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Chapter 40: Labyrinth 3

"You've got to be kidding me."

After looking up Shio's face became pale. The reason for his nervousness was a gigantic round bird with small wings. With pink and orange feathers and large round blue eyes.

At a glance it looked very cute and huggable and that's exactly what most would think but as someone from the high realm Shio knew better.

He recognized the bird right away and realized what kind of deep sh*t he was in.

What Shio saw was a baby Moma bird.

Moma birds didn't exist in lower and middle realms but this cute beast was a dark shadow on high realm's history and everyone there knew what they were capable of.

While adult Moma birds were known for their harmless nature as well as strength, baby Moma birds were one of the scariest beasts in the high realm.

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"Awww how cute." Said Mari, catkin girl with short black hair and pink cat ears. Her eyes were of different colors of black and pink. Overall girl was very cute and a real stunner.

"But what kind of bird is it? I have never seen it before." Said Emily.

"They are baby Moma birds." Said Zoel.

"Baby? You must be kidding, how can something that huge be a baby." Asked Cliff with disbelief.

"They may look cute but in high realm they are known as a true nightmare." Said Sophia.

"How can that be. Even though they are big they look so harmless." Said Mari once again, unable to take her eyes off the huge cute birds.

"What's so scary about them?" Asked Morana.

Hearing his cute sister's question Zoel became very excited and wanted to look cool but before he managed to answer her question Ezra cut in.

"They are a real legend in the high realm.

Grown Moma birds are known for having harmless nature as well as being loyal and on top of that having a large strength, so they are perfect companions if one can tame them.

About 300 years ago a powerful organization in the high realm wanted to weaponize Moma birds and started experiments to breed them and constructed breeding farms.

Before that no one had ever seen a baby Moma bird, and their origin was a mystery, but after this experiment everything became clear, though a very high price was paid.

The experiment was a little too successful you see and hundreds of thousands of baby Moma birds were born. The scientists could not have been happier, It all seemed to be going great, But a week later a real nightmare struck.

Moma birds suddenly started growing at a very fast pace and on exactly the 7th day they attacked.

Baby Moma birds mistook anyone that was not their species as their mother and started killing them with hugs." With Ezra's words everyone's faces turned pale as disbelief was written on them.

"What do you men hugs?" Asked Emily.

"I mean literally what I said, they started hugging everyone they saw in groups smashing them with their weight and strength, chewing them, playing ball and so on. The whole high realm was shocked when they found out what was going on. Lots of people died before they managed to react and do anything.

To exterminate all Moma birds and laboratories hundreds of thousands of people died. And after that Blood rained for three days straight."

Everyone could not help but shiver when hearing Ezra's words and they turned their whole attention to Shio.

"Is he going to be okay?" Asked Ron with concern.

"He is going to be fine." Said Zoel drawing everyone's questioning gazes. "If it was anyone else they would have died but Shio is different, one could say this is a perfect task for him. If he can't do it then no one can."  After saying his piece Zoel turned his attention back to Shio and didn't bother explaining

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Shio ran as 16 terrifying Moma birds were chasing after him.

"Moma Mooma."

"Moma-Moma."

"Moooma."

Shio didn't know what The Fu*k Moma birds were saying, but he knew that he had to run if he wanted to live, the only bright side in this situation was that Moma birds were not developed yet and if he managed to split them he would be able to deal with them one by one.

Shio quickly formed a plan of action. Like Zoel said this was a perfect task for him.

While Shio receives his speed from the Monet family he was also gifted with his mother's affinity in illusions and the next second 16 more Shio appeared, running in different directions. While he himself took advantage of Moma birds confusion and hid.

Moma birds had one weakness they could not identify things without their sight so Shio managed to safely hide.

After Moma birds ran after his illusions Shio came out of hiding and started looking for a steady and high tree.

In about Fifteen minutes he was sitting on a tall tree hundreds of meters from the ground with a bow and arrow in his hand and so hunters became the hunted.

Shio quickly found his first prey from his left one of the birds were about to smash his Illusion and just at that moment he readied his first arrow and in a matter of seconds the arrow was coated in a light green matter as well as Shio's hands and just as Moma bird Smashed his illusion he launched the arrow.

A clear whistling sound was heard as The arrow pierced the bird's body and went right through it and then 'Pop' the bird popped like a balloon, Dyeing the whole place in red as chunks of organs were thrown around.

"One down 15 more to go." After killing his first prey Shio started looking for another without even batting an eye.

His display of power greatly shocked not only his new teammates but also Zeki. He didn't expect to meet someone this competent this early especially.

While Shio was assassinating the Moma birds Sara Who was so far easily evading all her opponents using her ability Finally met her first opponent or opponents.

Just as she once again checked her surroundings in order to steer clear of any beasts she felt something from the walls and the floor of the labyrinth and just as the thought appeared in her head figures started coming out of the walls.

Clay human sized and shaped figures in other words Golems.

Golems were not unusual for good Earth type ability users, but this type of detailed war gholems could only be a combination of the two affinity.

Most likely earth and spirit ability like her detection.

As more and more golems started appearing Sara knew she had to hurry up and run so she did exactly that. 

Unfortunately golems turned out quite fast as well, and she knew she could not go on like that, so she started using her second affinity.

"Icy wall." Sara made an ice wall in order to obstruct the golems but unfortunately new golems started appearing so she just started running again while freezing the golems and shattering them.

If Sara shattered one golem, two appeared in its place just like a hydra, cut one head off and two will grow in its place. There was no end to golems they even started merging and creating new types of golems.

Larger golems, golems with two heads, golems with six arms and so on.

Sara knew that if she didn't think something quickly she would soon die.

"Seems like I have no other choice, I have to do that." She muttered as she started creating a very strong ice orb around her covering her from all sides preventing golems from entering and attacking.

Then she sat down in the lotus position and started gathering her spirit power, soon her whole body was covered in lavender colored mana.

***

"Hey look." Called out Emily drawing people's attention from Shio to herself.

"What is it?" Asked Cliff.

"What is she doing?" She asked as she pointed her finger to Sara.

When others saw Sara's state, they also were puzzled not understanding what was going on but the next second frown appeared on Sophia's, Ezra's and Zoel's faces.

"It can't be what I am thinking right?" Asked Sophia as she looked at Zoel with a pale face.

"She is going to use golems as a medium to attack the master with her spirit powers." Said Ezra.

"That's a suicide, one small mistake and she will be a vegetable for the rest of her life and that's if she's lucky." Said Sophia in disbelief. When others understood what was happening, they also became agitated as all they could do was to watch.

But the next second they heard a very calm and clear voice.

"She'll be fine." Said Morana.

"How do you know?" Asked Cliff with a little sarcasm.

"Cause I am smarter than you." 

Ever since she started practicing the second stage of her 'seer' affinity she is sometimes able to hear other people's thoughts, although she can't control it.

It happened a few times before, first she didn't understand what was going on but when it happened a second time she didn't need too much guessing to know what was going on.

Seems like her 'seer' ability is not just true sight with her eyes or knowing the future, she is also able to see other people's true thoughts.

Now this ability might be unstable but later it would be quite useful. She has already managed to see its benefits when she heard the thought of a trafficker that wanted to kidnap her in the streets, or the merchant who wanted to sell her fake things, or earlier when they arrived in Dream city she heard that guy's thought.

She didn't just kill him because of his annoying voice but also because of his disgusting thoughts directed at herself.

And It was not just her ability to hear others thoughts, she just had her first vision about the future, it was short and exhausting but it was quite nice to be able to see normally after so long. 

So, she knew that Sara would be fine.

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