Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2390: You Were A Monster Just Now Dude

Meiji immediately noticed that, as he attacked the giant monster with his Spirits, a spherical orb emerged amidst the breaking ice, the core of the creature.

And inside, he could faintly see the silhouette of someone else!

"The core! Someone please grab that!" Meiji said. "As long as we can get that and shatter it, this thing will disappear!"

"You heard him! Keep going!" Celica roared.

"Don\'t stop for a single second, we\'re almost there!" Truhan said.

Celica and Truhan combined their axe techniques as shadows, moonlight, and flames cleaved through Uru\'s entire body, rapidly shedding through its icy body.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

"I\'ll give it my all!" Raito said.

"Palami, Raito, please don\'t stop attacking!" Asure screamed. "I\'ll hold it back! Ugh...!" "Thank you Asure!" Palami said.

Raito, Asure, and Palami used their elemental attacks, rapidly bombarding the titan with as many elemental attacks as physically possible. Thunder, Earth, and Light engulfing the elemental titan.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As they continued clashing, the monster was being pushed back more, and more, and more! From Truhan and Celica\'s cleaving attacks with their axes, to the monkey\'s varied of blows from all angles to the elemental lords\' powerful elemental attacks.

Until eventually...

Crack, crack...!

CRASH!

All of Uru\'s ice would shatter to reveal the shiny core hidden beneath! It was capable of floating in midair, and in the split second it was fully revealed, ice and freezing flames were already spiraling around it to reform his body anew.

"NOW!"

Celica screamed, as Michaela and Eduard rushed to grab it! Their huge and advanced machines, fueled using Cosmic Energy itself and several compressed nuclear reactors reached the orb like two blurs of blue color.

FLASH!

"I WON\'T... LET YOU PASS...! RAAARRRGHH!"

Uru attempted to defend, prioritizing the regeneration of dozens of enormous bear claws made of frost and freezing flames.

With their lightning speed, the two mech pilots used their machine\'s toughness and powerful attacks to stop Uru\'s defensive attacks, firing beams to destroy the incoming ice claws.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As they advanced further, they finally reached the core, extending their mechanical hands towards it and then...

CLASH!

They grabbed it, tearing it apart from the rest of Uru\'s body, and making it collapse into the ground into a pile of broken ice shards!

BOOOM!

The orb shattered in that moment, as a rain of small spirit crystals fell from the sky, covering the landscape below with sparkling azure light.

At the same time, a huge polar bear beast man fell from the sky and was then gently held by the mechanical hands of Michaela.

"Uuurrgghh..."

Unlike the rest of the people rescued from these monster\'s cores which had been parasitized by Spirit Parasites, Uru had not fallen unconscious, and groaned in pain as he opened his eyes. "Woah! Isn\'t he fluffy?"

Michaela was slightly fascinated by Uru\'s appearance and the "texture" of his body, the fluffy, soft and white colored fur could be felt from her cold mech\'s hands, directly connected to her

body\'s sensorial organs.

"Ahh... Hahh... Ugh..."

As the two pilots reached the floor and then left Uru over the ice, the polar bear slowly woke up fully, noticing where he was, he seemed slightly shocked and... stunned.

"Uh... Huh..."

Uru had never been a smart guy, nor was he quite bright either, he was reliable or strong, but Skadi never mentioned him being anything else than that.

Right now, he simply couldn\'t quite get what was happening, he wasn\'t panicking because he had quite the calm demeanor, but he was also... trying very hard to guess what was happening.

"Uru! It must be you! Are you ok?"

Suddenly, Celica and the rest ran to his side, the polar bear had some time to get to know everyone, although he had no idea who the mechs in front of him were.

"Ah, C-Celica? Truhan! Ohh... W-What happen? My head\'s all dizzy... Ugh, ogh..."

He covered his head and scratched it, he really wasn\'t having a good day.

"Saying that a lot happened would be an understatement!" said Celica. "Because a lot, and I mean a LOT happened! I am surprised you\'re still alive and well... And can even speak right away. Don\'t you remember what happened before you turned into a monster?"

"Monster?!" Uru gasped. "I-I was a monster? When!"

"Just now man," said Truhan. "You really don\'t remember anything? Dammit, that sorceress bitch turning all our friends into monsters... This is probably the first time we fight someone

that does this!"

"Yes, you were a monster," nodded Palami. "You were most likely parasitized by a Parasitic Spirit and turned into a giant monster, like the ones we fought in Niflheim, remember?" "I-I remember now, yeah!" nodded Uru. "Damn! What the hell? Thanks a lot for saving me! I- I don\'t even know what else to say... Ah! Where is Princess Lazuli?! And her friend? Wait, where\'s Queen Skadi?! And the other Ice Gods? The Snow Fairies and the Ice Elves?" "We\'ve been rescuing as they came," said Truhan. "Every monster we\'ve fought so far had one of your friends inside! And there\'s dozens of them everywhere, and they\'re super strong!" "But they can\'t be endless either, right? Do you remember how many people composed your forces, Uru?" Palami asked.Nôv(el)B\\\\jnn

"Yeah I was about to ask the same thing," nodded Kizuato.

"I-I don\'t know the exact numbers, but there were at least a hundred Gods from all Ranks," said Uru. "Most of the Gods were born with Divine Powers as they are children of Lady Skadi and Lord Fjord, albeit born from their Frost Garden, the only two born from their union and love was the Eldest Princess Tundra and the Young Princess Lazuli."

"So that\'s how it is, we\'ve only fought a dozen or so- Ugh, wait, there\'s more coming!" Celica was trying to relax only to gasp and step back in surprise, out of nowhere, dozens after dozens of Elemental Titans made of Frost and Fire started marching towards them,

surrounding them all.

They seemed much more aggressive than before, actively seeking them rather than simply

walking around and defending their territory.

Dozens after dozens of them emerged, one after another...

"Okay, maybe these are almost all of them..." Uru stood, glancing in disbelief.

"Maybe?!" Celica cried. "This is way too much for us to handle, dammit!"

"We could probably handle them, but our weapons aren\'t equipped to easily spare the people

inside..." said Eduard.

"We would have to kill them if we wanted to stop them fully," sighed Michaela. "And I can guess you wouldn\'t want that."

"Certainly not..." Truhan sighed. "But if push comes to shove, and we have to survive... T- Then there\'s no other option! Its their lives or ours!"

RUMBLE!

As the Elemental Titans continued approaching and marching towards them, a group of a dozen of them started melding together, rapidly forming a titanic chimera of fire and ice,

resembling a multi-headed dragon.

"ROOOAAARRR!"

As the chimera roared, it spread a powerful Divine, Spiritual, and Corrupted Cosmic Domain, filling everything with deadly frost and flames, beginning to damage everyone within its

range, and draining away their energies.

"Uggh...!"

"Are you kidding me?!"

"T-This is... too much!"

As they struggled against all odds, suddenly...

FLASH!

A sparkling star made of crimson plasma emerged from the skies and descended.

BOOOM!