𝗈𝚟𝑳xt.𝗇𝓔t

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RUMBLE!

The jungle moved on its own, as the countless vegetation, stones, earth, and even monsters were all unified as one.

All sharing a connection with a single person, the Goddess that had attained the highest level of Shamanism amongst all Beast-kin.

“I managed to do it, barely in time…” She sighed. “Sorry about that, Tisha…”

She lamented having taken longer than she expected. However, to truly connect with the Jungle, she had to both awaken her “Nature Soul” and also release it and fuse it into the entire Jungle.

A Nature Soul was a special ability that Shamans could develop, helping them form a soul out of the purest essence of nature itself. 

Sometimes they would transform into special familiars, but Pekora walked through a different path with it, deciding to transform it into a Special Divine Ability.

And this Divine Ability was…

“This is the power of my own Power, of the Divine Ability I’ve refined this entire time, Demon!” She roared. “This is the power of [Divine Spiritual Nature Unification]!”

The ability to combine her Nature Soul with her own Divinities, and to use it as a connector to all the Spirits in the entire landscape surrounding her.

This made it possible for her to, quite literally, fuse with all of the entire Jungle!

She had used a similar power before, fusing with Nature Spirits and Vegetation she summoned to become them and temporarily gain some sort of immortality.

This was a similar concept but enhanced and increased even further.

TRUUUM! TRUUUM! TRUUUM! TRUUUM!

Gigantic tendrils of countless plants, stone, earth, ores, and even monsters themselves wrapped around Marchosias gigantic body.

“UURRGGH…! YOU AGAIN?!”

Growing frustrated that mere plants were daring to control him, he quickly attempted to burn it all with his flames.

“No matter how hard you try, my flames can burn everything!”

FLUOOOSH!

His Demonic Flames erupted from his body, burning through everything just as he said!

However, more tendrils appeared, some with the shape of titanic hands, dragon-like heads, and giant claws and spears.

“[Divine Spiritual Nature Unification Arts]: [Spiritual Domain’s Wrath]!”

“What?!”

Marchosias was quickly overwhelmed, attacks hitting him from all places at once! His flames were strong, but against constant attacks imbued with holy spiritual essence, they began to weaken and turn off.

CLASH! CLAASH! CLAAASH! CLAAASSHH!! CRAAASSHH!!

“Tch, so annoying!”

Marchosias kept releasing his flames from his fists, blowing away the attacks and turning it all into ashes, only for more and more to emerge, endlessly!

“This Jungle covers one fourth of the entire continent of Muspelheim.” Pekora smiled. “It’ll take you at least a week to burn through it all, even at the pace you’re going!”

She quickly concentrated her powers even more, her Beast Spirit Aki, imbued her attacks with deadly Spiritual Lightning, while her other two Nature Spirits, her Sunflower Spirit and her Dandelion Spirits merged with the rest of the Jungle.

“[Divine Spiritual Nature Unification]: [Divine Spirit Amplification]!”

Gigantic fists reached Marchosias, blowing him up, down, to the left and the right, his entire body covered on wounds he couldn’t properly regenerate because of the lightning, roots, and spirit energy infecting them.

BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!

“AARRGHH…!” Marchosias screamed in anger, retaliating against the fists with his own and blowing them up into ashes. “BEGONE!”

Explosions of flames spread across the jungles, yet spiritual energy surged endlessly from all the spirits, unifying together with Pekora for the sole purpose of stopping this deadly threat to Nature!

An endless field of Sunflowers popped up from the ground, each one as huge as a hundred meters…

“What?!”

Marchosias was left speechless as he saw over one hundred of these gigantic sunflowers charge spiritual power and Pekora’s divine power and then…

Fire one hundred beams of sunlight at his face!

“This is ridiculous…!”

“I told you not to underestimate plants, didn’t I?”

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

The beams of sunlight exploded on Marchosias one after another, as he did little effort to evade them, and instead tried to block them with his fists.

“RAAAH!”

His fists were incredibly powerful, destroying the beams and making them dissipate on contact… However, each attack he blocked ended burning his fists even more.

The skin was already gone, and the flesh below could be seen, which was also roasting itself alive!

Sunlight Energy was the concentration of the Sun, a gigantic Star created by Yggdrasil itself to illuminate all the Realms.

Naturally, its sole energy was incredibly strong, and when merged with Spirit Energy, it became lethal, even against a tough Demon Lord.

BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!

His attacks hit the sunlight beam, blasting them away while his flesh burned! He grew more furious, as he tried to seek where Pekora could be.

“As long as I kill you this will stop anyways… Where are you?”

FLAAASH!

However, as he sought after her, Rakasha and Tisha stood on his path.

“Do you think you’ll find her when we are right in front of you, fucker?” Asked Tisha angrily. “Ain’t no way I’m letting you touch her!”

“Indeed.” Rakasha agreed.

Both attacked Marchosias with their strongest techniques. Enormous waves of frost essence surged from Tisha’s sword, which had repaired itself on the time it had broken.

SLAASH! SLAASH! SLAASH! 

At the same time, Rakasha’s hammer unleashed utterly destructive, explosive blows of flames, spreading them further around. 

BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!

All while beams of sunlight, spears of wood, and giant dragon jaws made of earth and plants attempted to attack and devour Marchosias.

CRAASH! CRAASH! CRAASH!

“Y-You pathetic Gods… You are nothing but stepping stones for us demons!”

Marchosias started losing his cool, fighting against all incoming attacks with everything he had…

Yet, there was someone else coming along too!

“Hey, fucker!”

A Chinchilla-kin Beast girl surged from the skies, encompassed on an armor of frost feathers, with huge wings and claws, descending towards him and hitting his head with the force of a Mythical Beast Spirit.

“[Frost Phoenix’s Descent]!”

“YOU…?!”

Marchosias was only able to see Yuki kicking his face and making his entire brain tremble while filling his skull with cracks before frost covered the rest of his body.

BAAAAAMMMM!!!

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