(6 months and 11 days after Klada Disaster)
[Lynn's POV]
(3:17)
Sitting on a throne is an adult woman with long and loose red hair, a well proportioned body and a really familiar face.... It's no doubt Kyrielle with her hair let down and grown up as an adult.
But her eyes.... It's gold in color and the irises are of a serpent's, and scales protrude from her jaw. Is that her Dragonkin form?
On her waist is two katanas... She's using the same type of eastern sword that Kyrielle uses now. But what's more interesting is that one of the katana emits a slight amount of distorted mana, I could sense it even here.
"So, an intruder befalls upon me. You have defeated my fox, you must be quite powerful."
"I humbly thank you for your praise, and it's my pleasure to meet you as well... Lady Red, Tiamat's head inside of Kyrielle."
I know who she is but... does she know me?
"....I have never saw your face before. Tell me, what is your name?"
"I'm Lynn Howard." Seems not huh?
"Interesting.... Someone of your strength should be extremely well known, and yet I've never even heard of you before. But more importantly, why is a human siding with the demons?"
"I'm only defending the Bostnians because you invaded out of nowhere. I could ask the same of you, why are you doing this?"
"Huhu, you have an interesting way to speak of the obvious, invading the demons was for the sake of humanity itself, what else?"
"Humanity itself?..."
I think I'm sensing a bit of a misunderstanding here....
"Well no matter... What's more important is that you're here to defend this city, and I'm here to destroy it, that makes us enemies. Lynn Howard, are you ready to fight?"
"Obviously. But before we start... Are you Kyrielle?"
If possible... I don't want to fight and kill Kyrielle... it'd leave a bad taste in my mouth to kill someone who is probably my only friend in this generation.
"....I am not of the person that you speak off, but I am also her. We are one and the same. Why are you so interested.... in that me that you speak of?"
"I see... I was just asking."
"Is that so?... Well then." She stood up from her throne, and walked towards me slowly.
"Baal was the strongest demon ever fell by my hand. I had thought that no one was able to match him in terms of magic, but I was wrong... That God ranked spell you fired just now, it was splendid-"
Black Spear.
'Boom!' A spell hits her in her stomach, blowing her up.
'Thump!' My attack sent her flying back to the pillar of the throne room, embedding her right into one of the pillar. The impact of my spell exploding knocked up a screen of dust, covering her.
"Yawn.... If you aren't Kyrielle, then I don't have to feel bad for hurting you."
And if she's truly Kyrielle.... she'd be dead right now.
"Right, the job's done, time to head home-"
"Cough!.... Not bad, human..."
The dust cleared out.... And I saw that the woman was still perfectly fine even after she was hit point blank with my Black Spear.
"....What?" She has a mana shield that can tank a hit from me without even taking damage... This is interesting.
"Few could hope to even scratch my Mana Shield, but it seems that you have the potential to do so!"
"You.... Who are you?"
"I'm Red, one of Tiamat's five heads... My power is far stronger than conventional people, and a simple saint ranked spell like this-"
She said as she pushed herself out from the pillar that she was stucked on.
"-wouldn't even injure me the slughtest. But, how dare you strike me while I was talking?! I shall make you regret this disrespectful behavior!"
"....Okay."
"Yrrahh!!!"
'Fwuom!' A huge aura of Mana suddenly bursts out of her body, distorting the air around her.... this is the same aura that I've experienced from Kyrielle when she lost control.
She readies herself in a stance of martial art... A red aura coats her arms and legs, creating the shape of a gauntlet and leggings.
"Dragon Breaker Style... prepare to face the wrath of my attacks!"
Two crests forms behind her shoulders.... I had seen this pattern that Kyrielle uses for a lot of times already, she no doubts fight exactly like she does.
'Bwuom!'
She sprinted forward with the help of her thrusters and bursts forward at me,... closing the distance in but a mere second.
"Hah!" I raised my hand to cover my face...
'Boom!' As her punch hits my arm, an explosion happened. She puts a
I could feel a little bit of bruising from that one... She's strong, even stronger than the Kyrielle I know!
'Thsss!' I got knocked backwards by her punch, sliding on the floor.
"Hmm... Although I didn't use any techniques, I didn't kill you in one strike. You are already one of the stronger person I've ever faced."
"You put a spell behind that punch... But bad for you, my mana shield is still stronger than yours." I said as I brush off the dusts on my dress.
But still... this might be the first time someone made me feel pain since the last decade. And she still isn't going all out yet?
"Then I have no need to hold back. Now, let us dance."
'Bwuom!' She fired off her thrusters again and dashed directly at me...
Black Spear.
"Useless!"
In response to my spell, she fired out a ball of flames at my spell. It's a Forbidden Sun.
'Boom!' Our spells exploded upon colliding with each other. Just as I was prepared to conjure up another black blade....
"Rising Dragon!"
'Boom!' An uppercut hits my chin, she had already closed the distance without me seeing her.
Her punch launched me up to the air, and with it more flames spewed out of her hand. She can imbue every single attack of her with fire.
Immediately following up with that, she summoned and fired a Forbidden Sun at me.
Ice Spear.
'Boom!' As our spells intercept and explodes into a cloud of steam, Red flies right out of the smoke screen with a katana on her hand.
"Yah!"
'Clank!' 'Shatter!' Our blades clashed, and her sword shatters into pieces upon hitting my arm.
"Taser!" I grabbed her with my arm and sent electricity into her.
'Bzzz!!!' "Urgh!..."
"Get back down!" I yelled as I forcibly flung her down onto the ground with gravity magic.
'Thump!' Since she has a strong mana shield, lightning magic can bypasses it and hurt her.... But using this move also shocks my hand and damages myself.
Using Taser puts electricity on whoever I touch, but as a result I shocked my arm and now I can no longer feel my arm.
Within the cloud of dust knocked up, a flash of light gathers... It's a god damned Forbidden Sun.
"This again?!"
'Bang!' "Woah!"
I barely dodged to the sides as the ball of flames graze my numb arm, burning me as it flies pass.
"Skyfall!" Before I noticed it, Red had already dadhed to the top of me.
'Boom!!! (?x) She saw the gap in my defense and threw a spinning downward kick which hits my head multiple times in a second and launches me backwards.
'Thump!' Her kick sent me flying towards one of the pillars and slammed into it....
We stopped attacking each other as we catches our breath.
"Argh.... My head... God damned it." I can't seem to get past her attacks at all...
Black Spears and other projectiles gets countered. She's too fast for me to fight close range... The only trick I have up my sleeves is my diverse range of magic but....
Lightning seems effective, but is harder to land. Fire is no good. Ice counters her fires, that is a good option. Earth magic is useless against her.
That's right.... Ice and Lightning seems to work best against her. And when the ice melts into water, those can conduct electricity. That shall be my plan then!
"Haha... What a headache...." I haven't had to thought this hard about a fight in a while now. How nostalgic, I remembered that I thought strategically like this when I fought Baal as well.
"Hah... You're not half bad... I wouldn't have thought a mage would fight like this."
"Surprised are you? Well no matter, are you ready for round two now?"
"Haha, come at me then!"
"Alright then... This time I'm not going to lose!"
(3:22, five minutes since the fight started)
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[Kyrielle's POV]
I told the Prime Minister about what I found out regarding the invaders... After a bit of convincing, he ordered the troops to cease fire. That is why I'm now flying around the entire city trying to find anyone that is still fighting to give them the order to cease fire.
My role here is simple... to gather the enemy commanders to negotiate.
'Bwuom!' I dropped down from the sky, and down onto the street where I saw more soldiers and adventurers still fighting with the enemy.
"Cease fire everyone, cease fire! This attack is a misunderstanding! This is an order to stop from the Prime Minister, cease fire now!" I yelled out as I held the insignia that was handed to me by the Prime Minister, signifying that this is indeed his command.
"That's the insignia of the Government.... Everyone stop fighting now!"
"Yes sir!" (?x)
"You invaders, cease fire as well! You are attacking the wrong city!" I yelled out to the enemies hiding behind their shields and buildings.
"What? There's no mistake, this is Creimland! We are in the midst of a war, there's no stopping mid fight, little girl!"
"You are not attacking the Creimland of your world, your leader's spell has put you all into another world entirely! This is not the Creimland that you all are supposed to attack! Please stop this at once to prevent pointless bloodshed!"
"Another world?!" (?x)
"You know how crazy this sounds, little girl?! Look, this is no place for a beat like you to stay in so get the hell out of this city-"
"First off I'm older than you think, and you listen to me brat! This is a misunderstanding, and if we compare our history knowledge I'm sure you'll know!"
"Huh?! Why is a little girl like you-"
"Stop it soldier. I want to hear what she has to say." Another man walked out from behind the shield walls, it seems that he is an officer.
"How do we compare our history, kid?"
"Let's compare our years and calendars first..."
"Very well. It is the year 1999 AD, almost twenty centuries After the Descent of the Twelve Gods."
"We are I'm the future. For us, it's the year 33 of Armored Titan's Calendar, three decades after the end of the great war. The great war ended on 2001 AD, which means it would be 2034 AD now."
"2034?!... You are right, our history doesn't match!"
"Indeed."
"What a great problem... to think that we actually invaded the wrong city, in a wrong world at that... we are a fool."
"...Are you the leader of these soldiers? If so, please order your troops to cease fire as well and come to the town hall for negotiations. Our leaders are willing to come to a conclusion for this pointless battle, with the help of you other worlders of course."
"Fine kid, I'll cooperate. I'll order my troops to stop, and come to the town hall. I'm General William, take this crest of mine and show it to the other soldiers around the city, tell them that the general has ordered them to cease fire."
"Thank you!"
"Now you should go and do your job, I'll lead my soldiers to the town hall and start the negotiations with your superiors."
"Very well, so long."
'Bwuom!' I took to the sky once again, looking to find any other people that are still fighting. But I can't find anywhere that has any signs of combat.
It seems that everyone has already stopped fighting, there's nothing for me to do anymore. But there's just one place that I'm sure someone is still fighting at....
"Lynn..."
Should I go up to the castle myself and tell them to stop?...
...No, I need to listen to Lynn's warning... It'd be dangerous, and also stupid of me to walk right into the enemy's territory after all. I may be strong myself, but even I would have trouble facing an entire army!
For now, I should just be patient and wait here on the ground... I'm sure she'll have figured it out at some point as well that these invaders are from another world, and that it's pointless to actually fight with them.
I did told her that myself is not of this world.... she would naturally come to the conclusion I think. For now I should only worry about the situation in the city, not above. Now then, it's time for me to get down and take a bit of a rest...
"I'm tired...."
(3:26, four minutes since the POV change)
It was then all of a sudden, while I was about to fly down and land on the ground....
'Boom!!!' A loud explosion was heard on top of the castle on the sky.
Before I know it, the castle had flew towards the ocean already, which is why I was able to see what is happening from this angle... I saw bright purple lights coming from the castle, someone is fighting over there and an explosion resulted in that purple light.
Then, someone flew out really fast from thise lights. Following the first, another figure flew out of the purple light as well, with four lights shining behind them. Those two flew at a super fast speed and the person with the four lights easily caught up to the first.... They are now right above the city.
"Wait.... Is that Lynn?!" And she's fighting someone who can fly just like me?!
Their fight was so intense that they fought all the way over here?!
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[Lynn's POV]
(3:22, continuation)
Skyfall Ice!
'Thump!' I summoned an Ice pillar right above Red's head and slammed it down on her. She easily dodged away with a simple side step but that spell was never meant to hit her in the first place.
Ignis!
'Bzzz!!!' I fired a beam of lightning at Red, which hit her directly.
"Argh!"
And then, Crystal Prison!
'Thump!' Multiple ice pillars raised up from the ground and trapped her inside.
Eight-fold Casting, Ignis!
'Bang!!!' 'Bzzz!' (8x)
This time it's checkmate!... Or not.
Bright flash could be seen inside my ice prison, and then....
'Boom!!!' An extremely huge explosion blew the entire thing up and intercepted all the lightning that I fired at her.
"Tsk..." She's willing to blow herself up huh? She IS immune to fire.
Within the cloud of dust, a figure of Red could be seen. She isn't just unharmed, she seems to be even stronger than before.
"Hah.... Dragonic Burst...." A sinister red aura coats her body, unleashing dangerous amount of mana.
"I guess it's just about time to end this."
"That's right... here I come!"
'Bwuom!' She dashed at me even faster than before! In an instant before I could even react...
'Boom!' A punch has already landed on my face, exploding upon impact.
"Urgh!..." That hurts!
As the punch knocks me back, she fired off her thrusters and caught up to me in no time before she throws another punch at me.... What if I copied her move and put magic behind my punch as well?
Freezing Point.
'Boom!!!' Our punch collides, the both of us flying back.
"Urgh!..." Her arm was covered in ice by my magic. This is the perfect chance to attack!
Black Spear!
In response, Red puts her other hand on the second katana and draws it out from its sheath....
'Slash!' (2x) She launched two attacks with the sword, shooting out two arc of wind blades.
'Boom!' One of the wind hits the Black Spear, while I dodged with my gravity flight and avoided the other.... But I don't intend to let her breathe!
Black Spear!
'Tink!' Red parries my spell away with her katana as she dashed into me.
"Shit!" I raised my arm in preparation for her to slash me with the katana but....
"Side Winder!"
'Boom!' But what got me instead was a palm strike imbued with fire magic. It was a feint!
'Thump!' The slap knocked me backwards, slamming me into one of the pillars. Red stopped pursuing me and checked on her frozen arm.
"Argh... You are strong, human! Within split seconds of touching me, you had frozen up my entire arm!"
"Urgh, strong my ass... That bitch slap nearly killed me..." My jaw was dislocated by that slap, but within seconds my injuries were healed.
"Argh.... Hmpt!" Red chops her frozen arm off entirely.... She's dismembering herself.
"Argh!!!... Hah!... Urgh!...."
"You..."
"Argh.... Don't get too cocky, argh... Little injuries like will not do anything... to my healing factor!"
A red aura comes out of her still bleeding wound, and formed the shape of an arm. Glowing brightly in red, the aura turns into a functioning arm, fully regenerating it.
"Hah... Good as new.... Hmpt!"
'Boom!' Testing out her newly regenerated arm, she slammed her fist into the ground and shattered the floor.
"You on the other hand will only take damage continuously until you can no longer sustain the fight any longer... Give it up!" She doesn't know that I have a healing factor, it seems.
"Haha, is that what you call little injuries when you were wheezing so badly in pain just now? You can't beat me this way!"
"That's right... Few has ever has defense as strong you, not even Baal was this tough. But I'm not done yet, True Dragonic Burst!"
'Fwuosh!' 'Zzzz...!'
"This is power!"
The red aura around her body covers her entire body and shined brightly.
'Boom!' All the aura exploded away. This time, Red stood in the middle but something is different....
"What in the...." The Red that emerged from the explosion was no longer the human looking one.
What came out instead was a humanoid body with scales all over, a pair of wings that looked like cape, and finally a monstrous looking dragon head with protruding horns.
She unleashed all of the Mana inside her body, and converted them into this new form... A dragon form.
Electricity leaks out of her body as if she is filled with energy, and the power of her Mana distorts the air so much that it forms a small tornado around her as she floats up with the wind alone.
"What form is this?...." I've never seen anything like this before.
"....What I've showed you before was Dragonic Burst, but this is my true power! Now, get ready to die!"
She said as four thrusters appeared behind her body....
'Bwuom!!!'
She closed the distance between us in the blink of an eye. She's almost three times faster than before.
"What the-"
"Mid Winder."
'Boom!!!' Before I could even see what is going on, Red had threw a punch to my body so insanely strong that it shattered not just my Mana Shield but also my ribs, puncturing my lungs. The explosion from her fire magic punch was purple colored, it's God ranked!
"Argh!!!..."
The explosion from the punch blew the entire throne room up and sent me flying.
It hit me with so much power that it launched me straight out of the castle and all the way until I was directly above the city.... Her punch left a beam of condensed heat in purple, burning up the entire area of the castle.
Using gravity magic I slowed my momentum down and floated mid air....
"Urgh!... Argh!.... Cough cough!" My lungs were punctured, I can't breathe!
"Rising Sun!"
'Boom!!!' (2x)
From below me, she threw a double kick combo to me which exploded twice. Sharp pain hits my leg and my ribs as I was sent flying again with those two attacks....
Red fired her thrusters and flew at me, catching up to me in no time. Before I was able to even recover....
"Yrrah! Rising Dragon!"
'Boom!!!' She sends one last uppercut to my chin, I could feel my jaw physically breaking as I black out form the punch.
Impossible.... She.... hits.... too hard.... run.... Kyrie....
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(Chapter end)