Chapter 361: Kyrie for Brave Girls.

Chapter 361: Kyrie for Brave Girls.

What a fitting scenery.

A lava field had consumed the island below, turning water into hardened rock and earth for platforms. As toxic gases and lava fountains threatened anything below, boulder-sized molten earth began to levitate up to the sky, joining the intricate web of dragon paths. As such, a small island, just large enough to accommodate my mammoth-sized dragon body.

A kirin-dragon dragon skipped and galloped in the air and on small floating rocks, menacingly pointing her unicorn horn at the flying eight-armed demonkin. Although she wanted to attack, she couldnt as the black clouds above rained down red thunder. If I wasnt part of this battle, I honestly would have fangirled at how cool this looked.

It felt like an authentic boss arena. So this was what the presence of three Territories did to the environment.

Huuuuuraaaaagh! The demonkin, VifiYok, roared as she pulled up her crossbow. Shooting it like a repeater rifle, each bolt was a red lightning the size of a normal spear.

The land had no constraints on a dragon who could fly, so I took to the sky with my rocket boosters to dodge bolts. At the same time, I also noticed the red thunder caused by her Territory moving with her attacks, literally aiming at me like a heat seeking missile.

Tasianna, who was sitting on my back, decided against casting her defensive spells, telling me no way she could block these attacks with her stats. Since a spells strength came from your Intelligence, I could understand. So, I had to focus on avoiding these attacks before an opening could be revealed.

But, this weird magnetic force. What is this? I wondered as it felt like my body was being pushed away from the demonkin. The closer I tried to move towards her, the more an invisible force made it harder for me to close in.

As I was zigzagging through this storm, I noticed a streak of black flames hopping from one spot to the next, eventually attracting the attention of the demonkin. Neill, in her full kirin-dragon form, was jumping around on her floating island, even using the molten rock like projectiles by kicking them at VifiYok.

Then, using her horn, she would shoot out concentrated beams and blasts of mana, only for red thunder to strike them before they could reach their master. However, Neill, with Renee on her back, kept this assault up, slowly making progress towards their target.

Meanwhile, since I took on my dragon form, my Job skills also disappeared, meaning all the [Idol]-related skills are now unavailable to me. Meaning, I had to go on the offensive while keeping [My Darkest Thoughts] on. It also didnt help that I had [Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Minuet)] on. It incentived me to go slow and defensive.

Then how about I turn it around? If I barely took any damage, then I should abuse it. I didnt buy [Lightning Resistance Lv. 10] and [Physical Super-Resistance Lv. 10] for nothing.

I materialized [Unheilige Engel] and placed it over Tasianna, creating a dome over her body. Since I still had [Panzer] on and could just create an outer layer of scales and use [Draconic Barrier] on them, I was ready to juggernaut this.

With our protection secured, I dived down towards the lava river. [Magmakammer] released incredible heat which created a miniature magma chamber. With [Volcanic Blaze], I scooped this lava up and molded it into a barrier before my head. Using [Mana Eyes], I could even see the demonkins silhouette through this thick barrier.

The effects of the presumably magnetic field showed itself as my advanced slowed down. It was then I saw VifiYok throw her halberd at Neill, probably [Voltaic Red: Thunderspeed Roar], before using something directed at me. With the silhouette mixing together, I couldnt fully tell what the attack was until it hit me.

Oof!

It was her crossbow again. This time, it hit me exactly on the shoulder, and while it did do some damage, with my defensive stats boosted like crazy right now, it was neglectable. Still, it slowed me down, so I still did my best to avoid them.

Eventually, she did transition into using her remaining arms to sling lightning bolts at Neill and me. My lava and scale barrier began to crumble cause of the continued attack, but I just kept reforming them over and over again.

Cant [Flashfire] effectively when my speed is lowered by this magnetic field. Still, gotta try. Hellflame Fire! Corrosive Fire!

VifiYok was without a doubt still poisoned from a previous attack, not to mention having [Dread Burn] on her. The attrition war was still on-going.

Purple flames burst from my mouth, piercing through the lava barrier and towards the demonkin. As I kept flying around, the demonkin responded by throwing a lightning bolt through the breath attack. I [Flashfire] over it, towards the other end of the lightning, only for a lightning strike to hit me right in the face.

Arck! I knew it! I grimaced, realizing my hypothesis was correct. [Flashfire] was a high-tempo movement which made it seem as if I teleported, but anything slowing me down would drive its speed way down.

White flames began to cover my face, healing me from that wound, as I u-turned around to avoid another lightning bolt. However, at that very moment, she clapped her hands and the magnetic repulsion turned into attraction, forcibly pulling me towards her.

However, before I reached her, Neill jumped right in and nearly kicked her with her back legs, forcing the demonkin to hastily turn her polarization back to before, blasting Neill right out of the formers vicinity. Seeing she was flying right into a red thunder bolt, I shot a [Tornado Bullet] in her direction, throwing her away, although also hurting her, to help her flee. We then resumed dodging through all the long-range attacks.

As I was rattling my brain on how to handle this, I suddenly got a telepathic message from Neill.

[Thanks. Quick thinking.]

[No problem. Come closer, Ill heal up. Anyways, you got an idea on how to handle this? This might be even worse than her previous battle style,] I complained, preferring how she was heavily melee-oriented before. [We get slower when we approach, and any spell or dragon abilities I use gets destroyed by those red thunders. I cant go all out right now, just a reminder.]

[Yeah, arcane corruption. I know, or, more specifically, Renee knows.] My interest was piqued once Renee was mentioned. [Electromagnetic pull and push. The Territory probably has the demonkin as the center of it. However, after testing it a bit, anything too blocky seems to be reflected. Mana-based attacks arent though.]

[It cant possibly repulse air, otherwise, the demonkin would suffocate herself. Lady Hestia, it's probably similar to Astaloss magnetic field, so we can use our past battle with him as reference for this,] Tasianna reminded me of my battle with the [Boltreaving Wyvern]. [Magic and any intangible attacks should work.]

[Then I guess Renee has a plan with her wind blade?] I asked.

[She does. Dragon paths work on her, as I injected mana into some of the lava boulders, turning them into bombs. Mana lightning works, too, and I can spread the paths as close as her. Renee has a plan to use them to bring the demonkin closer to me.]

[Good! Then come closer for a moment.] The both of us flew around this flying arena, before we quickly made a stop at the floating island for me to transfer Tasianna onto Neills back. We quickly took flight before a thunder struck us. [Alright, I cant overuse mana and get [Arcane Fever] before the finale comes. Ill try to act as a distraction this time. Keep the same battle plan, though.]

With what she showed just now, escaping wasnt possible. She would just pull us right back towards her. However, we also had to force her to change her polarity, otherwise we were forced to maintain ranged attacks. When that happened, I would immediately change to [The Heir of Hope] to grant Neill a 10% increase in her stats. At this point, I got the song transition timing down.

Once I reformed my lava barrier, I kept the pressure up by throwing not only some [Sacred Smite]s but also breathing fire as I zoomed through the storm of bolts and thunder. I had to keep up with my natural arcane corruption decay and my mana usage.

Neill, on the other hand, kept her offense by kicking boulders at the demonkin, while having her dragon paths advance forward to shock her. In both cases, thunder struck them down, destroying any progress, but it did mean her attention was being divided.

Eventually, Tasianna was also able to establish a foothold in this battle as her retinue of [Slithering Frost Serpent] began to multiply and strike at the demonkin. Blades of ice descended down like hail, while frost powder covered the whole area like a miniature mist. She didnt need to do damage, she just needed to distract the enemy like us.

[Renees plan is easy. Keep her occupied, and thinking. Just like us, she has to be susceptible to arcane corruption. She will be forced into fighting us close once shes used up her mana.]

Was what Neill told me. I didnt know if [Original Sin: Satanael] could prevent arcane corruption, but no way could it stop you from consuming a ton of mana. Even I had a limit on my regeneration speed.

We just had to force her into that position. Play our cards correctly, and she will have to play the game our way. Intentionally drag her along the stream. As much as we couldnt keep this going for long, she couldnt do it either. The five of us were all tired and exhausted. This was truly the final act.

Hraaah! As Neill was turning around to dodge a thunder blast, that demonkin man, HeeRlak, suddenly appeared from below Sis, using the floating rocks as platforms. The six armed demonkin of wrath wielded his flaming greatsword, trying to slash at Sis, but probably due to her skills, she reacted immediately and stomped him in his face.

With a loud crack echoing through air, the man was flung away and landed on a floating boulder. Neill, wanting to end him, galloped over, only for VifiYok to fully focus on her, leaving her back open to me.

Get your filthy claws away from him! The demonkin girl cried out in rage, telling me this man was more than just a subordinate for her.

The rain of bolts threatened Neill, forcing me to create an eruption with [Volcanic Blaze], nearly engulfing the demonkin in the lava flood. She used her glaive to cleave it away, but this gave Neill the chance to shoot a [Pulse Arcane: Maxima] from her horn at the demonkin. This time, it hit!

Argh!

Renee then swung her blade, activating [Cometh Breeze] to pull the demonkin closer, which inevitably also caused the magnetic force to push Neill away. However, this allowed Tasianna to shoot her spells at the incoming demonkin, forcing our opponent to respond by slashing everything apart, leavening her wide open for Neills next attack,

Mana seams appeared on her black-scaled face, all moving towards her horn as it began to produce purple lightning from it. It wasnt blue like her previous [Pulse Arcane: Maxima]. This was something else!

Dammit! Thunderspeed!

Kurieieieiie! With a wild growl, she arched her head back and then snapped it forward, releasing a large lightning beam which destroyed the three electric hands on her right side, neutralizing the attack VifiYok planned to use.

Freikugel! I remembered Neill using that move against Ghorush in their arena duel. It was more reserved back then similar to a laser beam while this one looked more like a cannon beam in size.

Wind Shiver! The [Freikugel] already caused a change in the winds, stopping the effects of [Cometh Breeze], but Renee immediately followed it up by shooting out a wind blast. VifiYok responded by using her red lightning to dash away, though.

[Hestia, dash next to her! To her right!] I heard Neill call out for me, giving me precise instructions. Probably from Renee, since she was the only one who couldnt use [Telepathy].

Following the streaks of red in the air, I could just barely predict where she was going to end up and used [Flashfire]. With [Magmakammer] and all my scale-dust spread around from my flying, I had plenty of places to dash towards. I only needed a single spark, and boom, there we go!

You!

I appeared right before her, causing her to instinctively swing her warhammer at me, only for the repulsion effect to activate and literally fling me away before she could hit me. Seeing her flabbergasted face sure was funny.

[Ha! Get fooled you idiot!] Neill suddenly spoke to everybody around. [Did you really think were that dumb to stay around and fight you?! Go, Sis, get to the island!]

[Lady Hestia, well be right behind you! All the plan needs is your mana!] Even Tasianna joined in, spouting the same banter Neill did. [Well keep her occupied so the Empress can fight properly!]

Wha So youre gonna aband?! VifiYok tried to taunt me as I flew away, using my rocket boosters to increase my speed.

[As if you can trick me! That toy would never trap my mother! Goodbye, you idiot!]

What?! she exclaimed as I disappeared even further in the distance. Neills precise order to me was for the repulsion effect to sling me in the direction of Karhalantheel island. Dammit!

And all to agitate the demonkin into doing something we needed her to do. Confusing the enemy and then forcing her into doing something desperate, as she probably had to worry about her mana. Deceit and trickery.

A purple magic circle appeared on her staff, activating a lightning spell which instantly shot her closer to me. There, she clapped her hands, changing her polarity where she pulled me closer to her. Only, I also made it easier on her as I blast myself towards her with my rocket boosters and [Wind Blast].

Huh?!

[Neill, its the hands! She probably needs to clap her hands to perform the move! We need to stop her from doing that again!] I informed Neill before tackling right into the demonkin, having us both crash land onto the floating island.

With the magnetic field active, the island began to crumble, affected by VifiYoks Territory. At the same time, red thunder rained upon us, hitting me thrice in a row. However, with all my defenses up, I took them like a champ. With my [Halo of Consecration] active too, heal tanking was back on the menu once again, girls!

Kraaagh! Still, it didnt mean I was completely impervious to her attacks.

Urrrgh! Urrgaaaargh! Once she pierced my chest with her rapier, she pushed me off of her and kicked me away, although the magnetic force just kept attracting me towards her. Knowing this, she attempted to clap her hands, but I had my [Unheilige Engel] wrap itself around them, creating a thick layer of slime.

Hellblade Edge!

With the tides of the battle turned once again, I slashed at the demonkin with my tail, forcing her to block it with her warhammer, glaive, and fist.. The arms blown away from Neills shot were slowly regenerating, but now that I looked at her closely, her slightly tanned skin was pretty blue right now, even turning slightly purple.

I [Flashfire]d closer to her and grabbed her leg, pulling her back on the island, only for Neill to land and nearly dropkick her. As soon as she tried to jump away, a giant ice serpent appeared from underneath the island and attacked her, forcing her to destroy it with a thunderbolt, only to be left open to my dragon breath.

Poison, unhealable damage, my song, and then the arcane corruption in her body. Not to mention, how was her Stamina doing? If we couldnt brute force our way through, then playing this smart was the way to go.

Click!

Huh?! Verdammt! I grimaced as I heard that noise resound in my head, repeated by my parallel minds as they just told me my sun core cracked again. Just like the demonkin, my body was starting to tire from all the heat.

Everybody else was sweating up a storm, so how could I, as the one controlling everything, still be perfectly fine? However, I couldnt think too much about this. We had to take down the demonkin as soon as poss

Graaaaaaaaaaaargk!

[Foresight] activated, prompting me to dodge to the side as a thunderbolt flew past me. I then charged right at the demonkin while Neill tried to keep the island intact with her dragon paths. At the same time, I had to duck as a glaive flew over me.

I lunged forward, claws ablaze, blocking her next attack. A large monster versus a single humanoid person; it sure tickled my gamer fantasy. Only problem was I was in the former position. Dodging around against an equally large opponent wasnt too tricky, but against somebody as small as this demonkin felt quite the challenge.

I took damage, but I kept on slashing, casting spells, and using my scale-dust to explode. Fireworks blew up everywhere, you could say, while lightning weapons flew around, trying to hurt me. The demonkin clearly was feeling pressured, but even in this state, she kept trying to clap her hands, but I kept her from doing so with [Overload] and [Flashfire].

Of course, I wasnt alone in this, as Tasianna kept raining more and more spells upon her. Whenever I would get hit, she would land a counter attack, dissuading the demonkin from attacking any further. Followed up by Renees wind attacks, it kept the enemy guessing who was doing what.

Then, you also had Neill. Whenever the demonkin landed a strike at my chest, dangerously close to my sun core, Neill took over and began harassing the enemy. Size difference aside, Neill almost seemed like a fox while approaching her battle with VifiYok. Galloping, kicking, and then using her draconic abilities to keep the demonkin suffering damage. Black flames and dragon paths were integral to her combat style.

In the midst of the desert

A bright ray of light shines

Pure and brave, that she was, as she walked

And, oh boy, I did not let these chances pass. The moment I anticipated Neill would land a hit, I would change the song, only to switch back to [My Darkest Thoughts]. Never would I have expected my combat usage of my spell songs would improve today.

VifiYok tried to escape multiple times, but [Flashfire] was all I needed to keep up with her speed. Even if she tried to attack me, I just took the hit. No dodging. While the symphonys minuet was on, I was a tank. Plain and simple!

From this rhythm, our tussle continued. We would exchange blows and keep dancing around on this crumbling lava island. A dragon and kirin swinging their bodies around while sundering this place up, while a human and fairy kept shooting out spells, all to bring down a single demonkin.

Our goal was to push this demonkins mana to zero, but that was easier said than done.

Hrkk! My body froze in place as I felt a sharp pain in my head, leaving me open as I stopped my attack. [Danger Perception] and [Foresight] activated and it felt like my body could avoid them, but my limbs didnt want to listen.

Boom!

Kraak!

My frozen body took the hit right to my head, nearly knocking me to the ground. However, instead of recovering and sending a counter attack, my body just instinctively roared out and my consciousness began to fade a little bit.

What the?! Koff!

It felt like I just had a black out, and in this moment, VifiYok hit me again, only this time, she used that weapon ability with her warhammer. That electrifying feeling from before, where it felt like a battery was placed inside my body and continuously produced lightning to shock my organs and nerves, happened again.

Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! My body roared out once again, swiping at the demonkin crudely without stringing it into a combo attack. Was my body moving on its own?!

[Hestia, disable [Battle Frenzy] now!] I heard Sis speak in my head.

This powerful crash landing blew up the entire area, even affecting the other islands around. I was blown away into the sky, before landing right in the middle of the ocean. [Magmakammer] was still active, so it hardened up the water, creating a small patch of island where the overwhelming heat began to rip through my body.

[Overheat (Moderate)] [Exhaustion (Moderate)] [Arcane Corruption (Minor)] [Mana Stress (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

Arghk! Hot! Burrrrns!

The power of [Symphonie des Feuergottes Movement (Finale)] was impressive, but, oh gods, it had a terrible side effect. My organs were burning, an intense headache appeared, and my body felt sore and numb. This sucked!

[Lady Hestia, Im here! Aifli eir Vintral. Tor Eicleres Finulaflei!]

Okay, okay, dial down the heat! I dont need a sun core for this, I just need to control the temperature for Tasiannas spell to work! I trained this with Mother, I can do THIS! ARGH, HOT!

Using mana was painful, as in, sore muscle-like pain. However, unlike sore muscles, using any mana at all while I was in this state would worsen both [Arcane Fever] and [Mana Stress] by a mile. Still I had to do something to help out Tasianna.

As the heat around me began to die down, I could feel my body being torn apart as my mana left my body; however, at the same time, I could also feel the cold snow touching my scales. A blizzard took over the area, helping cool me down. I didnt know how long it took, since the pain was making time seem longer, but eventually, I could just fall onto my back, huffing and puffing.

[Lady Hestia?] I looked in the air and saw Neill approach us with Renee and Tasianna on her back. My fairy maid immediately gave me a hug around my head, despite still sweating from [Magmakammer]s heat. I should turn it off.

[By Fathers black horns, Sis, that was really an attack.] I heard Neill congratulate me from the side, slowly approaching me with her broken leg. However, I couldnt speak. [Telepathy] demanded mana.

Tasianna, noticing this, immediately explained the situation to them, having left that out when she told them about my finale. Hearing this, both Renee and Neill couldnt help but sympathize with me, seeing how I couldnt fight at all anymore. In fact, I was slowly falling asleep.

Well, I guess it cant be helped. Guess you have to carry your little sister over to the port, Renee joked, now that the situation was resolved.

I kinda wanted to transform back into a dragonewt, to make it easier on Neill, but unless I wanted to go through some excruciating pain, I couldnt. [Mana Stress] technically stopped me from using any spells or even expending my mana until I moved out of zero Mana. Technically, I still could, but that meant drawing mana right from my very cells.

Meaning, my Health. And I was already bleeding Health from developing an [Arcane Fever]. My automatic white flames werent even healing me for that same reason.

Anyways, Hestia, could you turn your Territory off? Its blazing out here.

Oh, right, I should probab

[Wait, hold on,] Neill interjected suddenly, stopping me. [ Just, Hestia, let me make sure. Did you get a message on how you won the Territory dispute? Or getting a level? Cause, Im sure you would have gained at least three or four levels from killing her.]

Wait.

My eyes burst open and I shook my head vigorously. She was right!

[Shi!]

YOOOOUUUUUUU! Just as that ominous feeling began to form, it manifested as a burning corpse jumping out of the water and grabbing onto Neills horn. THIS DAMN HORN!

With only one fleshy arm, but with six lightning ones, she ambushed us right as we let our guard down. With her warhammer and halberd, she struck at my sisters horn, shattering it before she could react.

Krruiiiiii!

Ugak! In the ensuing moment, Neill slammed her head against the demonkin, sending her falling on to the ground, where I finally got a clear look of her current form.

Her armor had melted right into her charred skin, deforming and twisting her features. Bald and skinless, the demonkin looked more horrifying than ever before, especially since most of her demonic features were still there. Thankfully, her lightning arms were back to normal instead of being feathered, meaning [Original Sin: Satanael] was off.

Wai Shit! I forgot to cancel her Original Sin ability in all this chaos. Could I have usurped her power?

Uuuuuuuarghhhh! VifiYok stumbled back onto her feet, shouting out like a howling beast as Renee and Tasianna readied themselves. Neill tried to stand up, but the loss of her horn seemed to have been more painful than I had thought.

Damn, I cant move!

My body wouldnt listen.

ARRRRRRRRGH! I AM WAR! I BRING WAR! A Wuarrrgh! The demonkin girl coughed up blood before falling onto the ground like a broken marionette. Her six lightning arms were slowly dissipating as she tried to push herself up. A WARBRINGER MUST END HER BATTLE SUCCESSFULLY! BREAKahak! FREE! I need to

Her weapon, horns, and tail disappeared with her elemental arms. She then clutched her charred chest, gasping for air with every pained breath.

Our victory seemed almost at hand, we just had to wait for her to die. However, it still amazed me how she managed to survive my last attack and even broke Neills horn as a final act of defiance. Honestly, this beast of a girl was truly as tenacious as a cockroach, but even she couldnt escape this any longer. All we needed to do was to let her die or finish her off.

ARRRRGHHH! INSECTS!

W-What?! However, before we could, Renee screamed was directed at the large shadow coming from the ocean. The water separated for this creature, before the very sky was blanketed by a giant scaled tail. To the point, it looked like it was larger than even Elyondas port.

The leviathan

This was not good.

ARRRRRRRRRGH! DIE!

Shit, Neill, get us out of here!

Master!

Lady Hestia, get in! Lady Fargryneill!

[Get in the subspace yourself! Ill handle th]

And without any more warnings, the tail slapped down.

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