252 Three Kings (1/2)
With the exertion of her will, the guns in her hand were replaced with Inferioria. With another surge of intent, the blade transformed into Megadia. Then, with a final burst, the saber's blade instantly extended to over ten meters in length.
Elizabeth beamed at the opportunity to use her ridiculously long saber in a real fight, evident by the grim smirk on her face as she teleported before a new Ancestor Opal Devil Duke.
Against the merciless pressure of Elizabeth's Origin Energies barring the Ancestor Duke from dodging, it's only chance at survival was to block; but even that was incredibly difficult.
Chi— Crack!
Against the Ancestor Duke's Devil Sword, Elizabeth's saber might not have even been half as thick. Yet, at the moment of collision, it was actually the much thicker Devil Sword that cracked and chipped under pressure. Needless to say, Elizabeth's Transcendent Strength was quickly becoming one of her favorite Skills.
”Die!” The Ancestor Duke screeched, it's eyes reddening from Nascent Qi.
”You thought,” Elizabeth quipped. The smirk on her face was lost on the Ancestor Duke as it's life promptly ended.
While it was busy trying to corrode Elizabeth lifeforce through her eyes, the tail Elizabeth would grow while in her Rudimentary Wolf God Form had snaked around to activate a fatal acupoint array on the Ancestor Duke's body and kill it before it could react.
Now several times faster than she had been in her fight against Xiang Moxie, Elizabeth's form became lost to the naked eye, only capable of being perceived by Spiritual Sense at the Core level or above. What followed suit was unstoppable carnage as multilayered Skills atop multilayered Profound Truths culminated in a perfectly balanced, yet evidently overpowered, demon.
By the time Elizabeth had killed a seventh Ancestor Duke, she came to a conclusion. ”These Duke level Opal Devils are pretty worthless as far as Nascent Cultivators go,” she said to her allies through a sound transmission.
As she killed, she carefully separated the fallen Ancestor Opal Devil Dukes' bodies from their Nascent Souls and also compartmentalized their belongings which, by now, were her spoils.
”Not only is their equipment lacking for Nascent Cultivators, their Understanding isn't that profound either. Hell, I'd bet any of you could take them on,” Elizabeth sent to her party as she continued annihilating hundreds of Duke Level Opal Devils.
As the subdimension began to tremble with the advent of crimson portal, Elizabeth's eyes narrowed after receiving feedback from her Core Sense. ”Looks like we'll be able to find out soon enough,” she said before targeting Xiang Moxie exclusively.
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[Status
Name: Unknown
Level: 60
Rank: Single Soultwin Nascent Cultivator
Affection Rating: Irreconcilable Enemies
Description: Descending from a highly pure Opal Devil Bloodline, this Ancient Opal Devil King has reached the height of his talent.]
”Ooh, a jump to Level 60,” Elizabeth nonchalantly said, ignoring the apparent danger of her situation.
She wasn't just looking at one of these new King Ranked Opal Devils, but a total of three of them. Moreover, seeing as how the three looked distinguishable from one another, it brought an aspect of further variability to the situation.
Thus far, all the Opal Devils of a class or rank looked and fought nearly identical to one another: Vymlings were small, child-like, green-haired humanoids with no equipment to speak of. Vymous grew to around a human teen's size, standing over five feet tall with blue hair. Vymas grew a bit taller, to maybe the average adult's height at 180 centimeters with yellow hair; also, being the first to hold armements of any kind.
Vymin and all the later incarnations of the Opal Devil remained the same size, but their hair and the quality of their armaments continued to change and improve respectively. Vymin possessed grey hair and Foundation level Armements, Vymaous possessed white hair and low-mid Core Grade Armaments, while Dukes possessed black hair and high-peak Core Grade Armaments.
Now, Elizabeth stood before King level Opal Devils, each with different hair and threateningly overbearing Nascent Grade Armaments.
”You...” the red-haired Opal Devil King began. A curiously light passed by his eyes as he asked, ”You do realize the gravity of your situation, don't you?”
”Hmm,” Elizabeth paused to comment, ”for leaders of the Opal Devil race, you seem pretty unbothered by my party's annihilation of your armies.”
She shrugged her shoulders and continued, ”But fine, I'll entertain your question. Yes, I understand you three are Nascent Cultivators in an entirely different league than the Ancestor Dukes and I'm locked in an isolated dimension with you.”
”You also understand that all three of us have been watching your attack and know of your abilities, while you know nothing of ours,” the Opal Devil King with salt-and-pepper hair responded, more hostile in tone than his perplexed red-haired peer.
”Heh,” Elizabeth chuckled as her body instantly transformed twice in succession. Now donning her 9th Chaos Seal Transformation atop her Rudimentary Wolf God Form, she said, ”You haven't seen anything yet.”
”Hmph,” the pepper-haired hostile Opal Devil King asked, ”Still arrogant, are we?”
Verbally, he addressed his fellow Opal Devil Kings and said, ”Let me test the waters for us then.”