I went through cycles of power-ups and power-downs as the full moons came and went. I was looking for a specific event. Noelle also benefitted from the full moon, but a specific one will seriously boost us. I lost sight of Cockroach, but that’s fine, I marked her, so I will be able to track her down.
Actually, it's beneficial for me if she flees to her village. I wasn’t planning on this, but they have forced my hand and I decided to wipe out their whole clan.
I found my target; a blood moon appeared in the night sky and shone down ominous red moonlight. Both Noelle and I got a big boost from this. Everyone became terrified. Noelle's eyes were glowing golden brown in the blood-red moonlight, and mine were glowing silver.
The reinforcements arrived and I started cutting people down. I didn't see the triad elders, but the other elders seemed to be taking out their ultimate mode. I should have gone full 9t mode on them at the start, this wouldn't have happened if I did…
I swung my sword, it turned into snow and created a blizzard. Time repeated itself, and it happened twice again. I changed the spatial coordinates of my enemies and placed them at the spot the last [something something triad] dropped down and replayed that event.
They didn't seem to know how to deal with the attacks of their allies.
My sword that turned into snow started to continuously multiply and created a blizzard where every snowflake was a frost blade. It was inspired by Azu’s [Mistflower Field] but had an ‘Agnis spin’ to it.
Polygons appeared in the air in the form of a hammer, it solidified and Noelle swung this around like it was nothing. Every time she slammed it, the ground cracked, whenever anyone stepped on a crack crystals would shoot out of the cracks at them.
I started to write primal runes in the air, preparing a [Solar stream].
Plusatu niyum potentih ade solyah. Pralux samut ekuna nadi, agnis samut ekuna nadi. Pralux percuyatii pramo, agnis suddaa chet puridhim-isi-abicat. Pralux chet agnis kaper dies, agnis kaper noxih [Solyahr Ridhara]
Attempts of interrupting me were futile since this is the very first language, it’s impossible to interrupt unless you know it yourself.
Noelle, how long can you keep up [Polygonic Armament]?
“In this state for 10 minutes.”
How about I put that in a time loop so you can keep it up for an hour?
“Perfect!” She used [Polygonic armament] and I put it in a time loop. I warped the incoming stream and sped up time so the light element-based portion of [Solar stream] nuked the whole area.
Noelle became unstoppable with this light portion of [Solar stream] but the strongest part was yet to come.
Noelle, boost your magical defense as much as you can.
Moments after she did, the temperature spiked and an enormous pillar of fire rained down. I gathered some of these and formed them into balls and threw them at some elders that put up a very strong defensive formation. Noelle didn't have anything to hit because everything got vaporized besides the elders in the barrier. The [Solar stream] stopped, and an enormous molten hole was left behind.
[Solar Stream] normally has a 0% accuracy during the night as it would hit the other side of the planet, but that didn’t matter to me as I can create portals. I wonder if there is something like a [Lunar Stream]and if so, I should find out.
There was a spot that was relatively fine, but the heat still killed 2 out of the 6 remaining elders, everyone else had been wiped out. Another spot that was relatively fine was where Noelle was standing.
I created multi-colored flames and used [Foxfire: Autumn Breeze] on the barrier, which vaporized. I shot some more blue flames at them as the sky started to cycle through day and night again to get back to normal.
Noelle was going all in on these elders. I could drop out of 9t mode and these assholes would still die.
With her [Polygonic Armament], boosted magical attack, and imbued with both parts of [Solar Stream] she might be able to give some gods a good whooping. She crushed the skull of an elder and was just an unstoppable force. She released her frustration, and sadness.
I returned to normal but kept 3 tails out. While Noelle was soloing those elders, I would locate the Cockroach and the stalker village.
Noelle used another [Volcano Stomp] forcing me to jump away from it. There was more fire than earthquake.
I don't know how this elder did it, but he evaded it.
The others got caught in the fire, which crystallized.
Noelle charged up a very powerful punch and shattered one of the crystals an elder was trapped in. She could have finished them off all at the same time, but it seems she deliberately did this one by one. The second elder to die to the crystal punch was Target Gripguy. That means we could teleport as soon as she was done. The elder that managed to escape was trying to do any meaningful damage to her, but it was as if he tried to defeat a large building by poking it.
I had made a plan to get Giana back. Giana seemed dead, but both her spirit and body are still intact. Her ‘Mind’ is still in her body. I just have to reunite them to get her back. Their village got located, but it was more like a city. It had about 200000 inhabitants.
Too bad for them, those will all be dead at the end of the day.
Noelle finished off the third elder stuck in a crystal and grabbed the elder attacking her with one of her crystal tails. He slowly turned into a crystal and she shattered it. She made sure to stomp on the remains of it. She then stormed at me and roughly pulled me toward her by my collar.
“You have a plan, don’t you?!”
I looked down.
I do, but… this is my fault. I’m sorry… You wanted to punch me, right? I certainly deserved it now…
Noelle paused and let go of me. I closed my eyes to brace for impact, but I got hugged. “Silly little brother, I’m not blind. You did your best, I am sad and upset, but not at you. Now let me hear your plan. She’s not gone forever, right?”
I’ve had experiences with spirits and vessels before. I’m sure I can get her spirit back, If I can get her spirit back in her body is a different story, but Giana isn't dead, so are you ready? I just finished setting up a teleport. I’m sure you haven't had enough of beating these guys up, what if I told you I found their city with 200000 spirit stalkers?
“Ooh, that sounds perfect! I assume Cockroach is there too! Thank you.”
Don’t mention it. I am quite pissed at myself for allowing this to happen. The city has a huge lake in the center, how about we greet them with a steam explosion?
“Let’s make them suffer!”
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It was a nice day in Stalker city. Stalker city was located deep in the jungle of Denga. It was a bit late in the afternoon, but the lake was quite peaceful. It was nice weather and a lot of stalkers were practicing water-type spirit magic on the lake. But this all changed when a [Fire pillar] and a fire-imbued seven-tail crystal wolf hit the lake and created an enormous steam explosion.
“How many stalkers did that take out?”
Only about 4000 ish. By the way, how is it you can hit spirits, does it have to do with your ability to stabilize, solidify and strengthen objects and even abstract things?
“I guess, I won’t be able to hit them if I don’t focus.”
Interesting. Cockroach is in that villa up on that hill over there, let’s go!
Noelle grabbed me with a tail. “Wait!”
Hmm?
“I do want to save her, but I think Giana will be happier if you do it, I will rampage in this city and draw attention.”
Are you sure?
“No, so go before I change my mind! I have 45 minutes left on [Polygoonic Armament] right?”
47 minutes, I’ll make the flames flicker when you’re in your last minute.
“Ok, go save Giana!”
I ran away as she used another [Volcano Stomp]. I spread 4 shadow clones out in the village and put one on duty to create triple clones.
This hill was quite a problem because I couldn't flood the place. I looked back and the area around the huge crater, which used to be a lake, was turning into an apocalyptic aftermath you see in movies or games. At this rate, Noelle will run out of stalkers to kill if I take too long. She was close to decimating this village.
I was starting to wonder how they are the 3rd most endangered-tailed beast after the three-tailed shadow cats, shadow cats are tanky, but they aren't juggernauts like Noelle.
Since water wasn't an option, I was going to try something different. I walked up to the villa, snuck inside its gates, and kicked in the door.
Cockroach! Come out of hiding! I’m coming to take Giana back!
Well, I said I did that, but that was actually a clone. I was setting up wires in this huge hall. Some trash mobs ehh some randoms came at me and got vaporized by a [Flame Wave]. 2 elders appeared, but there were just a few out of the many. How many elders does this place have?
“I was afraid that it would be impossible to hide from a nine-tail fox, but you are now stuck in our trap!”
Yes, but it’s not I that's trapped, it’s you that are trapped here with me!
I always wanted to say something like that but I don't think I nailed the delivery.
“So, Silver Torrent, why are you named like this? Nobody seemingly knows why you are named like this, is it because of your silver hair?”
My clone smiled.
I will do you kidnappers and stalkers the honor of demonstrating.
This put everyone on edge because most adventurers get named after a skill they developed or mastered, and more often than not are very strong. [Boss music] started to play and the real me dropped down and one shot an elder that was casting a big spell. I shot wires out with daggers and started [Dagger Torrent]. Attacks flew around but nothing was hitting me.
I need to consider making ultimate techniques that are ally friendly. It’s hard to use [Silver Torrent] without frying my allies. Those chicks might’ve been fine getting hit by [Silver Torrent] in hindsight, however.
The lightning turned red and all the trash mobs ehh random guys got vaporized. Various buffs came out that increased lightning, water, ice, and fire resistance. I didn’t mind, that just meant I could go harder on them. I used multiple [Accel turns] and the lightning shifted to orange. They already started to freak out at the sight of orange lightning. Unfortunately for them, this is only the beginning.
The walls and ceiling got eroded by the constant stream of lightning, and this whole villa turned into one big room as I allowed my [Dagger Torrent] to take up more space. They were at an enormous disadvantage because they couldn't hit me and were stuck in this. One elder seemed to be constantly busy providing shields and barriers and refreshing them because they broke on a regular basis. I sent some daggers at them which tore through the barrier and dealt some damage but no casualties yet. More [Accel Turns] and the lightning turned into black lightning. It was time for [Tail Dynamo].
“This... this is impossible!”
Hey, wanna know what color comes after black?
I kept speeding up. The [Boss Music] was playing but got briefly interrupted. My tails reversed their spin, briefly dropping the lightning color to red. The wires made a pleasant sound as the lightning shifted to silver, and I got into [Silver Torrent Mode] as the wires started to slowly vaporize.
“This… this is impossible!”
I didn’t even need to bother dodging stuff because I became part of this skill. A silver fox moving around freely in silver lightning as if it was water.
Their barriers were toast and I killed 4 elders instantly. 2 ballooned in size and seemed to be channeling multiple spirits, trying to dam the [Silver Torrent]. I just sped up and created more of it. I practically flooded half the villa, and the silver lightning was flowing down the hill and slowly filling the crater Noelle and I made a while back.
Dragons made out of silver lighting started tormenting whoever was entering my path after I used [Silver Dragon Dance]. Some guys took Cockroach and ran away. I [Blindsided] an elder and used [Vanishing ripple] on him, but a normally weak attack punched him full of holes and he passed away.
[Ocean’s Silver Wrath] and caught various attacks in silver lightning currents. The silver lightning flooding down the hill killed every stalker that came in contact with it. It was overtaking the villa and only a few notable opponents were left. I shifted to the [Silver Tides] technique and created enormous silver waves. We were on a hill, but it seemed like we were on the ocean, a silver stormy ocean. I took food out of my dimensional pocket and started to eat as nothing could do much against me in this state.
[Drowning Pulse] was the next technique I would use in its silver form. Now the thing is, I don’t think it's possible to drown in lightning, and if so, this lightning would probably kill before anyone would have a chance to drown. I looked down and Noelle had ditched the fire and was augmented with silver lightning.
I just kept producing more and more and drowned out the whole area. Large groups of stalkers were either standing on high places or flying as their village was slowly getting swallowed by the [Silver Torrent].
Noelle was used to me attempting to drown large areas so she just kept raising the ground under her to continue fighting.
The village had lost about half its members by now. And suddenly a large frozen dome appeared around the city. Someone tried to escape and triggered the thing I set the clones out to do. The clones had placed a barrier similar to the one in Boshi town around the village, but it had a frost attribute and was a million times simpler. Yes, not quite the same, but it was similar in that people could enter but not leave.
A bird that looked like a phoenix with 3 heads started attacking me with weird shadows. I didn't bother as all its attacks went through me. These people didn't seem to understand that I’m a part of this technique. They are screwed until I have to cancel it because either, I run out of energy, or the amount of food I would have to eat puts a serious dent in my storage. I still had a good 10 minutes left till I would have to consider dropping it.
I had some fun with the bird before I blasted it out of the sky. The stalkers in the sky started to throw attacks at Noelle and me. I improvised and created [Silver Rain]. Just normal rain but instead of water it’s silver lightning, nothing special.
I shifted to [Water Dragon festival] and countless silver dragons rose up from the silver sea and started flying around and knocking down flying stalkers.
Noelle stopped rampaging and watched the spectacle as I created a [Silver Dragon] that went around the village, terrorizing anyone strong or fast enough to block or evade the smaller dragons flying around.
The [Boss music] was still going strong, and it sounded like something suitable for wiping out a city. I dropped [Silver Torrent] because it started to become a bit much. A cool thing is, when I cancel this, I can turn all the lightning into water, which is perfect for my next ultimate technique.