Lancelot.. had already succumbed to the Seraphim's attacks the moment they entered the battlefield outside the walls.
When a sudden feeling of haziness washed over them, that was already the moment when they were brought to a dream.
Most, if not all, of them lost control once they stepped foot outside.
That includes Lancelot, Cassius, and many more..
However, they all slumbered peacefully and as did the Faceless.
Standing in front of the mutated Lancelot, whose hair flowed down to the ground and held a bright and glowing rapier in his hands, was a white-haired middle aged woman who donned a white nightgown and was barefoot.
Her deep golden eyes reflected the very light of the Unanchored in front of her.
"May your Soul dwell in an eternal slumber of honor."
She proclaimed her respects towards Lancelot and all of the fallen knights that succumbed to the Seraphim's attacks.
The battlefield was at a standstill..
Millions of Faceless slumbered somberly and the Seraphim was the only one not affected by the attack.
The white-haired woman looked in the direction of the Seraphim.
Her pure golden eyes sent out a shockwave of a mental attack towards it! But it was casually met with another mental attack of the same calibre.
"I thought I had killed every vessel of yours.."
The Seraphim replied with silence, of course it could not speak due to it having no mouth.
"No matter.." The woman's emotionless eyes gleamed in the darkness of the battlefield. "To think that you would actually dare to attack my city.."
Suddenly, a black longsword that is 1.5 meters in length, formed on her hand.
"O, Death, become my blade once more.."
She let out a cold voice.
"For my name is Valeira Victoria Elrod! The Queen of Elrod, hailed as the Crowned Dreamless and 'the King'!. Now, I shall make you experience true death!"
Immediately, she leaped forward and headed towards the Seraphim which stood still amidst the crowd of Faceless.
She held the longsword with two hands and hastened her steps, she was not as fast as Lancelot but she still covered a significant distance in a couple of seconds.
Wherever she walked, dreams or rather.. Death followed her.
The Faceless fell one by one and the ground felt even more lifeless as ever.
The Seraphim also began to rush towards her, apparently squealing as if it tried to scream.
Valeira slashed in a crescent motion and a black projectile slash cut through the Faceless and got larger with every death that occurred.
Eventually, it reached the Seraphim but a side step was all it took for it to dodge.
Still, the slash grazed the Seraphim! It very slowly spread throughout its arm and acted like a virus of death.
Valeira leaped in the air and struck down towards the Seraphim.
It was very careful not to get hit by the black blade anymore as succumbing to it would mean certain death. And by that definition.. true death.
"Come on!"
She actually felt rage for the first time in her life. Valeira concluded that the Seraphim was the cause of this and invoked feelings of rage inside of her.
But maybe.. just maybe, it was due to the destructed sight of her City.
A city that she had governed for decades was now decimated and inhabitable. She was not sure if there were any people left or anyone was still alive!
Perhaps, she was the only one left in the entire kingdom..
..It was not impossible.
Yet she shook that thought and kept fighting, pressing the Seraphim with her swift strikes.
The Seraphim used Her wings as an advantage to take control of the battlefield.
She flew high up in hopes of carefully attacking the Queen with Her mental attacks.
"That won't work!"
Valeira slashed upward and a rift was opened! It seemed that her blade killed the space between the two of them, making the gap even shorter!
The Seraphim was immediately teleported in front of Valeira and She received a devastating blow.
Black fluid came out of Her due to Valeira's black blade!
"Now that you're met with true death, you cower in fear. Quite ironic isn't it?! The Seraphim of Feelings, actually trembling as they feel terror for the second time!"
The Seraphim crawled back and attempted to escape! Right now, she was covered in darkness due to Lancelot's radiant rapier.
"Coward!"
Valeria stabbed the ground where the Seraphim once lay, but She immediately moved over and used her wings to escape!
Then, various projectile slashes of black crescent-shaped attacks were sent out to the Seraphim.
She maneuvered the attacks and dodged everything except for one!
Succumbing to the massive wound on her chest, the Seraphim stopped for a second and dodged the last slash within a hair's reach.
Suddenly, the black fluid from the slash pulsated and stunned the Seraphim, effectively making Her fall.
Valeira wasted no time to time Her fall and immediately walked below Her.
She charged her longsword and aimed to cut the Seraphim in half!
However, the Seraphim utilized Her wings once more to get out of the trembling situation!
"Pesky winged freak!"
The Seraphim flew near the ground so Valeira continued to chase her while the rage that she felt grew even more.
'I'm growing impulsive! Calm down!'
She did not calm down at all and instead, the rage grew wilder.
As a Dreamless, she had already imparted her feelings and dreams towards various people. That included her 12 knights, the Head Knight, her consort, her son, and many more!
However, most of them are already dead so the Dreams and feelings that she had suddenly returned!
It was a foreign feeling.
As a person that have lived most of her life without emotions, sensing them once again could take a few moments to adjust to.
Moreover, she was not just merely sensing it normally. She was sensing an exaggerated version of them due to the Seraphim's attacks!
If she was not careful then she would lose control immediately.
Valeira stared at the Seraphim with annoyance and rage, rushing towards Her with an incredible speed.
She performed an upward slash and conjured a projectile black slash that got bigger as long as it met death.
In this battlefield, Death occurred millions of times due to the existence of the slumbering Faceless.
She was at an advantage!
The black slash suddenly towered everywhere, reaching high up in the clouds and acting as a void in space.
Valeira cut through space once more and killed the distance between the Seraphim and her!
The towering black slash was upon the Seraphim but Valeira noticed that the surroundings were not dark any more!
Instead, bright sunlight shone through the entire surroundings!
In a panic, Valeira leaped towards the Seraphim to make it avoid being in contact with the sunlight!
But she was too late..
The black wounds of the Seraphim healed with the existence of sunlight.
It was no mere sunlight at all! But rather, a sunlight provided by the Sun God which healed every blood of his and damaged those that do not share it.
Valeira's Soul trembled due to being exposed to the Sunlight!
In a few seconds, the Seraphim was healed completely and used the advantage of the Sunlight to send an attack towards Valeira, who was stunned!
Her claws enlarged and the Seraphim flew quickly towards her, stabbing her thrice in different parts of her body!
Valeira spat out blood.
"Grah!-"
But she did not let this opportunity go to waste!
She spat the blood towards the Seraphim's faceless head and grabbed the arm that damaged her.
The longsword suddenly vanished and turned into a black dagger.
With a swift movement of her arm, Valeira stabbed the dagger to the Seraphim's throat!
"Die!"
Not satisfied with this, she brought the dagger down once more and stabbed her in the throat!
"Die!"
Again!
"Die!"
Again!"
"Die! Die! Die!"
And Again!
"DIE!"
Until the Seraphim's three heads was finally decapitated!
The scene shattered and the dream collapsed!
"She's not dead yet!"
Normally, humans have 27 emotions that are reported to have been prevalent in their minds.
In relation to that, the Seraphim had 27 bodies that each represented an emotion!
Whether it be joy, sadness, or anger, every single one had a body for an emotion.
Valeira had killed 25...
Upon killing the first one in the Tree of Life and Death, she ventured off in the kingdom to slay the other 26 with the threat of certain death.
And she succedeed..
That was the main reason why she had vanished for so long!
But now.. upon returning to Central City, she did not realize the scale of what she had done.
With each Emotion or Face of the Seraphim being killed, the Curse began to get stronger and affected the people of Elrod even more so!
Faceless abominations formed from nowhere and affected the people of the kingdom!
Ultimately, it slowed down Valeira's attempt to return to Central City.
Once she did.. she was already too late.
Now, she had killed the 26th emotion.
Only a single one was left..
"And the location of that is.."
She performed a 360 degree slash, killing all of the Faceless in the surroundings.
"There!"
In the distance, a Seraphim with three heads flew towards a remote town which was still unaffected by the Curse and the Apocalypse!