Chapter 96: A Powerful Rabbit

Chapter 96: A Powerful Rabbit

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“ROAR!”

A gigantic, three-headed, blazing wolf-like monster roared, towering over four meters tall. The behemoth easily dwarfed all monsters within this S-Rank Dungeon within the Tower’s First Floor.

With its three heads, it constantly unleashed explosive fireballs at his foe, a single, petite rabbit girl with pointy ears and short brown hair. Her golden eyes shone brightly as they turned orange-colored, and her aura of Ki and Mana combining quickly blazed, generating flames of her own.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

She used this powerful aura to enhance her physical body, moving rapidly with her rabbit foot, which allowed her to give potent hops from one place to another. The wolf chased her, rushing towards her and swinging its giant claws.

“You’re even using your claws?!”

She evaded the deadly claws with blazing speed, and then swung her huge hammer against the monster’s paw, crushing its fingers and shattering its claws.

CRASH!

The three-headed wolf gave out a scream of agony, quickly stepping back in pain and confusion. Its blazing aura released several fireballs within the cave interior, which the girl rapidly started to gather into her aura.

“{Blazing Ki Aura: Fire Absorption}!”

FLUOSH!

The flames gathered around her body and fused with her Aura, empowering her even more and helping her leap towards her foe’s head as she released a blast of fire from beneath her.

“Gotcha!”

She swung her hammer at the three-headed monstrosity, crushing its third, middle head with a single strike, blood splattering everywhere.

CRASH!

The monster agonized; one of its heads died, yet the others remained alive. Their jaws opened, trying to tear the girl apart with deadly attacks.

“{Body Reinforcement}!”

Her body suddenly increased its durability and defense, and the jaws of the monster ended up being unable to pierce through her black-scale dragon armor or her powerful, tough skin.

As the fangs tried to tear through, she used this opportunity to finish the monster off, imbuing Ki and Mana into her hammer and suddenly transforming it.

“{Shapesmithing Arts}: {Spear Form}!”

Her hammer absorbed her energies and transformed its shape into a sharp, silver-colored spear overflowing with crimson flames, which she used to pierce one of the wolve's throats and then retrieve it to destroy the other.

CLASH! CLASH!

She quickly leaped away as she saw the monster’s two lasting heads bleed out and die, its giant body finally collapsing over the floor, spreading flames and blood across the room.

“Hahh... I-I did it!”

The girl celebrated with a smile, looking at the system notification, showcasing she had gained several levels! And with each level, she felt her body and her internal core grow stronger, more refined, and reinforced, with Ki overflowing through her body.

The clapping of someone behind her resonated as the young woman quickly ran towards the origin of the clapping, finding a gorgeous silver-haired woman whose body seemed completely made of golden light.

“Well done, Peperina,” she said. “You’ve grown considerably stronger this week. I think you’re probably at an even higher level than most of the S-ranks in my world, surprisingly enough. This method seemed to also work well.”

“Bing Xue! Thank you so much for helping me so far. I never thought I would ever complete so many dungeons in just a week.” Peperina laughed. “I feel so strong... So confident! The more I leveled up, the more my body became tougher. And I was even able to awaken Papa’s powers from his bloodline.”

“I'm very sorry, Master Bing Xue! I was just too worried, and when I heard that you were coming back, I had to come talk to you personally!”

“What? What’s wrong?”

As I asked him, Estrella broke her silence.

“I can’t believe you chose that disgusting multi-headed serpent as the new god of our world! Just what is wrong with your head, master?!” The pesky girl complained. “I would have rather had the entire world destroyed than Leviathan becoming the new God!”

“Sister, I think you’re being too harsh,” sighed Umbra. “Besides the two of us, Leviathan was the most ancient living being and also the strongest. He was there even before we were born, based on the people’s beliefs and faith. He’s technically our elder, you know?”

“Shut up! He’s dumber than the two of us, so I am not going to call him a wise elder or something; he’s a rabid beast that once ate my divine spirits and tried to eat me when I went to reprimand him!” said Estrella.

“Huh, I had no idea there was this drama between the old gods and Leviathan.” Urbosa smiled with a slightly mocking expression. “I’m glad that Leviathan has become the new god now.”

“Yeah~ honestly, I wouldn’t have been able to accept having this type of person as a goddess...” sighed Merkite, crossing her arms.

“What an annoying little twat.”

“Indeed.”

The two were poking Estrella’s face with their fingers, annoying the very annoying girl.

“H-Hey, stop it! I tried being a good goddess!” She was about to cry already.

Damn, I never knew those two had this side to them; they’re definitely even better now.

“Hah, please forgive my sister; she’s always this way, even though she said she was trying to improve,” said Umbra. “Just yesterday she said she loved me and wanted to make things right again, but she’s too prideful, so she has to act like this, or she will feel embarrassed about opening up and being more honest.”

“W-What?! Umbra, why did you say that?!” Estrella cried.

I see, so she’s actually trying to improve; that’s nice.

It’s good that she’s trying to love her brother now; it would have been nicer if she tried when she was alive.

She’s now something like a minor god tied to me as a summons, unfortunately.

Now, let’s talk with the real god here.

“Um, are those two the old gods?!” Leviathan wondered. “I-I thought you had killed them before, Master Bing Xue-”

“I was able to revive them as Divine Spirit Familiars,” I answered. “Now, Leviathan, let’s get to the point. I am in quite a hurry to go to the second floor, so tell me what’s wrong. I can’t sense anything threatening right now, though. I hope this is not for something minimal.”

“I-It’s not, look! I was sent this...”

Leviathan suddenly gave me a blue-colored jewel, and when I grabbed it, a projection was created.

FLUOSH!

And it showed several figures—divine beings, gods, perhaps, or their avatars.

“This is a message to the goddess known as Bing Xue, who had slain the two gods of Floor 1.”

“We represent the gods of the Fourth Order.”

“And we want to offer you a new opportunity.”

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