I watched Baku as he morphed from Lily into a being that I hated deeply. Who knew that he would actually decides to morph into the Demon Queen herself. Talk about pure luck for me. I finally have a chance to kill this being that I hated with all my might for causing so much pain and suffering for onii-chan. This bitch had the audacity to kill his mother, made him hounded like a dog for years just because he had Hawthorn in his name and eventually causing the death of his grandfather. All because the Queen decided to commit genocide on his entire family bloodline on a whim. Words cannot describe how glad I am to be able to face her once again and kill her with my own two hands.
"You had just made a grave mistake," I grinned at him.
"Not as serious as yours, I fear," answered Baku while folding his arms.
"I was holding back because I did not like the idea of fighting Lily seriously. But for you to turn into the being that I hated the most, what luck," I chuckled.
"Let's not stand on ceremony here," said Baku as he expanded his demon wings.
I sheathed my rapier and removed my left glove, revealing a ton of tiny holy scribblings on my entire left hand. I've spent months writing these scribblings as perfectly as I can because I had to use permanent ink for these scribblings. My left hand will forever have these scribblings but it is a small sacrifice in being able to cast advanced spells. I got no reason to hold back now that my most hated enemy is right in front of me.
My left hand glowed a bright yellow on both my palm and dorsal side. I placed my hand on my face and chanted as fast as I could remember the spell. This will be the second time onii-chan had seen this spell. It is certainly a tough spell to cast as it enables me to be on par if not stronger than a user using Concentration. According to onii-chan, this spell is stronger than perfect Concentration, possibly in the realm of Max Concentration that Tom was using when he fought with him.
But it takes a heavy toll on me. If I overuse it, I can lose consciousness, overload my brain or even face death itself. For normal users, they need to focus on only activating and maintaining the State of Mind to use it effectively. For this spell, I need to continuously chant it in my mind AND use it like a State of Mind. The time limit that I can maintain this spell is about 15 minutes at most. And this is an exclusive spell that I can only use on myself.
"Focused Blessing," I whispered as I finished chanting the spell.
I had never been able to use any State Of Mind due how my mind worked differently than others. This spell forces me to discipline my mind and focus on the enemy in front of me. The best thing about this spell is that it also enhances all my other spells as well which is extremely helpful as a spell caster.
Let's see how Baku fare against an advanced spell created by a member of the great powers.
***
Wow, I was certainly not expecting Rose to use Focused Blessing right off the bat. Her eyes glow with a bright yellow when she uses this spell. It is ridiculously powerful that I could not even match with her pace when using Concentration. Only by using Bloodlust or Focused Meditation could I keep up with her during training. Certainly one of her strongest spells to date, but sadly it only buffs herself.
I guess I should take this fight seriously too. The captain just decided to use Bloodlust as well. I am in no hurry to activate Higher State of Mind so using imperfect Concentration would have to do. I readied my unarmed stance and beckoned the captain to come with my finger. The captain did not took that lightly as he felt like I was insulting him. Not only am I not using Higher State of Mind, I am not even using any of my weapons against him.
He dashed and leaped at me while attempting to swing down his two-handed sword with both hands. I blocked his attack with both of my gauntlets but the attack was so strong that it cracked the ground beneath and brought me to my knee. The captain is strong, but Peter had taught me how to combat strong opponent if I am disarmed. I guided his sword and slammed it into the ground as hard as I could. Now is my chance to attack. I did a one-two punch on his armour but it was extremely tough. I changed my tactic quickly as I noticed that the captain was already removing his sword from the ground. It starts with a knifehand method to touch his armour, then I slammed my right foot down which shattered the ground and I changed my right knifehand into a fist. I punched the captain using the explosive force that I've been gathering within me. Peter discovered this while using his unarmed combat which gave birth to the spell Fa Jin Zhòu. While using the spell ensures that all of your attacks to have explosive capabilities, I have to gather them slowly myself through proper stance and breathing method.
The captain was sent flying by the force of my punch. I leaped after him and summoned Inazuma, aiming for the eye-slit of captain's helmet. I was fully expecting the captain to avoid my attack but my speed was suddenly boosted. I jammed Inazuma through the helmet and the captain roared in pain. Did I seriously just win?
***
Baku's mobility is on par with the actual Queen. Making full use of her wings to dodge my attacks. I had already casted Sacred Wings to keep up with her but fighting while flying is not really my expertise since barely anyone can fly for me to train with and I don't have much range attacks in the first place.
He can summon thorn daggers and pillar of thorns at a moment's notice. I really have to be careful but I am running on fumes here. By my calculation, I should be able to maintain Focused Blessing for about 10 mins more before I have to deactivate it. Can't fool around as I need to support onii-chan while Focused Blessing is still active. Time for me to cast Light Blessings and Accelerate for the both of us.
Baku summoned four pillars surrounding me. Thorns started protruded from it on all sides. He is trying to prevent me from casting! But too bad though, I can cast as easily as I breathe now after having years of experience sparring with Peter and onii-chan. As I avoided the numerous thorns attacking me, I casted both spells and had my speed boosted by at least 4 times due to Focused Blessing further increasing the intensity of my spells.
I sped up drastically with my rapier ready to pierce through the Queen's eye. But I was stopped by a pillar that my rapier pierced through just inches before reaching his right eye. Baku started laughing as he thought that what I did was futile. I grinned and twisted my rapier a little to extend the length of my rapier blade.
Baku was caught off guard and my rapier pierced through his right eye. He was stunned by it and I saw black fluid flowing out from his eye. He tried to fly backwards but I increased the length of my rapier to prevent him from escaping. He grabbed onto my rapier blade and freed himself by ripping through his right eye and zygomatic bone. I won't lie, I smirked when I saw that he was suffering. I instantly retracted my blade and pulled out my rapier from the pillar that it was stuck in.
I flew towards Baku and swung my rapier after turning its blade into a one-handed sword. He managed to block it with his left hand but he had not recovered from the eye wound that I damaged earlier. My left hand went for his neck and I started chanting another advance spell which made my hand glow.
Baku was now struggling to free himself from my choke as I gripped tighter and chanted faster. He kicked me in the stomach and managed to free himself while panting. How odd that he would need to breathe. I thought he was just a dark shadowy entity that can morph himself however he wishes. I waved at him as my spell had already taken effect. He looked confused as I continued waving at him but noticed that silver threads were coming out from all over his body and started piercing his own, tying his entire body until he can no longer move or even do anything. It is a cruel forbidden spell that utilises the metals in your blood to create near indestructible threads. I will not cast this spell on any living being unless I really hated them. No one asks Baku to turn into the Demon Queen.
The silver threads had completely wrapped up the Queen's body like a cocoon. Subjugation spell completed. Did I win? I turned to look at onii-chan and he was walking closer to me while the captain was lying motionless on the ground. He defeated the captain too? Why does it feel as though we defeated our opponents so easily? Did we became too powerful or something?
"You okay, Rose?" he asked.
"Yea, I'm fine. Did we seriously just win?" I asked him.
"I.. don't know. It felt.. pretty easy?" he made a grimaced face.
"What's going to happen now? Why are we still stuck here? I've already casted mind fortification on both of us which should free us from his influence," she explained.
"Hmm, I don't know. But perhaps we should keep an eye on.. the Demon Queen and captain? Where.. did they go?" I looked around and their bodies were nowhere to be found.
"How annoying, to think two insects would cause me so much trouble. To think there would be humans with such strong minds," said Baku as his voice rumbled the entire world.
Rose and I stood back to back and got ready to see what Baku was up to, but I don't see anything on my side.
"Uh, onii-chan? On your left," uttered Rose as she started poking me with her elbow.
I turned to my left and saw something huge. I had to raise my head to see what I was looking at. A huge shadow giant entity the size of a mountain towered over us even from a distance. Yikes, how are we going to fight such a huge being?!
"Spread out!" I shouted as a giant fist slammed onto the ground where we stood which shook the ground.
Shit, are we even doing any damage to him in the first place? How are we going to take down such a huge entity? Rose doesn't have such destructive powers to bring down such a large entity while I need time to ready myself if I want to unleash such a power. But I am certain that Baku is not going to just sit around while I ready myself. What are we going to do?
Baku lowered his head closer to the ground and vomited black fluids that poured all over the ground. Steams could be seen from the fluids and I am not in the mood for some acid bath. He started vomiting even more and the fluids started flooding the entire ground. It was starting to get closer to me even though I was running at full speed. There was nowhere for me to climb and all I can do is jump as high as I can to avoid the incoming black fluids.
"Jump, onii-chan!" shouted Rose.
I put all my strength into my knees and jumped as high as I can. I saw Rose using Sacred Wings flying towards me. Thankfully she managed to catch me before I fell into the bubbling fluids below. She grabbed onto me and adjusted herself to carry me properly. She won't be able to fly fast when she is carrying me. We are like sitting ducks right now!
Baku started laughing and reached out his hand towards us in an attempt to grab us. Rose tried to fly as far as she could to avoid the hand but it felt as though we were not even moving at all as his hand is reaching closer to us by the seconds. Rose did some evasive manoeuvre to avoid getting caught but the hand became so huge that it became impossible to avoid.
We ended up getting caught by the hand. Just a little squeeze and both of us would be dead. But he brought us closer to his giant shadowy face.
"So much time and energy just to catch both of you. You must die to ensure the ascension of my God. Farewell, I had fun while it lasted," said Baku as he started to squeeze the life out of us.
"O.. nii-chan!" shouted Rose as the both of us felt like we were getting squashed.
There was nothing much that either of us could do as our hands were caught in his grip. I guess this is really the end. I am so sorry, Daisy. Mommy and daddy will not be coming home after all.
Something tapped on Baku's shoulder which made him turned to see what it was. He was punched hard and was sent flying to the ground. He released his grip and the both of us were in a free fall towards the black fluids. I braced myself to be melted but it was suddenly pushed aside and our descend began to slow down until we touched the ground safely. What is going on?
"Just sit back and let teddy do his work," said someone behind us.
We turned our heads and saw Moi looking pass us. I don't know how to describe what I am looking at. Somehow, Moi's small teddy bear is as large as Baku now and fighting against him. A giant teddy bear fighting against a shadow entity. Never in my imagination would I ever thought that such a thing would be possible or even happen in my life.