Chapter 783 nacing
Ryu continued to scan the battlefield for a mont before his gaze fell onto the Dark Phoenix. This was the first ti he had ever seen such a creature. Quite frankly, despite its crude words and the fact it was definitely a male, Ryu wouldn't deny that it was a beautiful beast. Just the way its body seed to dance between corporeal and flickering flas filled one with awe.
Though Ryu had also never personally laid eyes on Ice Phoenixes or Fire Phoenixes either, his grandmother's Clans had very realistic depictions of them he had had the pleasure of looking through.
If Ryu had to choose a beast that suited him best as a mount, it would without a doubt be the beast right before him for nothing other than the fact he liked its black color. Of course, if the Dark Phoenix knew that these were Ryu's thoughts, it would have set it hostile curiosity aside for the sake of attacking with everything it had.
"Just Eighth Order?" Ryu mumbled aloud.
After a mont of thought, he felt this made sense. Lu'card had been of the Eighth Order as well, but his talent was far beyond this Dark Phoenix's. In addition, the backup of Dragons he had had with him were far beyond the entourage here.
It was clear that the Ancestral Beasts had divided their attention and power based on the location at hand. No one extrely powerful would be on the Pedestal Plane, so this was all they had sent.
Hearing Ryu's words, though, the Dark Phoenix, Er'lan, had what seed to be a sneer spread across its black fla laden features.
"It seems that we've been gone for so long that you humans have begun to overestimate yourselves."
If Er'lan had been speaking to a normal human, he might have been correct. Even at the Eighth Order, he would have no trouble fighting a human equivalent to their Ninth Order. Or, in other words, he was at the equivalent of the Path Extinction Realm and could fight soone well into the Dao Pedestal Realm.
In his mind, Ryu was truly overestimating himself.
"Hey Ailsa, what do you think? He's not really talented enough to take as a mount, and it would be a hassle to strengthen him as a corpse puppet too. Should I even waste ti?"
Ailsa, who was within the Incubator, shook her head and laughed. Ryu really didn't like to take a loss, he was obviously only saying all of this because the Dark Phoenix had called him human scum. That said, she still answered.
"The Ancestral Beasts are a treasure trove. Why waste ti picking up scraps by the roadside."
Ryu laughed. "Well said."
By this point, Er'lan's gaze had begun to flicker with a red light hidden deep within their abyssal black. The aura of death that hung around him was palpable.
Without a word, he opened his beak, a beam of dark flas shooting outward at a speed that was almost impossible to track if not for just how large the contrast between the bright skies and its dark aura was.
The sound of a high pitched whistling wind grated on the ears, the world seeming to be divided in two for just the briefest of monts.
BANG!
Ryu reached out a hand, Dark Heavenly Patterns swirling about his palm as he clamped down on the beam.
It scattered before Er'lan's gaze, a sprinkling rain of black fire falling down from the skies in patches and causing an unlucky few below to scream out in horror.
Ryu didn't move imdiately, instead choosing to look at his palm. But, as expected, there wasn't even the slightest blemish on it.
The Dark Phoenixes Death Fla was maybe the most destructive fla in all of existence. On top of that, its comprehension was already at the equivalent of the Monarch Realm for sure.
Ryu had immunity to flas equivalent to his own, but his comprehension had regressed so he hadn't expected to be so unmoved by Er'lan's strike. It seed that there was sothing else odd going on here.
It could potentially be explained away because of how powerful Ryu's body had beco. But, Ryu could tell the difference between sothing resisted by his raw strength versus being immune to sothing, and this definitely felt like the latter.
'Hm. Maybe Heavenly Patterns? Or potentially a combination of the two? Interesting, I have to test this out against more powerful Phoenixes. That Wind Dragon said that there's an Emperor Phoenix in this generation… I hope they don't spend too long hiding, that definitely sounds like a worthy target.'
"… You…"
Er'lan's words seed to snap Ryu awake from his thoughts.
With the chaos of the battlefield, the interaction between man and bird hadn't gotten much attention initially, but there were more and more eyes beginning to turn this way.
Er'lan was one of the more prominent figures among the beasts in this current battle. Among the chain of command, he was fringe top ten. So, it wasn't a surprise that his movent would get attention many others wouldn't.
Many frowns began to form from the Martial Gods. Looking at Ryu's white hair, they thought him to be from the Nourishing Soul Branch, but he didn't share their white eyes. In addition, he was making no effort whatsoever to try to gather up with the humans. In fact, Ryu stood amongst the beasts high in the skies as though he was on their side. It wasn't until Er'lan attacked him that the Martial Gods realized that sothing was off here.
At that mont, Ryu waved a hand. A majestic, silver feather bird appeared, his long and proud neck raising high into the skies as sparks of lightning danced around him.
'Oh? Is that Tribulation Lightning?'
Ryu's lips curled. He knew that Ailsa had been diligently nurturing Little Rock, Nesis and Little Gem while he focused on other things, but he hadn't expected such a large change. He could tell imdiately that Little Rock had begun to cultivate , a technique Ryu had previously abandoned since he no longer needed it.
'Ailsa must have found so tribulation lightning treasures among my Clans' treasure vaults and put them to use like this. My wife really is a genius.'
Ryu would take so ti to praise his wife for sohow converting a human technique into sothing a beast could use. But, he had a battle to fight.
With another wave of his hand, Nesis appeared, snapping his hooves along the air and causing resonating booms to shatter the ground below.
At that mont, Little Gem, who apparently didn't want to be left out, leapt out and dove into Ryu's arms. Seeing such a seen, Ryu really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Little Gem had been born at two palm lengths, but the little one had grown to about three. She was much healthier now than she ever had been in the past and she looked like an adorable little white furball. Ryu spent a lot of ti spoiling her when he wasn't busy but it seed she had gotten bored of staying inside of the Incubator day in and day out.
Ryu chuckled and let her find a cozy place to peek her head outside his robes.
"Little Rock, this Dark Phoenix is yours. You're both of the Eighth Order, don't disappoint ."
Little Rock's proud head rose high into the skies, his sonorous call causing the battlefield to tremble beneath his presence.
"Qi! Qi!"
With a single flap of his wings, he vanished, reappearing before the Dark Phoenix in an arc of lightning with the claws of his feet already stretched out toward the latter's head.
"Nesis, you'll be with . I don't plan on doing anything but firing arrows and I won't be moving a single inch other than that. Don't let Little Gem suffer the slightest grievance."
The heavy snort the ca from Nesis' lips carried with it a steaming heat. Ryu stepped onto his partner's back, his feet seemingly having been anchored in place as his bow appeared in his hands once more.
"Nie! Nie!"
The Martial Gods thought they had gained themselves a sudden and powerful ally. They hadn't expected much from Little Rock, but when the clash of the two birds settled, one clearly by far and away much larger than the other, it was actually Er'lan who was forced a asure back.
However, what baffled the Martial Gods all the more was the fact that when Ryu pulled his bowstring, there wasn't a single beast in his line of sight. Instead, his gaze had landed on the Martial Gods who were currently protecting the looming wall of Shrine Mountain to their back.
Ryu smiled lightly, a nacing light in his eye. He was going to very much enjoy this.
Images of what his Clan must have gone through in his absence ran through his mind, thoughts of how much his parents and grandparents had to sacrifice just to give him a chance in the future almost threatened to make his heart explode.
In that mont, his smile faded and he seed to have gained the face of a demon.
SHUUUU!
A single arrow seed to blot out the skies, the raging qi behind threatening to rip the world apart.
[Sorry everyone, just one chapter today]
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