40 The Steel Shelled Turtle 2 (1/2)

'W-would that work?' The little kitten's eyes suddenly lit up with an excited gleam, though their was also an apparent apprehensive look to them as well. 'Could the 'Sky Piercing Bolt' pierce through this beast's shell?'

The 'Sky Piercing Bolt was the second spell of the 'Arrow Shattering Sky' Art's first stage, the Foundation Stage. As its name suggests, instead of crafting an arrow, the 'Sky Piercing Bolt' produces a bolt like one would find being used with crossbows.

While the 'Sky Piercing Arrow' relies on its swiftness and sharpness, the 'Sky Piercing Bolt' is known for its powerful strength and piercing ability. If any of her known attacks were going to get her through this conundrum, it would be this spell...

The only problem was that she had not yet gotten around to training in this spell yet. Her only solace is that the 'Sky Piercing Bolt' is akin to the 'Sky Piercing Arrow' spell in design and construct, and that it is also a Late Stage Minor Rank spell. Being a Metal Elemental spell, which is her most aligned element, the chances of her learning the 'Sky Piercing Bolt' spell in such a short amount of time wasn't too outrageous a task.

She could only try...

'Let me first search my memories and see what I can remember about what the 'Arrow Shattering Sky' Art's Echo Stone taught me about the 'Sky Piercing Bolt'.'

After spending several seconds reminiscing, the little kitten's closed eyes opened with a confident gleam. 'I can do this!'

The little kitten slowly exhaled before her eyes turned serious and her feline mouth opened to sing a new chant, similar to the 'Sky Piercing Arrow' spell, but also unique to itself as well.

Soon, across from the little kitten, a hovering glob of metal formed in the air. Quite quickly, that glob of metal elongated into a small pole, only around 20 inchesin length. At its furthest point, the pole came to a sharp point and at the end closest to the kitten, delicate little metal wings formed on the bolts end. Compared to the wings on the 'Sky Piercing Arrow' which were like angel's wings, the wings for the 'Sky Piercing Bolt' were sharper and held a more menacing air.

'Nice, the construction is perfect!' The little kitten exclaimed in delight. 'Now then, let me see how powerful you are, 'Sky Piercing Bolt'!'

The 'Sky Piercing Bolt' curved upwards before shooting forward with tremendous velocity, heading straight in the direction of the still Steel Shelled Turtle. In seconds, the metallic bolt reached its target and a loud, cracking sound resounded throughout the small, white room.

The little kitten's greenish-red eyes lit up in excitement as the 'Sky Piercing Bolt pierced into the Steel Shelled Turtle's hard shell, digging straight through and disappearing in a spurt of crimson blood as the bolt proceeded to pierce into the turtle beast's body that laid inside.

'Haha, it worked! It worked!' The little kitten cheered with a few joyful hops.

Meanwhile, the Steel Shelled Turtle was recoiling in pain as its mouth gaped open to let out a long drawn out shrill cry of pain. For the first time since the beast first retracted its body parts into its shell, the beast's long head shot out of the shell's front gap and twisted to face the offender of its pain.

The little kitten gritted her teeth as she glared back at the turtle who was currently throwing daggers her way through its glaring eyes as it shrieked at her.

Then, the turtle took time out of its shrieking cries to sing a chant. The little kitten noticed that this was a different chant from the spell it had casted before and became vigilant as she awaited for the Steel Shelled Turtle's upcoming action, ready to react in whatever way was needed.

When the Steel Shelled Turtle's chant came to an end, an azure glow began to brighten its eyes and its mouth began to bloat.

'Is it about to spit something out of its mouth?' The little kitten asked instinctively upon seeing this scene and she lent her small body low, ready to pounce away and dodge whatever this beast was about to throw her way.

”GRUAAAAAH!!!” The Steel Shelled Turtle's croaky voice bellowed outwards in an ear shattering growl as a deep azure glow converged around its gaping mouth. That azure glow suddenly took on a silver sheen before shooting out of the beast's mouth in a terrifying beam of azure-silver light.

That silver-azure beam shot straight at the little kitten who looked at the upcoming threat dumbly.

'A... Beam?!' The little kitten exclaimed in fright as her small legs got to work, cracks forming under them as she leaps out of the beam's trajectory in haste.

Yet, despite avoiding that beam of silver-azure light, she was unable to fully escape the after effects caused by this attack that descended upon the spot where she once stood. When that silver-azure beam of light struck the ground, the beam expanded in a spherical radius of around five meters, nearly enveloping the little kitten whole before she was propelled outwards from the blast wave caused by the explosion.

The 'Ravager Armour' cracked and shattered all over, barely sticking together while the little kitten's body was cut apart terribly due to the beam's blast, spurting blood in various places, that began to coat her silver armour a crimson colour.

Her body tumbles through the air as she is pushed out of the spell's blast radius before she falls to the ground, tumbling until she bashes into the wall, cracks forming in her wake.