"Haaa!".


    "Roaar!".


    Aster''s shout followed by the Liger''s roar echoed through the battlefield, the air itself trembled as the giant golden armor shed against the fierce ice dded figure of the Liger.


    The ground rumbled and then crumbled apart due to the impact, the initial sh was between the tail of the Liger and Alexandra''s shield, the shockwave made the atmosphere wave.


    Surprisingly Alexandra''s shield was pushed backwards for the first time, it was only a bit, but when you take into ount the fact that it didn''t even flinch when a Genesis Core was pushing against it, back at her fight with the Fritz elder, it makes one understand how much raw power does the Liger has.


    And that is also why Aster said, that this spirit ice was perfect for Aria, unlike Esmeralda who clearly focused on the energy path, the Liger seemed to be prominent in the body path, which he didn''t even know it was possible.


    That was Aster''s mistake, he forgot to ask Esmeralda more about spirit elements, he couldn''t be fully med though, it''s not like they weremon enough to be found so easily.


    And Aster never expected for one to appear this time, since he just met Esmeralda not too long ago, anyway, that conversation could be left forter, right now Aster had a giant Liger trying to knock him down, so that it would be easier to aim at the chest of the armor.


    The Liger saw the tail whip attack being blocked, and the next thing it did was lower its body to bypass Alexandra''s shield which was floating on the air in front of the armor.


    As if it was dashing, the Liger nimbly bent its legs and then used the impulse to jump towards the golden giant, this time it was using its whole body as a weapon, instead of just the ws.


    The paws of the Liger tried tond on the armor, to use the impulse and tackle the enemy in front of it, but of course Aster wasn''t just going to let it have its way, the spear which was shoved on the ground a few hundreds of meters away, flew towards the armor''s right hand.


    Cam''s natal treasure always returned to her, and this giant spear temporarily shared the same properties, Aster didn''t use this one so far because he wanted to take the Liger by surprise.


    And it sure did, the Liger didn''t expect the enemy to retrieve that dangerous weapon like that, but it for sure wasn''t ready to give up, then under the surprised eyes of Aster and the others, blue energy clouds appeared on the paws of the Liger and its giant body impulse backwards, avoiding the attack of the spear.


    But that wasn''t all, after dodging the spear, the Liger didn''tnd on the ground, but was instead standing… on the air.


    "Isn''t that a bit too much?", mumbled Aster, sure Esmeralda could fly, her wind made Kana''s speed increase a lot, to the point that she now could follow the pace of the other girls, while she is at a much lower realm, so in the future her flying speed will be better than anyone in the same realm as her.


    But a spirit ice walking on the air was strange, then an idea struck him like a bolt out of the blue, the name of the Divine Firmament from which the Yin Azure Pce originated was Frozen Cloud.


    That could be why those guys were so persistent on retrieving the Liger, now that Eris had managed to understand how the formation worked, she also discovered that to maintain that connection between the damaged formation using the yin chain, to control the Liger, they dumped a stupid number of resources into it, from their side.


    In Eris''s words, they might as well should have given up on the Liger and try to find another spirit ice, that''s how much they have invested to keep the Liger under their control, sure spirit elements were incredibly rare, but it wasn''t worth risking their foundation over one.


    Especially in a super force that is formed by many different factions, where they can be swallowed by others at the slightest sign of weakness.


    But now it all made sense, the Yin Azure Pce probably wanted to use the Liger as some sort of symbol and excuse to get the support of other factions, they wanted to take over the control and unite the others under their g.


    They could just say that the Liger was a sign from the heavens or something along the lines of that, and for sure there wouldn''t be ack of fools that would believe them.


    The clouds on the paws of the Liger disappeared and itnded on the ground, its eyes red at the silver spear that would have pierced its body if not for the ability which was saving for an emergency and a low growl escaped its mouth.


    Alexandra turned to see Aster as she sent him a sound transmission, which made Aster''s eyes glow.


    ''Let''s go with that'', he answered, before he gazed at Tiana.


    ''What''s the weight limit of your repelling ability?'', he asked.


    Tiana understood what Aster wanted her to do and she nodded in response.


    ''Three… no, four moves are the limit''.


    Naturally the Liger wasn''t going to leave Aster freely n what to do, it charged towards the golden armor after a couple of seconds of contemtion, unfortunately for it, Aster excelled in parallel thinking so while he shed against the Liger, he was sharing his n with the girls.


    …


    Outside of the barrier created by the spirit beasts, the whole area was now divided into four regions, from the side of the beasts, the centipede whose figure had turned semi-transparent after covering itself into that ck purple mist, had turned a quarter part of nearby area into a ck melted hell.


    The masked elder was like a fish in the ocean, the previously dark green marsh that surrounded his Genesis Core has also changed to look ck inked, even then, the poisonous hell created by those two, couldn''t push Agnes''s sun-like Genesis Core even a centimeter.


    Inparison to before, now it was shining in an even brighter light, the sh between the energies was making the space wave, as it reached the limit before the atmosphere started suffering temporal damage.


    At the other side, the gori had also activated its innate ability and its previously ck que covered body had covered in ayer of metal, unlike before the nearby area was affected by it, and everywhere it touched covered in that ck metal, it was as if the gori had be one with its attribute.


    It wasn''t transforming other things into its attribute like what Sarina could do, but spreading its metal over other things, just by touching them, instead.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    The armored Wendel, was also taking advantage of it, his skin had changed to a dark grey color and surprisingly his Genesis Core, increased its size in around fifty meters, which sure doesn''t sound that impactful when Eris''s core has eight hundred meters of size, and his only reached around five hundred and fifty meters as of current.


    But an increase of fifty meters isn''t something that could be taken lightly, especially because therger the core, the harder it is to increase even a single meter of it, and he increased it a whole fifty meters, he was ecstatic.


    ''I hope this ape weakens after this, if I can get its beast core and refine it, the increase will be permanent!'', he thought.


    As if the gori could feel Wendel cursing him to die, it turned to see the armored elder before saying.


    "Human don''t keep anything hidden if you want to live, that womanes from a ce where Heavenly Realm beings are used as porters, I don''t know you, but this lord wants to continue living", the words of the gori were filled with ridicule, the human in front of it was thinking on what to do after winning, without realizing that it was uncertain whether they could even win.


    ''Stupid human'', thought the gori as it kept drawing yin energy from the yin chain link that resided in its heart, unlike the snake and the falcon, the centipede and the gori didn''t fuse the chain link with their cores, they instead ced it in their hearts, the reason is very simple, they wanted to use it to nurture their lineages instead of just their cores.


    They were already stronger than the snake and the falcon, due to their not so diluted lineages, and by injecting the yin energy right into their hearts, they reached the threshold that allowed them to use the innate abilities that their ancestors in their same realms had.


    "Hoh, so you descend from a Silver Giant Gori, I guess the change in color was caused by all the yin to which you were exposed", Eris''s voice could be hearding from within her Forest Fortress Genesis Core.


    Maybe the race of the gori wasn''t known in this Mortal ne, but Eris''s knowledge doesn''t limit to this ce, so she could immediately recognize the ability that the gori was using.


    While the gori gritted its teeth, remembering that the woman in front of him, came from a simr ce to the one from which its ancestors were kidnapped, toter be used as training targets for humans, Wendel was in awe.


    ''A ce where Heavenly Realm cultivators have to work as porters, what the hell does that mean!'', he inwardly shouted.


    Though it is said that the cultivation path is limitless, he has seen the might of his distant cousin, in other words, the patriarch of the Castle Armored sect, the sight of a Heavenly Manifestation realm, waving his hand and destroying a whole was burned into its memory.


    And now he was told that such a strong person would be working as a mere guard, like the ones that can be seen in low ranked cities guarding the entrance to different stores, he was at deny.


    Not only that, but the woman he was facing supposedly came from that ce, it would be a lie to say, that he didn''t feel afraid of Eris, the Fey family with their Soul Kings was enough to make him want to escape, so knowing who he was trying to kill put him under a lot of pressure.


    Seeing Wendel being lost, the gori put on a cruel smile on its face, and the before the armored elder could react, the gori moved its arm as fast as it could.


    "What the hell are you doing arghhh!", Wendel was taken by surprise, the giant fist of the gori hit his Genesis Core so hard, that it hammered a hole into it, without knowing it, after Wendel used the metal created by the gori to enhance his Genesis Core, the gori used the metal to produce a stress zone, which he now attacked.


    Wendel vomited blood as a hole was punched into his Genesis Core, and then before Wendel could do anything, he was taken out of the core by the gori, whose hand was a bloody mess right now, naturally it suffered from the sh, but right now the gori didn''t care about it.


    "The people from those ces aren''t the type that you can defeat with numbers, at least not this woman, so I''ll have you be nourishment for me, thanks for the meal human".


    Wendel didn''t even have the time to scream before his body was crushed into meat paste, which the gori devoured in less than a second, the Genesis Core crumbled apart the moment Wendel died, but the broken pieces didn''t disappear and instead turned into metal that dded the gori, just like that the ambitious elder who wanted to overtake the Castle Armored sect was killed and devoured.


    Of course, the body and dantian of a Genesis Manifestation cultivator wasn''t nearly enough to push the gori to reach the next step of its evolution, but he didn''t devour Wendel for that.


    There are many ways to increase one''s battle prowess, advancing is just the mostmon and most of the times the easiest one.


    But there is a reason as to why the gori and the centipede chose, Wendel and the masked elder to team up, their attributes werepatible with theirs, so they could help theirprehension over their own attributes increase, if the consumed them.


    "That idiot probably allowed you to use your race as part of the oath, instead of your name, right?", surprisingly Eris didn''t interrupt the gori from killing and consuming Wendel, she just stayed there inside her Genesis Core seeing the situation unfold in front of her.


    The gori wildly smiled at Eris; rests of blood stained its teeth giving it a savage appearance.


    "As expected of someone from the heavens, you are aware of that little trick, but now I wonder if youe from a ce on par with those who used my ancestors as cannon fodder, it appears to not be the case, or you would have stopped me from using that fool as food", the moment the gori finished speaking its body shone in dark grey light.


    The ck metal that covered its body change to get a slightly brighter tone, from ck inked to dark grey, and the aura around the gori skyrocketed.


    "Hahaha, with the chain link and theprehension of that guy in metal element I took a big step, into returning to my origin!", the gori shouted with an excited voice, it''s previously over buff body also shrank a bit, getting more thin muscles.


    "Booom!", the gori suddenly turned into a dark grey sh and punched Eris''s Genesis Core, which lit up in countless of formations, and unlike before this time the Core was pushed backwards a couple of meters, making the gori smirk.


    "After consuming you, I will evolve again, human be a source of nourishment for me!", the gori rushed towards Eris with a crazed expression.


    "You saved me the trouble of having to chase that coward, so I''ll give you a fast death in exchange", Eris''s melodious voice, could be hearding from her Genesis Core.


    The gori suddenly had a bad premonition, but it was toote for it to retreat.


    "What the hell is that!!!", in itsst moments, the gori saw a figure that reached the sky, making him look like a little child in front of an adult, before everything turned into darkness.