The rise of the pervert primordial

Contrary to what one might believe, Alice doesn’t dislike Kana in the slightest, in fact even she finds the little girl rather easy to get along with, the wild dragon princess simply teases her because Kana gets a lot of Aster’s care, which is of course childish from her, but that’s Alice for you.

That being said, the wild dragon princess does still see Kana as a little sister, so besides when it comes to competing for Aster’s attention and despite her indifferent usual attitude, she wouldn’t stand idly should anyone were to try and bully the little girl.

“Crack!”, the claws of the king of fangs cracked as they slightly pierced the metal plaques on Alice’s gloves, which made the wild dragon princess’s eyes shine with a murderous light.

“Can’t you see that I’m scoring some points for a nice reward, stay still you piece of trash!”, to the black horse’s surprise, Alice changed from clashing her fist against his, to hold onto the black horse’s index and middle fingers to then… twist them in a weird direction.

“Crack!”, a loud cracking sound echoed through the vicinity as Alice broke the black horse’s fingers.

“Neeigh!”, but as the king was in the middle of letting out a pained sound, Alice pulled on his wrist, using the momentum to propel herself into the air as she used her knee to hit the king on the face.

Taking a knee to the face, the black horse was surprised to see that without any poison the creature with red eyes could actually cause him pain, after his transformation he discarded the capacity to block pain since the enemy had that poison anyway, but in exchange his body grew tougher as him breaking the spear tip earlier suggested.

‘How is it possible, this creature’s attack hurts more than that filly’s hooves and the stinger!’, inwardly screamed the king as retreated because due to the impact his eyes got teary obstructing his view.

There was disbelief in his face and for a good reason, Alice is obviously nowhere near as heavy as Ember and yet her attacks hurt more than hers, which is actually understandable, Alice might have human form but she is a dragon, what’s more the focus of her lineage is absolute overwhelming attack power.

In fact, in terms of physical strength, besides Mira and the little wyrm, she is probably the strongest as of current in said aspect and it’s worth mentioning that she hasn’t stimulated her lineage unlike those two, since her tail has not made its appearance yet.

“Thanks for the help sister Alice, but sister Ember and myself can win by ourselves so…”, Kana who though actually felt happy to see that Alice cared for her, couldn’t help but want any of the other girls to be the one to step up since she knew she was never going to listen to the end of this, was stopped midway by the wild dragon princess.

“Tough luck, if you don’t want me to steal the limelight then hurry up and destroy him~”, said Alice with as she without waiting for even another second dashed towards the king of fangs who punched at the wild dragon princess not daring to let her get too close to him.

“Clang!”, the black horse’s large fist clashed with Alice’s “small” fist in comparison and the sound of metals colliding alongside sparks were produced, neither won the upper hand which drove the black horse crazy.

‘How can this red eyed creature match my strength head on!’, he screamed in his heart as he aimed to use his free hand to crush Alice’s head, only for Mule to use his body to tackle the arm of the king making his punch hit nothing.

“Let’s go sister Ember we can’t lose to them”, mumbled Kana with a little pout knowing that Alice would only limit herself to block the punches of the enemy for a short while, if she doesn’t hurry up then she is totally shameless enough to steal her time to shine, as she saw a new spear land next to her, courtesy of Camila of course.

Though the filly didn’t understand the strange sistership between Kana and Alice, she wanted to be the one to kill the king of fangs in revenge for her parents, so she of course had her fighting spirit suddenly soar through the roof.

“Booom!”, Ember’s body slightly tensed and her powerful legs like springs propelled the filly towards the black horse who was in the middle of dodging Alice’s fist.

“Clang!”, at Alice’s order, Mule was watching from the side while she continuously clashed punches with the king of fangs, so the enemy had a free arm which he was now forced to use to stop Kana’s spear.

“Neigh!”, like before when his claws were dented by the spear, the black horse was assaulted by pain, though after his transformation the burning sensation was indeed reduced when it came to shallow wounds, so the black horse could easily toughen it up unlike before, as he had lost his capacity to ignore pain.

Just as the king of fangs was about to grab onto the spear tip to crush it like before, the little girl skillfully twisted the spear and got it out of the reach of the enemy’s hand.

“Crack!”, next the black horse aimed to use his frontal left hoof to attack Kana, but it was intercepted by Ember’s hoof, which resulted in his claws half-breaking, the claws had gotten stronger so Ember couldn’t destroy them in a single go.

It’s worth mentioning that Alice could have destroyed the horse’s claws in a direct confrontation if she was using proper fighting gauntlets, but as of current she was wearing gloves which had a few irregular metal plaques attached to them only, because she refused to use a spear like everyone else, quite an Alice-like decision.

“Sister Ember”, with a couple of words, Kana gave the filly a signal and then stood up on her back, Ember in response moved past the king allowing the little girl to stab her spear on the black horse’s body continuously.

“Neeigh…”, just as the king was letting out a loud angered sound, he was punched on his left side by Alice and couldn’t help but gasp for air, as he turned around to bite Alice’s way.

“Clang!”, unfortunately his sharp razor teeth were met with a punch which produced sparks before the teeth cracked, if the teeth were facing frontwards like his claws hen the black horse could have damaged the metal plaques on Alice’s glove, but since that wasn’t the case, the punch landed on a flat surface and cracked his teeth.

“Thud!”, just at the same time, Ember tackled the king allowing Kana to jump onto his back to then stab the dagger on his neck.

Feeling danger, the black horse’s eyes got bloodshot, he immediately raised his body and started trashing around trying to throw Kana off so that he could trample her to death, but to his surprise the little girl ran upwards and used his head as a platform to jump away, safely landing on the back of the filly who was already waiting on the spot where Kana was going to descend the next second.

“What are you bastards waiting for, come and help me kill these things!”, angered due to embarrassment, the black horse roared, which made the horses that were already going wild while fighting Aster and the others, ignore the wounds they received to then charge towards Kana and Ember.

“Neeigh!”, but then under the eyes of disbelief of the king of fangs, like shooting stars, five pairs of spears flew and directly pierced the necks of ten horses instantly killing them on the spot.

“Don’t get in the way of little Kana’s fight”, said a girl with copper colored hair, there was a slight reddish tone on her palms where the protective gloves she was wearing have been torn apart due to the force with which she threw the spears, Camila killed four horses with her spears showcasing her swift piercing spearmanship, while the remaining three pairs of spears were thrown by Aster, Tiana and Nina.

Almost at the same time, Agnes, Aria, Dahlia, Iris, Sophia, Sandra and the sister in the middle, Lina, suddenly increased their speed, catching up to the horses to then slash their spears at their legs, making them fall and roll a dozen of meters on the ground.

Valentina alongside Eris and Mina led the other members of the group to encircle two thirds of the still running horses with numbers and by redirecting them with spears instead of with explosive movement speed.

Naturally that’s not because Valentina and the others aren’t capable of short-lived high-speed movement, since they followed Aster’s arrangement, they all have a movement type manual after all, but the ten horses that just died were the ones from the must-die list prepared by the mare as for the ones that were encircled, they were the ones that could directly be employed as working force.

Lastly the ones that “escaped” from Valentina’s grasp, could be either killed or captured depending on how the situation developed.

“Neeeigh!”, the previous sudden turn of events, made the black horses realize that they were being toyed with, the strange creatures which seemed to only be able to restrain their movements earlier, turned out to be way stronger than them, each one being more or less at the base level of their king before his transformation, which triggered their instinct of survival, prompting them to try and rush into the distance, only for the king of fangs to let out a loud battle cry.

“There it is, it was indeed lineage suppression”, said Alice who was the closest to the black horse, so she was hit head on by that invisible wave of pressure that expanded with the king as its center.

“But it’s a notch weaker than the one of that little snake can use in this place and two notches weaker than the one of the lynx”, casually added the wild dragon princess as she remained unaffected to then punch the black horse on the face, making a couple of his teeth fly out of his mouth.

Aster who was focusing on the changes in the black horse’s body ever since that red bone was dug up earlier, couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow after he felt the lineage suppression released by the king of fangs.

‘This lineage suppression is weird, rather than a strong “whole” like it should be, it feels more like an agglomeration of weak fragments forcefully combined; it seems easier to obtain considering that even as of current he is not at the same level as Guardian but at the same time it would be no match for the effect of those who recently obtained it like Espi’, thought Aster.

According to Guardian, for an animal to obtain lineage suppression in this place one must surpass the level of a normal king by a lot, which is the level that only the crazed bear and herself have reached.

Of course, there are exceptions like the ligress girl and the little wyrm of course, but in their case it’s both because they are extremely talented spirit beast descendants whose focus involves ruling over others from the very beginning, so even at mortal rank they are able to use lineage suppression, the little wyrm is even more amazing because she awakened it despite her young age.

As for Aster, Alice, Sarina and Kana who also have spirit beast related lineages, they develop in a different way than those two, so at initial mortal state they don’t have lineage suppression, they are immune to it though, so it’s not a disadvantage perse, it’s just that their lineages focus in different aspects at their mortal stage, namely defense and stamina for Aster, physical strength and stamina for Alice, physical strength and speed for Sarina and speed and stamina for Kana.

Back to the fight, having the king’s sudden outburst interrupted by Alice, the black horses which hesitated to escape earlier due to the effect of the king’s suppression, regained their senses and once again tried to rush into the distance, only for their paths to be cut by single figures who appeared at east, west and north respectively.

“Roaar!”, Guardian who was blocking north where most of the horses were trying to run away, let out a powerful roar which made not only those horses but even the king feel fear.

Seeing the lynx appear at north the other black horses tried to test their luck at east and south, but then a maybe less aggressive but more dangerous feeling aura made them freeze on the spot, at west a girl with really pale skin and white hair who had a slight cut on her palm appeared, that was of course Vivian.

As for East, a beautiful girl with blond hair and green eyes holding onto a container with a mix of a transparent and red liquid which she calmly poured on the ground, stood in their way, that was the motherly roc girl, Sarina.

“From the very beginning you guys stood no chance”, said the filly as she saw the plan made by Aster perfectly come into play, which resulted in not even one of the black horses being able to escape.

“Damn it!”, the king of fangs of course realized that he was played with, from the few exchanges he has had with Alice, it was obvious that while her attacks weren’t lethal enough, she could block him, so if the other “creatures” were as strong as her, then he would a 100% lose against them.

And he is right, the only reason as to why the other horses were able to contend against Aster and the others, is that they were using them as training tools, they wanted to obtain experience when dealing with large animals, rather than just outright killing them, just Guardian alone could have easily killed all the black horses on her own given some time, but the king might have slipped from her claws, after all her abilities are still within “mortal” limits.

With a mad light flashing through his eyes knowing that if he didn’t break through the blockage he will die here, the king’s body trembled and the red bulging veins that were limited to the muscular arms he grew after eating that red bone, spread to the rest of his body.

“Roaaar!”, an unpleasing to the ear roar came form the king as his previously slim but balanced body which had regained some of its previous big frame, shriveled until he looked like a poorly fed horse, not a dying one but certainly not a healthy one either.

“Crack!”, contrary to his light-looking new body, the strength the black horse exuded increased like crazy, just by standing he made the ground below him crack and before anyone could react his mouth opened.

“Neeigh!”, with a “swoosh”, like an arrow a long tongue shot out of the black horse’s mouth to then pierce a horse that was coming his way after realizing he was unable to escape which prompted him to reunite with the king, the heart of the black horse was dug out and then devoured by the king whose eyes turned red before he shot his tongue towards another black horse, this time aiming to the head.

“Hssssss!”, Kana who slashed her spear at the tongue of the king felt her hand tremble due to the impact, nevertheless she managed to slightly cut the tongue making a few drops of dark red blood fall to the ground where they let out sizzling sounds due to high temperature.

“He is burning on the inside, this power won’t last long, don’t let him eat anything”, said the little girl which made the black horse go on a rampage, his tongue which missed the head of the second target was now aimed at Kana.

“Clang!”, the little girl who was standing on Ember’s back blocked with both the spear and the dagger and was nearly forced to fly backwards, luckily her stance was firm despite her position, courtesy of her profession manual’s first technique “Balance”, so while inwardly gritting her teeth she stood her ground.

“Booom!”, the filly dashed to the side to then charge at the black horse whose tongue was returning to him, since he killed one of his subordinates and aimed to kill a second one, the others stopped moving his way so he could now only aim to eat Kana, Ember or Alice who were close to him on the spot, but hew knew that would be incredibly hard to achieve.

“Neeeigh!”, the black horse screamed and the red veins bulging on his body pulsed a couple of times as if injecting vigor into his body, then under the surprised eyes of those three, the black horse jumped, travelling a few dozens of meters in a single go, landing next to the black horse which he had failed to kill earlier to then bit off his head on the spot.

“Hsssss!”, red steam came out of the king’s body as he chewed with a mad expression on his face.

“Hey, this guy is getting tricky, cripple him at once”, said Alice as she used Mule as a jumping platform to reach the black horse and kick him on his right shoulder making his leg falter for a moment due to the impact.

“Crack!”, the impact of Alice’s kick cracked the bone of the horse on the spot.

The wild dragon princess could tell that if the black horse were to properly complete his transformation, then without a proper weapon she would not be able to kill him, in fact she would find it hard to even restrain him with just the two techniques from her manual she can somewhat use as of current.

Which is normal, as of current the black horse has reached the same level of strength as the anaconda during her last round against the little wyrm, at that point the anaconda was able to though lightly, wound Espi and while the little wyrm still killed her with an all-out attack, she had to suffer a bit to do so.

What’s more, the black horse would have gotten stronger if he had properly transformed presumably reaching the same level as Guardian, so he was more dangerous than the anaconda as of current.

‘Tsk, I need to trigger that damn unique mission’, thought Alice as she dodged the black horse’s bite.

“Mm”, with a little nod, Kana who had received another three spears from Camila in the small window of time which Alice had bought for her, gave Ember the signal and the filly’s legs tensed before she darted towards the king, her hooves produced loud sounds akin to drums whenever she stepped on the ground, she was actually using “stomp” continuously to move at high speed.

As for Kana, she had sheathed the dagger and held onto the spear with both of her hands, however her current pose didn’t make her look as if she was going to thrust the spear.

‘Humph, with the long and short stingers at once you couldn’t kill me, what will you do with just one…’, the black horse’s train of thought was stopped in cold as a silvery and brown streak reached him, piercing through his leg to then lodge itself into the ground.

“Booom!”, that was the spear which Kana was holding onto a few seconds ago.

“Neeeigh!”, the black horse let out a pained sound as he tried to use his mouth to bit off the spear that was restraining his leg, only for a second streak to land on his left leg, piercing his flesh to then reach deep into the ground.

Now, in case you don’t remember, the spear heads forged by the girls of the sect are for winged spears, whose function is to not go too dep into the enemy’s flesh so that they can be easily retrieved and stabbed onto the enemy continuously, but then those same spearheads pierced through the black horse’s legs, with wings and all.

The reason being quite simple, Kana’s weapon of choice is a bow, so while she can’t produce the monstrous impact force that Alice can produce with her fists, her gripping and throwing strength is really high, of course it would be more effective if she had used a bow, but the “Explosive Arrow” technique of her manual allowed her to pull off the previous since she aimed at weak areas of the king’s legs which had already diminished their thickness in exchange for having the red veins cover the rest of his body.

“Booom!”, the black horse’s tongue came out of his mouth and was instantly pierced by another spear, pinning it into the ground, before his hind legs were also pierced by spears, thanks to the filly who moved like the wind around the king giving Kana the angle needed to achieve the previous, blood poured out of the wounds on the black horse’s body which made his eyes reveal a dread filled gaze.

“Neeeigh!”, at the same time the black horse let out a pained shriek, steam came out of his body and his flesh dried up until he looked like a starved horse as he collapsed on the ground, the red veins also shrank until they were nothing but thin red lines, clearly since he was unable to provide more nourishment his transformation had failed and he suffered backslash.

“Retreat a bit”, said Aster to those three who without a doubt took a few steps backwards, just in time for, as Aster expected see a strange phenomenon manifest, well, stranger than the current state of the black horse.

“Hssss!”, all the blood from the king of fangs which had dyed the ground dark red, gathered and then started levitating to condense into an impossible to identify beast’s dark red silhouette, that was of course another of the beings in charge of watching over the participants.

That being said, this one came from the blood of the black horse instead of externally appearing like the shadow from earlier, the result of its appearance was the same though.

“Boooom!”, a pillar of blue flames descended from the sky and landed on the dark red blood silhouette blasting it into nothing on the spot, this time the “victim”, in other words the black horse wasn’t killed by the blue flames though.

And the blue flaming board didn’t personally appear, so this situation was obviously different than with the anaconda, not like Aster would complain since this time he could interrogate the enemy.