chapter 31

3° person P.O.V.

The situation was far from optimal.

That was the thought that ran through everyone's minds, regardless of their current situations.

Le Fay, much to her displeasure, wasn't making much of a progress against those empty humans and that fire and ice monstrosity. Those empty looking humans showed themselves to be quite unpredictable and forced her to keep on her toes, while that Ice and fire monstrosity was like that character (Todoroki she remembered his name being) from that hero show she once watched, My Hero Academia.

Mental note, go and watch all three seasons again, that show was great in her opinion.

On another front, Kuroka was dealing well with those three monstrosities, though she felt she could have been doing better, but because those blue and red annoyances could heal way too fast for her attacks to make much of a difference and they guarded that giant armed one, she kinda got herself pinned on multiple flanks. The giant armed one focused the most on attacking her, too, and thanks to its support she couldn't get in close enough to deal with the major threat here.

People say that cats have nine lives, but she may not have any left if she didn't think of a way to finish these fuckers.

Meanwhile, Kanda was facing off Lugh, but as much as he loathed to admit it, the man knew he was in some deep shit. It was clear that she was not going all out as she was still using just two of her treasures (the swords Hrotti and Crocear Mors). If she used her full out he could die at any moment.

So, in the end, it fell into the hands of Emily to break this deadlock.

And for that, she needed to defeat this thing.

She got calm, but serious when she realized that. It was like a switch had been flipped in her mind. This enemy was troublesome at best and goddamn hard at worst. She tried to approach him several times already but each and every time he released some of those beams and she had to retreat.

Like one big game of keep away, it felt like that was what was hapening between them.

It was infuriating.

She took a deep breath and started to plan the ideal path to victory. She needed to finish it fast, but not get too injured or it would impact her capacity to help later.

She decided that there was only one conclusion to what to do, defeat him with pure raw power. She could not sneak one of her light threads on him and any weak light spear is destroyed too fast.

She knew this was the best, and probably the only way but that did not make her like her next action anymore.

She put her hand on a pocket inside her jacket, looking for an item. A gift she received on her eleventh birthday from Castiel, it was shortly after his first mission and he was paranoid so he managed to get this little present for her.

Beans flown in her direction non-stop, she could not stay in place for more than two seconds or she would die full of holes. She managed to find that present at that moment, but she was reluctant in taking it out.

"Kyaahh~~~~" She heard LeFay's scream, she did not manage to defend properly and some flames managed to burn her left leg. Thankfully it was nothing serious and she could still move normally, but the fact that the attackers were pressing her was the truth.

That was the final drop for Emily, she could not and would not let anything happen to any of her friends… and Kanda… probably (she was not a fan of his, he was not a peoples' person at all).

The item she took out was a gem made by Luvia, a Topaz the size of an egg. She put some of her mana in it and before it released its power she thrown it at her enemy together with a big light spear. The spear seemed much more menacing so it was the main target to the light beams, but some did aim at the Topaz stone.

To deal with that she used a very thin and almost invisible light thread to make sure that she could manipulate the stone in ways to guaranty that it would not be damaged before it reached its target.

And reach it did.

At the moment it impacted that monstrosity the stone broke. From that point where the stone broke, it forced the creation of large amounts of rock to surge. It was like that monstrosity got a new limb, one that was thrice the body size and did nothing but weight him down. So much so that-

CRASH

he fell to the ground. And the fall was not pretty either, the 'shield' from the left side (where the stone grew) was locked by the stone that was still growing. Also, the left side of the body as a whole was mostly locked in stones while the right side received most of the force of the impact, generating some wounds on it.

'Chance' was what passed through her head. She dived to the ground and went full speed towards that monstrosity from the front. She was going really fast, but the enemy, even in his condition, counter-attacked her with a large beam of light out of his mouth using most of his light energy.

It was the only way to get her to die together as he knew that, after going in this form and exhausting itself, death would be an inevitable result.

Seeing the beam coming towards her at high speed she opened her right wings and closed partially the left ones so as to force herself to turn to the side and get out of the way, but the beam was too big and managed to reach her anyway.

"Kyaahhh~~" she got multiple burns across her body due to this attack. If the monstrosity could smile it would be doing just that as this sort of wounds would debilitate her enough to make her much less of a treat to the others.

The monstrosity then noticed something, that Emily was not flustered by what happened.

What did that mean?

Emily looked at him and gave a cold smile, and from there she pulled her hand downwards as if she was pushing something down with force.

STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB

Multiple small but sharp light spears fallen from the sky towards the monstrosity, screwing him multiple times and turning him into a monstrous hedgehog. The monstrosity could barely survive for an instant before Emily herself followed the attack by using a mana burst to accelerate enough to pierce him with the Trap of Argalia.

PIERCE

With that, the monster died and she won the fight. Emily lowered her weapon and heaved a heavy sigh of relief, feeling the aftereffects of so much adrenaline in every bone in her body. Even her Wings ached from so much use. Nonetheless, she got happy that her plan succeeded, at least. Her plan was not so difficult to understand in fact, after releasing the gem she knew the monster would fall to the ground.

Meanwhile she would release a few dense but small light spears from the back of her wings to not let him notice her moves (a common misunderstanding is that the attack must be executed from the hand, the kind of magic can be executed from any part of the body but it is harder to release it this way). From there she would connect a few threads from her hand to the spears but let them float in the sky.

When she started flying at high speed the light spears high in the sky would move together with her and in the moment she pushed her hand downwards they would be pushed down.

This way, even if she could not attack from the front, she would still manage to attack it from above. A pincer attack so to say.

And it succeeded as a charm.

Now there was one less enemy for her to face, and more important she could go and support the others.

Seeing this situation as such she went straight towards LeFay, as she was hurt earlier and she was not good in dealing with enemies in multiple fronts at the same time.

Setting her decision, she went there to help. Luckily enough Kuroka was also heading that way. Now time was the key, they had to defeat those six and then go together to face off against Lugh.

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Meanwhile, Kanda was not having a good time at all.

That was putting shit mildly.

Lugh was just using two swords, precious as they may be, and her natural speed enhanced by her magic, but she was on equal grounds to Kanda using Third Illusion.

Third Illusion was a technique that consumed life force and in exchange allowed for him to gain more speed and strength. It was a double-edged sword as he could not keep it activated for too long or risk dying early.

But there was no choice.

Lugh was much too fast. So much so that he doubted he could have lasted if he did not use Third Illusion.

He had been trying to attack from every possible angle with his sword and its copy made by Second Illusion, but Lugh was still fine.

If he tried to go for a sweep from the left she'd use Hrotti on it to stop him from going any further as he would have to use all his strength just to not get knocked away. If he tried to go for the right she would use Crocea Mors to force a change of gravity strong enough to make the swing speed to drop, opening his guard.

He could sense that it was far from all she could do if her uncaring and peaceful face was anything to go by. He still remembered that she used the sandals of Hermes to get much faster in their previous fight. She still might have some more treasures in her, making him cautious.

Seeing that his situation was not progressing he decided to try and change his tactics.

He attacked the left side again, and again she used Hrotti to stop him. But this time, instead of forcing himself to stay on the spot he went with the flow by jumping to the side. With that, he was thrown to the left more than three meters, more than enough space for him to try some of his ideas.

An interesting fact is that the Yu family was once a subordinate clan to the Himejima clan before changing its alliance. This led them to know some ommyouji and exorcist spells from them. Kanda was also trained in them, but never appreciated or liked to use it as he always preferred to fight in close range with Mugen.

But desperate times call for desperate actions, and this was one such time. Form his wrist he used a small formation that carried many items used for those techniques, and from this small formation he took out a few such items.

The items he took out where small talismans with different symbols on them. He aimed the first one (a yellow talisman) at her and said.

"Lightning Bird Swarn Talisman!" And with that, the talisman was converted into many small birds made out of lightning that moved at a speed no lesser than his own.

Lugh managed to cut more than half using her swords, but the others managed to enter her guard and attack her. Unfortunately, her yukata was a mystic code made by the Tower designed for defense, making it difficult to cut or damage her with any elemental attack. The good part is that the impact could still be felt and the effect was enough to stun her for a few instants.

Plenty of time for Kanda to use some more of the talismans. Taking out four of them (red, blue, light green and brown ones this time) he aimed at her releasing the spells.

"Four Elements Disorder." This time all four talismans shattered and with this it was like a mini-apocalypse started on the aimed region. The wind started cutting in all directions, the earth opened and closed as a maw, water surged and fallen like daggers and fire started rising from the ground.

This was the strongest spell he knew how to use, and he could not use it for long due to the spender of energy and for the cost of the talismans needed for this one. It was like he was exchanging gold for each attack, not unlike Rin and her Jewelcraft.

The end result was an explosion that covered the whole area. While he waited for the dust to settle Kanda took a deep breath to steady himself.

He doubted that this would be enough, but it must have at the very least wounded her.

PIERCE

A sword pierced Kanda on the back, going all the way through.

He did not have time to react due to the suddenness of the attack aimed at him, worst is that he has no idea how it was even possible as he would have felt if she used teleportation and he also was highly capable of sensing invisible enemies.

But in this case, it was all useless.

As the sword was taken out of his body he saw red splashing out from the wound.

"That was a good one. Do you have more of those talismans?" Lugh asked as she appeared out of nowhere, literally nowhere as it was like she just surged in the air.

Kanda jumped ahead to further the distance between the two of them. Taking out one of his talismans he put it on his wound to stop the bleeding. After that, he decided not to use that previous attack again as he could not let her out of his sight again.

The situation now was dire, he was almost out of options while she seemed to be taking it easy. She barely suffered any wound up until this point and what she suffered was healed thanks to another little treasure she got from the church. It was normally used by the Pope, but he was rarely ever in any danger so he 'probably' wouldn't mind. (She was on the kill on sight list from the church after stealing the holy rosary).

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Meanwhile, Emily and Kuroka finally reached LeFay and were fighting together against those empty humans. It was not that difficult as the two made the empty humans need to divide their attention to target them, a big mistake since the instant that the pressure on LeFay lessened she started counter-attacking. She was using a barrage of magic strikes from many different schools of magic that she learned under Rin.

The empty humans were largely underprepared to deal with such a force, and to make the situation better the monstrosity made of ice and fire decided that it should target one of the new enemies.

He chose to attack Kuroka since she was on ground level and seemed quite tired. He launched a wave of flames towards her, which was answered with a wave of her hands that liberated a cloud of miasma that canceled the flames.

Snaring at this the monstrosity ran towards her, hoping to 'kill the bitch', but it was not meant to be. As soon as he started running he stepped on a hidden magic circle that liberated tens of earth spikes, penetrating him in many places.

Smirking the ice and fire monstrosity ignored said spikes, he was made of elements so how could physical attacks influence him?

Well, LeFay never hoped to finish him off with that. Sparing a glance at his direction she launched one ruby and one sapphire, showing one of her especiallities.

As soon as those two gems were in position, they broke and activated the magic that she herself programmed on them. It was a little thing that she called Inferno. It was a mixture of ice and fire magic that improved one another. The location of the monstrosity was perfectly divided into two halves, one half started freezing over at extremely high speeds by removing all heat from there, including the fire that the monstrosity was made off. But where the heat absorbed went? Well, that is what the flaming side was there for, all the heat from one side was transferred to the other and the best part is that the direction of this flux was constantly changing so any defense to it became useless.

And now there was no more trace of that monstrosity.

Looking at it, Emily felt shivers down her spine. LeFay may be a sweet girl on the outside but inside she is just as vicious as her brother. That is probably why she was Rin favorite disciple.

Turning back to the empty humans she knew she had to act. She started using her light threads in high number to cut them down, but they were evading them most of the time. She managed to remove the arms of a few of them but it barely seems to matter to them due to their apparent immunity to pain.

Meanwhile Kuroka, now that she no longer had to counter the flames from that monstrosity of ice and fire (rest in pieces on hell), was doing what she considered the most important action. To eliminate all the empty humans as fast as possible before whatever or whoever was growing inside them finished their growth. She attacked first and foremost those that were the most full and closer to 'explode'.

She surrounded herself in multiple clusters of black fire and launched them like they were 'honing missiles' due to tracking the enemies that she identified as enemies by the use of life energy. They reacted by launching magic blasts from all sorts of elements against those flames, but all of it was pointless due to the fire simply absorbing the magic launched at it to grow even larger.

In the end, she managed to burn to a crisp 3 of them. The others were about to get burned as well when the thing inside them exploded, and from inside a total of over 23 Baos came. They all were as naked as the day they were born (which in this case was a few seconds ago). Looking around those Bao saw the flames approaching and two of them walked towards said flames. Their bodies expanded by turning themselves into corals and in the end, two of them died in exchange for the flames Kuroka launched to disappear.

Emily and LeFay had an urge to vomit when they saw those Baos, seeing someone hatching from inside someone else's body was NOT something people like to see. But it was not time to worry about that. LeFay turned to her two friends and said.

"Emily-sama, Kuroka-sama, could you two defend me while I prepare a new spell?"

Kuroka and Emily nodded, they knew that for this sort of situation the best option was a mage spell since the effect against multiple enemies, in this case, was the greatest.

Following that both Kuroka and Emily started doing whatever they could to protect LeFay. The Baos started launching multiple volleys of light bullets at the two, but Emily was defending by using light threads woven in a large shield, and whenever a bullet was launched from a tricky angle that might affect LeFay, Emily modified the format of the shield thus defending her friend. Kuroka decided to go for the offensive by launching many magic blasts from different schools and launching seeds at the enemy. The seeds were the most dangerous since when energized by life energy they grew quickly creating a green hell full of carnivorous plants and poisonous cactus.

It was, however, far from enough. The Baos simply did what they had to do with an impeccable teamwork. When one was close to being devoured another would launch an attack that would create the opening necessary for the one in danger to escape, following that another two would move in to destroy the assailant. Such scenes were repeating fast and the most disturbing part was that when one of them go too wounded to help they would be caught by the others and used as meat shields like it was natural.

As this continued the energy reserves from both Emily and Kuroka started to diminish. If this continued the two would be incapable of keep fighting and would die. They already got a few bullet holes on them, on non-lethal areas since they managed to deflect them properly but the fact remained.

When things were about to get to bad for them to deal with LeFay finished her spell. A magic circle of over 100 meters appeared in mid-air above their enemies, starting the magic.

At the start they did not feel anything, then a slightly heating was felt, and before they could react it was too late.

They all died from dehydration.

This is a spell that works like a microwave machine. It liberates microwaves of high-intensity at their enemies that can evaporate all water in their bodies in less than 5 seconds. It was an interesting use of electric and sound-based magic that she thought of some time ago, and excluding the casting time was a veritable killing machine.

This time BOTH Kuroka and Emily got shivers down their's backs. The feeling that LeFay was scary was cemented in their heads when they saw how this large group of enemies all died under a single spell of hers, and their feelings only got worse when they saw she sitting in her broon and flying above the mummified corpses of their enemies and with a smile said.

"Let's go, Emily-sama, Kuroka-sama. We still have a mission to do."

Yep, scary chick. Don't get on her bad side, at all.

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With Kanda and Lugh, the battle was going overwhelmingly in Lugh's favor. Even though Kanda was capable of fighting her properly he was running out of energy fast due to using his Third Illusion. On the other hand, Lugh continued using Hruti and Crocear Mors to fight it out with him on equal terms, she was in fact so relaxed that she was even paying attention to the fight of the others.

When she saw that group of Baos appears she started feeling desperate. She could not remain here facing off against this idiot that was carrying her future treasure. Knowing that she got to act, and the urgency of the situation she activated her sandals to jump back as far as possible. Seeing this as a chance Kanda advanced, believing that he was pressuring her.

He was wrong.

She took a crouching position and started purring absurds amounts of energy at Crocear Mors, revealing her actual level of power at this instant. She was a low ultimate-class.

Kanda did not care, he would simply execute his mission and finish his enemy. Unfortunately, for him, it was not meant to be. When he was less than two meters from her she swung Crocear Mors liberating a wave of gravitational energy that launched him far away while also pressuring his whole body to unbelievable degrees.

"Fierce Tiger!" Was what Lugh said while executing this attack. It was one of her trump cards and one of her most useful for when she was being hunted down due to her 'playful ways'.

Kanda was in immense pain while in the middle of that gravitational maelstrom, but he bit down any sign of pain he felt. He would NOT let his enemy have the pleasure to know that they hurt him. Instead, he decided that he no longer had a choice, he would have to bet his life if he wanted to defeat this enemy.

As he was about to use his last trump card the fighting on the other side finished, and his 'unnecessary allies' appeared to help. As soon as they approached, Lugh stopped her attack and sat down on the ground. An annoyed look on her face.

Strange.

This was what was passing through the heads of Emily, LeFayand Kuroka seeing this. They know Lugh for a long time and she was not the type to give up like that. Especially when it was a life or death fight, she would never simply give up. Seeing this situation the others approached slowly, waiting for a retaliation or sudden attack.

It never came.

Instead, Lugh simply looked like she was troubled by it all.

Emily decided to talk first.

"Get up, Lugh. We are here to fight and kill you."

Lugh looked at her and slowly put her hands in the air, at the same time the death arena was undone and the five of them returned to the top of the piece of heaven school.

The four looked around, not understanding what was going on at all, but then it was Lugh that talked.

"I give up, I want to talk."

And those words made the other four open their mouths in disbelief (except Kanda, his face probably was not capable of showing such emotions) and as one all of them thought:

What

The

FUCK?!