Chapter 20: The Lost Forest, Absolute Ground Part 2.

In another location.

After being teleported in a random part of the lost forest, Emea managed to encounter her other half, Emia and her best friend Nui one hour later.

Together, the three started advancing forward while chatting.

'' It's indeed true, the gravity here is more than what we experienced inside the gravity room when training back then. '' Emea said.

'' It was to be expected, this one is natural while the latter is artificial. Thinking about it now, walking like this has brought back some memories. I remembered the time when we seven were exploring some ruins in the second Heavens, the Lost Civilization, it was a happy time. Now, it will be impossible to ever do something like that because we became strangers to each other slowly drifting apart. Some became madmen due to unrequited love while the other betrayed us. Sigh! life is full of surprises '' Nui responds with a pained face.

'' You're right but it's worth living it '' Emea said.

'' That aside, Congrats for managing to advance your relationship with Kyle. '' Emia said teasingly.

Nui became embarrassed, she smiled while answering.

'' Thank you, even myself until now I'm still feeling like I'm in a dream. Firstly, when I said that I was half-serious half-joking, never I would have thought he would answer like that. Now we are in relation. Well, I'm his girlfriend for now, but it fine by me. I will slowly elevate my status to that of the first wife ''

After saying this she looked at Emea, Emia, and smirked.

Emea and Emia's expressions instantly became gloomy, while emitting killing intent they said.

'' Nui, It seems that you want to die faster. If it is Yes, We will be happy to gladly give you a helping hand. We the first wives no matter how many women he will have. Even himself wouldn't say otherwise. Do you understand? ''

Nui hastily nodded her head while inwardly thinking ' Scary, those two are really scary, I was just joking you know.'

The atmosphere became tense but suddenly the three burst in laughter.

'' Pfft hahaha! You two were really scary earlier. I almost got a heart attack '' Nui said while laughing.

'' Fufufu, you deserve it, you dare to touch our reverse scale. It's normal that we would become scary, you must defend your position against the opposite party, even if the latter is your best friend '' said the twins.

'' That's right '' Nui agreed with the twin statement.

The three continued to chat harmoniously while advancing. The atmosphere was great.

However, soon this atmosphere got broken by the cry of an unwanted guest.

''Guooooooooooo!''

The three looked in the direction of cry and saw the culprit. It was a mutated beast, this mutated beast has dark brown skin and golden eyes like that of reptile. Bulging muscles with a height as tall as an adult male, and wore a fine-quality armor on its body which gave off a very intimidating aura. Gushing nasal breath from its big aqualine nose.

'' A Goblin General '' cried the three in surprise.

The Goblin General suddenly released a strong swing from its giant sword that was tall as itself. The blow was tremendous, Emea and the other hastily dodged stepping in the opposite direction.

*Boom!*

The Three looked in the opposite direction where the goblin general attacks have ended, they can't help but suck a mouthful of air feeling shiver on their backs. This casual swing has just erased a bunch of trees on his way, leaving a deep gash on the ground.

Nui Immediately summoned a deep green bow, fully drawing it, she fired three arrows successfully towards the goblin general, with a big swing of its giant sword, the three arrows were bisected in two.

Meanwhile, Emea created and shot a white ball towards the goblin general, as if he sensed the threat coming from the Emea White ball, he hastily jumped back dodging, but Nui was waiting for that, instantly a green vine covered in thorns wrapped around his left foot, holding it in place.

Emea and Emia with their rapiers attacked him from different directions, in a matter of few minutes the goblin general has a lot of small cuts appearing on his body even with his fine-quality armor, the armor couldn't offset all the slashes. Roaring he swings its giant sword, immediately the three girls distanced themselves from him, having gained a room for a breath, he immediately cut the vines that were holding him.

His eyes became red, as he started madly swinging its giant sword left and right like a frenzied bull, the three continued to dodge again and again.

After few minutes they decided to retaliate following their earlier pattern, Nui attacked with her green bow, Emea and Emia fired dozens of White beams at the goblin general, the latter just continued to swing his giant sword deflecting some of the White beams and some arrows, while some of them managed to pierce through his fine-quality armor.

Suddenly, he felt chill, his instincts were screaming that the twin's next attack would be fatal. And since these instincts have saved him several times, he automatically jumped back, distancing himself from the twin's extended hands. Emea and Emia praised his quick reaction but he seems to have forgotten about the third person, Nui.

Immediately sensing that something was amiss, the goblin general turned around, what greeted him, was a flower that has only two petals that looks like a beat's mouth, with hundreds of sharp teeth inside. It looks extremely scary. He could see a green and slimy looking liquid inside the flower, that smelled bad, it's probably a poison he thought. The goblin general automatically wanted to turn in the opposite direction, outside of the already opened Thorny flower mouth but due to the inertia, it didn't work as he wished, he was swallowed instead.

Gulp!

The thorny flower swallows him, but the latter started thrashing around because the goblin general was struggling inside its belly, but after some time, he ceased struggling because it was dead. This Thorny Flower was bigger than the normal, twice the size of a normal thorny flower. The thorny flower immediately spits the goblin general giant sword and a green crystal core, this is the goblin general crystal core.

Emea, Emia, and Nui decided to take a breath after the battle, they choose a quiet corner one kilometer away from their battle zone. After resting, they will continue and search for the other girls.

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Elsewhere, two kilometers north of the current location of the Emea,Emia, and Nui, is Kaguya. Now, she is fighting against a mutated beast.

It is a huge bear, its height reached four meters. The bear has three atrocious horns growing on its forehead and deep crimson fur. Its jaw and fangs can easily crush an average human. It's a Devil Bear.

The Devil Bear is spouting a scorching flame from its mouth. Kaguya quickly rolled on the ground, trying to avoid the flame.

The Devil Bear was spreading flame like a flamethrower as if it was saying it wouldn't let Kaguya approach.

Kaguya sighed before activating her domain, a fifteen meters zone entirely in ice appeared trapping the Devil Bear, Ice and flame collided resulting in an explosion.

*Boom*

The Devil Bear staggered back, in this exchange it's his loss because it flame was not powerful enough, the Devil Bear wanted to quickly escape from Kaguya Ice domain, but how could Kaguya allowed that she coldly muttered.

'' Condense, [Iceberg]''

Immediately as if following her order, her Ice domain condensed in the blink of an eye in one location, where the Devil Bear was, sensing the approaching danger, he roared

'' Guuaaaaahhh!"

Flame erupted from its body, but this seems not to be working, the flame was extinguished and the Devil Bear sealed in an Ice sculpture, looking like a small iceberg.

As if she has done something worthless, with a blank expression, Kaguya snaps her fingers, the iceberg containing the now frozen and dead Devil Bear, shattered in many pieces with a red crystal core the size of thumb rolling out. Still, with her blank expression Kaguya retrieved the crystal core and continued to advance in a completely different direction than the twins and Nui, she seems to be unconsciously doing it.

Halfway on the way, she stopped and started muttering

'' This won't do since when he shows up and I saw him, I can't help but think about him every minute. I want to see, I want to hear his voice, see him smile, I want him to look at me. These are the thoughts that have constantly plagued my mind, since a while ago. Sigh! To think that I would fall deeply in love with a man I have just met. Mother would laugh at me if she knew about it."

After muttering this, she shakes her head and continued forward.

Unknowingly, the direction she took, was the same as Kyle's location.