The first thing Yue did was teleport Ivan to a safe location, at least a location that could be considered safe in the current scenario. And that was their bedroom. Extremely fortified and nigh-impossible to break through, something Yue had begged for so the two's alone time couldn't be disturbed.
If there was one thing that made the room unsafe to be in, it would be that it was a dead end. Being unable to break in made it difficult to break out. Which is why he had chosen to proceed with the operation in the lab.
An example of the danger being when the apostles broke into the lab room, he was only able to survive thanks to the droids employing escape routes he had prepared. Something that couldn't be done in the bedroom.
Afterall neither he nor Yue wanted their lovenest to resemble something like a high security prison. Even if kings and rules littered their bedrooms and chambers with secret passages, he wasn't willing to do the same.
He was no king anyways, and Yue was no quee— well, Yue was a queen in the past so that point was retracted.
But now that she didn't need to worry about her partner's safety, she was ready to deal with the pests that broke into her home. Her recovery had taken longer than anticipated, and upon awakening she was surrounded by apostles.
If it weren't for Tio and the others who took attention away from her, she wouldn't have made it in time to save Ivan.
And of course she wasn't going to discredit the droids that had lost their lives to protect Ivan, she made a note in her mind to honor them later. 'But for now…' She glared coldly at the six apostles.
"I shall be your opponent for the rest of your duration in our home, oh but don't be afraid, I am a verrrryy hospitable host~"
She brought out her staff and casted a composite spell consisting of both fire and water, the steam was useless in front of the apostles, she knew that. What she wanted was the scalding hot water that came along with it.
The very water that entered the eyes of the apostles, they backed away and closed their eyes to let their constitutions work on healing them. An opening Yue took advantage of by casting another spell.
The hallway to the elevator was a narrow one, it was inevitable in their blindness that a couple of the apostles would line up behind each other,
So when she saw three apostles standing in a line, hurriedly wiping their eyes, she casted one of her space spells that required great precision.
"Cosmic Rift!" A line divided the space in front of Yue, separating it into two. And what was bisected in that line were the three apostles she targeted. Since their heights were all the same, creating a line that cut where their cores had been was quite a simple feat for the once in a lifetime mage.
Three apostles eliminated in a single move. The other apostles recuperate before backing up further. Now that there was a gap in the elevator they decided to go ahead and cast a spell that they had been spamming on the surface.
"Hellfire Tsunami…"
The apostles each muttered beneath their breath as the feathers adorning their wings shot forward to form red glowing magic circles. Within another second those same circles produced heat that melted the hallway's walls.
And after one more second huge waves of flames, practically resembling magma, scorched everything in the hall and made way for the elevator.
Yue merely stood still with her staff pointed forward. Moving her lips as the flames poured into the elevator with her.
From what the data had told them, Yue was a high-priority target who should be captured, killing was not an option. However they knew killing her was a difficult feat and not possible unless one desired to intentionally.
As such they didn't hold back, firing a few more waves to ensure she was incompacitated.
When the 'dust' settled, or more aptly soot, they stared into the shaft and inched closer with their longswords in a defensive position. Honestly believing that the three of them would be fine as long as they were careful, unlike their sisters that had felt dealt to them by hot water.
What wasn't deposited in the data they were allotted was that their foe was cunning and sly. Likely adopting the style from her partner.
"Spatial Severance." Through the halls echoed a very light voice, only two of the apostles were able to respond as they flew backwards as fast as they could. The third, being at the very front, wasn't given much time to flee as the very wall of flames her and her companions shot was flying her way.
"...."
When the third apostle was melted out of existence, the remaining two stared at the floating ball of black mass that had spewed out the flames.
"Spatial magic is very convenient." Yue spoke those words as she pressed the elevator's button and opened the doors wide enough to pass through.
"Ivan taught me that I should finish things off with a bang, so have this. Five Heavenly Dragons."
Earth, fire, thunder, ice, and storm. Five dragons, as the name implied, spiraled down the hallway. Guided by gravity magic, each element packed the hall to the point that anything within it would be crushed as soon as it approached.
That was the apostles' queue to run away.
"Illusion Cage." At least that was the plan, until Yue locked the space behind them. Illusion Cage cost a lot of mana to upkeep, especially when paired with the dragons that cost not only a lot to manifest but a lot to control too. Though to her it was a small price to pay to ensure past enemies wouldn't come back to bite her.
If need be she could always resupply herself with Ivan's blood after… wait, if he replaced most of his blood to insert the apostle core inside him would his blood still work…? If she remembered correctly, he said that his blood would turn blue…
'I wonder if it would taste like blueberries~' She developed such innocent thoughts as her dragons cornered and effectively froze, burnt, and crushed the two remaining apostles.
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BANG! BOOM! RUMBLE!
'What the hell is with all this noise…?'
In a dark bedroom, full of lavish furniture and pristine decorative items, a single man leaned forward from his bed and held a hand up to his head in pain.
'Can't a guy get some sleep without an explosion or two…?' He listlessly got up from bed after adorning his slippers, looking down at himself and noticing the blue gown he had been wearing. 'Whose perverted fetish got me into this?!'
BANG! RUMBLE!
He turned his attention back to the windows as the house shook once more. Every now and then the faint sounds of a monster growling or lasers firing resounded from the outside.
Ivan tripped on something, it was a tube, and in that tube flowed a glowing blue liquid. What was odd was that the end of the tube was stabbed into his wrist, the beginning of it leading into a machine beside his bed.
'One thing at a time… for now, the window.' He hardened his resolve and removed all distractions from his mind.
Slowly, he pulled the curtains covering the windows—-
"It's like a goddamn laser light show… oh, now I remember… I guess there's some work to do huh…"
Beams of light littered the sky, each either striking a living being or an innocent slice of earth. Explosions followed by fire. A large black dragon flailed about as a couple dozen winged women shot rays of light at it.
Other than that two cat-like females pounced around the battlefield with claws that made titanium look like swiss cheese. A maid and dancer looking girl following behind albeit at a slower pace. Though their attacks were considerably less powerful, their effect on the battlefield couldn't be underestimate.
"Maybe I should just go back to bed…"
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