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At the same time, mother suddenly summoned a Spirit I had never seen before, which seemed extremely powerful!
"Valkyrie, come!"
FLAAASH!
"It has been a while since you called me for battle, Faylen!"
Suddenly, a beautiful woman as tall as three meters emerged. I had never seen her before. She looked like an angel with enormous, feathered wings, but was covered in golden and silver armor, holding a large spear and a shield with a helmet with feathered wing-like decorations.
"I shall protect you with my strength!"
Valkyrie exuded an aura of majestic light and golden brightness. It felt as if she created a Domain of Protection in a mere second, generating a barrier around us by merely standing.
Her enormous spear quickly pointed against a gigantic figure; an enormous, black-scaled wyvern flew directly towards us! This thing was… Tier 6 Monster!
"ROOOAARRR!"
"Foolish beast!"
Valkyrie pridefully roared, pointing her spear at the wyvern and then infusing enormous quantities of Mana without even faltering.
FLASH!
Her spear flew like a flash of bright light directly towards the monster in midair, impacting the Black Scaled Wyvern's head, piercing it and then exploding into a flash of light, completely disintegrating the wyvern's head and letting the enormous, beheaded carcass fall from the skies with a loud clashing sound.
CLAAASH!
I quickly gained EXP by merely watching that massacre. I had already summoned Naturia and Ignatius at my side alongside Furoh, which I was mounting with Aquarina and Zack.
Ding!
[Your Party has slain a [Blazing Red Wyvern (Tier 6: Rank 6)] x1!]
[Your Party has slain a [Giant Dark Hydra (Tier 6: Rank 4)] x1!]
[Your Party has slain a [Black Scaled Wyvern (Tier 6: Rank 9)] x1!]
[You earned 150000 EXP]
[Naturia] earned 285000 EXP]
[Naturia] Level has increased from Level 0 to Level 7!]
[Ignatius] earned 285000 EXP]
[Ignatius] Level has increased from Level 10 to Level 13!]
[Furoh] earned 285000 EXP]
[Furoh] Level has increased from Level 0 to Level 7!]
I was getting a frenzy of level ups for my friends, but this wasn't really the time to get happy over this! However, wasn't it a bit too little for such high ranked monsters? Or maybe it is because I am only getting some EXP out of the kill of somene else?
"W-Wow…" Zack reacted first.
"Amazing!" Aquarina praised the spirit.
"Hmph, as long as I am here I won't let any monster touch you children!" Valkyrie hit the ground with her spear, expanding a Domain of Light she created.
"Don't get too cocky either, you're already too rusty, Valkyrie!" Said my mother.
"ROAR!"
"GROAR!"
Suddenly, the ground trembled, as we were making our way out of the garden and trying to clean the path ahead of us from small fry like goblins, two enormous beasts rushed to our side. One was a being of over ten meters, with five enormous, snake-like heads, the other was a monstrously big, five-meter-tall chimera, with the body of a golden lion and the head of a lion, a goat, and a wolf, with the tail of a snake!
They didn't seemed like ordinary monsters either. The wyvern from before was rather strong but wasn't influenced by any power. However, these two guys were fairly stronger than they should be, their entire bodies were shrouded in a black and purple mist-like aura, and they had red jewels incrusted into their heads.
"Demonite?!" My mother asked in shock. "Careful! These are stronger than normal!"
Demonite was the Ore mined from the Demon Continent, and it was also said to be pure Miasma which had crystalized. When it touched monsters, it usually infected them with power, they would either die, or turn even more wild, and become monstrous and aggressive, growing several time stronger than before.
"Foolish beast of the nether, you won't pass!" Valkyrie roared bravely, flying towards the giant Hydra and confronting it furiously.
"ROAAR!"
The Hydra waved its enormous heads and clashed against her weapon, its scales were incredibly, hard, and Valkyrie's blows were being mitigated by the enormous aura it was exuding.
CLASH! CLASH! CLAAASH!
"Such strong scales!" Valkyrie said while gritting her teeth. "Damn it, this might take longer than I had thought. I might really be slightly rusty now…"
Her movements were swift but the power Hydra was already as strong as a Tier 7 monster thanks to the boost that the Demonite was giving to the monster. Its enormous heads were used like whips with their long necks, impacting against Valkyrie, who seemed to be a physical attacker.
As that happened, the three-headed chimera ran against us, impacting the barrier set by Valkyrie. My mother had set up another barrier right after that, because Valkyrie's barrier quickly shattered against the might of the monster's claws.
CRASH!
"D-Damn it…!" My mother muttered, suddenly feeling weakened.
"Mom!" I ran towards my mother, but she quickly stood up again.
"Ugh… Why just right now are you kicking me?!" She cried, as I noticed the baby was having contractions inside of mother's womb.
"Agh…"
Her concentration was faltering, and the barrier was weakening as a result!
"GROARRR!"
The chimera's claws exuded miasma and darkness from within, impacting mother's barrier with fury.
CLASH! CLASH! CLAAASH!
Crack… crack…!
The barrier was actually shattering?!
The chimera, a monster at Tier 5 at least, was boosted all the way to Tier 6, as it was, we wouldn't be able to defeat it even if we all teamed up against it as we were right now with my friends… Unless I used special methods.
However, there was someone else aside from my mother with us.
"GRUOOOHHH!"
Ninhursag jumped into battle, trespassing the barrier, and suddenly shapeshifting into an enormous Lightning Tyrannosaurus, unleashing a shock of lightning against the furious Chimera.
ZAAAP!
"GROAR!"
The Chimera stepped back in pain, but it seemed to have easily tanked Ninhursag's attack. The beast furiously locked its eyes against her, leaping over her body as Ninhursag barely managed to evade in time, swinging her tail imbued with lightning and hitting the chimera over its three heads!
CLAAASH!
"GRAARRR…!"
The chimera rolled over the ground, however, it quickly stood back up again, furious!
"Just how tough are you?!" Ninhursag muttered, suddenly remembering that she had also fought a chimera most likely, as I remember she had told us before. "If I transform into my Chimera form, I'll spend too much energy, I can't go wasting my energy leisurely like this…!"
"Then we'll help!" I said bravely.
As long as there's someone strong supporting us like her, I think we can pull it off.
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