Chapter 280: Planet Shattering Conspiracy (2)

The basic and most essential outline of the incidents is now disclosed to Lee Shen. As he contemplated, more and more information was eventually theorized by him.

[Ask who assigned this job to them.]

'Ah, right.'

Hudson's words broke Lee's train of thoughts but he was glad about that. The question he was about to ask might give him a clue about the Amortals, D thought.

With a deep frown, Lee raised his eyes and queried again.

"You said that you all are assigned to do this task. Then that person must be very powerful than you, right?"

Tanya's face darkened for a second and she replied in a rather distasteful tone.

"They are all-powerful beings. You don't need to know theirs identifies as they are beyond comprehension. All I could let you know is that they offered an undeniable proposal."

[An undeniable proposal? To Tubians? I have every reason to believe that she is referring to Amortals.

But the proposal?]

Lee Shen was already trying to find every possibility of the proposal. The term 'Undeniable' helped him sort and eliminate most of his assumptions. Still, he was left with several hypotheses.

"Since I am about to die, I would like to hear about the proposal too."

Lee Shen did not show any sign of fright as his voice was stern and stable. Tanya nodded at his words and continued to speak.

"These all-powerful beings asked us to destroy the Prime Glyphs and resurrect the Forgotten Trinity. In return, they will grant us powers greater than what we already have."

Tanya spoke and saw a frown on Lee's face. The concise description of the proposal barely conveyed anything useful. So, Tanya decided to elaborate.

"We, the Tubians only have a single trait as our innate affinity. It could be related to a substance, an action, an element or an emotion. For some, it is complex and has to fulfil certain criteria to display the prowess.

The heavenly beings that contacted us imparted a tiny fraction of their powers to us as a demonstration."

Tanya took a pause and turned her head to her right. She stared at the wall of saline water surrounding the air bubble. Then, she extended her right hand to where she was looking. The fist was closed and it opened up to reveal nothing.

Then, the next second, a large sphere of water detached itself from the waterbody and floated gently floated towards her hand.

"Telekinesis?"

Lee Shen sounded his doubt but there was no reply. Tanya was focused on the beauty of the perfect sphere.

[No, this is an extinction-level threat.]

As D carefully observed the water sphere, the contaminants and other pollutants that were present in that sphere ceased to exist. It became crystal clear and its visible charm was exponentially increased.

Upon closer inspection, Lee Shen saw that the water sphere was not empty.

[A tadpole? But the water was completely unoccupied a few seconds ago.]

Hudson was the most attentive among the trio. He analysed and inspected Tanya's actions with great interest. His observations were very keen that he saw the almost invisible and tiny tadpole swimming inside the sphere.

"This power has no name. It has never been in the records and is indescribable. One can only comprehend its nature by witnessing its function."

Tanya sounded mysterious when her voice resonated inside the air bubble. Lee shuttled his eyes to her face and saw a different aura around her.

'She has got more powerful.'

Though Tanya concealed her brimming energy, Lee Shen was still able to detect relatively new energy flowing out of it. Since she gained this power from the Amortals very recently and her mastery over it was not noticeable, he was able to detect this otherworldly force flowing through her body at a close range.

'D, does this presence feel nostalgic?'

[Indeed. How could I ever forget this feeling!]

At the first exposure, D recognised the source of this power. No matter how old he becomes, he would still remember the ambience of Amortal's powers.

[T- This is beyond words.]

As the trio witnessed, the miniature tadpole of the size of half a millimetre grew into an adult frog within seconds. Then the frog was transformed into a salmon which leisurely flew inside the water sphere.

The astonishment did not end there!

The fish began to develop vibrant scales and its fins were modified to razor blades. The mouth of the fish was replaced by the entrance of hell with two sets of a saw-like tooth.

"Bloody hell!"

Lee couldn't help but exclaim as he saw a normal-looking salmon transform into a grotesque flying amphibian monster with stingers, fangs and lethal claws coupled by some bizarre body modifications.

It soon swam out of the water sphere and climbed on it. The water sphere began to solidify but did not evolve into ice. Instead, it turned to obsidian.

The bizarre little monster about three inches started to bite and chew down chunks of rock. It soon developed a liking to the rock and devoured it in seconds.

Upon shoving the last bits of rock down its throat, the monster stood up and gave out a roar!

GRAAAWW!!!

For its size, this expression of pride was impossible. But with the weird ability of Tanya, the lowest being in the food chain became an intimidating presence.

"This is your new-found power?"

Tanya did not answer to his query right away as she patted this tiny abomination. She caressed its back and inspected her creativity up close.

Then she turned to Lee Shen.

"The full extent of the powers that I received is unknown to me. But this never will be the threshold of what I could do with it."

In her hand was the unholy creation of her wildest imaginations and it climbed up and down her palm. It displayed its immense reserve of energy to run around and rampage.

A second later, the monster showed an urge to settle down. It silently retreated to Tanya's palm. Under the watchful pair of eyes, it plopped down.