Capítulo 40: Chapter 36: Darkness and Lightning
Morrigan had manifested wings on her back and was currently flying to the area to which her monster might be at. Now she was glad Salem chose the other one as she wanted to inspect this on the most as she sensed some holy magic in the area.
'There you are~.' She thought as she reached her destination as she eyed the creature with a huge axe as it slashed some samurai to death with its weapon. 'Damn a bit brutal for a holy creature but that weapon though.' She thought as she eyed the beautiful giant golden axe.
Combustive arrows were thrown to it but their explosions didn't do anything to it. The thing then made light balls with holy attributes and flung them at the archers destroying the buildings which were positioned there. It didn't stop there as it ran to a building and swung it's causing not just it but multiple to get destroyed on impact
Morrigan observed it and noted that its metal skin was very durable, it really did have holy magic and incredibly high physical strength but its speed was lacking. Through all in all it was tough but not like that giant snake which she and Salem fought a while back. Well basically her as all the kid did was poison it and get himself knocked out almost killed. Though he did take over it so that was a point for him.
She didn't really admit to the kid but that snake was incredibly strong and got her really on her toes. Good thing it had some small divine origins from what she could tell others the battle could have gone a lot worse.
"Okay let's get this over with." She smirked and dived for the monster. She then enlarged her arm and made a giant fist and struck it knocking it to a building a little further away.
The remaining samurai looked amazed at what they saw.
"Hey you." She called out to one of them. "I'm here with the Shogun of lightning Raiden so listen all right."
"Hai." He answered though he was skeptical that this foreign woman was here with Raiden he could tell she was powerful from her last attack. He was just glad help arrived sooner than they expected.
"Get all of your buddies injured and alive. I don't care, just get the hell out of here." She told him.
"Hai mage-dono." He bowed in respect as he was glad back up had arrived though it was a lot faster than he had expected. "EVERYONE MOVE! HELP THE INJURED AND ANY CIVILIAN WHO IS IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE!" The samurai commanded his comrades who could still go on.
"HAI!" They all nodded.
Morrigan had sensed the thing coming and got ready for her battle and went towards it as well. The Beloved then came smashing through a building and brought its axe down to Morrigan who swiftly dodged.
"Try harder~." She taunted as she continued to dodge its sluggish swings and jumped away with it following her. She led it to an area away from where she sensed there weren't a lot of people and they were a good distraction away.
Beloved's swings got faster and Morrigan had a hard time keeping up. But then Beloved made multiple magic circles and shot golden projectiles at Morrigan, catching her by surprise a bit but she dodged them then turned her kicked one away.
Beloved swung its axe hard at her. Morrigan quickly hardened her arms and blocked the attack but she was thrown across multiple buildings and came to a stop at a stone statue.
"W-well it sure can swing that axe I'll give it that." She flinched and looked at her bleeding forearms but they were slowly healing.
Beloved throw more holy projectiles at her as it runs towards her. Morrigan grew her wings and flew away and the attacks destroyed the house.
"Feel sorry for whoever owned that." She looked down and then back at Beloved and finally noticed some kind of dark glowing paper on its chest. "Interesting." She mumbled.
The anomaly saw how high up its opponent was and shot a massive golden beam at her which she dodged. Morrigan flew down at it fast and turned her arm into a massive blade that clashed with the anomaly, making a strong wind blowing back some rubble. The two then got into a blade clash but as much as Beloved had the physical advantage Morrigan was faster, more skilled and transformed her left hand into a blade giving her more of an advantage.
After Morrigan had gotten many hits on the anomaly she noticed that the skin is harder but it was more stone-like with flesh beneath. The Beloved had swung it's axe hard with it infused with holy magic which Morrigan barely dodged but the infrastructure behind her weren't so lucky.
She was back on the ground and her legs tensed and she shot for Beloved like a rocket. And slashed it making it stumble a bit as its chest bled badly.
"Anatomy Transmutation: Piercing Knuckles!" She made hands giant with spikes on them and began bashing it.
"ORA! ORA! ORA!" She continued to beat it savagely digging deeper into the ground and each hit causing a shockwave. When she was done the anomaly was all cracked and bleeding heavily.
Beloved was surrounded by golden light making Morrigan hiss as it sort of burned and blinded her a bit.
Beloved healed and swung its axe unleashing a large golden wave engulfing Morrigan who was getting her sight back and destroying everything else in its way. Most of the city section was shaking violently and in the underground the people in the bunkers were all panicking as they felt the aftershocks of the battle.
Morrigan got up from the wreckage with her hair a mess and her clothes a mess. She had a very bemused expression on her face.
"Rude little things aren't you." She said getting up. "Do you know how much I paid for that sweater?" A dark magical aura began to surround her, shaking the place.
With Salem
Salem was in his ware-cheetah healing a little slowly from his injuries from his battle. When he noticed the place began to shake and he felt similar to what happened in Bellum.
"Okay what got her all pissed?" He questioned.
Back to Morrigan
"Now let the real dance begin." She smirked and made an arm blade covered in darkness. "Darkness god's umbra slashes!" She chanted and made multiple dark slash attacks damaging Beloved.
She didn't let the anomaly have a moment to breathe though. "Darkness god's corrupting rain." Multiple dark purple droplets fell from the sky and those which hit Beloved seemed to be having a dissolving effect. "Oops my mistake I wouldn't want do damage the axe yours too much it might sell for a ton." She then noticed the paper on its chest began to pulse and the anomaly began to glow.
"None of that. Darkness god's shadow binds!" She wrapped the anomaly in dark tendrils and went to paper as she didn't want to take any chances and her hand formed on her palm and began sucking the dark energy of the paper tag.
Beloved struggled to get up but slammed its axe onto the ground roar and ground beneath it shocked and Morrigan flew away and the sky was covered with magic circles.
'Not good.' She quickly turned her arms gigantic grabbing beloved and used a lot of her strength to toss height up onto the air.
"Darkness god's below!" She shot a huge stream of dark magic at the anomaly making a purple light temporarily visible across the whole city.
'That was close. If that unleashed its attack it would have destroyed this whole city.' She sighed as the Beloved dropped to the ground cracking it as it began to turn purple. Morrigan just walked over and took the axe.
"Really?" A ware-cheetah Salem sped in.
"Oh what, it's just a little giant golden axe.
Treasure is treasure after all ." Morrigan shrugged her shoulders. "Wow rough battle huh." She said looking at his battered appearance and wounds which were slowly healing.
"Yeah, I had to use my slayer magic to refuel and my ware cheetah form for its minor healing factory. " He flinched as he said it was minor. "So speaking of slayer magic."
"We'll talk about that later. Now chop-chop do your thing ." She shooed him towards the Beloved as he put the axe in her pocket dimension.
Salem did his thing and sent the Beloved to Morpheus. But after it disappeared Morrigan hoped the axe stayed with her
"Now come on let's go those tw-…" Morrigan paused her statement as she saw a stream of purple thunder coming down. "I hope this place has good repair plans like they do evacuation plans." She joked but Salem agreed with her having a somewhat similar comment a few minutes ago and the shapeshifting duo went off.
Earlier with Harumi and Kagura
The two swordswomen ran fast across the street as they were rushing after the viper queen. Kagura saw some samurai escorting some people to safety as she also saw a lot of others being surrounded by a black substance and others a purple one.
Suddenly Harumi stopped, leading Kagura to also stop as the older woman walked in front of a samurai. His uniform seemed a little different than those around him though.
"Raiden-dono, it's an honour." He bowed respectfully.
"Captain." Raiden addressed as she also bowed. "Has everyone been evacuated?"
"Not yet Raiden-dono but I've taken a good amount of them to the bunkers underground."
He answered but then formed a solemn look on his face. "Though a lot of them had been poisoned and some had expected to be cursed."
"Hm you and your soldiers keep them all safe we will take care of the creature." She commanded.
"Hai." He bowed.
"Let's go Mikazuchi-san, we can't afford to waste any more time." The two swordswomen run off.
They got to an area which was overrun by big ice toads with horns and spiked tongues 40 or more in numbers terrorising civilians but some samurai were doing their best to hold them back. Meanwhile the viper queen was just blasting ice attacks from its hands while its snakes chopped on people.
Harumi noticed something on the creature's chest. 'A talisman?' She wondered.
The Viper queen recognized Harumi and was filled with rage and her snakes hissed angrily reflecting it's her feelings. This was the woman who had killed her about 4 times now and she wanted to get revenge.
It shot a huge ice blast at her which Harumi easily intercepted by a lightning attack. She noticed it got stronger like the last time. Harumi assessed the situation and noticed if she were to fight the thing now the samurai and still to be evacuated civilians would get in the crossfire.
"Lightning devil's electric spear!" She shot a beam of lightning from her hand hitting the viper queen before it could react, knocking it to a further part of the city. She unsheathed her blade and all everyone saw was a quick flesh of purple lightning and they saw all the ice toads where on the ground shattered.
Kagura noticed other bigger ones appeared and there were about 12 of them.
"Raiden-sama you go take care of the monster I'll deal with these things." Kagura offered.
"Okay good luck." Harumi then disappeared in a flash of lightning.
Kagura stared at the ten demon frogs and noticed that the samurai had still to evacuate everyone and she couldn't be sure if there wasn't anyone else in the buildings. So she had to be extra careful.
Five demon toads had launched their attack with their tongues which Kagura swiftly dodged. She used her slash form to cut one of the ice toads but it was more durable than she gave them credit for.
Two tried to get her with their horn attack but she jumped in avoiding the attack. While she was in the air some frog wrapped its tongue around her leg and tried to slam her to the ground. But she decreased the gravity around herself making her much lighter and so the fall didn't do any damage.
But then she got herself to normal and used her strength and pulled the toad towards her and used her slash form but using her magic to add more weight to her sword heavier cutting through it. Some others began spitting some blue purple substance at her which she took any chances with and dodged.
She decreased her personal gravity making herself faster and slashed all of them at incredible speeds they couldn't keep up with. But she got distracted by a purple light in the sky and the shaking of the city, and so on of the ice toads. One surprisingly grabbed her with its tongue and before she could cut it another slammed hard into her making her crush on a building wall cracking it.
The toads tried to get her with their spiked tongues but Kagura got her bearings back and jumped out of the way. She decreased her personal gravity, launched herself from the wall at high speeds and used her strong form to deliver a strong thrust to one ice toad and smashing it and quickly her slash form to finish off the rest.
He breathed heavily and looked at her work but then noticed a steam of lightning.
"Hey Kagura." She heard Salem's voice and him and Morrigan zoomed past her went towards Harumi's direction so she followed suit
With Harumi some moments before
Harumi had caught up with the viper queen and began to engage in combat once she caught up.
The demon was heavily injured from the breath attack but it was steadily healing. It fired poison attacks at Harumi who easily dodged. She was a little cautious in engaging in close combat too much due to its sleeping curse. Sure she could nullify it but it would leave her a little open.
"Lightning devil's plasma slashes!" She made long range plasma slashes at the anomaly cutting off its arms, snakes and majority of its shell.
She then saw a huge magic circle appear in the sky but was replaced by a purple light covering the sky.
'I should finish this now.' She thought the poor city had already gone through enough in the short span of time.
"Lightning devil's thunderclap." A magic circle appeared in the sky as she raised her hands and brought it down with a clap making a powerful lightning bolt come down striking the viper queen but she heavily decreased the power of her attack as she just wanted to paralyse it.
She quickly unsheathed her blade in a quick strike form and appeared behind the anomaly slowly sheathed her blade. The anomaly turned to attack her yet again but Harumi smirked a little and when her blade was fully sheathed the monster's body fell apart and began to turn purple.
Suddenly Salem quickly zoomed in and took out his phone and it absorbed the anomaly sending it to Morpheus. Harumi took notice of the device and kept a mental note of it for later.
"Phew, that was close." I sighed.
"Wow, I made it just in time, kid." Morrigan commented as she floated just right above them.
"I see you two have taken care of the other one."
"Yep by the way Harumi did you notice some kind of paper on the monster." Morrigan asked.
"By paper you must be referring to the talisman then yes I did notice it. In fact I think the talisman was mostly controlling the creature but after some time it flashed I think trying to teleport it away or a distress signal but I finished it before that could happen."
"Same with mine. So do you think there's some sort of hidden mastermind behind this attack?" Morrigan asked.
"If so than why what would they have gained from such an attack?" She shook her head.
Salem thought a bit and noticed how most anomalies here are together in one place so it was mostly likely that they were captured. Scratching his head Salem sighed as things were going to get complicated.
"Raiden-sama, that sword technique you used, it was a quick draw wasn't it?" Kagura asked as she saw the final attack but like before she couldn't keep up with the multiple slashes she unleashed.
"Yes it was a quick draw but just the more advanced version." Harumi answered.
Kagura thought it was amazing as it illustrated how much more she needed to learn about sword arts as she only knew the basic form of the stance.
Elsewhere in the city
A hooded figure in clothes similar to that of a shinobi watched the fights of Morrigan and Harumi.
"As expected from you sensei." The figure mused at Harumi's battle. "But those other two though. The darkness god slayer and that boy actually got rid of the rest of the subjects." He wondered out loud but he had to leave as he had to give his report.
"The boss is going to both love and hate this news." He chuckled as he literally sunk into the shadows.
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