Chapter 1097 Against The Golden Phoenix Flock!
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Although they had the term "lesser" in their names, these birds were nothing but lesser. They were as big as seven meters each, almost identical to the Phoenix, whom I assume must be their mother or the leader of the flock. At simple sight, these creatures looked birds madepletely out of gold. Their metallic feathers reflecting the sunlight and releasing the reflected light everywhere as they flew, making it hard to attack them without being slightly blinded by them.
I wasn''t as affected by their natural ability to blind foes thanks to my blessings, but the rest of my friends weren''t having an easy time against them. They were Tier 8 Monsters after all, creatures we would usually never hope to defeat. Although they shouldn''t be as strong as the Fishman King due to theter being a Boss with buffed strength and vitality due to that, these wild creatures were very dangerous.
As they pped their wings, des of golden metallic feathers would be fired, covered on golden mes. On contact, not only could they slice or pierce through most metals, but they would explode into a bombardment of golden fire explosions. Dealing great damage. Their attacks easily got through most of our barriers. They even broke through the barriers I constantly created using my Yggdragon''s Aura. Only when it was further reinforced with my Heavenly zing Wall that these barriers didn''t die off instantly.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Their bombardment of explosive strikes constantly broke my barrier and heavenly zing wallbination, but Lara supported me with her own Spiritual Veil. "Hang in there, Sylphy! The power of the Spirits won''t leave us alone!" She said with all her energy. I felt as many spirits constantly repaired the walls and barriers, helping us take on the attacks much more easily.
As we defended friends from their endless onught from the skies, my friends quickly readied themselves to fight them, in the skies. These birds were smart enough to not approach us. They were going for the simplest strategy of fighting us in the skies, where we couldn''t reach them. Well, unfortunately for them, we could. I waited for the right moment, the small interval between their attacks.
And then…!
"Now!" I roared, unsheathing my sword and undergoing partial Draconification. Activating Sunshine and further boosting my power and that of my friends with my Yggdragon Aura. "Charge!"
In that second, we flew towards the birds and ganged on them. I swung my sword vertically and horizontally,bining my Void Wielding Arts with the Darkness and Curse of Beelzebub and my Spirit Curse. Complete and pitch-ck shes cut through their hard golden feathers. I managed to hit three at the same time. I made sure to target their wings, stripping them away from their ability to fly by using all my power into cutting one or two.
SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH!
As the giant birds fell into the floor, half of our team that remained below immediately went to finish them off. "I''ll take care of them!" My brother pierced the featherless spots over their bodies with his dual sword wielding arts. His powerful ck, Red, and slightly Purple Aurabined themselves with his lethal barrage of attacks, dealing constant damage.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
The birds swiftly fought back with powerful kicks, as if they had never needed to fly, they were able to easily run, evade, and attack with their two legs and their mightily hard beaks. "Young Lord Zephyrus, be more careful!" Nephilim appeared behind him, using her magic and powerful spears to kill one of the birds by falling over them and impaling it twice. The other two evaded her attacks, bombarding her with golden mes.
BOOOM!
However, barriers of holy light protected her from most damage, Yggdra''s powerful roots wrapped around their legs as they distracted themselves. Stopping them from moving enough for Celica and her Golems to attack them with powerful restraining phantasmal magic and mighty blows.
"I-I think we got them!" Celica kept the grip of her skeletal phantom ws on the birds. "Now, finish them off! Q-
Quickly!"
"Alright!"
While the birds were weakened, Zephy pierced their heads with his swords enchanted with his Aura and mother''s buffing spells, killing one on his own. The third of the Firebirds waster beheaded by Nephilim''s spear of light and darkness, which fused into the shape of a huge battle axe.
SLAAASH!
As the three birds that I threw down were finished off, we were already shing with another five. I calcted there were around 23 of them in total. Dispersed around the skies. We managed to surround five, while the rest started to fly around, panicking as they saw their kin being in so easily. They tried to stop us from killing more, feather projectiles and golden mes bombarding us every time.
"You''re so annoying!" Larained, riding a huge cloud-
shaped Wind Spirit Fusion she had just created. "[Spiritual Windstorm]!" Severa Wind Spirits merged together below hermand, releasing a powerful storm of winds the giant birds could not easily evade or resist, being blown away and losing their bnce in the skies.
FLUOSH!
Zack rode the winds and took advantage of them, bringing forth the wrath of his Divine Axe Techniques inbination with his Spirit''s powers. "[Divine Wind Axe Arts]: [Tempestuous Rampage]!" Swinging both battle axes against the birds, three of them were swiftly covered on countless cutting winds. Their feathers shed apart, and their bodies covered on many wounds, bleeding constantly.
SLAAASH!
At the same time as the birds were damaged and lost their focus, a barrage of Holy Spirit Light Arrows pierced their wounds, swiftly exploding. Constant explosions of powerful holy light blew their bodies and charred them. Three of them survived, the other two died on the spot. Mist''s attack had been both powerful and precise, surprising all of us.
"Amazing!" Zack was fascinated with his girlfriend''s power.
"Wait, Zack, don''t lose your focus!" I warned him. The three birds suddenlybined their powers, conjuring a giant fireball of golden mes andunching it into Zack''s face.
BOOOMMM!!