I Can Assimilate Everything

Above the Adrastia Continent.

Waves of authority seethed after the words Achilles had just said!

Azuryan did not answer with words.

Her silence ruptured into a roar as she opened her wings wide, and the havens ignited.

Emerald fire bloomed out from her body, not like normal flame, but thick- like living magma infused with wrath itself. With a screeching bellow, she raised her wings and summoned her ancestral might.

"Blight of the Verdant Pyre!"

From her chest burst forth a sigil, a fiery mandala etched in green starfire. It spun outward and grew, dozens of emerald runes orbiting its core like ravenous eyes.

The skies warped.

Reality cracked around it.

A column of viridescent ruin erupted from her beak. It stretched down in spirals of destruction that split the clouds, twisting with layers of burning time and corrosive entropy.

It was the final judgment of a Phoenix Monarch that was enraged!

And yet...

BOOOM!

The flames struck the Titanwall Dome. A moment passed. Then, they fizzled.

All that power. All that apocalyptic grandeur.

Reduced to fucking cinders that didn't even darken a single Runescripture on the protective barrier.

Azuryan's pupils narrowed into slits.

Beloe the dome, Achilles floated with his hand slowly lowering. His face was quiet. Dangerous.

"When you found this continent," he asked, "did you tell the others? Or did you just rush here in a fit of rage?"

His voice was calm and calculated as he looked at this glorious Phoenix and truly…spoke to her as if he were speaking to a chicken!

Azuryan still did not reply.

Achilles exhaled once through his nose and nodded.

"If that's the case..."

He raised his left hand.

HUUM!

From the sky above, a dome of molten earth and gold-blooded magma bloomed into existence. It grew with impossible speed, stretching high and wide until it connected with the Titanwall Dome below.

It was none other than Territorial Domain V!

And with it…

The Phoenix Legion was sealed in.

A second dome.

A trap.

Then, a low rhythm began. A pulse. A beat.

And it stemmed from nothing else but the Sea of Thalassara.

BOOM... BOOM...

From the Sea of Thalassara above, the light turned brilliant. Glorious blue cascaded across the havens as the sea's surface rippled, giving way to something ancient beneath.

Lines of light formed. Stars connected.

Weapons of celestial grandeur rose from the sea.

They were battlestaves of judgment!

Ancient stellar liquid cannons, each taller than city towers, began locking into place. Their barrels shimmered with starlight, their forms carved from condensed nebula and water.

Dozens of them.

Each capable of knocking back a Celestbone Stage Astral Core Ascension being from the skies.

It had all happened in seconds.

Azuryan and her Phoenixes looked around.

Trapped.

Hunted.

Doomed!

Achilles lowered his hand. His voice was calm, as if speaking to an old acquaintance.

"I'll try and make sure you don't make it out of here alive, okay?"

He turned to those behind him.

To Rose.

His Rose.

She stood tall, a current of starlight running through her green hair.

He kissed her forehead gently as he asked.

"Would you like to fight?"

…!

Her eyes burst with glorious waves of flames as she smiled like a pyromaniac.

Her smile literally burned as her red lips opened.

"I thought you'd never ask."

BOOM!

A pillar of flames erupted and began surging around her!

He then turned to Dr. Shaw, Luna, Aliya, Major David, Lancelot, King Flamewake, and the others who had gathered.

They stood with their Living Cataclysmic Star Items active as they looked otherworldly. Each weapon pulsed with its own fierce will as it surrounded them all with starlight!

He looked at all of them as he began to float up past the protective dome of the Adrastia Continent.

"The most powerful enemy here is a Neuronova Stage Ancient One," Achilles stated. "None of you can defeat her yet. But... the eight Celestbone Stage Phoenixes and twenty-five Luminblood Stage ones…"

He looked at them firmly.

"They'll be good target practice. Let them teach you how deadly your weapons really are and just what level of power you have currently reached."

…!

No one flinched.

Every one of them nodded.

Then Achilles looked back up.

His voice rose, ringing with mockery, went towards Azuryan and her 3,000 Phoenixes!

"Hey! So…we are going to use you guys for target practice. Please give it your all!"

...!

The words were utterly ridiculous.

When the phoenixes heard them, they looked at each other as if they wanted to confirm as if they were all hearing the same thing!

Many of them remembered what had happened not too long ago on their Everburn Aerie Continent where many of their brethren had to be killed because the culprit that was here in front of them, had proceeded to infect them with mind controlling spores.

And now he was speaking to them like this?

Azuryan shrieked.

The rest of her legion bellowed out in rage and anger!

Their wrath surged as Azuryan acted, seeing that Achilled had come out of the purple gold dome.

She dove forward faster than thought, beak open wide, unleashing a beam of green lava-like starfire wrapped in twisting entropy!

But Achilles didn't falter.

His jaw opened.

Dragon King's Breath VI activated.

…!

From his mouth poured a river of destruction.

Purple and gold. Lava made of stars. Flame warped reality in waves, twisting the sky into a molten haze as the two blasts met in the center of the air.

BOOOOOOM!

A dome of pressure expanded out.

Waves of light and heat surged in every direction.

Rose, beside him, screamed upward as her form shimmered and shifted.

A Verdant Phoenix bloomed into existence.

Wings made of fire and starlight. Talons of silver and emerald. Her tail streamed like a comet wrapped in life itself.

She roared and surged upward.

Members of the Phoenix Legion met her!

A thousand screamed in answer!

She tore through five in a single blink as she began to rampage!