Epic Of Caterpillar

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The Slime Family desperately rushed towards Wall as they were quickly protected by her enormous and defensive body, the Gale Bird Emperor looked at them hatefully as he felt like they were cowards… However, a second after, a smile emerged on his beak, as he looked at the slimes with his eyes shining red.

"Don't you feel like something is missing?" He asked ruthlessly, the Slime Family suddenly realized something big! They checked the interior of their souls, and then the Origin Core, and the various fragments of Dao they had… many of them were missing across all of the members of the family… Although not all of them were gone as each one had like a dozen they got from Kireina and everybody sharing fragments, at least a dozen spread across all of them were simply gone!

"W-What did you do?!"

"He stole… our Dao Fragments…"

"No way, how?!"

"That's something only Kireina-sama could accomplish! What sort of petty trick did you use?"

"I didn't even felt it…"

The Gale Bird Emperor smiled for a bit before turning dead serious once more, his hatred, resentment, and drive to avenge his family didn't allowed him to go laughing around like a cocky idiot, this was not the time for that. However, for shock factor on his enemies to catch them more off-guard, he showed them off his fragments, the ones he stole from them, various of several colors, some very important ones too!

"T-That's…! You stole my Dao of Summoning Fragment!" Cried Luminous, shocked about what had happened.

"Say what?!" Cried Milim. "Luminous, how can you be so dummy to lose that one?!"

"S-Sorry!" Cried Luminous.

The Dao Fragments of the Dao of Summoning were powerful, they had the ability to summon a single Maxima Beast into battle. The Slimes present here had yet to summon their Maxima Summons for a reason, it was because they lacked comprehension in the Summoning Dao.

This happened before as well, the original wielder of this fragment which Kireina acquired, Ova, was unable to utilize the fragment completely as she lacked the full comprehension for the fragment effect to work, but that was resolved when Kireina acquired the fragment and her own comprehension over the Dao, forged after summoning many beings through her short life, gave her the power to summon Bubu into battle.

But this wasn't the truth for the rest, although she had shared the comprehended fragment to some, the rest acquired a fragment similar to the original that Ova had acquired, so they had to comprehend it and manage to get the Maxima Summon by themselves! Most of Kireina's family accomplished it but some of the others had a harder difficulty, Kireina was unable to transfer comprehension of Daos unlike Laws, and was unable to help the others, so she had to let them comprehend it at their own pace.

Because of this, many ended with a Dao Fragment but without an actual Maxima Summon… This included Wall and Guubo as well… Sadly, all of them were unable to acquire a Maxima Summon due to this reason. And because of this, they weren't able to enjoy the power of one to aid them in battle, which had made them struggle against the Gale Bird Emperor, although even if they had one, they would still struggle, he was incredibly powerful.

The Gale Bird Emperor quickly absorbed the fragments into his Origin Core, without revealing how he was able to steal them. However, Kireina saw it from afar, and quickly realized what it was. If it wasn't because she was so busy summoning Undead, handling the rest of the battlefield, all while creating a massive formation inside her divine realm to do "THAT", she would had been able to tell beforehand, but now she realized it and was not able to help the slimes yet…

"To think that this Dao of Tenebrosity has such a wicked effect… How come this Dao is so powerful? Who made it?!" She wondered. What had happened was all due to the Dao of Tenebrosity, it somehow granted the Gale Bird Emperor the power of stealing random Dao Fragments from targets which he was able to touch their Origin Cores inside their souls through his attacks! He surprised them greatly, and even Kireina was able to realize his amazing power.

Then she looked at the other Emperors that were slowly spreading across the battlefield, could they also have the Dao of Tenebrosity?! If they did, then things would become even more dangerous… If everybody began losing their Dao Fragments, more of the Fragments of the Dao of Summoning or even the Dao of Path Jewels and more could get stolen, which were Kireina's creations! If anybody were to get them then… it would be dangerous, as it could help Hel figure out her new powers she had been hiding this entire time, and even figure out the truth behind her weird powers as they were from her path jewels, or her weapons through the egos…!

However, Kireina could only watch, she was maintaining the entire vessel alongside the other Supreme Gods, and although she could fight from a distance, that would be wasting energy for an attack that the Gale Bird Emperor could even evade in time if he were well alert… It was pointless to try to attempt to participate in the battle, the ocean of miasma would quickly swallow the vessel if she broke the fragile balance in the vessel, and the other Supreme Gods alongside her would be all forced to spend enormous quantities of energy to get past this sea, and that's without couniting getting attacked by all these Undead Gods, and the deadly Emperors, the ghosts of the past of Kireina, which had emerged once more with frighteningly powerful new abilities with them!

Could Kireina even be able to do anything? Well, she was, in just some more minutes, inside of her divine realm, there was a big formation being constructed, and several of her family members and her allies were helping her at that… this one move could tip the scales in the entire battle…

But would her allies be able to buy enough time?

And amidst all of this, what could the Spider Empress be planning to do?

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