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.
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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