Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 654: Legendary Core Earth Serpent vs Yasenia's Group. (1)

The deeper they descended into the mountain, the more creatures of that race appeared. It was no problem for our girls because the highest level they met was fourth-level Fusion Core beasts.

The numbers didn't surpass ten per ambush, allowing them to clean up the beasts swiftly.

Even then, they were impressed since a nest full of Fusion Core beasts was not something normal for a realm of this level.

While the top entry-level was Low-level Epoch Core, this didn't mean that all creatures would be a challenge for those on that maximum level. It meant that being low-level Epoch Core allowed you to roam most of the Secret Realm unhinged.

A nest with seemingly hundreds if not thousands of Fusion Core beasts could become a threat to a single Epoch Core if they were not careful.

Andrea deduced as her halberd cleaved one of them in half. "This must be a nest. Where is the treasure you felt, Yasenia."

The dragoness's tail whipped a beast that attacked her from behind, creating a loud bang and the sound of bones shattering. The brute strength launched that beast against another, and Evelyn used her spear to skew both simultaneously. "It should be a few hundred meters below us."

Andrea tilted her head and asked Ebirah, who was trying to imitate Yasenia and tail-slapping the beasts. "What about the yummy minerals, little one?"

Ebirah finally hit the beast, and the solid but thin tail fan at the tip of her tail slices the beast's head off. "I hit it!" Then, she turned toward Andrea and commented. "Those minerals are also a few hundred meters below! What a coincidence!"

Cecile tilted her head, an arrow impaling one beast against the wall right as they left the ambushing tunnel. "Why not blow a hole toward it? We have plenty of skills that would not create widespread destruction."

Yasenia walked forward with a pondering expression. "Let's not do it, just in case. Remember that this is not the wilderness but a secret realm. What if that place has a mechanism against people not entering in a 'normal' way? This place feels like a trial or something similar, don't you think so?"

Evelyn agreed. "A bunch of powerful beasts guarding a powerful treasure. It really sounds like a trial of some sort."

It didn't take long to reach the end of the cave system and arrive at the bottommost room. They knew it was the end because beyond the wide circular cave, a massive spherical room that probably took a tenth of the giant mountain spread like a dome of rocks.

The place was so huge that Cecile could've transformed into her giant Phoenix form and flown around comfortably.

Around the room, mounds where the beasts lived could be seen, creating a bumpy surface.

On the walls, countless holes of various sizes were visible, probably used by the beasts they'd been killing. Moreover, between all those holes, a few, like the one Yasenia and the girls were in, were much wider.

The confusion only lasted until their eyes landed in the middle of the room, where an enormous pillar connected the floor with the ceiling and had something coiled around.

The problem was that the pillar was at least 300 meters wide, and the brown serpent coiled around it was not small in comparison.

Its size was such that even if our girls transformed into their beast forms, they would be dwarfed.

Evelyn cursed in a low voice, fearing to wake it up. "That's just too big. How long is it? Three kilometers? Maybe longer?"

Yasenia was also impressed. It was the first time she met such a giant beast as an enemy she might fight.

Sierra muttered. "It could probably swallow little Ebirah in one bite, no?"

Ebirah protested. "Why me!?"

Sierra chuckled. "Well, you are the "smallest" between us."

Ebirah hmphed, but she couldn't retort. While all of them overcame the one hundred meters in length, Cecile and Yasenia having even surpassed the two hundred meters, Ebirah was ninety meters long in her beast form.

Of course, size was not all, but it was true that the giant serpent could probably chomp Ebirah in one bite, needing two chomps for the others.

The dragoness suggested. "We have two options. The first is entering normally and asking it if it can speak. The second is transforming and attacking right away."

Evelyn muttered. "What about the third option of turning around?"

Yasenia looked at her dear with concern and hugged her, kissing her eyelids. "Oh my, are you afraid, dear? If you don't want to fight, tell me without being shy, okay?"

Evelyn was messing around, but this reaction made her heart flutter with happiness. She chuckled and joked further. "Not at all. Who would be afraid of a snake that can coil itself around a mountain?"

The thunderous dragon roar echoed in the giant room, intimidating the weaker beasts.

Then, leading the battle, Yasenia sprinted forward with her four limbs, agile like a predator rushing toward her prey.

From the very beginning, Yasenia used everything in her arsenal, holding nothing back. Her intention was to damage it enough that even if she used half her strength, her dears would be able to fight it head-on.

Her meridians swelled, her energy roiled, and the treasures in her dantian spun, filling her body with strength.

Starlight surrounded her like a galaxy as spirals of Moon and Sun energy coiled around her giant, galloping dragon body.

The Moon and Sun in her wings glowed with extreme radiance, and fourteen stars arranged themselves around her in the Pegasus constellation pattern.

Then, from Yasenia's dantian, a stream of pure Celestial Energy inundated her meridians and body, multiplying the glow and strength around her.

The turbulent attribute tried to free itself, not wanting to bow to anything.

Yet, while all her auras and buffs gathered and she used her charge skill, her [Celestial Intent] unfurled. With the presence of her constitution an intent, the wild Celestial Energy became like a tamed kitten that followed Yasenia's will and empowered her body, giving her a way to mix her [Sun Dragon Body], [Moon Dragon Body], and [Star Dragon Body] innate skills and [Moon Collapse], [Sun Collapse], and [Star Collapse] into one.

The dragoness's roar echoed throughout the room as the aura around her ballooned seemingly without limits, blowing away every creature before her with just the pressure and becoming unstoppable.

"[CELESTIAL DRAGON BODY]! [EMPYREAN COLLAPSE]!"

The girls' faces became solemn when they felt how the energy around Yasenia twisted the world with galactic splendor.

The serpent's pupils shrunk into lines, and boundless amounts of Earth energy covered its gigantic body, giving its rough scales a mysterious sheen.

The pressure around the kilometric serpent also increased, and it accelerated.

Finally, the Serpent and Dragon collided.

It happened in an instant.

The World appeared to come to a stop as a tsunami of light lit up the caverns enough that the entrances to this area on the surface emitted it outward like pillars of light.

Catastrophic energies collided as Yasenia's golden slit eyes collided with the serpent's red ones for a fraction of a second before the explosion.

Then, the time began ticking again.

BOOOOOOOM!!!!

The nova from the explosion lifted her ground like a rock would when it fell into a pond, and the entire 30-kilometer-tall mountain quaked as if it was about to collapse.

Inside the room, the girls could see through the wave of light as the kilometric body of the serpent cracked slightly and bent before flying backward, with a similar reaction occurring to Yasenia.

Both titanic creatures became a streak of light as they flew off in opposite directions, consequently slamming into the opposite walls of the enormous room.

BANG! BANG!

The walls collapsed, covering the two of them in rocks, but the general integrity of the room and the giant pillar in the middle remained, showing awe-inspiring resilience.

The girls didn't stand still and followed Yasenia's initial orders.

Kali and Angel began summoning creatures, and Cecile and the others waited for the serpent to appear from the rubble.

An explosion of dirt simultaneously occurred on both sides, showing the injured beasts, but as if they didn't see their bodies filled with cracks and blood, they charged at each other again while roaring wrathfully.

Yasenia only said one thing with a roar that shook the air as Ebirah, Sierra, Andrea, Evelyn, and Cecile joined her this time.

"FIGHT!"