Chapter 1001: Dagger Storm

The Azure Quetzalcoatl had a good time fighting the strongest Divine. It received a decent power-up from Pesol, who had applied a Soultrait called Guardian Spirit. It wasn't a high-ranked Soultrait Symbol, but it was powerful nonetheless. Guardian Spirit could only used on other targets if they protected the User from stronger enemies. Since that was exactly what happened - the Divines attempted a few more times to catch up to Pesolt and kill him - the Azure Quetzalcoatl's power increased. Guardian Spirit increased the target's power by a significant portion of the difference in power between the User and the predator trying to kill the User. The Azure Quetzalcoatl, which was already stronger than the strongest Divine, was thus even stronger and had an easy time burning the Divine. The Divine retaliated with her Soultrait and expanded in size, which also increased her strength.

Unfortunately, growing in size didn't help her. If anything, it made everything more difficult for her. It was easier to hit her with the mythical flames and bash her with the Azure Quetzalcoatl's tail.

At some point, the Azure Quetzalcoatl caught the Divine with its massive tail. The tail would have missed a smaller version of the Divine, but since she didn't terminate her growth Soultrait, it turned out to be rather easy to restrain her.

The Azure Quetzalcoatl didn't do much. It squashed the Divine and released its strongest mythical flames for more than ten minutes with no distance between the flames and the Divine's head.

The woman tried to escape but her strength dropped rapidly as the Three-eyed Crow, another Divine Beast of the Untamed Jungle, used it innate powers to cast a curse upon her. The curse wasn't permanent and the Divine tried blocking it, but the Three-eyed Crow focused on the Divine after two Divines died. The third Divine was already on the verge of death too, leaving only one fully-functioning Divine to kill. The female Divine would soon, and the Silverfang siblings teamed up - unwillingly - to kill the last unscathed enemy. The Titan Black Bear joined the brawl, but his help wasn't needed. The siblings went above and beyond to land the finishing blow on the last enemy. They didn't even take the danger of sustaining injuries or dying to the Divine Lifeform into account and released one mighty attack after another.

Still, at the end of the day, neither of the Silverfang siblings killed the Divine. The Titan Black Bear squashed the Divine to death when the siblings started interrupting each other. The Titan Black Bear couldn't be any less bothered about their attitude, but it was happy to be the one killing most Divine Lifeforms. Lucia would treat it to some snacks. Hopefully, some of the tasty syrup-honey mixture produced in the Primordial Tree Spirit.

The Titan Black Bear roared at the top of his lungs at the thought, which resulted in a commotion as the Astral Space Cage collapsed. The Divine woman died to the Azure Quetzalcoatl's flames, her head burned to a cinder. She had incredibly high regeneration powers but was still unable to escape the terrors of the Azure Quetzalcoatl.

As the Astral Space Cage crumbled due to the lack of enemies, everyone was pulled back to the border settlement. Tiara was out of energy and even Caesus was having a hard time standing at this point. Their last bout with the final Divine Lifeform had drained their energy entirely. Fortunately, neither Tiara nor Caesus had to keep fighting. They could retreat, recover, and come back if the Fae Union was still alive once they were back at peak condition.

The siblings looked at each other and cursed quietly, but a massive, brilliant streak of light smashing heavily into the border settlement interrupted their quarrel. The brilliant streak of light was no other than Daniel Fang unleashing a fury through Sword God. Instead of accepting other Soultrait Symbols like most Super Awakened, Daniel chose to go down a different path. He focused on studying Sword God and investing as many SoulStar Fragments as he earned into the Soultrait Symbol. The 10th Star of Sword God had not yet been created but the first snippets of it had already been formed.

Daniel Fang learned a lot every single time he invested SoulStar Fragments into Sword God. Having only one Soultrait might destroy the possibility of learning dozens of combat techniques with a wide variety of powers, but it also helped him become the best in the things he was good at.

And Danny was definitely the greatest with blades.

Daniel Fang was in the midst of a large mass of enemies. The enemies tried to crush him with their numbers, stampeding him to death. But that wasn't going to happen. Danny manifested a set of ten small daggers using Sword God. He used his mastery of the blades and conjured a small typhoon of daggers around him. Daggers consumed less energy than Sword to conjure, but it was more important to note that they were easier to link and control. Daniel connected the daggers and transformed them into a rapidly rotating circle that rotated around him. He conjured another batch of ten daggers and did the same. The only difference was that the daggers' blades were a little bit longer this time. The second circle of daggers revolved around Daniel, but it wasn't the last. It was the second of many.

Daniel sacrificed half of the energy inside the Energy Pillar to create a dozen dagger circles, the blades longer with every new circle. Then he set off, approaching the enemy masses.

Some Awakened tried mental attacks, while others unleashed Soultraits capable of harming the soul. However, none of them did considerable damage. Daniel's mental fortitude blocked the mental attacks as a 6th Tier Awakened with perfectly refined and the Fragments of a Divine Shell, while soul attacks were endured with little to no damage.

The soul attacks affected him a little, but the pain was bearable, Danny's soul was stronger than the norm. Even Divine Lifeforms might not have a soul as large and strong as Danny. After all, he was a Perfect Entity, created with an enlarged Soul, awakened a 9-Star Soultrait, and 'born' without a single trace of impurities left in his body.

Daniel's rebirth was far from the norm. It was unique, and the result was apparent. He was unscathed even after several Awakened attacked his soul with their strongest attacks and blocked only some mental attacks to retain his concentration for the Dagger Typhoon.

Since all Divine Lifeforms had been killed by the Divine Beasts, the Guardian Beast, and the Silverfang Siblings, Daniel had an easy time fighting the rest. Initially, he told the others how he was going to conquer a border settlement on his own, but nobody accepted his proposal. Hiraku, Frederik, and others told him that they weren't invincible and that it was unnecessary to challenge their fate.

The siblings looked at each other and cursed quietly, but a massive, brilliant streak of light smashing heavily into the border settlement interrupted their quarrel. The brilliant streak of light was no other than Daniel Fang unleashing a fury through Sword God. Instead of accepting other Soultrait Symbols like most Super Awakened, Daniel chose to go down a different path. He focused on studying Sword God and investing as many SoulStar Fragments as he earned into the Soultrait Symbol. The 10th Star of Sword God had not yet been created but the first snippets of it had already been formed.

As a Fateless individual, Danny found that comment quite funny. Still, he acknowledged how unnecessary it was to attack a border settlement alone.

They had enough powerhouses to fight by their side.

Still, Daniel was having a fun time unleashing Sword God against fellow Higher Lifeforms.