Heaven, Earth, Me

Yasenia looked at the sky, and seeing Sunset time approaching; she said, “Let’s stall for ten minutes, then we can charge directly in.”

The others nodded. They waited some minutes, and the leader analyzed them “Two level-nine tiger-kin, two level-sevens, two level-six, and three level-four harpies.”

The team leader said, “The brothers and I can take on the two level-nines. The two level-sevens and six are a problem… Kali, can your summons deal with the level four harpies?”

Kali was about to answer when Yasenia said, “Since they are all sword users, I think I can kill the two level-six instantly if we coordinate correctly. Then it will be Leader, and the brothers work to stall the tiger-kins while we clean up the others.”

The others listened to her suggestion, and they nodded. They went out of their hiding place and reacted as if they were surprised to see them. “Retreat! They are stronger than us!”

The enemies saw them turning and trying to leave, so they bought the act, charging toward them. Now that they took the bait, they positioned and looked at how they were charging. Yasenia saw that the ones dashing close by were the level sevens instead of the level six and said, “Change the target to level seven!”

The leader and brothers turned and charged toward the tiger-kins. Meanwhile, Yasenia buffed herself, “[Celestial Coat], [Starry Sky].” Then she took a step forward and spun with her sword, “[Moonles Night]” While her domain expanded and she finished her spin, she pointed her sword toward a level six and chanted, “[Sun charge]” *Bang!* Yasenia left a crater on the ground as she shot forward, leaving the two level-sevens on her left.

Cecile sent arrows toward the level sevens to attract their attention, and Kali and the other went against the level fours.

When Yasenia was in mid-charge, she used the illusion of [Lingering Start steps] and sent it forward toward the level-six. Yasenia used her powerful legs and tail to make a sharp turn, leaving footprints on the ground, and changed direction toward the level-sevens.

Cecile saw that process and read her intentions; she continued shooting arrows even when they were approaching speedily, fully trusting Yasenia. As Cecile intended, they focused on her.

Cecile sneered and mouthed, ‘Fools.’ They were about to yell, enraged, when a warning shout came from behind.

“BE CAREFUL WITH THE DRAGONESS!”

However, it was too late! “[SUN CHARGE]!”

*BOOM!*

The golden meteor pierced them both from the side and incinerated their bodies with the heat explosion!

Yasenia stopped her charge, sliding 100 meters, and looked behind, spinning her giant sword with a smile. The others looked stupefied at the body modification realm that just one shotted two-level sevens. “Two down! Now we are even numbers~.”

“One of the tiger kin shouted, “Careful with her! She is the one that appeared in yesterday’s highlights! She-”

The leader interrupted him, releasing a barrage of sword attacks. The tiger kin tsked, ‘Troublesome. I can’t get distracted!’

On another part of the battlefield, roots appeared on the ground, trying to attack Kali and her partner.

However, playing with plants in front of Kali was a big mistake. Kali was an attributed triple cultivator with Wood, Nature, and Life attributes! Kali slammed her hands on the grown. “[Crown Flower]”

She summoned a three-meter-tall green woman. It had a dress made of flowers and a golden crown, a green aura spread from her, and she took over all vegetation in a 500 m area, including his attack! Then Kali raised her hands and chanted, “[Treant summoning].” Five trunks spurted from the ground reaching a height of five meters and transformed into humanoid trees. She pointed forward, “Kill.”

The [Crown flower] uprooted everything in the area and used it as her weapon while the treants ran forward with heavy steps. While dominating the battlefield against the three level-four cultivators, she saw that one of the level six cultivators was about to reach Cecile. Kali chanted again, “[Root Wall].”

From her left, a tall root wall exploded from the ground, separating Cecile and that level six. Cecile looked at Kali and nodded, then she repositioned herself.

While fighting with the other level-six, Yasenia lifted an eyebrow, impressed. ‘No way, she is an extremely rare plant summoner! Only one in 100 000 summoners specialize in plants. Not because it is bad, but because the requirements are very restrictive. The bloodline must be related to nature, and you must have the life attribute and the wood or nature attribute. Then, your knowledge of flora must also be profound!’

Yasenia was impressed because until now; Kali had only used nature attacks and similar without summoning. Yasenia saw that Cecile, Kali, and the other cultivator could deal with those four easily, so she focused on her current opponent. She glanced at the sun position and smirked, ‘Finally here.’

Yasenia made a strong sword swing, making that person take back five steps. The cultivator felt his arms going numb, ‘Her brute strength is absurd!’

He saw Yasenia dash toward him with her sword raised and making a very obvious downward attack. ‘I will block it, making it slide, and then use that chance to attack her open body!’

He made a rising strike, meeting Yasenia’s sword…

*BOOM!*

Golden light filled the cultivator’s vision as he felt like a mountain had just slammed onto him. His feet left the ground as he shot back like a cannonball. ‘Huh? What happened?’

Yasenia didn’t lose the chance, “[Shooting Star].” Then, the white star ballooned and shot forward speedily. *BANG!* his head exploded, consumed by a white-colored explosion.

Yasenia saw that her [Starry Sky] completely charged with 300 stars floating around her, so she ran toward one level nine cultivator. Cecile shouted, “Leader, dodge Yasenia!”

He didn’t think twice about jumping away from the tigerkin. The tiger kin turned toward Yasenia, only to see her pointing her giant sword at him and her charming lips moving, “[Star Charge].”

Yasenia transformed into a white vortex of destruction as she zoomed toward the tiger kin! The tiger-kin erected his defenses, a very hardened metal and glass wall. Yasenia collided with it as her stars exploded one after another, ripping a hole through it and reaching the tigerkin.

He used another defensive technique on himself, hardening his elemental coat into physical armor. *BOOM!* Both collided, and the tigerkin shot back badly injured.

The leader didn’t waste his time and made a follow-up attack. Without being able to defend himself, the tigerkin fell to the leader’s sword shortly after. Then Yasenia and the leader charged toward the other tiger-kin. It was a matter of time before he died.

Meanwhile, Cecile was firing a constant barrage of [Ice arrows] toward the level six cultivator. The sword user blocked, dodged, or parried them. Cecile then changed her arrow type; she pulled the string, and gales erupted from the arrow, blowing her hair with it. “[Freezing Gale Arrow].”

*Swish* *Swish* *Swish*

The arrows shot with twice the speed they had before. Having gotten used to the previous velocity, the cultivator was caught off guard and failed to block the first shot!contemporary romance

It pierced his shoulder, dragging him backward because of the arrow’s strength while the gales ripped his skin apart, making a gory wound. “Aargh!!”

The cultivator used his water attribute and sent a giant wave toward Cecile at high speed. “[Root Wall].”

Thick wooden roots shot from the ground, blocking his attack. He changed objectives and ran toward Kali. ‘That plant summoner! She is always getting in the way!’

Cecile claimed the root wall and jumped over it, pulling her bowstring midair, “[Space arrow].”

The silent, invisible arrow shot at tremendous speed and landed on his back. The cultivator felt something landing, but he didn’t feel any pain. Therefore, he ignored it and continued forward.

After landing on the ground, Cecile aimed at the sky and pumped energy through her meridians, making mist appear around her. “[Freezing Gale arrow rain]!”

Her hand became a blur as she shot arrows continuously. The arrows covered the sky, changing directions mid-air, aiming toward the cultivator’s back!

The cultivator sensed danger behind, so he turned around, only to see the scene of the sky practically falling on him. ‘First that body modification realm, and now the level three is doing some absurd things! What is wrong with this group!?’

He took a deep breath and prepared his sword, “[Flowing strikes], [White Tiger’s ferocity].” His sword sped up as he parried the heavy-hitting arrows.

*Clang* *Clang* *Clang* *Clang* *Clang*

Cecile, however, didn’t finish yet. She put one knee on the ground and tensed the bow into a full moon. Then, her icy blue eyes locked onto him as energies gathered in her bow, creating a single green-blue arrow. Cecile’s chanted with a frosty voice. “[Shredding Glacial Shot].”

She released it, and a shockwave occurred, making the ground behind Cecile rise because of the arrow’s strength. The cultivator didn’t know what happened until he felt something hit his chest so hard that it exploded his internal organs. He was sent flying like a rag-doll, completely dead.

Cecile stood up and looked around. She saw the rest of the battles ending shortly after. She heard Yasenia exclaiming, “Kali! You are amazing, a plant summoner!? Why didn’t you tell me earlier? We could have made a different attack plan if we knew~.”

The leader chuckled and said, “Junior sister, you are the only one who didn’t know. We’ve been fighting with her the last two days.”

Yasenia looked at the Kali with a face that screamed betrayal, “We’ve been speaking so much, and you didn’t tell me?” She dramatically pressed a hand on her heart, which made something almost spill from the revealing cleavage. “I’ve been betrayed!”

The others laughed, but one brother hissed in pain, “That tiger-kin was strong! He beat up the two of us quite badly.”

Yasenia approached and saw that they were full of cuts. One of them had a big laceration on the back that was bleeding a lot. Yasenia looked at Kali, who was approaching, and asked. “Kali, is it better to return, or can you heal them?”

Kali went around them, looked at their injuries, and took their pulse, sending energy waves through their veins. After taking the pulse of both of them, she said, “You have quite bad wounds, but I can heal them. We don’t need to return to the city.”

Yasenia smiled. “Good! Go ahead; we will watch out for the surroundings.”

Kali nodded and chanted softly, “[Flower bed], [Healing Sap], [Soil enhancement].”

The soil glittered in an eight square meter area as if it was rich with minerals, and then two flower beds appeared in that area. The flowers were blue, white, red, yellow, black, and purple. They both lay on them and the blue and white flowers wrapped around them, cocooning them, covering their wounds. These stopped the bleeding and started mending their wounds.

Kali used the [Healing sap] and fed it to the flower bed, enhancing the healing properties. Then, the red and yellow flowers absorbed the excessive blood and rotten flesh, transforming it into energy that went back to Kali to maintain the skill longer. Kali said, “The black and purple flowers are to treat poisons or similar.”

Yasenia couldn’t help but stand and marvel at the beautiful spectacle.

During the next 25 minutes, Kali didn’t lose focus for even a single moment and healed them completely.

Yasenia went to Kali’s side and patted her head, “Impressive and beautiful. Good job, Kali. Do you need to rest before we continue?”

Kali shook her head and then lowered it to hide her uncontrollable smile and twitching nose. ‘She smells very nice. Like a natural flowerbed….’

This scene cleared Cecile’s previous doubts if Kali was interested in Yasenia or not. ‘I will have to speak to the others and see what we do… Although I don’t dislike Kali… I honestly don’t want more people besides Yasenia. Should I tell Yasenia about Kali’s growing feelings?’

Yasenia looked at Cecile and felt that something was bothering her. She approached and dragged her by the hand to a place a little more hidden. Yasenia pressed Cecile against a nearby tree and pressed her body on hers, looking at Cecile’s eyes with her goldens. Yasenia kissed Cecile and then asked, “What’s wrong, sweetheart? Remember that you can tell me anything. I don’t like any of you making loops in your heads… I don’t want any misunderstandings to happen between us.”

Cecile hugged Yasenia and buried her face in her neck, closing her eyes. Then, she breathed her scent. Yasenia kissed the side of her head, and let her be for one minute. ‘Is she still uncomfortable because of my death?’

Thinking as such, Yasenia pampered Cecile for a little while. Cecile said with her face still buried in Yasenia’s neck, “Can I… Speak it with the others before I tell you? I’m still not sure… And I don’t want to hurt that person too much… I-I honestly don’t know how to handle this situation.”

Yasenia separated and raised Cecile’s chin; she kissed her lips softly and said, “Cecile, if you think that not telling me is the correct thing to do… Then, go ahead. However, once you speak with others and I know what this is about. We will discuss how to discuss this better the next time that happens. What do you say, Sweetheart?”

Cecile looked into her eyes and nodded. Yasenia kissed her again more deeply until the others came, “Yasenia, Cecile, it is time. We have to keep moving!”

Yasenia separated and gave Cecile a playful lick on the cheek, making Cecile laugh. Yasenia smiled softly and said, “Now you have a better face. Let’s go; we have to catch up in points with the others”

Cecile nodded spiritedly. “En!”

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