Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest - Chapter 1920: Trapped With Dinosaurs
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While exploring the Museum Dungeon, Elena and her friends were suddenly pulled into a giant painting. They found themselves hurled into an ancient realm of dense jungles and towering dinosaurs, pursued by hundreds of the beasts.
“ROOOAARRR!”
Their thunderous roars echoed endlessly. No matter where Elena and her friends fled, more dinosaurs appeared. When the creatures died, they dissolved into spirit energy and vanished, leaving behind no cores.
It was bizarre. This wasn’t part of the dungeon at all—it was someone else’s power, someone else’s plan. Only when Yasuke summoned himself and sliced through a massive titanosaur did the truth finally emerge.
“Master, this was created by a Heroic Spirit!” he declared. “That strange reptile man must have been one of the participants in this Holy War!”
“What?!”
Harumi and the others fell speechless, especially knowing they had left Frank outside the painting to face that monstrous reptilian creature alone.
“If my calculations are correct, we’re trapped inside a Domain-type Legendary Treasure,” Yasuke continued. “Our enemy has sealed us within an endless jungle from ancient times, where these dragons once roamed.”
“They’re dinosaurs!” Harumi corrected, narrowly dodging a savage bite. She swung her hand, unleashing a crimson slash of blood energy that beheaded the beast in an instant. “But yeah, I figured as much. They aren’t particularly strong at our current level, but they’re endless. And they leave no rewards when they die. That thing is probably planning to wear us down until we’re devoured.”
“But he still hasn’t shown up, and it’s already been almost ten minutes!” Elena protested. She leaped away from a swarm of velociraptors, swinging her sword midair and releasing a spinning, blazing attack that fused Wind and Fire Stances. The strike burned and sliced through the pack, sending them flying.
“We can handle the worst, then!” Elisa declared.
“Wait, what?! No!” Harumi exclaimed. “Frank isn’t weak—he’s really strong!”
“What makes you so sure he’s that strong?” Elisa asked. “In fact, I’ve been wondering this whole time—who exactly is he? You all seem fairly normal, but Frank… he’s not even from Japan, is he? Where did he come from?”
As she questioned them, Elisa soared into the sky atop her obsidian dragon, unleashing thunderous dragon breath attacks that massacred flocks of Pterodactyls and Quetzalcoatlus.
“Elisa! Don’t be rude!” Monica scolded, her cheeks flushing with embarrassment. She shifted into her full ghost form, spreading curses across the battlefield and slaughtering dozens of dinosaurs at once.
The creatures charged at her relentlessly, even as they perished, forcing Monica to expend more and more mana. Eventually, she had no choice but to engage them directly. She summoned a ghostly scythe and began cutting them down herself.
“What else can we do but ask some good questions at this point?” Anna replied. Her familiars fought bravely around her, unleashing their full power and forming a protective wall while she channeled devastating spells through their elemental affinities.
“Frank is…” Matsuo muttered, his expression turning serious. He dodged a charging group of over a dozen triceratops, leaped high into the air, and used Cloud Step to glide across the sky. With a fluid motion of his hands, he unleashed a powerful spell, conjuring dozens of radiant beams of light from the floating paper spirits surrounding him. “From everything we’ve learned about him over the years, he is an incredibly gifted person.”
“What do you mean by that?” Elena asked, slicing an incoming flying dinosaur cleanly in half.
“…”
“…”
“…”
Frank’s friends fell silent. It was clearly something they did not want to discuss. Who was Frank? What was the origin of his power? And why were they so confident he could face a Heroic Spirit alone…?
“You guys are trustworthy enough,” Erika said, dashing through a horde of smaller dinosaurs and slashing them apart with her long, golden-aura-infused claws. “As long as you swear not to share this with anyone, we can tell you.”
“Fine, we swear!” Elena, Elisa, Monica, and Anna nodded without hesitation. There was no time for doubt.
“Alright then,” Matsuo sighed. He expanded a barrier around the group, pushing back the endlessly spawning dinosaurs. Yasuke remained outside it, cutting them down with effortless precision. For him, these small fry posed no challenge.
“Frank’s origins aren’t fully understood, even by us,” Harumi began. “But from what we’ve discovered, his father was someone very special… something like a Star Spirit.”
“A Star Spirit?!” Elena and the others echoed in surprise.
“An alien,” Erika clarified. “Frank’s dad was some kind of weird alien who came to Earth, fell in love with his mom, had a son with her, then left and vanished. My dad said that beyond this mortal plane lies something called the Astral Bridge, which leads to the Vast Cosmos. And no, it’s not just empty outer space—it’s something different.”
“Frank’s father originates from what some speculate to be the Fourth Plane of Reality, even above the Plane of Heaven,” Matsuo added. “The Astral Plane, or the Astral Realm, as it is sometimes called. It is an unexplored realm that stretches beyond Earth and its domains—the supposed origin of certain gods who came from beyond the stars.”
“Aliens!” Erika insisted. “Frank is half-alien, you see. That’s why he’s so damn strong. He inherited his father’s bloodline and can wield Astral Energy, which is incredibly powerful—even stronger than divinity. But… he’s also half human, not a pure-blooded Astral Spirit. He can’t channel all that power easily, and he’s still young. According to what we learned from Amaterasu-sama, Astral Spirits live for billions of years…”
“Frank is someone incredible,” Harumi said with a soft smile. “It was thanks to his powers that he was able to help us and save us so many times. Though over time, he has grown quieter… he used to be so cheerful. He still is, in his own way. It’s just that we’ve all been through so much since… since what happened that one time.”
“Since what happened?” Elena asked.
“You’re asking too many questions now!” Erika cut in.
“Okay, sorry,” Elena apologized quickly.
“It’s fine to be curious. I understand how you feel,” Harumi said gently. “But you girls have plenty of your own secrets too, right?”
“…” Elena stayed silent for a moment, then nodded. “Maybe…”
“I have a question!” Elisa interjected. “Can he really handle it? Shouldn’t we go save him?”
“Can we even break out of this place?” Anna wondered.
“We would need an attack strong enough to cut through space itself,” Erika replied. “Damn it… and I still haven’t mastered our family’s special technique, so I’m pretty much useless in that regard.”
“If I had brought a special Sanguine Relic, it might have worked, but I don’t have it,” Harumi added. “However, we do have Assassin with us. What do you think, Yasuke?”
“I might be able to,” Yasuke said. “But I would need to unleash my Treasure, and… although mana is always plentiful thanks to Master, I lack sufficient Spirit Energy! Elayne’s blessing has improved my recovery, but I’m still not ready…”
Everyone exchanged uneasy glances. The cores meant for Elayne to restore her angelic powers—and then heal Harumi’s brother—were their last hope of escaping.
“I guess there’s no choice. Yasuke, take—”
“I can do it.”
“…?!”
“…!”
“…?”
“…?!”
Everyone turned sharply toward their voice. It was Elena. She gripped her katana tightly as her body began to transform. Her skin turned a deep blue, small oni-like horns sprouted from her head, her eyes glowed red, and her hair became pure white.
They were stunned. Elena had always used partial transformations before, but this was on an entirely new level, one they had never witnessed.
Her aura surged powerfully. Her Spiritual Roots activated, gleaming with green and gold light across her blue skin. The aura blended her Shadow and Phantom Elements with those of Nature and Spirits.
“Elena?!” Anna gasped. “Y-You’ve grown so strong! Were you holding all that power back?”
“Kind of,” Elena replied. “Thanks to Mom’s abilities, I’ve been training inside her spiritual realm every night… so I’ve gotten a bit ahead on our training. Sorry.”
“No, that’s amazing!” Anna said.
“Yeah, you’ve almost mastered full transformation too?!” Elisa asked, clearly impressed. “I thought it was impossible…”
“Wow!” Monica exclaimed.
Part of the reason they had been unable to unleash their truest power was that they still couldn’t fully draw upon their Avatars.
But thanks to everything Elena had consumed inside the Spiritual Realm—thousands of Spiritual Elixirs, Divine Herbs, and even Mystical Metals and Ores—her physique had absorbed immense energy, allowing her to grow significantly stronger.
On top of that, her Spiritual Heart had grown incredibly powerful from her mother’s presence within it, while the strength of Ruler slowly imprinted itself into her body and soul, awakening the Spiritual Roots she now possessed.
All these factors had come together, letting Elena continue growing… and growing… and growing.
But could she truly slice through space itself?
Her sword gleamed, revealing a strange, transparent energy.
Emptiness.
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