Chapter 718
The two massive Demonic Sand Worms dive down toward me, and my fists glow with bright white light.
Behind their heads, zigzag patterns of flashing green mana and divine energy fill the sky as Ava slams the worm that followed her down to the ground while coming back to throw off the course of the worms heading my way.
The stats she's pulling from my many worlds are steadily rising as her avatar acclimates to the new power.
This is clear to see because instead of just changing the worm's general direction by a few meters like her first hits, they get pushed around helplessly, slamming into the sloped side of the mountain while screeching as they don't understand where or how they've been hit.
Their ether defenses block the physical damage, but Ava is moving too fast for them to see.
This disorientation gives me enough time to land two punches filled with condensed mental ether into one of the worms and use the force of the blowback of the automatic defenses to send me flying into the side of the other worm to land my first mental ether-infused kick.
While I'm sent flying again, I feel Ava pull even more power, creating a dense gravitational field around her, and channeling it all into her Soul Weapon to strike it across the side of the head as it tries to get up and strike us down the middle.
While I land on the ground with sharp ether pains all over my body, my eyes widen at the sight of Ava's hammer's impact.
Her ether imbued into the strike is quite basic, not greater than the amount she used in sparring with me.