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The tall Dokkaebi woman nodded, smiling. She seemed rather pleased with what she saw; Anna's Egos were pretty strong, and their cooperation with Yu was magnificent. For a being such as herself, who had already got bored with life, this was entertaining. She just wished there was some good snack to go with it.
[The Cosmic Throne {The Wanderer of the Forgotten World} is rather pleased by what she saw.]
[She likes flashy new moves she had never seen before the most!]
[In her eternal boredom, this was the first thing that made her slightly excited.]
[The Constellation has sponsored you 10.000 Plot Points.]
The Egos glanced at the system message, surprised by what she had done. She hadn't even moved a hand or something at all, yet she somehow sponsored Plot Points out of nowhere.
"Just as I thought, Plot Points are indeed whatever energy or power a Constellation has, which they turn into currency," Transcendence said.
"Indeed, well, we did see a bit of how it was done through the snake's memories," Yang said.
"How dumb can you be to not realize how Plot Points are even created?!" Uroboros barked at them.
"Yeah, this sponsoring thing is pretty funny! It wasn't there before I went to sleep," said the Dokkaebi woman, her aura rapidly going back to her body; her presence felt like that of an average Immortal. Nobody would be easily capable of even realizing she was a Constellation. "I wonder what other interesting things I could do…"
Yu glared at the woman in disbelief, and as Yang healed her injuries and quickly made her feel better, she quickly asked the Egos what was in her mind.
"Who the hell is that woman, and why are the beasts so huge?! A-Are they ready?!"
RUMBLE!
As she asked, the Primordial Beasts continued growing larger, their power intensifying with each passing second, their Auras rapidly blossoming, quite literally resembling a black and white lotus opening its petals.
"She's helping them assimilate all the power they gained and unleash their untapped potential…" Said Transcendent. "And about who she is? We have little idea. She was down here sealed within these crystals. Yes, these ones, which are incredibly tough. The Primordial Beasts felt drawn to her, freeing her from her crystal prison."
"She's… I think she's a Dokkaebi," said Transcendent. "She holds immense power…"
"W-What?! A Dokkaebi?! No way! They went extinct, right?! S-So how is she…?!" Yu wondered.
The woman then glared at her, as Yu felt a powerful pressure for just a moment.
"My kind might have gone extinct in your eyes, but I was alive, so in fact, we never went extinct!" She said with a smile. "Aren't you quite interesting though? You're… a being created from a Fragment of this World's Records? Not even I was able to properly extract a piece; it required immense multi-dimensional capabilities. So how…?"
"T-That's… a Void Ruler took it," said Yu. "The Venerables managed to temporarily fend it off, and among the destruction it caused, this Record Fragment was found by my creator, the Heavenly Empress."
"So the female venerable goes by the title of Heavenly Empress?" wondered the Dokkaebi. "How grandiose of her! Well, these little guys are almost ready. Do you need them, right? Consider this a little payment for the entertainment."
"T-They're almost ready?!" Yu was happy. "T-There's so much I need to ask you to begin with, but there's literally no time! We have to get out of here! The Fishmen and the Mermaid Immortals are already cornered! A few of them… even died."
"I see…" Transcendent gripped her fists. "We can't let any more of them die; let's go! You guys, are you ready?! We have to hurry!"
She called out the Primordial Beasts, whose bodies made of crystals suddenly began to shatter…
Crack, crack…!
Countless cracks spread through their entire bodies as flashes of bright golden, black, and purple light came from each one of them.
FLAAASH!
The Egos and Yu stepped back, feeling the tremendous pressure coming from them, as the entire world seemed to begin to respond to them.
The Constellation smiled, as she felt the world changing…
"It's the beginning of a new Era… Maybe it was indeed Destiny that set me free today so I could witness it with my very eyes.
Crack, crack…!
CRACK!
The Egos panicked, and Yu even more.
"W-Why are they shattering?! What's going on!" She screamed.
"I don't know, but…!" Transcendent muttered.
"They're not dying, that's certain," Yang said.
"T-This power…! If only I could attain it!"
Uroboros was growing greedier, although as one of Anna's Egos, he couldn't do anything suspicious or treacherous, unfortunately. As an aspect of her, he was controlled by her rules and morals.
Crack, crack…!
CRAAASH!
The Primordial Beasts, formerly made of crystals, shattered into pieces. Yu screamed, covering her face, thinking they had died or something.
However…
FLAAASH!
Bright golden and black and purple light emerged from the beasts as they discarded their shells, their crystallized forms being nothing but cocoons.
"T-This is…?!"
"Oh my god!"
"Dammit! I want that power for myself!!!"
Transcendent, Yang, and Uroboros gasped in disbelief at the scene, although the latter did mostly out of jealousy.
"They changed?! They look… more alive than ever before?"
Yu was shocked by what she saw.
The two Primordial Beasts, the Golden Cat and the Black Wolf, changed.
The Cat turned into a full-fledged lioness, covered with glistening golden fur and blue- and gold-colored eyes, resembling small nebulas. Her aura constantly released an endless sea of light, sparkling with white spheres of light that seemed to be constantly spinning around her body.
Meanwhile, the wolf had become even larger and more intimidating, covered completely by pitch-black fur, a sharp and long snout, crimson eyes resembling two moons, and an aura of darkness and the night, with stars shining amidst the darkness.
"A-Amazing!" Yu muttered. "This is so cool! So you weren't just golem things?! You were actual beasts!"
As Yu cried, suddenly, the atmosphere became heavier.
The beasts stepped forward in silence.
And then…
"ROOOAAARRRR!"
They roared in unison, releasing a powerful shockwave that began to shatter the stone above them, disintegrating it into just ashes.
TRUUUM!
The shockwave continued all the way into the surface, as a massive hole was created all the way through, reaching the rocky peak of the mountain, which was right beneath the Mechanical Tree's roots.
BOOOOMM!!
As this happened, the seas shook as the water began rapidly entering the caves. The Dokkaebi woman didn't even move, remaining there as the entire room was flooded.
"I-Is she going to be okay?!" Yu asked, as she watched her simply look at them in silence.
"She'll be fine! She's a Constellation! Don't worry about someone like her!" Yang said. "Come here!"
She grabbed Yu tightly with her arms and swam upwards, Uroboros and Transcendent following them, as they quickly saw the Fishmen and the Mermaids appear from the route they used to enter the caves.
"The robots are chasing us!" The salmon-headed fishman immortal said.
"Are you done with—ah!" The blue-haired immortal mermaid gasped, noticing the two gigantic beasts looking at them.
"Move to the surface through that hole!" Yang said. "Follow us! The beasts will be right behind us!"
The Egos led the Immortals to the surface, as the two Primordial Beasts remained behind them, glaring at the approaching robots with furious eyes.
"GRRHHH…!"
They groaned as they showed their teeth, and then their auras gathered around their bodies, being fired like pure beams of Heavenly Primordial Ki!
TRUUUM!
The two beams converged into a massive spiraling cannon of white and black essence, reaching the army of thousands of machines and blasting them out of existence.
BOOOMMM!!!
The machines disintegrated while the beam reached the ocean's depths, burning and boiling half of the seas, as a large quantity of steam emerged from it.
All while the mountain shook even more, the ceiling began to fall down, the Primordial Beasts quickly turned their backs, rushing through the large hole they made.
However, they suddenly stopped, noticing the woman that helped them awaken their power there, looking at them with a pleased smile.
"Oh, are you worried about me?" She wondered. "Please don't mind me. I'll be fine even if the heavens fall over my body. Go ahead and follow your instincts."
The beasts didn't have the time to spare, quickly rushing to the surface after hearing her words. They caught up with Yu's party and grabbed them with their Auras, healing the injured while doing so.
TRUUUM!
And then, once they emerged out of the hole, the stones crumbled apart, and as the entire mountain trembled, the Mechanical Tree slightly lost its balance; its roots, which seemed unbothered by all, suddenly moved.
They moved like tentacles at that, rapidly beginning to pierce the mountain's stone and reach deeper, slowly trying to regain some stability.
"The Mechanical Tree almost fell!" Muttered Yang.
"If only we could've punched it hard enough…" Yu said.
"I wouldn't recommend that; Song is still inside…" Said Transcendent. "The other parties must be arriving by now!"
"Over there!" One of the Mermaid Immortals called, pointing into the skies with her index finger.
Above the skies, right beneath the clouds, a group formed by this world's Venerables rushed towards the Mechanical Tree, with the Song born from the Records of the world and Fang Shuan as well.
And right behind them, the other party, composed of all the other fighters, advanced steadily, fighting thousands of machines, prioritizing their movement and survival rather than eliminating every machine on their way.
"Looks like things are getting interesting again…"
And a certain Constellation watched from the distance, crossing her arms.
Then, she glanced into the skies, sensing a disturbance within space.
Not many could see them except her, cracks within the dimensional walls of this world.
"So the one that invaded this world while I was asleep is coming back…"
.
.
.
In a distant island, inside of a Mechanical Tree, a girl with short yellow hair and golden eyes glanced into the distance, from the mechanical tree's entrance.
Her eyes gazed into the skies, noticing the explosions and the battle that was raging, the war between the inhabitants of this world and the invaders.
She was also part of such invaders, pacified by her sister, whom she still considered a traitor after everything that happened.
"…"
And yet, why?
Why did she still feel this strange sensation?
This emotion within her made her so frustrated.
"I hate this…"
She had stated she wouldn't go, that she would remain here.
She and her sister were content with that, so that they would remain with their mother and protect her no matter the cost.
And yet…
Why?
Why did she feel so frustrated?
"It seems you're really frustrated, Zero Three."
"…Mother."
She glanced into the blinding lights inside of the mechanical tree; her cold mother, made of wires and metallic parts, glanced at her with her many mechanical eyes.
"I'll be fine. This island is very far away from the epicenter of the battle. You don't need to worry about me."
"…What are you implying?"
"I know you well; I created you. You want to join them, don't you?"
"I have never said such a thing."
"I can tell."
"No, you can't. You cannot read my mind."
"That you're denying this so fervently already shows that you've been thinking about it."
"T-That's not…! Ugh…"
Zero Three hesitated for a moment, as suddenly, someone else appeared by her side.
Someone not made of metal but of digital particles, emerging from her own body.
She looked a lot like her; it was her Digital Twin Sister, Zero Three B.
"Sister…"
"B? What are you…?"
Her twin sister held her hands, looking into her eyes.
"I know you feel frustrated about many things… And I know you don't want to accept reality. But… if we don't do something now, we might regret it for the rest of our lives."
"You…!"
Zero Three was about to say something but hesitated and then said nothing for a few seconds.
She fell silent, thinking.
And then, she slowly stood up, walking towards a corner of the mechanical tree's interior, grabbing a box with her weapons.
"Huh? Sister?"
Her twin sister looked at her confused.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go."
Zero Three made up her mind.
Both twin sisters stepped out of the Mechanical Tree as countless metallic plates merged and assembled together into a huge mecha.
And then, they flew into the skies as quickly as possible.
"Please… Be careful, my daughters."
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