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"Master, are you sure about this?" asked Kireina.
"Of course! Why wouldn't I want to become a furry- Wait, no, that's terrible… Well, it will be half-beast… and they can turn back, right? I mean, I just want as much power as I can grab, so becoming a Beast-kin by being exposed to this light is something I would do," I said.
"W-Well… I guess," sighed Kireina.
We were already flying over the road that led to the south, where Gaia had told me to go, so we were advancing at the same time, killing two birds with one stone. Right?
Well, the whole idea of becoming a beast-kin was mine, I just wanted to get as much power as possible, which means exposing myself to weird lights. I do wonder if this will affect my summons… And what about my tamed monsters?
Javier did say that it affected humans and normal animals, humans became beast-kin while normal animals would turn into magic beasts possessing an element. Meaning that all the beasts we had met that had these Beast Orbs and had one element were normal animals mutated from this light… although some of them might have come out from the world where this light comes from.
But what is this light anyways? I've tried asking Gaia while we flew through the skies. I used my new Wind Eagle wings and the sonic flight for greater speed at flying, while the summons was in their ethereal forms and the tamed monsters/undead inside my Inner World.
"If I put some of my intent into it, I think I could analyze it…!" said Gaia, as she began to put more and more intent into her analysis as we flew until we finally found it.
It was a large crack in the sky, where a bright red, yellow, and brown-colored rainbow of ethereal light rained from it, it showered the entire place, and there were monsters everywhere within this place, many beasts, in fact, but no beast-people. It seems that they are rare.
The beasts are seemingly protecting this light for some reason, if we get closer, we'll get attacked by hundreds! Javier didn't say anything about this!
…Well, not like it matters. The strongest are A-Rank+++ Black Thunder Wolves, who are around thirty… we can manage!
I quickly materialized all my summons and took out all the cavalry, Kireina and Katrina led the party of summons while raising their weapons and showering the monsters with long-ranged attacks, a downpour of weapon-shaped water projectiles and blood projectiles was the first wave, which came accompanied by the attacks of everyone as well.
Aqua used her very body to fire giant slime-water bullets and crushed a large fire bear with a giant water fist, splattering its head across the floor.
Wagyu roared furiously, as he coated himself in a cluster of shadows and jumped over a larger Black Thunder Wolf, crushing its neck and tearing apart the flesh within, while using his shadows to wrap its limbs and not let it fight properly, making it trip afterward and then impaling its head with a shadow arrow.
Anna hit the floor with her axe and released a shockwave of thunder around her, hitting most of the non-thunder-attribute beasts and electrifying them from the toes up to their heads and the rest of their bodies.
Ervas manipulated masses of plants and several trees which he had converted into weaker and lesser monsters and fused together into his body, as he crushed whole Black Thunder Wolves with his gigantic wood claws. Additionally, he healed anyone he saw with their HP going down while firing Telekinesis Cannons.
Vudia fused her golems into a giant golem and activated her recently unlocked Skill, El Dorado, which transformed her Gold Golem into a giant golden mech she had created in the original story, using it to devastate the monsters with tremendously powerful blasts of thunder and punches that crushed them into smithereens.
Cuco and the other beasts allied with the Undead I had, and Wisp too, and they began to ravage a group of beasts with their teamwork. Although some of the undead began to die, I couldn't care less, as I continued to raise more of them through the use of Necromancy in any corpse, adding to our never-ending army!
I used but a split of mind to do this task, while I used my main mind to rush into the light, finally grasping it!
I glanced at the crack with excitement, if I can also get a Beast Orb, my power will be able to grow even faster.
The crack continued to release light from within the world it came from, as Gaia finally managed to analyze it while I released hundreds of fireballs to all directions, burning to a crisp the various variants of Aegle Beasts that flew towards me to not let me get closer to the light.
"That light comes from another world, it seems to be… a world of beasts! It is… gigantic too! The trees are like skyscrapers and the mountains are so big… J-Just how enormous are these other worlds?! The beasts that roam within are equally strong… the weakest are SSS-Rank?! Then all the beasts we had been fighting are merely the animals of this world that converted themselves into beasts thanks to this light, which seems to be this world's origin essence, it is named… Beast Ki!" said Gaia.
"How can you analyze it like that?" I asked.
"I insert my own consciousness into this world and then sneak into the World's Origin Core to steal information it has gathered, however, that's all I managed to get in the half a second I managed to sneak inside before that world's laws ejected me out," said Gaia.
"So you got all of that in half a second? Talk about efficiency… Ah, there!"
As I maed the last eagle, which seemed to be a King variant die from my flames, the light finally began to bathe me as I reached its focal point.
FLASH!
The moment I was bathed by it, a surge of new power began to overflow from my chest.
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