsters that come from Gates and Dungeons, which also contain large quantities of Magical Elements.
Therefore, it was necessary for the humans to be wiped out and their cities to be completely obliterated; this way their mission wouldn’t be interrupted by them.
However, there was a trio of Hunters stopping them from doing so: Bing Xue’s family.
Her mother, her sister, and her sister’s boyfriend.
“If we would’ve known she was going to send us all the way to freaking Argentina, I might have reconsidered telling her that I was up for anything!”
Ruby complained, moving through the skies while a black cat by her side flew around; with sharp claws, it began to rapidly pierce the incoming drones, smaller spaceships piloted by one or two Saurians, which emerged from the larger vehicles to attack.
“Mereow!”
As the Doppelcat, Ruby’s Monster Familiar, began slicing through the drones, it quickly transformed into an identical copy of Bing Xue’s sister, using a blazing sword made of black flames just like her to reach the nearest spaceship.
“Help me out, kitty!”
“Meow!”
The Doppelcat unleashed a barrage of slashing attacks, releasing a storm of black flames that engulfed the spaceship… The giant vehicle remained afloat, whatsoever, using a powerful forcefield for defense.
And then, its cannons pointed at the Doppelcat, firing two blue-colored laser beams at her!
“Kitty!”
Ruby ran in front of the Doppelcat and unleashed her powers, generating a giant shield of black flames, which absorbed both beams.
FLUOSH!
As it absorbed the beams, the shield began to grow larger, until it turned into a giant demonic dog with three heads.
“{Three-Headed Demon Dog Shield}!”
The shield, a technique of Ruby’s Unique Class created by her sister, rapidly rushed towards the spaceship, hitting it as hard as it could and biting through its forcefield with three massive jaws.
As the spaceship started dangling around the sky trying to get the thing off, Ruby and her kitten reached it once more; together, they swung the blazing swords once the forcefield was weakened enough.
With the power of her Divine-Rank Class, [Abyssal Blazing Berserk Blade Master Of Dark Stars], Ruby unleashed her Aura, generating several black and red-colored stars floating around her body.
And with her Doppelcat imitating a part of her strength through its mimicry abilities, her Aura rapidly distorted space as she swung her blade at the same time as her familiar.
“[Space Tearing Black Star Swordsmanship]: {Abyssal Tear}!”
SLAAAASH!
With a single slash, Ruby and her Doppelcat cut through the spaceship, quickly tearing it into two halves as a black-colored bolt erupted through their attack, engulfing the two halves into black flames, generating a huge explosion.
BOOOM!
Whatever inside quickly perished, as all technology blew into pieces. The remains of the spaceship falling from the skies were stopped as a barrier that Bing Xue’s doppelganger had placed beforehand stopped it from falling into the city and hurting people by accident.
Once the burning pieces of metal hit the barrier, they quickly slid through the barrier, as if it were covered with oil, and landed at the outskirts of the city, away from any person.
“Well done, Ruby!”
Her mother was also above the skies, jumping and walking through the empty air. Inside of her daughter’s Inner Realm, she had plenty of time to practice many Cultivator Techniques from Murim, such as the {Heavenly Cloud Step} that allowed Cultivators in Murim to run, jump, kick, and walk through the air, a necessary technique for high-level battles, which were mostly in the skies.
As she moved gracefully, she carried a pair of long, golden and silver spears, loaded with holy light, as she faced two spaceships rushing down, both firing dozens of laser beams at her.
“HAAH!”
As someone who has been working as a Hunter since she awakened, Elena was no stranger to battles of any kind. Although she never went past her low-level dungeons, she still went through several life-or-death situations, barely surviving each time. She strengthened her resolve, and her fighting spirit surged.
Now that she had obtained great levels of power after cultivating with her daughter and learning of the many wonderful techniques, abilities, and philosophy that Katherine learned in Murim, while consoling her and helping her get over her many traumas, Elena was completely different, evolving not only as a mother but also as a warrior.
“Katherine’s strength is boundless, but even then, she doesn’t want to solve everything on her own, and I can understand why she fears that Earth and its people become too dependent on her strength for everything…”
As she thought of that, Elena began spinning her two spears in front of her, generating a spinning shield of light that constantly reflected the laser beams into the skies.
And then…
“My daughter doesn’t want us to get used to her help; she doesn’t want humanity to become conceited, thinking that with her, we don’t have to worry about anything. She wants and desires humanity, all of us, to progress and evolve.”
She thrust both spears against the spaceship in front of her, reflecting small missiles and laser beams as her entire body suddenly became covered in gold, an evolution of her Physique of Steel and Holy Light Elements.
“{Heavenly Golden Spear of Light Arts}: {Crescent Shining Thrust}!”
Activating a mighty technique combining her Aura, Ki, Mana, and Spirit Energy with Skills themselves, Elena pierced through the forcefield and the metallic exterior of the fifty-meter big spaceship, as an explosion caused by the technique emerged, a blinding golden light that pierced it all.
CRAAASH!
The spaceship was immediately filled with burning light; the Saurians inside screamed in agony and turned into ashes, while the entire vehicle was torn to shreds and exploded, only for the second to receive a similar fate. The moment it tried to escape from her, Elena launched her second spear at it.
“{Sunshine Meteor Javelin}!”
Firing her spear like a javelin that traveled as quickly as a meteor, the long golden spear pierced through the forcefield of the spaceship and then its metallic exterior, going through it and then returning towards her hand before…
BOOOM!
The second UFO was taken care of.
“Two done! How are you handling things, my son-in-law?”
Elena’s words echoed through Juan’s mind as the young man, reborn anew after his intensive training below Katherine’s tutelage and with Ruby’s support, moved through the skies at lightning speed, encompassed by a semi-transparent white and gray aura; his eyes shone with the same light.
Juan had no element within his physique, and through his cultivation, he learned he had no elemental affinity; even worse, it seemed that no matter how hard Bing Xue tried, if she were to enforce an element into his body, Juan would suffer a lot of pain.
Therefore, unlike Elena and Ruby, Juan was devoid of an element. Therefore, he walked through the path of physical strength, weapon techniques, and the mastery of Non-Elemental Mana and pure Ki.
It was harder than most other people, but he persevered, and what surged from that…
Was a true juggernaut.
“I’m getting things done, mother-in-law; don’t worry about me.”
Surrounded by three spaceships, Ruby and Elena worried as Juan looked at them with a serious expression, never taking lightly his enemies. He usually never smiled on the battlefield.
His Aura exuded light, and as a spatial portal opened by his side, a storage ring he was wearing allowed him to bring forth all the weapons he had collected and made on his own.
Dozens of them.
As dozens of beams reached him, he quickly grabbed all of them.
Yes, his empty, elementless aura shapeshifted, becoming dozens of arms at once.
Each muscular arm grabbed one weapon, and then Juan’s eyes glowed brightly.
This was what he had mastered.
Weapons!
“{Twelve-Armed Weapon Master Arts}: {Onslaught}”
He moved all weapons at once as he kicked the empty air, reaching the nearest spaceship and then smashing it into pieces with each of his weapons, savagely yet precisely striking vital points within the machine, which he analyzed in an instant with his evolved eyes.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
The spaceship was instantly blown into pieces; each area he hit with his weapons released deadly shockwaves, and giant chunks of metal flew out into the skies. As half the spaceship was gone, the Saurians inside jumped to fight the human, only for Juan’s sword, axe, and hammer to slash, cleave, and strike them to death.
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Author's Note: Juan is finally being cool, see? This is for all those people that got extremely upset about Juan being treated poorly or something.