"Evelyn, make this bigger so I can finish off the rest," Isabella said as she created a swirling mass of dark gray mist.
Isabella's mist affinity was also powerful and purely offense-oriented. Peeling Mist! This mist was super corrosive, and anyone weaker who touched it melted into motes after drowning in this mist power!
"Got it, mom!" Evelyn said as she consumed some of her soul energy to use Scope on the swirling mass of mist.
"Defend! That mist is troublesome!" A man whose's entire right body part was slightly corroded said. Fear evident in his eyes!
"Get back everyone and trap them," Isabella said after Evelyn finished buffing her swirling mass of mist.
Yosin, Sherly, Tiffani, and Gerald quickly got out of battle while Sierra created her domain of Deep Blue.
"Fuck!"
Zoe, Sasha, Meya, and Luna came out of the domain since it didn't affect them, but the remaining six people of the gang couldn't get out!
The domain slowed them down and increased their weight!
"NO! Stop! We didn't do anything to you!"
Isabella turned to Arkhen, but Arkhen shook his head and said, "kill them."
The swimming mass of mist entered the domain before spreading quickly! It increased in quantity and spreadness because of Evelyn's scope buff.
"Don't let them go out," Zoe said as she used her shadow whips and pulled them to the center of the domain.
Sierra was exerting her full strength and constantly channeled her power in the domain to maintain it strong to prevent it from breaking by those gang members.
A trail of blood left her mouth since the pressure of too much, and it took a lot to resist the power of those seven.
Luna, Sasha, and Meya also unleashed their attacks while Isabella's mist chipped away the shields and barrier they created to defend themselves.
"Curse you!"
The last one died after shouting.
Arkhen got reality motes as well.
'What the fuck is their teamwork?' Tharin wondered in shock. 'Especially those six at 2nd Ring stage.'
"Now, since Yosin, Sherly, Gerald, Tiffani, and I need to upgrade from 1st Ring to 2nd Ring, then we'll move to prioritize that," Arkhen said as he stood up.
"That's not too hard. It only took us a month to upgrade from 1st Ring to 2nd Ring power," Sierra said with a smile.
"Yeah. So, let's go to the place where we stayed for a month. That forest is big and filled with newly ascended people and beasts to fight."
The requirement to reach 2nd Ring power was to fight and spend normal energies constantly, and soul energies, until the rings reach saturation.
Once the rings reach saturation, they need to trigger the upgrade by infusing a bit of soul energy in them.
The requirement for each Ring stage was different, and reaching 1st Ring power to 2nd Ring power was very easy if done wisely.
...
After half an hour, the group entered the forest called the Grand Forest of Yura.
"I am selling a batch of healing potions! 20% discount if you buy more than ten!"
"If you want to enchant your weapon and other items, then look no further! For one 2-star power crystal, I will enchant any item of 3rd star and below!"
Arkhen and others saw a bunch of people making their stalls as they sold their expertise.
The trees were giants, the ground was only slightly rough, and it was very lively in this periphery of the forest.
"We don't need to bother with these people. Let's go," Meya said. "Once we go a bit deeper, there will be a bunch of arenas where people would fight each other."
"And even deeper would be territories of beasts and people where the danger to life would increase," Zoe said.
"We mostly fought in the arena grounds in the forest," Sierra said with a wry smile. "Although we went to the deeper jungle, we returned in two days."
"Hmm, we will directly go to the deeper jungle," Arkhen said with a grin as he turned to Ruan, who was sitting on his shoulder in miniature form.
"Awoo?" Ruan looked at Arkhen, waiting for his command.
"Let's stop here," Arkhen said since they arrived on a relatively large empty ground with a small pond nearby.
But this area was not empty as some people were at the pond and some were sleeping on tree branches while putting barriers and detection-type skills outside this fifty-meter pond and empty ground.
"Transform twenty meters big," Arkhen said to Ruan.
The girls, Yosin, and others also stopped walking.
'That wolf is strange,' Tharin thought as he couldn't exactly look into the wolf's power.
*Awooooo!*
Ruan jumped off Arkhen's shoulder, becoming a giant 20 meters wolf.
The people at the back and some sleeping on tree branches fifty meters and further also heard the howl and were startled.
"Damn, such a big wolf!"
"Seems like someone's pet."
"But holy, how cool is that wolf? I want one."
Obviously, people would be curious, and some flew towards them and saw Arkhen and his ground standing beside the wolf.
"Woah, I didn't know you had such a wolf, man."
Yosin was both amazed and envious. He didn't know this wolf could transform into this big and majestic form!
"Haha, I completely forgot about it," Gerald said with a laugh as he remembered this wolf when he met Arkhen the first time.
"Let's make it better to travel on it," Arkhen said with a smile as he spent reality points and created a small wooden pavilion on Ruan's broad back.
"Awoo?!" Ruan was confused at first but then understood.
"Let's go," Arkhen said with a laugh as he flew up on Roan's back and sat on a small couch seat.
Others also flew up and sat down on couch seats.
"You two will fly alongside Ruan," Arkhen said to Tharin and Kolak.
"Understood, master."
Kolak nodded with a blank gaze. He was completely under Arkhen's control, and seeing him like that caused a chill to crawl up Tharin's spine.
'Thanks my lucky stars that I obediently decided to become his serv- subordinate.'
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