Dyne rushed out of the great plains, closed his eyes, and kept concentrating. Jedo was also releasing his powers and using Time/Space magic to increase Dyne’s sensing ability range.

“East.” Dyne ordered, and Choco made a quick turn.

To the east, the group continued their subjugation of another group of Seru.

The Holy Zenoir rushed out and used its huge claws to fight another Zenoir. The power of the Zenoir was significantly increased, and it easily overpowered the Zenoir.

The Zenoir was pushed back, and the monks and hunters took advantage of this.

Slimes rushed forward and tackled the Zenoir, throwing it to the side.

“Next! Hurry! Keep the pattern and rhythm correct!” Arya ordered. She had been directing the attack and followed the same attack she saw Dyne make the Chocobos do back when they fought Kokatorimon.

“Slimes of the Round!” Arya shouted.

The combo tackles of Slimes, followed by the monks and hunters adding their punches and kicks, brutally struck the Zenoir on all sides.

The Holy Zenoir kept holding them and stopping the Zenoir from making a counter-attack and would hit it.

SMASH! SMASH! SMASH!

The consecutive attacks followed perfectly, and even Noa rushed in and began to perform various acrobatic attacks. Because of this, the might of the Zenoir could not be used as it kept receiving brutal attacks.

Suddenly, one of the slimes was rushing in a few seconds late from its u-turn, and the Zenoir could use that gap to harness fire all over its body.

“Grim!” Arya ordered, and a scythe flew to the sky and stabbed down on the Zenoir.

“ROAR!” The pained cry of the Zenoir rang out as his body was pinned on the ground.

“Sorry. My mistake.” The hunter sighed.

“It’s alright. We can try this out if we find another Zenoir. Get used to the rhythm of the attacks and the timing. Lord Dyne used an attack similar to this without any practice, and the speed of his attacks was faster. But as you all can see, this technique can allow you to fight enemies far stronger than yourselves.” Arya instructed.

“Yes, mam!” Everyone affirmed.

The Zenoir kept struggling, and Arya suddenly appeared in front of it and delivered a punch.

BANG!

The power of a Martial formation expert punched out and struck the weakened Zenoir.

The attack was so strong, and the Zenoir got weak.

Water element had appeared at the punch of Arya.

“Way to go, sister! Your control over water has improved!” Earth Arya praised.

“I’m quite shocked at your control over the wind! We moved so fast!” Arya smiled.

“Too bad we still can’t use it to shoot out power. How did that Dyne do it? He could shoot ranged forms of his element, right? We can’t even compress it and keep its form two meters from us.”

“I believe we need to be Mind Cultivators to do that. Or… We could search for Serus of our elements. The monks said that there are Gizams north of Biron. And there was wind Serus in this world. If we have those, we could grow stronger.”

“Lady Aryas. I sense Lord Dyne coming here.” Terra reported.

The two perked up.

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“Everyone! Subjugate the Serus, and let’s move!” Arya instructed.

“Your Patriarch approaches!”

The group began to make preparations. The Gobu Gobu had several Slimes under their control. In the slimes were serus that they had captured. These Serus were beaten close to death and tossed inside the slimes to not recover with the Mist.

Soon, the figure of a lone Chocobo rushed through the field.

“Hm? Lord Dyne seems to be in a hurry,” Terra observed.

“Something demands haste…” Arya frowned.

Dyne saw the number of Serus from afar and was impressed.

“Impressive. They found a way to fight and capture without wasting much strength. Good. Arya can join me for this coming fight.”

Choco rushed forward and arrived before them.

“Everyone. Hurry and retreat to Biron! Songi is around the area, and he has gotten stronger. So strong that we have to fight him before he becomes a threat to Biron! He might command a group of Serus he captured, so defend the Biron and prepare the Windless Protocol if needed. Arya, Noa, Serge, you guys go with me.” Dyne quickly relayed all their orders.

“Songi!”

“He’s alive?”

The monks were surprised at Dyne’s sudden statements.

“We will be headed towards the mining town Chorak. Inform Tetsu.”

“Wait… You said the enemy is strong. Why me?” Serge asked.

“You’re a main character, so you have to go. This is exciting! A gathering of PS1 main characters! Legaia, Chrono Cross, and Star Ocean! Oh right. I have a Wild Arm and should be Rudy Roughknight and Megaman X. Let’s go.”

“What kind of reasoning is that?! What are you saying?!” Serge cursed.

“Well, it just doesn’t feel right for you to stick this one out. This will be a trial by fire for you and Noa. So just grab a Chocobo, and let’s go. Nanaki, you go with us too. Woah! Final Fantasy VII is here too! Man, I wish any of those Diablo MCs was here!” Dyne made orders and immediately turned around.

“Wait! Lord Dyne… What about Bertugo and Brod? Your Slimes have also become stronger!”

“I’ve already informed them. Remember, they are my monsters, linked to Calamity and Catastrophe. They’re already on the move and are headed to meet Rena, who will be fighting with us. So hurry! Time is of the essence!” Dyne immediately moved.

“I’ll go ahead and drive away all possible enemies we encounter! Follow the path I make!” Dyne brought out his Wild Arm.

Noa, Serge, and Arya followed as they rode a Chocobo.

“This is exciting! A bad guy!” Noa shouted with joy.

“Noa. This will be dangerous. Be careful.”

“I will, Terra! Alright, birdy! Let’s go!” Noa flapped his arms as they went.

“Carue, let’s go.” Arya hopped aboard a Chocobo that became her partner. Earth Arya was the one who gave the name after the Chocobo-like bird that Vivi of One Piece had.

Serge picked a Chocobo at random and followed.

“Let’s go! This is soooo exciting! A Ra-Seru enemy! They should be stronger than these Serus! Hm? Don’t worry, Terra! Big Brother Dyne will be there!” Noa began to converse with Terra.

Serge was shocked at Noa’s reaction. He himself was still not used to this new world.

“I’m just a normal kid with a Vera. And now… I have to fight to save the world?” Serge was helpless. Even more painful was the fact that a young girl was actually excited to fight.

“That girl lived in this world and was raised by that Ra-Seru. She was trained only to fight, and since she’s still young, it's all a game to her. She really can’t tell that where she is going is dangerous.” Arya explained as her Chocobo moved to her side of Serge.

“Serge. Lord Dyne brought you because you have potential. You are just like lady Rena. Learn to master that power. We can improve this world so that kids like Noa would not have to live like this.” Arya added.

“…” Serge sighed.

“Also, we need to find your friend. Leena should be somewhere.” Arya suddenly spoke, but her manner of speaking changed.

“What? She’s here?!”

“Yup. It’s- expected of the plot to turn out like this. That Calamitus guy that Jedo and Tieg talked about sounds like an anime fan. He will definitely add some cliché anime elements to this. Think about it. How did you get here, and where did she go? Ferti brought you to us, but what about your friend?” Arya pointed out.

“So she’s here?”

“Yeah! Get stronger so that by the time she sees you, she’d fall in love to you.”

“L-love?!”

“Hmm.. Typical shy-boy shounen character, huh? Well, let me tell you this, Serge... Rena and I are fighting to win Dyne’s heart. And there are several other women, some of them older than me, who are also fighting to get Dyne's heart. So if you think Leena's too old for Dyne... Well... Bad luck, dude. I wonder what Leena would feel when he sees this young champion?”

“...What?!” Serge began to panic.

“So… what will it be? I haven’t played Chrono Cross, but a childhood friend? Puh-leeze. Since Chrono Cross is JRPG, it will have cliché anime elements. You like her, don’t you? Well, get stronger, or she will hopelessly fall for Dyne!” Arya added.

“Lady Arya?” The real Arya spoke to Earth Rena.

“Yes?”

“Why are you doing that?” Arya asked.

“Listen, Arya. As we are trying to win Dyne’s heart, we need to go on the offense and defense. But this right here is defense! We have to make sure that no other girls fall for Dyne!”

Secretly, Strafe was listening to this conversation.

“Impressive… That’s a good plan. I have to tell Jedo!” Strafe took notes.

Far up north, in Biron, two brownish slimes moved out with two people standing on top of each.

On one slime were Vahn and a Gomboo with a strange red-hot jewel on his neck. On the other was Gala and another Gomboo with a blue, cold jewel.

“Songi…” Gala frowned.

“We have to be careful, Gala. If Master Dyne thinks that Songi has grown stronger, it might be dangerous.

“Don’t worry. I have Ozma. Even though he hasn’t hatched yet, I can feel him calling out to me.” Gala held on a Ra-Seru egg.