Shining Duos

Feeling oddly comfortable after passing out yesterday Kazami awoke to a pleasant site of Brenda's beautiful face peacefully sleeping. Lying on Brenda's soft charming legs made Kazami felt like the whole event yesterday was worth it.

After the whole events of yesterday, everyone was eager to rest up and she didn't even mind Kazami resting on her l.a.p. Shifting around a bit he saw everyone else in the group were still sleeping but they all have much better complexion than yesterday.

His moving around cause Brenda to awaken from her slumber and after a little bit of dreariness, she finally notice what caused her to woke up. Face to face with an beaming Kazami, a large blush adorned her cheeks and she was about to yell at him to get off before Kazami made a shushing gesture with his finger and quietly said;

"Don't get too worked up now they still need their rest for this mission. Besides I'm sure you don't want others to see us in this position even though they already have." Gritting her teeth she didn't shout but cutely pouted at him singling him to get off, the blush still plastered on her face.

Chuckling lowly he slowly got off her while savoring every bit of her stunning face so up close. Sitting upright and still close to her, Kazami teased her with,

"You know I must thank you for letting me wake up to the beautiful sight that was your face now I'm that more motivated to do this mission."

"Flattery will get you nowhere you shameless brat." She quipped right-back while trying to calm her fast beating heart after being so up close with Kazami.

Smiling he then asked her;

"So how are you holding up? Yesterday incident won't be the only one where we can get into a life-threatening situation."

Going back to her usual calm and serious face she replied;

"I'm doing fine, it's just I never experience being so powerless when those sharks used those weapons to create that overwhelming attack. That's why I'm more determined than ever to improve on this mission and to truly have your back in combat as we agree on."

"Right right and as for us you can count on the three of us to constantly improve as well, I'm sure at least the four of us can make it through."

"Yea those God Realms beasts were only a fluke, I'm sure there will be no more weird creatures like them." A new voice joined them as Kazami was done talking and of course, it was Kuzumi sliding over to them.

"Oh, you all healed up Kuzumi?" Kazami asked while inspecting her conditions also.

"Yea whatever those two elders gave us sure did the trick, I'm roaring to do this mission now!" Kuzumi pumped up and felt fresh on to take the day.

"You sure seem excited Kuzumi, although I never saw you not pump for action." Lun Yuo had also woke up soon after and join in with the three.

"Well, now that we're all up let us take the time to focus up our mind and discuss several strategies we could do if we encounter an impossible to overcome situation," Kazami told them and going along with his suggestion they planned among themselves waiting for the others to wake up.

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On the trail that leads up through Ashes mountain, the whole group was fresh and prepare to take on anything that came their way. The trail was still the same black ash trail and this specific trail they were on had large black rock terrains making so one can cover themself up in a cave. Before going on however Elder Wayne told them all;

"Now listen up here, you all must exactly follow us and not stray out from us. The path we're going to lead you all is very precise and one wrong move could mean the end of all of us. The advantage is we can set up camp at several stops since the terrain would allow for that."

They all nodded their head in understanding and then Elder Michi picked up with,

"And we will be setting up an orderly formation for us to travel in. The two of us will obviously be on the front line but setting you guys up in a specific way will let us deal with all the Spirit Formation and Origin Formation beasts that come our way quickly and efficiently. And you must understand these won't be ordinary beasts as well, the white slaughtering tiger had done something to give all these beast unique and powerful abilities."

After the explanation, the order that was decided on was Joe Xiu, Hu Tou, Hiles and Eran at the front, Lo Zu, Witha, Azus and Myla in the middle of them. And Slade, Muji, Dyria, Alain at the back. At the far back of the group was Kazami, Kuzumi, Lun Yuo, Brenda and Ju Jia.

Once the formation was settled the two elders took the lead and started guiding them using the map they craftily drew out and marked from all past retelling of this place.

Their formation proved to be effective when they were traversing as they soon met their first beasts. When they were slowly moving around the group felt the group shaking and heard vicious growl ahead of them.

Long and behold two large fearsome-looking onyx rushed to them. The group all were wearing their masking aura cloaks making it harder to detect them. Although the surrounding beasts can catch a slight whiff of their sense and chase after them. This is why they chose this route as every beast roaming this trail was only equivalent to low-level grunts and use to take care of trash.

Both of these beasts were only at the 3rd level of Origin Formation but they had a white fluffy fur coat on them giving incredibly tough defense far outstripping their current level plus at the tip of their horns had a green sickly substance on it.

This kind of beast could be used to stall and drag out any surrounding beasts but before they could even reach them their vision became wrapped with snow disrupting their senses.

The two beasts surprisingly stop and attempted to clear their senses before rushing back. This was very unexpected behavior as normally monstrous beast won't have much intelligent thought until the Heaven Ruler realm showing the white slaughtering tiger tinker with all the beast under its rule.

The sharks they fought yesterday were a big exception to this rule as even if they were exotic God Realm race, they were only even able to act exactly like humans cause of the constant power up through their tridents.

But while the Onyx attempted to regain back their senses, strong earth Qi coiled up their legs and crush down on it which gotten the beasts to open their mouth ready to roar in pain however not even a second later two blue axe Qi blade shot in their mouth destroying their vocal cords.

Not giving them any chance red and green fire with a hint of silver in the depths of the fire popped out of the snow and silently burned them to ash in an instant.

Not even a groan was heard as the tough Onyx were killed off in such a quick manner. Ju Jia made sure when the snow covers them up it only affected their areas and made sure no other beast could clearly sense them.

And while in the back Kazami silently manages to power up Eran and Joe Xiu fire by flashing his divine powers in them. After yesterday's battle and some experiments this morning Kazami notice he had grown more control over his divine powers and can use it to even if it a little bit power up someone move.

And just like this with everyone in the group alternating between attacks they slowly traveled their way through the mountain.