Chapter 242: Dome of Ligh

*Clank* *Clank*

*Whoosh*

*Boom*

The sound of metal clashing against metal, magic, and explosions were heard echoing in the air, bouncing off the wall of light engulfing their view from every angle. The dome of pure, mesmerizing yellow light around them covered absolutely everything yet for some odd reason was still rather dim, only giving out a moderate amount of light as to not blind everyone inside of it, its beauty almost otherworldly. 

With a bright, cheery expression, rocking back and forth like she was dancing, humming a tune with her voice stood what seemed like a little girl who was staring at the absolute mayhem of the battlefield ahead, pure bliss on her face. 

"Hikari! You idiot! What are you doing?! Finish them off now! Finish them off quickly so we can go help Emilia! These kids are not worth our time! Don't you want to get your own-"

"Yami! I am still angry at you… First you took over for me last time when it was my turn, now you are losing faith in Emilia-tan!? Do you not care about how I feel? Do you really think she would lose to someone like that? He looked like a meanie but I guess he was kinda cute but that's all he got for himself! Now leave me be!"

"But still! You should not waste your time with this! Finish them off then go watch Emilia's fight! Wouldn't that be fun??"

"Yami! Let me do what I want! You're being selfish now! Why does it seem like you always want to ruin MY fun!  My fun is not always your fun! Do you hate me? What's gotten into you these days? Do you really want to get away from me that badly? I thought we were sisters!? Just let me have fun playing with these guys first! It's been a while since I had this much fun okay! Now leave me be! I don't want to talk to you right now! Or ever! BYE!" 

Hikari screamed like a little child, tears running down her face that was now nothing like how it was before, like her heart had completely cracked in half. 

Yami, who was now retreated back into her own space could not help but shed a single tear too… A sight that not even her sister could ever imagine happening to her… It was a sight that she had never shown to anyone, even her own sister as she was always the serious, uptight person who seemed more unbreakable than diamond...

*Snap*

"HA I GOT YOU NOW!"

A voice came from behind her, the person's iron fists only mere millimetres away from her face. 

"Shut up…" 

In an uncharacteristically cold voice, she immediately replied, spikes of pure light shooting out of the ground of light underneath him, not even bothering to turn around as she heard her blades of light shredding through his armour like it was butter and piercing right through his flesh…

"AHHHRGGGHHHAHH"

In the next instance, she turned around to see exactly who it was, a mellow smile going onto her previously dark and depressed face. 

"Oh wow! Jason! Coooool! Where did you get the bat wings? I want some too! Hehe!"

"H-hikari…"

Her smile got even wider, looking at him like a mixture between her own barbi doll and steak dinner, a hint of pain, hatred, and madness on her face as she spoke...

"Come on! I thought we were friends? Did you really hate me that much?" 

She spoke, looking at the bloody, almost disfigured figure, heavily panting with blood running down every area of his body.

"Hikari! It was all an accident! Spare me! I don't even want to be here! I'm doing this ag---"

He cried out in pain and agony, only for his words to be stopped right before he could say them, those invisible chains from hell once again holding him back with what now seemed like a serpent at his neck, binding him so he did not say what he wanted to say. 

"Oh well, that doesn't matter now… Let's just see if you could survive more! Injured and desperate people are always more fun to watch!" 

Suddenly, the spikes of light impaled through various parts of his extremely injured body disappeared, making him fall straight on the ground with an immense crash, the horror on his face only getting worse and worse as he peered into the clearly amused, innocent, child-like face of the person above him, his entire body shaking faster than a vibrator.

"Now!! Hehe! I want to see you dance! Bust out your moves and survive!"

*Snap*

With a simple snap of her fingers, soldiers made out of pure light began immerging from the ground, swords made out of light in hand, no longer concealed by actual armour like they were before… 

"Now get him!"

She ordered, with a smile on her face, her hand out with the playful an air of a general. 

"AHHHHH!" 

*Snap*

Forcing his body to move, horror and panic on his face, he began to run, snapping his fingers trying his best to escape from the mass soldier army headed his way, he himself barely even able to move. 

However, where ever he snapped, there were always soldiers there too, emerging straight out of the ground as they followed him where ever he went.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME! I don't wanna die! NAGS! Save me! I beg of you!" Jason yelled like the mixture of a lunatic and a little child, tears falling down his face as he continued his futile attempts to dodge.

Nags, who was busy fighting soldiers of light himself inwardly scoffed at Jason's pathetic state before he replied. 

"Fine you little pig! Here!"

'Juggernaut Zone Alpha!'

Spreading his armadillo, magic-infused arms out wide, he cast his new skill, small sparks of green filling the air around Jason as he felt some sort of odd energy surrounding him and entering his body, giving him some sort of strength… Yet not enough strength to survive… 

"B-BUT NAGS! THIS WO-"

He screamed back before being immediately cut off. 

"Shut up! Face it you little shit, you fucked up big! There is no way in hell I can come and help you! I have my own shit to do! Just try your best to survive! Make yourself useful and keep those soldiers away from us! You got that!?"

Nags screamed back, as a soldier of light slashed at one of his new barriers that transferred some attack power into mana and demon energy, before bashing it into oblivion, not before turning around to attack the other soldier of light behind him with a small push and blast of demon energy, sending him flying straight towards Jayden who immediately slashed it in half using her daggers.

"B-BUT NAAAGGGSSS!"

Ignoring Jason's cries for help, filtering them out like he always did, he focused back onto his own fight. 

'Juggernaut Zone Beta,'

Spreading his arms out wide once again, he infused the area around him and Jayden with the same black sparks, now weakening all of the opponents in the area, before throwing a shield of mana at one soldier, making it bounce and hit the next ones in a chain, heavily injuring them yet not taking them out, only for Jayden to slam her hands on the ground, tentacles of shadows emerging and binding the many weakened soldiers, leaving them wide open for a finisher, Jayden dashing and slashing towards them, at times throwing her daggers and teleporting them back into her hands before throwing them again, Nags joining with a double-sided war axe that he pulled from his inventory, waving it like it was a simple stick despite its immense size and his puny, rather short stature in comparison, all of the soldiers finally gone.

Surprisingly, Jayden and Nags's teamwork were not even that bad, them being able to be somewhat in sync and fight alongside each other with ease, something that could not be said about Jason, who was still running away for his life, tears of horror running down his face. 

Yet, not to their surprise, once the soldiers all died, an entire army of them once again spawned in their place, making them both grunt and sigh in annoyance and determination, their backs now against each other, sweating and heavily panting, various wounds on their injured bodies.

"No matter how many times we beat them, they keep coming back! Why don't we just take out the light dome? Maybe they can't exist without it!" 

Jayden spoke, transforming into a healer maid, now healing both of their wounds while they prepared to strike once more. 

"Does it look like I haven't tried? That dome feels damn near indestructible!"

Jayden scoffed at and cursed at Nags's words before continuing. 

"Then we need to take out the caster!"

"Does it look like we can do that anytime soon!? Jason was the only one who was fast enough to get by the soldiers and he still failed! Miserably! Do you think we could do any better? She is far stronger than I ever expected!" 

Still panting, her frustration building up with a hint of fear in her voice, Jayden took a deep breath and responded… 

"Okay then! What do you expect us to do then!? How are we supposed to win? Are we just supposed to surrender… Do you have a plan?" 

Nags could sense the desperation in her voice, he couldn't blame her, he was also feeling the same way… 

"Nothing… We do nothing… That's the only thing we can do… Hikari is extremely childish yet strong at the same time. But, eventually, she will run out of mana, that would be when we strike. Until then, all we can do is survive!" 

Jayden inwardly nodded at his words and responded.

"Yeah… That seems to be all that we could do now…" She replied, part of her mind immediately shifting to Moby, wishing he could be here with her before shaking those thoughts away. 

She needed to not rely on him too much and use her own strength to win. She did not want to grow too dependant on his strength, part of her wanting to prove herself, staring at the hoard of light soldiers with a deadly glint in her eyes, still healing her extremely injured, burning body, feeling that her healing was far too slow and it was only a matter of time before both she and Nags fell...

*BOOOOM*

Suddenly, a massive explosion sound entered their ears, the sight of a massive fireball smashing on the ground from the corner of their vision with 2 moving figures fighting, clashing their blades at immense speed with various armoured soldiers surrounding them.

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"Abby! What the fuck are you doing!? What happened to all that talk about loyalty!? Giving your life, your soul for your lord!? Was that all bullshit!? HUH!?" Alex screamed his heart out, like he let go of all that he was holding back, the dam of his emotions now completely broken. 

With no remorse, he slashed straight at Abby's chest, only for her to block by spawning a zombie warrior of unknown origin in front of her to take the brunt of the lightning spear. 

"I did everything for the sake of slaughtering my entire family with my two hands! I don't care how I got there! How much effort I had to put! And who I lied to! You and your happy-go-lucky family would never understand my pain!" 

She yelled back, continuing her clash with him, her onslaught of attacks seemingly never-ending as they continued to match each other's tempo. 

"Shut the fuck up! You're being brainwashed! I know it! Just snap back to reality! Or, are you telling me that everything you told me that night was bullshit too!? Huh, you little bitch!?" 

For a split second, Alex's body glowed all the colours of the rainbow, his lightning aura increasing as he forced an opening with his immense speed and smashed his spear on her magic armour, completely ripping it and sending her flying away, her entire body stunned from the electric shock, the chain of lightning spreading to various of her undead soldiers, all of them now frying to a crisp from his power, white lightning in his eyes as he dashed towards her for a follow-up attack. 

"I'll save you no matter what! Even if it's the last thing I ever do! I WILL SAVE YOU!" 

His spear directed at her chest, he roared, disappearing from his spot like a flash, true determination in his unwavering voice.

Burning her body with immense heat to shock her senses back into her body, Abby lifted her scythe and blocked Alex's attack, their struggling faces now right next to each other.

"I am myself! Who are you trying to save!? Stop your delusions! Does it look like I want to be saved!? Especially by the likes of you!?" 

She roared, trying to overpower Alex in their struggle, their weapons shaking against each other. 

"Your words are bullshit! I won't believe them! You mean the world to me! No! Even more! And I won't let shit get in my wa---"

*Sqrish* 

Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, he felt a deep pain slashing in his heart, a sword inside of it very clear to him when he looked down, his teeth now bloody as he coughed buckets of blood on Abby's amused face, smiling face ahead of him, yet the look on his lightning-filled eyes remained unwavering, if anything, it looked even stronger. 

"So… You were saying? I hate you with every fibre of my being… Always have, and nothing will change that… Everything I told you before was simply a lie to manipulate you... Why can't you get that through your thick skull!?" Abby spoke with a dark, cold, yet amused face as she began to overpower Alex in his struggle…

"I-I don't care... I still love you... All your words are 100% bullshit, I'm sure of it... Does it look like I have given up… It was my fault that any of this even happened to you... like I was saying… NOTHING WILL STOP ME!"

Abby could not hide the look of bewilderment on her face as she began to be overpowered by Alex in front of her, him pushing her back with immense power. 

The energy and aura exuding out of his body were unlike anything she had ever seen before, its power completely frying and destroying the soldier behind him, along with his sword just from being in such close proximity from him. 

As he stepped forward, it looked almost like the figure of a monstrous beast was in his shadow, pulling him forward to victory, the sparks of lightning around him only getting more and more, his lightning-filled pure whitish-blue eyes looking straight into her soul, sending shivers down to her very core as he continued to overpower her like she was nothing...