The Celestial Terras didn't get to say anything. Leonel could see a dullness in their eyes, an unhurried, almost lackadaisical style that came from years of not fighting. It was like their entire race was covered in a shell and sealed away.
However, he could see that hidden deep within that dullness was something exceptionally frightening, something so frightening that even with Aina's strength, had they already awakened to it, he still wouldn't dare to come here.
This was a truly frightening race... Which was why it was also a shame that they were just sitting on the sidelines right now.
"Why not come out and have some fun?"
Leonel's own battle intent blazed. A halo appeared to his back, tattoos appeared across his body, and the clouds above rolled and tumbled.
Without Water Force, the clouds could only be said to be clouds of soot and dirt, but it was also because of that that they responded to Leonel's call much more fiercely than anything else could have.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Swift. Swift. Swift.
Leonel's arrows whistled forward so quickly that they seemed to teleport. They passed by Aina's cheeks and neck, but she continued to raise up her ax as though she hadn't sensed anything at all.
The combination of husband and wife had always been lethal. They both had absolute trust in one another, and it never wavered.
However, since then, many things had changed.
First, they truly got married, allowing their souls to merge. Let alone predicting one another's movements and calculating them, they could feel them, and even express them before their partner got a chance to.
Leonel expected the Celestial Terra to be crippled, to maybe lose another eye, or maybe suffer bad enough brain damage that it had to retreat.
What he didn't expect was what actually happened.
The moment the Celestial Terra lost track of Aina, it was over. The strongest Blade strike that Leonel had ever seen personally descended. It cut down the body of the Celestial Terra and the world seemed to split in two.
Silence fell, and the Ancestor Celestial Terra trembled once before falling into two halves.
Leonel had a fourth arrow nocked, but he couldn't help but blink a few times to make sure that his eyes were seeing right.
It had to be remembered that before, Aina had struggled with a Celestial Terra. And he had ended up in an all-out battle with a Seventh Dimensional one. These creatures were exceptionally powerful, and even though they had lost much of their strength as Fallen Gods, they were an existence that couldn't be easily dealt with.
But Aina... had cut one in half, shell and all. And this one was not only the same level of talent as the Seventh Dimensional one that Leonel had fought back then, but it was also an Ancestor of the Ninth Dimension. The power of the two couldn't even be properly compared.
She stood in the skies and howls of rage filled it. But she only took a deep breath, causing a swarm of bronze-brown blood to fly toward her. As it was pulled into her control, the bronze-brown became a rusty, red-gold-ish color, and then became perfectly crimson.
"Well... damn..."
Leonel muttered for a moment before releasing his fourth arrow. Since this was the case... They could really cause some damage.
At that moment, the ground trembled and Leonel's arrow soared toward that precise location. But before it could land, it was shattered by a mysterious force.
"It seems they're more deeply hidden than I thought..."