Chapter 16 SS 6 – Daily Training (Leveling Arc) (Mixed POV) Part 2
Liza, Zena, Nana, Karina (Group 2) (Warrior type)
Meanwhile, in Dejima labyrinth
Due to the fully controlled and monitored environment in
this labyrinth by Core-chan, the monsters here grew into a healthy numbers. A
lot of the plant monsters here are imported from Selbira labyrinth, and most of
the mutated ones are brought here in order to grow into a new colony of strong
monsters.
Liza is facing off against many lizard-like monsters. They
can use their sight to petrify their prey or enemies, called basilisk.
“Your foul sight turn others to stone, so I challenge you”
(Nana)
Several hundred basilisks with their eyes glowing red, turn
their sight to Nana, but she is not affected by the petrification status
effect. With her properly gilded shield, the petrification effect of the
monster was reflected back at the attacker with double the effect. This because
Nana properly channeled her mana on her shield while using Light magic to
amplify the petrification effect. However, Liza showed great dissatisfaction as
the basilisks turns to stone, and is therefore inedible.
Rotting corpses and miasma attracted flies and small insects
into the dungeon, which in turn became food for these lizardkin monsters. The
insects and the lizardkin monsters are in turn became food for the newly
introduced plant monsters. The Blaster Corns and Rafflesia Marionette plants
that control the mind of monsters like marionette are now facing off against
the girls here. Liza uses Magic Spear Douma Mk3 on one hand to deflect the
incoming Blaster Corns’ projectile attacks, and another hand with Heiron’s
Dragon Tooth spear, she pierces the Blaster Corn carefully and slash off the
tentacles of Marionette Rafflesias and hit them at the vital part with mini
Magic Edge cannons. Zena uses Wind magic to blow and collect the edible
monsters into Liza’s Storage.
Dejima labyrinth is the home of phantasmal beings. Phantasmal
beings are able to ignore the physical attacks, which are supposed to have bad
affinity with the girls here. However, that’s the point of their training,
which is to overcome their limitations. That’s because some countries have
noticed and are taking precaution against the girls for being so powerful
during the [Gods’ Trial]. One Demon Lord is known as absolute beings, they can
destroy an empire or several small nations. However, the girls came out
woundless in each encounter with those Demon Lords. The smaller nations
surrender themselves to fate, but larger countries are taking stricter measures
ad are preparing all they can to take down those that can even defeat Demon
Lords.
Karina was feeling bored as Liza strictly forbid her from
destroying anymore edible monsters than necessary. After moving in deeper, her
turn came, as there were Living Dolls and Iron Golems at the upper floor of the
labyrinth. The ever-changing pathways are now less annoying since Satou becomes
the Dungeon Master of Dejima labyrinth.
“KARINAA KIIICCCKKK” (Karina)
“<Dance Stilettos>, <Enhance Lightning>
<Enhance Water>” (Zena)
Karina starts the battle with the inedible monsters with her
signature move. The movement is similar to some arcade game moves and looks
outlandish.
Zena activates her stilettos blade’s command and seven of
them are now floating and they got coated with Lightning and Water element
magic, which are the weakness of the Living Dolls and Iron Golems. The
commotion starts to attract Mad Golems, Ash Mud Golem, and Silent Ash Golem to
their location. Nana intercepted the attacks from the golems as they tried to
perform a surprise attack on the girls, using the dust and shadow as
camouflage. The golems and living dolls all crumble in a single hit of the
girls, which have terrible weight behind their attacks.
The girls encounter masses of Undead and Wraiths at the middle
layer of Dejima labyrinth. Satou has set the dungeon to produce more edible
monsters, but it seems that there is insufficient soul points at the moment,
and more mechanical monsters was currently running around the dungeon. The Undead
are difficult to die, they can rise up again continuously as long as they are not
fully destroyed. Lady Karina, wearing her Orichalcum knuckle guards, and
equipped with two mithril pole hammers, hammer away at the Undead like smashing
pumpkins. She also added her beginner Fire and Lightning magic to enhance her
physical attacks with fire (for area damage) and electric (for speed) attributes.
Nana enhances her holy greatsword and shield with Light magic and
<Vibrating> attribute, slashes at the Undead and Wraiths with great
effect. Zena imbued Light magic to her Stilettos short sword and can neutralize
the Wraiths and Undead properly, with the flying blades mincing them up. Liza
just absentmindedly smashing them up with both her spears, but making sure to
never break any magic cores drop by the Undead. There were several rocks that
Liza just hit out of instinct, and they turn out to be Rock Gargoyle preparing
to strike when they turn their back on them.
“This is fun desuwane” (Karina, as she pounds the Rock
Gargoyles to smithereens)
“Always be prepared” (Liza)
Liza strikes down a Wraith
about to attack Lady Karina with <Life Drain> skill.
“Thank you Liza-san. I owe
you one desuwa” (Karina)
The Undead and Wraiths are
no match for Nana and Zena impressive offensive and defensive power, and the
inanimate Rock Gargoyles’ ruse has been exposed, so everything goes smoothly.
“Karina-san, please reduce your damage onto the magic core
dropped by the Undeads” (Liza)
“It’s impossible to judge it properly but I will try my best
desuwa” (Karina)
The warrior girls team encounter with someone unexpected
while they were eliminating the dungeon creatures. The elven teachers Gulgapoya
the spiral spear, Yuseku the short spear, magic swordswoman Ms Gimasarua, and
dwarf shield-user Keriul is in the dungeon, fighting the monsters. They appear
to be touched by the reunion, and approached their student. Liza is respectful
towards her teachers, and Nana was confused, and keeps repeating “Why in the
dungeon?”
“<Karina Kick>” (Karina)
“<Dance Stilettos>” (Zena)
Karina brutally kicked Gulgapoya and he hits against Yuseku,
both ended with broken torso and limbs. Zena’s Stilettos surround both
Gimasarua and Keriul.
Raka seems to have informed Lady Karina of the incongruity
of such meeting. There should not been any intruder in the dungeon, and Karina
has experienced it firsthand when lady Liedill appears out of nowhere.
Gimasarua and Keriul began drawing their weapons and Liza
hit them down with her magic spear Douma Mk3. Lady Karina smash both Gulgapoya
and Yuseku with her twin pole hammers, creating quite a spectacle.
“Is such violence necessary? Aren’t they someone Liza-san
and Nana-san knows?”
“These are not the real person desuwane. Although Raka-san
can’t appraise the real from the fake, doppelgangers in this dungeon are
dangerous and my instincts tell me so desuwa. Look at the weapons on their
hands desuwane” (Karina points at the hidden spears on the dead Gulgapoya and
Yuseku’s body)
“Ehh!” (Zena, surprised that the dead body are turning into
a pool of milky-white substance)
“These are the leftover when a doppelganger is defeated. You
helped me there Karina-dono” (Liza)
“You helped me too. We are equal now” (Karina)
“The impostors are defeated, so I inform” (Nana said after
striking down both Gimasarua and Keriul with her greatsword, and they both turn
to a white puddle)
“What have you done to our comrades!? Are you girls out of
your mind!?” (Julberg)
““Julberg-shi”” (Karina and Zena)
“Another doppelganger, this I confirm” (Nana)
“After battling with Julberg-san at the Royal Capital, I can
know that this one is not him” (Liza)
From there, Arisa, Lulu, Tama, Pochi, Sera, Hikaru, Mia, and
Sistina appears from the shadow and starts reprimanding the Zena, Karina, Liza,
and Nana. They demand the four girls to drop their weapons and follow them back
to Satou for questioning.
“Stand down your weapons and wear this shackles on your
hands and feet. We will bring you to Master for further questioning” (fake
Arisa)
Liza, Nana, and lady Karina didn’t stand down their weapons.
Karina looked a bit scared, but Zena is totally confused and was about to hand
over her weapon to fake Tama and fake Pochi when lady Karina stop her.
“Although Raka can’t appraise the doppelganger from the real
person, I can tell that Pochi and Tama over there are not the real ones. “
(Karina)
After saying that, the fakes start questioning whether it is
Karina that is the fake one. This made Zena even more confused and she starts
backing away from both groups. Two very quick laser-like attacks came straight
at Zena from a dark corner. Zena tried evading it by floating up, but the
attacks make a curve, homing into Zena. Liza came to the rescue by destroying
the attack with her Dragon Spear, while Nana deflected another attack back with
her reactive armour, only to explode mid air. The fake girls take the
opportunity to strike at Zena and Karina. Karina’s silver armour and Raka’s
scale shields prevent most of the attacks, but Karina decides to attack instead
of protecting herself. Karina landed her twin mithril hammers square on the
faces of fake Mia’s summons, Garuda and Behemoth, and swings them at fake Mia
and fake Sera. Fake Mia got taken out immediately by a brutal hit and turn into
a puddle, but fake Hikaru managed to protect fake Sera, and fake Sera use
<Heal> on fake Hikaru and they are ready for battle again. Lulu fired two
holy shell shots with her accelerated gun at Zena, but was successfully
deflected by Nana and both fake Pochi and Tama received the holy shell shots
that got wrapped in electric element after deflected, turning into two white
puddles. Nana managed to neutralize fake Arisa’s <Dimension Cutter> aimed
at Zena with her <Magic Break>, and proceed to slash at the fake girls
with her greatsword, only for fake Arisa to <Short Warp> all of them to
safety.
Liza dash towards the shadow, and from it, emerge two great
dragons, Black Dragon Heiron and Heavenly Dragon Ten-chan.
“Heiron-sama, Tenryuu-sama” (Liza)
“We have come under Satou’s instruction to punish those who
create trouble in this labyrinth” (Heiron and Ten-chan)
“I believe that both of you are doppelgangers based on our
memory” (Liza)
“Hah, you will pay for your insolence with your life”
(Heiron and Ten-chan)
Liza then starts fighting the two dragons with her Dragon
Spear and Magic spear Douma Mk3, creating magical sparks when they clashed with
the dragon claws and scales. Zena aids Liza, Nana, and Karina by buffing them
with magic, but she don’t dare to take overt offensive action because most of
them are people she knows, and she is dreadfully afraid of dragons.
Karina’s kicks and force art – Mega Punch managed to corner
and turn fake Lulu into a whit puddle while she sustain a lot of attack from
the fake girls. Nana uses her <Magic Break> and <Mana Syphon>
nature magic to prevent Arisa from using <Short Warp> or strong magic
offensive spells, then slash at her and the fake girls with her eighty
<Magic Hand> equipped with magic sword each. Fake Hikaru block the attack
with Claiomh Solais, and use her own nature magic <Flexible Shield> and
<Flexible Sword>, and also cancel out Nana’s spells with <Magic
Break>. Fake Sera heals any injured fake members and use her
<Flashbang> and <Laser> light magic to attack Zena, only to be
reflected back by Nana towards the fake girls.
Hero Shin and Demon Lord Shizuka appear from the shadow, and
reprimanded the four girls from disobeying Satou. Hero Shin changed into his
demon lord form, and equips himself with the holy sword and activates his
unique skill <Master Wizard> and freezes the entire field with ice. Demon
Lord Shizuka activates her unique skill to turn all the fakes into her
familiar.
Liza, Zena, Karina, and Nana begin to experience difficulty
to cast magic skill, as if mana is sucked out of the air itself. The fakes all
still have their magic skills itact, clearly showing their allegiance. Karina
uses her Karina Kick on fake Shin, and managed to connect the kick despite the
magic nullity. This is because Karina uses her usual physical kick attack, and
not her magic skill. Liza pierces the flying fake Shin’s body with her Dragon
spear, while Nana replaces Liza’s position and accept the claws and beam
attacks on her reactive shield, stopping them and reflecting the beams. Fake
Shin is caught by surprise, and he quickly uses all the holy magic in his
command to heal himself, and fake Sera helps him too. However, Dragon spear
still pierce his body. Fake Arisa uses <Dimension Cutter>, all her dragon
summons, and powerful elemental attacks such Firebolt, and seems to have
attacks the four girls can remember, onto Liza and her spear. Fake Hikaru and
fake Sera both wield light and holy spells to cut and slice down Liza, with
Hikaru’s thirteen pieces of Claiomh Solais floating in the air and a physical strike
from fake Hikaru herself. However, Liza never let go of her grip from her
spears, and drives her spear deeper into fake Shin until his body cannot take
it and turns into a white puddle. Before that happen, fake Shizuka transferred Shin’s
EXP and skill points to herself, and she appears more powerful, both physically
and also her magic power. Shizuka put up barriers around herself before Liza,
now able to use magic skills, strike her with such force and speed that it
shatters the hundreds of scale shield like glasses.
Fake Arisa <Short Warp> fake Shizuka away from the
line of attack of Liza, but Liza’s spear can still reach fake Shizuka because
Dragon tooth and bones pierce through barriers, and <Short Warp> still
remains some residue of its barrier for a moment after warping away its target.
Fake Hikaru goes in to help stop Liza with her multiple Claiomh Solais and
flexible shields, and fake Arisa uses her <Dimenstinal Cutter at the
location that would be Liza’s neck if she goes ina straight path. Fake Sera
strike her laser attack at Karina and Zena, but Karina stop the attack with her
hammer and Zena’s smooth silver helmet reflected thr beam away, hitting the
fake Arisa. Fake Sera apologize and heals fake Arisa. Nana managed to handle
the attacks from the fake dragons smoothly, and her shining shield not only
reflect the laser-like almost undodgeable attacks of the dragons, but also the
claws and tail attacks fail to put a scratch into her shield.
Due to that lapse in concentration from the fake girls, Liza
manages to concentrate her attacks onto Fake Hikaru. Fake Julberg and fake
Sistina seems to perish in the crossfire attacks. Liza spear tip meet with Fake
Hikaru’s sword tip and they both appear to be on a balance, with neither side
moving. But the effect of Dragon tooth and bones pierces everything starts
kicking in, and splintered Claiomh Solais into pieces before piercing fake
Hikaru’s heart, and turn her into a white puddle.
Karina now uses <Ground Shrink> and <Flash Step>
to close in onto fake Sera and swings her hammer at her. Fake Sera equipped her
staff and places Magic Edge on it together with Light Shields and Holy Shields to
take the blows. However, Karina’s hammer has too much weight behind the attack
and brake all the shields and staff of fake Sera. Fake Arisa tried to back fake
Sera up by <Short Wapr> and use <Dimensional Cutter> on the arm of
Karina. Raka managed to slow down the <Dimensional Cutter> attack of fake
Arisa significantly and Karina landed her attack on fake Sera before she can be
warped away. By the time she is warp away, her arms are broken and body
battered, and right before she can heal herself, Karina jumped right into the
attack again with <Karina Kick> skill and turn fake Sera into a white
puddle this time. Fake Arisa’s <Dimensional Cutter did reach Karina after
passing though hurdles of scale shields from Raka and her silver armour, and
sliced and gouge quite deep into her flesh before dissipating. But with
Karina’s <Self Heal> skill, Karina managed to stop the bleeding and be
right back into battle, with only her armour chipped. Even her armour’s damage
is slowly recovering.
“You cheaters! Using your equipment like this to overpower
us” (fake Arisa)
“You should have one too if you are the real Arisa” (Liza)
Liza close in on fake Arisa with <Ground Shrink> and
<Flash Step> after defeating fake Hikaru, and pierce right trough her
before she can warp away, turning herinto a white puddle in the air. All while
killing of the fakes, fake Shizuka absorbs their EXP and skills through
<Transfer> after familiarization of them.
At Nana’s side, she utilize her eighty <Magic Hands>
equipped with miscellaneous magic swords armed with <Magic Edge> and
<Vibrating> given by Satou in her [Dimensional bag] and [Throne] to hack
away at the dragon trapped in a close space. The dragons managed to push Nana’s
back to a wall and take their turns to batter away at Nana’s scale and magical
shields, and damaged her large golden shield. They also melt the surroundings
with their breath attack to avoid getting reflected back at them, and use the
heat and environment damage to get at her.
Liza decides to aid Nana, and Karina is tasked with bringing
down fake Shizuka. Zena is still in confused on who to help currently, unable
to understand the carnage. The current fake Shizuka is so strong after
absorbing all the EXP and skills from the almost dead fakes, that she can
withstand Karina’s hammer barehanded. Liza uses <Ground Shrink>,
<Flash Step>, and her golden suit’s Booster on to accelerate at impossible
speed and crash onto the side of fake Heiron, trying to pierce both fake Heiron
and fake Ten-chan together at their blind spot. This pierce that suppose to
have enough power to penetrate both the dragons and break open the wall to get
to the other side of the dungeon was stopped by a flexible shield, stretching
it to the max until it touches and pierces fake Heiron’s skin a little. The
person who cast it reveals itself. He smiles at the girls gestured them. The
girls all got shocked, especially Zena. This is because the big boss has
appeared.
“What are you doing Liza? I thought you are my right hand,
but you killed Arisa, Hikaru, Lulu, Sena, Sistina, and even little Mia, Tama,
and Pochi” (fake Satou)
“You girls are cold-blooded murderer. They even cut down a
knight that is protecting Sistina, and all the elven people” (fake Shizuka)
“No, it’s not like that. They decide to attack first, so we
are only defending our selves. Please trust us Satou-sama.” (Zena)
“That doesn’t mean you should kill them right? What have I
been teaching you all this while?” (fake Satou)
“Do not waver Zena, Karina, and Nana. We know who are the
real ones and the fakes. You have been briefed regarding the doppelgangers
right? They can take on the appearance of anyone in your memory” (Liza)
With that speech, a golden beam strike and pierce Liza’s
shoulder and exit at the back, missing her heart by an inch due to last minute movement.
Liza’s terminal defence on her golden armour was invoked and the powerful
shield installed automatically attempt to reject the beam attack, but
ultimately failed to stop it, only offering a time delay by resisting it for
split second and allow Liza to move her heart out of the way. Liza floated and
hit the wall after the attack, and slouches down to the ground. Fake Satou use
the opportunity to use <Unit Arrangement> and lands a powerful kick at
Liza’s throat, trying to sever her head.
Karina is so shocked, that she instantly forgot all her
respect for Satou and charge right at fake Satou with <Karina Kick>. The
sliding movement of the skill is quite comical, accompanied by the speed and
agility of Karina, is very deadly. However, fake Satou just grip the ankle of
her right foot, and begin thrashing her left and right without mercy. After
thrashing about twenty three times in quick succession, Nana have to give up
her position to the dragons and come to the aid of Liza and Karina. The golden
beam was fired again, accompanied by two laser-like breaths by the fake
dragons. The golden beam pierce right through Nana’s scratched reactive armour,
right through her golden armour and exit at the back of her body. The attack
grazed her heart and broken her power core. Twin dragon attacks hit her armour
squarely and singed her skin, pieces of golden armour crumbled and revealed
huge burnt marks on her back and shoulder. Blood gushed out of her mouth ash
she still struggles to move, but fell on the floor, crawling to the position
where Liza and Karina are. Fake Shizuka come in and crush her head into the
ground with her feet, Nana’s terminal defence has long since activated and
provided all its power into stopping the golden beam, which it failed, and
failed to prevent the follow-up attacks.
Zena then saw the figure coming out from darkness. She
instinctively fears it. She has been a pious person and prays to the Gods, but
this is her first time seeing one in person. Fake God Zaikuon in its battle
form during the battle in Weasel Empire capital is currently in Dejima
labyrinth. Fake Satou continues swinging and smashing Karina on the walls and
the floor of the labyrinth while laughing away. Looks like the doppelgangers
really managed to feed on the strong memories the girls have during their
journey.
“No way. No way. Satou wouldn’t allow these killings. Liza,
Nana, Karina, they bleed. The others also bleed, but they turn to white puddle
after some time. Is it not due to the Dragon Spear? Then what have I done so
far?” (Zena)
Zena cast her <Heal> onto Liza, who is lying on the
floor in a pool of blood. Liza barely survives by using her Dragon Spear to
block the kick from fake Satou, and end up getting her right wrist snap in. She
tried to use <Heal> and <Self Heal> on herself, but it is
insufficient for her large wounds. Zena’s heal managed to fix most of the major
injuries. Liza then continues to silently recuperate the strength in her limbs.
Zena thought her healing can no longer reach Liza, and cast her <Heal> on
Nana, while continue to avoid the attacks of fake Heiron and fake Ten-chan.
Fake Shizuka feels satisfied after squashing Nana’s head into a hole in the
ground, and begins utilizing her flight and long-range attack skills she earned
from converting the EXP and skills from the almost dead fakes that became her
familiars. She begins her ritual to turn fake Satou and fake God Zaikuon into
her familiar. Zena send one of her flying Stilettos with lightning element
equipped flying at the fake Shizuka when she is performing the familiarization
ritual, piercing her heart, but fake Satou <Heal> fake Shizuka
immediately. The two dragons chase and attack Zena and her six Stilettos. Zena
also cast <Heal> on Nana’s body, refusing to give in to despair and as a
respect for her fallen comrade. Zena couldn’t help Karina as long as fake Satou
didn’t let go of Karina. Karina’s armour protected most of the damage, but they
have started to accumulate and Karina is seriously injured from all the
physical trashing around from the fake Satou that has herculean strength.
Fake Satou swings Karina with full force at Zena’s
direction, making them collide at mid-air. Zena gladly accepts it to save her
friend she knows since their encounter in Selbira. The impact sends them going
near the wall, and Zena cast <Heal> and <Air Cushion>, <Air
Shield>, <Aqua Shield> onto themselves to brace for impact. Satou uses
<Unit Arrangement> to arrive at the point where Zena and Karina will
crash at the wall, with his Divine Sword ready above his head. Zena call out to
one of the floating stilettos to use its final power <Appease> and
<Tempest> to defeat the fake Satou, while preparing the other stilettos
to defend against Satou’s attack.
“You think you can stop me with what I have granted to you,
you ungrateful knight? Kuhahaha, I laugh at your feeble attempt” (fake Satou)
Satou slash through her Air Shield, Aqua Shield, all her
remaining stilettos, her silver armour and even the activated terminal defense,
and she lose all sensation on the left side of her body, fell off from the sky
and hit the ground full force even after activating <Air Cushion>. Zena
shielded Karina from fake Satou’s attack with her body, losing a large portion
of the left side of her body. Zena cushion their fall with her body that
<Air Cushion> fail to soften up, as fake Satou gave a powerful kick after
slashing Zena through.
Nana has awakened but immobilized, and instructed her
[Throne] to go towards Zena and Karina to protect them, because sure enough
fake God Zaikuon launch another of its <Divine Beam> attack at the fallen
girls. The absolute defense of the [Throne] system couldn’t block the full
force of the <Divine Beam>, and just managed to deflect the attack to the
side, exhausting all of its energy and damaging its armour. Sure of his
victory, fake Satou begin berating the girls.
“You all are just pieces of trash, not worthy of even being
the sole of my foot to step on as I rise in power and reach the Gods.” (fake
Satou)
“Take that back. Don’t ever utter such words with that body
of yours” (Liza)
“You all are just pieces of ..!?” (fake Satou)
Liza has already charged forward using all her might and
ability, sacrificing some of her life force to produce an edge to reach even
the Gods for the real Satou’s sake. She knew all along that Satou and the Gods
were existence beyond her reach. But if only just for a glimpse of that power
to reach the Gods or Satou, she hone her entire life and would trade her life
for that short burst of energy to reach her master’s feet, it is a price she
gladly pay.
“DIE!!!” (Liza)
Blue light envelope Liza’s body and she move beyond the
speed a normal vision can see. Fake Satou get flustered, and moves out of the
way of Liza’s attack. Fake Shizuka became its first victim, as fake Satou move
near the body of Nana with <Unit Arrangement> to make use of it as a
shield, and Shizuka was in the line of fire. Nana’s <Magic Hands> managed
to swing her greatsword with precise movement to prevent fake Satou from taking
her hostage, using up the last of her powers from her broken power core. The
other two fake dragons became the second and third victims, ending up getting the
line of fire from Liza’s unstoppable speed that continue to eat away at her
life force as she exerts herself to the fullest to reach the fake Satou and
fake God Zaikuon. Fake Greater Demon Wagahai jumped out of the shadows to try
take Zena as hostage, but Karina deliver her her <Mega Punch> that drvies
the greater demon away, while fake Sakuramochi Greater Demon jumped into Liza’s
line of fire to absorb her into his round belly and turn her into his food. The
Dragon spear can penetrate any shields or barrier, and fake Sakuramochi greater
demon only managed to slow down Liza by a little, which fake Satou tried to
utilize to get to Karina to take her hostage. Liza pierce through fake God
Zaikuon’s left side torso that happen t be in the way with her Dragon Spear.
Karina gave her all and produce the strongest Force Art-
<Mega Punch> she can muster. Although fake Satou uses <Unit
Arrangement> to get behind Karina and avoided the frontal attack, the
<Mega Punch> attack actually came to the back of Karina, homing onto fake
Satou. Fake Satou loses his concentration and got pushed back by the attack,
and Liza managed to catch-up to fake Satou and pointed Dragon Spear right at
him. Fake Satou raise his Divine Sword and point its tip at the approaching
Dragon Spear. Both weapons meet, apparently equal in strength and Satou
neutralize Liza’s momentum. But Liza’s momentum was great, and her golden
armour and her skills help push her forward and managed to push fake Satou
back. Both weapons manage to withstand the absurd power of their owner, but
fake Satou begin pouring divinity into his Divine Sword, with Divine Edge
forming. Dragon Spear specializes in breaking barriers and piercing hard
objects, it couldn’t withstand continuous compression force of such magnitude
and starts to crack under the pressure.
After several moments of battle back and forth with their
weapons, fake Satou manage to split the Dragon Spear’s head into two pieces right
at the centre. Fake Satou wanted to slice off Liza’s arm along with the spear,
but Liza sacrifice the Dragon spear by changing its trajectory and raise Magic
Spear Douma Mk3 equipped with Magic Edge that rotates the entire spear and aim
it at fake Satou’s neck, hoping to pierce it. Fake Satou however, uses his
great reflex to avoid it last minute, avoiding injury. Fake Satou landed a
punch into Liza’s chest and most of her golden armour crumble from that attack.
Another figure appear to warp in, and Liza is in despair
because she has already used up her trump card to challenge the fake Satou, and
with fake God Zaikuon, another enemy would just add salt to her wounds. There
is a red line across the neck of fake Satou, and a trace of blood can be seen
before it is healed with <Auto Recovery>. Liza recalled the time in
Solitary Island Palace, few days before. She has also challenged Dejima
Islands’ Phantasmal Labyrinth, and has faced a fake Satou before. Although
Dopplegangers are suppose to have only a fraction of the original’s power, fake
Satou of that time gave her a good trashing without any means to defend
herself. For Liza, who aspires to be Satou’s right hand and his guard, this is
a grave wound to her pride. Therefore, she made a promise to herself that she
would catch up with Satou and be on the same plane with him in terms of fighting,
even if it is for only a moment, or even if it cost her life. She also went and
pleaded with Satou before she come here to avoid interfering as much as
possible, even if she get injured, because she wants to train her mind, body,
and soul to the fullest extent. However, she is about to break her promise, as
she can’t reach her highest peak if she were to die now. But her worst
nightmare didn’t come to past, as the voice she has been waiting for has finally
arrive.
Fake Satou became unnerved when he sees
the real Satou, probably being reminded that its existence is just temporary
and a mere copy of the original.
“I’m sorry for my tardiness. Everything
is alright now” (Satou)
Satou appeared, and said to Liza.
“Your spear definitely reached me, so
leave the rest to me” (Satou)
“You too Nana, Zena, Karina. All of you
have definitely reached me, so trust me and leave it to me” (Satou)
The girls all sighed in relief and
Satou was about to use <Unit Arrangement> but the girls implored to Satou
to allow them to be with him till the end. Satou then reluctantly agreed, in
turn trusting the girls with their capability to keep themselves safe.
Satou healed and moved them to the
farthest end of the dungeon lower level entrance with <Unit Arrangement>.
Seems like fake Satou keep his original manners, while fake God Zaikuon has
revived and prepared sufficient fake apostles. They all rushed at Satou, and
Satou quickly retrieve the Dragon Divine Blade from his Storage to perform
<Flash Slash> at the fake apostles. Fake God Zaikuon employed 7 layers of
his <Divine Protection> shell around his body and perform a long-range
punch, firing <Divine Beam> at the occupied Satou.
Satou wants to quickly finish the fight
by readying his <Mythology Down> chantlessly. However, fake Satou slashed
at Satou from behind, saying
“Don’t think you can get away with
this, because I’m you. I know you inside out”. Satou was slashed and seemed to
‘died’ from the attack, only to reveal that it is doll Satou and actual Satou
attack the fake Satou with his Divine sword coated with Divine Edge, which fake
Satou barely parried.
God Zaikoun takes the opportunity to
attack the girls with his <Divine Beam>.
Satou quickly use <Aport>
chantlessly to shift the [Black Crystal] from the black Space Kaijuu in the
line of fire while exchanging sword blows with fake Satou. Fake Satou tried to
steal the [Black Crystal] with his own Storage, but Satou cleverly manipulate
the [Black Crystal] location with multiple <Aport> at the line of fire,
and somehow it managed to absorb the heavy Divine-based attack.
Satou then starts focusing on defeating
the fake Satou, by first moving quickly with <Flash Step>, <Ground
Srink>, then finally <Unit Arrangement>. The fighting progress so
quickly that 1 vs 1 Satou turns to 2 vs 2, then 4 vs 4, then 8 vs 8, 16 vs 16,
32 vs 32, and finally 64 vs 64 against the fake Satou. The fight was so fast
that it began to blur and cannot be followed even with trained eyes like Liza.
They both finally managed to penetrate each other’s defense, with fake Satou
piercing what appeared to be an attack pod unit, while Satou penetrated fake
Satou’s flexible shield and a flexible sword from Satou shot through and pierce
fake Satou right through the heart. Instantly, all 64 of Satou and fake Satou
merged and just one of each remained.
“You cheating bastard!” (shouted fake
Satou)
“I just came prepared” (refuted satou)
Fake Satou chantlessly use <Heal>
on himself, which Satou instantly capitalize and slash fake Satou into half,
then minces it into pieces mid-air.Fake God Zaikuon attempted to use his Divine-based
attacks on Satou to interfere the battle, but Liza uses her Dragon Spear to
attempt to pierce fake God Zaikuon at the heart, only to fail due to the 7 Holy
Shells protecting God Zaikuon. Her dragon spear landed short and pierces God
Zaikuon at the back of the knee. Fake God Zaikuon wailed and delivered a heavy
punch at Liza, which blow her back into the rocks and dislodge the dragon
spear. With the Holy Shell gone, the girls’ attacks begin to reach fake God
Zaikuon. Fake God Zaikuon receive a holy greatsword attack filled with Magic
Edge on its head, while Zena buffed all her 7 floating Stilettos with all
element mastery, and direct them to attack fake God Zaikuon continuously, while
preparing her Air magic and <Sky Drive> to deal a direct assault at the
fake god. Karina uses her signature kick and punches, and luckily, the fake
god’s divine body didn’t corrode lady Karina’s limbs. Is it due to her moves
are from skills? It’s not clear how it works but it is a fortunate turn of
event, Raka may know something about this. Lady Karina’s force art - <Mega
Punch> hits the face of the fake god, and Zena’s furious launch and sword
attack on its chest only minorly pierce the body before deflecting her just as
strong as she comes right back at the wall. From my appraisal status, the fake
god’s HP was only reduced a little before becoming full again.
Thanks to the girls’ timely
intervention, fake Satou was defeated. Fake God Zaikuon noticed that it is
cornered, so in a desperate attempt, it illuminates the room with Holy light
that seers the eyes. With my <Light Intensity Adjustment> skill, Satou
can barely see what the fake God Zaikuon is attempting. It invoked the “Mass
Revival” spell in exchange for a portion of its divinity. Satou used <Ground
Shrink> and <Flash Step> to get close to fake God Zaikuon, only to be
stopped by the fake apostles. Satou quickly slash them to make way to God
Zaikuon. All the remaining fake apostles sacrifice their own body to buy time for
fake God Zaikuon to complete his ritual. They imploded their bodies around fake
God Zaikuon, with their material that reached the fake god merged with him,
while those that reached for me will have the same effect as
<Annihilation>, and the Divine Sword with Divine Edge was slightly
chipped from the attack. Like this, even <Unit Arrangement> is rendered
useless in getting near fake God Zaikuon. Satou uses 100,000 <Laser>
light magic and <Convergence> skill to shine a focused beam of light
towards fake God Zaikuon but instead it became mana source for it, so Satou
promptly stop it. Satou quickly operate his mana to shoot the anti-god spell,
Mythology Down at the fake God Zaikuon, but one after another, the apostles
imploded in the line of fire of Satou’s spell that it slowed down the spell
from reaching the fake god significantly. After a moment, bright holy light
shone down on all the location where the Doppelgangers were defeated. All of a
sudden, the tables are turned and all the fakes are now in full health and back
in full force, except for fake God Zaikuon. Fake God Zaikuon put its remainder
strength into summoning apostles supports and cast 3 layers of Holy Shield,
then fell into meditative state, probably to gather divinity. Fake Satou
quickly summon Mythology Eater Platinum Wolf to consume Satou’s Mythology Down
that got slowed down significantly.
The fakes characters all started anew,
and round two begins. Satou also spotted a new doppelganger among them, taking
the form of Aze. These doppelgangers really know how to disrupt their opponent’s
psychology, thought Satou. Satou this time retrieve many items from his
inventory. He goes alone, and contacts the other four girls through <Tactic
Talk> that he will take on this battle alone for the time being, and come to
back him up when the time is right, and to pick off stragglers from the group
of fake characters, due to the danger they may pose.
Satou instantly use <Laser> and
attack all the fakes, which fake Satou contered by producing opaque
<Flexible Shield> of his own and block all the laser attack aimed at all
the fakes. Fake God Zaikuon fired his cheat-like <Divine Beam> that has
so much power in its attack, it’s an overkill, and has speed faster than laser
light, so it’s near impossible to avoid by the naked eye. Satou managed to
barely avoid it using his <Ground Shrink>, <Flash Step>,
<Flickering Movement> and <Sky Drive>, coupled with his high
agility and speed, small and light body. Fake God Zaikuon seems to have reached
its limit, and leave the remaining battle to the summoned apostles.
Fake Satou with all the doppelgangers
begin pouring their best attacks one after another, but neither of them can
reach Satou. Shizuka execute her ritual to familiarize all the doppelgangers
again. Fake Arisa use her Space magic and <Mythology Down> spell to bring
down Satou while berating him about mistreating little girls. Her <Mythology
Down> spell can’t fire properly due to insufficient mana.
Satou found some spell suitable to deal
with such extreme capability group such as the doppelgangers. Satou split into
clones, each for every one of the doppelgangers, and start moving towards each
of them. The clones each swings real casted Divine Sword from Satou’s
inventory, and with Divine Edge activated, managed to pierce through some of
them directly, while those that manage to resist will be pierced by the Divine
Sword that has been transported with Space magic and <Aport Object>
spell. All the doppelgangers except fake Satou and fake God Zaikuon have
difficulty with this attack that use divine power. Fake Arisa <Short
Warp> every endangered doppelganger members away, but Satou produce an item
that cancels fake Arisa’s ability to use any form of Space magic, something
that even fake Shin’s <Master Wizard> unique skill cannot cancel out.
Fake Tama attempt to hide in the shadow and strike at Satou’s blind spot, only
to be struck down by Nana’s greatsword that she controlled using her <Magic
Hand>. Satou have proper countermeasure against fake Tama, but he’s being
considerate and thanked Nana. Fake Shizuka is having great trouble avoiding
Satou’s clone sword attack, and got stabbed when Satou’s clone use <Aport
Object> together with Space magic to drive the sword through her. Before she
perish, she convert all the EXP and skills from herself and everyone connected
to her through familiarization, including fake God Zaikuon, and pass it to the
last remaining survivor, fake Satou. All the other doppelgangers have turn to
white puddles, and only fake Satou remain standing. His muscles have bulked up
and look beefy, unlike the original. Satou tried to appraise fake Satou, but
ends up getting Level: Unknown? and Skills: Unknown?
“I can feel unlimited power coursing
through me. I feel like I can do anything now. I can even escape this damned
place now. I’m no longer bound to this labyrinth. I’m a God now, and I’m even
stronger than the original me. I feel like I can crush him like insect he is”
(fake Satou)
Fake Satou launch golden beams laced
with Divine energy from the tip of his finger as he moves around the space in
the dungeon with <Unit Arrangement>. All of Satou’s clones perish one by
one as they tried to run and hide with <Unit Arrangement>, but got
detected and eliminated by the much faster fake Satou. Each and every Satou’s
location in fake Satou’s Map display was exposed and after eliminating all the
Satous, the last one remaining Satou puts up a good fight with fake Satou,
fighting with their sword imbued with Divine Edge. But Satou got struck down
with two golden beams from the eyes of the fake Satou. Fake Satou proceed to
eliminate the Liza, Zena, Nana, and Karina. They can’t even offer any
resistance to the current fake Satou and got struck down in a single hit each.
Confident with his victory and newfound powers, he thought of claiming what
Satou owned as his, and proceed to use <Unit Arrangement> to get out of the
labyrinth, and get to the Desert subspace before entering the Solitary Island
Palace that got guarded by very powerful barrier that fake Satou couldn’t
break.
While all that is happening, Satou has
already escaped to his Orbital Satellite, and leave behind his clones to
provide some resistance to fake Satou so he can transport the girls out of the
labyrinth. He is forced to take this approach because fake Satou has exceeded
the power where he can safely engage without worries, and he can’t risk having
the girls within the sight of fake Satou, and may end up as hostage or get
caught in the crossfire. Satou has marked fake Satou, so he can monitor his
movement safely. Satou refrained from using <Clairhearing> or
<Clairvoyance> to avoid detection and risk exposing his current location
to fake Satou.
Satou has prepared the Solitary Island
Palace for any possible intruders earlier, even Gods. This caused the fake
Satou that was created with Liza’s memory to not have any of Satou’s ideals from
an hour ago. During that one-hour period of time, Satou has placed as many
magic traps and even produce and automation system to make more traps with
Satou’s Holy Sword battery supply while he’s away. Satou prepared some traps
that utilize his supplied Divine magic to attack the internals of any intruders
that emerge in Desert subspace and Solitary Island Palace.
When fake Satou arrived at the Desert
subspace, the detection system detected the intruder, and set off the traps
there. All kinds of weapons, lasers, nails and needles, curses and hexes are
thrown towards fake Satou. Even though he sets up many layers of defensive
shells and space barrier onto himself, the area itself has space magic
canceller when the intruder alarm set off, destroying some of the barriers that
fake Satou has setup around himself. The area was setup to prevent the intruder
from escaping, and even <Unit Arrangement> function is a bit fuzzy and
not easily accessed when all types of magic interfere with it and the attacks
came right at fake Satou, giving him no time to look away for a second. The
chains of attack continue for almost 30 minutes, with no sign of stopping
because there are machines that keeps making new traps and some machine that
continue attacking intruders without stop as long as they are present, and many
contraptions and spells that prevents intruders from escaping from the Desert
subspace. This means that unless the person is as capable as Satou, they would
end up getting attack until the power supply totally exhausted, or the
equipment destroyed. Both these options are almost non-existent unless that
person is God or as capable as Satou and have the Desert subspace blueprint.
Fake Satou tried using his knowledge as Satou to try to disarm the traps that
has managed to prevent him from using <Unit Arrangement> to escape out
back. However, in his despair, all the tools have been relocated, and he can’t
find any of them to destroy, and the tools continue firing at fake Satou. Fake
Satou tried to emulate his aura to be similar to the real Satou, but the system
still continue to detect him. Fake Satou begin to get furious as to why the
system can still detect him as an intruder, and not welcome him like the real
one should receive.
Fake Satou begin firing off attacks
everywhere, as his tension has risen and he has nowhere to release his anger.
Fake Satou continue to get pounded with attacks all over him without end for
the past one hour, and it still continues to do so. Fake Satou fires off
multiple <Divine Beam> in random direction, and also multiple
<Mythology Down>, <Explosion>, and <Annihilation> magic all
over the place in order to take down the traps. However, Satou anticipated this
and the traps at the beginning only warp to random places when they detect
danger, but later Satou manually move them with <Unit Arrangement> when
fake Satou begin to fire his attack around in quick succession and saturated
the Desert subspace with attacks. Satou hopes that the fake Satou would exhaust
his power quicker because the barrier holding Desert subspace together is
getting weaker as the attacks continues. After three hours, fake Satou falls to
the ground, shooting every forms of attack at every direction has taken its
toll on fake Satou’s patience and his mana supply. The Desert subspace is made
to prevent any mana regeneration for those deemed as intruder.
When he tried to forcefully access the
Solitary Island Palace and use the password he remember, it has been changed
and the system release more traps that attack fake Satou. All forms of
elemental and storms of attacks were released on fake Satou. The multiple
elemental stones Satou made at the Orbital Sattelite is used to install these
traps. 4096 attack pods made by Satou was released by the gate’s AI and several
Raka’s AI controlled the attack pods together to attack fake Satou in quick
succession and relocate, almost like mosquitoes that strike at the victim but
never land on them, and is very difficult to hit when they are flying around.
Fake Satou couldn’t hold it in and starts summoning red ember stones from the
sky. He uses <Summon Meteor> to hopefully destroy the attack pods that
continuously swarm around him. The elemental hits prevented his concentration
of using <Unit Arrangement>, and
the space magic canceller prevented him from using <Warp> or
<Teleport>, so fake Satou only option is to destroy everything without
the option to move around. Satou even remotely use his Storage to store some of
fake Satou’s large beam attack to reduce the burden on the Desert subspace
barrier. The battle at Desert subspace for fake Satou continued until all the
attack pods has been shot down with multiple magic attacks. Satou can continue
to move the attack pods with his <Unit Arrangement> indefinitely, but he
doesn’t want to alert fake Satou of his presence as fake Satou assumed Satou
has been eliminated.
For courtesy sake, Satou stopped toying
with fake Satou and appeared in front of him with <Unit Arrangement>.
Fake Satou’s face distorted greatly with surprise and anger.
“DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!
DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!!!” (fake
Satou)
Fake Satou cast Meteor Shower with all
his remaining mana in the Desert subspace. Satou cast 10000 <Laser> light
magic and <Convergence> skill to kill the summoned Mythological Eater
Platinum Wolf of fake Satou, then proceed to cast and use both converged laser
and Mythology Down onto the fake Satou. Although his level is much higher than
that of Satou, the Mythology Down ignores most part of the flexible shields and
defenses setup by the fake Satou. Fake satou used <Unit Arrangement> to
avoid the incoming attack, but Satou has anticipated it, and he guessed the few
possible places that fake Satou may go, and to narrow down the potential target
with <Parallel Thought>. Satou use <Unit Arrangement> to transport
his <Mythology Down> attack to one of the possible location of fake
Satou, while shooting another <Mythology Down> at another location.
“AHAHAHA! YOU MISSED BIG TIME! GUESS YOU
ARE JUST AN IDIOT NOW THAT MY LEVEL IS MUCH HIGHER THAN YOU, DUMBASS!” (fake
Satou)
Satou recalculate again all possible
trajectory fake Satou may take, and miss again, and now Satou has 2
<Mythology Down> spells hold by him.
“YOU THINK IT IS ONLY YOU WITH PARALLEL
THOUGHT? ONLY YOU ARE SPECIAL? THINK AGAIN AHAHAHA!!” (fake Satou)
Satou is really pressed for time. Then
he realized one thing. The safety of his girls, and the most vulnerable among
them now is but one.
(Aze’s POV)
Aze is busy analyzing her data in the
World Tree and formatting any sector or partition that has grown corrupted over
the many million of years. Suddenly an intruder enters her reception hall. She sees
two Satous facing off against each other. Both of them clash with their swords,
and sparks were flying. Then two huge balls of everflame suddenly appear and slam
onto one of the Satou, sending him crashing onto the floor below. What is
happening? Why is Satou in the Boruenan Forest at this time and why there is
two Satous? I was so worried, but the standing Satou assured me that everything
is all right. He said
“I will explain everything to you
later, there is not much time for now” and abruptly leave the place with the
burned body of another Satou, together with the pieces of woods and stones that
have caught fire. After the abrupt leave, I sank back to my chair and sweat
cold sweat all over my body. I was really worried, as I have just glanced
across an old record about the existence of Doppelgangers, beings that
replicate others based on the memory of their victim, and they can’t be
differentiated compare to the original and can have very similar capabilities
and memories, making them indistinguishable. They have been used during the War
of Gods, but the skills reproduced are limited to the memory of its
victim and also divinity-based skills tend to be on the weaker side.
Is the real Satou the one that won the
battle? My heart sinks into oblivion if the otherwise happens. Please let the
real Satou be safe.
(Satou’s POV)
I am thinking what is the place the
fake Satou would appear when he wants to harm my girl, and the most likely
place is the Boruenan Forest reception hall of Aze. It is the place where I will
go when I usually meet her, and she is always at her desk. Without checking
<World Map>, I use [Unit Arrangement] on myself and go to the Boruenan
Forest reception hall while I swing my Divine Sword in the direction I think my
doppelganger will most likely swing down to strike Aze.
Satou was right and he is just
nanoseconds ahead of the doppelganger, and the doppelganger correctly readjust
his wrist to intercept Satou’s Divine Sword that aims to cut off the
doppelganger’s sword arm. Both the Divine Swords coated with Divine Edge
clashed together and many sparks arched from them.
The match has been decided in that
clash, as I have activated <Unit Arrangement> at almost the same instant
I come to Boruenan Forest and the two <Mythological Down> spells that
missed their target earlier came hurtling in and slam onto the doppelganger’s
body, crashing it into the ground and into the floor below. Consider it a twist
of fate, it was lucky that my doppelganger’s body is strong enough to take two
of the anti-god spells head on before crumbling, or else the damage might
extend until to the base of the World Tree.
I saw Aze in her special room, which is
unusual for her, and luckily that she was there, so she doesn’t suffer any
collateral damage. I felt really thankful that luck is on my side. I told her I
would explain everything to her later, because there is still so much to do. I
promise to myself that I will cook her favourite dishes and comfort her worry
heart when I return, but there is something I must do first. I use <Magic
Hand> to quickly scoop up the burning body of the doppelganger and also all
the burning rubbles from the scene and stow them away in my Storage. After
that, I use <Unit Arrangement> and return back to the Desert subspace.
This doppelganger can even afford an
evil smile on his face before he is struck down, which really strike my nerves.
He reminded me of one of my boss when I was working in an indie gaming software
company. Trying to gain favour with the financial backers, he always takes in
suggestions that are known to lead to destruction of the game, and reject the
opinions of the development team. After the features has been implemented, and
the weakness of the game is known apparently, he will put the blame on the
development team and leave the mess for me and my team to take care off, while
he continues to have fun time with our financial backers and never care to
manage or provide input for the team. This doppelganger of me just leaves a
very terrible mess even after his death, which is really vexing. Let’s do this
and quickly get over with.
I change to my Nanashi armour, then
proceed to jump up to the sky with <Sky Drive>, <Aerial Boost> and
<Ground Shrink>. The entire sky in the Desert subspace is filled with
falling brimstones that are close enough to reach without the need of [Unit
Arrangement]. I activated my Storage to expand its entrance as large as
possible, then I get my casted Holy Sword that is focused on hardness and
sharpness similar to Durandal out from my Strorage. I place my Storage on the
location with the thickest concentration of brimstone from the <Meteor
Shower> casted by my doppelganger, while I continuously strike and change
the trajectory of as many of those nearby to enter my Storage before they reach
the ground. The amount is too huge for me to handle, so many of them fell on
the Desert subspace ground. The numbers of brimstones in my Storage keep rising
astronomically as I continue to hit them to reduce their numbers.
Satou continuously hit while he looks
like teleporting to as many of the brimstones and either smash them or hit them
to the Storage. From normal view, Satou seems to be split into 512 beings in
the sky, hitting away at the falling brimstones, with a black portal taking in
the seemingly endless brimstones.
The remaining brimstones begin smashing
the physical form of the Desert subspace to smithereens and begin affecting the
barriers surrounding the Desert subspace.
Goblin Princess Yuika have already set
up a proper barrier before this for the Desert subspace, and have since
reinforced it to have 3 layers of isolated barrier with self-repair since the
incident with <White Inferno>. However, this attack is too concentrated
and contains too much firepower that it begin to damage the surrounding barrier.
Satou use his <Gravity> magic and <Aport> object together with his
swordsmanship to remove tens of thousands of those falling brimstones every
split seconds, and the rain of brimstones seems to continue on. Some large size
ones begins to appear, and they are as large as a mini moon. Satou’s Storage
can’t fit the brimstones of that size, so he breaks them into smaller ones
using large scale spells like <Annihilation>, <Explosion>, or the
anti-god spell <Mythology Down>. Once out of mana, Satou will recharge
his mana with the casted holy sword battery in his storage.
The barriers surrounding the Desert
subspace was unable to repair itself quick enough due to the constant damage it
sustain from the brimstones, and holes begin forming and some brimstones made
it out from he Desert subspace. The brimstones appear on the sky of the Royal
Capital of Shiga kingdom, and begin to cause panic and confusion among the
populace. Satou’s Orbital Satellite in space detected the falling brimstones in
the airspace of the Royal Capital and thus begins its operation of bombarding
them with lasers. 4096 interceptor drones were launched from the Orbital
Satellite and quickly made short work of the falling brimstones that escaped
the Desert subspace. The AI of the Orbital Satellite was set by Satou earlier
to monitor the planet’s stratosphere and space for any strange activity and to
proceed to destroy any threat. The sky of the Royal Capital was painted in
colour streaks of rainbow, similar to an event native to the Poles back in
Satou’s homeworld. The remaining pieces of the brimstones are eventually
destroyed as they enter the planet’s atmosphere and get burned up due to
friction with the air. Some still managed to reach the planet’s surface and
caused some damage to the properties, but casualties are minimum.
Due to the spamming of <Meteor
Shower> skill from the defeated fake Satou, the rain of meteors continued on
for almost an hour before it subside. Satou fell to the ground exhausted after
meteor shower is over, exhausted mentally and physically, with all his mana
from his body and the ones in his battery of holy swords depleted.
“This is the first time I undergo such
harsh training since I arrive at this world. I need to be careful with Dejima
the Phantasmal Labyrinth and what kind of memories the girls have of me.”
(Satou)
“Oops, time to go meet Aze and do some
explanation” (Satou)
That day, Aze, Lua, Jia, and the rest
of the elves in Boruenan asked Satou to do seiza and explain the reason that
Boruenan Forest’s World Tree is under attack.
Compatibility is important during
training, as Liza, Zena, Nana, and Lady Karina easily defeat the monsters
located deeper in the dungeon. If even mid-level monster can provide a real
challenge even harder than Demon Lords and during the crisis with the Gods,
then indeed it has this dungeon may be one of the toughest one can take if one
has memory of something absurd. Hmm, what give the girls such memory I wonder.
That night, I have dinner with the
girls at the Boruenan Forest. I prepared Aze’s favourite, sweet curry dish,
pudding, omelet rice, hamburg steak, and crepes. Ok, let’s cut down a bit next
time or I might accidentally turn Boruenan Forest high elf queen into a
glutton. When I check up on the girls, Liza level rose from 78 to 80, Nana rose
from level 77 to level 79, Zena rose from level 50 to level 55, and Lady Karina
rose from level 52 to level 56. I told them to rest longer for today, and they go
to bed looking tired.
While thinking about that, before Satou
came to Dejima labyrinth, in Blue Territory
Hikaru, Sera, Sistina, Mia (Group 3) (Magician type)
