LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 33: Chapter 21
Titania was in panic.
"Let's launch a full attack! Let's destroy this world for taking away our Supremes!" Superbia roared with barely contained fury, emitting an unpleasant hiss as her antennae trembled.
"Calm down, Superbia! The culprit of this was that Dragon! Not the innocents!" Alucard retorted harshly towards Superbia, earning a hiss from her in return.
"... Who do we need to kill? Just tell me and I'll bring their head." Achernar stated, leaning against a wall. His fists clenched with rage.
Meanwhile, Miia lay on the ground, staring into nothingness as if she wanted to die in that moment. Her armor, Echidna, lay inert beside her as she grasped her face.
"Shut up, Alucard! The Supremes disappeared! They were taken from us! This world... THEY TOOK THEM AWAY! AND EYESIGHT CAN'T FIND THEM!" Superbia screamed, grabbing her hair as if she were about to tear it out at any moment. Her antennae trembled as they emitted an intense and threatening buzz. She didn't even care about appearances now. "And if you keep saying we shouldn't do anything... Then I'll consider you a traitor to the Supreme Lords and Titania." The Insectoid threatened with a murderous look.
Alucard frowned, saying nothing as he stared firmly at Superbia. He wasn't proud to admit that he was considering fighting against Superbia.
And the double doors leading to the 'Commander's Room,' a room for role-playing purposes where the 5 Commanders would gather and discuss important matters if necessary, were opened.
"Enough." Lord Bachelory Antoinette Sheoler II entered with elegance.
Upon his arrival, the present Commanders stared at him.
"Prime Minister... I-"
"Bachelory! Just give the order and I'll have all my troops destroy this world!" Superbia interrupted Alucard from speaking.
Eyesight trembled behind Titania's Prime Minister.
Her two Dragons were staring at a floating mirror in front of her in silence.
"... I cannot sanction such an action, Superbia." Bachelory responded, to the indignation of the Commander.
"What!? The Supremes disappeared! The Queen of Titania disappeared! YOUR CREATOR DISAPPEARED! And you plan to do nothing!?" Superbia's antennae trembled furiously, while she barely contained herself from using an ability.
Bachelory remained silent, his hands behind his back. He looked towards Achernar, who barely gave him a glance. Towards Alucard, who seemed regretful or doubtful. And towards Miia, who seemed to have lost all hope of living.
"... I shall refrain from any course of action unless it garners approval from the Supremes." He replied curtly, causing Superbia to fall silent.
Silence flooded the room.
Bachelory looked at Eyesight, who shrank under the Prime Minister's gaze, but forced herself to speak.
"T-The Supremes... T-They haven't really gone f-forever..." she stammered, earning an intense look from the Commanders.
Superbia seemed incredulous, hopeful. Alucard looked expectant. Achernar desperate. And Miia with a newfound light in her eyes as she lifted her head.
"T-The Dragon used... Something... That made i-it disappear with the Supreme B-Black Abyss and Bulldoger... T-Then Lady Dont ordered me to t-take her there and... She entered that p-possible Pocket Dimension..." She explained nervously.
"In essence, the Supremes are not lost. They are merely contending with this adversary. Presumably, once it is vanquished, they will emerge alongside Bulldoger." Bachelory clarified.
"S-So my Creator is still okay?" Achernar asked with incredible need in his voice. The need to know.
And Bachelory chuckled under his breath... Or the closest thing to chuckling under his helmet.
"Tell me, Commanders." He called out to them. "Do you doubt the power of our Ladies?"
At the question... The room fell into complete silence. As if Superbia's outburst from before were nothing more than an illusion.
"T-The Supremes! They're out!" Eyesight exclaimed joyfully, looking into the mirror.
She shuddered at the looks she received.
"T-They are with Bulldoger and... An unidentified target... Probably the... Dragon?"
"In that case, what are we waiting for? Let us proceed to aid our esteemed Ladies." Bachelory snapped the Commanders out of their shock.
And after a mere moment of stupor, they all responded with powerful resolutions.
""YES!""
…
{'Minutes Before'}
Dont, with her plan in mind after a brief exchange of attacks and words, used one of her low-level abilities to appear behind Black Abyss.
"I know how to defeat it." She said to her, before pointing a finger at the ground. "[Order Lesser-Mid Demon: Infernal Protector]"
The Demon emerged from the pentagram with a roar, to which Dont mentally ordered something.
Black Abyss looked at the Protector jumping in front of her, blocking a swipe from the Dragon, and dying in return.
A [Message] appeared to Black Abyss, waiting for permission to 'open the chat'.
She granted such permission, awaiting the message.
(I need you and Bulldoger to contain him. Do your job as Tanks while I damage him. You couldn't defeat it because it's healing at high speed all the time. I plan to weaken it and one-shot it with my ultimate.) She summarized her plan in a short paragraph, cutting the message and nodding towards Black Abyss.
She shook her head and began to walk towards the Dragon.
"Stupid lizard, I'm getting tired of you. Let's end this." She said with a tired and angry tone at the same time, taking a phalanx position towards the creature, in front of Bulldoger and Dont.
"Bulldoger, help Black Abyss. Protect me." She ordered to the Commander of the Defensive Forces.
Seeing Dont's smile, Bulldoger laughed heartily.
"As my Goddess commands!" After all, he fervently believed in his Ladies.
Black Abyss attacked at the moment the Dragon gave a loud roar while it saw him attack again with a swipe, blocking the creature's powerful claws with her shield before striking the palm of them with the edge of her spear.
Bulldoger jumped and landed behind Black Abyss, hitting the creature's mouth when it tried to bite Black Abyss.
The Paladin jumped onto the Dragon's claws when it tried to step on her, preventing it from raising its hand while giving it a powerful kick in the joint, dislocating such claw.
The Dragon Lord roared, sticking his head out to shoot a mouthful of darkness directly in front of Black Abyss.
Only to receive a shot with divine damage directly in the mouth, making him roar as his beam was shot elsewhere.
"AAGGHHH! [WILD MAGIC: DEADLY DARKNESS]" He roared, causing hundreds of dark lasers to prepare to be shot from his scales in moments.
Dont activated [Hellfire Skin] just in case. She had never heard of that ability.
Black Abyss jumped during such a roar, several lasers hitting her, but not changing her course, leaving only severe burns on her skin under her armor while Bulldoger protected Dont from the lasers.
The Lycanthrope growled as the damage ignored his armor and passed directly to his body.
Black Abyss had the same effect, but ignored it, focusing on her target. After being burned by several lasers as they extinguished, she successfully entered the creature's mouth as it prepared another breath, only aimed at Bulldoger.
The Dragon was surprised by such foolishness but trembled slightly, realizing that he wouldn't be able to crush her between his jaws as he tried to close his mouth, with the woman using her arms and legs to keep his jaws open, also avoiding the lasers emanating from his body, and walking further inside.
With her new position, the Angel proceeded to open the dark creature's mouth even wider, and a 'Clack' could be heard, having dislocated its jaw. It wouldn't be able to sing any abilities when it couldn't even close its mouth. It was a kind of unconventional Silence effect.
A powerful light could be seen to the side, and the Dragon could see a bright projectile heading directly for its body.
He could barely squint his eyes with fury as he roared while the projectile hit him, exploding on his side with great force and making him roar from the sensation of burning and pain, while receiving a very strong blow to his hind legs in the opposite direction of the projectile, causing him to lose balance and fall sideways.
Although that ended with the Dragon sinking slightly into the darkness.
Dont silently thanked Bulldoger for defending her from the attacks. She had been scared when she saw the NPC's HP terrifyingly decrease even when blocking the attack.
Black Abyss, still inside the dark jaws of her opponent, raised her hand.
Thanks to her passive ability, her spear flew to her hand, and with it, she hooked the creature's tongue against the floor of its jaw, splitting both in half before exiting with a strong jump upon seeing the darkness swirling in the creature's mouth, which then shot without being able to hit her.
The Paladin landed on her feet to the side, watching the creature begin to rise again, and although the wounds on its palm and its ruined mouth began to heal rapidly.
The dislocated joints still remained that way, so it wouldn't be able to swipe with its left claws, or bite or use those rare but powerful spells it had, at least for a few seconds...
Dont smiled at the sight. She aimed to the side and summoned a Healing Devil. It was only level 34, but it could heal at least a little, and she had enough daily summons left to summon several Infernal Protectors.
The Demon in the form of a dark being with chitinous skin imitating muscles, with shoulder pads shaped like demonic steel skulls, gauntlets, large black horns, a deformed and unintelligible face without eyes, and what seemed to be a kind of long black skirt quickly cast as many healings as it could to Bulldoger and Black Abyss under Dont's command, quickly spending its little Mana on pure healings.
{Healing Devil PNG}
Meanwhile, 'Cako' emerged from the darkness, his jaws aiming another breath of darkness, but now towards Dont.
"[Summon Lesser-Mid Demon: Infernal Protector]" The summoning appeared between Dont and the Dragon Lord as he shot his breath, before Bulldoger could intervene.
Dont quickly moved out of the shot, as she was faster, and the summoning took the hit head-on, dying without resistance.
While she had many resistances to darkness, she didn't want to risk it. She had resistance, not immunity like a Shadow or maybe a high-level Devil would have.
And although her summoning died instantly and neutralized the breath, the Dragon roared in pain.
Infernal Protectors were a wonder when facing a DPS.
Dont didn't waste the moment she had.
"[Greater Critic Boost] [Direct Shoot] [Perfect Shoot]" With the classic combo, she shot the sanctified bullet towards the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord.
He roared as he received the critically enhanced damage with holy element.
Dont noted to herself that the Holy element wasn't as effective as Divine or Light. She didn't want to search for reasons. It just was like that.
"[Point of Authority]!" Black Abyss said, pointing her shield towards the Dragon, and in an instant, the ground began to glow in what was a solid divine energy road 200 meters long and 50 meters wide, burning the Dragon's own feet, which tried to run out of the road, but his speed had been greatly reduced.
And it was for long enough that Black Abyss was again less than 5 meters from his feet.
"[Great Faith Debt]!" She started her CC combo again, the right moment they needed to take advantage of to damage the creature as much as possible directly, considering Black Abyss didn't receive any collateral damage.
"[Hellfire Storm]" Dont used one of her abilities, causing the 'sky' to swirl in furious red flames that began to descend rapidly in the form of 'rain' of infernal fire. "Bulldoger, cover Black Abyss."
"Yes!" The knight ran as if his life depended on it towards Black Abyss, who was taking advantage of the CC moment on Cakonyiius to stab his stomach. Bulldoger hurried and also cut the Dragon's stomach with his claws in passing, using an ability to increase bleeding.
The infernal firestorm arrived, bathing the Dragon in it, making him scream furiously.
Bulldoger used [Taxidermy Shield], causing damage to himself to generate a shield around himself and Black Abyss. He ignored the pain of losing his skin for a moment. It was negligible compared to his own will and desire to protect his Lady.
The infernal fire bath ended after a few moments, leaving the Dragon covered in flames while the tar on its scales didn't help, making him roar in pain as his scales burned with wounds difficult to heal.
Black Abyss then aimed her spear at the Dragon's leg.
"[Spear of the Saintess]!" The golden spear hooked the Dragon again, retracting and causing it to fall. It began to rise, but was quickly drawn towards Black Abyss when she used [Attraction Field], hitting her shield against the ground again and immobilizing it once more.
This would be their last effort. She was running out of Mana and abilities to use.
She aimed her shield at the stomach cut by Bulldoger and herself. And she shouted. "[Path to Heaven]!"
Her shield was covered in divine energy and charged against the Dragon's wound, dragging him across the entire divine road after the powerful impact. Dozens of walls in the form of halos with internal divine energy appeared in the way, and they acted as extra blows that fell on the Dragon's body during the journey, making him roar as the divine damage especially strong against evil beings hit him.
When the charge ended, Black Abyss's spear hooked him again in the wound caused by Bulldoger, launching him into the air and thus becoming an easy target for Dont.
"DAMN YOU! [WILD MA-]" A burst of 5 bullets with [Celestial Explosion] silenced him for a second with intense pain, making him roar instead.
"Did you say something~?" And seeing the state of the Dragon with [Demon Eyes], she decided it was time.
She aimed her rifle well, selecting her target.
Circles appeared in front of the barrel of her weapon, with pentagrams and demonic symbols on them. Her scope extended into an image of an extended red energy scope. Fire began to emerge from between some openings of the rifle, as if its interior were ablaze.
A huge magic circle formed behind Dont, moving in endless patterns that altered and changed constantly.
15 seconds. Dont counted on her internally perfected watch from countless times using this ability.
The Dragon fell to the ground, standing, as he opened his jaws towards Dont, while a large amount of dark energy condensed in his mouth.
14 seconds.
"[Hammerdown]!" Black Abyss exclaimed, and a golden hammer appeared in the heights, shooting towards Cakonyiius, hitting him directly in the snout, closing his mouth and causing a huge explosion when the dark energy of his breath met with that of the hammer and the Dragon's own closed mouth.
13 seconds.
Bulldoger roared brutally as he jumped towards the Dragon Lord with force, his claws extended to the fullest.
He was in his 'berserker' mode now.
Before he didn't have to use it, but now...
12 seconds.
Who would have thought that 15 seconds would seem so eternal? Dont joked in her mind as she continued 'calibrating' the shot, with the circle behind her extending more and more outward while her weapon glowed red-hot.
And in just this second, Bulldoger had thrown a dozen punches towards the Dragon's back, causing broken scales to fly off due to the enhanced force.
11 seconds.
The Dragon Lord roared as he swung his tail towards Bulldoger, knocking him out of the way. Of course, he ignored the blow and dug his claws into the ground, using such grip to propel himself towards Cakonyiius again.
10 seconds.
"[DARKEST IMPALE]! DIE, PLAYER!" He roared.
Hundreds, thousands, millions of dark spears sprouted from the ground towards Dont. She growled as she watched Bulldoger's shield being thrown from him, hitting the Dragon in the nape.
9 seconds.
The Dragon Lord, who had roared from the blow and was turning to face the Tiger, received a charge directly from Bulldoger.
The tank plunged his claws deeply into the scales, piercing them and reaching deeply into the flesh.
The Wolf's charge made the dark being's head crash to the ground forcefully, while the knight gave powerful scratches and punches with his other hand. Even headbutts.
Dont had no doubt he would bite if not for the helmet.
8 seconds.
"[Expand Sacred Domain] [Attraction Field]!" Black Abyss recited, and the large attraction field of 15 meters increased enormously, covering a huge part of the dimension spectrum, capturing all the dark spears and making them shoot towards her.
7 seconds.
"[Faith Guard]!" She exclaimed, and her body was covered in ice. All the spears hit her, but in that period, she received no type of damage, until she thawed again after 2 seconds.
The Demon Queen didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the memory of how messed up Black Abyss's build was. She could avoid or block so much damage... Damn sicko~
5 seconds.
"Bulldoger! Shut his mouth!"
The order echoed in Bulldoger's frenzy-filled mind, who, despite his state, obeyed while battling Cakonyiius, climbing onto the Dragon's back violently.
4 seconds.
He punched the Dark Dragon's paw, which tried to get him off, and dug his claws into his neck, propelling himself upwards.
Once on top of his head, he punched him between the eyes and got off the Dragon before he could retaliate.
Of course, once on the ground, beneath the draconic being, Bulldoger roared as he jumped towards his jaw, banging his head against it and causing the Dragon to close his mouth tightly.
The sound of teeth breaking could be heard.
3 seconds...
Moving with the agility of a tiger, he dug his claws into the Dragon Lord's snout to prevent him from opening his mouth without tearing his flesh, practically embracing the jaw and using his whole body for it.
Cakonyiius Malavernus roared furiously, although the sound was muffled by his closed mouth.
Black Abyss took her spear in position to throw it, shooting it towards the Dragon's head, making him have to decide between blocking the spear or getting Bulldoger off.
He decided to avoid the spear, ducking and crushing Bulldoger against the ground a bit.
The spear stopped in mid-air, and thanks to Black Abyss's passive, the weapon turned and returned the way it came.
2 seconds.
Dont prepared herself again.
"[Absolute Critic] [Deadly Shoot] [Ken'Dy Death]" Using the enhanced sniper abilities she had to combo with this skill, she was ready.
1 second...
Against all odds, thanks to the slight blow that the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord inflicted on Bulldoger, he managed to open his mouth.
"[WILD MAGIC: DARK SPEAR OF VENGEANCE]!" He shouted with unbridled fury.
Black Abyss's spear stopped just before hitting him, tinting black and becoming almost invisible due to the darkness surrounding the area already.
On the other hand, a pure dark spear, almost similar to that of the Paladin, probably in unconscious inspiration, appeared over Cakonyiius...
Only such a weapon was twice the size of the Dragon itself...
And the spear, in less than a second, propelled itself at a brutal speed towards the Demon Queen.
Black Abyss looked towards Dont and threw her shield so that it passed right in front of her...
But, still against all odds, it ignored the shield, piercing it as if it weren't there.
And the Paladin had only one thought as the dangerously turbid projectile headed towards her friend.
Jumping as if a government bodyguard saving the president from a bullet, it was Black Abyss herself who received the attack, seeing the dark spear pierce her abdomen from side to side.
The Shooter's eyes widened as she saw the Paladin in front of her. Both the Komodo Demon, the Devil, and the Snake in her mind, remained static... And it was the Demon Queen herself who took the reins with firmness and stoicism.
Even so, Dont's attack was completed.
The red circle behind her turned black as the symbols remained static.
A sound like an explosion of cosmic levels was heard alongside the crushing of countless things, as well as screams and instruments breaking.
0 seconds.
Dont, even controlled by her part as Demon Queen, gritted her teeth, and pulled the trigger with all the fury she could muster.
"[Catastrophic Apocalypse - Heaven's Fall]"
...
What would the Dinosaurs have seen when a ball of fire and rock fell upon them? What would it look like if the moon fell directly onto the Earth?
Such questions could well be answered by scientists making 3D recreations or similar.
But nothing is more real than seeing it in person.
It was as if an entire kingdom, full of white wings, golden rings, fire, eyes, marble structures, and more, concentrated in a single white point that shot out from Dont's cannon.
Bulldoger stepped out of the trajectory, roaring with fury as he carried a piece of Dragon Lord meat between his claws.
The shot did not deviate from its path. He was not the target. Although the NPC activated all his defensive abilities as he basically lunged to cover Black Abyss with desperate and terrified frenzy. Even in berserker mode, his instincts sent him to protect his Lady. His Goddess. Who was falling in slow motion in this mere second towards the ground.
Cakonyiius Malavernus looked at the approaching light. And submerged himself in darkness.
The floor, like unbreakable glass separating the 'dark land' from the 'dark water', shattered like a mirror against a hammer as the shot continued.
"DAMNED PLAYERS!" He roared inside the 'water' with fury and rage.
And the darkness lit up.
…
Tsaindorcus lifted his head, looking in one direction.
"... That was..."
He narrowed his eyes.
...
"Agh... Glourh!" Black Abyss growled as she coughed up blood that flooded her lungs, causing Bulldoger to shout something to her, concerned. She paid him no attention, as she had a dark spear piercing through her from side to side and was falling to the ground...
She smiled slightly with bitter resentment as she looked at the white light, which had been a small laser, turning into a massive beam the size of a football (Or 'Soccer', whatever you wanna call it, though it's Football or futbol, you damn americans [With love~]) field.
She didn't even pay attention to the sounds like cries of millions of her kind accompanied by the beam. It was a 'sound' effect of the ability. After all, Dont was using 'Destroyed Heaven' as a projectile.
It was very disturbing if one thought too much about it.
She heard the sound of glass cracking, and saw lines of light spreading through the darkness they were submerged in like roots, before encompassing everything.
Black Abyss growled again as she felt her back collide with the hard rock, causing her to cough up more blood.
She could feel it... She wasn't healing... But she still had HP. 2.3%.
Ugh... That Dragon's attack had destroyed 55.5% of her HP in a mere instant...
How terrifying...
She saw Dont land with her heels beside her, her 'Demon Queen' wings extended, as if to cover them.
"My Queen! I-I-!" Bulldoger was about to apologize, but Dont stopped him, looking at Black Abyss, crouching to be closer to her.
"... You alright, bro?" She asked concerned.
The Paladin could only look with slight surprise at the genuine and terrified concern on her friend's face.
The Angel looked at the spear embedded in her abdomen, passing through until the tip came out her back.
"...Y-Yeah... I'm fine..." She said with a furrowed brow as she tried not to spit blood, but unable to avoid the pain that simply speaking like this caused at the moment.
Dont grimaced as she placed her fingers on her temple.
"[Message]. Ah, Eyesight... Uh, yeah. Send someone to take Black Abyss and Bulldoger to the Temple to heal." Dont sighed, moving her fingers away from her temple. "Well, they'll come pick you up. You have... Approximately level 10 HP? That should be... About 5%?" Dont did the math.
Black Abyss took the dark spear, and ripped it out of her abdomen in one pull.
She ended up regretting it a bit for the pain and damage she felt.
"Ngh...! C-Call it 1.5%..." She said, using a normal ability to call her spear to her hand.
Using it, she ended up leaning on her weapon to start getting up, while Bulldoger looked at her almost wanting to die before her.
Dont sighed shakily as she helped her sit down carefully. The sight of the Paladin's golden blood spilling on the ground was leaving her very disturbed.
Was she bleeding? Was she dying...? Was she going to die!?
Her terrors only increased, and only the Demon Queen could calm them enough.
And [Gate] opened beside them.
"Alright, go and-"
"PIECES OF SHIT! DAMNED PLAYERS! DIE! DIE! DIE!" The trio opened their eyes as they looked towards the Great Rift.
The huge Dragon Lord was no longer there. Instead, it was a 2-meter-high armor, made of a metal like Cakonyiius's scales. Black as darkness.
It had a draconic appearance, with a helmet identical to the head of the Dragon Lord, with a long tail of sharp plates that ended in a narrow, sharp tip like a sickle.
It had a pair of blades on each forearm, protruding as if to stab with them, and two long swords made of shadows.
The two shadowy wings on its back left it suspended in the air.
{Cako Raiden Mecha Code Geass Armor Thing PNG}
Of course, it was very noticeable that he still had that collar with the ring of fire.
Dont hastily used [Demon Eyes], and groaned somewhat intimidated.
His HP was at level 80.
And the Dragon Lord charged towards her at great speed after a powerful roar.
Bulldoger was about to intervene, while Dont was ready to use her summonings as she drew her melee weapon, but someone stopped them.
Something white interrupted the Dragon Lord's attack before Dont could use an ability or even finish drawing her weapon.
...
Cakonyiius Malavernus. The Deep Darkness Dragon Lord.
Hundreds of years ago, he had hidden. He hid like a coward from the monsters who were called the Eight Kings of Greed. Those who massacred his kind to near extinction.
He was one of the few who survived.
And since then, he swore never to be weak again.
He delved into his Wild Magic. He dug into the depths of the abyss to find power.
He ended up facing a Player alone. And he won.
The ring of fire, which he couldn't decipher its workings, hanging around his neck, was his trophy. His announcement of it.
He secluded himself from the world in the depths of the earth until his moment to kill more of that scum that would eventually come to this world.
And finally, today was that day.
Using his Wild Magic, he trapped the pair of Players in his own domain, the darkness. Where time inside was different due to the deep edge it grazed to sustain itself.
He had been attacking them for so long, almost hours, wearing down their strength.
And he was winning.
He didn't even have to use his trump card or his optimized close combat transformation to win.
He was the strongest!
Until another Player arrived. And turned the tables like a magnum opus.
Even the strongest of those two Players dealt damage to him equivalent to breaking a bone with each blow.
But that woman... With each of her attacks, she could only equate them to having her entire skeleton crushed with each one, of course, while burning his flesh as if she were being roasted for dinner.
He was forced to use one of the most expensive spells of Wild Magic in his arsenal, depleting all the soul reserves he had absorbed from the wars over his head in the Dwarves Kingdom and Azerlisia Mountains.
And that Player killed him with a devastating attack that almost destroyed his own domain...
But now...
"PIECES OF SHIT! DAMNED PLAYERS! DIE! DIE! DIE!"
He roared with the deepest and greatest anger he had.
[Dark World] was one of his trump cards with which he could even defeat two Dragon Lords alone.
Even if they managed to kill him inside... That would only be the 'prelude'.
Although the consumption of Souls and Mana within [Dark World] was real... His death wasn't.
So, once he 'died' or [Dark World] was dissolved or destroyed in some way, he would be almost as good as new in the real world. Unharmed. Alive.
And he had fatally wounded one of those Players... And the one who killed him surely used her trump card against him...
It was his chance.
He roared powerfully, ready to charge towards the trio of Players.
Now, with his combat transformation, [Depths Berserker], he would destroy them once and for all. He wouldn't hold back at all.
He wouldn't have souls to use for Wild Magic without cost, but he could use his own soul for it!
His thoughts of premature victory were interrupted when his hand maneuvering his blade towards the Shooter stopped when it hit the white hook of that lance...
He was pushed back and saw the Player in white, covered in golden blood...
She... Had cleanly punched him in the face, hitting him squarely and pushing him to the other side of the Great Rift...
How could she even stand with such a wound of such magnitude!? And how could she hit so hard even then!?
"Listen to me, you idiot! I made a promise to protect the 'chicks' of the Guild even if it meant my death!" The Angel said, hitting her chest with the hand where her shield should be...
"O-Oi..." The other woman seemed to freeze, looking very guilty as she stepped back.
Chicks? Did she mean that this woman was weak to attacks? Tch! It didn't matter! One blow and he could kill her!
He leaped with enormous power towards the woman, ready to finish her off, but...
"[Instant Shadow Slayer]!"
An attack went through him... It was so fast that he didn't even perceive it in time, the short blade pierced through his shoulder from side to side, sending him to one of the walls after receiving brutal damage.
He quickly got up and saw a shadow in front of him, as well as a huge number of blades going towards him, no... They weren't many, it was one single one at an abyssal speed!
"[SHADOW SLASH FRENZY]!!" The male voice full of rage and hatred shouted, as the huge wall presented hundreds of extremely deep cuts, just as the armor did while he was being pierced, releasing streams of his black blood.
"GAH! ENOUGH! [DARK SHIELD EXPANSION]!" A powerful dark sphere appeared, pushing the shadow away from him, which, upon being touched by the light entering through the holes in the mountain he had caused in the beginning, revealed its true form.
…
"Achernar…" Black Abyss murmured with a smile, finally looking relieved to see the assassin.
He turned around and practically jumped towards her, being replaced in the fight against the Dragon Lord by Alucard, who emerged from the [Gate] alongside Superbia, Miia, Bachelory, and Mishirifus.
"My Creator! Y-Your wounds...!" He spoke with extreme concern, looking at the damage Black Abyss had received during the battle.
"It's okay, Achernar. I'm not in danger of death... I think..." She said, patting the Commander on the head, causing him to tremble as he looked at his creator with red eyes.
"Mishirifus, heal Black Abyss and then Bulldoger." Dont ordered from the side with a voice so somber that the title of Demon Queen suited her perfectly. "Meanwhile, Miia, provide support from afar with shots. Bachelory, take the form of Hanzel to reduce the enemy's mobility. Superbia, support the rest with summons as you see fit. I cannot use ranged weapons for 15 minutes due to the use of my Pact Hunter ability. I still have my melee combat weapons and my physical combat form, but I see no point in going to attack physically." She instructed the present Commanders and the healer.
Then Dont looked to the side, sensing Achernar's anger and murderous intent.
"My Creator... I swear I will bring you the head of that... SCUM! And of anyone else who dares to harm you..." He exclaimed with a tone that even gave Black Abyss chills.
However, she nodded, surprising Dont with that.
"Don't say everyone~... Or else you'd have to kill someone you don't want to~... But bring me that collar~" The Paladin said somewhat amused.
Dont was very impressed with how the Paladin could simply be in this state even with such wounds. She barely had 2% according to her...
At the Angel's words, Achernar nodded firmly, kneeling in front of her, before turning into a shadow that disappeared from view.
"... Make sure the Dragon Lord doesn't touch Achernar. Go!" Dont gave the final order as she pointed to Cakonyiius, who was being overwhelmed by Alucard.
Especially because he was equipped for combat, and had used an ability that made his sword twice as large.
Dont looked to her side, seeing Black Abyss with... Guilt, basically...
"B-Black Abyss..." She murmured, approaching her somewhat hesitantly, kneeling to be closer to her.
On the other hand.
"M-My apologies." The female Lycanthrope apologized with a bow to Black Abyss, before reaching out her hands towards her. "[Good Spirit Bless] [Greater Cure Wounds]"
The cat performed the healing spell, smiling as she watched the wound on her Supreme Lady's abdomen heal.
Although not as much as it should with the previous buff, but due to the efficiency of the healing, whatever was reducing the effect only neutralized the improvement from the buff.
Dont grimaced, and looked silently to the side, watching the fight between the NPCs and the Dragon. Then she looked back at Black Abyss, and let out a slight growl of annoyance. Of fury.
"Heal her until she reaches 60% of her HP. Then go and heal Bulldoger." She ordered with a furrowed brow.
"B-But my queen... Shouldn't I heal the Supreme to 100%?"
"No. She'll be fine. And she won't be fighting, so it would be a waste to risk Bulldoger's life while the enemy is easily being held back." She murmured as she looked to the side.
She saw the figure of the Dwarf Mage in black, gray, and white robes beautifully lined with gold, with a long white beard, with different mystical artifacts in the form of bracelets, rings, and a long staff resembling a clock hand that Bachelory used to cast a spell towards the Dragon Lord, preventing it from slashing towards Alucard, who delivered an upward blow with his powered-up weapon, while an arrow from Miia pierced the Dragon's armor-clad stomach.
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Superbia had dozens of level 80 Wyverns start to surround and bite and scratch the draconic being.
"Hm..." Black Abyss watched Achernar appear behind the Dragon Lord, delivering a powerful knee to its neck that made it release a pained scream before swinging a sword backward, which was stopped by Alucard, who countered with a powerful strike from the pommel of his sword, sending Cakonyiius to the ground.
Certainly, that wasn't just 'holding back'... It was a beatdown, almost bullying...
"Umu... I don't want to underestimate an opponent like this. [Deamon's Grasp]." Dont muttered angrily... As if what she was about to do wasn't just 'not underestimating', but contributing to such a beatdown...
Metaphysical demonic claws extended towards the Dragon Lord, gripping him. Although he tried to push the claws away. Unsuccessfully, obviously, as they were not physical.
They pulled something that made the Dragon roar, before the claws withdrew while tearing pieces of something, bringing it to Dont in the form of HP.
The Dragon Lord roared in pain from the damage, while receiving an explosive projectile from Miia, causing him to turn towards the Fairy. Superbia appeared behind him and struck him with her scepter, before Alucard and Achernar took turns delivering sword slashes and punches to the Dragon Lord who was against a wall.
"Kill him! He has unknown and unpredictable abilities!" The Queen of Titania shouted, eager to end this without the possibility of the tables turning and any of the NPCs suffering.
"A-Alright, my lady. I-I'll go heal Bulldoger..." Mishirifus gave a deep bow with a hesitant expression. She didn't seem to want to leave the Supreme with only 60% of her HP. Although she nearly melted when Black Abyss gave her a pat on her cat ears, letting her go afterward.
Bulldoger wasn't convinced either, as he moved uncomfortably to the side, silently, since Dont told him not to intervene moments ago, basically.
On the other hand, Alucard delivered a powerful kick to the Dragon Lord's stomach, causing it to bend over and thus grabbing him by one arm.
Miia gave a mental command, and her armor obeyed.
Echidna lunged towards the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord at high speed, stabbing him with her lance, then hitting him with her scales in something more like a punch, and making the two objects disappear. She grabbed Cakonyiius's other arm, restraining him.
Achernar appeared in an instant behind him, wrapping his muscular arm around his neck, hooking it with the other in a Rear Naked Choke with enormous lethality.
Bachelory continued casting spells that immobilized and silenced the Dragon. He was Hanzel after all, a 'Friendly Dwarf' with disgusting crowd control.
Superbia summoned a couple of Children of Samson, casting a spell on them to make them fly, and had them start to pound the Dragon Lord's chest and stomach, who could only try to roar in pain and frustration while writhing.
He couldn't even utter words or roars. He was silenced.
Achernar, with even more strength, began to pull upwards, making the sounds of the armor tearing louder, while the Dragon Lord, incapacitated from speaking by the pressure Achernar exerted on his neck and Bachelory's debuffs, only tried to break free.
But such a thing was impossible with the strength of Alucard and Echidna.
And meanwhile, he was battered by Superbia's two level 87 physical strength summons and riddled with Miia's arrows, causing his HP to plummet.
So, it wasn't long, perhaps only 2 or 3 seconds, until the Dragon Lord's neck gave way... The sound of his armor breaking and his flesh tearing was loud and clear.
Achernar threw the head aside, focusing on what his Creator asked of him, taking the fiery collar and instantly appearing in front of Black Abyss, on his knees, presenting the collar with both hands.
"W-Well done..." She said with a bead of sweat on her forehead, taking the collar and examining it closely, this thing gave her for some reason a chilling sensation... No... Rather intimidating, as if it were... Super dangerous...
But another chilling sensation came from elsewhere.
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The Deep Darkness Dragon Lord... Now he was losing.
With no possibility of using Wild Magic, fighting against 5 Players who roughly matched his power, and attacking him with good synchrony and strength... He was losing as if he were just a weakling against a bunch of bullies.
They even insulted him using domesticated Wyverns to taint and damage his scales...
And now... While his neck was yielding to the powerful grip of that boy with a Dragon scent... He used a Wild Magic spell in Silence, consuming what little remained of his soul. A practically suicidal attack, but one that he hoped would take these unpleasant Emperor Dragon filth with him.
The Wild Magic he developed... Touched on something forbidden that others of his kind would look at carefully. But he, among all, ventured into the unknown to gain power. And now, he would call upon the unknown to destroy his enemies, even if it was the last thing he did.
[Wild Magic: Depths Awakening]
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Dont blinked as an intense effect of madness affected the area.
Anyway, it wasn't strong enough to penetrate the defense of any of those present, except for Mishirifus.
Dont quickly took a ring from her inventory and placed it on one of the Cat Girl's fingers, curing her of the Madness effect that was affecting her as she staggered backward from the mental 'blow'.
She looked to the side and saw the corpse of the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord writhing.
"Back away." She ordered, causing the Commanders who were restraining him to step back, while Superbia's summons stood guard in front of her, letting the corpse twist.
The Dragon Lord seemed to shrink at a point, compressing with an unpleasant sound of bones breaking, revealing... An eye.
An eye that looked at Miia.
Then another eye, looking at Superbia.
And so, dozens of eyes appeared out of nowhere, each one looking at every Commander, Mishirifus, Black Abyss, and Dont.
The effect of madness intensified, but her defenses resisted once again, only leaving her with a bothersome headache. It was the Demon Queen who grabbed the feeling of madness and crushed it between her fingers like a grape, calming Dont down.
Space began to tear apart alongside the eyes...
And dozens of huge tentacles covered in reptilian scales and a mucous like that of a toad burst forth, flailing in all directions.
The Shooter blinked when the image itself reminded her a lot of... Oh...
"Retreat!" Identifying what that was, or at least approximately, Dont ordered the Commanders.
After all, the expansion of Yggdrasil of the Star Gods made her very interested in the subject. Besides, of course, she and many guild members dealt with the creatures that this expansion brought.
The Commanders obeyed as Dont cast a [Message] for Eyesight to open a portal to Titania.
"Bachelory. Take the form of SoyAlmeja, try to control that thing or at least communicate."
Her creation nodded, changing its form from Mage Dwarf to a creature resembling a blue octopus with different pale colors, and really ugly, dressed in ceremonial robes.
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He reached out towards the tentacle monster that seemed to want to breach this plane of existence, and the monster appeared to calm down.
"That thing... It's..." Black Abyss muttered with fury, preparing to fight, to which Dont let out a slight growl as she forced her down and positioned herself between the Paladin and the monster, both locking eyes for a moment before turning back to look at all the tentacles and eyes that had appeared in that amorphous mass.
"Yeah. It seems to be an Outer God, or at least of that theme... If they really exist, then we'll have to be careful with spells and abilities from the Star Gods expansion, or even mentioning any of their names..." She sighed, regretting using [Jaldabaoth's Menace] earlier. She hadn't said the name out loud, nor did the ability refer to that Outer God, but rather to a Demon, and it was spelled with a J instead of a Y, but the risk was there.
The last thing they wanted was to have a World Boss at Titania's doorstep.
The duo wondered what Bachelory was doing, as he was very still and quiet, and the monster very calm...
And the monster, as if letting out a gurgle of a drowned person, as its tentacles began to retract and its eyes closed.
Bachelory lowered his hand.
A few seconds later, the monster disappeared, and the tear in space was fixed.
"... Umu... Well, okay~ Victory~" Dont said cheerfully as she made a 'V' for victory with one hand towards the sky, able to sigh in relief for a moment.
Black Abyss sighed from exhaustion... With a droplet falling from her forehead. "Gosh..." She murmured, leaning against a rock.
Dont looked at her, making a face, just wanting to return to Titania to ensure Black Abyss and Bulldoger were safe...
She looked around, and saw the head of the Deep Darkness Dragon Lord at the side, about to fall into the rift. She also noticed there was a portal next to it. It must have been from Eyesight or her subordinates.
"Um... Well, take that head from there, and let's go before anyone else comes. We'll consider this day a success in eliminating such a high-level threat without casualties." The Demon Queen sighed again as she organized the next course of action.
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... In a hollow mountain, what appeared to be an egg of death, decay, and corpses twitched slightly.
Inside it, the 'owner' of such an 'egg' looked in a direction.
"Hm... That's not good..."
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Elsewhere, within a bush, a handsome man with golden horns and some scales stopped his thrusts on the Wolf Girl as he widened his eyes.
He looked in another direction.
"Uh oh..."
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The Platinum Dragon Lord remained silent as his fears were confirmed.
... Cakonyiius Malavernus... Died.
"I need to gather the others..." He concluded with regret.
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Name: Cakonyiius Malavernus
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