Apex Star

Chapter 48  Beast's Subjugation Part 1

After Destiny fell asleep in Nova's arms, he hugged her for a few more minutes before laying her on the bed with care.

As he made his way out of the City Lord's Estate, Nova repeatedly remembered those moments. If his conjunction was correct, then it was sad. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He wasn't in the mood to fool around with Maria and Alicia, so he found a nearby inn and stayed there.

In the morning, he again went to the City Lord's Estate, where he met the Subjugation Team's members.

"Nova! You're here." Said Maria and Alicia coming towards him.

"Mm." He nodded to the sisters and the other members before looking towards Destiny, who seemed downcast.

Sensing Nova's gaze, Destiny tried to calm herself down and put on her usual cold face. She also had a clue as to who she was or what she was...

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After the Subjugation Team, composed of the City Guards, Royal Guards, and Nova, set off to the beast's territory, they noticed an increase in its population.

'There weren't as many beasts yesterday as there is tomorrow. Something is fishy.' Thought Nova as he spread his senses.

The others also noticed this strange phenomenon. It was like the beasts were forming a beast tide, a controlled one.

Quickly killing the surrounding beasts, they went deeper into the forest, trying to find the Nebula Beast King.

After half an hour of killing, they finally saw a few Evolver Stage Beasts standing in line as if waiting for them.

Behind the Evolver Stage beasts, there was a giant snake that had his eyes closed as if sleeping. Feeling the humans entering his territory, he opened his eyes, revealing two yellow eyes with large slits.

"Humans, why are you trespassing on my territory?" Asked the giant snake, who was over 30 meters long.

"We wanted to ask you the same thing. Why are you beasts encroaching on the human's territory and killing everyone trying to pass?" Asked the City Lord feeling the snake's Nebula Stage power.

Hiss! The snake was almost smiling. At this point, a creepy smile coming from a 30 meters long snake.

"Our King wants to expand his territory in preparation for his Ascension to World Stage!" Said the giant snake, feeling proud of following a future World Stage.

The others were shocked hearing this, as they couldn't believe the situation. A World Stage wasn't something they could contend against.

Even the City Lord was a little apprehensive hearing this information before switching his gaze to Destiny.

She was looking calm as if expecting the situation. "Indeed, one of the most plausible causes for the beasts to come so close to a human territory is advancing stages. It happened in the past, and it will probably happen again."

She was very calm and decisively commanded. "Royal Guards! Advance!" Without any superfluous words, the Royal Guards heeded her command and advanced through the dozens of Evolver Stage beasts before them. "City Lord, take the troops and find the Peak Nebula Stage before it breaks through World Stage. Nova and I will keep them occupied." She said to City Lord Payne.

City Lors Payne nodded before taking the reins of the troops and detouring the giant snake and his followers.

"Where do you think you're going?! No one could disturb our King before advancing!" Hissed the giant snake before slithering towards the group and trying to stop them.

"You're my opponent." Destiny appeared before the giant snake, making him stop in his tracks. As the two started fighting, the other Evolver Stage beasts prepared to stop the troops from advancing against their King.

"Space Domain." The space surrounding the beasts became like an invisible cage that trapped them inside. Nova appeared in the middle of dozens of Evolver Stage beasts before looking toward the troops that continued to advance through the forest without looking back.

'I hope they'll stall the Peak Nebula Beast before me and Destiny will catch up." Thought Nova as he prepared to fight with all he got.

The Space Domain he just deployed was continuously cracking under the pressure of so many Evolver Stage beasts attacking it simultaneously.

A golden halo appeared behind his back, his golden eyes radiating a powerful light with the little stars becoming more lively. Nova deployed a new technique from the Apex Index.

'Light of Purification!' was a new technique that Nova unlocked in his Apex Index, capable of releasing concentrated beams of fire energy at lightning speed.

The beasts closest to Nova had their head or hearts pierced by a beam of light so fast they didn't even know how they died. The other beasts seeing this roared toward Nova before charging once again.

Destiny was fighting the Middle Nebula Stage as an equal, despite being only a Peak Evolver Stage.

Blue flames surrounded her, which slowed the snake's movement.

Seeing this, the snake was enraged and roared toward the sky as his yellow slits slowly became crimson red. He entered a frenzied state that doubled his power and slammed Destiny with his tail.

Destiny crashed against multiple trees before stopping on a nearby rock. She had blood trickling down her cherry lips that, combined with her blue eyes, made for quite an arousing scene.

Looking at the injured Destiny, Nova's heart hurt a little, his eyes slowly taking on a deep shade of red, just like his halo.

'Blazing Fire!" Not caring about the energy consumption, Nova was surrounded by a sea of flames that quickly expanded. Not wanting to waste more time, he used his ability in combat for the first time.

'DEVOUR' Black chains made of an unknown energy were released from his body, and he quickly approached the Evolver Stage Beasts.

The black chains were embedded into the beasts chest, and what began like a small pulse of energy transmitted to Nova's body quickly transformed into a stream that dried the beast of their energy, and even their bloodline...

Feeling the power coursing through his body, Nova felt his stagnant cultivation getting closer to the next level until BANG! He broke through what he considered to be Middle Stage 10.

After a few minutes of fighting the Middle Nebula Stage beast, Destiny had a lot of wounds on her body, and even her clothes were exposing some of her soft skin in some places, like her breasts, for example...

She was enraged fighting this snake because he kept escaping her attacks. Even her flames were absorbed by the scales on the snake's body. She quickly looked at Nova's battlefield and was surprised to see him suppress the beasts.

When Nova sensed Destiny look at him, he looked back and almost felt his legs go soft seeing her dangling breasts and almost forgetting he was on a dangerous battlefield.

'I almost interrupted my Ability, focus!' He recited mantras in his head to escape the nefarious thoughts.

He concentrated more on his Ability output and was overjoyed to see that his cultivation once again broke through a higher stage, attaining Late Stage 10.

'My earlier deduction was correct. It seems my earlier stagnation was caused by overlooking my use of Ability. Why even be bestowed by the [Awakening], if you won't use it?'

Quickly trying to finish his battle so he could help Destiny and kill the giant snake, Nova channeled his Ability at full power.