Epic of Caterpillar

The Blue Genie was honestly shocked. He had already opened his mouth widely three times through the entire fight, and now he as doing it a fourth time as Kireina conjured ten, over fifty-meter-large meteors covered on holy flames and launched them at Sol while he was preparing his barrage of overpowering suns. How come someone could be this ridiculously strong? Whoever was Kireina, it was someone incredibly overwhelmingly powerful!

"Such strength… She not only has power but amazing talent! And are those weapons… Ego Weapons? So the Ancient Forging Techniques for the creation of Ego Weapons had been discovered by this entity from… another world? Her Origin certainly seems to be foreign! The same as my puppet!" He thought with a vicious glare.

However, a smile quickly curled up on his lips as he couldn\'t help but feel completely surprised yet… happy?

"If I can get this monster in my side, I could literally do anything I want! I have to reinforce that "Sol" as much as I possibly can so I can defeat her, or at the very least, weaken her enough so I can take her down alter…! As long as I can take her with me and then brainwash her, I shall attain incredible power with her as my underling!" He laughed internally.

However, the Blue Genie was quite the coward! He was staying inside of his Sandstorm Domain, a special magic he conjured using his powers to keep himself safe from the outside world. Despite his strength, he was incredibly cowardly due to his actual lack of experience at close combat. And preferred to simply command others to do his bidding.

He would only strike if there was a good, almost unmissable opportunity! However, as someone innately coward, he would always remain behind his troops, and if the situation arose, escape to make even more troops. That was the nature of a powerful coward, strong enough to command and brainwash others but not to fight by themselves.

Kireina, who could do it all without being a coward like he was, was obviously a superior being compared to him, and was already guessing he was thinking something shady. It was already very odd that someone capable of controlling S Rank Monsters such as Desert Kings was hiding behind a Sandstorm like a child!

She was already assuming that he was either too afraid to fight or was weakened enough he was not confident he could fight. And unfortunately for the Blue Genie, it was an odd mix of both of her assumptions. Although he had broke from his seal, he was weakened after eons of being sealed, and well, he was a coward! Even if he had now the new Element of Miasma, he couldn\'t use it completely offensively like something direct such as fire. Miasma was a poison that slowly infected, transformed, and took over others. It wasn\'t a power he could just use to fight directly.

Therefore, it was all a specular combination of lack of fighting experience, being weak, and being a coward, all while being grouped up with his inability to use his new and dangerous power as a direct offensive attack…

However, it wasn\'t as if he was weak or something, and it wasn\'t as if his vicious nature, his monstrously cunning mind, and his plans were to be simply glossed over…

After all, he was strong enough to defeat Sol and corrupt him with his Miasma, and there was no saying he wouldn\'t be able to do the same in the future with other, powerful people.

"No matter how strong you are… You will be mine!" He said greedily, looking at Kireina fighting against Sol with a wicked smile.

Of course, Kireina had other things in mind.

(Kireina POV)

Holy fucking Jesus!

My attack was absolutely brutal! The power of the combination of Blazing Meteor with Purification and Holy Flames is not something to scoff at, especially when I give the meteors the attribute of Light Arrows, which let me conjure them consecutively and at their enormous size and impact force… it is merely insane.

Sol, Luminous, and Fiere were shocked. However, they really couldn\'t keep being shocked because Sol himself was only shocked for a split of a second before charging straight at me! He knew that firing ridiculously big attacks from a long distance wouldn\'t cut it, so he went from close distance.

"Sinful Black Flare!"

"Bad move: [Holy Flames] + [Blazing Meteor] + [Purification] + [Arrows of Light]!"

In a split of a second, Sol reached me and swung his sword. The power of his Sinful Black Flare was immense. But in that mere split of a second, I had also done something wondrously, as I pointed White at him like a staff, and conjured ten Blazing Meteors the size of a building right into his face, one after the other, consecutively.

They appeared so fast and out of nowhere that he was still looking completely decided into killing me when he was hit by the giant boulders, his armor being covered on holy flames as a result, as his entire body got all crushed.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOOOMMM!!!

Another explosion happened, as I saw Sol\'s black armor finally shatter, several pieces of it began to fall apart, but the armor was resistant and rather ruthlessly fucking stubborn!

"CRAAAAHHHH…"

A metallic sound was heard from Sol\'s armor, as if the monstrous living armor was suffering. However, our good ol\' blue friend back in the sandstorm infused Miasma into the armor and quickly helped the armor regrow anew, as enormous spikes emerged, claws, and a new set of metallic arms and insect-like wings… Sol was completely covered in all of it, not even his face as visible anymore!

"Come to think of it, mama, that armor\'s an Ego!" Said Aquamarine.

"I had also guessed that!" White added.

"Indeed, it is." Black said.

"I know, I was already sensing its presence." I said. "The connection it has with its master… It is surely not a normal thing that magic armor has, nor undead armors either, that\'s definitely an Ego!"