"You better put up more of a fight than those two!" said Cynthia. "I assure you that if we die, our sect leader will seek revenge." Said the more senior cultivator. "That's great! I look forward to it. Although if you two put up a good enough fight I'd gladly let you live." said Cynthia "I just want to blow off some steam. I have a particularly thick skulled subordinate that keeps making me want to kill him but he's of much greater use alive.". "You call wanton slaughter blowing off steam?" said the younger cultivator. "Oh please! They knew exactly what they were getting into! I even told them point blank that I might just eat them if they lose!" said Cynthia. "Will you eat us if we lose?" said the senior. "I might if you disappoint me," said Cynthia. "You really don't know the requirements to be allowed to break through and become an elder in the beast taming sect do you?" said the junior. "I may have once been human, but that was in a far more different world than this one. I do not have information on humans in this world other than the fact that they have to earn the world's respect to become strong unlike us beasts." said Cynthia. "What do you mean by this world, are you from a distant world? And how could you have been human once?" said the senior. While the two cultivators of the beast taming sect had no idea what her words meant, the sect master turned referee was flabbergasted. "A new reincarnant has graced this area?!" Thought Yang Ling "Maybe I should rethink fighting her…".
The two cultivators, completely oblivious that they were about to fight someone who was born with both the respect and love of the world, got into fighting stances. Cynthia switched her clothes back to her armor from before. She wasn't looking down on them, she just felt more used to fighting in the armor since she was practically never without it. Before the armor was fully formed she pre-emptively formed 3 spears by splitting off some of her stigma. "How many of those can you make, if I may ask?". "I can make about 37 if I completely ignore defense, but controlling them is a different matter. I haven't had many fights since I became a lord so I've only ever used one but three should pose no problem.". "37 of those giant things? From that little bit of armor?" said the junior. "Celestial white tiger stigmas can compress. You don't think this is my true form do you?" replied Cynthia. "That armor and those spears are made out of the actual stripes on her full body," said the senior. "Oh, so you do know." said Cynthia "I assure you I'm not looking down on you by decompressing that dress. I just feel much more comfortable in my armor.". "I don't mind. Any advantage I can get against a divine bloodline, I'll gladly accept." said the senior. "Cute of you to think that you can get through even this much." said Cynthia. "I'm aware that celestial white tigers boast the highest defensive power out of all legendary species," said the senior. "Oh do we? I knew defense was my strong suit but it's good to know that my bloodline has the strongest defense." said Cynthia. "If you didn't know that, I guess you also don't know that your species is second only to the highest dragon bloodlines in controlling different forces." said the senior. "I guess that makes sense. It was very intuitive to learn how to manipulate my stigma and once I learned that, energy and the world were just putty in my hands." said Cynthia "Alright enough chit chat. Let's fight.".
As soon as she said that, the spears started vibrating with energy. After a couple moments the spears shone with a radiant white energy and a desolate black aura. "You have forcefully created an art! Void Spear has been created!" said a new blue window "Through your incredible act of energy control a skill is being created! Spear Aura has been created!". "You have inspired one of your subordinates! Yue is undergoing evolution!". "It seems this trip was a good idea simply to inspire my royal guard!" said Cynthia looking towards her subordinate in the audience. "You have an extraordinary mentality for someone so young!" said the senior. "Well I was a grown woman in my previous life." said Cynthia. With these words it finally clicked for the senior. He had been told long ago that there are some people from worlds not connected to the realm of fables. These people die in their worlds and are reincarnated here once their fable is known throughout one of the many worlds. They end up being granted the love of the world because of the extreme respect they earn by being one of the few to be known throughout ages. Only those of the immortal ascension realm or the king realm for beasts are comparable to what these people achieved before they were even born so even if they aren't born to a divine bloodline they are virtually certain to become gods if they live long enough. "My god, one of the legendary reincarnants born into a divine bloodline? What kind of monster will she become in the future?" thought the senior cultivator. The sect leader seeing the realization dawn on his face said "It is far too late to back out now! You should've realized what she was sooner.". The sect leader chuckled a bit and started a count down.
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As soon as the go ahead was given Cynthia sent one of her spears directly at the junior and one at the senior waiting and watching before deciding what to do with the third. In the same moment 5 beasts appeared next to both cultivators simultaneously. 10 beasts in total which Cynthia instantly recognized as lords. Cynthia now grinning like she was mentally insane cackled. "Yes! She said loudly in between bouts of maniacal laughter "This will be exhilarating!". Cynthia now decided that they were worthy, grew and grew, evidently she grew since the last time she transformed. Cynthia was now the size of a large van. Her armor melding into her fur as stripes. She decided to send her 3 spears to deal with the junior and his beasts, while taking the senior and his beasts on her own.
The seniors' beasts looked menacing but not nearly as menacing as the several ton massive white tiger barreling towards them. The first one was a snake it bit her on her front left leg she then mauled it with a single slash of her claws the other four beast lords didn't just stand by though an ape looking one punched violently at her side but she moved her stigma to block, a scorpion one stuck with its tail at her head and a pincer went for where the snake bit her. Cynthia just let both hit her. She was now bleeding from her leg and her forehead but they were only minor wounds. A lion with a tail much like the scorpion and a human face swiped at her back leg with its claws and stabbed at the side of her torso with the stinger. Cynthia blocked the claw swipe but not the stinger.
"You took every hit that had venom or poison, aren't you afraid of losing a battle of attrition?" said the senior. "I'm not a normal beast. I kept hinting at it and it seemed like you understood before but I guess you need to learn more" said Cynthia, her muscles actively getting bigger along with the rest of her body "Your poison was very tasty!". Cynthia then swiped with her claws at the scorpion and ape alike. Their wounds instantly started festering the way hers should've when she got bit by the snake. The scorpion seemed to be partially immune to its own venom since only the apes leg exploded in a mess of blood, muscle, bone, and pus. The manticore's poison seemed to be very similar to the scorpion though because after a couple more moments the scorpion's tail started bulging. The tail didn't quite burst but it did swell enough that if a sharp attack hit it, it would likely burst. Cynthia, now becoming painfully aware of the fifth beast as her leg was cut open, spun around to confront what was likely the toughest threat. "That damn preying mantis cut open my leg!" she said out loud. "That one is my most prized possession!" said the senior cultivator "by beast's standards it would be a mid tier lord". The manticore and the mantis started double teaming Cynthia. The mantis was too much of a threat and her focus was taken away from her spears. Cynthia called back her spears because she needed them to fight this mantis. Cynthia knew that the other beasts would come soon but this was a necessity. Cynthia covered most of the front of her body with her stigma and sent one spear at the manticore and the other two at the mantis. One spear splattered what once was the manticore all over the arena. The other two had less success. One spear was full on blocked by the mantis and the other was deflected and took a single leg. Cynthia now thinking on her feet had the deflected spear slash upwards and the blocked one pressed harder as she poured more energy into it. "If this is a battle of energy I'll lose" Cynthia thought "I'll turn this into a battle of control!". Cynthia then sent the third spear to back up the rest.
Now one spear was attacking at the back of the mantis while the other two fought off its cleaving forelegs. Spear 1 and 2 thrusted forward with power while spear 3 pushed the blunt end into the mantis' back to push the mantis into spear 1 and 2. "You have created a brand new martial art formation by combining basic spear techniques!" said a new blue window "Since this formation has never been used before it doesn't have a name! You may name this new formation at any time!". Cynthia quickly dismissed the window so as to not be distracted from the fight. The mantis got impaled by the two spears but used the grievous wound as an opportunity. Cynthia never put wings on her spears as she wasn't super well verse in spears and she always thought that like in her first use of them, the spears going through things would be useful. The mantis charged through the spears letting them impale it as it charged at Cynthia she decided to try something new again. Cynthia separated her stigma from her body and created a wall and sent it towards the charging insect.
Cynthia knew that insects are known for their resilience so she knew she needed a more permanent solution. Things were much easier now though. The mantis would certainly die with the injuries it had now so she just needed to incapacitate it until its death finally came for it. Unfortunately she was very haggard. She wasn't bleeding much, and her wounds were not fatal, but the pain was real and she had been operating at full force for a while now. Even against that first human faced spider, and the first xingxing, who were her toughest opponents, the exchanges were rather short. On the other hand, each opponent she took out in this fight took about as much time as fighting the spider and the xingxing lord, while the fight that nearly killed her, the fight with the xingxing lord's son took less time than her fight with the mantis. What she had done up until this point in this fight was like fighting all her past battles back to back to back, and it was a serious drain on her energy. Unfortunately even after she killed the mantis she would then need to fight five more lords and then two human cultivators capable of capturing these ten lords and forcing the lords to do their bidding.
Cynthia should've been afraid but she was getting more and more excited. "The world is reacting to your mood! Your strong excitement and bloodlust has been recognized! A blood festival has begun!". "You have completed a hidden piece! You have been granted the title of Blood Berserker!" Just then Cynthia felt a new power inside of her. A new area of control! Cynthia Transformed back into human form. In her human form she had more fine tuned control which was needed when discovering a new area of control. Unfortunately all her stigma was away from her. Cynthia, feeling the breeze against her bear skin, decided to attempt her first act of control faster. She could feel that this new element was all over the arena but only the arena. "How odd." Cynthia thought. She then took a closer look. "Blood?! I can control blood now?!" She exclaimed. "Well I can't just sit here, indecent in public now, can I" She said as she brought the blood over and conjured a simple red dress out of the blood spilt on the arena floor. With control over a new domain she could feel that control over each domain is separate. If she made more void spears she would need to split her control between the new ones but control over blood was separate altogether. This meant her control practically doubled. Unfortunately if she wanted to enhance all of them with energy her energy control would then be spread thin. "It's a good thing my energy control increases with my maximum energy." thought Cynthia. Cynthia could feel that the durability of this new element was far less than her stigma but she felt that its talents lay in something different than creating constructs. She instinctively poured some of the blood on her wounds (Author note: DO NOT TRY THIS IN REAL LIFE! THIS IS AN ACT OF FICTION! BLOOD BORN DISEASES ARE SERIOUS AND CAN AND WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOR THE WORSE!). The wounds rapidly healed. "So the more blood is spilt, the more healing I can receive huh?" thought Cynthia "As a reward for creating a blood festival it fits the vibe, that's for sure!". "I also feel more powerful after healing my wounds as well." Cynthia continued thinking "the system did say that all titles offer extra growth paths.".