FAMILY ABOVE ALL: BATTLING AGAINST GODS

Before Arlo arrived in the third zone.

"Magnificent, isn't it?" A voice overflowing with power and seething with dignity rang out amidst the silent clearing broken only by the slicing sound of the air caused by the imminent object falling from the sky.

"There have been countless kings among the Torkun race, but only one has ever yielded the Great King Title." For the first time, a different emotion could be felt in Tron's voice as he continued with a look of respect, "He was a perfect being very close to a god."

Tron could still vividly remember the scenes he saw when he awakened his bloodline.

The sight of a planet size Torkun similar in appearance to an ape, plucking stars as he devoured them as food left a deep impression on him. With every wave of his hand, a strong pull would tug at a star millions of light years away and draw it towards him. If the Star wasn't to his taste, he would send it flying with an overbearing repelling force generated from a simple swing of his hand.

The simple actions of this almost godly being were able to put the stars at his will.

Opening his eyes, Tron's eyes shook with intensity as he once more affirmed his resolve to reach the same level as his ancestor.

The massive shadow grew on the ground, and an overbearing pressure crushed the surroundings.

The Male Asura, Eleanor, and Landon finally came out of their stupor of gazing at the three-hundred-meter-wide meteor.

Even though the meteor was small in size, the act of conjuring such a large-scale attack from an unknown place, and the terrifying power waiting to be released from the meteor still shook the hearts of the viewers and sent them into a reverie.

However, someone had an entirely different reaction.

The surprise slowly disappeared from Zara's eyes, as a look of excitement took its place.

She didn't know who this great person her Elder had told her she would meet, but she was now sure that she had made a good decision by entering the secret realm.

Not only did she meet the child of a legendary person who had suddenly disappeared from public eyes some time ago, but now she even met a terrifying beast worthy enough to become her Life beast.

That is right!

The idea of taming Tron had sprouted within Zara's mind. While it was generally known that only a human mage could force a beast into submission with a secret technique created a long time ago by talented mages with an affinity to laws relating to taming; the truth was that after leading the entire universe for thousands for years, the Asura race has also developed a similar technique that could be used by Ki cultivators. however, this information was privy to the Asuras alone. Of course, they still had the restriction of only being able to take a beast in their lifetime. The practice of dividing their life essence and forcibly mixing it with that of a beast is not something that could be as they will.

Tron's eyebrows slowly creased into a frown as he turned his eyes towards Zara.

He narrowed his eyes at her when he noticed the way she gazed at him almost as if he was a priceless treasure.

Zara's bones shone with a deep red light and not before long, her red skin seemed to shine.

She invoked one of the abilities she inherited from her rare and ancient summon as she shouted simultaneously:

"All of you stand back. No one is allowed to interfere!"

The onlookers shifted their eyes in time to see her feet burst out in flame, causing her to be sent upward in the direction of the meteor by the propelling force.

Zara turned into a red streak that cut straight into the sky and not before long she collided with the falling meteor.

Immediately when she came into contact with the meteor, she unleashed the unique ability of her race gotten from their affinity with the law of gravity.

"Reverse gravity, × 50!"

The Asuras could not control the gravity of their surroundings, but they were able to influence the gravity of any object they came into contact with.

"Heok!" A groan escaped Zara's lips as even after drastically decreasing the weight of the meteor, she still found it too heavy to stop.

A grunt escaped her lips as her small body was pushed downwards at great speed, and as she felt herself coming closer to the ground, Zara realized that the situation was getting increasingly dangerous.

At the same time, a feeling of anger was starting to well up in her after realizing that she had failed in her attempt to stop the meteor's descent.

Due to her rising emotion, a deep red aura started surrounding her, and as the aura grew larger and thicker, the speed at which the meteor fell slowly reduced.

Zara's smooth and tender skin bulged with veins as her muscles flexed and after the aura around her had grown to a size almost comparable to a small sun, the falling meteor eventually crawled to a stop.

Now flying at a height of about a thousand meters from the ground, the eyes of Landon and the others bulged as they watched Zara give a loud battle cry, and as if resonating to her will, the previously falling meteor started ascending back into the sky.

The small size of Zara shining brightly like a small red sun in contrast to the three-hundred-meter wide meteor brought about an astonishing sight that warranted the mouth of even geniuses on the level of Eleanor's caliber to hang open.

After pushing the meteor up for another thousand meters, the Ki flowing within Zara's body surged wildly, before a burst of bright yellow flames erupted from her body.

The fire started from a small size, and as it increased at a steady speed, it eventually swallowed the small meteor whole before shooting high into the colorful sky.

*Booooooooooooooooom!*

Rumble!

The skies shook greatly as a shower of shattered burning rocks rained from the sky.

"This is not something we can get involved in." Eleanor voiced out as she quickly retreated from the range of the falling rocks. Landon silently agreed with her by following after her.

Steven and the Male Asura also seemed to make the same decision as they similarly retreated to a safe distance where they could watch the great fight about to begin without any harm.

Only Tron remained at his initial position and was accompanied by a rain of flaming rocks as he raised his head to lock eyes with the flying Zara.

He didn't bother stopping Landon and the others as he initially planned to kill all of them. He could already tell that just handling Zara was going to be something too difficult for the current him.

Even so, he didn't allow his emotion to show on his face and instead spoke slowly with a calm but deep voice overflowing with a bit of arrogance:

"I didn't think there would be someone as strong as you among the invaders. Neither did I think that I would meet someone with powers related to mine."

Seeing the look of confusion flashing on Zara's face, Tron grinned, "Let me show you what I mean."

He stretched his right palm which was large enough to cover a full-grown man's head in Zara's direction, causing the latter's eyes to widen slowly.

But before she could react, Tron commanded with a deep voice as he clenched his stretched palm:

"Get over here!"

Zara felt a terrifying force pulling at her and before she knew it her body streaked down the sky against her will at a speed comparable to a falling star.

In less than three breaths, she arrived before Tron, and what greeted her was the sight of a two-meter axe slashing down threateningly toward her.

However, contrary to what Tron expected, Zara had a calm look on her face as she swung her hands down, mirroring Tron's actions.

Tron's eyes when he noticed that Zara had summoned a huge bronze hammer almost her height at some point in her forced descent.

As their weapons were about to collide, only the sweet and pleasant voice of Zara rang out in the surroundings, heralding the arrival of a terrifying explosion.

"Gravity manipulation × 50!"

There was a brief silence during which Tron's eyes bulged out.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

Tron's body slammed hard into the ground, creating a 30 m wide crater before his body flew out like a ragdoll and rolled on the ground.

The cloud of dust rising from the collision was instantly incinerated by the burst of hot flames propelling Zara from her feet and in a mere instant, she appeared above the still-rolling Tron.

*SCRAM!* Tron roared out in anger.

Before Zara's hammer could hit him, he stretched his hand to his side and voiced out with a vicious glint flashing in his eyes:

"Attraction point!" A colorless sphere appeared ten meters in the direction Tron was pointing his palm.

With a terrifying tug, Zara's body was pulled uncontrollably towards the colorless sphere, like an iron towards a magnet. Even though he didn't inherit the repelling ability of his ancestor, Tron was able to come up with a way to mimic it using his law of attraction.

Tron still couldn't stop his body from rolling so he stretched out his other palm, and in a split second, his lost axe was sucked back into it.

Impacting the ground once more, Tron swung his axe into the ground, forming a deep trench as his body retreated another three meters. Only then did he come to a stop.

Raising his head, Tron's deep blue eyes met the enchanting eyes of Zara who was just freed from the colorless sphere that had disappeared after serving its purpose.

*Crack!* Forcefully suppressing the rage welling up within him, Tron cracked his neck at the same time as he flexed his muscles, "I admit that I underestimated you." Even though he tried to mask it, Zara and the other onlookers could feel the trace of anger hidden within his voice.

He had never been humiliated in such a manner since awakening his bloodline. Even when he faced death from the pitch-black snake, he was rendered helpless but at least he wasn't beaten and flung like a doll.

"I will be a fool to back any longer..."

At a distance far enough for their safety to be guaranteed, and short enough for them to see with clarity the terrifying battle going on, Landon couldn't help but gulp nervously when he saw the two terrifying monsters totally out of his league stare at each other, causing a stiffening silence to ensue.

"It would be best to avoid clashing with those two at all costs." Hearing Eleanor's sweet voice, Landon couldn't help but shift his head towards her, and what he saw made the respect he felt for the former increase by several notches.

While he had an anxious and nervous look on his face, Eleanor merely gazed at the two clashing parties with narrowed eyes. Landon couldn't feel a hint of fear from her and he knew she wasn't acting. It was almost as if she said her previous words because it would be a hassle and not because she feared she would lose to them.

Turning her eyes from Tron and Zara who were still competing in a nerve-wracking stare-off, Eleanor looked at the male Asura watching the battle from a safe distance in the direction opposite to her and she couldn't help but murmur, "It's just a pity I couldn't finish off that other guy..."

Landon sweated at his back when he heard her words. He didn't want to have anything to do with the Asuras after witnessing their fabled prowess with his own eyes.

Unknown to both of them, their teams whom they considered to be safe were experiencing a life-and-death situation.

.....

Near the lake separating the second and third zones, and in the outskirts of the latter zone, a group of seven was handling the corpses of vampires.

These dead bodies belonged to Landon's group; the third years who had yet to break into the grandmaster realm, and were forced to retreat after their group encountered the Elve's group.

"And this is the last one." One of the boys muttered as he willed the black blood he had extracted from the last vampire into an orb-like artifact.

"Hehe! The Elders will be happy." A young girl's voice resounded.

"That is right! Who would have thought we would have the opportunity to extract the bloodline of several vampires." Another male voiced out.

"Now, we only have to make sure we don't get caught." After fully absorbing the last vampire's bloodline, Rook took the orb-like artifact into his space ring, before speaking out. Rather than voicing his thoughts, his tone sounded more like a threat to remain cautious.

His other team nodded their head with a grave look on their face. They knew Rook was right, and they had to make sure that the truth about how the vampires died wasn't made known. If not, the vampires would run amok and hunt their members, just as they almost sent the humans in their world into extinction.

They didn't want another repeat of a mass slaughter.

If it wasn't for the allure of the secret technique one of their elders found recently and the potential it possessed to absorb bloodlines of special races, they wouldn't have dared to cross the vampires.

But after entering deep into the third zone, they encountered the Asura race. Thankfully, they were able to retreat safely before the latter could deal great damage to their team. Ever since then, they didn't dare to venture into the third realm as they cowered under the great might of the male Asura.

However, who would have thought that a few minutes later, their team would encounter the group of vampires, who seemed to be exhausted? Added to the vampire's low cultivation, and their minds clouded from the rage and shame they felt from retreating from the Asuras, Rook, and his team hadn't thought too deeply before killing the second years and using the technique on them.

Of course, only Rook and his two other cousins who were part of the magical beast's current royalty had access to the technique and the others had no idea of such inside information until the deed was done.

Suddenly one of the two members sent to patrol the surroundings to prevent others from interfering appeared before them before speaking with an anxious expression:

"A group comprised of vampires, werewolves, and elves are heading in this direction. They should arrive in a minute."

The expressions of the magical beasts turned grave and a somber air filled the surroundings. They couldn't believe that the three races were teaming up, especially the vampires and werewolves. But after thinking about it for a moment, they realized that the three races had a good reason for their decision. The Asuras.

However, while the others were trembling in fear about what to do, Rook and his cousins had entirely different expressions as a cunning glint flashed within their eyes.

Rook first confirmed the physical condition and cultivation of the approaching party. Only then did he look at his cousins with an evil smile on his face, "Are you thinking what I am thinking?"

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