Both the arrow and the magical orb shot were deadly silent.

With the flak cannons disrupting the view of the Countess Dantalion, she did not notice them coming a single bit. Even though they were released at the same time, the arrow flew faster thanks to Zeru's innate strength as well as the massive amount of chi infused into the arrow's shaft.

Once the arrow impacted onto the magical shield, it swiftly penetrated through the defences like a cockroach crawling through a slit. Initially, Peppers believed that her magical orb would partially explode on Countess Dantalion's defensive energy shield given the nature of the arrow, but what Peppers hadn't expected was that Zeru's arrow had further infused it with a technique.

\"Epic Bow Art, Watching the Lotus Flower Bloom,\" Zeru whispered as he returned Bam and Boo into their original state and requested System to send the weapons over to Vulcan for a quick maintenance session before returning it to his disciple.

As the technique name implied, after the arrow slipped into the energy shield, its energy dispersion counteracted the magical shell around the turtle and created an opening that was shaped like a Lotus blooming in early spring. This allowed Peppers' magical orb to pass through without any incident and head straight for the fortress sitting on the flying turtle's back. Countess Dantalion was so focused on Zeru's devastating attack that she did not see the condensed little sphere zooming past it.

A massive explosion ensued at the fortress, and the area around the blast became overpressurised, resulting in energised shock waves passing through the entire region.

Rock fragments of the medieval fortress' walls flew all over the place and caused secondary casualties. The blast impact did not only damage the outer surface of the fort, but it inflicted a disastrous amount of fatalities within the fortress itself.

Peppers had learnt much after her fight with Ice Father Porkcupine for which she still remained sour to this date. There were even rumours circulating of her wanting to attack and heal Father Porkcupine until she managed to one-shot kill the massive beast. (The System was not going to allow her to do anything of the sort as it had to preserve its precious resources.)

Her new and improved (restrained) spell had been model