AU – Memory Time at Archive Tower. Nytri continues to recount her past.
At dawn, Nytri exits the cavern on King's Island. She saw her spirit walk before her then her spirit walked into her body in sync with her as if they were one. Nytri reaches the edge of the lake, she stretches herself with a yawn, "Yaaawwwhhh." Nytri glances around her, "I wonder how the kids are handling things."
Nytri's vision changes observing her entire territory, she sees everywhere she wants to see. People working hard and growing strong each passing day, "Mmmm, even with high energy density, they still level up slowly compared to me. Well, I was leveling up at 20 places simultaneously, so there's that….."
Nytri takes a step into the lake but intricate rock platforms rise from the silver tinged lake under her feet. The platform rose making a beautiful path with arches and flowers. The moment Nytri reached the end of the path, she split into 12 others, her clones each went her way. Nytri walks through a forest with many precious fruits that can instantly increase one's power. But sadly, these fruits are ineffective on Calamities, however they do enjoy the taste.
Nytri reaches her hand and plucks and orange kind of fruit, she peels it and slices it. She enjoys the orange as she continued towards a mountain. Nytri reached the top of the mountain after half an hour of walking and admiring her territory.
Nytri looks down from the mountain to see pits filled with metal sands and twisting pillars of such metals reaching high into the sky. Nytri sighs, "This was a good idea at first, but the Blighted King's claws left scratches on my Armored Shell. I just have to keep absorbing various metals and strengthen my armor."
Nytri stretches her hand towards the pits, "Armored Shell > Chain." Chains spread from her hand each towards a pit. "Absorb." The metal sands start to crawl across her chains towards Nytri and she absorbed each sand as it passed over her chains.
[Endurance increased by +100: 19,100,000,000 > 19,100,000,100]
[Endurance increased by +100: 19,100,000,100 > 19,100,000,200]
[Endurance increased by +100: 19,100,000,200 > 19,100,000,300]
[Endurance increased by +100: 19,100,000,300 > 19,100,000,400]
......…..
Nytri sighs in thought, "Still not enough." She stops absorbing the sands after half remains in each pit, "Have to leave some for the kids, and…." Nytri retracts her chains with her hand still stretched, "OBJECT REFINEMENT x4" The metals are purified giving them a glow to the pits.
Nytri descends the mountain to an open field with training arenas set up and people practicing sparing matches. Nytri observes the place in thought, "I want to test myself against others but my kin won't fight me and my subjects don't understand what a spar is. If only-" Hands appear hugging her from behind, "Ryu!"
"How ya doing little is?" Ryu, Nytri's sister hugs her from behind. Nytri turns around hugging him, "Oh, I've missed you so much!" They hug tighter for a while then release. Ryu looks at Nytri, "I thought you'd return in like a long time." Nytri giggles, "It has been about a year or so since I left." Ryu chuckles not knowing what a year is, "Those insects playing with your kids, what are those?" He points at humans even when he's in human form.
Nytri smiles wryly, "Those are humans like me," then she taps his chest, "And like the form you've taken."
"Whoaw," Ryu exclaims, "Those are humans?" He tilts his head, "I somehow expected more." Nytri raises a brow, "What did you expect?" Ryu squints his mouth, "I don't know, maybe bigger? It's hard to notice them at that size."
Nytri looks and the people and smiles in thought, "He probable sees them as a Calamity, that's why they look like big microbes." Nytri turns to Ryu, "Oh yeah, I learned some sick skills and want to test them out." She looks at Ryu with beaming eyes, "Let's have a spar!"
In Ryu's eyes, Nytri's just a toddler asking for to fight...even if she's a Child Calamity. "Alright." He shrugs. Nytri drags him to the first empty stage. People are excited to see Nytri walking around but perplexed on how she's dragging a man behind her. They do not know some Calamities have been trying to mimic the Azurians just to enjoy the convenience of Azurian tech.
People gather around the stage to watch the fight with whispers like, "Whoa, is he going to fight Nytri?" Some ladies were in a weird state staring at Ryu. And another, "But Nytri is the strongest!" and another, "No way, this guy has a death wish." And another, "Even the Azurians don't fight the princess." They don't know Nytri made all the Purebred Azurians. And another, "If the princess is this strong, I wonder how strong King Paxius is?" Paxius sneezes while on his 12th date, just what is he….*Sighs*
Nytri gets ready to fight and her thoughts, "First, test how my base strength is before using Berserk. Despite becoming an incomplete Primac, my strength remains the same."
Nytri's Spirit speaks in her mind, "Duh, it's my strength, not yours." Nytri has a blank face, "Oh...I'll need to test that out later." Ryu has a perplexed look and his thought, "Why is she making faces? Oh, she must be talking to her other selves. Aww, I wish I could be in multiple places at once. Then I can have fun with sis." Ryu smiles speaking to Nytri, "Ready when you are little sis."
The people heard 'little sis' and they went, "Whoa is that the prince of Azurian?" And another, "No wonder he's so close with the princess." And another, "I really want to see how strong the prince is." And a lady, "He's so handsome."....
Nytri gets into a battle stance she made herself, lowering her center of gravity like a master martial artist. Nytri's eyes changes from dark brown to her left being a silver clock and her right being a blackhole. Nytri charges at Ryu with a burst speed appearing right before him, she throws a punch *BOOOOM* a barrier erects around the arena preventing the shockwave from blowing the micro-ahem, humans away.
The people are baffled, "WHAT THE HECK??!!!!"
Nytri throws another punch *BOOOM* and her thoughts, "I know Ryu is strong but still, WHY ISN'T HE EVEN FLINCHING?!" Nytri makes a roundhouse kick, *BANG!* Ryu grunts a bit and Nytri smiles, "So I have gotten stronger!" she throws a series of punches and kicks at Ryu who just takes them.
Ryu keeps grunting and his thoughts, "Little sis's little fists are starting to sting." To him, it's like a toddler throwing fists at a teen. Lightening crackles around Nytri's body then she goes for a dropkick. Ryu blocks Nytri's kick then moves aside pushing Nytri with a hand and Nytri is pushed back about 10 meters. Ryu's thoughts, "She's still light as feather, she hasn't gained any weight at all." He saddens and his thoughts, "At this rate she might not grow properly."
Nytri charges in for a heavy hit but Ryu turns to the side tripping Nytri. But before Nytri could fall, Ryu catches her and puts her on the ground gently yet quickly. Ryu uses a finger to pin Nytri down, but as Nytri starts to rise under his finger, he uses his entire hand.
Nytri grunts stuck on the ground, *Gah. Grr* And her thoughts, "I can't even break into Mist. If I try to dig under the arena, he'll just keep pushing me down." Nytri looks to her sides to see Ryu sitting beside her with his hand pressing her down with a smile.
Nytri sighs in thought, "At least I lasted longer than last time." She looks ahead, "Our first spar, I didn't even last 5 seconds. If I use my Spirit's ability, maybe-" Nytri's Spirit speaks in her mind, "Don't bother, even in that form we still can't escape. Primacs are also the worst fighters so even if we got free, he'll still pin us down again."
"Can't I blend the 2?" Nytri asks her Spirit and she replies, "Probably, but we'll only gain a lot of power with our strength remaining the same." Nytri sighs, "Damn," she looks at Ryu who's staring into the sky still pinning Nytri down, "I wonder, if Ryu fought that blasted diseased thing, how long would it take for him to win?"
"Hmmm," Nytri's Spirit speaks, "If he's up against the king alone, probably longer than it took you. Unless he can get the King to suffer damages too heavy to heal in the moment. But if the other Blightcalers were to join, he will be overrun and lose."
"Huh," Nytri thoughts, "So even he would've lost. What about mum?"
"Nah, she'd win." Nytri's Spirit replies.
Nytri sighs speaking to Ryu lowly, "Alright bro, I yield." Ryu chuckles, "Cheer up little sis, you have gotten faster." Ryu takes his hand off Nytri and helps her up. Nytri's thoughts, "Faster and not stronger, huh." They get off the stage but Ryu rubs his chest behind Nytri in thought, "Her punches are really starting to sting." He stares at Nytri as she walks ahead of him, "I really hate how she has to go around fighting. First, I thought she was playing around but then she declared war on those Qilins things when she was still a baby."
Ryu looks to the sky in thought, "Mum said when she got there, little sis had already defeated the king but. What if she challenges something bigger than her? I can't help but worry."
Nytri turns back, "Oh yeah, where's mum?" Ryu snaps out of his thoughts, "Mum? She went to meet the aunties. She said something about mummy's gathering or something." Nytri raises a brow, "And what do they do there?" Ryu shrugs, "They just sit by some water and chat about life and kids." Nytri feels a chill down her spine, she shudders murmuring, "I hope they don't gang up me again. I tried telling grandpa about how mum wants me to eat food bigger than me, but the uncles kept me in the storage and kept shoving food in my face."
[AU: INFO
- Object Refinement: Nytri purifies and enhances objects, improving their quality, durability, and magical properties.
- High Energy Density in the monster realm prevents certain phenomena from occurring as back on earth. Example, Nytri quickly bursting into speed would've been similar to the speed of light on earth and barely anyone can keep up. But because of high energy density, that phenomena doesn't work so it looks more like rocket speed.
- The High Energy Density basically makes anything below level 200 no different from ants. So being the fastest on earth when no one can see you when you move, over here, a Calamity could probably jog to match your speed. So 'the Smart live and the Dumb die'
- Nytri being light as a feather is first because she's human. To a mountain sized Calamity, the heaviest human is probably a pebble in his hand but this is the first time Calamities are meeting other humans and still see them as Calamities. Also, Nytri's constitution is MIST which she has compressed to form a physical body so she weighs even less compared to human
- Nytri's first spar with Ryu. How long will it take a child to defeat a baby?
- 'blasted diseased thing' Nytri refers to the Blighted King that is the Blightcaler
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