A powerful distorted voice spoke out to Aldritch from behind, obviously coming from the floating being. The voice sounded supernatural even, and it came like a multitude of voices instead of one, in a thunderous manner.
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?" The voice said in a powerful and commanding tone.
'That's a lot of voices.' Aldritch thought to himself.
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'This is a big problem.' Helga thought to herself as she strained her mind ever so slightly, trying to maintain a balance.
"Naiha, you have to control your emotions! It's affecting us all! We'll lose control if it continues like this!" Veronica voiced out in a spark.
"Arhh... Shut up! Don't tell me what to do!" Naiha retorted in an even angrier tone.
"What?" Veronica could not believe what she was hearing at all.
Sensing something off, Helga intervened before it became a disastrous situation. "Veronica, wait! We are in the midst of malevolent spirits, their negative energy also has a very big effect on us, it's not Naiha's fault! She's not doing it fully consciously!" She explained.
Veronica was going to speak, but instead she held back her words while trying to protect her own mind. Of course she had noticed that the negativity from the malevolent spirits was affecting them too, but for one of them to fall into it so fast, it could only have happened if she was not resisting at all.
Veronica wanted to blame Naiha for giving into it, but she also knew that it would do no good at that moment.
"I will try to extend my protection to her while maintaining my own, so control will be up to you for some time. Just don't let the link fall apart!" Helga said, to which Veronica could not protest but do as she had said.
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Looking at the thing before him, if he had to choose, he would not want to go against it as an opponent, anything having multiple voices has never been a weak being if memory served him right.
Then again, there wasn't really much of a choice at the moment.
'What's up with this thing? I certainly can't attack first, as that will put me as the aggressor in the case that it meant no harm, but then it's not attacking me to let me know that it means every form of harm...' He thought to himself a frustrating thought.
Even though he had to create one every time he needed to use it, it's qualities maintained a certain degree of consistency.
Before he tried any other thing, Aldritch tried to use one of his most utilized skills which he had somehow become a master of.
Looking at the woman that kept staring at him, he didn't need to find any eye contact, it was already there. Even then, his mind compulsion didn't work, so did his telekinesis, none of them worked. Surely, an enemy catered specially for him it would seem.
Aldritch, faced against these seeming odds, couldn't help the wide grin that bloomed across his face. Even though he looked to be at a disadvantage, it was sort of a thrill to engage in such a fight.
'First, off, I need to get her down to even the playing field a little.' He thought to himself.
Since his skills were ineffective in that sense, there was only one other way to go about it, and that was through brute force and technique.
Pointing his free left hand to the ground, Aldritch created a gust of wind using wind magic, propelling his body into the air and towards his opponent. The improper positioning caused his body to spin towards one side, twisting his body several times in a particular choreographed manner.
Utilizing the same technique but at a much lesser intensity, he slowed his ascent slightly, once he reached the desired height he was aiming for.
From this height, he could see all around below, and that was perhaps the very indication that he might not be within the capital at all. The thought was brief as Aldritch refocused back on what was before him.
Surprisingly though, his enemy seemed to be absent minded, unresponsive and not even shifting the slightest bit to follow his movements, even though he had gone over her and was now positioned out of her line of sight and behind her.
'Too good to look, huh?' Aldritch said in his mind as the grin on his face resurfaced a little.
Using the same wind technique as before, he propelled himself with great speed towards the levitating woman, aiming his sword for her neck, as he planned to split her head from her body by severing the neck in one swing.
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Like a falling star, Aldritch accelerated towards his opponent in a mere second, swinging his blood sword precisely to harvest his opponent's head.
Surprisingly, the woman remained still as he approached and made contact, his sword going through her neck until it was half way, as he passed through with lightning speed. It was only at that moment when his sword was going to chop off the entire head that her entire body disappeared, leaving behind a faint dark smoke that faded immediately as Aldritch's sword continued through it.
'What the fuck?'