***
While the 4 of them prepared themselves for the battle ahead, Thor was on top of a nearby building in front of the Moth perimeter, Eden by his side. Already understanding the beast's strength when he grabbed Eden, he knew the four should be able to handle it.
That is if they had good teamwork, which they don't, so for now he'd treat this as a training exercise for them.
'Vipralopa-Class. More raw energy than the suspected first and second herrschers combined, nearing Aurora's base before training.' While threatening to many, without the threat of a herrscher core or gem, the beast could only resort to using pure Honkai energy, nothing more.
Cutting off his thoughts, the group started to move.
Aurora rushed forward, being the strongest among them she aimed straight to sever its arms.
Elysia fired her Honkai arrows, intercepting any attack from the beast at Aurora.
The battlefield temperature dropped as Kevin created an ice field stretching across the plains, creating a path for Aurora. He also aimed to catch it from below with some ice pillars to hold it in place.
Mobius rushed to get behind the beast aiming for the tail, a spear in hand, she spun it before slashing through the horde of lower level honkai beasts in her way.
"Better than I thought." Thor was mildly impressed, they had never worked together before, and had planned for them to do a combat exercise against him as a way to build their teamwork.
Glancing back at Eden who pulled a chair out from nowhere had sat down with some sunglasses and wine. Thor's eye twitched seeing this.
Eden, noticing his gaze only smirked at him, pointed to another seat next to her while filling up another cup of wine.
Another eye twitch and he promised to up the level of her next training session, especially in the stamina department. At least he has two ways of training her stamina.
But he still took her up on the offer to sit down and have a drink.
***
"Haaaa!"
–Slash–
Aurora slashed down onto the massive arm. Her blade glowing a bright purple shimmer tore through the arm severing it from the body. It fell to the ground with a loud thud.
–ROARRRRR–
It let out a deafening guttural roar, shaking the air around it.
Taking the chance Elysia charges up one large arrow before letting it go.
–VMMMMM–
As if teleporting a pink streak pierces the metallic armour before stopping and fizzling out. A large molten gnash of molten armour surrounded the chest.
At the same time Kevin's ice pillars had reached up, securing the beast in place, whether it could hold against its massive power was to be seen.
–RRRROOOARR–
A pained roar left the best, it released a massive aura of Honkai energy blasting Aurora back towards Kevin and Elysia, while Mobius was untouched still shredding the any Honkai beast below chariot class with ease, she was now nearing the tail, just a little longer before she would be in range.
As the beast became coated in a purple pink aura, the ground around it cracked and began to rise, Kevin's Ice pillars shattered as parts of the ice field melted.
The nearby mountain began to crumble under the weight of the beast's Honkai pressure.
Mobius saw she was unable to reach the tail so she leaped up channeling Honkai energy into the spear before throwing it at the tail, then getting swiped away by the very same tail, at the last moment she saw a glimpse of the spear just bouncing off the aura.
From that swipe she was conveniently somehow shot towards the trio.
Elysia jumped and caught her before she blew past them. She then dropped her to the ground before landing herself.
"How do we get through THAT!" Kevin gestures at the Honkai aura.
"You don't." A familiar voice. They all turned back to see Thor standing there, menacingly. He was sipping no downing the rest of the wine before tossing the cup up before it disappears.
"Unless Aurora uses the third purge, none of you can get through that." He walked in front of them looking back at them, then giving a small smirk.
"Let me show you the easiest way to negate an aura." With a step he vanished, only to appear in the air before the beast.
"To fight aura," His voice sounded clearly in their heads, "Use a stronger aura."
Silence followed before a crushing pressure emanated from Thor. The four of them nearly kneeled, Even Eden kilometers away almost fell off her chair, it did make her drop the ice cream sadly. 'Goddammit Thor.'
"Ugh." Kevin's knee gave out before Mobius and Elysia did the same, only Aurora stood standing, though the trembling of her body indicated her own struggle.
The Moth soldiers and everyone else was unaffected. The same couldn't be said for the Honkai fodder or the Vipralopa beast itself.
Any beast weaker than chariot-class, was crushed, the few templars collapsed to the ground. The aura surrounding the Vipralopa honkai beast shimmered before shattering.
Now with only 5 arms, a pierced chest area and a lower amount of Honkai energy the beast could only roar at the human that dared challenge it, rushing towards him. It condensed a ball of pure honkai energy, containing all it had left.
Thor responded by raising his hand. "Severance." His calm voice sounded before he slashed down.
Reality split before him, two slices. The ball of destruction split perfectly, no explosions, no backfiring, just dissipating into the surrounding air.
It didn't matter however, as the beast itself was perfectly split down the middle.
The split reality fixed itself. The two halves of the beast fell to the ground crushing two templars leaving only one.
Thor gazed at the beast flicking a finger as the beast was cut into millions of pieces.
(A/N: Just to clarify that Thor, as a rune user who has engraved runes into his soul, can use runes to weaponise the strength of his soul as an Aura. That's my logic behind it, it'd be kinda weird if someone with that strong a soul couldn't.)
***
The pressure on them vanished. The four didn't really notice as most of them were still focused on the two halves of the beast. Mobius was the first to snap out of her daze turning to Thor, next was Elysia who started to giggle before jumping Thor. Instinctively he caught her.
She then started to rain down kisses on him. Saying things that caused Aurora to turn red and Kevin to look away in embarrassment.
(Maybe we should try that next time? Oh! Maybe we can have him fuck so–)
–Poof–
'Shut up!!' Aurora turned redder as electricity cackled around her.
Mobius got up and dusted herself off. She then took out her phone that somehow survived the whole ordeal. She checked a few things, ignoring the 30 missed calls from Blanca and 3 from Klein.
Thor then put Elysia down who clung to his arm prompting Alter to take over and grab onto his other.
Kevin scratched his head, this was an awkward situation for him, but he was luckily saved by Eden popping up out of nowhere dropping a pad into his hand that had Mei on a call.
***
As they re-entered the main headquarters, Mei, Su and Vill were waiting for them, Himeko and Hua were with the rest of the forces cleaning up any stragglers from the vipralopa beast.
"Me–" Kevin couldn't even say anything before Mei grabbed his arm and dragged him away. Su gave Kevin a thumbs up, which he returned in kind.
Su was going to talk with Thor, but Mobius quickly shoved a pad into his hands, he glanced at the data on it that she entered from the Vipralopa-Class.
[Name: Maheśvara]
[Class: Vipralopa]
[Appearance: Roughly–
While Su checked the data Vill pounced on the four remaining, while sending a subtle glare at Alter who gave her a smug look back.
Deciding not to entertain her, Vill faces Thor, childish excitement on her face. "You've got to teach me how to do that. We heard on the coms, you went all…" She then went on to dramatically describe what Thor did and how he acted.
Eden played with a ball of water in the back, she had been practising it, but didn't have enough control to use it in combat. She gave the occasional word or two to further hype Vill.
Elysia tuned it all out and just leaned into Thor.
Aurora was getting annoyed with Vill's fangirling and spoke up. "Why are you only saying what he did? We did a lot of the work as well. I even cut the bastard's arm off."
Vill gave her a weird look, she then dismissed her with a few shallow words. "Yeah, you guys did great." Immediately she started suggesting ideas for inventions they could make to try and mimic some of their abilities. Maybe even some that normal soldiers could use, the soldiers had nothing other than the Honkai powered cannons, and even those couldn't pierce the natural armour of Emperor-Class Honkai.
***
Once Vill had stopped her rambling, the group made their way to the control room. Aurora had gone off back to her room. She said she was tired. It was 2 AM in the end. Maheśvara had appeared just before midnight, meaning Aurora was going to bed at the time, hence why she was a little late, even with her lightning speed.
Eden was caught by Blanca, who was here with her husband. Vill had now taken his left side while Elysia kept on the right.
Thor took in the situation before sighing. 'A harem is a lot of work. Not that I'm complaining.'
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A/N: How was that? Hope it was good.
Something I'd like to know is do you guys like how I write or should I try and add more to some things as I'm blunt quite often so I feel its kind of weaker in some areas due to my word choice?
Anyway I beat writers block at least, just now need to decide when to do some events or introduce things.
Ciao