Chapter 25: Inglis, 12 years old (13)
「Next!」
Inglis mowed down the lightning beasts one after another with her bare hands. The explosion engulfed her body over and over again while scattering thunderous roar, cratering the ground and destroying the lines of trees. All the while, she remained fully intact, with not a scratch in sight. The lightning beasts could hardly handle her brutal onslaught, the number of the beasts kept diminishing fast.
「Eris, thanks to you, now I know how to deal with them! If I get counterattacked from attacking within melee distance, then all I have to do is to make myself strong enough that the counterattack is rendered null and void!」 「That’s not what I meant! I’m telling you to get out of the way and attack from a distance!」
Eris chastised the younger girl. At this point, the number of beasts was already less than half of what it used to be. Her movement was fast, too fast for even Eris, the Hyrule Menace, and Leon, the Holy Knight, to follow with their eyes. Back then during their little bout, Eris had indeed gone easy on her but Inglis was even more so. And that fact alone made Eris shudder in fear. Eris thought that Inglis was a rather formidable little girl, with an unknown amount of power hidden within her. That amount of power could possibly determine the fate of the world.
「Doing it this way is faster!」
Inglis said. She had condensed ether into a wave of the visible spectrum and clad herself in it like an armour. An appropriate name for it would possibly be Ether Armor. The Ether Armor acted as a barrier for her to nullify the impact of the beasts’ suicide bomb while it also further strengthened her physical abilities.
Being a Divine Knight, a being that was half-man and half-god, she had half the physical capabilities of a god which was markedly a lot more than that of any ordinary man’s. And as she grew older, that fact became more prominent. Plus, with the enhancement provided by the Ether Armor, her physical capabilities were immensely boosted.
「HAaa!」
Inglis delivered a palm strike towards the last lightning beast standing. Its body was distorted greatly by the force, exploded, and engulfed Inglis in it but before, she remained unharmed because of the Ether Armor.