Grabbing a couple of rations and my communicator, I left my dorm and flew to the last known location of the winter beast. Arriving I saw its menacing form once again.
Powering up and starting to distract occasionally throwing in stronger attacks to keep its focus, around the hour Mark, something changed it started focusing on me fully, giant ice shards, sharp snoeflskes everything was around me in a confusing pattern that didint allow time for thought, acting purely on Instinct I k ew I had to stop these attacks summong Igris using its immortality as a shield once again igris shadowing my every movement flying closer to the ground he approached one of its leg, that was a mistakes as dozens of ice shards manifested from the ground nearly stabbing through me, dodging by pure instict I rose as high as I could while keeping its attention, deciding on a risky manuever I summoned the [Cursed herald] and igris to my side just incase I imbued everything I had into [Fate] it flying like an actual meteor straight for one of its limbs s cutting it right off re-sumumoning the dagger once I again u repeated the action this time to the next limbs while it was recovering lopping it off aswell appearently it saw me as a threat now because I barely manage to bring the infusions back to me when walls of cold sharp winds, ice and snow blasted towards me flying even higher reaching grey clouds I thought what to do 'I can't dodge forever' I reasoned one mistake and I'm dead after all deciding to try to check out what kurama had to offer I was surprised when instead of him actually appearing the echo manifested as a 1 Tailed cloak 'okay I can work with this' augmenting myself with 6 winds and heating up my body once again I flew down straight to the winter beast using some wind to pull myself even faster I smashed right through the giant's head shattering it into a million pieces, as I flew away just accomplished a giant task I saw and counted how long it would take before it did anything else the head was back in around a minute and it started moving after two, I flew slightly away to use my communicator to report "Hello this is Saint Naruto, do you hear me?" Static rang for a second until I could hear a voice "Saint Tyris, I hear you" "I just shattered its head, it took about a minute to reform and another minute to start moving thought its good information" "yes that will be good to know, anything else ?" As I was about to answer with no something shifted a giant wall surrounded our battlefield with ice snow winds and anything else "Tyris do you hear me?" "I do but it's mostly static" "it is trading me" "WHAT?" "IT IS TRAPPING ME " I shouted through the screetching winds "IM GOING TO TRY TO BREAK OUT IF I WONT BE ABLE TO ILL NEED YOU TO. OME HERE" "UNDERSTOOD" as I blasted off to the wall I threw my Dagger to try to open a hole with a wind explosion, when it exploded I noticed it was tens of meters thick, using everything I had into the dagger I threw it again it was the same result as I was about to speak to tyris again an ice shard tore through my side like butter I screamed from pure agony quickly imbueing myself and blasting off darting randomly so my path wouldn't be predictable "TYRIS DO YOU HEAR ME?" "I DO" "I CANT GET OUT AND I JUST GOT INJURED" "UNDERSTOOD ILL BE THERE IN 10"
as I fought on till Tyris arrived it felt like hours darting in close and darting as far as I could on repeat while I was bleeding because the wind had frozen over it still hurt if I moved it and well I was moving a lot I could hear something like thunder striking and I dashed around trying to listen where it came from "TYRIS?" "YES ITS ME" I looked around making sure the beast wasn't planing to attack me right now I imbued the dagger and threw it at the same time I could hear tyris charging up an attack as the attacks collided there was still no passageway "SHIT"as I darted backwards to avoid a massive Speer of ice. "TYRIS RETREAT I WILL TRANFORM" "ALRIGHT" as the communicator went silent I put it away and summoned igris, I began transforming.
As two horns grew out of the top of my head, my [Sage's cloak] become yellow mixed with black, six black orbs appearing and starting orbiting my back like moons around a planet , my [ambu armor] turning fully black only six yellow tomoe like shapers appearing on the new collar, I opened my eyes now in my Sage of six Paths transformation,
My eyes while I couldn't see them were a Blazing yellow wkth vertical slits instead of pupils.
As I used more fire in my own body now that it could actually handle it mixing it with wind I shot towards the winter beast like a minature sun that I was and blasted through its massive torso shattering its form, I spewed out blood, almost collapsing on the stop I saw the barrier drop a bit, and blasted through using thr opportunity flying as fast as I could while my transformation dropped I plummeted to the ground like a plane on a crash course, luckily Tyris noticed from a bit away and flew towards me and caught me, flying back to base. As we returned I passed out and she brought me to the medical wing. The next morning I woke up sore all over, nonetheless work awaited I entered the planning room I saw tyris all decked out and ready to go "Where do you think your going?" She turned to me eyes widened "You're awake?" "Of course I am what do you think I'm fragile?" As she sat down and started speaking "You're not going" I raised a brow "why not?" She looked at me like I was stupid "it obviously wants you dead that's why" I nodded it made sense "and what will you do if you will get trapped we both knoelw you can't break out" as the masters present looked st Tyris to confirm my words she only nodded "indeed I could not break out of that" " so I either go to break you out at whitch point I will fight either way, or I go alone" I reasoned "besides wouldn't it be better for you help with other titans?"
As she pondered this I got up "I'm going for breakfast you coming ?" She nodded as we got some defenetly bad testing paste like food, we sat and ate, "how long till everyone is out of here?" "A month at minimum and that's and that's taking a count for about only 10000 extra people, while knowing there might be coming way more."
"Well shit" I simply said not caring about the glare sent my way "so the only real option is to kill it..."
She nodded confirming my suspicion "and does anyone have an idea on how to do that?" She shook her in the negative "you know when will Master Sunless return?" "About in a week" She replied "well then I guess we got a week of waiting, ithink he can identity where are the soul cores or something" Tyris only raised a brow but nodded.
And so a week passed with winter beast coming up with new and annoying ways of trying to trapped us and kill us, luckily it hasn't realized or couldn't just make the barrier double the size and I wouldn't be able to break through. Walking to the planning room once again 'if this continued I might judt somehow need to become a titan' I pondered 'would it even help that much though?' I wasn't sure and I would need a lot of time to collect another 5780 fragments. Entering the room I saw Sunny talking to jet and Tyis sitting in our usual discussing spot as I approached both of them we exchange greetings and I brought them both to Tyris," so without wasting time" I looked at sunny and jet" we need to identity where are the soul cores of the winter beast" I poused taking a breath "either of you can do something like that?" Both Jet and Sunny confirmed that they could so now it was only a mission of bringing them close enough to the creature to see that "I think you can just fly on Tyri's back around the creature while I keep it busy, if the barrier appears go to the furthest corner and wait for me to break us out" as well all nodded and confirmed the plan we all got read and left for the creature once again.
As Sunny and Jet flew on Tyri's back I summoned Igris and cursed herald for an extra security "if anything happens hide behind the knight he's immortal" as they confirmed that they heard him we saw the creature snd I immeadetly shot forward to start the fight hopefully it didint have any surprises for us.
While I have gotten used to fighting the titan it was by now means easy I've suffered plenty of its attacks already and they all hurt like a bitch, while I was distracting the creature it seemingly could recognize by the first few seconds of me appearing and already started attacking back, as Tyris flew in a wide sircle above us slowly decending and approaching the creature I saw it the barrier slowly manifested I warned tyris about it but continued fighting we had a couple of minutes before it formed, now dealing more damage than just distracting the creature I focused on its torso and head whitch took it the longest to regenerate and slowed it down quite a bit, but then the barrier rose in a single second 'a trap' I realized I shouted to tyris and looked up the roof of the barrier was missing and sure enough giant ice spears appeared from above the clouds falling right above all of us, 'I'm starting to hate this beast' as I got ready Summoning my kyubi cloak and infusing the dagger I threw it to the barrier snd sure enough it was thicker, "tyris I don't think I can break this one as easily" as I could hear Sunny and jet starting to curse I asked "did you identity the cores ? Atleast one?" Sunny and jet answered thst they both found one, as I flew to them and they pointed to the same spot I asked for a soul dealing weapon and Jet gave her ascended glaive while it was transcendent, it would have to do as I entered my six Paths mode I flew directly to that spot and at the last second infusing everything jnto the glaive hoping it wouldn't break, a massive explosion ripped through the air sending tyris away the others barely holding onto her, as I wat he'd barrier fall I flew to tyris, she grabbed me one of her claws and we managed to escape the slowly reforming barrier.
As we arrived back at base we all collapsed all of us drained, as we laid there in the snow several soldiers came and helped us to the medical station, but we have succeeded, hopefully it would be easier after it wasn't a titan.
As I checked my runes I noticed I had gain a thousands fragments from nowhere 'I must of been the core' I realized the next day I alone went to fight the winter beast while Sunny Jet and Tyris rested,
Arriving it was nowhere to be seen and I reported as much directly to the planning room's circle, as cheers rang out I knew something was wrong, there was no way it would retreat after just losing a core right, in my thinking I forgot to augment myself and an ice spear slashed off my arm with ease as I screamed I could hear Tyris trying to call out to me, barely able to augment myself in time, to tank the second one it nearly cut of my right leg, as I flew backwards I could feel it another barrier was forming, and sure enough it appeared out of nowhere no, it wasn't the barrier it was the winter beast itself I recognized some those people of ice, I tried not to destroy those parts of the body after all, I started shouting to tyris "ITS A TRAP" as she asked to explain what was happening, I told her that the beast became barrier itself, and it was sniping out from a long range,"what's your condition" "lost an arm, and one of my legs are barely holding on" I could hear gasps in the planning room "I don't know how to get out of this one I won't lie" as the beast struck again me barely able to dodge the spears that came from all directions, I summoned igris to tank a couple of them, him feeding off the wind that the beat generated to keep his immortality up, putting my communicator close enough for me to hear it I started flying around as fast I could flying not aggravateting my leg, 'cmon cmon think' 'flames, flames FLAMES' I checked my runes reading at super human speeds I saw my normal flames haven't changed at all but the echo
Name : Nine Tailed Demon fox.
Class: titan.
Rank: fallen.
Attributes:[demonic]. [demonic flames]. [Unholy].
[Unbroken]. [Nature spirit].[kitsune].[king].
'THATS IT DEMONIC FLAMES' i realized as I was trying to figure out how to activate it, I unknowingly manifesting the second and soon after third tail, people in the planning soon heard growling and snarles, as I was dashing around thinking what to do I saw my leg heal and the arm closed off no longer bleeding, as I was dodging and weaving between the spears made of ice I tried to use the normal flames only for blazing blood red flames to come out of my mouth surging with raw destrutive force, as they clashed against the ice, I unknowingly summoned all the wind I could and fed it to the fire transforming the flames into white hot flames comparable to even Nephi's ones, as the ice started melting, I flew through the fire and broke through the barrier flying away as fast as I could without entering six Paths mode soon I reached base hitting the ground with wet thud as while the previous injuries healed the ones he got from break the barrier remained, as I saw Tyris and a medical team run to me I blacked out.