Chapter 554: Preparing the stage

"Guys, now that we found you, we will move you to a place where no one will ever dare to exploit you in the way you were exploited in the past. As for today, I announce the end of the gorilla's sect, so that no one will ever come back to get revenge on you. Celleria, are you ready?"

With Bonger's message putting me on quite a high alter, I quickly reorganised our limited forces. Thanks to the help of my energy vision, finding out the whereabouts of the poor victims of the unfair and abusive treatment of this sect wasn't any problem at all, especially after some disciples helped us out due to the sheer kindness that my charm induced in their hearts.

"Yeah, I will be right behind you."

With Bonger's warning still resounding in my ears, I felt as if every single wasted second was a potential threat to the safety fo the people we just saved from this place. As such, as soon as Celleria reported her readiness, I poked Eve's side and nodded my head in her direction, before bending my knees and kicking myself off the ground into the skies!

Swoosh!

As if it was a nuclear explosion that gave me the momentum, I blasted into the air like a damned missile, reaching the point above the village in a matter of less than two seconds. Despite Eve appearing right beside me in the very next moment, I actually focused my attention at the situation below my feet rather than on the excited face of my future wife.

Thankfully, there were no signs of the monsters appearing yet, giving us at least a few moments to prepare before the onslaught would start.

Thump.

This time, rather than ignoring the collateral damage to my surroundings while landing, I made sure to soften up my descend before finally, the soles of my feet touched the hard ground.

"What are we going to do then? Just stand against those monsters and slaughter them as we go?"

With Eve not even bothering to completely land herself and just levitating few militaries above the earth, I could read the excitement from her face like if it was an open book. Yet while I was quite hyped for the series of testing of my own power myself, we couldn't just let our urges rule out what we would be doing!

After all, we came here not to have fun, but to protect this village in the very first place!

"Let's head up a bit, I need to see the entire village from the bird's eye point of view."

Despite being in the skies just a moment ago, I still elevated myself up with a simple shockwave before using my flight spell to stabilise my position.

"I think I will go with several barriers to funnel them towards the barricade. If we let them pass through the entire width of the peninsula here, we won't be able to stop them. Rather than that, do you think you will be able to take over my barriers and support them after you are done with testing your own limits? I would like to have some practice as well."

As much as I loved Eve, after everything that I went through, I just couldn't fight this feeling that it was me supposed to protect her rather than the two of us protecting each other. Even despite knowing that in terms of the raw power, she was most likely stronger than me, it didn't change the fact that my constant greatest priority was to grow strong enough to make any attempts at her life simply meaningless!

"Hmm… I'm not really sure. How about we test it out right now?"

Rather than giving me a concrete answer, Eve smiled mischievously before floating right into my arms and staring at me with her big, deep eyes.

"O-okay then, l-let's try it out."

No matter how many times we screwed each other, with the person I cared the most in my entire life, intentionally getting as intimately close as she did, it would still cause my heart to flutter and tongue fails to finish its task properly!

Yet with how little time we had, and with how those monsters were supposed to be stronger than we expected according to Bonger's words, I had to discard all those idle thoughts that Eve's closeness caused in my mind, fully focusing on the task at hand.

"Okay, try taking it over."

Creating a simple barrier with just a stray thought, I made sure that it was properly connected to my core, before allowing Eve to manipulate her own energy to make it resemble perfectly the flow that I created.

Maybe it was due to our dual spirituality or maybe just because of the talent that the two of us had towards cultivation, not to speak about our compatibility with each other, the transfer of the burden that the shield placed on one's core, went through without even a hint of a problem!

Yet with how paranoic I could be at times, I still forced the two of us to go through this process two times again, yet with the geometrically increasing strength of the barrier that I would be passing on Eve.

Only after the last test concluded with her quickly taking over the barrier as if those two previous runs were enough for her to get efficient at doing so, I finally approved our initial plan.

"So, to make sure there are no mistakes. We will funnel all the bears towards the village's barricade, where you will test your limits to your heart's content. I will prepare another barrier surrounding the village itself just in case if Bonger's warning were far more important than I still dare to believe them so that if a push comes to shove, you will be able to quickly retreat to the safety, okay?"

No matter how easy dealing with that stampede was most likely going to be, I wasn't willing to just ignore some basic safety measures like that! After all, it was proven to me several times already that there are moments when no matter how powerful one is, fate will still find its way to show how powerless one is in reality!