Chapter 68: Vol2 Ch23 – The Goddess of War (4)

As if on cue, everyone that was engaged with the monstrous demon beast scattered. All of them sensed the surge above when Allison activated her weapon’s awakening. Immediately, everyone who had been fighting joined forces to build a barrier between the beast and the city.

“Seijin Shichi.”

“I hear you, my lady,” came a distinctly female voice. “It has been a long time since you have called on me. Shall we?”

“Let’s go.”

With one in hand and seven floating around her, Allison plunged from the sky, her blades glowing with her brilliant silvery blue mana. In a simple downward cut performed with eight blades, she crippled the beast instantly, shredding its arms and leaving a deep gash across its chest.

She didn’t stop at that. Swinging her main blade to her right, the other seven merged with it, and she prepared a singular massive attack. Something she had been practicing for the past few years, ever since Alethea first began using it in the battle over the city four years prior, was wielding spatial spells in combat. None could compare to Aliana’s expertise in void magic, but a skilled enough fighter could still do some real damage.

“Severance.” With the swing of her blade, a massive crescent shaped blast of spatial aether rocketed forward. It sliced through the demon beast as if it wasn’t even there, and continued on, through the lake and mountains behind it. It left nothing in its wake. Everything the blast touched was erased. The blast continued off into the distance and ascended into the sky, where it slowly faded away.

Despite having its arms shredded and it’s body bifurcated, the beast was far from dead. Its self-regeneration was every bit as monstrous as its size.

When it began to regenerate, Allison started her next move. She wanted to move the beast away from the city and used wind magic to do the trick. “Tempest Burst.” The beast wasn’t able to respond to the attack while regenerating, so it went for a ride. Allison’s spell flung it over the partially destroyed mountain behind it and into the sea further out.

“...wow,” Luma said. She was watching from the city border with Layla, James, and everyone else. “Where the hell did that come from?”

With a wry smile, Layla said, “Allison is... well, you know... she’s absurdly strong.”

“No kidding. I mean, I’ve sparred with her plenty of times, but I’ve never seen her wield an awakened weapon or sling spatial magic like that... that was void magic, actually.”

With the monster pushed further away from the city, Allison shifted her tactics. She didn’t want to use big spells and skills too close to the city, but with it in the sea on the other side of the mountains, she felt safer about it.

She flew through the gap in the mountain she had created with Severance and was met with a blast of raw mana. The beast had recovered and launched a powerful beam of concentrated mana from its mouth. Allison reacted quickly. Having already split her weapon back into several, she pulled the seven floaters in front of her and whizzed them in a circle. “Rune of Reversal.”

A large complex rune appeared in front of the spinning cluster of swords and blocked the beast’s attack, coalescing the mana into a core until it was over, then launching it back all at once. Now a densely packed ball of mana, the return attack flew forward and burst through the beast’s chest. As it was about to exit the beast’s back, Allison triggered the mana and it exploded. One could be forgiven for mistaking the counter with a cast of Detonation.

*****

Meanwhile, Kye returned to the Void, but not alone. She brought Alethea, Doran, and Michelle with her. Hannah had already taken everyone inside. The Evans family and Gustav were sitting in the drawing room under Hannah’s supervision. The children had gone to the portal room to wait for their parents to return. Rei jumped into Kye’s arms as soon as they stepped through the door.

“Hi, sweetie.” Kye held the girl tightly, tears flowing freely. “I’m so sorry I let this happen to you. I promise it’ll never happen again.”

“Mommy, I’m okay!”

“I love you, Rei.”

The girl was beaming with excitement in her mother’s arms, while her mother only cried with joy.

“Me too, Rei! I love you very much!” Alethea added, standing behind them.

“I’m so glad you’re okay, Rei!” Doran said.

“We love you so much!” Michelle added.

“I promise you, Rei sweetie, I PROMISE! I’ll protect you no matter what happens. Mommy will protect you, and make you strong!” When she said “strong”, golden light burst forth from her and engulfed Rei, absorbing into her. The others looked on in awe, except for Joey.

Joey was excited, cheering, “Sister is like us now!” and hugged Rei from behind. She released a gentle stream of silvery white aether around her mother and sister, helping direct the golden light.

Kye examined the young girl closely once the light was gone. She couldn’t sense anything wrong, but something felt different. She looked around and saw everyone else clapping, but she wasn’t sure what had just happened. “Huh?”

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“Momma! Sister is like us now!”

She blinked. “Like us?”

“Your soul is lighter! You are no longer carrying the Radiance of two! You’ve passed on the Radiance of Light to Rei! She’s like us now! She’s immortal! She’s momma’s first!”

“Uh...”

Joey beamed at her mother. Everyone else smiled but stayed quiet. Joey pointed at Kye. “Momma is Eve’s first.” Then she pointed at Rei. “Sister is momma’s first.”

Kye’s expression changed from one of confusion to one of pure shock. As she looked around, everyone nodded to her. “I... what?”

Joey nodded. “Yes! Sister is immortal! Momma’s love for her is so great that it matched Eve’s love for us!” Joey held out her hand and a small wakizashi appeared. “Sister, hold this! Sit down and close your eyes! Think of me.”

“Joey, are you-?”

“It’s okay, momma. I’m just helping sister understand.”

“I’d like to understand, too.”

Rei, meanwhile, was very confused. She had no idea what was going on. She had just been virtually assaulted by golden light, then Joey’s words confused her even more. “What?”

*****

“Niflheim!” Allison held her sword toward the sky. Light, icy clouds formed and completely blocked out the sun. The temperature dropped rapidly under the clouds. The sea below quickly froze over as far as the eye could see, as did the lake between the city and the mountains. The beast’s movements were slowed dramatically. It could no longer take a step, its feet frozen within the couple hundred feet of sea water it had been standing in.

Despite its lack of mobility, the beast didn’t let Allison attack unfettered. It launched beam after beam of concentrated mana, but none of them ever reached her. The floating blades of Seijin Shichi blocked everything while Allison casted her spells.

“Mistilteinn!” Next, she released a ton of her radiant mana into the surrounding air that coalesced into icy longswords. Hundreds of swords formed every second, and she launched just as many at the beast. The frozen blades shredded the beast’s body but could not do any lasting damage. She didn’t expect the frozen blades to be too effective, but even she was surprised that they did virtually nothing.

“Spread out. I’m going to rewrite the map here a bit.”

“Allison, you really should try not to go so overboard.”

“You know as well as I do that this monster requires extreme methods.”

“Yes, yes, fine. I’ll do it.”

The seven floating blades shot out in different directions. As they got into position, Allison casted her next spell. “Muspelheim!” The icy clouds evaporated as the heat rose. The sea below melted in the general vicinity. Muspelheim was much more focused than Jotunheim and thus didn’t affect as wide of an area.

The beast, now free from the ice, flung magic at Allison. Real magic, purple and blue, the colors of arcane. It roared loudly and several magic circles popped up all over the place, shooting beams of arcane magic everywhere.

Allison deftly dodged and continued her own attack. “Hand of Surtr: Twilight Blade!” From the high atmosphere, an enormous red-black flaming sword fell and pierced the beast, burning and melting it as it quickly regenerated. The Twilight Blade couldn’t kill it, but it could keep it busy for a short time.

Next, Allison clasped her hands together and began casting her trump card. “Come together. Seven are one. Separate we are weak. As one we are invincible.” A magic circle formed on the surface of the sea, starting from the seven floating swords, and a seven-pointed star was formed. A line of mana shot between each sword as the circle filled in. “I am the Goddess of War. By my command, you shall be freed.”

She unclasped her hands and held them flat, facing each other with her right hand over her left. Between them, a radiant silvery blue core of mana formed. A copy of the magic circle appeared on each hand, and another large circle identical to them appeared high in the sky. It was as though she held the very world in her hands. “May the seven grant you mercy, lost one. I release you now. Rune of Annihilation!”

None could see what happened next. Everything was engulfed in a bright blue light for hundreds of miles.

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