Chapter 176: Previous Time Retribution Part 5

There's no other chance to beat her, it has to be now...

For I have been shadowed by everyone during my life...

From Battle Maiden, Previous Dark Sect Leader Crow, and...

Adrian...

...

" This time, I'll destroy you! " Flolial says as she then summons a lot of plants, carnivorous plants from the ground.

[ Atrocious Bloom ]

" Be devoured, Maiden! "

" This time...! "

" I'll make sure that I'll be the one that outshines you! " Flolial says to the Battle Maiden, enraged by her constant superiority over her, for years it always been like that.

Flolial summons all of the plant summons she had in her current form. Unleashing all hellish plants she could muster with her current strength.

[ Atrocious Vines ]

[ Atrocious Thorns ]

[ Atrocious Flowers ]

" Summons, huh!? " Battle Maiden says as she decides to charge her attack, charging it into her new blade.

" Is this how low you've become, Flolial...? " Maiden asks her.

" I know you're better than this... " she says, remembering the Flolial she knew, the cousin she used to meet with often.

Back then, Flolial is such a religious and principled child, often praised by their family parents to be the most Gift-attuned among other family members. Flolial's Gift is not only perfect for support since she actually could summon even edible fruits and vegetables, rich with Divine Energy which could even energize and heal everyone that ate it.

Not only that, the 'Cleansing Liquid' that often came out from her plants also could heal fatal damage wounds and sickness, even regenerating a body's lost parts.

"( Back then, everyone thinks that she would be such a great woman for our society, as her Gifts were meant to help people... )" Battle Maiden recounts it.

" But... "

[ Judgment Libra activated ]

[ Blindspot Guardian Commenced ]

As she activates it, Battle Maiden decides to close her eyes once more, despite she is now can see things again. Besides that, the reason she closes it again is not only to make herself focus but to make sure that [Judgment Libra] will take care of the incoming swarm Flolial created.

*Flolial's plant swarms exploded after entering Blindspot Guardian's radius of activation.*

" What!!!? " Flolial shouted as she sees this, she was shocked to see the Maiden didn't have to move to rid all of her summonses she spawned with the cost almost 65% of Flolial's own Sin Core energy.

Realizing that it was Libra's doing. Flolial becomes more enraged, as she can't take the fact that this will happen.

" This can't be!? "

" You're gotta be kidding me, right!? " Flolial says as she knew that her spawns and summons are immediately slaughtered like that because of [Judgment Libra]s OP Item Ability.

" Give it up! " Battle Maiden says to her.

" Don't make it difficult for yourself, you know you can't win! " Battle Maiden says the fact, as she knew that Flolial can't do anything but depend on her summons and spawns to do the attack for her.

The only option she could do now constantly uses her plants to support her spawns, but it seems her energy is not that sufficient to do so.

" Pitiful, you transformed to only be dependent on your minions to attack me... " Battle Maiden comments on Flolial for her weakness.

" What a waste of effort, you chose the wrong path yet once again... " Battle Maiden tells her, reminding her that she should've just abandoned what she is doing now, for her current goal is utter nonsense for whatever she's been told regarding her current path.

" Goddammit, Maiden! " Flolial growls as she hears it.

" Flolial, you knew that this wasn't your path, right? "

" What does it reward you? after all these years...? " Battle Maiden asks her.

" Reward!? " Flolial angrily replies.

" Watch your mouth, you leftover-maiden priestess! " Flolial tells her about it.

" I'm a Hunter now, I get the most prestigious and popular job among all others, and get so much money! even become famous in the media like those actors from Hollywood! "

" I have also created many companies that will bring me so much money, make more than you could ever make in your life even if you submit yourself to that GODDESS (Athena) of yours! "

" I am independent and beautiful, many even liked me! "

" Even many higher-rank Hunters and rich boys desired me in their hearts, they-! "

" Because of your aroma plant? wasn't it? " Battle Maiden asks her as [Judgment Libra]s ability finishes all of Flolial's spawn while they were talking earlier.

" You overestimated yourself! "

" Do you think many people didn't realize how you get so much influence after all these years? " Battle Maiden tells Flolial about it.

" What do you mean? " Flolial asks.

[ Judgment Libra Activated ]

[ Record of Memoirs Commenced ]

[ A memory-type ability, using Libra's primordial ability that could record every memory that could've been used as the most valid evidence of them all as the recorded memories of the past is 100% accurate. ]

Using Libra's ability, Battle Maiden began to show Flolial the reason for her success. The reason for her success is not using her own effort, but constantly using others through her plants to gain what she wants in such a quick time.

In that shown record, Flolial was shocked as Libra somehow recorded most of her act as it shows her manipulating men using her plant's aroma, mesmerizing their minds to gain more money, using many of it to do her manipulation or even altering some parts of her body using many plants she founded inside many Dungeons.

" Stop... " Flolial was ashamed to see it.

" STOP! " Flolial shouted as she then loses her emotions on seeing her secrets being revealed as Libra also shows her relationship with the [Dark Brotherhood Sect].

"( So this is how you get into the sect, huh? )" Battle Maiden says, opening her eyes since it's a different ability now which she then sees everything that transpired between Flolial and the [Dark Brotherhood Sect].

In the shown record, Maiden could see Flolial purposefully begging the previous Dark Brotherhood Sect Leader, Crow to let her in, in order to for her to get more money from him to pay her huge debt over the going-bankrupt company she made.

" Please, let me in... "

" The [Dark Brotherhood Sect] will help their members, no matter what didn't it? " Flolial asks Crow, even prostrating herself to pour out her plant aroma or whatever as she tries to seduce him and many men in that private meeting at that time.

Using her plants and cunningness, she maintains many relationships with the Sect's men, using all of their finances to compensate for her losses in the things she worked on in real life. Long time short, after maintaining many relationships to stabilize many of her finances, she then met Adrian whose already created the [Great Ocean] Guild.

Just like what she did to the men she's related with, she also tries to seduce Adrian even attempting to do the extreme in order to soften Adrian up. Seducing him privately, even daring her way to give Adrian some of her seductive potions to make him softer when being with her.

" Flolial, you... " Battle Maiden sees the shown record, feeling disgusted to see how low Flolial, her cousin, had become.

" Shut it off! Libra! " Flolial says as she uses her Deviant-like body, attempting to stomp over Battle Maiden who is also still charging her attack.

" Shut it off! shut it off! " Flolial shouts as she can't take it that Battle Maiden just managed to gain insight into her greatest secret.

" You know nothing of it, you liar! " she disagrees with what Libra just showed.

" Those guys were the ones that come to me, I only do it in order to secure my life!!! "

" Even with Adrian, I didn't comply with him at all! "

" I...! " Flolial attacks using her giant body, but Battle Maiden just blocked her untrained attacks with her [Aegis Justice Shield] skill.

" Enough! "

" You're already fallen too much, Flolial! "

" This is the result of what you choose! seeing it makes me disgusted and wants to puke, to even know you as my 'cousin'... "

"For many years I and the other families tried to support you, trying our best to give you a better option, but you... "

" You're the one who chose this end! " Battle Maiden shouted at Flolial in her anger.

" You're the one who chose this failure! " Battle Maiden says as she releases the charged attack.

[ Libra's Judgment for the plan: Left Scale (Execution) / Right Scale (Mercy) ]

[ Libra's Judgment: Left Scale (Execution) ]

[ Divine Judgment Slash: Divine Retribution ]

" MAIDEN! " Flolial screams, as the Maiden's attack just swing at her without any mercy, her judgment is final, there's nothing for Flolial to defend herself for there are really no other motives for her doing.

Her motives are simply her jealousy, greed, and her lust for satisfaction. There are no noble motives inside her past actions, nothing necessary to make even Libra consider to show in its records. Thus, making Libra had to deliver its final verdict, for the most useless and miserable being on the planet, ungrateful and cowardly till the end.

The light of judgment and retribution shines ablaze, burning everything that stands in the slash's direction.

" If I'm out of here... " Battle Maiden says as she finishes it.

" I'll make sure to tell the other family members... " she says as she sees Flolial's corpse.

" To erase your name from the family, forever. "

" You disgusting filth! " Battle Maiden says as her light of justice burns the dark roots inside Flolial's body.

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Extra:

The reason Libra had this kind of ability, the [Record of Memoirs], is because just like the other Twelve Zodiac Divine Items, they were given the last remnants of the Primordial Power of Time, from Chronos or in this universe called ChronoAxis.

Aside from that, regarding Flolial. The woman actually was pampered and supported too much by her big family. Her family, including Battle Maiden's mother who was Flolial dad's cousin, tried to support their best Flolial by training her hard in her [Flora Blessing] Gift, attempting to make her the best doctor in their family, since they planned to have someone of the family member, to become a doctor after Battle Maiden becomes a great warrior of the goddess.

Refusing this, Flolial begins to rebel by becoming a Hunter. Knowing the huge family only wanted her to become a doctor in order to gain some shitty discount and had many ulterior motives after knowing her powers are lacking in strength.

Feeling undermined and labeled as a weakling, Flolial begins to rise in her status by using her sheer ability and cunningness against all odds. Draining almost many people she's met in order for her own gain.

But, despite those motives and deeds, she had an ambition of her own, an ambition purely made from her dissatisfaction with the better life her family made for her as she befriended the wrong people and way of life. Her original life was meant to be a lot of simple and satisfactory if she abandoned her desire to outshine the Battle Maiden, and never think of herself as her shadow since her powers are mainly for support. Instead, she could've used it for those medical and charity purposes.

Sadly, Flolial's jealousy over the Battle Maiden had ripped that life out of her, for the sake of her delusions of destroying the Battle Maiden which will never happen, in any way possible.