Heaven, Earth, Me

Chapter 257: Evelyn's and Sierra's Breakthrough.

Yasenia shook her head and turned, not even caring about the 100,000 Trial Point Monolith anymore. "I think our best bet is the 3750 Trial Points monolith. However…" Yasenia looked at Kali and asked, "Can you beat the fourth-level creature without using [Overgrowth] on the [Golden Crown]?"

Kali didn't answer, correcting Yasenia first. "It is Valeria."

Yasenia tilted her head, "Hm?"

Kali smiled because those cute gestures suited Yasenia unexpectedly well and said. "Her name. The name of the [Golden Crown]. It is Valeria."

Yasenia was slightly surprised at her firm tone, 'Her tone is strange. Why...? Right! It carries affection. Does my little fox like her summon? Then, I should be more respectful of it- Her.'

Yasenia suddenly had a wild thought, 'Would Kali have overcome her fears by herself without me thanks to the [Golden-, no… Thanks to Valeria?' After thinking about it, Yasenia found it quite possible.

'When we first spoke together, Kali was somewhat chatty. She wasn't as timid as later when she began falling in love with me. Maybe she regressed in her condition somewhat after keeping in contact with me. Well, she is much better than we first met at the moment, so I'm very proud of myself and Kali~.'

Yasenia could imagine the beautiful and heartbreaking story of a scarred woman and her summon who got closer as time went by, finally becoming a couple.

The dragoness scrunched her nose slightly. She couldn't help but become slightly jealous of Valeria. It wasn't a fit of bad jealousy, just a little unharmful feeling that disappeared almost as soon as it came. Regardless, her thoughts didn't wander much more since she would never know an answer to that.

Still, since Yasenia understood that her little fox liked Valeria, she wouldn't be rude enough not to call her by her name or address her like a person. Yasenia soon smiled and said, "Sure, then I will call her Valeria. I'm very grateful to her for all her hard work and always being at your side. If you want me to do something for her, don't hesitate to ask me for it, honey."

"Thank you, Yasenia. Without her, I wouldn't be here, so she is someone precious to me." Kali smiled happily under her veil, delighted at Yasenia's words. Her twitching fluffy ears and wagging tail clearly showed her current mood. Yasenia petted her with a gentle smile.

Of course, Yasenia wouldn't ask something as vain as who was more important. It would be unnecessary and bad manners since Yasenia would hint that she saw Valeria as a rival. And Yasenia was not like that.

Valeria was important to Kali, which is all Yasenia needed to know about their relationship.

Then, Kali thought about Yasenia's question and said, "I think we can do it, but the fight would be very close."

Kali's eyes flashed with determination under her veil, and she said, "But I will do it! I won't let Valeria sacrifice herself like that anymore."

Yasenia nodded, reassured at Kali's confidence. She knew Kali wasn't someone to speak empty words, so they decided to enter the challenge again.

However, before entering, Sarah said, "Yasenia. I don't think I can beat this challenge comfortably. I rather do the Queen and King escort mission. Moreover, I will be able to enter the Treasure room if I do that one flawlessly."

Yasenia didn't stop her, "Good luck."

Sarah said, "Umm, I will come back here from time to time. Don't forget about me if you want to leave for another place."

Yasenia nodded and caressed her curly brown hair. "Don't worry, Sarah. We will wait here for five hours if we want to leave. So I recommend you check every four hours. That way, it will be impossible for you to miss us."

Sarah nodded with a relieved smile and went to the other Monolith by herself.

After they saw Sarah disappearing in the crowd, they reentered the Monolith. It went much better than the last time.

Kali, this time, entered the nest with her summons already empowered and sieged the fourth-level creature with various fumes and attacks that didn't need to pierce its hard skin.

When it was weakened, she buffed Valeria with [Nature's blessing] and [Wood Reinforcement], leading to an attrition battle that Kali ended up winning. She didn't win by much, having only twenty percent of energy left and some injuries, but she managed to avoid using [Overgrowth] on Valeria.

Moreover, the vegetation she summoned maintained the integrity of the nest, allowing her to complete it with the extra condition, leading to a flawless result.

Yasenia and Angel also put different strategies into play and beat the fourth-level creature easier than before.

However, unlike what they expected, they didn't appear in the armory again after finishing the challenge.

Yasenia and the others were confused when they appeared outside. Angel asked, "Does it only let us enter once every monolith?"

Yasenia sighed, "Well, it would make sense. Otherwise, the first to be able to enter continuously would take everything. Since these are the hardest five monoliths, let's first make a round in each Monolith and take our chances to enter that place. We should gather the highest amount of treasures we can."

Kali and Angel agreed with her. Although Trial Points were important, the treasures inside could be much more valuable than the Trial Points. For example, the three Transcendence realm items they got before.

During the next three days, Yasenia, Angel, Kali, and also Sarah looked around, spotting a total of four more monoliths with chances to enter the armory. They completed them and gained different objects, none of them increased their attack power, and they were more recipes for pills, weapons, tailoring, cooking, and some formation books.

The Pill recipes Kali took were poison recipes since she already had tons of Medical and alchemy books. The only thing Kali lacked was knowledge and study material of poisons.

Angel was a fanatic of Formation books, so she took another four of them. Yasenia didn't tell her to take a better shield since she still had in mind finding Jaxon and killing him for the Transcendence level Shield, [Heart Of Glass].

Across the three days, they met with different people, demons, and beasts, but they didn't have any big problems besides badmouthing, some arrogant people, and things like that. Nothing worth mentioning. And so, our girls kept grinding and gaining more points.

Of course, it wasn't just our girls that were gaining strength and treasures. However, we will continue to focus on them.

In a hidden place in the Thunder Mountain area, unnaturally thick thunder and lightning rumbled. The strength of the lightning bolts in that place was enough to demolish small hills.

Of course, those bolts of lightning weren't falling there at random. They were striking one blue-haired and purple-eyed woman and a giant white wolf.

The woman's aura suddenly bloated and burst outward, making white lightning crackle around her violently.

The giant wolf was lying on the snow, looking toward the woman with a tranquil gaze. However, there was one difference from her previous self.

She was much bigger than before. Her blue eyes looked more aware and wise, her white fur sleeker and softer, and her aura profound and terrifying. Even when the terrifying lightning hit her, she was unbothered, as if rain was falling on her instead of lightning.

If before, Evelyn was unsure if she could win against the Wolf Queen. Now, Evelyn knew that a single paw strike would be able to injure her badly.

Under the wolf's gaze, Evelyn compressed the energy inside her dantian and pushed the barrier toward the next level. However, she wasn't rushing it; she was waiting for something.

Suddenly, a barrel-thick lightning bolt fell from the sky toward Evelyn. Her purple eyes flashed with lighting as a smirk appeared on her lips.

When the bolt was about to hit her, it slammed against an invisible barrier around Evelyn and shattered in abundant energy particles.

Then, she broke the barrier toward the next level like fragile glass using that extra energy and the energy she had gathered previously. Her eyes closed, and a thundering sound spread around!

*RUMBLE!*

Energy filled Evelyn's meridians and nourished her body and mind at high speeds, increasing her strength, agility, and comprehension ability.

The comprehension increase was less abstract than one may think since, when this quality increased, the cultivator's mind would connect with the energy further, allowing the cultivator to see energy flows, rules, and patterns clearer and easier.

One hour later, Evelyn opened her violet eyes and looked toward the lazily laying Wolf Queen. "Done! I've broken through to the ninth level~. How are you doing with your advancement, Sierra?"

The Wolf Queen, Sierra, said lazily, "I've advanced to the fourth level while you were absorbing the lightning here. I currently am in the low-level Fourth rank, as you call it. Or in the King Rank, as I call it~."

Sierra's mouth arched as she said, "I think you have no chance against me right now."

Evelyn rolled her eyes and snorted, "I didn't even know if I had a chance before! Now that you've advanced a big realm, you can surely slap me to death with one paw. However, don't be too happy since we will have a rematch after I advance to the Unification Realm!"

Sierra laughed and said with gratefulness, "I could advance thanks to you. Thank you, Evelyn."

Evelyn smirked and approached the now two-times bigger wolf. Sierra was eight meters tall, and taking into account her tail, she reached a terrifying fifteen meters in length.

Evelyn looked at her up and down and whistled, "You are a big girl now!"

Sierra lowered her wolf face, which was almost four meters long, and said with a toothy smile, "I can eat you like a snack now."

Evelyn laughed and grabbed one of Sierra's big fangs. "You could eat me in two bites before. Now you can eat two like me in one bite, hahaha."

Sierra gently moved her mouth, freeing her fang from Evelyn's hands. Then, she lowered her snout before Evelyn. Evelyn naturally caressed her as she said, looking into the wolf's blue eyes, "Let's go kill those you want to kill. Although I won't be able to help you a lot, I can support you from behind."

Then, Evelyn's tone became serious as she said, "However, Sierra, I hope that if the situation is not winnable, you choose to run with me. We can try as many times as you want if you are alive, okay?"

Sierra used her big tongue to lick Evelyn once and said, "Don't worry. I don't plan on perishing yet. Although my pack is important, I'm going to leave soon with you, so I just want to save them since I could only grow up into a mature wolf because of them. That way, I could leave my dept with them repaid. Mount on my back."

Evelyn raised an eyebrow, "You don't mind?"

Sierra smiled and pointed at her back with her snout, "I want to carry you up the mountain. Don't delay."

Evelyn laughed and said, "You seem very confident, huh?"

Sierra smirked, "You will see how strong I truly am when we reach there."

Evelyn jumped atop Sierra's head and said, "Let's see it then."

Sierra put strength in her legs, and in the next instant, Evelyn saw the surroundings stretching as Sierra zoomed through the mountain at speeds she wouldn't even be able to follow with her eyes accurately. "WOOHOO!! YOU ARE SO FAST!"

Sierra smirked, and a spark of yellow electricity wrapped around her four legs. Then, her speed literally multiplied, transforming into a white and yellow blur as she zoomed across the mountain.

Evelyn had to grab onto Sierra's white fur to not fall down from her. Her heart was pounding extremely fast as she saw the surroundings blur around her.