Were trapping them!
Those were the words Hestia said when we discussed how we should deal with OBloom. She said it with full confidence, as if she already had an entire plan in her head. When Reajaen asked her to specify, she really blew my mind with what she was planning, especially her secret project.
Youve entered the restaurant, right, Lady Reajaen? t King Drangleic and his Duke? Well, Ill unveil the mystery, I am a void-touched. I have [Space-Ti Magic]. Reajaens tilted her head in confusion at the sudden revelation. As such, we will trap them in my [Room]. Specifically, I will lead the dragonslayers into my lair, whilst you can engage the OBlooms army within another confined room.
W-Well, this is certainly a sound plan, but how will you get them to enter this [Room]? From what I saw, the only way to enter your subspace is through that door, correct? At the pastry shop?
Reajaen guessed the limitations of Hestias [Room] well enough after only one visit, but she didnt know all the details of how we, Aurora, were using it. Waving her hand as if to tell Reajaen didnt need to worry about it, Hestia continued.
Itll actually be pretty easy, really. We know exactly where they want to go, right? Thanks to Saoris info. She then turned to , prompting to answer in her stead.
After thinking it through, I replied, Their goals are driving Hestia out of Gleisvale, kill Lady Reajaen and destroy the Resurrection, and to reclaim what you stole from them. If we are talking of locations and places where its easy to catch them Hmm, it would be Lady Reajaens mansion and the dungeon. Entrances, easy to hide your subspace, Hestia.
But what about you, Lady Hestia? Tasianna brought up. The dragonslayers will want to agitate the people against you. Leading them to your lair wont do much, or are you planning on killing them?
No, no, of course not! Well, unless they actually attack , but thats a what if mont. Actually, my plan for them is to pull the Uno reverse card on them. Hestia casually confused all the Peolyncians. If they want to make everyone hate , then Ill simply overwhelm them with love first. They wont be riling up anybody. They will be the ones to leave the city in embarrassnt in the most pop dia fashion possible. Dont fuck with a public icon, is what Ill say.
Then how will we do this, lass? Grimnir pushed the discussion back to the labyrinth, seeing as we didnt need to worry about Hestias public stunt. Last ti we attacked them, we were at their base. This ti, ho advantage. You can ask any tazong you want, all of them would say having the ho advantage is the most important thing possible.
Oh, right, I think I read about that. Sothing about during the War for the Faefolk, the dwarven forces managed to protect one of their cities from four human armies and support from the Empire? Kyouya rembered a passage in a history book he read when he was still trapped by the Church of Aurena.
Hadjuk-Orn, the largest dwarven hold in the east part of the Ankoran Mountains, Ellaine answered. It was the landing spot for the North-Western Alliance. If the city fell, the war would have probably extended even further, to the detrint of the elves and dwarves, due to a lack of numbers compared to their enemies.
Grimnir nodded, stroking his growing beard. Aie, the city was left in shambles after the attack, but we delayed them long enough for our reinforcents to arrive just in ti. Even with all our defenses, the Empires magicians and elite warriors were a force to be reckoned with.
So, are you suggesting we do sothing similar for our battle, Grimnir? Tatsuya asked. Can we even do it in a weeks ti? Seems like a very short ti to create things like cannons or stuff.
Not at all! Hestia and Grimnir simultaneously announced before grinning at each other. It seed the two were in sync again.
The lass is a treasure trove of materials we could take and transform into traps, in addition, the girl has a very high leveled [Trap Creation] with the ability terraform using [Volcanic Blaze]. [Lavakinesis] and a pseudo-[Terrakinesis] are the lynchpin of my plan.
And Grimnir has help with Ellaine and Daichi. Hestia followed up by ntioning our trio of crafters, the ones responsible for all our tech and equipnt currently. We dont need traps to beat thousands of soldiers, we only need enough for our forces to beat down a couple hundred rcenaries. Traps, environntal hazards, and so divide and conquer. Also
Hestia turned her head around to Asaka. Its ti to make good on your promise to them. Lady Reajaen, you will have no complaints, alright? You will follow up on your end of the deal.
Yes. But, as I said, my people and my son are out of your reach. I am the one responsible for everything, so punish after all that is done. The foxian woman had a determined face, already knowing what would happen with Tasianna around.
Mother, please, we Her son once again tried to dissuade her from doing this, but his mother rebuked him.
A rchant follows up on her deals. You may contort and twist a contract, but you never break them. Reputation is what a rchant lives for. Even that damn OBloom understood that, so do not act like a fool, Parilostro.
Alright then. Asaka nodded at everything working well enough. I will lead the onnikais into this fight. I guess theyll want to let out so steam after being imprisoned for so long, anyways But I wont do this ever again, alright?
Disliking her role or not, Hanazawa was acting mature right now. I was happy to see her finally overcoming her limits, even if reluctantly. Her true potential was so much more, so I hoped she would continue like this.
As such, as her forr Sensei, I needed to show my own growth.
Hestia. I directed all attention to . The strongest force they have is the demonkin of wrath. If you are too preoccupied with your part
Yup, Ill be relying on you once again, Saori. Dont die, alright?
I am not planning on it Hanazawa-san. I then looked at Hanazawa right in her confused eyes. After this is done, I will relieve you of those fenrirs. Let us go to the Belzac forest and et my great-whatever-grandfather.
She widened her eyes in surprise, probably not expecting to say sothing like this after our last talk. She cald down a mont later and shrugged her shoulders. Cool. Tatsuya, make sure you dont die either. Well be going on a class trip with our Sensei.
Heh Tatsuya smiled wryly. Our first real battle as Heroes fighting back against the demonkin scourge. Yeah, sure, dying now would be too embarrassing! Kyouya, you hear that?
You heard our party leader, dude. Guess you two will be my VIPs to protect. Kyouya fist-bumped his best friend.
Yeah, you two better not. Daichi also joined in his partys rapport mont. Blacksmiths cant do their jobs without people to wear our stuff, so co back alive. I'll get good enough to make you guys so legendary tier weapons and armor in the future. The Tale of Daichi is the Mastersmith starts here!
I cant do much in combat, sorry! But, Ill cheer on you guys, so please, dont get hurt! Haruka encouraged them despite being a non-combatant. However, considering how Hestias brain worked, I presud Haruka would have a pretty large role in her part of the plan.
And that was how our Anti-OBloom mission began.
Multiple proficiency requirents fulfilled. [Stygian Blade Lv. 3] [Stygian Voltage Lv. 3] [Nights Caress Lv. 2] [Monster Tar Lv. 5] gained
After all that planning and preparing, I had to say it was a landslide in our favor. [Room] runes placed at the entrance of Reajaens mansion and the dungeon. The rcenaries and intruders all funneled in pretty easily as we placed no opposition in their way. They could beco as wary as they wanted, but it didnt matter. They didnt have any other options either way.
All the non-combatants of the Resurrection were given refuge inside another area of our subspace Hestia made in the image of a bunker. aning, the mansion and both beastn villages were devoid of people. No casualties will co from them.
After our enemies entered Hestias subspace, the real fight began. Isolated in a labyrinth-like area, the enemy had to traverse the place under the mistaken belief that this was the actual dungeon. While they were careless, the mbers of the Resurrection led by Parilostros three puppet bodies began assaulting them in a guerilla fashion.
But, that wasnt the only threat to them. Grimnirs crew created quite a few traps around the place, triggering small, one-ti use attacks. Everything had to be made with runes or manatech, sadly, so we had to invest so money into it. Still, the cost of war. I would rather see our coffers slim up if it could save the life of one of Auroras mbers.
After their numbers dwindled, the now stressed and agitated rcenaries arrived at the last area we had. A week was a lot of ti, but not enough to create sothing even more complicated. But that wasnt needed, thankfully.
In the last area, our main fighters would eliminate the remaining enemies. And, to ensure we wouldnt get the wrong enemies, Grimnir used his experience as a miner to advise Hestia in the construction of the place. And one of them was a way to lead people around like a train track using manatech.
That was why I was now alone with the enemy I had to take down the demonkin of wrath.
Graaaaaa! Lets go, Saori! We reap, to water the blood lilies!
Effects: [Excited: 85%] [Anger: 5%] [Fear: 50%]
It wasnt the demonkins multi-ard form, but the one he assud mid-way through our battle at the bandit base. Four shotel-shaped horns grew from his head with fire flaring from HeeRlaks body like Hestia in her solar power form.
However, unlike our previous encounter, he had equipnt with enchantnts, though they lacked runes. An aura of fla surrounded him, using the fire his body was emitting as its source. It blasted backwards, creating a drift that catapulted him forward.
[Shadow Armant (Full Body)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]
My shadows wrapped around my body as a response before I let out a burst of electricity from the white fur around my head. The demonkin dodged it and transitioned his fla sword into a spear. Like a rocket, the spear burst into flas and gave him another boost of acceleration, sending him flying at like a bullet.
I sidestepped his attack, letting him fly past . I cast [Dark Tendrils], shooting them at him only for them to be destroyed by his spear. Seeing as it was hard to fight like this, I allowed my shadow to expand into a mist with [Smokey Haze], enveloping the whole area in complete darkness.
Ahhh, this trick again! Lets see if this can change things up! Guraaaagh!
Through my heat vision, I noticed HeeRlaks armant changed again, this ti to his hamr form. With one strong strike to the ground, it exploded into a fiery twister, creating a pretty terrible smoke from the obsidian floor lting. It was like volcanic gas!
Guf! What the fuck! This slls like a magma chamber! Fuck! Why isnt this smoke disappearing?!
Luckily for , he still hadnt found out the secret of this spell. I guess it would be hard to figure out without prior knowledge, and he had only seen use it twice now. Regardless, that was his problem.
Thunder!
Streams of stygian electricity stread around the shadow smoke, flowing through it like water. It assaulted my enemy, and without Tasianna or the others around, I made sure to up the voltage to really hurt him this ti. However, I guess his high [Lightning Resistance] wasnt there just for show as he was barely slowed by the current.
While enduring the electricity, the demonkin kept searching for , though it was more like a wild goose chase at this point. With [Nights Caress Lv. 2] being the upgraded version of my stealth skills, it was too hard for his [Enhanced Enemy Sense Lv. 8] to do anything. A basic skill versus an advanced rged skill; it was obvious who would win in this perception duel.
Fuck!
Effects: [Excited: 93%] [Anger: 42%] [Fear: 71%]
Although it was good for for now, it wouldnt once his emotions reached the next level of their respective brackets. KleaHatma had given a more detailed lecture on how wrath demonkins functioned. To summarize, the numbers themselves didnt matter much, but the brackets for the three emotions.
Each demonkin had a different breaking point for each of the three emotions they had to manage. Once they reached one of them, for example 50% or 100% depending on the person, their body would forcibly enter their next form, until all emotions reached 100%. At that point, they could be considered literal demons in a sense. If they couldnt control their emotions, they would be put down like a rabid dog.
It is a sad life, honestly, the demon said, right? Being controlled by your emotions your whole life does sound very restricting.
But, after all that, she also told how to counter them. Demonkins of wrath, due to their explosive emotions, have imnse amounts of Stamina to compensate. It wasnt easy to make them tired, but drowsiness would dampen both their [Excited] and [Anger]. [Fear] was harder to control in a battle, due to self-preservation, but having only one emotion reach 100% wasnt too bad.
If I had Hestias songs right now, it would be so much easier to control him. Ahhh, I miss my phone! I lanted due to how [Room] worked. The doors essentially teleported you into other areas, so I was currently isolated from Hestias concert.
Regardless, I ca in here prepared. Prepared to the brim with tools.
[Uno, now!]
[Yes, Alpha!]
I leaped onto where the demonkin was, prepared to crush him with a lightning stomp. His [Danger Perception] activated at the very last second, helping him to avoid the full brunt of the attack. Still, as my leg crashed on the ground, an electric current blasted with shards of obsidian flying around .
Buffeted by these projectiles and my presence before him, he wasnt able to react in ti to my shadow packs sneak attack. Mana threads wrapped around his four limbs, pulling him onto his back. In this small mont of vulnerability, Varya shot out from a shadow and threw three leaf bombs at his face.
Once my garms and Varya escaped into their shadows, I released so lightning at the demonkin, triggered the bombs to explode, sending a virulent liquid into the air. That was Hestias corrosive toxin; paralyzation, necrosis, and tranquilization were its effect.
As a sludge and liquid, the toxin was already pretty powerful, but it wasnt too easy to inflict on people since they had to drink them or get injected by it. During a fight, that was a bit of a problem, but what happens if you mix it up with so of Hestias scale-dust? Now, it lingered in the air. Inhalation was a far easier thod to spread the toxin, and I could use my [Shadow Armant] to simply block it from affecting .
Grukr! Grak!
Effects: [Excited: 100%] [Anger: 64%] [Fear: 89%]
Fire exploded from his body, forming into a pair of wings, a tail, and another set of arms. He flailed around, grabbing his throat in pain from the airborne toxin. Flas escaped through his mouth. It seed he was trying to burn away the venom, but this was Hestias, no, an [Obsidian Blaze Dragon]s corrosive obsidian.
At either [Anger] or [Fear] 100%, he would gain the ability to manifest his four weapons all at once, it seed. He still only had his one elental weapon, the one ford around his black staff.
Identify
Voldunna staff
A staff made from voldunna ore to endure extre temperatures. It has low mana conductive abilities due to a lack of refinent of the materials, but makes it harder to fracture even when subrged in magma.
Enchantnts: [Elental Mastery: Fire] [isterweapon Invocation]
The enchantnts were simple, similar to his armor. They were only there to make sure his abilities had a good catalyst to work through from, although they both only had two enchantnts each. I wondered why the third enchantnt slot wasnt used.
Grak! Warbringers Body! Co fire, co to ! Grant the power to overco all foes! Strengthening Fire! He began to strengthen himself and even pulled out a potion to drink, but before he could use that item, I smacked it out from his hand before landing a lightning stomp on him.
Urghk! He managed to block it in ti with his fire shield, so I kept on pounding on the shield. However, unlike last ti where I tried to break it, I wasnt trying to brute force my way through this person.
Trickery was better.
What?! From the side, Uno and Song grabbed onto his hand with [Dark Tendrils] and tugged away his shield for to land a [Shadow Descent] onto his chest. He spat up bloody as my lightning surged through his armor and into his body, but the armor was sturdy. It didnt break, aning the full damage was mitigated.
Before I could land another blow, his other three arms materialized weapons on them and tried to attack . I dodged it, letting him free himself from my garms restraints. He stood up, roaring out in anger, only for him to land on one knee. Outside of his shield, all his fiery weapons disappeared.
Effects: [Excited: 87%] [Anger: 74%] [Fear: 100%] [Torpor (Minor)] [Poisoned (Minor)]
Its working.
Hahaha! Damn you! Emotion SurrrrRRRRRGEEEEEE! He roared out, trying to hype himself up but he voiced cracked for a mont before his head slumped downwards.
Effects: [Excited: 100%] [Anger: 21%] [Fear: 67%] [Torpor (Minor)] [Poisoned (Minor)]
Emotion Surge
A demon of wrath bloodline ability. Allows a demonkin of wrath to jumpstart their slow beating heart to invoke their emotions. The wildness of this ability can create both desired and undesired outcos
In other words, the ability wouldnt always benefit the demonkin. Noted.
If hes currently lethargic, then there is no better place to do it now. Hargh!
I dashed forward and ramd my tail against the demonkin while he was vulnerable, slinging him outside my smoke where my garms caught his legs as he flew past them. With a strong tug, they pulled him back, crashing him back into the haze for Varya to land another set of toxin bombs.
He coughed out loud, overwheld by toxic mist in the air. He might outlevel , sure, but I ca in here prepared while he was only ready to fight. Putting on so armor and a weapon didnt make you any less susceptible to a rogues fighting style.
A fenrir, I might be; a large, monstrous, quadrupedal beast with giant fangs and claws who could strike fear even in the hearts of veteran fighters. But I was still Saori Segawa inside. I wont overpower soone with force like Hestia, and even if I could, that wasnt what I learned when I first began this journey.
Ti to end this.
I now stood up in the air with my twin catalyst charging up like a battery. My [Smokey Haze] still surrounded the demonkin. He was struggling to breath and couldnt even leave the smokescreen with my shadow pack playing around with him using mana threads, bombs, and spells. I was sure HeeRlak ca into this fight wanting to let loose his full might and fight in a blazing glory, but he chose the wrong opponent to try it on.
Hestia would have gladly confronted his challenge head-on, but not .
[Lightning Revolt (Limited)] inflicted on [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]
Goodbye! Hadaen Dragon Thunder!
Grak! Uruuuriik! He couldnt even move at this point. The toxin had fully entered his bloodstream.
Effects: [Excited: 51%] [Anger: 24%] [Fear: 100%] [Torpor (Moderate)] [Poisoned (Moderate)] [Paralyzation (Minor)]
The black magic circle of my strongest spell appeared before , building up its arcane letters and magical geotry. It grew in size as I poured in more of my mana, until it was at the point where it could take down a B rank rachonoid queen. I aid this spell at the demonkin
until another presence suddenly showed itself. My fur stood up and felt a strong static coming from the entrance of this labyrinth. [Danger Perception] told to ignore the demonkin before and shoot the beam at that spot. Even [Detection Sensor] confird a new target had entered the labyrinth.
The problem was, I felt so sort of dread, which made hesitate. And this hesitation ant whoever it was that entered the labyrinth was able to act.
Everybody, get out! I suddenly heard Hestias voice out of nowhere before I felt sothing suddenly tugging forward.
Shit!
[In your shadows, now!] I ordered my shadow pack and retrieved my shadow from [Smokey Haze], monts before a large electric wave tore through the area, destroying all obsidian walls it touched.
When it reached the demonkin and , instead of taking damage, a magnetic force began to pull towards the entrance of the labyrinth. And it was strong.
Saori! I heard Hestia call once again before my vision accelerated, dashing past layers of floating obsidian chunks before everything beca dark for a mont followed by being flung out into the bright sun and clear sky.
I heard nurous thuds and groans around before I kicked myself back onto my feet. My eyes werent tricking , it really was the blue sky above . I could see trees around and the sll of death started to enter my nose.
Before were the others, as in Tasianna, Ellaine, Grimnir, Hanazawa, Tatsuya, and Kyouya. I also saw the three puppet bodies of Parilostro with the moaning Resurrection fighters. They shouldnt be here, they should be fighting the senators!
Warbringer!!! Ooooh, you saved my life!
Urrgh, Master, gruk! I said I would
Shut up, HeeRlak, you woulda been dead if I hadnt interfered. You aint dying for so stupid reason while yar still are my apprentice.
Grotesque. Those voices brought my eyes towards a giant bulgy worm-like creature with a humans face and a huge mouth like a frogs. Strangely, it had OBlooms voice as it began sprouting flattery like a gun towards a singular woman.
This person, with the appearance of a punk teenager, poured an entire potion down HeeRlaks throat. Ignoring how he was coughing from how rough she fed him the tonic, she glared at at and the others, who were coincidentally all neatly placed on a single side while OBloom, HeeRlak, and the woman stood before the entrance of the dungeon.
Nice trick, she said before sothing exploded inside the dungeon. But we aint playing by your rules any longer. No more portals or whatever. Emotion Surge.
Four shotel-shaped lightning horns sprouted from her head while electricity began to cover up her form-fitting bodysuit. Armor, a cape, and a jacket manifested, coloring itself red like her skin. Her wild black hair began to glow yellow and red, looking very much like a neon sign as it dimd and brightened. Six arms ford from behind her back, each possessing an armant of so sort.
With two of her hands in her jacket pockets, she scowled at like so sort of delinquent.
Third of the three Warbringers of Lord Wrath. Voltaic Red, VifiYok. Nothing personal, but you did try to kill my stupid apprentice. Hope ya can keep up with my speed, wolfy! We reap, to water the blood lilies!
Her figure suddenly disappeared from thin air, leaving only a streak of red lightning behind. As my instincts told to search for her, sothing hard suddenly crashed against the side of my head, causing to lose consciousness for a mont.
When I woke up, I noticed I had flown far away from where I first stood. As I tried to stand up, sothing pushed down my face, holding down.
War is a bitch, bitch.
S-Shit!
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