Mira continuously fired her rifle at the approaching creatures both from the sky and on the ground. While shooting, the only sounds other than the sounds of her gun-running that reached her ears were the sheer sounds of her rapid breaths and the distant explosions that made the battlefield tremble each time they hit true.

Auras were active, manifesting into weapons that summoned different energies that rained down on creatures—it was quite a sight, honestly. The mundane soldiers were also doing their best, pushing their nanosuits to full performance as they battled the abominations with absolute bravery.

The only active summoner in the fight was Darkness, whose abilities delivered so much damage that the city itself couldn’t take it. Each building she landed on would go down seconds after she launched herself off it and her jumps left craters on the ground. Her gravity manipulation had proved to be an effective weapon against even the toughest and largest enemies.

There was Valentine too who looked to be holding his own against the cursed creatures. He cut through one creature after another with his twin short blades. His movements were blurred as he ran through the attacking creatures and delivered his deadly strikes that left no creature alive.

The only one who seemed on par with the Mysterious Legacy was Captain Lunaris herself. She was surrounded by carcasses of creatures she had slain with her sword. Her movements resembled a deadly dance of death and no beast managed to live after encountering her.

She was a demon…that’s the only way Mira could describe what she was looking at. She wasn’t much of a swordsman but she recognized the perfection behind Lunaris’s swings.

The swings of a true legacy.

“What a sight…” she thought loudly before shooting down two huge spider creatures.

She was only left with about a few hundred bullets. This meant that her time here was almost up. Because after this, Mira was required to join with the others and engage in close combat.

But being the coward she was, Mira already had second thoughts of hiding here and waiting for the fight to end. However, staying here would eventually lead to her death if a wyvern or something destroyed the tower she was hiding on.

Could she really survive such?

“I will survive.” She steeled herself before releasing another round of enchanted bullets.

She shot down about ten more before something within her changed and she stopped.

She felt a jolt of electricity when her body screamed at her to move out of the way. Mira didn’t bother to scan her surroundings. In that waking moment, she acted out instinct and abandoned her post before a ball of flames appeared out of nowhere and collided with the tower destroying her gun and the enchanted bullets which exploded right away.

Mira had run behind the rusty bell and only survived the explosion because of it and the suit’s last-minute shield function.

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‘Crap…crap…this is bad. How didn’t I notice it?’

As if things couldn’t get worse, Mira froze when she saw a red beast burst through the raging flames and land in the bell room once it pulled back its wings. It had a serpentine body with four limbs and red crystalline scales that bounced off the flames around it. The creature’s forearms had wings attached to them with dorsal spikes growing on its back.

She hadn’t noticed wyverns looked this horrifying up close.

She quivered while hiding behind the rusty bell. She was trying not to sweat from the heat and dread was she feeling.

Grey smoke snorted out of its nose as it moved its head around while searching for Mira’s scent.

Quietly, her suit produced a black gladius and a small round energy shield around her left hand. Nano mites could not regenerate, so she sacrificed her helmet and some thickness to create both the sword and shield.

‘I have no choice but to fight…oh gods…’

The wyvern slowly moved towards the bell, the floor cracking under the weight of its heavy steps while Mira waited for the perfect time to strike.

Badum...Badum.

The grip she had on her gladius tightened as she tried to control her breathing under the heat radiating from the hot bell. Once the creature turned, its eyes widened when a terrified Mira screamed and thrust her weapon into its left golden eye. It painfully roared and rammed her into the rusty bell with its head before pulling its head back.

Mira coughed some blood but she endured the pain of having her back slammed against metal. The pain she felt from this was not as bad as the one the wyvern was feeling after she left the gladius in its creature’s eye. The gladius was charged with zenshi so she was sure the time of pain it felt was unbearable.

Its roar shook the small space as it began swinging its head recklessly in an attempt to remove the sword from its eye. And while it was struggling with the sword in its eye, Mira tuned her suit's strength to full performance and attacked from its left by slamming her shield into its head with enough force to break its skull.

There was a loud shockwave after that attack and the floor finally gave in to its weight and shattered like fine glass which they both fell through. Mira acted fast by throwing a kunai with a steel thread tied around its end. The kunai managed to firmly pierce into the wall, surprisingly holding her weight before she could plummet to the ground. And the wyvern hit the tower floor with a thunderous force. A force that sent the entire ancient trembling, sending a network of cracks through the entire structure.

After a subtle silence, the structure started to collapse bit by bitPieceses of rubble started hitting the floor, hinting that there wasn't much time left before the ancient structure was a pile of rubble.

“My damn luck.”

Mira cursed and she slowly descended by adjusting the steel thread till she made it to the ground right next to the now-dead wyvern.

‘Hehe, that’s a win for the team.’

She stared at the fire-breathing cursed beast with a trembling gaze. It was about the size of a large vehicle. After taking a deep breath, she walked toward it and pulled the gladius out of its eye.

She waited for a moment, afraid that it would move after she did that. But, to her relief, it didn’t.

"Thank gods, it's actually dead," she muttered, feeling a bit excited after killing something this big.

After that, she rushed out of the collapsing structure and watched the large beast get buried under a pile of debris. Soon, there was nothing left of the wyvern. Even the last traces of its qi vanished.

Sigh, Mira was glad she had once again escaped the cold clutches of death. She then shifted her eyes to the rest of the battlefield where more and more monsters were joining the fight.

However, despite their strength in numbers, the cursed creatures didn’t stand a chance against the ascenders’s powers.

Humans were crafty and intelligent. And because of that, mindless creatures never posed much of a threat. On top of that, Cursed Beasts didn’t possess supernatural powers to credit their physical talents. Things like fire breath were only physical abilities attached to dragon species.

“I am guessing you’ve lost your post.”

Gail’s sweet voice sounded as he landed gently landed behind her.

Mira quickly turned and faced Gail with a tired smile. The ascender was still as dashing, but his uniform was covered in dried blood after having his fair share of bloodthirsty cursed creatures. Because of that observation, Mira didn't even bother to ask why he didn't take down the wyvern. He must have missed it while dealing with other abominations capable of flight.

“We’ll have to join the Lady Luna in the center. I’ve honestly never seen someone as young use Battle Aura so well,” Gail commented, sounding both surprised and amazed.

“So you noticed it too. She’s the first person I’ve seen use it like that. I thought it took years of training to provoke and scare so many creatures at once. And you’re telling me Luna can use it so well at eighteen?”

To be honest, Mira felt jealous of Luna. And at the same time, she felt a deep respect for Luna. She was a remarkable warrior.

“I know....just what type of training did she go through to become this good? And she's seventeen, by the way," Gail corrected her with a grin.

Mira didn't bother to say anything in response to that. Instead, she let Gail lift her by the arms and they both shot into the to join with Luna who was relentlessly cutting through her enemies with no remorse.