8mi Chapter 1498: Exploring An Oasis
Chapter 1498: Exploring An Oasis
Chapter 1498: Exploring An Oasis
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"Are you sure this is the correct path dude? We've been walking for almost an hour now!"
Aquarina complained as she walked over the dry steppes, the wind was strong and the sand flew away, inhibiting their vision a little bit.
These lands were mostly desertic, and there were large areas with not even living beings in them, they were known as wastelands, where not even scavengers could be found.
"I'm sure it was over there...!" Justicio said. "Come on, come on... Wait, there!"
Justicio was growing nervous as Aquarina was scolding him too much... Unlike Sylphy, Aquarina was very direct, and wasn't as nice either...
"Is it over there?"
Aquarina squinted her eyes, suddenly turning them into dragon-like eyes, and then she saw it, a huge oasis sitting in the middle of this deserted wasteland.
It was surrounded by plenty of palm trees and other tropical plants, and it seemed it had been surrounded by a nice little jungle of its own.
She could even hear the chirping of birds!
"Ooh, it's true! It's over there!" she said excitedly. "Alright come here!"
She grabbed Justicio and Silvia, and while carrying them with her arms, she leaped into the skies, way above the small sandstorm they had to go through.
FLAAASH!
Using her Heavenly Step, she reached higher and higher, until they were able to finally see the oasis from all the way above.
"Wooaahhh!" Silvia gasped.
"Aquarina this is too high! Wait a second! Waaaait!" Justicio was a bit afraid of heights.
"Let's go guys!" Aquarina giggled, as she rushed down faster than she jumped into the skies.
"Uwaaahahah!"@@@@
"Uuaaaagggh! I'm going to dieeee!"
Silvia screamed while laughing, while Justicio only screamed in fear.
SPLAAASH!
The trio ended landing in the huge oasis, which was a massive lake of almost a kilometer of length! It seemed to have grown, as Justicio and Silvia didn't remember this little oasis to be so huge.
Once into the cold oasis water, Aquarina quickly manipulated the water around her and then, the trio emerged out of it within a bubble.
"Aquarina, you went a bit too far..." Justicio gasped for air. "I-I thought I would die... Hahh... Hahh... Oh man..."
"Nah there's several other warriors," said Justicio. "Someone I admire, my uncle, he has a strong Crimson Dunes Centipede Physique and Beast Aura! He can cover his entire body with a crimson armor of centipede shells and his hands can grow giant centipede mandibles, he can also grow a long centipede tail with very sharp claws!"
"Ooh, that sounds pretty interesting, I had never heard of that before," Aquarina nodded, rubbing her chin. "Okay! Let's hunt one then?"
"I'll go!" Justicio ran towards the pack of Giant Black Beetles, who were eating with their young something from the floor.
The moment he rushed towards them, the bugs became alarmed, and they suddenly took some sort of defensive formation, circling around their young.
"Oh, a defensive formation..." Justicio said. "Well, I don't want your kids, just throw me your toughest warrior!"
"KRIIIEEEHH!"
Suddenly, the bugs responded, as the largest of them stepped forward, the leader of the pack, a Giant Rhinoceros Black Beetle, twice as big as the rest, and with huge horn!
"W-Woah... What Tier is this, Aquarina?!"
"Tier... 5!"
"Okay, I can handle him!"
The rhinoceros beetle charged against Justicio, as he enchanted his body's endurance, receiving the blow head-on!
BAAAM!
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Justicio strengthened his body through his Physique's Abilities, and increased his defenses, making hiss kin turn metallic black, taking on the full blow from the rhinoceros' beetle.
CLAAASH!
The rhinoceros blow would have easily pierced most walls from smaller kingdoms, yet Justicio's body only gained a few cracks, but held on just fine.
"Oof, he's super strong! Are you sure he's only Tier 5?!"
"Yeah it says he's Tier 5... Rank 10," said Aquarina with a smile. "I guess you could say it's like almost Tier 6!"
"You should have specified that!" Justicio complained, slamming the ground with his foot and suddenly conjuring a huge spear of stone, surging from beneath the tanky monster.
RUMBLE!
CRASH!
The beetle was lifted off the ground and then fell from the sky, hitting its head into the sand and ending upside down.
"Well you're still handling it pretty well!" Aquarina laughed.