The Empyreal Gem Master

Gem Master Todd looked at the scene of Claire buzzing with her wings of lightning and flying up with incredulity and dismay as he couldn't help but curse.

"Shit!"

The earth below him continued to shake.

His figure was pulled up by Gem Master Azazel as these veterans had to make a hard choice, gazing at the dozens of other injured Gem Masters as they bellowed out.

"Retreat!"

They moved speedily.

They didn't even look back towards the flood of Black Furred Beasts surging towards them.

They gathered everyone they could- they gathered all those with a heartbeat as they rushed back towards the direction of the Inner Barracks!

Those with a heartbeat.

This was because during the initial blast of red tendrils of light that the Black Furred Gorilla had released in their temporary camp- it was powerful enough that a few Awakened Gem Masters never rose again.

There were already casualties- they couldn't afford any more!

OH! OH! OH!

Behind them, the bellows of Gorillas echoed out as they moved ever faster, Gem Master Todd and other long ranged Gem Masters occasionally turning around to shoot lightning arrows at the wave of darkness coming towards them.

Todd and Azazel had to grit their teeth while looking at the skies and hoped.

They hoped that somehow, the bright light with the Variant Life Socket that had surprised all of them wouldn't fail, and the newly Awakened Five-Link Gem Master would fall along with him!

In the midst of all of this danger, they didn't even have time to entertain and wonder how Alexander was able to do what he did.

Just what Variant Life Socket did he have, and how come it allowed him to erupt with such power?!

Such thoughts only came in passing as under the assault of a cloud of black furred Beasts behind them, they only rushed towards the entrance of this Tier 1 Breach faster.

—

BOOM!

Another glacial explosion echoed out that moved the body of Bobo, the Four-Link Black Furred Gorilla, ever higher.

Multiple ruptures on its skin with frozen blood could be seen on this creature, its muscles spasming and contracting constantly as it had to be in immense pain!

In the skies of the Jungle Grounds, chunks of ice floated and were eventually pushed down by gravity as the figure of Alexander was using the heavy chunks of ice falling off Bobo as footholds to jump ever higher, his heart pumping him full of exhilaration as he did things he would have never even imagined doing just a day ago.

When he wasn't even Awakened, he would have never entertained the idea of jumping up and using an Ability to propel himself high in the skies, nor that he would push himself even higher while he used the ridiculous support capabilities of Gems to fling an oversized Gorilla through the skies!

But here he was doing it.

"Coward! Human!"

The constant freezing and bombing effect had taken Bobo to its limits as at this moment, a second after it became unfrozen from the last explosion- its chest gathered all the tendrils of red lightning around it as its central Gem glowed.

And Alexander felt a piercing sensation in his head- a sensation he wasn't entirely familiar with, but it urged him to send his life force towards the Gem in the center of his Enneagram right away!

Ice Wave.

In front of him, a heavy glacier of ice and frost instantly erupted and covered everything for 50 meters, even freezing part of Bobo's limbs in the distant skies as within the depths of this glacier…was a thick crimson pillar of crimson lightning.

…!

Lightning that had shot out of Bobo's central Gem and would have smashed onto him had he not frozen it before it arrived!

And that piercing sensation in his head that forced him to act even when he didn't know what was coming...was that still the passive effect of the senses of Ice Wave that even granted him a sense of danger?

These questions buzzed in his head, but even as they did, he was already moving to act.

He didn't trigger the initial explosive effect of Ice Wave just yet as the massive figure of Bobo began to fall from the skies- the glacier it's limbs were connected to pulling him along.

Alexander began to feel the same sensation of falling as he released a burst of Ice Wave below his feet that gave him leverage and pushed him higher once more, his small figure just passing the fiery eyes of rage filled with Blood of Bobo.

He went up, Bobo went down.

It was the final step of the plan he came up with seeing the weight of this massive beast and the fact that he could move it across space with his explosive Ice Wave.

He hoped it would be enough.

No, it had to be enough!

After pushing his body ever higher, the force propelling him upwards ended as well as momentarily, he found himself gazing at the endless blue skies of this Tier 1 Breach while suspended in space.

Truly, it didn't seem like some separate space.

It felt like another world entirely.

Before he began to fall, he wondered.

Just what would he be able to see if he reached the highest point of these skies?

Just as he had this thought, his eyes caught something on the edge as it was…

"Alexander!" The buzzing figure Claire, with her radiant blue wings of Lightning, reached him. 

His figure that was about to begin its descent felt her hands wrap around him, her bountiful chest pushing on his back as she looked down at the falling Bobo.

He didn't ask her why she didn't listen to him as since she was here…

"On my signal, release the strongest blast of lightning you can gather, okay?"

…!

He spoke calmly in the skies as she nodded towards him.

"Now, dive down."

Without hesitation, she followed his words.

They on top, Bobo on the bottom. Their figures fell down with the sheer weight of Bobo making him crash towards the earth at an unprecedented pace!

And it was at this point that Alexander released the blast of explosion from the frozen glacier and directed it downwards, further adding on to how fast Bobo was crashing down.

"Now!"

Behind him, Claire's wings fluttered as he felt her hot breath on his neck.

His senses showed him her serious gaze as the centermost Gem on her chest flashed with a brilliant blue light- a cerulean lightning bolt instantly crashing down from above them to further strike the figure of Bobo and accelerate him even further!

A fearsome bellow was heard as the earth neared for Bobo.

Below him, a cloud of black furred creatures that were chasing the other Gem Masters only felt a shadow cover them as by the time they looked up…

BOOM!

Like a meteor, the massive body of the Four-Link Black Furred Gorilla smashed down!