The others also got enlightened.
'Mommy Tatyana is right! I have to prepare something for my children with Yasenia! Maybe some children's books about learning formations? I can teach them from a young age through games!'
'What to do... Should I forge something in the future? But I don't want to spoil them... Ah! I know; I must create a technique that replicates Yasenia's sword! That way, I will be able to give them growing equipment! I'm fired up!'
'I should save all my battle techniques and ways of evolving them to advise with my current perspective in the future. Our children must be the strongest so that they can protect themselves!'
'I can't do anything special... Maybe I should try another profession? Since Kali is excellent in alchemy... Should I become a spirit tailor? But there aren't classes in the Academy for that... However, I'm quite deft with my hands; I always make Yasenia moan, massaging her peerless tits!'
'Their children? Do they have a way to become pregnant that I don't know about? However, Yasenia's children... Why do I find it absolutely adorable? Seeing a mini Yasenia... I may as well die of cuteness. I should research pills to help children's development... Just in case.'
Tatyana suddenly looked at the horizon of the snowy landscape. The high-ranked phoenixes also looked over.
The Phoenix had 57 sixth-ranked Phoenixes, with the leading couple on the verge of entering the seventh rank. Both of them appeared beside Tatyana in human form, a handsome man and woman of ethereal beauty and elegance. The woman asked, "Little Tatyana, are you sure we don't have to begin retreating? I can feel a lot of Demon Monarchs; there are at least 90. One of them is on the verge of advancing to peak Demon Monarch."
Tatyana said, "We are defending, so with the help of the formation, we should be able to resist until reinforcements arrive... Well, I don't really know how strong your formation is."
The Phoenix Matriarch said, "It should last for a while; I'm also not sure since we haven't been attacked for a lot of time..."
Tatyana frowned slightly, but her face returned to normal right after. 'How could you not know the defensive capacities of your own formation? Is she still hiding things when I'm here helping her? You are lucky I have something to gain from this, or I would have left.'
The Phoenix Matriarch said, "By the way, little Tatyana, I can't feel your cultivation level... Are you using a technique or something?"
Tatyana smirked but didn't answer. 'To think that the technique is strong enough to confuse her... The technique must be nearing the Supreme rank, Lucky~.'
Tatyana said, looking at one of the phoenix elders. "I hope grandpa Feng Guoshi can stay beside Yasenia and protect her."
Feng Yuan's father, Feng Guoshi, nodded. "Don't worry, child; your chick will be fine with me."
Tatyana nodded and said, "If you protect my little treasure well enough, I will think about letting your son alive."
His football-sized eyes locked onto Tatyana, and then bowed his head, "Thank you, I will protect her with my life."
Tatyana nodded, satisfied, 'What is revenge in front of absolute protection for my little treasure? A little Phoenix isn't worth endangering Yasenia.'
Yasenia looked up from Tatyana's arms, wanting to speak, but sighed, "I'm sure mom is thinking the best for me. I will just let it be...."
Tatyana kissed Yasenia's forehead and smiled, proud that she could make that decision and leave hatred apart. The Phoenix matriarch said, impressed. "A young dragon that can honestly let go of her hatred. Little Tatyana, you raised her well."
Tatyana smiled and scratched Yasenia under her chin, "But of course~ My little treasure is the most beautiful~."
*Grrr~.*
"You like it here, right~."
*Grrrrr~.*
Even if it wasn't the time nor the moment, the mama phoenixes around got jealous! 'I also want a daughter like that! I want a cuddly daughter like that!!'
The Patriarch said, "Eira, prepare yourself. They are already here."
The Matriarch stopped looking at Yasenia with a cough and said, "Boreas, this will be a hard fight, don't hold back."
Before the flock of phoenixes, a mass of demons appeared on the expansive snowy landscape, hiding the white floor and sky with their numbers. Howls of different demons resounded as creatures of all sizes and colors advanced from air and land.
In front of the mass of more than 100 million demons, 100 demons that had especially strong auras flew. The leading demon, Horux, spoke with a rumbling voice, making avalanches fall from nearby mountains. "Ice Phoenix Matriarch and Patriarch, if you deactivate the formation, we won't have to slaughter and forcefully capture all of you! Surrender and thrive; resist and perish!"
The Ice Phoenix Matriarch and Patriarch appeared before the demon army in their Phoenix forms. With their sky-shrouding wingspan of 12 kilometers and the Sun behind them, they cast a shadow on a big part of the demon army. The Patriarch spoke with a voice that could freeze hell itself. "Disgusting creature. Do you think that we, Ice Phoenixes, are so gutless? We'd rather die than fall into demon hands!"
Horux shook his head, completely unfazed by the aura of the two phoenixes. "What a shame, and here I thought I could add a high-level phoenix to my breeders."
The Matriarch sneered, "An ant wanting to have intercourse with me? It seems that the intelligence of demons has dropped sharply over the years. Retreat before you meet your end; we are not as helpless as you think."
At that moment, Tatyana appeared between the demon army and the phoenixes. Even if she was the smallest, the same couldn't be said for her aura. Her aura unfurled and washed over all the demons. Her voice echoed with a regal tone, "Foolish creatures, you decided to target someone loved by this Eminence. Retreat, and live on, fight... And become part of my army!"
The demons felt like a dense wave of energy washed over them, making some Demon Monarchs feel like an enormous weight pressed on their backs, forcing some to descend to the snowy ground, unable to maintain flight.
Horux looked at Tatyana directly, trying to measure her strength. However, he couldn't, 'Red-eyed, long black hair, otherworldly beauty, and an imposing death and fate aura... She should be Tatyana, the headmistress of the Academy. Why can't I measure her strength...? A technique? It must be.'
Tatyana concentrated her current aura release on Horux, making him feel constricted. "Have you finished trying to analyze me? Since you found nothing, speak."
Horux acted calmy and laughed, "Why are you so sure I found nothing? However, are you sure you want to fight us? I think we make better allies than them."
Tatyana smiled disdainfully, "I know it because you are still standing before me. Moreover, ally with you? Do you think I don't know what you were trying to do? That little succubus spilled everything quite fast, hahaha! To be fair, not many can resist the agony of dying continuously in different manners for a long time."
The previous Succubus Queen appeared beside Horux; she chuckled mischievously and said, adding seduction skills to her voice, "I say, could you let my great-great granddaughter free? I would looove~ If she could return to my side~."
Tatyana looked at her, completely unfazed, "Cheap tactics inferior to that of a sex slave. If that technique was supposed to make your voice enticing, I might as well have sex with a rock; it would be more pleasurable than to do it with you."
Before the Succubus Queen could retort, Horux yelled, "Shut up! Is that cheap woman that important to interrupt our conversation? Retreat!"
Horux looked at Tatyana and said, "I will ask one last time, Tatyana. Do you truly want to become our enemy? We don't fear making your Academy the first target when the main forces come!"
Tatyana chuckled and moved her hand, summoning a humanoid... thing. Since Horux and the others didn't feel much energy, they didn't move and let it appear. The humanoid figure that emerged was gruesome, to say the least.
The general form was that of a succubus, but her flesh was rotting and regrowing constantly; her lower two orifices had heated poles with a thigh-width buried that sent painful energy waves inside of her. Her lower part was so deformed because of them that she didn't appear like a woman anymore. The worst thing was that the Succubus... Or what remained of her, was convulsing, clearly awake, and feeling all that pain even now.
Tatyana looked at the Succubus Queen and said, imitating her previous tone, "I say~, you wanted your progeny, right? Here she is. Isn't she niiicely~ groomed?"
Behind the Demon Monarchs, the mother of the succubus couldn't process what she was seeing. Still, when she understood that the thing brutally impaled and rotting was her only daughter, something snapped, and she went crazy, "YOU FUCKING WHORE HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY DAUGHTER!? I'M GOING TO-"
"Die."
After Tatyana spoke that word, the world laws seemed to bend just with the strength of her voice. Without anything fancy happening, the succubus duchess froze, and then she fell to the ground, dead.
This time, Horux opened his eyes wide, 'Her voice carried world laws! Impossible, only Demigods or Law Creator realm cultivators can do this!'
Horux frowned and asked, "Have you entered the Law Creator realm? You shouldn't be able to do so on this continent! The energy purity isn't high enough! Moreover, only 1500 years ago, you were just at the eighth level of the Transcendence realm! Even if you were strong, you couldn't manipulate world laws!"
Tatyana looked at the twenty-meter-tall demon and opened her mouth one last time. "Surrender, and live; Resist, and live for eternity under my command. Choose."
The Phoenix Matriarch and Patriarch didn't speak. For them, it would be ideal if the fight was avoided.
Horux and the Succubus Queen returned to the demon ranks. Time slowed as they communicated through soul communication. Horux asked, "Do you think she is in the Law Creator Realm?"
Another Demon King said with a ridiculing tone, "Are you suggesting that she is a demigoddess? She would have killed all of us if she was in that realm."
The succubus Queen didn't want to go without fighting, so she said, "She is probably at the peak of the Transcendence realm and has seen some insights from the next realm. We shouldn't worry."
Another Demon Queen nodded along, "I also think so; getting this mountain will be extremely useful for us."
One Demon King said something that interested all of them, "Lord Jurtok would be delighted if we manage to capture Tatyana. Isn't he addicted to red-eyed women?"
Horux nodded, "Reasonable."
Only a second passed when their communication ended, and all the Demon Monarchs blinked into the air and unfurled their aura at full strength. The space seemed to inflate with their combined auras and exploded powerfully, carrying all that strength toward the phoenix flock.
Tatyana looked with a raised eyebrow, 'They didn't retreat?'
All the phoenixes screeched and summoned the formation. A blue and white semitransparent dome enveloped the main mountain and blocked the aura attack of the Demon Monarchs.
*BOOOOM!!*
What followed was a catastrophic explosion that made the ground tremble and the clouds disperse. Horux commanded, "Change of plans, the thirty strongest Demon Monarchs come with me and attack the headmistress, send ten for each of the phoenix leaders, and the rest resist against the other sixth-ranked phoenixes. When we or the other groups deal with their target, we will join all of you."