< Arisu (Alice) Tsuchimikado Part 5 Opened >
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< This Memory Record will be shown based on the Battle Maiden's memories plus some things she get to know from others at that time, plus again some knowledge she gets after Ragna Twelve helped her know more about what happened at that time with his 'Twelve Eye of Time', transferring past visions to her before she confronted Player Ragna Current. >
( October 2020 )
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< Date: October 20th, 2020 >
As Arisu buys what she wants to buy, she then communicates with Battle Maiden and her bodyguards through minds, due to them being glued with a Talisman in their bodies, enabling them to communicate through a private mind communication server.
"( Understood, Arisu-Sama... )" said Rouga the leader of the Bodyguard Battalion as he gives a sign to some portion of the Bodyguards he brings as some of them fled from the place.
As it happens, the fled bodyguards begin attacking some of the enemies outside the mall, and they wiped them out swiftly as they were trained.
"( The West Wing of the Mall cleared, Captain Rouga, Arisu-Sama. )"
"( The East Wing cleared as well as the building near it, Captain Rouga, Arisu-Sama. ) "
"( The North and South had been cleared too, Captain Rouga, Arisu-Sama. )"
"( All threats had been cleared, Arisu-Sama. )" Captain Rouga says to Arisu while Battle Maiden still feels uncomfortable.
" Sister Orianna? " Arisu sees the Maiden who guarded her as the Maiden still sensed danger around.
" Some of them are inside, I suggest you ordered some to turn off the mall's electricity power for now. " Battle Maiden says to Arisu which Arisu takes it well as she ordered the Captain to do what the Maiden advises.
"( Understood, I will do what she advised... )" Captain Rouga responds as he then flees from his location with some men he brings as he went to the mall's main power source as he counts to shut it down.
" 3...2...1 "
" Shut it down! " Rouga says he and the men shut down the mall's electric power, turning off the lights which confuse the people there.
" Kya..., what happened!? "
" Why is the power down!? "
While the people blabber in the dark, Battle Maiden quickly uses [Judgment Libra], casting protection onto the people in the entire mall.
" Alice-chan..., I'm sorry, but... "
" A little support? " Arisu shares some of her Gift Energy towards Battle Maiden in order for her to perform her cast.
[ Judgment Libra activated ]
[ Blindspot Guardian Commenced ]*
[ Judgment Libra Item's ability, using its primordial divine power to protect the shielded from the enemies that try to attack from every blindspot. ]
" Keukh! " Battle Maiden cast a barrier shield to every individual in the mall, using [Judgment Libra] to protect them while it drains her so much hence she needs Arisu's support for this matter.
"( Such a great cost, but still... )" Arisu sees the individual barrier Battle Maiden gift to every citizen in the place using her [Star Spiritual Eyes].
"( It was such a marvelous protection, to create a barrier that shields every individual and not to mention. )" Arisu sees that this skill was actually an Area Skill for she also sees an invisible Barrier that was actually the range of the Item's Ability could perform which is the entire mall.
"( This Item's ability, protects both area and individual inside it at the same time, no wonder it drains her. )"
"( To use this on others due to her duty protecting civilians, is such a great feat. )"
"( As her item's ability is basically creating a barrier inside an already made barrier. )" Arisu praises Battle Maiden in her heart, not in mind, hence the Maiden wouldn't hear it as she also had the talisman glued to her inside her clothes, on her back.
"( They're coming. )" Battle Maiden says as she sensed the danger.
As it happens, some of the bodyguards outside the mall suddenly felt something as they were attacked, their screams disturbs the connection between their minds as they shouted that there are 'monsters' inside the mall.
" Monsters? " Arisu asks as she hears it.
" No, I sensed no Gate opened... " Battle Maiden senses as her senses reached every part of the Mall as she forced herself to sharpen it.
[ Sharpening Inner Senses ]
Battle Maiden senses what kind of 'monsters' the attacked bodyguards' meant, she tried to feel the monsters' very presence, as she sensed it.
" Alice-chan, it's not a monster... " she says to her.
" It's a Tainted Spirit. " Battle Maiden tells Arisu, sensing the ones who attacked the bodyguards were filled with corruption, not in flesh like the usual monsters, but in their very soul as she could now sense it using her inner senses.
" I see it, sister. " Alice says as uses her Gift Eyes to witness where the Tainted Spirits were, the Spirits that not many people could see for their existence are Spiritual more than physical.
"( All of you who fight the Spirits, regroup to me! )" Arisu orders the men who fought out, she told them to return to her now.
As she ordered it, she also sees the Tainted Spirit also follows them inside, but as they followed them.
" Good, my men are now near my location, and the Spirits followed them close enough... "
" Just so I can make haste to cleanse them. " Arisu says while drawing out a talisman weapon.
" Divine Reflectors, come forth at once," she says, summoning hundreds of enchanted mirrors which she uses to aim at the incoming Spirits as the mirrors charged it light.
" Fire! " Arisu orders the Divine Reflectors to fire at the incoming Tainted Spirits as the Divine Reflectors' light vaporizes and purges them all.
When it happened, Arisu then orders Captain Rouga and his men to turn on again the mall's electrical power as she already instructed some of her other men to tell the Mall's manager to issue an evacuation per her orders.
* The mall sirene rings. *
" All visitors should leave the mall, a fire had happened! " the mall's issuance said, saying that a large fire happened.
" I've already sent my man to the mall's manager, sister. " Arisu says to Battle Maiden.
" With the sirene rang and the sprinklers active, our attackers had no choice but to stay and reveal themselves from the crowds. "
" A wise act, Alice-chan. " Battle Maiden praises her.
" After all, one is already standing still from the running crowds. " Battle Maiden says, as from the crowd, comes a man with a black jacket as he slowly approaches their location.
" Stay where you are, stranger! " said one bodyguard who sees him as the other followed to prepare and attack.
Even after they said that the man only smirks as if he already knew they will confront him as he then stares at the Grand Priestess, giving pressure on her.
" Hmmm? " Arisu receives his pressure.
" Alice-chan? "
" So it's you, who bring the Spirits here. " Arisu says as he sees the black jacket man who then reveals his hand from his pocket and suddenly, he performs a hand sign which surprised Arisu and the bodyguards around.
"( Bastard, he's preparing his ability! )"
"( Kill him before he casts- )"
" Too late, armadillos... " the man mocks them as suddenly a large Tainted Spirit Symbol in the ground as the symbol spreads in the floors of the very place they all stand.
" What? " Arisu sees it as she was surprised to see it.
" When did he!? "
" All of you, flee from the Tainted Spirit symbols, now! " Arisu shouts but before her men could hear her, their lives are lost as Tainted Spirits come out from the ground and feast on them.
[ Tainted Spirits: Ground Ghouls ]
" [Tainted Spirits Wide Summon]... " the man says.
" It's such a powerful but forbidden skill, isn't it? "
" Grand Holy Priestess, Tsuchimikado? " said the man as he looks at Arisu.
" I know this one... "
" This was once used by those who fought my ancestor, those who delved into the Dark Spiritual Arts and Magic. "
" Using the power of the Demons and forbidden magic from the 'Second Holy War', this skill you performed makes one able to summon Tainted Spirits at will from the ground, from the dead. "
" I thought this ability had been erased from every known record in the country, how could someone like you get it? " Arisu asks as the man smirks.
" Well well, someone's interested," he says as he uses his ability to calm down the Spirits for a while.
" But sorry to break it for you, but I'm not here to tell my origins. "
" But instead, I'm coming for the kill! " the man says as he charges with the Tainted Spirits he summoned.
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Extra:
[ Judgment Libra activated ]
[ Blindspot Guardian Commenced ]
This Item ability was first mentioned in Chapter 154: Confrontation Part 3.
This is used in the Abyss Tower Arc, in 2022 of this story's Timeline.
This is technically a weaker version than the one used in the chapter for this simply protects the ones shielded by the ability while the ones used in the referenced chapter are able to destroy unseen enemies by default while protecting the shielded ones.