Chapter 1683: Yuki's Flaws
"Oh Darling, I am really enjoying this right now! Aren't they just lovely?"
"I sure do love them, brother darling! Their struggle, and their endless strive for justice, how delightful it is to take all of that away from their little and cute faces."
"SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!"
Yuki roared, the skies trembled, her form fusing with her Divine Beast Spirit, the Frost Pheonix. Wings, feathers, all made of ice emerged above her body, she flew towards the two monsters in front of her. Or well, the demons. A pair of them, the twins, two of ten.
"Well, well, don't you have quite the unruly tongue, little girl?"
"Maybe we should give you some disciple!"
The two demons laughed, their bodies made of thin metal of silver and pink color, hearts made of jewels embedded into their bodies, wings of metal let them fly easily and with great dexterity.
Amongst all the demons they've seen so far, these two were certainly quite the bizarre duo, Steel Demons who had carved and strengthened their bodies, born from the burning mountains of hell.
Their bodies were thin yet long and tall, after all, both were a hundred meters tall, yet their fingers and legs were as thin as needles, their heads, resembling helmets with lips made of pink jewels and bright eyes, overflowed with infernal fire.
"Here, has all the disciple you need!"
"Unruly and cute beast girls get a discount of fifty percent!"
"What the fuck are you talking about?!"
Yuki was then smashed down, as a gigantic fist made of pink fire crushed her down, her ice feathers and wings shattering, her spiritual energy burning.
BOOOM!
"Uggh...!"
She almost fell to the ground below, only for a large hand made of plants and wood to catch her in midair, gold and green essence beginning to rapidly heal her wounds.
"Yuki! Don't charge alone, don't be reckless!"
The voice of Pekora echoed behind the beast girl, her majestic, godly figure surging from within the plants as her aura of gold and nature surged endlessly, her divinity had never reached this level before. But thanks to her Soul reaching SSS Rank and her Divinity reaching its 100% potential, she had become completely different than before.
Her Divine Spirits appeared around her, a giant and majestic Divine Sunflower, the Divine Dandelion, and Aki, her Divine Thunder Rabbit Spirit. All three of them surrounded her, having ascended into Divine beings just as their master.
"Fuck! I'm strong already! Why was I smashed like a bitch so easily?!" Yuki roared in frustration. "Hey bird, you said I was the chosen one or whatever! The fragment of a goddess? How did they just fucked me up so easily?! I trained and become so strong!"
"Patience is a virtue, and you do not possess it, my lady," sighed the Frost Phoenix. "Our power takes time to fully develop, even more to master. Yet you're charging recklessly believing you have fully mastered it within just four months."
"But...!" Yuki muttered.
"You're letting the trauma that Marchosias left on us dictate your emotions and actions," suddenly, a tall and muscular, blue-skinned ice elf appeared, her body covered on azure and silver scales. "He was the first Demon General we fought, and an immortal foe just like them. We've grown strong enough to beat them, but not alone. Perhaps Drake and his family could, but it has always been the same as us. To match their power, we must work together, Yuki."
"Do you think this is the time to be talking about this?! They're coming!"
Yuki panicked as she pointed at the sky, the two Steel Demon Twins rushed down, their pink flames suddenly taking the shape of hundreds of hearts.
"Come on now, what's all that gossip you're talking about?"
"Can't we join the fun~?"
The two creeps quickly rushed down, the rain of pink fire hearts rushed down, creating a spinning, swirling storm of infernal flames that could burn through it all.
"Take this!"
"Our love for all of you, little buggies of Yggdrasil!"
"BE CRUSHED!" they roared together, their delicate voices suddenly becoming manlier.
BOOOMMM!!!
The explosion reached the trio, flames consumed everything. Yuki felt frustrated, was this going to be the same as before? Were all of them going to get burned to almost death by someone much stronger than them?
They weren't just fighting a single demon with the power level of Marchosias, but two now, and even stronger than him, actually!
"Fuck...! Dammit!"
However, as Yuki lamented, the cold encompassed her, Tisha remained in front of her. The Ice Elf's Divinity expanding as it generated dozens of blades made of ice and divinity, spinning around and slashing through the pink flames.
"{Divine Frost Blade Domain}"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
The frost blades not only seamlessly cut through the storm of flames until it was no more, but it also kept firing blades at the demons, the twins tried to not evade at first, but were quickly pierced by several swords, their bodies beginning to cool down, their internal flames becoming smaller.
"Eek! No! Don't take those swords, darling brother!"
"They're bad news, for sure!"
The demons quickly leaped away and took out the blades from their metallic bodies, but the wounds were frozen, taking longer to regenerate.
"Woah, Tisha you're so strong! Not fair... I was supposed to be the chosen one here!" Yuki kept whining. "Stop whining, you have plenty of power, employ it correctly. Combine it, strengthen it, divide it, prioritize certain body parts, move," Tisha said. "Fighting is an art, you must attune yourself to your artistic self, to your imagination and creativity."
"Like... an art?" Yuki wondered, quickly remembering the teachings of the two Venerables.
Their words...
"You're too pesky and annoying, you should work on your personality, little lady," the vixen often said. "Your soul... it clearly shows that you're always scared, actually. That personality is a shell, isn't it? But it won't protect you, it will one day become your doom."
"Your divinity wavers the more you overthink things," said the ice queen. "Yuki, was it? You must concentrate in what lies within your inner self, the core of your very being. Do not let unnecessary thoughts cloud your judgement. Concentrate in what makes you what you are, don't worry about anything else."
They were slightly cryptic at times, but after hearing Tisha...
Yuki kind of understood a bit more what they meant.
"Don't overthink it..."