Chapter 12: Humans, Avoided Matricide and Prelude to The Fated Battle.

A/N:

" " : Dialogue,

' ' : Thought,

[ ] : System, Raphael,

{ } : Telepathy,

\\ \\: Parallel Wills,

// // : W System announcement.

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Location: Great Elroe Labyrinth, Upper Stratum.

Dante POV

*Flashback to 5 minutes before Shiraori teleported back to the nest*

The past week has been a busy time for me, creating skills that could render most things incapable of damaging me or escaping being damaged by me and other stuff, also enjoying my first time having a girlfriend in both lives. I was able to create some that went beyond the limits of normalcy, for one I finally chose to meditate again giving me the skills Meditation that evolved to the skill Mindscape and then evolved again to the skill Soul Marble which had quite a shocking description. I open up my status to view the different skills and achievements that I have amassed in the time passed.

[Status]

Name: Dante Isvalt

Class: The Gamer

Level: 35 Next LV: 23.29%

Title(s): Monster Slayer, Primate Slayer.

Race: High Human

Soul Stage: Ascendant—Mid

HP: 355,502,000,000/355,502,000,000 (53,325,300,000/sec)

EP: 563,068,500,000/563,068,500,000 (9,040,250,000/sec)

STR: 7,110,040 <+0 >

VIT: 7,110,040 <+0 >

DEX: 7,110,040 <+0 >

INT: 3,753,790 <+0 >

WIS: 3,614,610 <+0 >

LUK: 160 <+0 >

CHR: 160 <+0 >

Elemental Affinity

Earth 100 Life 100

Air 100 Lightning 100

Water 100 Ice 100

Fire 100 Darkness 100

Light 100 Space 100

Death 100 Time 100

SP: 486

Currency: 113,410

[Skills]:

[Soul Marble (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The world within a soul brought forth to reality for all in its hold to experience.

Time dilation within skill range in proportion to the world outside range is a minimum of 100:1 and currently at a maximum of 10^15.

All attacks performed in range of skill have 100% critical rate and hit rate when active.

All parallel minds are present in skill range.

Increases HP and EP Regen by 10000% when active.

EP Cost: Variable.]

[Chronokinesis (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to manipulate and alter time with your mind.

At MAX level, user achieves Singularity, being the only version of themselves in all of existence.

At MAX level, user gains access to the End of time.

Range is affected by skill level, INT and WIS.

Consumes no resources.]

[Technopathy (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to mentally merge with and control electronic devices of any kind, regardless of their origin.

Range is affected by skill level, INT and WIS.

Consumes no resources.]

[Cyberpathy (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to mentally interact with computers of any kind to read, manipulate, assemble and disengage them at will.

At MAX level, user can turn their body into pure information.

Consumes no resources.]

[Necrokinesis (Active) LV MAX]:

[An ability that only has one capability and goal, to cause death.

Saying the word 'Die' causes any being with a mind to perish if targeted by user.

Consumes no resources.]

[Empathy (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to sense, alter and manipulate emotions.

Range is affected by skill level, INT and WIS.

Consumes no resources.]

[Psychometry (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to perceive the total history and condition of anything subjected to it from all points of time.

Consumes no resources.]

[Pancognition (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to perceive possible futures and past events, giving perfect awareness of the immediate future and all past events of any object, person or anything in between.

At MAX level, user can perceive all possible futures of their target as well as their entire past.

EP Cost: Variable.]

[Anaerobic Operation (Passive) LV MAX]:

[Your body no longer needs to respire to survive as you have evolved beyond the need for it.

User can fully operate in any environment without respiration.]

[Immutability (Passive) LV MAX]:

[The ability to resist any external physical change.

No form of external change can affect the user unless they allow it.

At MAX level, user can pass this trait onto others while keeping it applied to themselves.]

[Reality Anchoring (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to anchor oneself to any reality or timeline of choice.

At MAX level, user is capable of anchoring themselves to realities not visited.

EP Cost: Variable.]

[Thanatokinesis (Passive&Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to freely manipulate the essence of Death.

At MAX level, user can cause death to immortal, amortal and even non-living beings, while also being immune to the concept of death.

Consumes no resources.]

[Absolute Shapeshifting (Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to change the shape, form and composition of matter of oneself.

Consumes no resources.]

[Matter Manipulation (Active) LV MAX]:

[The ability to shape, change, control and freely manipulate all forms of matter.

Consumes no resources.]

[Kissing (Active) LV MAX]:

[An act of intimacy used to show one's love for another, mostly by mouth-to-mouth contact, mostly.

When used mutual pleasure is increased by 150%.]

[Maintenance (Active) LV MAX]:

[The act of keeping the functionality of items at their peak.

Use of skill on any item increases its durability, stats and special features by 120%.]

[Achievements]:

1. #New# Learner Pro — Learn 100 skills (Reward: +50 SP)

2. #New# Outstanding Improvements — Max out 100 skills (Reward: +50 to all stats)

3. #New# Pocket Change — Gain 100,000 Currency (Reward: Random Accessory, Trash - Rare)

[Notice. Accessory 'Luna Necklace' has been deposited in inventory.]

[Luna Necklace — Rank: Rare]:

[A necklace bathed in moonlight.

Skill: Moon's Blessing (Active)

Increases physical stats by 15% for 30 seconds.

Cooldown - 6 hours.]

*Image here*

Reading through my stats brought a smile on my face as I knew that I was easily the most powerful being in this universe and taking my skills into consideration, I would be powerful even in verses where destroying galaxies would be commonplace. Stretching my arms, I got up from my seated position on the floor and took a look at the nest after the improvements we had made to it. For one, due to the application of multiple Nullification skills to the threads, the nest can't be damaged by anyone on the planet, but the two of us. Of course, I would destroy them whenever we moved so that no one else could use them, after all it's better to be safe than sorry. 'It seems today is the day for Shiro-chan's first meeting with other humans, so I'll at least help her unwind a little bit before we leave.' I think as Shiraori teleports in.

*Present*

Looking down at the people who have been sent into the labyrinth to investigate the sudden exodus of monsters from the Upper Stratum over the last week, I used empathy to calm them down so that Shiraori's Intimidation skill affects them less. {Who are you and why are you here?} Shiraori asked as she projected her voice into the area. 'Hmm, guess she isn't so eager to meet humans, bit at least she doesn't have any animosity towards them, yet.' I think as their commander answered her in their native language. "We are soldiers of the Ohts Kingdom and Renxandt Empire and we are here to find out the cause of the massive migration of the monsters from the labyrinth." He said, which I'm sure surprised him as he would normally be highly alarmed if he came across a monster that was intelligent enough to speak with human language, as that would mean they are also extremely powerful, easily reaching S-class in the threat measurements. "Is that so? Well you've seen the cause, now piss off." I tell them using empathy to amplify the fear they feel, causing them to run away.

{Dante, are you okay? You seemed to get really angry when they said they were from Ohts Kingdom.} Shiraori asked me with worry in her voice. {Yeah, I'm fine. It's just that I can't accept the fact that my mom was treated so badly and they just swept it under the rug, like she wasn't important.} I said with barely masked vitriol in my voice, while she patted my leg, trying to comfort me. {Well, there's no point in letting my anger get the better of me now. Let's get moving and see how much we can get you to level up.} I say and we move to find more monsters for her to kill and if possible, some shitty humans.

*3 days later*

{I know I'm strong, but come on, at least let some more monsters show up for me to eat.} Shiraori complained as we walked down another tunnel. Then suddenly her head jerked and she ran forward then stopped after a few seconds. It seemed that she had noticed the adventurers that were being attacked by a Baradrad. {They're pretty weak. That one isn't even slightly close to being as strong as Giruki and they're losing so badly against it.} I said as I looked towards their 3 collapsed party members. {Not to mention, they aren't good at magic. Seriously, the formulas they're using are so crude and inefficient that they might as well just keep attacking it with their weapons since they're useless anyways.} I said after seeing one of them use a Wind Shot spell. {I know but it doesn't mean that we have to leave them to die, so let's go save them, okay.} She said. {I never said I'm going to let them just die, but they need to understand that being able to kill one of the weakest monsters in the labyrinth doesn't mean that you should let your guard down.} I responded as we teleported to them.

Immediately we reached them, Shiraori uses her threads to hold the Baradrad in place as it was aiming to crush them and stabbed it in the head with her poison-imbued scythe while I used Telekinesis to move the collapsed members away from her. "You guys really shouldn't have let your guard down in here, you know. The monsters here are far stronger and better at hunting than anything you would have encountered outside." I said as one of them used healing magic on the one of their collapsed members. Well, if you could call the jumbled mess that he was using magic. This also irritated Shiraori as she came down from the Baradrad corpse healed and cured them. After she was done she had started getting ready to teleport away, but she stopped when she noticed the Kurikuta fruit on the floor. {Hey, you guys. I just saved your lives, so I can take this right!?} She says to them as she points to the sweet fruit held between her scythes. "Huh. Um, y-yes. Yes, you can and thank you. Both of you." Their attack mage said bowing his head in thanks. "You're welcome. And try to be more careful and prepared next time you come into the labyrinth. It's free advice to that could save your life." I say waving to them as I teleport Shiraori and the Baradrad back to the nest.

Shortly after we returned, I dismantled the snake and cut up the meat into smaller sizes. {Hey, mind giving me the fruit real quick. I want to test something out.} I told her and she gave it to me. I fully analysed the fruit and gave it back to her. I took a rock close by and used Matter Manipulation to turn it into 3 more fruits, shocking her. {How did you do that!?} She asked me. {I created some skills during week plus a few days that passed. One of those was Matter Manipulation. While I can't create matter just yet, I can change it in any way I want. So I can do something like this.} I said to her, twirling a Kurikuta fruit in my hand. But as I did this, a thought came to my mind. This would have been the. point where she would have sent her Parallel wills to attack her mother, but due to my actions, she would never do that here. Thinking of this put a smile on my face, as at least she wouldn't have to kill any more of her family. {Well, since we're not having any luck with hunting anything here, why don't we change hunting grounds?} I say and she nods, then we teleport to the Lower Stratum.

Not long after we returned to the Lower Stratum, we were met with a familiar face, Earth Wyrm Kagna, still as tanky as ever. However, it seems he wasn't here alone as looking in the opposite direction, another Earth Wyrm was here, Gehre, a speed focused Earth Wyrm. Initially, Shiraori was a bit undecided about fighting them, but when they attacked, she immediately started casting spells and dodging their attacks. Kagna uses his breath attack while Gehre uses the scythe-like claws he has to slash at her, aiming to hit her with a pincer attack, but she teleports out of harm's way and fires multiple Black Spears and teleports again dodging Gehre's breath attack. This goes on for a few minutes with Shiraori firing spells, using thread techniques like her thread ball and Kumorningstar and teleporting away from their attacks, but the wyrms still don't notice that they are slowly but surely getting closer to their death. I was not the only one getting new skills during the 10 days that passed. Shiraori had come to me a few days earlier to talk about the fight she had with Rend, the fire dragon. She told me that the main problem she would face with dragons was their seemingly unending resilience and endurance, which was a fully justified worry as she knew would still fight other dragons, more specifically, she would fight Araba later. So she searched for a skill that would aid her in battle, draining her enemy's SP, preferably their Red SP, and unfortunately for her enemies, she found the Sloth skill.

The impact of the Sloth skill soon affected Kagna and Gehre, as they suddenly felt drained of energy and both of them collapsed to the floor, unable to do anything except for some slight movements. They looked at Shiraori with slight unwillingness in their gazes, but eventually accepted that this would be the last day of their lives and struggled to put themselves in a position of acceptance and Shiraori noticing this nodded as a respectful farewell to them as she used her thread to sever their necks by imbuing them with Rot. Seeing this happened to bring up a thought about how problematic her growth will be when compared to herself in the 'canon' timeline. Her canon self had made an enemy of Mother, leading to Mother sending hordes of high tier Taratects after her, basically giving her monsters to kill and gain EXP from. However here in our timeline, my actions have made it so their enmity does not exist and so she would more likely than not have to search out other prey, despite my crest fueling her growth.

So I thought of something that would allow her to grow as fast and still not cause animosity between her and Mother or Ariel. I would ask them to let her kill some of the Greater and Arch taratects to help her get EXP to become a Zana Horowa. Her becoming an Arachne would be easier because she would eventually kill a lot of humans and elves, so I wasn't worried about that. I connected my mind to Mother's and Ariel's so that I could ask. {Hello. Now, now, there's no need to be alarmed. I just want to ask a quick favor from the both of you. You see, I just noticed something that is somewhat worrying. Shiraori would unfortunately, not be able to evolve with the enemies that are available for her to face now, so I was hoping that you could allow her to kill a few Greaters and Archs so that she can evolve. And don't worry about them being replaced, it won't take longer than 2 months for you to have them all back and more.} I said to them which caused them to both scowl {{And why exactly should we allow that? Why should we allow her to kill them to get stronger?}} They asked simultaneously, to which I smirked and answered. {Because she already has the knowledge of Taboo and with how things are going, she would have no qualms in helping you heal Sariel when the time comes.} I said, shocking them. {So, do we have a deal? You help her grow now and we help you in whatever way we can to stop Potimas and heal Sariel. But please, don't just send them in on a silver platter, I want her to work to kill them.} I told them with a small smile on my face as I watched Shiraori check through her stats and skills. {Fine, we have a deal. I will send some Arch taratects and Greater taratects to attack her, so you better hold up your end of the deal.} Ariel spoke up. {Of course, Miss Demon King.} I answered with an amused voice while having some relief that Shiraori will have something to use to gain EXP.

Right after I was done with the deal, Shiraori walked up to me and asked me for something I would not have guessed. {Dante, I have a favor to ask of you. Please, when I fight Araba, disconnect my MP pool from yours.} She said causing me to raise a brow, but I nodded and agreed anyway because I understood how she felt. Despite Araba never truly traumatizing her, she still felt that he stepped on her pride as a monster that was fighting to survive and now that she has the knowledge of Taboo, the feeling was even more apparent. {Okay, no problem, but only when you go to fight Araba.} I responded then patted her head. {Thank you.} She said as we teleported away, as for Kagna and Gehre, they're in her storage space.

We teleported to the point on the floor close to where the Finjicotes had their hive and we were greeted by a snake that was multiple times larger than a Baradrad, mainly because this was its final evolution, an Elroe Baraggish, a monster stronger than Kagna and Gehre, but unfortunately for it, it would die today, either to Shiraori's scythes or to Araba's claws, the only difference would be where it would die. It continued to move away from us and towards a different tunnel where Araba was passing by and shortly after, we felt the rumbling vibrations that were a result of the battle going on between it and Araba. Shiraori and I looked at each other, nodded and chose to spectate the battle.

Araba was a talented fighter, and that's saying something, but then again, he was chosen by Güliedistosiez as one of his champions so it was somewhat expected. The Baraggish had attempted to ambush him before we got here, but it failed and Araba had smacked it to the wall in retaliation and latched his maw around its neck, grappling it to the ground. Not to be taken down so quickly, the Baraggish used Heavy Magic, this world's version of Gravity Magic to push Araba to the ground to loosen itself from Araba's grasp, which unfortunately for it, left it open to the ground. Seeing this, Araba released multiple Earth Spears into its head, immobilizing and discombobulating it, causing it to release the active spell on Araba and from then on, it was no longer a fight but a one sided execution. Araba leaped to its lower body, tearing and rending through flesh and he finished it off with a breath attack that destroyed its neck from right below its head to its heart, ending the battle.

The breath attack that Araba fired was heading towards us, so I absorbed all the energy from it while keeping my eyes on him. He looked in our direction, then returned himself to the meal of his dead enemy. After that, I looked at Shiraori and noticed that she was somewhat in awe of the power he showed, but at the same time, she was formulating plans to take him down. It seems that with her Parallel wills present, her planning process is multiple times easier so she has a higher chance of taking him down in less time and with far less damage. {Hey, I made a skill that could help you out, especially with training.} I told her, causing her to look at me with surprise. {Really? But how would it work?} She asked with her head tilted to the right. {It's simple and at the same time groundbreaking. But it's best you experience it rather than me telling you.} I respond as I deploy my Soul Marble with her inside it.

Narrator POV

The environment around them shifted and churned before suddenly expanding to reveal what looked like a massive futuristic hyperplanet that still had enough of the touch of nature on it that it didn't seem wholly metal. This was still somewhat normal in Shiraori's eyes, but what didn't seem normal at all were the 12 massive cosmic bodies that were basically the foreground of the starry sky and each of them had different colors. They were brown, golden, white, black, red, light green, cyan, deep blue, purple with what seemed to be stars within, green and purple in a writhing mix, outlined in blue with a mostly white core and lastly blue and purple in a sphere formed from a double helix. They were as mesmerizing as they were unnatural. "Ah, I see you've noticed the affinity singularities in my Soul Marble. Yeah they're not exactly normal or natural, but they're a part of me as things stand. Also, you look good." Dante said startling her from her trance. "What do you mean, affinity singularities?" She asked as she looked around them.

"Well, each of those is meant to represent an Elemental Affinity that I possess." He said as he started pointing them out. "The brown one there is earth, the golden one is life, the white one is light, the black one is darkness, the red one is fire, the deep blue one is water, the light green one is air, the cyan one is ice, the purple and green one is death, the one that's white with a blue outline is lightning, the blue and purple one is time and that one that's purple with those lights in it that look like stars is space." He said as he lay on the floor, pointing to each of them. "As for the buildings, they are occupied by my parallel wills." He said, levitating off the floor. "So shall we get to training." He said with a mischievous smile on his face as he created multiple constructs of Greater taratects, Arch taratects, puppet taratects and a single gigantic construct of Araba and set them on her.

*4 years later*

"Finally. Finally. I WON!" Shiraori shouted with her legs up in a victory pose. "Congratulations, Shiro-chan. You are officially strong enough to fight and defeat Araba without the use of Sloth." Dante said as he came with a 7m wide bowl filled with meat and placed a small kiss on her cheek. "Well, now that you can do that, you do know that we have to return to that world. We've been here for the past 4 years now and none of my constructs will give you EXP, so there's not much point to us staying here but enjoying each other's company." He said as he sat down beside her as she dug into the meat with gusto leaving their location near silent with the only sound being chewing. A few minutes later, Shiraori had finished eating and was now stretching and taking deep breaths. "*Whoo* Okay, I'm ready for this fight, so let's go." Shiraori said psyching herself up.

Shiraori POV

That skill that Dante has is unlike anything that could exist normally in this world. From what he told me, it's only been about 8 hours since we went in there, but we experienced 4 whole years in there. The degree of hellish training he put me through for that time was unlike anything I've ever gone through or could've ever gone through. He trained me to be able to fight armies that were in the thousands with most of them at the same or greater comprehensive strength than I was, then he trained me to fight enemies multiple times larger than me in single and group combat as well. That training may not have helped me level up, but so many of my skills leveled up to the maximum that the system would allow. For one, all my Evil Eye skills have reached their max, same with my magic skills, stat correction skills and technique based skills, so right now, my chances of losing a fight against anything without their lowest stat being 12,000 are infinitesimal at best and 0.1% at worst. As for how I'd reached this conclusion, it's because my stats are now around that level, without me leveling up even once since I killed Kagna and Gehre, not to mention the constructs that I had to fight all gave me far greater danger than anything I've sensed from Araba.

Dante retracted the skill and my Detection immediately went crazy as I felt something I didn't expect. Hordes of Greater Taratects and some Arch Taratects as well as some Poison Taratects were headed my way. I looked at Dante and asked him what was going on. {I noticed a problem that I believe you may have noticed as well, you are starting to run out of monsters to kill for experience and due to the world's current state, I can't let you kill the monsters of the Bottom Stratum since they are guarding the system core. So I struck a deal with your Mother and grandmother, that they would send some of their high tier Taratects to fight you which would end up with you killing them and getting enough EXP to reach your next evolution and we would help them later should the need for our help come up.} He explained to me. It seemed okay at first, but then the latter part of what he said irked me. {Why would you enlist our help to them just because of that!? I could have very well delayed my evolution and not had any need to be dragged into whatever they might have going on l.} I said knowing how powerful I am now.

But I saw him shake his head with a depreciating smile. 'Why, does he not think that I could do it myself?' I thought anxiously. {The truth is that no matter how we do this, we can't avoid it. So rather than get dragged into it when we have no choice or are fully indebted to someone, it's better we take the initiative and go to the side that will be better for us.} He said, sounding almost cryptic, almost. \\We've finished analysing Taboo for quite a while now, so what he's saying makes sense, besides we've all seen him work and so we know that he'll never get involved in anything that wouldn't be of benefit to us.\\ One of my other parallel wills that works with Information-in-charge said making me nod in agreement. {Fine, since we can't avoid it, we might as well face this head-on.} I said, getting ready to face the scores of taratects headed our way or I guess my way since they are here for me.

After half a minute of waiting the first few enemies reached the first defense line of webs, I noticed that they were familiar, they looked exactly like the constructs that Dante had me fight in his Soul Marble. 'So he had cut the deal even before then, huh.' I used Appraisal on them and saw that they were led by an Arch Taratect and it was stronger than Kagna and Gehre, and it was being followed by even more Greater taratects, normal, small, lesser and even some rare poison taratects. Jumping out of the way of the Arch taratect's fang attack, I released an Inferno magic spell that I created by editing the magic formula of the Great Eruption spell that Dante taught me underneath the Arch taratect's thorax while simultaneously firing multiple Black Spears at the Greaters. The Greater taratects died from the spells drilling into their heads while the Arch Taratect was brought to its last legs, seeing this, I lunged at it imbuing my left scythe with Deadly Poison and Heresy, hitting its head, killing it and firing a barrage of Black Balls at the remaining taratects, killing them instantly.

//Experience Points Have Reached The Fixed Amount.// (x5)

'Hmm, so I leveled up 5 times, huh. I could get used to this, but I've only got so many that I'm allowed to kill.' I thought using self appraisal and see that I had leveled up to LV 15. Keeping the bodies in my storage space, I walked over to Dante, who was just sitting watching anime on the HV while eating some popcorn. {Hey, looks like they really weren't a challenge for you. Glad to see that you're okay.} He said as he turned over to me and the popcorn just seemed to dissolve into mist. 'So a hologram.' I thought as he came forward and gave me a headpat. {Well, with this we can at least be sure that Araba will give you a lot more EXP than these guys possibly could, but you're not yet done you know.} He tells me as he sends me the current location of the ones I am allowed to kill. 'Oh well, here I go killing again.' I thought as I teleported to their locations to kill them.

Dante POV

It's been a few hours since Shiraori went on her hunt for her siblings and I've been a little busy , mainly recalibrating the 'magic' of this world. The way the magic of this world works is a lot different from how most people think it works, which is why creating new spells is extremely difficult for its inhabitants. The magic works slightly similarly to Arithmancy, but unlike Arithmancy, it is severely limited, so the spells I had learned from the W System have to be changed. TLDR: I have to create my own mystical language and have it work. This was what kept me busy throughout the 4 years we were in my Soul Marble. Of course, I had succeeded in creating the language and recreating the spells of this world, so I thought of creating spells and magic branches with my magic. The branches mainly being Slayer magic reminiscent of Fairy Tail, Reinforcement similar to that of the Nasuverse and every other elemental combination I could possibly create with magic. I of course also worked to create Technomancy, Enchantments, Buffs and Debuffs which included Blessings and Curses, Chronomancy and Force Magic, all of which I succeeded at, leaving me with a huge repertoire of spells to use at my own leisure.

Detecting a distortion in the fabric of space, I turn to it as Shiraori teleports into the heart of the nest and she tells me that she leveled all the way up to LV 22 which honestly surprised me as I did not expect them to actually give her that much EXP, regardless of my crest on her. {Okay, I've killed all of them and thought about how to prepare for my battle with Araba. The hole we used to get to the Lower Stratum initially, has a Finjicote hive at the top that could become a problem if left alone, especially since that's where I plan to fight Araba. I can't have them become distractions.} She said as she dropped the partially eaten corpse of an Arch Taratect to the side. {You do know that you are being paranoid about your battle with Araba. The degree of training and nature of skills you've gotten are at a point that you could quite possibly kill multiple iterations of Araba and come out unscathed. So why are you being so anxious about it?} I asked her dryly.

{D. The fact that the W System was created by D means that any power granted by it can be taken away by her and I'm not going to become relaxed when a threat like that is still hovering over my head.} She said solemnly. I nodded in approval at her vigilance towards D. {Okay then, let's go and exterminate the wasps.} I said after putting on my windbreaker and we teleported to the hole, while keeping in mind that there were some humans headed in the direction of the nest.

Appearing in the Lower Stratum, we looked up to see multiple Finjicotes, some carrying monster corpses, others just patrolling the area around the hive. {The main reason I want the fight to be here is because the walls and floor aren't close to each other, so if I stay in the air, I'll be able to more easily avoid attacks, as long as none of those bastards are around.} Shiraori said as she pointed at the Finjicotes in annoyance, while letting out a few threads to decapitate the closest ones. Like it was a starter gun, the instant she hit the first of them, she jumped into the air and started firing off Black Bullets to kill them and dashed off a platform created from Dimensional Manuvering to slash through a few more before looking up at one of the evolved Finjicotes, a General Finjicote, which was around the same strength as a max level Baradrad. It flew forward at her and stabbed her abdomen with its stinger, or at least it thought it did as she had used an illusion to trick it into forcing its stinger into the wall and decapitated it shortly after, then she went absolutely ballistic. Due to her never sending her Parallel wills away, her thoughts and actions connected seamlessly in quality and quantity. She unleashed a barrage of Black Spears on the wasps and nest, so great that she destroyed the nest without having to pull it out and killed all the larvae inside. and leveled up once, but given how close she was to leveling up, it was expected.

After she had finished the extermination, she ate a few of the wasps, while mumbling in disappointment that there was no honey and that the queen wasn't present. {Well, I'm done with this, so let's go back home and take a breather.} She said as we teleported back to the nest, but when we got there we saw humans in the process of trying and failing to burn down the nest, but the humans only saw her as I had made myself invisible to them. She was pissed and I could feel it all, but she tried calming herself down as much as she could until a few of them aimed at her with their weapons to which she responded by hitting those that aimed at her with the Evil Eye of Grudge, killing them instantly and leveling up twice.

As she did this from the roof of the cave, she fell from molting. As she got rid of the molt, she was thinking of her 'human' morals and if they even mattered, but she quickly shelved that thought as she was flabbergasted by the amount of EXP she gained from only killing 8 humans, which I knew were actually regarded as strong amongst humans. She appraised all of them and found that the strongest of them were the last 2 at the back, a young man and a clearly older man that we're both magic focused individuals. However, mere moments later, Shiraori had a look of discomfort, which made me understand that appraisal was being used on her by one of them, specifically the older man, Ronandt, I believe his name was. I won't let him escape in one piece this time. She used her ruling authority to block his appraisal after that and immediately fired of more attacks from the Evil Eye of Grudge killing another 8 of them leaving only 18 of them behind. One of the knights, despite the fear he was feeling still attempted to attack her by rushing her, to which she responded with an Earth Spear through him.

The two men at the back noticing their situation was not one they could survive had decided to try using long-range teleportation to get them and whoever else they could back to their kingdom. Too bad for them, I'm not allowing that. The younger of the two, Buirimus, if I remember his name correctly, summoned some beasts that seemed to have evolved away from their normal evolutionary paths, but I knew that they were already living on borrowed time. They all tried attacking her, but failed as she took them out of the picture instantly, causing the knights to finally start trying to run away but Shiraori had decided that there was no point in continuing this farce as she just released spells that killed the rest of them leaving only Ronandt and Buirimus. Buirimus, seeing that everyone else but Ronandt was dead put up a magic shield in hopes to block her attack but like I said neither of them would make it back in a fixable state. {Use your Divine Dragon Barrier to interfere with their magic.} I said, which she did causing Ronandt's teleportation spell to collapse and both of them to get a rebound of failed spells. She then fired one last Black Spear to kill them but Buirimus pushed Ronandt out of the way causing the spell to hit him and destroy most of his torso with his heart surprisingly intact.

Walking over to Ronandt, I dispelled my invisibility, shocking him with my appearance. "Well, well, well. This is quite the pickle for you isn't it? Mr. Great Mage. By the way, don't bother asking for help, you guys tried attacking my girlfriend, so I'm going to punish you for it." I said as I came forward and used Biokinesis to permanently give his kidneys, heart, liver and bladder different issues, after which I healed the unconscious Buirimus while causing him permanent nerve damage in his arms and causing him to become extremely susceptible to diseases before teleporting them back to the Renxandt Empire. "Well, that's the end of that. Come on, Shiro-chan, let's go ahead and get ready." I said after using Death energy to corrode all the corpses to dust and walking back to the core area of the nest to do the final preparations for her battle against Araba.

Chapter end.