The Rise Of Calamity

Chapter 274 Birds

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*ROOOOAA-* It could not finish the roar it had saved up for this moment as an enormous amount of pain flooded it while its perspective had changed from looking at me to looking towards the sky.

Everyone was even more shocked as not only had they seen me defend against so many full-powered attacks from their self-proclaimed boss, but also that I had flickered from in front of him just to reappear under him and perform an uppercut that send him flying off the ground and landing on it again, this time laying on its back.

'How did she get so much stronger... Wait for no... How does she even have that energy? Is she using some kind of trinket too?' My grandmother was having a hard time processing what she was just seeing alongside everyone else that knew me.

"You call yourself a divine beast? With a constitution like that and power as abysmal as yours?" I snorted coldly before lifting my hand into the air and muttering.

"Let's end this"

Out of thin air, the gorilla and everyone else was forced to watch as the golden spears formed from thin air, however, unlike my grandmother's not only were they plenty but they were also made out of pure divine mana, not a mixture between divine and ice, an affinity that was not considered very high compared to all the higher tier affinities that were achievable through other means, yet, this world was simply not ready for them.

"Heavenly rain: Spears of the divine" Dozens upon dozens of spears began to rotate at the same time while simultaneously releasing a golden hue that enveloped them. At the same time, a pulse of air formed at their butt ends so when they do launch, their speeds would be a little faster than normal.

*Boom*

*Boom*

*Boom*

*Boom*

The sound of shockwaves spreading throughout the battlefield rang out from the sky as each spear quickly broke through sound barriers like it was nothing.

When the spears finally landed on the ground, they would first shoot right through a beast, leaving a hole within them before digging into the ground and exploding outwards like a landmine.

Explosions rang out once again, this time filled with blood and the roars and howls of the beasts as they were slowly being obliterated by these spears. Even the overlord beasts of the beast tide were forced to dodge since they had just watched the overlord fire hog turn into swiss cheese before exploding into bits and pieces of unrecognizable flesh.

The gorilla however had set up a huge formation created from his soul energy to make sure that all the beasts around would not be hurt by the impact of hundreds of spears, yet it could have not imagined that the spears would shoot through the barrier formation like a hot knife through butter, causing, even more, to die as they had all huddled up next to the golden gorilla.

'I have a little less than have my mana left...' I touched my chin and looked towards the crowds of beasts that had not been killed, and after calculating the amount of soul energy that I would get if I were to kill them all, I cruel smile stretched from ear to ear as I simply on thin air and waited.

*SCREECH*

The bird overlord alongside all its children flapped its wings and avoided the spears until there were finally none left in the sky that could descend upon them, yet to their dismay, the worst had yet to come.

Pointing at the second-largest bird with my index finger, I simultaneously rested my arm on thin air, thin air that had immediately been turned into a solid yet translucent ethereal golden throne made out of both my purest of mana as well as my soul energy that had enveloped the seat and intertwined with the mana.

"Let's play a game shall we" My voice that had been filled to the brink with bloodlust spoke out with a soft chuckle, yet even though my voice was calm and soothing, it had still caused the birds to freeze for a second before retreating in the next.

"If any of you can survive an intermediate spell of mine, I will let the whole species live, however, if the strongest one of you all dies, I will kill all of you just like I did with the rest" I pointed towards the boar and the rest of its species that seemed to have been burnt into nothing but a scorch mark on the earth, not even their ashes being left behind after their cremation.

"Now... Who will volunteer?" I rested my head on the palm of my hand before glancing at the beasts with a tinge of mockery in my gaze.

*Screech* One of the birds seemed to have thought I was bluffing and immediately shot towards me, and not only had it attacked me, but it was also one of the stronger ones amongst the rest of the birds from the ones that were currently present.

*Bang*

*SCRRREEEEEEEEECH*

With a final screech, the bird began to descend towards the ground as a bullet hole was visible within its chest, going through one side and exploding out of the other with a fountain of blood.

"Arcane magic..." Xela muttered as she coughed traces of blood due to her mana exhaustion and the overuse of the pendant that she had received from her grandfather.

Arcane magic was one of the most sophisticated magics in the world as it could even be considered the source of all magic.

Arcane magic was used to create runes or infuse already inscribed items with mana to make them runes.

Since humans could not cast a spell without either in-depth knowledge of an element or a hand sign and chant. Chants were used to visualize the spell while handing signs all symbolized different runes.

This explained why some hand signs would be used throughout most spells while others would only be seen in a certain set of spells or a certain element of spells.

At the same time, while humans sometimes do find it hard to make their own spells, creating a replica would only need you to have a good understanding of hand signs. An example is the hand signs for fire armor.

When a water Elementalist would see someone use fire armor of the most basic degree, it would be a simple game of switching the fire had signed for the water one, however, when it comes to creating a more complex or even more powerful armor, it would take much more than that.

The person would be forced to break down each rune and hand sign representing the armor before adding their own element to it with its own advantages. An example of this would be someone with the fire element trying to copy the armor of someone with the ice element.

The ice element armor might have a few runes or hand signs to add a few added effects, like frostbite when someone comes in touch with the armor. This would make it harder to replicate the armor with the fire element as it does not have a frostbite ability, therefore having to change the ability to burn, and even then, it might be as strong as the ice armor.

Back to Arcane Magic, even though it is considered the father of all magic for the humans at least, it was not really useful when it came to fighting due to its enormous use of mana as well as its lack of affinity, therefore not dealing any extra damage something like a flames burn or the freezing of a limb would do.

Yet Xela had just watched as her grandchild used that same Arcane magic that had been neglected in fights for centuries to get used to killing one of the strongest birds with a single compressed mana bullet...

She could almost not believe her eyes.

"Next," I said dismissively as a dark blue flame swallowed the falling bird and turned it into ashes before burning those two and consuming them into the nothingness of the abyss that was the darkness of that flame.

Not only the beasts, but the humans too could not help but shudder as they looked at the near-infinite depth of the flame's darkness as if it was a black hole that would suck anything and everything into it without thinking twice.

"NEXT!?" I said a little louder this time, yet to my surprise, instead of wasting my time with the weaker ones, the larger bird had come up and had decided that it would be the one to take the full brunt of my attack.

? 'I can't kill it with only a mana bullet... So I'll just use a fire one them' I shrugged and pointed both my index finger and middle finger towards the bird.

Without wasting another second, a blue flame intertwined with white and gold emerged on the tips of my fingers and shot right through the bird's head like a sniper bullet through butter.

The bird began to slowly fall down like the rest, yet before it could even get any closer to the ground, the first that had entered its body when the flame bullet had shot through it, erupted out of the body, igniting the feathers, wings, and body in general into a flaming torch which grew smaller and smaller in size until it vanished after touching the ground and not leaving a single trace of the bird left, just like the other victims.

"Alrighty, boys and girls! I am bored as fuck so how about we play another game" I released all my repressed bloodlust at the same time before spreading my arms out wide and smiling sinisterly.

"Let us call this time... Hair's breadth" I lifted my arm up and pointed towards the sky.

At the same time, everyone felt the mana leave their vicinity while being directed towards my hand, making everything under my presence shudder for the umpteenth time at what they were about to see.