Ascension of the Nephilim

BOOM! BOOM!

A giant Brimstone Beast had appeared as the attacks of Listrel, Lea, and Mechiel led to the deaths of many beasts.

The giant was twenty meters tall and was very fast for its size.

Its massive fist shot towards Lea, who continued to take the beast blow by blow.

BOOM! BOOM!

"Hurry!" Lea shouted as she could sense she was running out of energy.

Her control over Force Energy was vastly weaker than how she could wield it before. This is because she was wasting so much and was quickly draining the reserve in her body.

The biggest problem was the lack of Death energy. While the darkness of the lands was great as the small sources of light could barely create it, the power of Brimstone was purging death itself.

BANG!

A final blow and Lea was sent flying back and crashed on the desolate ground.

"Now!" Listrel shouted, and Mechiel gathered the power of her blood and used it as water energy.

Listrel rushed in and brought the power of Holy and Water to stab out, and the sword struck through the core of the massive giant.

"ROAR!" The howl of the Brimstone Beast echoed throughout the distance as the core lost the ability to contain and gather the energy.

The sword pierced in the core and managed to defend against the power of Brimstone.

The giant collapsed, and its massive pieces began to fall apart.

Listrel fell, and even Mechiel was drained of her energy.

The elves had arrived and had quickly guarded the area.

More working elves arrived with various gears that protected them from the flames.

Kyros had created a design for a suit that he called the Hazmat Suit, which contained various precious cloths that could resist fire.

With these suits, those that had very little martial training or cultivation could withstand the heat and began to quickly grab the fallen brimstone rocks of the beast and ship it back home,

The elves created a defensive perimeter but noticed that the rest of the Brimstone beast had retreated.

"Amazing! The Three Ladies of Miracle have done it! It killed a Champion level Brimstone Beast!"

"Bring them back!" The elf in charge of the platoon ordered.

"SKREEE!" A loud cry was heard in the distance as numerous flying beasts appeared.

Listrel saw it and cursed. She was out of Force and Magic.

Lea was barely able to stand as she watched the creatures swoop in.

Mechiel stood up and rushed to the front as her battered and torn wings spread out.

"Lady Miracle! Leave it to us!" Suddenly a voice called out.

Several tall archers arrived. But unlike the other archers, these had somehow regained their beauty of old.

"Sir Arathen!" The elf in charge of the platoon shouted.

"High Bows! Aim high!" The elf called Arathen ordered, and the archers took aim.

"Release!" Arathen ordered.

The other elves were stunned. The beasts were still too far for their bows to reach!

FWIP! FWIP! FWIP!

The arrows were set to lose, but each bowstring that released the arrow created a light eruption of Force.

The arrows flew with great speed and managed to resist the wind, and struck the flying beasts with expert precision.

Force energy allowed the arrows to pierce through the Brimstone core even with the higher defenses of the winged brimstone beast.

The beasts started to fall.

"Archers focus fire on a single beast! That survives! High Bows, reload!" Arathen ordered.

Listrel watched in amazement.

"They have regained their Force power?!"

"But how?!" Lea was shocked as well.

"Lord Kyros must have taught them."

"Taught them how to use Force?"

"Yes. He's a really good teacher. I believe he's even better than Lord Branze."

"But how?! Even with the Time Acceleration, it would only have been about two days in the tree!" Listrel was stunned.

"I believe that, just like you, they managed to regain their abilities to fight quickly. Is that so impossible?" Mechiel asked.

"Yes! We are the elites! These are Midland warriors! The difference and gaps between us are so much more! Our knowledge in Force and Magic is so much more than them."

"Lord Kyros is probably smarter than both of you combined. I've seen this. This isn't our first life-and-death battle. Lord Kyros can command an army easily. And he can train them to be strong." Mechiel insisted.

"Damn it! Lea! Let's go back! We've hunted so many already in the past hours!"

"Lady Miracles. Please return and leave the rest to us. More of our allies will be emerging, and we will be beginning the hunt to draw all the Brimstone Beast here."

"Fine..." Lea stormed off as she moved.

"Lord Miracle said that he found a death energy source for you so that you can recover."

"The ocean?" Lea asked.

"Yes. He managed to draw a strange energy conversion circle in the sea after several tries. Please hurry."

Lea's anger lessened as she hastily moved.

Listrel and Mechiel followed.

"Alright, men! Go back and return! Another group will relieve you! Go inside and train! We will continue pressing forward."

"Yes, Champion Arathen!"

Arathen smiled.

"I'm not quite there yet. But let's hope Lord Miracle will think of something when we get back."

It took the three another hour to head back. They passed through the numerous battlegrounds they fought. At first, the monsters fought them one at a time.

Soon, the Brimstone Beast were moving in platoons, and Listrel had to call on the elves to assist.

They would draw the attention and gather the beasts, and as the elves were in position on the nearby hills, they would ambush and kill the beasts.

And soon, they were attacked by that giant.

The elves wanted to retreat, but Lea and Listrel challenged the beast to push themselves beyond the limit.

"That giant was quite strong. It felt like it used the life source of a champion-level monster..." Listrel recalled.

"Yes. That Champion was even stronger than the Champions we fought in Middle. Brimstone is such a mysterious and powerful element..." Mechiel expressed.

Lea and Listrel had already asked Mechiel to tell them the story of their previous battles and didn't believe it at first. It was too ridiculous! How could an army easily form after such a short training period?

But now, they saw the power of Arathen and the High Bows and how they had recovered Force in such a short time. Their achievements in the life-of-death battle they faced could even be matched in terms of how much percentage was restored to their peak power.

As such, Listrel and Lea had an envious expression as they moved back to World Wood Tree.

The three passed through the magic field and time began to accelerate.

Soon, they could see what was happening inside the camp.

Various men were hauling the acquired Brimstone from the dead Brimstone Beast. But what was shocking was that several of these people had a Hazmat Suit that was made of water!

"What the?!" Listrel and Lea were shocked.

Beyond the groups constantly putting these 'coals' on the energy formation circle was Kyros constantly teaching the archers how to aim.

But then, there was another Kyros who was instructing more of the men to build strange war machines with the wood from the World Wood Tree.

Finally, there was a Kyros by the sea, hammering water and shaping it into a suit.

"Blood Clone? Lord Kyros! You achieved it!" Mechiel recognized the ability of Eredus and spoke to the main body, who was in charge of directing the construction of war machines.

"You're back! Looks like you three have gotten stronger!" Kyros smiled.

"You can create... clones?!" Lea was shocked.

"Yes. I had to absorb a lot of water energy, though. These clones weaken me. Each time I create a clone, I lose a great deal of energy. Since I needed one clone to use my Water Artificer Job to create more water suits so that more who are not cultivators could help out with the heavy lifting, I can only do three clones." Kyros explained.

"Too bad he's not ever going to use this for harem purposes..." Calaminus sighed.

"Shut up." Kyros frowned.

"Thanks for your help. I needed someone to quickly gather Brimstone, and you guys did an amazing job. You seem to have regained a portion of your power after all." Kyros smiled as he glanced at Listrel and Lea.

"Not as much as if we stayed here and trained with you. Teach us the Codes and Corruption." Lea demanded.

"Truthfully, there is not much I can teach you to return your power. And doing so would only weaken you. You girls are geniuses, after all. I have to let you guys spread your wings." Kyros chuckled.

"A Code or Corruption is something impossible for us to learn!"

"That's why you have to develop one." Kyros smiled.

"Develop a Code?" Listrel was confused.

"Yes. All the allies that were Fated to meet me are either descendants or geniuses that can figure out a Code or Corruption. Didn't Mechiel tell you the story of my family?"

"Wait... You mean... They achieved those powers on their own?"

"Yes. My father, uncle, and Grandfather are descendants of Steel. But how many of Hyperion's sons and daughters could do True Cut? They awakened it and discovered it. You two, have that power."

"We have?"

"Yes. You are my fated allies, aren't you?"

"Then that means...!" Listrel realized something.

"Destiny was alarmed when Histerion brought Lea and me in together with you. I wondered why he was threatened. Now I understand. We were beings that he didn't account for. Since you and Fate have already won the first round, he knew that Fate wouldn't have sent us here without any reason! Does that mean that Fate planned for us to escape by awakening our powers?" Listrel asked.

"Yes." Kyros smiled.

"You guys have to find out how to awaken that power. Your Codes or Corruption will be necessary for our mission."

"Mission?"

"We have a world to save, remember? Saving the Planesworld is the bare minimum if we wish to reach the edge of the universe and break out of this Unrecorded Pages."