20 Chapter 18 - Witch. Greed. Jester. Star. Fall. Envy (1/2)

Regulus : ”Even though I would be able to kill everyone here excluding Reinhard with one move, I still think this is quite unfair, isn't it? It is. It really is. What about my lady sending some of you away? After all, Lust, Gluttony and the others are still attacking the city somewhere else.”

The man of Greed calmed down a bit and suggested a weird offer. He mentioned his lady while everyone wasn't quite sure what he meant with that.

Jens : ”Who may your lady be?”

He asked while being nervous. After a few seconds of silence, the whole group excluding Reinhard van Astrea, Jens and Felt we're gone without a trace of them.

??? : ”I request you to not worry. I just send them away so they wouldn't get injured during this phenomenal fight. It would be quite a tragedy to end this story already, right? Like Regulus of Greed already told you, we try to avoid as much unnecessary sacrifices as possible, Jens…”

That voice came from nowhere, but at the same time from everywhere. It was an angelic voice. It gave off an important aura and her voice had a magic like charm that seemed to bind the bodies and souls of others.

The woman who said those words appeared out of thin air near Regulus Corneas.

PANDORA SUPER

She was extremely beautiful. She was beyond imagination. She is a relatively tall woman and has long, transparent platinum hair with dark blue eyes, and long eyelashes. Her beauty is extreme,just by being looked at or talked to, one can experience happiness enough to die for.

She is beautiful enough to be said to make other tremble with her beauty and that even God would hesitate to touch her. Humans have an ideal of beauty, and she is the answer to that beauty. Also, if beauty could kill, she would be that beauty.

Reinhard : ”I would assume this is your lady, am I right Regulus ?”

Regulus : ”Correct… This is-”

Pandora : ”My name is Pandora. The Witch of Vainglory is what you mortals call me.”

Jens : ”Wi-Witch..?!”

The voice of Jens trembled, he wasn't sure if he could understand the beauty of the woman.

Felt : ”Reinhard! What is going on?”

Reinhard : ”Felt-sama! Please stay behind me.”

Felt walked a few steps back and stood behind Jens and Reinhard.

Pandora : ”It seems you unlocked the Legendary Legacy of Leo… Beautiful.”

Pandora said that while looking at Jens.

Jens : ”I've no idea what this power may contain. But I already tested it on one of the Gluttony Archbishops. It seems it was quite fatal.”

She snapped her fingers and disappeared, leaving beautiful white and gold feathers behind in the air.

Regulus : ”As you heard, Pandora is extremely busy. So I'll have to deal with you three. The Sword Saint, The Golden Lion and The Boy with Thousand Names.”

Reinhard : ”Honestly, I have enough hearing you ranting around. I'm sorry if I am being rude. But I can't allow you to hurt Felt-sama.”

Jens : ”Reinhard, let's do this!”

Regulus : ”Fine then. I'LL SLAUGHTER YOU LIKE ANIMALS!”

Hearing this, Jens starts thinking about what Elsa Granhiert used to say…

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Emilia : ”H…Huh?”

Emilia opened her eyes and found herself in the middle of a burning square. Near her, there was Priscilla Barielle creating a giant shield of light, Haku Segmunt who had a sword in his hand and was prepared to fight, Julius Euculius who had a shining blade in his hand, Meili Portroute and Nathan Harmonia who we're both standing near Emilia.

Meili : ”Lia! You're awake!”

Emilia : ”Wh… What happened?”

Nathan : ”It was horrific! No- It was weird… Out of nowhere, you appeared on the ground without consciousness. What happened at where you were? What do you remember?”

Emilia : ”Uhh… I was at a square where the Sin Archbishop of Greed, Regulus Corneas was, then Jens appeared and from then, I can't remember anything.”

Priscilla : ”I'm lowering the shield now! Prepare to fight whatever is out there!”

Priscilla released the shield and the fire was gone. All that was left we're remains of bodies, remnants of houses, ashes and smoke.

Haku : ”This is a horrible sight. Even for a Lugnician City.”

Julius : ”Let's not embrace the joy too soon. Look there! At the top of that tower!”

There we're two silhouettes standing on the top of a clock tower. Both of them jumped down and stood right in front of the group.

??? : ”Let me see… A Witch, Blood Stained Bride, A Segmunt, Spirit Knight, Demon User and a Noble… Fucking disgusting sight, isn't it?”

A female voice was heard from the short body. She covers her whole body with bandages except for her eyes. She also wears a purple cape and a small flower shirt over the cape.

??? : ”Ah, you bring the words out of my mouth Star.”

The second person is an old familiar…

Priscilla : ”It seems that we're quite famous, aren't we? Let me guess, you're also from the Witch Cult?”

The woman called Priscilla Barielle said that extremely ruthless and rude to the two.

Masquerade : ”In fact, it seems that Nathan and Emilia already know me, don't you two? For those that don't know me, my name is Masquerade, The Jester and The Murderer of Faces!”

??? : ”Nice introduction Jester. Julius, could you hand over the Book of Wisdom peacefully? If you do so, we won't touch you or your family anymore. Nymphadora Euculius and Klein Euculius have suffered enough, didn't they?”

Meili : ”Lia, who is that scary girl in bandages?”

Meili asked with fear in her voice.

Sirius-A : ”Right. Don't be fooled. My name is Sirius-A, not Sirius. That name is already taken by the Witch Cult's Sin Archbishop of Wrath! I'M THE LEADER OF THE WITCH CULT AND THE BLOOOOOOOOOOOOD CLOUD!”

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—Blood Cloud

—Witch Cult

The Leader of the Witch Cult and The Blood Cloud…

The short girl rapped in bandages might be the biggest threat to the protagonists.

Nathan : ”What…What did she just say?”

Meili : ”Lia! I'm scared~!”

Julius : ”The Head of The Witch Cult and The Blood Cloud… Even though that might be very threatening, it seems I'm not acquainted with the Blood Cloud and I'm quite unsure what that may be. Would you mind explaining me before you meet your demise?”

He pointed his sword which was shining like a rainbow at Sirius-A and Masquerade while asking her to respond to his question.

Sirius-A : ”The Blood Cloud… How ruthless of you not knowing the most darkest organization existing! The Blood Cloud is an alliance of the Witch Cult which doesn't have Witch Genes!”

Masquerade : ”Star, are you sure that's smart to explain to our enemies?”

Sirius-A : ”Does it really matter? I think that they don't even stand a chance against you. After all, neither Halibel or the Sword Saint are here.”

Masquerade : ”That might be true. But they do have powerful–”

Priscilla : ”Enough! Enough talking you two shitbags! This casual talking just infuriates me!”

Haku : ”Priscilla-sama, calm down please–”

Sirius-A : ”It seems that we didn't pull the right string Mask. Can you deal with them while I just take a look from a far? After all, I'm not that strong in my current state.”

Masquerade : ”Well of course. However–”

Sirius-A cracked a finger and immediately, everyone's body froze.

Masquerade : ”Let's keep it fair. Me versus two of you. Priscilla and Nathan, I'm quite interested in the two of you. Please.”

Masquerade snapped his fingers and Priscilla and Nathan unfroze.

Priscilla : ”How interesting. This is extremely interesting. An ability that is able to freeze someone's od? That's magnificent. I'm really interested in the outcome of this battle. However, don't be fooled. The odds of fate are always on my side.”

Nathan : ”P-Priscilla, Masquerade is extremely powerful.”

Priscilla : ”Oh… I know who Masquerade is… I already fought against him.”

Nathan : ”And so did I… So this really is a rematch, isn't it?”

Masquerade : ”I would rather call this magnificent! PLEASE, ENJOY THE SHOW EVERYONE!”

Emilia : ”AAhhh!”

Emilia suddenly, fell on the ground and realized she was able to move. She ran towards Priscilla and Nathan and—

Emilia : ”Guess it's my turn too!”

Emilia summoned needles of Ice and fired them rapidly towards Masquerade.

However, for some reason, everything went through Masquerade, as if his body was water, or gas. At the very least, it wasn't solid.

Masquerade : ”I guess it's a one versus three? That's even more fun!”

Nathan : ”Wait everyone! Masquerade…”

Masquerade : ”What is it?”

Nathan : ”I want to do an offer.”

Masquerade : ”That sounds… boring. But I listen.”

Nathan : ”If we win, you'll tell me where Melissa is.”

Masquerade : ”BAHAHAHAHAHA!”

The man laughed.

Masquerade : ”Sure… Now, let the show begin!”

Priscilla : ”Yang Sword!”

She summoned an ornate crimson sword from light. It was a flaming fire.

Nathan : ”Hya!”

Nathan created a sword created by light, not fire, but shining light. There was a clear difference between the magical blades of Priscilla and Nathan.

Emilia : ”It seems Pack is unavailable right now… Guess it's just me.”

Emilia summoned a giant sword of Ice, it was bigger than Emilia, but for some reason it was light for her.

Masquerade : ”GREAT! I LOVE THIS ALREADY!”

Priscilla ran towards Masquerade. He tried to dodge her attack of her sword, however she suddenly vanished and appeared next to him and sliced his left arm off.

Priscilla : ”Still talking big?”

He was bleeding and was shivering.

Masquerade : ”So this is the power that thee~ Sun Princess holds? Fascinating! I can't describe it differently!”

He jumped into the air and kicked Priscilla right into her face and send her flying against a wall. It was an extremely powerful kick. She tried to stand up, however her Aura was dangerously low and remained on the ground. Slowly closing her eyes.

Nathan : ”Priscilla-sama! Seliumin Akra!”

Nathan fired a flame towards Priscilla which shielded her and slowly restored her wounds and Aura.

Masquerade : ”Nathan… Of all these people, I think you might be the most dangerous to me. The fact that you remained your memories after the fight at the Hyclara Plateau was really a pain in the ass for me.”

Nathan : ”We– BLAGH!”

Suddenly, Nathan found a dagger coming out of chest right through his stomach. He fell down and started coughing blood.

Emilia : ”What..!”

Emilia looked who was behind Nathan and saw Sirius-A. She looked back at the building where she was standing few seconds ago, without a doubt, that was a clone. The clone still stood on the building but slowly vanished.

Sirius-A : ”I'm sorry Harmonia. Never turn your back–”

That moment, the reality froze. Time and Space separated from each other. Nobody could move except Nathan. It was clearly his Divine Protection of Motion.

In fact, manipulating Time and Space is one of the highest classes of Magic in the world. The fact that Nathan possessed a Divine Protection which could manipulate that in fatal moments was rare. It was possible that this Divine Protection was unique, only to Nathan able to be used.

Nathan : ”F-Fuck… I only got… 12 more seconds… Akra Vita!”

The only individual not frozen in time, casted a very rare Yang Spell. ”Akra Vita” drains Aura from minor spirits from the atmosphere. Even though time is frozen, it still continued with healing the wound and restoring his aura.

Right after the magic spell, time started moving again.

Nathan : ”Fuck… You.”

Nathan pointed his hand towards Sirius-A and created a giant explosion of wind and made her go flying through multiple buildings and was gone from the battlefield for the time being.

Masquerade : ”That's clearly the Divine Protection of Motion. But healing magic outside of Water Mana is quite rare. I suppose you really are from the branch family Harmonia. The stories were indeed true. It makes me sad.”

Emilia : ”Stop right there villain. Despite Nathan-san being in my royal camp, I won't allow you hurt him. Freeze!”

Emilia started firing multiple Ice Crystals, however his feet were frozen.

Three of the crystals hit right into his mask and it started to crack.

Masquerade : ”You… Filthy Bitch!”

A small part of his mask broke of and there was one small thing able to be seen.

Red Eye…

It was a beautiful color of red. Probably the color of blood. However, there was something different from his eye.

It was an abnormal eye.

Normally, the eye exists of an iris and the white sclera part.

This eye was different.

The Iris of the eye was a beautiful color of red…

However…

The Sclera… The White Color of the eye was…

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Black.

Nathan : ”What the fuck…”

Emilia : ”You… What are you?”

Masquerade : ”Hm… Hma… Hmahahaha! You foolish mortals…. Agh…”

Nathan : ”His Aura is low. It's time to end this.”

Emilia : ”Got it… I'm extremely sorry for using this ability… But this has to happen… Ex Huma!”

Emilia fired an ice panicle going right through Masquerade's heart. However, the ice panicle was connected between Emilia's hand and Masquerade's heart and was slowly draining the Aura, Mana and Od out of his body.

The magical incarnation of ”Ex” shows the power level of the magic caster. The Incarnation Al shows most of the times the strongest basic spell of every element. However, Ex is supposed to be the forbidden technique and is only unlock able for a few individuals in every Kingdom.

Ex Huma… A forbidden Ice Magic was used by Emilia, the Half-Elf.

Masquerade : ”By… This rate… I'll freeze to death…”

Emilia started to tear up and the tears dropped from her face on the hard surface of the stone ground. This was the first time she had to use this.

Suddenly, the Icicle Line broke. It got melted.

A giant flame appeared on the square where the fight happened. Immediately, the others unfroze too.

Everybody looked at the sky and they saw a giant black dragon with golden horns appear above of them.

The Black Dragon landed on the ground, in the mean time, Masquerade ran away while nearly bleeding to death.

Dragon : ”YOUU DEVILSS!”

It was extraordinary. The Dragon spoke. The Dragon suddenly collapsed and a girl came out of its mouth.

Priscilla in fact, was still lying on the ground, without consciousness.

Haku Segmunt : ”What the… Who are you? You just came out of a dragon's head!”

??? : ”AH! OF COURSE! LET ME INTRODUCE Y'ALL FUTURE LOVE!”

The girl made a spin and immediately, bird wings appeared on her back, her hand changed into that of the dragon, and a serpent tail appeared out of her back.

She was a… Shape Shifter.

However, her human appearance remained the same.

She has short golden hair, blood red eyes and wears almost no clothes. She had fake snake eyes as accessoires in her hair and a long ponytail with a red rose at the very hand.

She wears a purple bikini and really short black pants. No shoes.

Her outfit could be described as a sexual outfit.

Capella : ”My name is Capella Emerada Lugnica you shit bags! I am the Witch Cult's Sin Archbishop of Lust! You all should love me! Admire me! Worship me! Adore me and ONLY ME! ALL THE LOVE IN THIS WORLD SHOULD ME MINE AND IT WILL BE MINE!”

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So far, Capella is considered to be the worst personality wise within the Sin Archbishops. She speaks in a way that sounds like she spat and trampled upon courtesy, complete with a child like cruelty. She claims that all the love and respect in the world exists to be monopolized by her.

Nathan : ”Capella Emerada Lugnica?! But that cannot be. That's a name of royalty… That's the name of the…”