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Within a completely white space, the God of Transmigration, Hekaton, glanced at the battlefield from within the eyes of the Reincarnated Souls that he blessed.

There, he saw how terrifying Ervas, and Veronica truly were, and the struggle to survive that Natalia and Mason were undergoing.

"Hmph, so the ones most unwilling to fight them ended fighting them…" he thought while rubbing his chin.

This indeed was quite the ironic fate for them.

He seemed not unfazed at all, even more, he seemed rather content.

This was a golden opportunity for him, if he could help Mason and Natalia fight against Ervas and Veronica, they could truly finish them off for good and get this annoying problem out of his System.

He suddenly waved his hand as two masses of his light-colored soul emerged in front of him, formless and lacking an ego.

"I recall seeing Bestellen make these some time ago. They were called Familiar Spirits, right? Hmm… This might do…" he said, preparing for the perfect moment to let these entities descend into the bodies of his "heroes".

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Natalia was hit by the tremendous thunder attack, a combination of Anna's techniques and Spirit Magic, her spirit Fulgora, Axe-chan's own ability to produce electricity through her upgrades, and Pete himself, who had practiced this powerful killed move with the other two before.

The powerful black thunder seemed to have been conjured by a merciless thunder god, as the power of such a move made Natalia's entire body tremble in agony.

If it were not because of her regeneration abilities, and the protection of her dragon soul over her body, which lowered elemental damage, she would have been completely grilled alive!

Natalia gnashed her teeth while resisting the pain, as her body began to fall from the sky.

"Nngh…! I have to… where is Mason… Lucas?" she muttered, glancing above the skies and seeing Mason and Lucas fighting desperately against Ervas, however, she was not able to look but a few seconds, as Veronica quickly flew towards her, in the form of the abyssal specter of before!

Like an unending nightmare, she came to harvest her life!

The same way she did to her in her previous life when she used her abilities alongside the rest of the Heroes to kill her and massacre her entire Kingdom. She recalled how she burned alive many demons and even younglings, being mildly brainwashed.

Although she had felt guilt by it, she was not driven by it as much as Lucas or Daniel did, and decided to forget about such things rather quickly, showing that she might have never regretted these things as much to begin with…

She always said that she was a sensible and righteous woman, but when she remembered the innocent demons she burned alive and massacred, she felt almost nothing…

She began to think… Was this her punishment for being so coldhearted?

Despite having the blazing soul of a dragon, she was cold inside… a coldness that she was not able to show to others, not even to Lucas or Mason.

But now, she realized that she indeed… did not felt anything for them, nor she felt anything now.

She realized that she might have stopped being a real human long ago… even before coming here…

As Veronica approached her while coating herself in Chaos Mana and unleashing giant spheres of chaos and darkness towards her to finish her off, Natalia suddenly awakened the "coldness" within her heart… and soul.

"I am not going to die… I am going to kill her…! I AM GOING TO KILL HER AND SURVIVE!" she roared, completely going mental as her Dragon Soul underwent an awakening!

Ding!

[The [Dragon Soul: Level 10] Skill has awakened into the [Dragon God Soul: Level -] Skill!]

Natalia's blazing dragon soul suddenly turned from the fiery red to… the cold flames of the netherworld, blue and cold as ice, an icy layer began to grow all around her, as she began to awaken something hidden within!

Veronica was a bit surprised over this change, as she noticed through Wisdom about Natalia's Skill Awakening.

"DIE, DIE, DIE, DIEEE! YOU BITCH, I AM GOING TO LIVEEEEEE!" roared Natalia, screaming like an insane woman, as her body fell over the ground, resonating with a loud explosion of ice and blue flames, completely flattening the forest around her and all the wildlife within while freezing anything left behind!

CRAAAAAASH!

Anna, Shade, and the rest of the Ghosts glanced at the scene, as they flew near Veronica.

"W-What? She grew strong out of nowhere?" asked Anna.

"She's gone… crazy," said Shade.

"Yep, she's nuts now," said Veronica.

"How wonderful, we have managed to break her spirit," said Ozgeth maliciously.

"But breaking it only revealed her deepest desires, and how she truly is… cold," sighed Feroya.

"Well, not like we care whatever she is, Veronica-sama, let's kill her," said Sevapheso.

"I am with you, my lady!" said Albert.

"Me too. Let's end this quickly…" said Anna.

"Can we… do it?" asked Shade, as she saw Natalia's new Dragon God Soul growing bigger and bigger, as she became an enormous dragon made completely out of ice and covered in blue flames, roaring monstrously as she froze everywhere she moved into, looking for Veronica.

"I will do everything I can to eat her soul. Stay close to me!" said Veronica, as she quickly took into a more humanoid form, resembling an enormous humanoid-shaped, black-colored metallic behemoth covered in spikes alongside her spectral abyssal soul.

"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! I AM GOING TO LIVE! I AM GOING TO KILL YOUUUUU!" roared Natalia, trying to find Veronica as she finally appeared before her sight!

"I can't help but admit that I love to see you so desperate, Natalia!" laughed Veronica, flashing towards the insane woman in front of her and clashing through her ice by using her giant metallic claws, dozens of flying black blades covered in her phantasmal abyssal soul, while also showering her with bullets made of Chaos Magic!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"GRRRRUUOOOOOH!"

Natalia began to quickly fall apart into pieces, but each time significant damage was dealt with her ice body, she would quickly grow new limbs and keep expanding!

"From where she is getting this amount of Mana?" wondered Veronica, as she suddenly realized that Natalia had gained around +40.000.000 Mana out of absolutely nowhere!

Maybe her Skill awakened, but it was impossible for her to simply gain such a ridiculous amount of mana without any explanation!

However, she quickly realized what it was as she kept destroying Natalia's enormous body while resisting her blue flames and ice!

She noticed that within her body, there was another entity helping her, filling her with power.

She had seen such a power before, this was Familiar Spirit Descent! The power that Gods granted to their Heroes, which let them make one of their Familiar Spirit descent into the body of the Hero and enhance their capabilities while merging their techniques with the Heroes temporarily!

But the thing that surprised Veronica was that she did not manage to see such a Familiar Spirit descend into the surface, it simply appeared there.

"No… Perhaps it descended when she hit the ground and released that loud explosion…" thought Veronica, as she had Anna and Shade inside of her metallic armored body, while the ghosts rotated around her like phantasmal lights.

"There… YOU AREEEE!" roared Natalia, opening her gigantic jaw made of ice and unleashing an enormous beam of blue flames towards Veronica!

BOOOOOOOM!

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