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  A bination of lineages—bloodlines with their own unique powers—formed something new and even strohan before.

  Something that she has never seen before.

  The Bloodline of the Rabbit-kin sidered the weakest of all Beast-kin, and their amazingly high affinity for Spiritual Energy and Magic, way above that of other Beast-kin.

  And the bzing power and transformation of the Bzer Dwarf lineage, which grahem tremendous power and fire magic power.

  Both came together, giving Peperina’s fmes a blue color as they overflowed with both Mana, Spirit Energy, and Ki all at once.

  “RAAAH!”

  With a ferocious, wrathful roar, the rabbit girl leaped into midair, g against Infernos dual-axe teiques. The red orc roared back, unleashing tless divine axe teiques, eae releasing tless explosions of divine fmes.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  The two relentlessly cshed against one another without letting the other overwhelm them. However, because of her size, it was quite obvious that each blow she blocked or intercepted made Peperina’s entire body struggle.

  “You keep blog my blows, but for how long you hahe force you take head-on?!”

  Infernos ughed as he kicked Peperina right after she blocked yet another dual-axe attack, crushing one of her ribs and sending her flying away.

  CLAAASH!

  “Ugh…!”

  Peperi at least three of her ribs break instantly, and that’s while sidering she was wearing a powerful armor Bing Xue gifted to her. She had told her to deactivate the nine-heaven prote, though, wanting a real fight with risks and honor.

  She wao beat him without having an invisible shield proteg her; she wao taste pain and also the euphorise of victory. She wao avenge her family with the power she had cultivated.

  Peperina thought she had already received too much help. She wao repay Bing Xue by showing her how much she had ged.

  “{Revitalizing Spiritual Fmes}”

  However, it wasn’t as if she didn’t have an ace below her sleeve. bining the healing magic she learned previously with her spiritual energy and then her ki-fme aura, she jured white fire that began to slowly heal her wounds, revitalizing her body.

  “Do you think I’ll let you heal yourself?”

  “Ah!”

  Peperina barely evaded an ining blow from Inferno’s two axes, which were like giant guillotines ing for her. Just two of these blows would easily slice her apart into pieces, no matter how strong her armor was.

  CLAAASH! CLAAASH!

  As she evaded the blows while in midair, she kicked the air above her and desded towards Inferno’s head with as much speed as she could, stantly kig the air and releasing tiny explosions with her rabbit foot.

  “HYAAAH! {Spiritual Shapesmithing Arts: Surtr’s Hammer}!”

  Her hammer moved down as she increased its size to its limits, being over teers big, with an enha on its weight of over ten thousand tons.

  CRAAASH!

  Infernos received the titanic hammer with both of his giant axes, imbuing them with his powerful Divine Aura and his Mana Aura together at once.

  “{Infernal Rampage}!”

  His eyes fred with crimson fmes as he rushed upwards, g against Peperina’s hammer and unleashing a devastating series of blows with stant bzing explosions.

  The result of the collisioweeeiques unleashed an explosion resembling a small atomib; the floor beh shattered, and any bystander was instantly calated into ashes.

  BOOOMMM!!!

  “Hahh…. Hahahah…” Inferno smiled, still alive, missing his right arm, only revealing half of its bone, buro a crisp. “It looks like you couldn’t absorb all the fmes, hm?”

  The vicious red at Peperina’s figure. She was on the floor, barely scious; both of her legs were missing, pletely destroyed by the orc’s attacks; she wasn’t bleeding because her fire cauterized the terrible wounds.

  “Hahh… hahhh…” She was gasping for air, her powers barely responding to her. Her hammer was far away; she couldn’t reach it. “M-My legs…”

  She looked at her missing legs with despair and agony, only to see a shadow loom above her body, Inferno’s axe, and his siing smile.

  “At the end of the day, you’re still the same as them,” he smiled. “I’ll chop you down into pieces a your tender meat... I’ve been craving some rabbit tely!”

  She was going to be eaten.

  Peperi despair; her power, at the end, could not pare to that of a veteran and a god avatar like him.

  She felt frustrated and also like a hypocrite for telling Bing Xue she didn’t need her help.

  “At the end, he was irohan me,” she thought. “Is this how I will die...?”

  Peperina’s sciousness was ing in and out, while the axe of Inferno rose into the skies as he prepared to finish her down.

  And as her sciousness faded away and came back stantly, there were sparks, images, and memories of her younger years.

  Memories of her father.

  K!

  K!

  K!

  She still remembers when she was a child watg her father work on the smithy, how he wielded his fmes, and the hammer he used to shape his creations into reality.

  Her father would often times let her watch as he worked, but her mother would reprimand him for letting her so close to the fmes.

  But her father khat if his daughter ied his blood, she would naturally always feel attracted to the fmes of a smithy.

  “Watch closely, honey.”

  He showed his daughter as he grabbed a pieetal, melted her through his teiques, then covered it in fmes, and stly,

  “{Shapesmithing Arts}: {Sword Form}”

  FLUOSH!

  The item immediately took the form of a bde. This ower she had ied from him and that, after so long, she could finally use.

  But…

  There was something she had fotten about this power.

  Or, well, her powers.

  “Woah, daddy, that’s amazing!” she said. “ I do it too?”

  “Sure, e and try. While your mama is not watg!” ughed her father.

  The girl walked close to the smithy as her father gave her a prepared ingot.

  “Now do your thing.”

  “Oway!”

  The girl grabbed the ingot, trying to shape it, yet she couldn't, no matter how hard she tried.

  She tried arying, but nothing.

  “Umm… It’s not w! Why?!”

  “Hmm, well, you’ll develop that ability one day, Peperina.”

  “B-But I want to be like Papa now!”

  “Listen, Peperina, there’s a time for everything… I am sure that one day you will reach even higher heights than me.”

  Peperina back the frustrated even after her father’s words, hitting the anvil where her father did his work.

  “I-It’s not fair!”

  FLUOSH!

  And in that very moment, her father’s eyes widened in shock as he saw his daughter’s Spiritual Energies and Ma into the anvil.

  “Wha…?!”

  The anvil’s eructure began to ge immediately, something that he couldn’t do so easily with anything but ingots.

  She could manipute aal she touched, even if it was already processed into something, and even if it wasn’t even her own item.

  “P-Peperina, careful!”

  Her father grabbed her as a huge explosion happened right after that. The anvil erupted into tless metallic spikes, destroying half of the smithy.

  “Waaaahhh! Papaaa!”

  Little Peperina started g in fear as she saw her father hugging her, his right shoulder bleeding as one of the metal spikes pierced him.

  “It’s fine… Ugh… You’re safe…”

  “Papaaa! You’re not fineee! Buaaaah!”

  Her father didn’t die, but because of the wound on his shoulder, he was never able to create his perfect artifacts anymore, g dexterity in his two hands.

  It was such a traumatic experience for her when she was merely 5 years old that she had almost pletely fotten it.

  It was as if her brain had tried to block this memory.

  But right now, in this very moment, as her eyes started g, she uood.

  A power that her own sciousness had sealed away because of how dangerous it could be.

  The true power was borhe Rabbit-kin’s Spirit Magid the Bzer Dwarves Shapesmithing Arts biogether.

  It wasn’t Spiritual Shapesmithing Arts either, no.

  The power sealed within her was somethiirely different.

  “DIEEE!”

  Infernos ughed as his axe desded toeperina.

  But she suddenly raised her hand, toug the bzing hammer as it began cutting through her hand.

  CLASH!

  It hurt like hell as it cut through her flesh and bones.

  But she mao touch the on with her bare hands.

  “Nnggh…!” Peperina gritted her teeth as she unleashed her powers in full, unleashing the very st bits of Mana, Ki, and Spiritual Energy within her.

  “{Worldsmith}”

  A power that could evehe authority of Gods.

  TRUUUM!

  “Ungh?!”

  Suddenly, Infernos noticed his hammer stopped moving, no longer obeying his hand.

  And instead, it seemed to be slowly melting.

  As if it were a living being of its own!

  “What the…?! Let go… Let go of my axe!”

  Infernos panicked, only to see something even more ridiculous.

  The axe melted into bzial, ing itself around his arm and pierg it with hundreds of spiraling spikes, tearing through his arm within seds.

  The sound of his flesh, muscles, skin, and bones being torn apart aroyed reverberated across the battlefield, alongside the orc’s agonizing cream.

  “Gryyyaaaagggh!”

  It didn’t stop there; the liquid metal ed around his torso, pierg through his flesh and tearing it apart.

  It was as if the metal had bee a living beiing him piece by piece.

  This was because the metal had been imbued with Peperina’s hatred for him.

  This was her vengeance—her revenge!

  Within it, she put all the suffering the people Inferno had sughtered aen.

  “EAT HIM! PIECE BY PIECE!”

  An eye for an eye!

  Inferno saw his own on beginning to tear him to shreds, quite literally eating him apart.

  He tried to fight it bad unleash devastating magid skills.

  Yet even as the metal was destroyed, it kept fighting.

  This was because it was a divine on given to him by his God!

  It was tougher than he ever imagined.

  Yet that rabbit girl could trol it?!

  “I have to kill her! I have to…!”

  He tried to step on Peperina’s head to crush her skull, only for another patetal to around his legs.

  “What?!”

  He didn’t realize that Peperina had also touched his footwear when he swung his axe against her with her other hand.

  “{Worldsmith}”

  TRUUUM!

  His metallic greaves turned into metallic slime-like entities, dev his legs and then pushing him down until they crawled over his face.

  And began to slowly bite and tear it apart, piece by piece, until they reached his skull, and then devoured that too.

  His muffled screams could be barely heard beh the metal c him.

  Until his skull shattered and even his brains were eaten.

  A brutal death for a brutal man.

  “Hahhh… It’s finally… over…” Peperina sighed. “Wait… no! He’ll revive ter… T-This is…”

  Just after she finally thought it was over, she remembered the wicked rules of this world.

  Infernos was going to revive ohe War Games were over, and he would e after her again, at full power.

  “After everything… this bastard…! Ugh…!”

  As she cried, a bright figure made of light materialized by her side; a wave of light covered her body; her legs regrew anew; and all her wounds were undone.

  It was Bing Xue, or, well, one of her Doppelgangers.

  “Well done, Peperina… You fought like a true warrior, till the very end.”

  “B-Bing Xue!”

  Peperina hugged her tightly, sobbing over her chest.

  “It was hard… I thought I would die…! B-but I avehem… my family…!”

  “I know… I know.”

  “But he’ll e back, and he’ll…!”

  “He is not ing back.”

  “Huh?”

  Bing Xue’s doppelganger poi the distance, and the body of the red orc, which was now on the bones, had a rge soul floating by its side.

  And then something grasped it tightly and began to eat it bite after bite; it resembled a red-skinned imp, giggling maliciously.

  “Gyehehe! What a delicious soul this isssss!”

  “These are my new friends, demons. They eat souls. Don’t worry, he is not ing back…”

  As Bing Xue smiled gently at Peperina, the rabbit girl smiled as she tinued g.

  “Thank you for everything…”

  Although this battle had ehe war had yet to clude.

  And above the skies, the rage of a god made the clouds rumble with crimson lightning.

  His six watchful eyes were slowly being filled with tremendous frustration.

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