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BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

We all stared in disbelief at the sheer power Lara had achieved since her training. Only my mother, my brother, Mist, and Nephilim seemed unsurprised.

"This place is overflowing with spirits more than anywhere else, so I can do a little more than usual!" Lara giggled. "Eh... Thunder!"

As she spoke, the thunder spirits spiraled and compressed into gigantic thunder dragons. They rushed downward and exploded, slaughtering more and more monsters.

"A little more?!" I asked.

"Without this environment, her abilities are around thirty percent weaker, I guess," Mist said, rubbing her chin.

"T-That’s ridiculous!" I gasped.

"Yeeaaah..." Mist nodded. "We got used to it. Lara is just... well, she is the Saint of Spirits. The first ever."

I was beginning to realize that this Saint of Spirits, created through the cooperation of the Spirit Gods and the Gods above, might be a weapon in herself.

Yes, Lara had secretly been made into a weapon. A super-powerful weapon capable of wielding the spirits of the entire world, especially once her powers fully matured.

But why?

Were the gods who wanted to ally with humanity responsible for this, working together with the spirit gods of this world?

It seemed like a clever scheme, if true.

This only made me wonder how strong Luck had become.

"Alright, I think she has shown off enough. I will do something myself too!"

Mist leaped into the sky and sprouted a pair of angelic wings made of light. Her spirit, Snowflake, appeared beside her. No longer a tiny rabbit with wings, she had become a gigantic, fluffy rabbit-like beast with golden horns and majestic butterfly wings.

Mist rode her spirit and pointed her arrow at the monsters below. The arrow absorbed her power, her Celestial Light Arrow Magic, transforming her bow into a gigantic spiritual, divine, and soul weapon all at once.

"Okay, here I come!"

Her four eyes gleamed bright gold as her long, fluffy white hair waved in the wind. Her black horns turned completely gold in that moment. The little demon girl summoned the brightest light-element magic I had ever seen, aside from my mother’s.

"Celestial Heaven Bow Spirit Arts!"

Her bow fired a gigantic arrow made of celestial spirit light toward the beasts below. Larger creatures began to emerge, titans hundreds of meters tall made of living coral and mutated chimeric krakens.

"First Form – Endless Rain of Celestial Tears!"

And then...

That single arrow split into hundreds of thousands of arrows at once, resembling a rain of celestial tears descending upon the world.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

The damage was devastating. The Gigantic Coral Titan Beast roared and swung its massive hands at her, only to be shredded by the arrows until it exploded into countless pieces.

The Massive Chimera Krakens roared, their titanic pincers and long tentacles reaching for her. Snowflake answered with a roar, unleashing hundreds of beams of light from her eyes, mouth, ears, and wings. The bombardment struck before Mist fired another arrow.

"Celestial Heaven Bow Spirit Arts!"

"Second Form – Heavenly Dragon Descent!"

Heavenly Dragon Descent?

Just as the name implied, her arrow of celestial light transformed into a giant golden dragon that gleamed brightly. It pierced the massive hundred-meter kraken, destroyed its heart, and triggered a massive explosion inside it.

BOOOMMM!!!

The dragon did not stop there. It coiled through the skies, piercing dozens of the titanic beasts one after another and devastating them beyond belief.

But then...

RUMBLE!

SPLASH!

From the chaotic divine seas rose a giantess made entirely of wild, torrential water. At its center was a mermaid-like monster with the head of a fishman.

"GRYAAAAAHHH!"

This was a Tier 9 Fishman Queen that had evolved through spirit and divine energies into such a colossal threat.

As the gigantic water hands reached for her, Mist smiled confidently. She gathered energy and fired her third arrow.

"Celestial Heaven Bow Spirit Arts!"

"Third Form – Heavenly Sun Arrow: Apollon!"

Apollon?

The arrow suddenly intensified its heat to critical levels, glowing deep red as if it were about to explode. She fired it, piercing the three-hundred-meter giantess of water, incinerating the Fishman Queen at its core. The arrow continued into the sea and detonated, flattening the depths for a moment and revealing a dry seabed.

BOOOMMMM!!!

When the explosion faded, the seas quickly rushed back to fill the crater and slowly calmed, as if nothing had happened, even though we had all witnessed that insane display.

"Phew...!" Mist sighed in relief, wiping the sweat from her forehead. "What’s wrong with you guys? Aren’t you going to fight?"

We stared at one another in disbelief.

Lara’s growth was expected. We all knew she was the most talented and would eventually surpass most of us as the Saintess of Spirits.

But Mist’s power was completely unexpected, especially because she had never been chosen as a saint or a hero.

This little girl, who used to be bullied and cried so easily, had once seemed so defenseless. Yet she had dared to join us on our dangerous adventures, picked up a bow, learned archery, awakened her magic, gained a magic circle and a physique, received amplification from my system seed, and finally bonded with her spirit.

We had watched her rise from zero to hero, and I could not help but feel incredibly proud of everything she had achieved.

She was, without a doubt, the Heroine of Celestial Arrows.

No need for any god’s approval other than mine.

"Alright everyone, let’s go!"

I roared along with the others as more and more sea beasts emerged. Titan-type creatures grew more abundant while the entire ocean shook violently.

"Mist, I admit you are amazing now, but you are not the only one who has improved."

Celeste smiled confidently. Her Living Demonic Spirit Spear, Thanatos, began trembling as she tapped it. The spear suddenly grew gigantic, nearly fifty meters long.

Then it divided into one thousand smaller black spears that rushed toward every monster, thrusting through their bodies and impaling them with devastating force.

"Okay! Lots of water here, and sand... and plants. Hm, okay, I got this!"

Celica remained on the beach and expanded her Golem Domain as far as she could. The entire land trembled before her as giant golems rose from the sands themselves.

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