A Cultivation Tale: The Godly Punisher

Chapter 173: Hordes of beasts I

Raagh!

Nojraagon roared.

Alex nodded his head.

Then Nojraagon flew into the air and started to move above him in circles.

Just as he was about to move out of the village and go search for beasts for Nojraagon to feed on, he suddenly heard low growls of beasts in the far distance. He could hear this sound because of his powerful hearing. If it was any other person, they wouldn't detect the roars. Also, from the seismic vibrations that he perceived from the earth, he was able to deduce that a large number of massive beasts were heading towards the village. 

Then to know what they were up against, he willed his eyes to see into the far distance. Abstruse symbols appeared on the white surface of his eyes and produced a near-interstellar gazing power that gave Alex a form of telescopic vision. Very quickly, at that far distance, he saw colossal amounts of wingless and winged beasts dashing and flying towards them. The beasts were massive in size as they ranged from thirty to forty feet. Judging from their sizes, Alex could say that the beasts were earth-rank and sky-rank beasts which were equal to the Earth Adept cultivation stage and Sky Lord cultivation stage, but are far more stronger because of their monstrous sizes and tough hides. 

Then he looked at the unknowing villagers in the distance and thought of what next to do. This was because if the beasts successfully raided the village, the villagers would be entirely swallowed or bitten to bits. This was something that he couldn't allow to happen.

Then switching off the far-seeing ability of the star-gazing eyes, he dashed to the hut Olivia was to inform her about what he saw.

"Olivia, we need to take the farmers away from here. I saw a great number of beasts heading towards here. It would be a massacre if the beasts succeed in raiding this village. We need to act fast or everyone of them would be slain." Alex said hurriedly.

Olivia's body shook and her mind roiled because of what Alex said.

"Beasts?!! Are you sure about that, Alex?" She asked in a deeply perplexed and urgent tone.

Although she couldn't hear the roars of the beasts he mentioned about, but she was sure Alex wouldn't be kidding her. 

"Yes." Alex replied with a sense of certainty in his tone.

"Alright. But they are mortals. How would we be able to evacuate them that fast? The beasts would definitely catch up with us before we can even move a bit away from the village" Olivia asked in a worried tone.

"I can do something about that. What I want you to do is to gather everyone of them for me so I could do what I want to do next" Alex said.

Olivia looked at him intently and nodded her head.

Then when she left her hut and arrived at the village's square, she called upon the villagers who quickly shot out of their rooms with worry and fear now radiating from their eyes. They assembled before her at the village's square ground and waited patiently to listen to what she, whom they had now taken refuge in had to say.

Olivia looked around and didn't see Nailah. She guessed that she didn't leave the large, central hut she lived in.

So focusing on the mortals gathered in front of her, she said "Those guys who are after Nailah have come again. But this time around, they have sent huge beasts that can wipe all of us out at once. So I would advise that we all leave here at once to escape from the hordes of furious beasts heading our way. But it is impossible for all of us to move very far without them catching up with us." 

Now looking at Alex, she continued "However, my good friend here has proffered a solution to this. With his help, we wouldn't be caught up by the hordes of beasts heading towards our village right now"

Alex then came forward to stand by the side of Olivia and said "Hello everyone, this is how I would be able to help you. I have a shelter-purpose treasure that can accommodate all of you. So I would move you all from here into the rooms in this treasure. You would feel a strange kind of force envelop you, don't try to resist it. It's only through this means that you all can survive the beast horde attack." Alex said with a building-like treasure in his hand. 

Then upon activation after sending a sliver of his perception into it, a spatial layer movement force erupted from the treasure in his hand and engulfed everyone of the villagers. And with a brilliant glow of resplendent light, they all vanished from where they were, appearing in one of the many vast-spaced rooms in the shelter-purpose treasure.

When Alex did this, Olivia looked at him with astonishment in her eyes. She wondered where he got such a treasure from. Such kind of apartment-treasures could only be found in Greatverses and Oververses.

"Alright. It has been done, Olivia. They are safe within the treasure in my hand." Alex said as the shelter-purpose treasure vanished from his hand and appeared in his mom's spatial ring.

"I know right" Olivia said looking at Alex with a smile.

ROAR!!... 

Not long, the hordes of beasts which had now appeared far in front of them bellowed furiously to the sky like it was their enemy. 

"Olivia, I would go get Nailah" Alex quickly said. 

Olivia nodded as she prepared herself for the upcoming battle. However, she wondered how Alex was able to perceive the movement of the large horde of beasts. 

Alex dashed to the central hut to keep Nailah away in the same room he put the rest of the villagers in. Then when he returned to Olivia's side, the actual forms of the winged and wingless beasts in the distance could now be vividly made out. 

Seeing the shocking amounts of beasts heading their way as they dotted the sky as they flew and raised a massive cloud of dust as they ran, Olivia's eyes and Alex's eyes began to radiate battle intents. And so that their battles wouldn't cause damage to the village, Alex and Olivia, as if they had the same thinking, dashed towards the beasts at that distance.

Olivia's eyes turned orange, same with her hair which now seemed like it was burning. A red octahedral crystal materialized at the center of her forehead, then a pair of huge, flaming orange wings sprouted from her back. She had activated her 'Great Infernobringer Firecloud physique'. 

Then she took very high into the air using the winged flight ability of her physique and produced her sword, the Nine Skies Burning sword.

Alex saw this and wished he could fly. He thirsted for that kind of ability. He wondered when he would be able to reach the stage where he would be able to fly. Although he could actually fly using the saint-tier physiques, it was extremely taxing to do so. 

Paying attention to what was raging towards him, he channelled strengthforce energy to his leg muscles. When they became permeated with the strength-augmenting realm-energy, his muscles became like gilded metal as they started give a golden lustre. Then with a jump, he leaped very high into the air, about sixty feet towards the winged beasts. And while airborne, he produced a peerless-grade, earth rank-armor that appeared on his body to protect him.

Olivia shook upon witnessing the feat that Alex just performed. Her mind couldn't help but reel in astonishment. It was totally impossible for someone even at the earth adept stage to jump this high, talk less of someone at the condensation stage. She wondered how he was able to do that. 

But she wouldn't know that Alex's strengthforce energy contained another form of energy, a primordial realm-energy which greatly amplified it inherent power of strength and might, and when infused into his muscles, they give him the strength of a body cultivator whose body-cultivation rank was equal to the peak-phase, heaven adept stage cultivation rank.

"Nine Origins Dragon Twirling Annihilation Inferno" She said. 

Aiming her palms at the the winged beasts that were flying fast towards her in a frenzy, pyroforce energy gushed out from them in great amounts and transformed into nine massive, orange-colored fire cyclones. It was hundreds of feet tall and mystifyingly swirled in the air. Also, roars of dragons could be heard from the whirlpools and the shadow of a nine-neaded dragon could be seen around the nine fire cyclones. This battle technique was an extremely profound, fire-element battle technique. 

The instant the colossal, swirling cyclones of exceedingly-hot orange fire appeared, they produced a strong pulling force that tried to pull everything towards their centers. 

The winged beasts which were sky-rank beasts were pulled by the forces produced by the massive, fire cyclones. They tried hard to resist the strong attractive forces created by the rotational momentums of the cyclones, but the cyclones then gained in speed and strength and pulled everything around them towards their center like a black hole. The beasts upon reaching close proximities of the super-hot fiery cyclones, roared in pain as their tough hides caught on fire and rapidly burnt to the bone and then to ashes after entering the hearts of the cyclones. 

Then Olivia who was still in her powerful form had one of her eyes change from orange to violet. Also, half of her orange hair turned violet.

"Darkness-Chasing Profound Violet Fiery Burst" Olivia uttered within. 

As soon as she deployed the technique, an enormous, violet-orange fiery aura blasted out out from her body. It was great in size as it spanned hundreds of meters wide and long, and emanated a great, gold-vaporizing heat. She simply became like the sun because of this technique as she dyed the earth below in the double colors of her dazzling, extremely scorching and burning aura. And because of the vast-degree temperature emanating from her fearsome blazing aura, the beasts around her and for hundreds of meters away were instantly burnt to cinders.