Chapter 151: Surpass Your Limits

Chapter 151: Surpass Your Limits

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Bing Xue had nicely arranged the teams for each pyramid and their bosses according to what she learned about them and the challenges she wanted them to go through. For a Venerable and Martial Master such as herself, assembling teams and giving trials and challenges to her disciples was part of the whole joy of being a Murim Master.

From the very beginning, through her abilities and the information she got from Akhenaten, she knew that the person in this pyramid and their Mechanical God, were a perfect match against Mursha. The orc warrioress, who now had obtained a divine fire ability and was developing a hot-blooded fighting ability, needed to temper her wrath by fighting someone who wielded water.

And right now, Mursha confronted her: Hatshepsut, the spoiled young sister of the Pharaoh of the Empire of the Sun, pilot of Anuket, the Mechanical Goddess of the River Nile, naturally proficient with controlling waters and creating them.

And above all, her Golden Bloodline Ability, which had incredible affinity with Anuket’s Elemental and Divine Powers,

“I’ll make you pay for what you’ve done, you ugly alien!!!” she screamed. “I’ll drown you and your people!”

FLUOSH!

In that moment, Anuket’s Divine Powers surged as endless currents of water materialized from its body one after another. Mursha’s eyes widened as she saw dozens of thick currents of water gather together into an immense being.

“T-That’s...”

As she glanced at the scene, Hatshepsut’s Golden Bloodline Powers combined with Anuket, helping the Mechanical Goddess unleash its powers to a new level.

“{Golden Bloodline Ability}: {Hapi’s Divine Flood}!”

FLUOSH!

The water suddenly took the shape of an enormous god, someone between a woman and a man, the Ancient God of Nile’s Flood, Hapi. Known for bringing the floods to ancient Egypt and therefore fertile soil from the Nile itself.

He was known as a God of Agriculture as well, but above all, of a God of Floods and Life, the same as Anuket, the Goddess of the Nile itself.

Therefore, when both of these powers combined, an incredible synergy was formed!

RUMBLE!

A titan made of endlessly flowing water materialized, a walking ocean of its own; if they wished, the entire city of Giza would be flooded completely!

“So this is why she told me to be careful.”

Mursha smiled at the challenge, her entire body beginning to transform as she activated her Bloodfang Wolf’s Aura, unleashing her Spiritual Powers.

Red fur grew over her arms, legs, and around her chest and back, while her hair merged with her clothes made of giant wolf pelt.

Her eyes turned deep red, and her teeth became sharp canine fangs!

Her axe also grew larger, twice as big as before!

“Time to test how strong I have become...”

She stepped forward across the skies, resembling a blazing meteor, as she reached the titan made of water. Anuket merely opened its enormous hands made of water to reach Mursha.

As she rushed forward across the skies, the water reached her, attempting to catch and then simply drown her or crush her with enormous water pressure.

However...

“Tha ain’t happenin’!”

As she roared, the orc warrioress swung her axe upwards, unleashing a huge wave of pure crimson flames, and her aura emerged, slashing through the hand made of water.

SLAASH!

The sound of her attack slicing through the water echoed across the skies as the titanic hand quickly boiled up and exploded into vapor faster than it could regenerate!

BOOOM!

“Not bad...”

Hatshepsut seemed furious though, as she quickly continued manipulating the titan made of water as she tried to make her way to Giza.

“But is that enough to stop me!? I’ll drown that city of yours and everyone in there! This will be your end for daring to enrage a goddess of water such as myself!”

With a furious roar, Hatshepsut unleashed dozens of floods of water against Mursha; it was no simple water either, rapidly spiraling on itself, swirling angrily, and gathering large quantities of divine power.

Mursha had to rapidly swing her axe, slicing through the water as it came. She rapidly focused, letting her Ki, Spirit Energy, and Mana flow through her body rapidly.

And then.

BA DUM!

Her heart started beating faster as a fourth energy entered her body and started to rapidly enhance her physique and her senses.

The Primal Power that Fiery Hair gifted to her!

A combination of four different energies was harnessed as Mursha saw the incoming floods one by one with extreme accuracy.

“Concentrate...!”

BA DUM!

“You can do... this!”

She swung her axe, slicing through the incoming flooding and spiraling water rivers that came against her, which suddenly started shaping like snakes opening their jaws, sometimes crocodiles, or fish.

“{Divine Bloodfang Axe Arts}: {Abyssal Crimson Fangs}”

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Each of her slashing attacks became a huge crimson fang, biting and cleaving through the floods of azure water as they came, making them erupt, explode, and splatter across the skies like rain.

SPLAAASH!

As she continued fighting, Anuket quickly conjured several floods of water—rivers that merged with one another and became even thicker, rushing down from above.

And the same happened from below as well, and then left and right. Each of these floods ended with ferocious snake heads.

“Don’t think I don’t have other abilities!” roared Hatshepsut.

“{Thousand River Snakes of Nile}!”

“Ah!”

Mursha quickly enhanced her body with her Divinity Aura and Spiritual Aura, rapidly strengthening her body, and then tried to take on the attacks as they came.

But it was futile!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“{Chimera Totem Embodiment}!”

Becoming fifteen meters tall, Aiyana reached the endless water rivers and slashed them apart one after another. The snakes, which were made of this water, hissed in agony before disappearing one after another.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

As all of this happened, Mursha concentrated, closing her eyes and even ignoring how her lungs were full of water and about to burst.

Her heart continued beating despite all odds, enhanced solely by the abilities of her Primal Power, all while constantly refining her other three energies together.

“Come on... concentrate...”

BA DUM!

“Reach the deepest of powers...”

BA DUM!

“You can breakthrough, Mursha!”

BA DUM!

And then, she heard something.

“I believe in you, my daughter.”

Perhaps it was an illusion, a livid dream, or whatever else, but Mursha heard her mother.

And then, the flame of her heart blazed through.

“All my powers so far were different; I couldn’t quite combine them together...”

Yet she realized something in that moment.

What was giving her so much power wasn’t just Primal Power.

But...

Hope!

“I have hope.”

Hope connects all people, all things, and all dreams!

Combining hope with everything else, Mursha created a proper fusion.

Countless winged wolves made of divine golden, red, orange, and black flames surged from her body.

FLUOSH!

The wolves opened their jaws as she swung her axe, devouring and splitting apart the water.

The structure that kept their atoms together was split apart too, and the water instantly...

BOOOM!

Evaporated.

“Wha...?!”

Hatshepsut glanced in utter disbelief as the bubble of water she had Mursha trapped in instantly exploded into vapor, disappearing.

“Thank you, Bing Xue.” Mursha smiled. “You were right! This is what I needed to reach a new level!”

RUMBLE!

With a single step into the skies, Mursha appeared in front of Hatshepsut, and the water titan wrapped around Anuket instantly evaporated.

POOOF!

Dissipating into nothing but vapor!

“How did you...?! HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!”

With a scream full of disbelief, Hatshepsut attacked Mursha with Anuket’s hands, which quickly gathered water and froze it into sharp claws.

“I don’t know what name I could even give it...”

FLUOSH!

Mursha’s Aura erupted as a giant winged wolf emerged, merging with her body and giving her both the wings of the phoenix and the fur and strength of the wolf.

FLASH!

She rushed forward, her wings giving her tremendous speed, and the frozen claws of Anuket...

There was no problem!

“{Divine Bloodfang Axe Arts}: {Abyssal Blood-Winged Wolf of Hope}”

“AWOOOOOO!”

Each of her cleaving attacks created the illusion of an enormous wolf made of blood, darkness, and fire, cutting through all things in front of her with its claws and fiery wings.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

“A-Ah...!”

Hatshepsut realized too late that her entire Mechanical Goddess and herself had been cut down to pieces.

“Eh?”

She saw her hands fall apart into pieces, and so did her fingers.

And then, a piece of her face...

Then the rest of her body collapsed at the same time as her Mechanical Goddess.

BOOOM!

Crumbling into the sands below, her plans to drown Giza were thwarted.

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