In the city of the overgrown forest, there lies a hierarchy where the strongest survives, many Foliage type species died and resulted in the Spirit Grass type species to succeed in ruling over. the Queen and King commands the lesser beings of the same class of species, that being the Carnivorous and the neutral.
currently, I have a mission only I can complete. my personality and skills are what made this mission compatible for me.
"Liliya! I need you!"
"Yes, your highness"
I'm currently guarding the 1st princess of the Druid Grounds, her abilities to hold a sword is astonishing and by time, she could probably surpass me.
"will you train me today?"
"I'm sorry your highness but my role today for you is a servant, but if you can meet me at midnight, I can... probably make time for you"
"Really!? Yay!"
"But keep this a secret from your parents okay? you don't want me gone forever right?"
"Yeah! It's our secret!"
"Good girl. It's time for you to meet your potential partners now your highness"
Her name is Erica, Erica Aus Meister, her proficiency on swords is high and she began to train with the Fol Knights. she currently has two guards monitoring her, me and some other stranger, which is my main mission right now.
The other guard isn't trying to kill the princess... I don't sense any hostility towards her but me... that is what I don't understand currently, I'd hate to get the princess involved in this so it's better to not ask about him even if I know he's gone...
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some time pass and I'm currently in the center of the Great tree, the lush green pastures and the leaves of the tree making way for the moonlight to pass is a scene even Rin and Yuna would love to see, the other guard is handling her for tonight so I'm waiting for the messenger to deliver me my update for this mission
"Oh, Coronis finally here?"
「Liliya, I'm gonna need you to leave the princess for now, if not then deliver a response to Naoya, via this Crow, Coronis will monitor you and if you're going to meet him then follow him」
"I see, well then, Coronis, please deliver this response letter to Naoya, I'll meet up with him later"
The crow took off after sensing the princess nearby and headed to where Naoya was stationed in
"Oh! your Highness..."
"*Yawn* sorry Liliya... I'm... ready to train now"
with a sleepy face and leaf clothing that resembles pajamas, the princess walked sluggishly to where I am, she's... just too cute... I can't help it!
"hahaha, your highness, you appear to be sleepy, sorry but I can't let you train with me today"
"Aww... *Yawn*... but I wanna..."
Liliya felt something off, the place was eerily silent, more so than before
"Your highness, I think it's time to head for your bedroom"
"aww... will you tell me a story?"
"when you're in your bedroom"
"But I wan' it now"
"I'm sorry your highness but we can't let you sleep here-"
suddenly, a spear made out of bones suddenly flew towards both the princess and Liliya. Liliya reflexively defended with her Greatsword and protected Erica
"Where are you!"
the princess might be in danger but... I can only assume that we're in a seal...
"I applaud for protecting the princess, miss Liliya"
"Y-you!? but I thought you were dead!"
the man with a tattered mantle walked up to them holding the spear he threw, Juren... we deemed him dangerous because of what he's goal is, but-
"Juren! My mission right now is either to kill you or to bring you back! please think this through!"
clicking his tongue, he angrily shook his spear
"YOU THINK I WILL LIVE WHEN YOU BRING ME BACK!? I know what you all have been doing, kidnapping innocents, destroying villages, do you think I'll approve of that!?"
"Juren! it's not what you think! the v-"
"TO HELL WITH YOUR EXPLANATIONS! you threw me out! you all deemed me useless!"
"we'll fix you up when we get back! you just have to trust m-"
"trust? trust!? I trusted you all to fix me when I was suffering! now look at what's happening to the world now! my virus has been killing every one of your followers!"
"It was you!? you were the cause of the infection!?"
"Yeah! what of it!? I'm gonna take my revenge one way or the other!"
he lost it... It's true that we may have reached to a conclusion way too early for him but this... is just way too much"
"L-Liliya... what's the matter?.. why's Juren fighting you?"
"Princess! please take cover, he won't hurt you, his goal is me"
she nodded and went to the side hiding in the bushes
"my goal is to capture or kill you without the princess being injured, I do hope that you don't take her as a hostage"
"what's to gain from killing her, my goal is all of you, Kirin, Yin, all of you who abandoned me!"
there really is nothing to be done for him right now... he's way too far gone...
"my mission was to kill or to capture you... but it seems I've deviated again, I'm capturing you even if you don't yield!"
dashing and attempting to finish this immediately, I swing my blade effortlessly making a sonic slash but he evaded it easily
"You're telling me that's your power? pathetic, I'll show you power"
without another word, Juren disappeared and Liliya suddenly felt pain from his abdomen, the blunt strike from the side of Juren's spear was enough to launch Liliya a bit
"gahk! I... what was Uhk"
without another thought, Juren struck again now hitting her side.
"What! you seem weak! you're saying that you're one of the most powerful but you can't even hold a candle to me! am I really a joke to you?!"
mercilessly striking, Juren began to close the gap. Liliya began to stand even with the pain and she started to protrude petals all over the place
"*cough* sorry... but I can't let this go anymore, it's time to sleep Juren"
"Tch, then I'll immediately cancel it now"
Liliya began to dodge every strike Juren gave although it was only by a sliver. the sleeping spores from the petals began to affect everything in the vicinity but Juren was still handling it well"
"stop! giving! me! trouble!"
Liliya dodged everything barely but one strike was only inevitable, the petals turned into mist and disappeared leaving Liliya open
"you stupid! Weak! Creation!"
with every pause, Juren began slicing Liliya torturing her
"Stop! please! I want to help you!"
"Help? Help!? all of you ever did to me was punish me!? left me to rot!"
"That was fifty years ago! I- Guk"
Juren began to kick and slice Liliya senseless, tattering Liliya's clothing even more and not even letting her move or let her have a chance to counter.
"I'm afraid that you'll forever live within the depths of hell, don't worry, you'll see the others soon"
aiming in her neck, Liliya began to use magic to propel herself, to evade the killing blow
"Oh? Do you still have some firepower left? prolonging won't help you, I'll end it in one single blow"
Naoya... I'm... sorry
"Taste death!"
vines began to tangle Juren immovable
"tch... damn princess"
in the bushes, with her hands aimed at Juren, Erica slowly tried to tangle Juren even if she was crying and scared. with a single throw of his spear, Erica stopped using Draining foliage and began to collapse in fear
"senseless, wasting time won't help you, that other one won't help you even if he noticed something's wrong"
He's right... even if a sense of dissatisfaction or even if something's off, Naoya won't stray from a simple rule... I'm afraid that I'm all alone here...
Liliya began to stand, her maid clothing transformed into her battle clothes and Liliya took a defensive stance, her injuries were still there and even the weight of her greatsword was increasing, he can no longer support the sword with Ether
"still have want some? then I'll entertain you for now, I'll make you regret to live"
Juren wasn't even exhausted, each slash was coated in wind creating sonic slashes, even without hitting her, the wind was slicing her, even her battle clothes which was made in concentrated Mana water was ripping.
Is... this the end?
her thoughts began to swirl and memories started to show, it was as if her life was nearing to it's death
am I... wait... I still have that skill... It's... time to use it...
Empowerment, a way to strengthen one's body to extreme ignoring even one's injury
"I'm... not dying right now!"
"shit... so you still have a trump card huh? well then, show it!"
without a single though, Liliya began to swing her greatsword to maximum leaving nothing in sight,
"I'm... not giving up right now!"
each slash was equal to a god's blow, slicing even faster than the last but
"It seems you've made a grave mistake..."
Juren didn't even take a hit, every slice was hitting everything except one place, the Princess
"seems like you already reached your limit... I'm sorry but... you're already dead"
finally stopping the torrent slashes, Liliya finally sensed the pain she was in.
even with her highly resistant battle wear, it was in tatters, leaving everything in sight and defenseless.
"You see, while you were desperately wailing that sword of yours, I kept on slashing you in your blindspot, genius right? or maybe... you're just weak"
motionless, Liliya lost consciousness.
without another thought, Naoya began to disturb Juren's killing blow to Liliya
"Y-YOU! HOW'RE YOU HERE!?"
"I'm sorry for being late... you can rest now"
using his clothing to cover her, Naoya took advantage of the atmosphere, slicing Juren in light speed
"It appears that I might need to take a check-up after this"
"H-How can you deviate!? I t-"
"Yeah... surprising that I've deviated from my mission, sorry but my mission is to return Liliya right now. but I'm not going to leave empty-handed"
Naoya took action immediately and at lightspeed, returned the favor to Juren
"This. is for making me deviate"
mercilessly-
"This. is for Interupting our mission"
without even a scent of forgiveness-
"and this. is for hurting my lover!"
Naoya gave him everything he has and punched him into the stars.
"Haahhh... how am I supposed to face them now that I deviated from the mission..."
walking to where Liliya is, Naoya carried her and began to deliver her back home
"it's training for you once you wake up and recovered"
"I wonder how strong you'll be once this whole thing finishes... I think I'll ask Kirin to make me forget this ever happened, although I'd want him to record this for Liliya someday and hopefully learns from this... I'd hate it if she hurt herself from this again..."
"Kirin... I need you to make me forgot this day"