章 100: Chimera
"So, this is Ancient Grimm?"
Asked Aegis who stood in the air on one of his glyphs.
"Yes... I tried to tell it to stop but..."
"But it didn't listen to you..."
"Yes, it blocked my voice the moment I tried, normally it and its brethren would be asleep but something spooked it, even war between kingdoms didn't wake them up."
Salem said and Aegis eyes narrowed.
"That's sounds strange, how confident are you in defeating it?"
"Not much, hundred years ago? Maybe, but now im not sure, my magic is corrupted from Grimm pools, and Darkness magic isn't very good at dealing with Grimm, one more reason I never awakened them."
"Then just make sure the little ones don't break Maria Walls, even if my forces are capable enough to stop them I can't predict what results of our fight would bring to landscapes."
Aegis said and channeled his aura to his clothes, making them completely radiate light as his dust-woven clothes enchanted his psychical and semblance powers.
"To all forces, do not engage Anomaly Grimm, retreat to predesigned waypoints and hold positions!"
Aegis said to his earpiece and heard multiple acknowledgments, then he again heard Salem's voice.
"No matter what you do, do not let it move into fetal position! The Ancients Grimms have the ability to rapidly regenerate in that and kill any near Grimm! They can cannibalize to regrow their strength!"
"Truly? Just how many tricks these old codgers have?"
There was a sound of irritation and Aegis immediately knew his pocking into age was a mistake as he was speaking with the oldest lady in the world.
"Ignoring your previous statement, I do not know, I never had contact with Ancients Grimms, at least not with ones who can ignore my will, but from what I know is that they could have one or more magical tricks inherited from Brother of Darkness."
"That's... Whatever..."
Aegis said and shook his head, it was not like he had a choice, and maybe, maybe, he could finally find a worthy opponent for his measuring of strength.
Yes, Salem was strong, but all she ever used was her magic, her combat capabilities were horrendous as she never was in danger of dying, so any battle she ever had was won either by attrition or overwhelming force of magic.
"The moment I start to fight, don't bother me, not if it isn't something too important, and even then just say what it is."
Aegis said and could hear his earpiece go into silent mode as the other side cuts of contact until further advancement.
"Then let see what you got..."
Aegis said and transformed his walking cane into a white spear with blue engraved symbols and runes he with the help of Ciri, Salem, Harriet, Raven and Amber, carved as magical countermeasures.
"Ha!"
Aegis breathed out as his body almost transported to the Chimera Grimm in an instant, what looked like teleportation was Aegis propelling his body with the help of multiple acceleration glyphs merged into one.
/BOOOOOOOOO/
There was a sound of sonic barrier-breaking as Aegis struck his spear between chimera eyes just for chimera pawn reaching Aegis in similar speed, Aegis seeing it was surprised, but not surprised enough to not retreat back at his position.
"So you are as quick as you are, big hm? And strong too."
Aegis said as he watched the eath where the chimera struck transform into a crater.
"M-mortal!"
"Oh? And it can speak too."
Aegis said, already expecting it to have the intelligence of a human, but the sound it gave of was just too strange, like if there were multiple voices grinding each other.
"GRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"
The chimera became even more enraged as it flickered and struck Aegis who this time didn't dodge but blocked it with his shield that was raised from Aegiss belt device, completely encasing Aegis in the hard light barrier.
"Guh!"
Aegis made a surprised sound as he shot a bullet into the ground creating a gigantic crater.
"Urgh, okay, that's wasn't the best idea."
Aegis said as he stood up and dusted himself, he wasn't injured, his HL barrier was able to withstand half of its blow until it broke through, and then came into play Aegis's aura that was insanely almost godly big as Salem said.
Still, Aegis chose to take the blow as to measure its normal strength and came to the decision he can't play on attrition, not with Mantle being in his back.
"Then let's see who has more tricks."
"Grrrrrr."
Aegis said and the chimera growled as they both broke sound barriers and engaged each other, where Aegis either slashed, pierced, or cleaved throughout chimeras multiple limbs, the chimera took it in stride as it tried to reach the insolent human and either bit him or crush him.
"Huff.."
Aegis breathed out after a while as he looked at the chimera who charges at him.
Until now Aegis used mainly his more physical powers, he heard what Salem said and waited for chimera to use one of its own tricks before using glyphs.
"Ha!"
Aegis again motioned with his spear as he cut off one of the chimera's heads.
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
Chimera screamed in pain and rage as the black mist enveloped it.
"Huh?"
Aegis wondered but then stopped as he saw the cut off head regenerating back.
"Fuck..."
Aegis said and immediately created thousands of miniature glyphs all around the chimera as thousands upon thousands of needle barrages started to rain on the chimera.
"GRAAAAHHHH!!!"
The chimera screamed in rage as its felt thousands of miniature ice needle projectiles pierce inside its body from all side at the same time.
"Guh!"
Aegis made a sound of surprise as there was a symbol in the air, similar to his glyph but this one was completely black and radiating corrupted power as a black missile shot from it into surprised Aegis who blocked it with a spear.
"So, you truly can do magic."
Aegis said impressively but his face changed into a frown as he no longer did wish to try to see what's all trick it had.
"You are dangerous."
Aegis said and channeled his aura to his semblance as he started to created gigantic glyphs above the chimera.
"And I will not tolerate danger, not so close to my family."
Aegis said, and the glyphs above the chimera who blocked the needle shots changed into black color.
"DIE!"
Aegis said and the glyphs descended onto chimera.
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
The chimera screamed in pain as the gravity glyphs forced it to the ground.
"Aegis seeing his chance, took it and created thousands of miniature glyphs in line as he took off his special revolver and aimed it at the glyphs that were aimed at the chimera.
"Let see if you can survive this."
Aegis said and the chimera started thrashing around in hopes of escaping as it felt mortal danger.
There wasn't a sound of anything as Aegis pushed the trigger.
But then.
/BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM/
There was a sonic boom, this one stronger than the previous as trees and the entire landscape changed.
For where the chimera previously was is now nothing more than the crater in kilometers in size as Aegis sighed in relief.
"Still, now I know what you and I are capable of."
Aegis said as he now knew that psychically at least was on the same level as the ancient Grimm, still it seemed his glyphs were still bigger overkill.
"Well... time to tie it up."
Aegis said as he looked around in search of anything suspicious.
What Aegis has done was that he created thousands of acceleration glyphs that propelled his shot with each glyph, making the already kinetic power stronger.
Normally the fallout from such a strike would be bigger, but the chimera took most brunt force of the kinetic shot, thus shielding land from damage.
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The citizens of Mantle and Atlas were silent, for what just happened was streamed live from Schnee satellite and those with binoculars could see it themselves.
But even if not, nobody would say it was false as the sonic booms and the earth shakes were felt even to them.
As the moment Aegis shot the chimera the Atlas that floated trembled from the wind currents the shot and kinetic forces made.
The entire population was silent until one cheer was heard, a cheer that started a domine-like effect and the cheers soon were heard even to Aegis, who was kilometers in the distance.
"What?"
Aegis asked, confused as he didn't have an idea why people were cheering.
But where Aegis was confused, Weiss was smiling.
"Thank you."
Said Weiss to one of the operators who just tremblingly nodded as Weiss walked from the operation room.
"It's good you are safe..."
Weiss said as she saw she was alone and tremblingly supported herself on the wall.
"Good..."
Weiss said as she cried tears of relief and happiness...
For it was Weiss who made the fight live stream through Atlas and Mantle, and it was her whose heart was for the entire time like in crusher as her worry just radiating from her.
"Big brother."
Weiss said in a quiet voice that lacked her normal cold tone.
It was a voice that normally heard just Aegis, and that was just when they had pillow talk and were alone.
A voice full of love and caring, but now it had relief in it as she saw one of the most dangerous beings almost hurt her big brother.
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*Author note*
I tried a new way of dialogues, do you think it's better?
Someone said that my character speaks little and I needed to agree, so this is the result.
What do you think?
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Nisiris
Nisiris Creation is hard, cheer me up!
Creation is hard, cheer me up!
Your gift is the motivation for my creation. Give me more motivation!
Your gift is the motivation for my creation. Give me more motivation!
Your gift is the motivation for my creation. Give me more motivation!
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