As Elara said those words she disappeared again, but this time it was different. Before she was simply moving too quick, but now she wasn't simply moving fast. In fact, she was moving normal except everything in her path was dissolving into nothing.
|Dao of Destruction - Steps of Devouring|
This was a movement skill she created with the essence of her devouring flames. This skill literally allowed her to devour the space she traveled through.
In an instant she was back up on Isis who this time was much better prepared. The moment she appeared Elara threw out another punch, but before it could connect Isis faded away as her voice sounded.
|Dao of Sword - Icy Mist|
Immediately afterwards the area around Elara turned into a biting cold mist. This mist was not normal though, each and every particle of it contained sword energy.
Small cuts began to appear all over Elara's body. Feeling these cuts, Elara smiled even more as she said.
"Feels like a bunch of ants..."
Then she conjured a small ball of fire and tossed into the air.
"Now Devour!"
As if heeding a command, the flames spread out instantly and devoured all the icy mist, but that's not all it did. The flames began to assimilate with the aspects of the mist, and this allowed it to gain the traits of Isis's sword Dao.
When the mist disappeared, Elara stood there spotless. Every cut she had healed, and she now looked up at Isis who watched the entire thing simply analyzing. She wanted Elara to show a bit more of her powers so she could formulate a plan.
But all she is seeing is that weird devouring energy.
Elara grinned as if knowing what she was thinking. She then used her movement skill again and engaged with Isis again. This time Isis didn't evade but she too approached head on.
A clawed fist vs a icy sword met in the midair!
BOOOOOM!
The collision let out a shockwave that even caused the icy grounds to crack.
The two ladies didn't let up for a bit. They went blow for blow not using any skills only a fist and a sword. Elara never once let up her offensive. She moved to the side of Isis and delivered a kick to the rib cage that sent her flying.
Without giving her a chance to recover she used her movement skill and appeared right on top of the flying Isis. She then stomped down directly onto her stomach. This changed her trajectory and sent Isis crashing into ground.
BOOOM!
A resounding crashed that resulted in a huge crater being formed in the icy domain.
"Cough.... shit she's a damn monster"
Isis said as she coughed up a mouthful of blood. Currently her sword was cracked, and her battle dress was torn in pieces. Only her private areas remained covered. Through the rips on her stomach, one could even see a gaping wound that also looked like a claw mark.
Elara descended from the air and crouched beside Isis and spoke.
"You know you're not bad at all. How come you never left this place to continue the path of cultivation?"
Hearing this Isis face became one of confusion.
"What do you mean continue cultivation?"
"Uhhh, please don't tell me you thought you were at the peak?" Elara asked as she raised her eyebrows. To this question Isis didn't respond she choice to remain silent.
Elara shook her head at this and spoke again.
"Look the road of cultivation is far vaster than what you believe. Even I don't know what the peak looks like, but I can tell you for certain you are only at the start. The Mythical Rank is only the last rank of the First realm of power."
"W-what?!" Isis exclaimed as she tried to sit up. Then she looked at Elara and asked.
"And what are you? I'm sure you're not human, well that much is obvious."
"Well, I am a Dragon. The Zenith Dragon of Nothingness."
Elara responded with a friendly smile as she helped Isis up.
"Now let's go regroup with my sisters. I'm sure they are already waiting on us to return."
She then flew away with Isis in tow.
[A/N: I want to clarify two things. Elara could have definitely made quick work of Isis, but she didn't want to hurt her only test her. Secondly, Raven and Lyria's battle won't showed simply because it's not even enough for them to practice.]
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After they returned, they spotted Raven and Lyria sitting down cross-legged in the air. Behind them were 5 women who were being oddly obedient. When they looked at Elara they smile.
"So, you managed to hold back huh?" Raven said teasingly.
"Tch, yea I guess I did." Elara replied as she waved Raven off.
Lyria giggled seeing the antic of the two and then she turned to Isis.
"Now, that we have this finished. Shouldn't you show us around the sect?"
"Oh right! We actually have other things to do." Raven exclaimed as she remembered their objectives.
"Alright follow me."
Isis responded calmly. After the fight with Elara, she could tell that these women weren't evil at all. She also wanted to know more about further Cultivation levels, so she didn't care too much.
As the women were getting things settled in the Northern Continent the other two groups were doing the same thing. Currently Amy and Celeste were sitting in a tavern like place. Once they got to the Eastern continent they decided to gather information first.
Though they already had their target they couldn't take the brute force approach like the others. They were only in the Rebirth rank, so they needed to be cautious. Currently they were sitting at a table talking to one another.
"How do you want to do this?" Amy questioned Celeste who was currently looking around.
"Shadows, of course. And I just found the perfect target." Celeste said as she was looking at an older man dressed in robes. On these robes were a crest that read 'Sect of Flames'.
After she said this, she activated a skill.
|Law of Breathing Shadows - One with Shadow|
She then melted into a shadow and entered into the shadow of the man. Amy who watched all of this slightly grinned.
"Show off."
After she said this, she decided to wait until Celeste returned.
Currently Celeste was in the shadow of the man. This was all done with the purpose of gathering some intel. So, she waited patiently as the man got drunk and continued to chat with others.
[A/N: This time I won't introduce the characters or their conversation. I personally think it's pointless to introduce someone who will only be used for a single purpose. Though if you think it's better if I showed the details let me know. I will make the changes in future chapters.]
After a few hours of listening to the conversation of the man Celeste returned to Amy.
"So, what did you learn?"
"Not much actually. The only thing I heard that's important is that they will be having some sort of meeting soon. Even though he was drunk he didn't mention anything more."
"A meeting? Isn't that perfect for us then? We can attack all at once." Amy said as she leaned forward with both of elbows on the table.
Hearing this Celeste wasn't against, but she needed to know more.
"How do you expect us to do something like that? Especially if that Mythical ranked cultivator is in attendance, then it would probably be much harder."
"Heh, well we don't have to fight fair, do we? Now, do we at least know when the meeting will be?" Amy asked the most important question.
"Uhhh I think it's 3-4 months. His words were too slurred for me to hear him clearly, but don't worry I left a tracker in his shadow so I can watch at all times."
|Shadow Marker - Allows the user to spy through the shadow. The user can also teleport into the marker restriction free. |
"Good. Here's the plan...." Amy then began to explain her plan to Celeste.
As the two girls were making progress in their mission so were the two men in the Western Continent.