"Once I devour her, I'll be able to control us all while we're in demon beast form. That's when our race shall truly beco the overlords of the God Realm!" That voice resounded with laughter. "This realm shall tremble just from the re ntion of Spirit Aberrations after that!"
Spirit Aberrations were a mysterious demon beast race that hardly ever interacted with other demon beasts. Then again, although their interactions with people could be counted on one hand, they were recorded in the history of the entire region and beyond.
After all, every eting resulted in an unprecedented disaster. They were more or less breathing, living calamities. They weren't called the strongest demon beast race with the greatest room for growth in the God Realm for nothing.
The God Realm was incredibly vast that no one even knew all of the mysterious races in existence. Even though that was the case, the fa of the Spirit Aberrations still traveled far and wide. Alas, a flaw in their demon beast cores prevented them from ever ascending to the Semi-God Realm, not even ntioning beyond that.
If not for that, they would have decimated the God Realm long ago. Moreover, the flaw in their cores was truly severe. Their human form was even weaker than Silver-Winged Mouses, for they were unable to use any laws in this form.
Moreover, the very mont they swapped to their demon beast forms, they would lose all semblance of intelligence and sentience, turning into mindless monsters that devoured everything in sight. Every interaction of them was recorded as such.
They raged on throughout the lands until powerful Semi-God Realm cultivators stepped in to eradicate them. Unsurprisingly, decimating the lower realm Spirit Aberrations was no easy feat. They had to work together in groups.
A group of Semi-God Realm cultivators grouping up to deal with a lone demon beast with a lower cultivation realm. It was a laughing matter if anyone ca to know about it. But in retrospect, it showed the terrifying strength of the Spirit Aberrations.
If it wasn't for the fact that they beca mindless monsters in their demon beast forms, they would have ruled every place they visited. As their human forms were pitifully weak, they constantly struggled to survive. To overco their fate, they were in search of Beast Tars.
Beast Tars allowed a demon beast to maintain the sa sentience and intelligence it possessed while in human form. This was what the Spirit Aberrations desired. Unfortunately for them, every Beast Tar they had found failed to live up to their expectations.
The Beast Tars were unable to control them as their mind shattered. And every ti that happened, one of their brethren had to remain in their demon beast form and thrash about until it was discovered by the cultivators and eventually killed.
Once they took on their demon beast forms, they had no way of returning to their human forms ever again. Even while giving birth, they had to take a lot of precautions to prevent the one giving birth from going back to their demon beast form.
To add to that, the mont the baby was born, they used all their techniques to forcefully make it take a human form. Considering all the difficulties, their population had dwindled since then.
The Spirit Aberrations were one of the oldest races living on the God Realm. Their history dated back to the first chaos cycle when the God Realm was still forming. The chaotic laws and the ever-present disorder in it were what birthed the Spirit Aberrations.
Spirit Aberrations were nurous back then. But once the God Realm stabilized, no new Spirit Aberrations were naturally ford. Thanks to their racial limitations, their population steadily dwindled up to the present day, where they now numbered in the double digits.
"This is the first ti a cultivator with such divine abilities in the Beast Tar profession exists." The demon beast in human form stood up, talking with a tone akin to a chorus. "She's the one we have been searching for since ti immorial."
"The God Realm has finally given us the hope we need," the one that seed to be their leader spoke. "The mont I consu her, I shall beco a Heavenly Aberration."
"Heavenly Aberration!" Everyone echoed in joy.
A Spirit Aberration was called a Land Aberration the mont it attained the Godly Fusion Stage. They were known by this na until the peak of the Nascent God Realm. They were called as such since when they assud their demon beast form, they would take root in the land. And once that had been done, they wouldn't be able to move from that place ever.
The only way for them to move away would be to assu human form and walk away. But since they lost all sanity upon assuming demon beast forms, they were permanently fixed to the region. This was the only reason they could be killed, despite their outstanding strength.
The cultivators battling it would just spam attacks from a long distance away and slowly whittle it down until it died. The reason why it was feared was that by consuming a cultivator, it would instantly gain the comprehension of all the laws the respective cultivator had comprehended.
It was a demon beast that beca stronger the more it ate. Of course, knowing all the ordinary laws like the elental ones and ti, space, and destiny wasn't rare in the God Realm. Once above the Semi-God Realm, a cultivator and demon best would most likely have comprehended them all already. Nevertheless, ti was needed. Being able to comprehend everything by just eating soone was truly shocking.
However, if one of them consud Krune, it would instantly gain comprehension of his Calamity Laws, Balance Laws, their respective sub-laws, and all the other laws he had comprehended. It would beco overpowered soon after. After all, it could consu more cultivators at a later date once it finished digesting Krune.
"Let's chase after her," the leader said before jumping on a Zenith Plugger. After nurous attempts before this, they had finally managed to ta one. Though, since none of them were from the Beast Tar profession, the Zenith Plugger fully expressed its beastly desires.
The Zenith Plugger opened its mouth, trying to bite a Spirit Aberration in human form. The leader pulled its reins, barely managing to keep it under control as another Spirit Aberration opened a large bag of at and tossed it into the Zenith Plugger's mouth.
"Charge!" The leader shouted the very mont everyone had mounted on its back, watching the Zenith Plugger snort and remain unmoving.
"Charge!" He soon kicked its head, watching it wail a bit before starting to run. It crashed and tumbled along the way, failing to heed his commands spontaneously. It then shook its head and continued to sprint, occasionally jumping over sections of the path that caved in.
"I see Trivar has noticed our approach," the leader muttered, seeing the damaged path that spanned before him. Then again, he was unconcerned about it as he spent most of his attention on controlling the Zenith Plugger. "Damn it, just run straight."
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The mont he activated the Mind Splitting Technique, Krune felt that his task had beco easier. A steady stream of Godly Energy gushed out of the Rank Two God Stones and entered his body, alleviating his expenditure.
The influx was a tad greater than his expenditure, so the Godly Energy in his body continued to increase at a steady pace. 'This mission is not profitable at all for the other rcenaries.'
Krune looked at the figures of Vardin and Diana, noticing that they were now exhausted, barely scrapping by sohow as they tumbled their way through the defense. They were close to running out of Godly Energy and didn't seem to possess any supplentary sources like his ntal energy.
Krune stopped supplenting his attacks using ntal Energy, solely sticking to his Godly Energy and Divine Sense. Even though the situation was dangerous, he planned to keep his ntal Energy in reserve for when the situation called for it.
In his current condition, he was only able to recover his Godly Energy. Recovering his ntal Energy was a ti-consuming process, especially since he was in the midst of battle. Mixing his ntal Energy into his Godly Energy would make his attacks stronger, so he was saving it up.
After all, the more he observed, the more peculiar the current situation felt. The caravan was speeding through the air right now, resisting house-sized boulders that were trendously heavy. Every rcenary was struggling to keep up with the boulders. At the sa ti, all the caravan mbers also helped out to share the burden.
Unsurprisingly, they were steadily losing their ground. But despite everything, Trivar didn't take any action. Krune had inspected Trivar's cultivation base while eting him at the inn before using his Divine Sense, slightly surprised when it was blocked.
But, when he used his ntal Energy, he was able to penetrate his defenses easily. Krune was shocked because Trivar wasn't anyone weak, despite being a rchant geared to earning money. Rather, it was not wrong to say that he was the strongest in the caravan.
First Stage Nascent God!
If he wished to, he could share the load of the entire caravan for an hour while all the rcenaries rested and recovered their Godly Energy. But Trivar didn't do anything of the sort.
"Kyah!" Diana shouted, watching the activation of her technique fail as she ran out of Godly Energy, failing to stop a boulder that crashed into the carriage under her.
"No!" The caravan mbers on the carriage roof shouted in alarm as the boulder crashed into them, forming a massive hole through the carriage. Diana barely avoided the impact as Vardin arrived beside her, helping her as they moved over to another carriage.
Krune noticed how the reins connecting the Zenith Plugger and the beams connecting them to the carriage remained intact while the remainder of the carriage fell off. With a quick glance, he determined that they were at least Nine Stars God Foundation in grade.
Such instances like this continued to occur as the rcenaries ran out of Godly Energy one after another. The boulders crashed into the carriages they were protecting and destroyed them, spilling out all the goods in them.
The rcenaries barely avoided dying and congregated around their team leaders, trying their best to recover their energy. The Zenith Pluggers were fine, since four caravan mbers were on the backs of each to protect them from harm.
Moreover, they were capable of defending themselves. Whenever a boulder flew towards them, the air would faintly fluctuate before the boulders would tilt a bit and avoid the Zenith Pluggers.
They were demon beasts that were experts at manipulating air. So, even though the carriages were destroyed, the respective Zenith Pluggers pulling them were unhard. Moreover, the caravan mbers on its back imdiately disconnected the harness and reconnected it to the nearest intact carriage.
'There's gonna be a lot of losses here.' Krune thought when he noticed how they changed the harness without any hesitation. The mont he saw the contents spill out of a broken carriage, Krune frowned as he noticed that they weren't the sa items he saw at the beginning of the caravan. They were just normal decorative items that weren't worth anything.
Not only that, but Krune activated his ntal Energy scan as he was suspicious, extending it to the bottom of his carriage as he noticed nurous hooks in place. Surprisingly, hung upside down from the hooks were bird-type demon beasts.
Judging by their aura, they were the caravan mbers he thought were crushed by the boulders and were sent flying into the bottomless chasm below. As it turned out, they had taken flight imdiately and were hiding underneath the carriages. It was as if they were waiting sothing.
"Just…what the hell have I gotten myself into?"
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