<h4>Chapter 1044 Battling Chimeras</h4>


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    A sudden tremor greeted us as we advanced across the ruins, we quickly changed our stances to greet whatever wasing, my senses quickly noticing several beings approaching, not just a big one this time.


    "Shyaaagghh!"


    The creatures emerged from within the corridors, resembling giant spiders and other insects, made of ck, yellow, and orange sunstone.


    They had skeletons or bone pieces inside of their bodies, and their red crystal-like eyes shone with a phantasmal glow.


    They were pretty intimidating creatures, each one at least three meters big, and they came in the dozens!


    With my sight, I could already count around thirty of them, and several more wereing behind them.


    Ding!


    [Arge swarm of [Sunstone Insectoid Chimeras (Tier 7)] have emerged!]


    [Their King has ordered their agonizing souls to clench their thirst for blood with all of you…]


    The King?


    Is this the Boss of this Dungeon, perhaps?


    "Here theye!" My mother said. "Hold on, I''ll keep them busy."


    She waved her staff, making a circr formation of many divine runes assembled in front of us. In a literal second, several barriers of light surged, stopping the swarm from… well, swarming us.


    "[Divine Holy Light Barrier]"


    FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!


    The barriers swiftly unified together into an enormous one, the insectoids furiously started to hit the barrier with their gigantic ws, attempting to tear it apart. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!


    However, the barrier mom created was something else! It held off amazingly well, and it was not even budging against their attacks.


    These little ones had no imprable barriers, but I could notice an aura covering their bodies, a weaker barrier that reduced some of the damage taken.


    "Alright everyone, let''s do this!"


    I led my friends, as we started hacking through the monsters while using the barriers protecting us to our advantage.


    Zack, Luck, and Aquarina were the first ones to attack at my side. Zack''s speed and movements became swifter thanks to the armor I made for him.


    "RAAAH!"


    With a furious roar, he swung his axe against the monsters, shing through their barrier and cutting through their bodies.


    His two axes harmonized perfectly well with the armor''s abilities, giving him the ability to conjure lightning and winds without even having to activate a technique or magic spell.


    CLAASH! CLAASH! CLAASH!


    Luck transformed slightly, imbuing into his body the power of the Golden Tiger, the only Divine Beast Spirit he could use for now.


    His appearance swiftly changed, gaining golden tiger fur,rger ws, bigger muscles, and ears and tail like those of a tiger, despite being originally a wolf Anima.


    His golden ws, the weapon he inherited from Elise named "All-Gaia" harnessed his spiritual energies and Ki, as he released deadly sh attacks with them.


    SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH!


    The monsters were devastated by his attacks, being quickly cut down to pieces as well!


    "Some easy mobs for a change aren''t too bad!"


    Aquarina was especially cheerful, trying out some of her new abilities, as she grew a second pair of arms using her Abyssal Embodiment shapeshifting powers, and then materializing two giant tridents using her spirits abilities, madepletely out of frost.


    With her two daggers and the two giant tridents, she rampaged the creatures, releasing waves of frost that froze her path, all while her daggers cut down through their barriers with ease.


    CRAASH! CRAASH! CRAASH!


    These three could take on most of these beasts alone, but that wouldn''t be too fun, wouldn''t it? Everyone else was joining in!


    "Well, don''t take all the EXP for yourselves, you greedy twats!"


    Celeste flew around using her Cursed Dark Spear, releasing beams from its pointy de that sted the creatures from above.


    BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


    At the same time, she smiled slightly sadistically, as she raised her hands, with her long ck nails, as countless chains made of her own darkness aura surged.


    They started wrapping around the monsters, restricting their movements and weakening them severely!


    "Thank you for weakening them!"


    Mist was already pointing her Magic Bow into the monsters, several magic arrows rotating around her body, produced by that powerful dress I made for her.


    She took the arrows and fired them one after another, they resembled arrows fired by a god of mes, piercing through the mass of creatures with wide explosions.


    BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!!


    As if that wasn''t enough, Celica and Zephyrus rushed together, Celica summoned her Golems to advance and attack, using their bulk to tank hits while smashing the monsters away with their great strength and volume.


    Meanwhile, she conjured her own Phantasmal Aura, summoning Wrathful Specters that went through the monsters and weakened their agonizing souls, making them easier targets for Zephy!


    "Take this!"


    My little brother was only around five years old but was already mightily ying monsters, swinging his two swords, and fighting against the already weakened Tier 7 monsters.


    SLASH! SLASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAAASSHH!!


    With a barrage of shes with both of his swords, his Aura erupted, boosting his fighting power beyond his own Tier limit.


    CRAAASSHH!!


    The sound of a handful of Sunstone Insectoid Chimeras shattering into pieces by his sword echoed, as they became a small pile he was decided to makerger.


    "You can do it Zephy!" Celica was cheering for him as if she was his cheerleader, only making my little brother blush more.


    He really loved showing off in front of her… He was quite the charmer!


    "Heheh, look how I y them, Celica!" He giggled, getting a bit too overly confident. "I''ll protect you from any danger- Uwaah!"


    However, he quickly lost the bnce of his attacks, tripping over the floor.


    And then, several of the creatures rushed towards him while he was exposing himself, opening their giant jaws.


    "Ahhh!"


    He panicked, barely able to swing his sword before they were to reach him!


    However, that''s where his big sister, me, arrived.


    "[Divine Dragon de Arts]: [Holy Dragon Ascent]!"


    My Aura transformed alongside my appearance, as I gained white scales over my body, golden horns, blonde hair, and silver-colored eyes.


    And apanied with this transformation, a massive attack of my sword swinging upwards was released, the aura shaping into a mighty Holy Dragon roaring against the creatures.


    BOOOOMMM!!


    A mere sh released a huge explosion of holy mes, consuming them all.


    "Big sis!"


    "Don''t be too reckless, Zephy."


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