The presence of the Shiik could not be hidden. Like a walking volcano or turned everything around it to ash, and numbers were useless against it. Under the darkness of the Calamity Suns, the Shiik had a virtually unlimited amount of Aura, and it could use its Calamity Aura without pause.
Its Calamity Aura extended around it for miles, and only the most hardy of Legend Calamities could withstand the heat for a short while before a passing limb holding a hundred times more heat would brush past them, reducing those to ash.
Even the Calamities that were made from the elements did not survive long underneath these flames, because their origin came from a much higher source. The trails of devastation it left were like a permanent stain on reality long after it had passed.
In the creation of the Shiik, Rowan had not cared to add limiters to its destructive abilities and instead chose for it to proliferate. This fitted the nature of Calamity as a force that could not be controlled, and he just pushed the dial to the max and then some more.
At higher levels the presence of the Shiik alone would begin to poison reality, rooting out every trace of light and life, to leave darkness and emptiness, only then would the beast fall into an endless slumber.
A few miles away from the fleet of ships, the Aura of the Shiik was already causing devastating consequences on board the ships.
The heat radiating from the Shiik began to heat the armor of the warships, scarlet, and when its Aura reached the ships it destroyed all the calamities surrounding them, freeing the ships to move once more, but their new freedom did not last. The weaker and smaller ships simply exploded under the direct glow of the Calamity Aura.
Seven massive limbs whipped across the air, slicing through dozens of ships, each of them the size of the ships that carried the two Deific Ranked Explorers, and turning them into balls of flames and molten metal. The limbs reversed their course, destroying more ships on the way back, as a massive flood of Ascendant Aura surged from the ongoing destruction of the fleet into the body of Rowan standing on the head of the Shiik.
Even before this assault had ended, the Shiik had already raised another ten limbs high, and brought them down like flaming lances from the heavens, and it plunged it into the center of the fleet, before a wave of red flames erupted from the limbs that utterly destroyed every single ship here. There were a few screams inside the destroyed ships as the Deific Explorers inside lasted for a few moments before transforming to ash.
Rowan accepted the flood of Ascendant Aura into his body, channeling them all to his transforming cells until they were all filled to the brim, the brain in his skull began to transform, readying him for the Glorious Rank and his first Natal weapon. He grew several more inches, and he now appeared like a youth of sixteen years of age.
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