Cosmic Peak

Aren and Reto were fighting against a bunch of terrifying beasts like silver wing wolves, Demon Fire Foxes, and other such powerful beasts.

Well, Reto was the one doing fighting as he was using two offensive blessings at the same time. One of them was summoning ifrit, and another one was him having dark orange wings with two long and sharp dark orange swords and armor on him.

On the other hand, a holy Angel was floating on top of Aren. The Angel conjured defensive, crystalized big golden flowers everywhere and saved Aren and Reto from the monsters' attacks.

Aren also gained white wings, but they were not as fast as Reto's wings. The wings only provided a passive defense to him that scaled of his constitution, but since his constitution was low compared to Reto and against these monsters, it was not of much use.

The fight just started five seconds ago when the monsters started attacking Aren and Reto instantly, and both of them used their blessings hurridly.

Meanwhile, Kozark and Lamila were looking at Lorain, Luna, Quinn, and Hemila, and both groups were having....staring contest.

'Why are they not watching the fight?' Kozark thought.

'Why are they staring at us?' Lamila thought with a frown.

Lorain, Luna, Quinn, and Hemila wanted to find a chance to sneak attack just like Kozark and Lamila, but...both of them were staring at each other.

Lorain and others were getting nervous while Lamila was feeling suspicious.

Suddenly, she realized something as sweat appeared on her forehead but...she didn't hesitate and directly used a wide area skill <Crescent Moon Slash>

A wide slash four meters long with a crescent shape released towards Lorain, Luna, Quinn, and Hemila.

The slash was fast, and although Lorain and others saw it, they were not fast enough to dodge it.

In a panic, All of them activated their blessings as it only requires a thought. Luna was the first one and with her defensive blessings, a beautiful and mystical whale with dark patterns on its blue body appeared on top of her.

Naturally, with the appearance of a whale, a whirlpool materialized in front of Luna, which absorbed the slash by forcefully bending it.

Kozark and Lamila were not slow as they also activated their blessings.

Lamila used both of her blessings, one of them was defensive, while the other one was offensive and started attacking. On the other hand, Kozark's blessing was balanced as he was covered in full green dragon armor with a large and thick dragon tail, wings, and a mighty spear.

Meanwhile, Aren was cursing Reto because he lied about this challenge.

The monster's attacks were intense, and Aren also had to use an offensive blessing to attack them. The blessing that Aren activated was Umbra Thunder Cloud because it was good against multiple enemies.

"Bastard! You-" Reto was also angry as he looked at his group that was fighting against Aren's group.

But both of them were busy killing and defending against the monsters.

Aren didn't want to protect Reto, but this damn Angel's effect 3 provided automatic universal defense, and he couldn't control it.

Reto was skilled, and he rarely needed defense because of his wings as he dodged attacks, but he was too busy fighting the horde.

While Aren and Reto were busy against the horde...Lorain and Quinn were in full-on offense mode as they attacked Lamila and Kozark.

"Die!" Quinn flew with her razor-sharp metal wings and futuristic laser pistols in both her hands as she attacked Lamila. At the same time, Lamila fought back with a book in her hand that summoned chaotic elemental flying beasts that aggressively attacked Quinn.

Lamila internally frowned, 'Little girl! You can't even properly fly, humph. Your senses can't keep up with this high level of power. But these damn element beasts can't keep up with your wing's speed. Whatever...I just need to hold back for one minute for their blessings to run out of time; then I can kill them easily.'

Naturally, she was also using her skills to attack others, but Luna's defensive whirlpools were absorbing all attacks.

Kozark was hell-bent on attacking Luna to kill her because of her defensive blessing while Lorain was attacking Kozark. Still, because Lorain's blessing required complete control of her, she had a hard time aiming at Kozark, who was flying fast with the dragon-humanoid transformation of his offensive blessing.

Lorain's blessing was full offense, but her blessing provided her with Demonic plant artilleries that require her command and input to attack and aim and use skills. It was overwhelming for her.

In the first place, these blessings were not here to fight against each other but to fight monsters in this hidden dungeon. So mismatch was expected, and Lamila and Kozark were more experienced and were also using their powerful personal strength.

"Quinn! Be careful! My whirlpools can't keep up with your speed! If one of that bitchs' attack hit you, you will be in trouble."

Quinn knew that, but she was having a bit hard time controlling herself in this blessing.

Hemila couldn't do anything because her blessing was mostly automatic. First, she provided buffs to four of them, and second, she could target others and empower them of various kinds like increased speed, agility, increased health recovery, etc.

Thirty seconds passed, as both groups were still in a stalemate.

"We have to kill them before our blessings' time runs out!" Lorain said as she was beginning to learn the control of her blessing.

"Aaaaaaaaaaa....," Quinn loudly screamed as her entire left hand was burned to a crisp and destroyed along with a small part of her belly.

She fell to the ground rapidly ahead, where Aren and Reto were fighting.

'Got you!' Lamila sneered as she hurridly told her summons to follow Quinn to kill her.

"Argh....." Kozark shouted as his left leg was injured because Lorain managed to aim one of her skills of the demonic plant artillery at him.

Lorain frowned and aimed another time, 'That dragon armor is a bit tough, but his head only has a crown; I need to aim at his head.'

But Hemila panicked seeing her daughter's state and rushed forward to get into the range to use her health recovery empowerment on her.

"Wait, auntie!" Luna shouted because Kozark decided to aim for rushing Hemila.

"Die!" Kozark shouted as he flew rapidly with a sonic boom, his spear aimed at Hemila's neck.

Luna gritted her teeth, 'I have no choice.'

She used the one-time skill of her blessing, which provided an absolute defense to one person by covering them in a mystic water bubble.

The flying whale cried as a bubble appeared around Hemila that blocked Kozark's attack.

"FUCK!" Kozark cursed but soon; he realized something.

"FOOL! DODGE!" Lamila shouted on top of her lungs. But...it was too late.

*BOOOOOM....*

A dark green spike shot forward with the circular glowing wood pattern on it and hit Kozark's head before....blasting it apart.

Lorain's body trembled as tears appeared in her eyes, 'This...When didn't I think of her?' The reason for this behavior was because...when Kozark was going for Hemila, the only thing in her mind was to kill Kozark when he...reaches near Hemila.

That's how she aimed her predicted attack. But she realized that when Hemila was in danger, she didn't think about her at all.

"Auntie Lorain, attack!" Luna shouted as she continued to conjure whirlpools and provide defense against Lamila's attack.

Lorain took a deep breath before she focused on battle.

Aren noticed Quinn injured and flying towards monster attacks like a rocket and gritted his teeth as he flew towards her.

Those other monsters from the portal also followed behind him, but he got an idea to deal with them and save Quinn at the same time.

Fortunately, the blessing of angle provided him with white pair of wings to fly.

The silver wing wolves flew after him while other monsters chased him through the ground. Naturally, they were bombarded to death by dark umbra cloud as well, and Aren was releasing his <Wind Slash> and using his chakrams to attack them while flying towards Quinn.

Because of the Umbra Thunder Cloud, his attacks were powerful enough to injure the monster and kill them with three-four attacks. But unlike Aren, Reto was killing them with one shot.

As he neared Quinn, he grabbed her and flew straight into the horde of elemental beasts that were chasing after Quinn.

The monsters from the portal were brainless, one could say, as they indiscriminately attacked whoever was close to them. So, when they encountered elemental beasts who were part of the blessing while chasing Aren, the monsters started attacking the elements beasts as well and the fight between started with them killing each other.

Aren then made the turn as he flew towards incoming Hemila, who hurriedly used her empowerment heath recovery on fainted Quinn.

'Fifteen seconds to twenty seconds until everyone's blessings disappear,' Aren thought as he hurriedly looked around him to assess the situation.

Looking at Lamila, who was defending and attacked against Luna and his mother, he frowned.

'Only mom can attack but she can't take down Lamila since she is focusing on keeping herself alive for now. Hmm...I need to finish her off while Reto is busy,' Aren thought with a frown,' It looks like I have no choice but to use one more blessing as well.'

But after that, he will still have two more blessings left while Reto will have one.

'No! Reto is more dangerous...screw it, I can't waste time. Only twelve seconds to fifteen seconds left,' Aren thought as he turned around and used his pure offensive blessing while looking at Reto, who was nimbly fighting against monsters coming out from the portal and killing them with one shot with his two offensive blessings combined with his Bluefire and his path skills related to it.

[ Longinus Spear of Mugen Death ]

Three golden spears appeared around Aren as he directly aimed one at Reto.

*Swoooooosh...*

The spear flew towards Reto at breakneck speed as it broke the sound barrier easily.

Reto sensed danger and hurriedly tried to dodge.

*Crrrrrrrrach..*

Reto barely dodged, but one of his silver wings was destroyed.

But...A bright burning Bluefire wing appeared as it took the place of the destroyed silver wing and continued dodging the attacks of seven powerful monsters around him that looked like the last bosses from the portals.

Reto cranked his neck towards Aren, who threw another spear at him and said malevolently, "BRAT! You think you could kill me with blessings?!"

When he saw the incoming spear, he grinned and hit himself by a whirling Darkwind blast from a chimera monster.

A trail of blood left his mouth, but he dodged the spear due to that and hurriedly took out a glowing red-green potion bottle and drank it, 'Fucking hell! If not for my silver wing's blessings slight defensive properties, I would've been dead by that chimera attack.'

*BOOM BOOM....*

The Ifrit he summoned blasted that chimera to death after it was done charging with a powerful attack on the command of Reto.

Aren frowned as he made a decision and turned around before throwing his last spear towards Lamila, who was busy defending against his mother's demonic plants artillery strikes, and Quinn, who started attacking her three seconds ago after regaining her consciousness.

Her left hand was still gone, but she was determined and started attacking without wasting time. Her mother also supported her with the empowerment of attack increase.

Lamila was not expecting a spear strike from Aren and didn't notice until she...was killed.

But two seconds after that, Lorain and others lost their blessings and Reto as well, but...

There were no monsters around Reto. The challenge was...completed. A golden light shone on Reto as he looked at Aren coldly.

Aren still didn't know that the golden light represented blessing. So...Reto actually still had two more blessings like Aren.

One more golden spear appeared at Aren's side since he managed to kill Lamila with it.

That was the effect of this blessing. If you kill a monster or something with the spear, It will not be consumed and appear by his side again. The only note was that this spear will not work on dungeon bosses and won't kill them with one shot like other monsters.

'I have to kill him in forty seconds. The only chance is likely the spear since it can ignore defense and one-shot kill. Reto is not a boss of this dungeon, so he will die with one shot.' Aren thought he used Sunfire Burst blessing and Aurora Fish blessing both. Aurora Fish was a supportive blessing.

This way, He used all of his blessings.

Reto also didn't hold back and used both of his blessings. One of them was offensive, and the other one was supportive, just like Aren's Sunfire burst and Aurora Fish.

'Damn brat! Since you ruined my plans, then prepare to taste despair!' Reto cursed as he dashed towards Aren as Bluefire wings appeared behind his back since his silver wings disappeared.