Naturally after Eris noticed Agnes showing her real ability, she didn't want to be left behind so she also called her Genesis Core on the spot.
'How many years has it been since I fought using a trait of the Mortal realm', thought Eris as she saw the green sphere wrapped in brown vines and leaves.
She was surprised to see that Agnes's genesis core is on the same level as hers, maybe at the main branch of her family people who manage to reach the seven-hundred-meter mark, aren't scarce, but those who were able to reach the maximum possible size of Genesis Core in her generation, could be counted with the fingers of one hand.
And we are talking about a well stablished force in a Divine Firmament with many secondary families, subordinated families and a random genius here and there.
'Eight-hundred-meter Genesis Core and third level intent, while being below one thousand years of age, seriously what's up with this Mortal Plane', thought Eris seeing Agnes being serious, she decided to have a talk with Lilia who seemed to be the one who knew more about the Heavenly Quadrants, because there were too many talented people for a mere Mortal Plane.
At the very least she can tell that this Mortal Plane would have outpowered the one that is connected to the Heavenly Garden Divine Firmament, from which she and Mylene came.
Putting the matter at the back of her head, Eris decided to focus on the enemies in front of her, because she could feel the provocation coming from Agnes's Genesis Core.
"She is a soul cultivator, don't let her use those petty tricks, pummel her to death!", shouted the giant gorilla to Wendel, the elder from the Castle Armored sect was now not in the mood to even think of taking Agnes with him like earlier, right now he was eager to get rid of any witnesses so that he can avoid being hunted down by the Fey family.
Wendel clenched his fist and then summoned his Genesis Core which he used to believe was on a decent level having reached the five-hundred-meter mark, thanks to the fact that he was a relative of the patriarch and he worked as a thug for the young master of the sect too.
But now after seeing two geniuses… no, the word genius wasn't enough to describe someone with an eight-hundred-meter Genesis Core, Wendel's heart was burning with jealousy.
'I must get that Spirit Ice no matter what!', thought Wendel as he made his dark grey Genesis Core clash against Eris's core.
The gorilla on the other hand had a twisted expression on its face, unlike the snake and the falcon which were easily defeated earlier, the gorilla and the centipede were stronger because their lineages weren't too diluted yet, and reaching the Heavenly Realms will make them evolve once again.
Even then as of right now, they had more knowledge passed down from their ancestors through their lineages, Agnes certainly surprised the gorilla, but Eris made the hatred that was passed down from its ancestors to surge.
"This aura! you come from the same place as those bastards, go to hell bitch!!!", the crystal plaques on the body of the gorilla lit up and then its body actually grew taller surpassing one hundred meters of size.
Unlike the snake and the falcon, the gorilla was a beast that couldn't manipulate an attribute externally, in a sense it was similar to the Fritz who couldn't create things with their metal attribute, but instead it could reinforce its body to the limit.
The black light produced by the crystal plaques on the body of the gorilla, gathered on its arms and the space waved wherever the arms passed.
"Booom!!!", the dark grey metal core of Wendel as well as the fists of the gorilla landed on Eris's Genesis Core and a huge shockwave followed by a thunderous sound, echoed through the whole place.
Aster wished it and he used the light of the paragon body to protect the girls from the incoming violent gusts of wind that were created due to the impact, dust raised from the ground blocking everything for a moment.
When the dust settled up, the scene of the gorilla as well as Wendel having unsightly expressions was revealed, they were certain their attacks landed and yet… the opponent didn't move at all.
This wasn't a fight of energies unlike the one that was taking place next to them, where Agnes's sun-like Genesis Core was fiercely competing with the poison of the centipede and the elder from the Marsh Domain, but a physical confrontation, which should have been the weakness of the tall brown-haired woman which they were fighting.
But not only they didn't manage to damage her Genesis Core, they couldn't even force it backwards, it was ridiculous considering they were fighting an energy/soul cultivator.
"Don't be so surprised, I'm used to fighting a certain girl with an absurdly insane physical strength, of course some nobodies won't be able to even leave a scratch on my Forest Fortress Genesis Core", Eris's voice could be heard coming from within her core.
The gorilla and Wendel gritted their teeth, their bodies exploded in yin radiance and spirit energy respectively and then they charged towards Eris, this time they decided to get serious.
…
A moment ago, Aster whose eyes could see through the dust curtain, observed what Eris did, he already knew she was an expert when dealing with body cultivators, due to her previous enmity with Mylene, even her divine runes were mostly focused on dealing with those whose bodies were their best weapon.
"She rooted her core onto the air, while the multiple layers of vines blocked the impact, wood is known by being an incredibly tenacious attribute, the vines repaired faster than what they were destroyed, making those two's attacks look useless", mumbled Aster.
Runes lit up all over Eris's Genesis Core at the moment of the impact, she rooted her core onto the atmosphere somehow, so the gorilla and Wendel would have needed to be able to blow away a piece of space, for them to move Eris's core.
Well, that or have a stronger soul energy than Eris's, so that they could destroy the formations, but of course Eris had thought about that possibility, so she actually crafted the array on the spot.
All the battles with body cultivators, which she has gone through thanks to Mylene, made her an expert at dealing with them.
'As expected of the wife candidates I personally chose for my darling, they are quite strong~', said Lilia from the mind space, making Rya roll her eyes at Lilia.
Aster chuckled in response, he turned to see the girls and then said.
"Are you ready, ladies?".
"Mm", the girls nodded, and then Aster took out a sword from the Dragon Buster series, the way of how he wielded a two-handed sword with one hand still amazed the girls, but now it wasn't the time for that.
Aria and the others took some distance from Aster, they had a plan which they discussed previously, so they knew what Aster was about to do.
Aster smirked and then golden light gathered on his sword, this wasn't his spirit energy but his attribute, in other words it was annihilation, that's why he told the girls to take some distance when he gave them the signal, Aria would have been fine, but Aster would have had to be careful to not accidentally harm the others.
"Sky Rendering", with a single slash of his sword, a huge horizontal pillar of golden light was shot towards the Glacial Liger.
The elder from the Marsh Domain who was using his poisonous marsh to try and suffocate Agnes's Core, saw the black-haired youth slashing at the Glacial Liger and he snorted.
"I heard that some women from the Fey family have strange tastes, perhaps you like simple-minded idio…", Wendel's words stuck in his throat nearly making him choke.
"Crack!", a sound similar to glass breaking but amplified, echoed through the battlefield as the pillar of golden light clashed against an invisible wall that was covering the area of one kilometer around the Glacial Liger.
Naturally the beasts knew that the Liger was going to try and escape, because the yin chain was forcing it to find a way to return to the Yin Azure Palace, so they set a barrier around it just in case.
It was one of the details that Patrick bragged about to Renard, and the latter spat it out when he was tortured by Alexandra, that's how this information reached Aster's ears.
In a normal case when the attack of someone in the Earth realms clashes with the defenses of someone in the Transcending realm, nothing will happen, now imagine what the result will be when the barrier was formed with the help of four Law Integration spirit beasts.
"No way!", Wendel felt he was about to go crazy as a large crack appeared on the barrier, the golden pillar kept pushing frontwards, until the cracks joined and a large opening appeared into the barrier.
"Stop them!!!", the Centipede let out a roar as it ordered the masked elder to prevent Aster and the girls from setting a foot into the protected area, but it was too late, the group entered through the opening Aster made before the hole closed behind of them.
As for the elder from the Marsh Domain, the moment he tried to leave the confrontation, a line of orange light blocked his way and nearly cut his body in half, the elder was only able to barely react on time and dodge to avoid his body being split into two parts, but his right hand was separated from his body.
"Aghrr", the masked elder unconsciously made a pained sound and he was surprised of it, the poison had burn many of his nerves, so it's been a while since he felt pain.
He looked at the place where his hand used to be and saw the scorched meat, before he turned to see the origin of that line of orange light that costed him his hand, and he gritted his teeth.
Dark green spirit energy covered his arm and then a dark green liquid formed a new temporal hand, the centipede glared at the masked elder but before he could say anything the masked man talked.
"Showing her our backs is too dangerous, let's kill her and then we can turn those brats into puddles of blood".
The centipede clicked the blades of its snout a couple of times, it could barely see the direction of that orange line of light, so what the masked elder said was right, they were in front of a really troublesome opponent, one whose attacks were not only lethal, but incredibly fast.
Once again, the elder summoned his core while the centipede exploded in dark purple light, they then charged towards Agnes who didn't retreat.
"Booom!", their attacks clashed producing waves of energy, that affected the nearby area, luckily for Aster and the other girls, they were now being protected by the barrier the beasts set up.
But it's not like he was so free, because the moment he set foot into the barrier, the sound of metal being twisted assaulted everyone's ears, an ice cladded paw came from within the bright yellow cage in the center of the room.
"Roaaar!", the Liger roared and using the space it opened into the cage, blue light gathered in its mouth and then a blue ray of light was shot towards Aster and the girls, the Liger wasn't a mindless beast as it appeared to be, it actually waited until someone entered the barrier, before using the opportunity to do a surprise attack.
But then a huge golden armored arm appeared on the way of the attack, and blocked it, there was no explosion, but the light dispersed and everything that it touched was sealed in ice.
As for the arm it was now covered on a thick layer of ice, Aster who now had a rough idea of the strength of the Liger didn't waste time, his body exploded in golden light and an armored golden headless giant, appeared on the battlefield.
Naturally the sudden appearance of the one hundred meters giant drew the attention of the beasts and the two elders towards Aster's group, which no longer could be seen.
"Crack!", a loud noise came from the left arm of the golden giant as it opened its hand destroying the layer of ice that it was covering it.
At the same time the Liger managed to squeeze its body through the opening it created on the cage.
The beast stood there observing the golden giant before its body exploded in blue light, followed by a roar, a wave of cold energy assaulted the whole area isolated by the barrier, covering everything in ice, the golden giant included.
But then the ice started trembling and creaking, under the surprised eyes of the beasts and the two elders, yellow flames emerged from within the ice before the golden giant jumped out of it.
They were surprised not only because the golden giant was perfectly fine, but because of what they saw floating in the chest of the golden giant, a pair of large yellow chain links which were injecting yang energy into the giant, making the nearby ice melt away.
But that wasn't all, on the left side of the chest there was a couple of blue spheres floating, and the arm that earlier easily blocked the attack of the Liger, was now covered in blue flames.
Besides that, they saw the black-haired youth standing in front of the yang chain links, while a blue haired was floating in front of the blue spheres.
The Liger put on a wary expression as it growled at the golden giant, the feeling that it received from it, was similar to the formation that has been keeping it trapped for countless years.
"That was a nice block, Aria", said Aster to the ice princess who was floating next to him, this was the preparation he and Eris made, as they knew the Liger wouldn't be easy to defeat.
A mini version of the Stellar Yin-Yang Cycle Array, Eris managed to understand how it worked and then implemented a simplified version, with the yang chain links they obtained and the cores of the two Law Integration spirit beasts, and now Aster and Aria were working as the third nodes of the formation!
"Let's go", with Aster's order, the giant armor charged towards the Liger who feeling the provocation roared as it released more ice spirit energy into the atmosphere, creating a huge blizzard, and a giant piece of ice that fell upon the golden giant, this was the Liger trying to crush its enemy in a single move since it felt the danger coming from its enemy.
But to the surprise of the giant Liger, a huge black vortex appeared behind the golden giant and the blizzard was devoured by it, then right arm of the armor moved towards the giant block of ice, and a silver-golden spear appeared in its hand and then pierced the block of ice breaking it into little ice shards that were absorbed by the black vortex.
"Bad cat, with me here you can forget about using any energy attacks~", Felicia's voice came from the left arm which was cladded in blue flames as it was been enhanced with yin energy.
"Leave the physical attacks to me, Aster", on the right arm Camila was doing her best to maintain the strongest spear she could made as of current.
Aster smiled at those two.
'It's not bad for the first try, though it's consuming my soul energy like crazy to keep everything synchronized, the armor is easily resisting both yin and yang radiances', thought Aster.
After that fight with Rox in which he used the many swords, he created to wield with the hand of the golden armor, he got an even crazier idea, will I be able to wield Camila's spear, or what about Felicia's strange darkness, he managed to inject annihilation into the armor changing its nature, so he knew it wasn't impossible.
But just he alone couldn't keep up with the energy cost of doing something like this at least for the time being, that's where the formation used by the Yin Azure Palace in this place came in handy.
That's why he told Aria it will be her time to shine, because there was a need for a yin node, and only Aria could fulfill that role since she handled yin energy better than any of the other girls due to her body constitution.