CHAPTER 418: CONFLICT IN THEOCRACY

[Lucy’s POV: ]

The darkness overtook her and materialisation of the corruption was complete.

She was gone, the last remaining light she possessed was gone as well.

All that remained now was a shell run by the dark powered that wasn’t liked by any of the faction of the Worldline.

It was a state worse than death where one’s body was overwhelmed by an uncontrollable negativity that was practically nothing at all.

’Corruption.’

It’s more of a concept than a state of being known to most who know a little about the Worldline, and those who have even a little knowlage of it, doesn’t wish for even their worst enemies to fall into this state.

There is little knowladge about this ’concept’ but from all we know, even we considered this state very... miserable.

’’To become corrupted, one has to first lose everything they had, including themselves and their belief in this world. Then, they had to let go all the sanity, rationality, logic, reason, and ’light’ they possessed as a conscious being.

The process corruption stats slowly and takes time depending on the subject of currption, and there is a way to bring them back if it hasn’t been too late. There are ways to purify them even without using the complicated methods and tools that could save someone in her state, we knew it and could have done something more for her, but, there was no reason to think about that anymore.’

She was engulfed by that dark power, had become something that was worse than the dark demons of deep hell, something even those demons pitied.

She was not a demon anymore, nor was she the succubus. What stood before us now, was only a lump of negative energy, a dark existence that belonged to nowhere, whose only purpose in this world, was destruction of anything and everything in existence.

And as I promised, we will put her out of this misery.

[ "El. Start." ]

[ "Alright~! Hehehe, buffs on the way. Good luck~!" ]

She used her {Dismentle} skill to block any skill this absurd creature could use, used her {Aspect of magic} and light attribute with {Elemental magic} and started creating a new kind of spell on the spot after analysing this creature and it’s current characteristics and attributes, used her {Parallel mind} to accelarate the alredy absurd spell creation, and her {Blue crown} strengthening her abilities even further, she created something that I couldn’t understand at all.

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

[Ding!]

But it was a very strange and complicated looking magic circle that looked very pretty, and from these pop ups, it was obvious it was something that will earn her a few unique achievements when all of this is being calculated.

[ "Phew. Turned out pretty good. Alright, Lucy darling. Here you go." ]

She sent the spell circle towards me and just when I dodged the first attack from that thing before me, the giant magic circle started hovering above me.

"Let’s call it {(Armor of Eisheth’s salvation)}!"

Perhaps it was for the audience but she shouted that thing insted of telling me though link, and the name was pretty good for a newly created magic so, it was pretty alright...

The magic circle circleing above me vanished after giving me a ’pink’ armor of light which looked pretty ok, but the strength I could feel after receiving this buff was tramendious compared to the pretty looks.

I could feel the strength like I had never before, in this specific environment where the energy opf corruption was spreading rapidly and was weakling me until a moment ago, it now seeemd like this translucent armor that I recived from her was absorbing the atmospheric powers and supplying it all to me insted.

The threat I felt from the creatures hundreds of levels stronger than me had vanished as well, but more than any of the benefits of this support spell, my sword now had the power to slash through that darkness. And that much was enough.

[ "You have six minutes and thirty seconds. Go wild~." ]

She and Raz were definitely eating some snacks while sitting on their sofa, I could see them on the other side. Those two were definitely crazier bastards then me.

[ "Haaaa... watch my back." ]

[ "Hehe, I’m watching your front and everything else too. The girls and guys are likening that hot body of yours quite a bit." ]

I didn’t know what she meant but as long as she wasn’t selling my nudes to the special spectators, whatever she meant was alright.

I didnt have the liberty to worry about things about that at the moment. I was up against a being that could destroy all six of the protagonist even if they pulled out their strongest cards.

-Booooooooooom!

’Alright then.’

But we can defeat it.

She was my support and I had all the best buffs I could get to fight against a creature like this.

"KHYOOOOOOOOOO!"

Dark humanoid shadow with horns and red eyes, the typical demonic shadow that devours anything in its paths. It was deadly. Everywhere it walked, it left a wreckage in its wake.

The dungeon of dreams, the bedroom chamber we were in, had transformed into a desolate land with a vast red sky. There was darkness in half of the parts while there were cracks on the ground, with a murky liquid coming out of them.

’Ugh!’

It was the materialised corruption energy, something that not only induced an insurmountable amount of pain with just a simple touch, it also affects the minds directly and induces nightmares worse than any demon could show.

The existence I was fighting was no good, there weren’t many ways to fight against it and defeat it completely.

The Purification was out of the question alredy so we had to obligate it completely.

And, this armor El gave me will help me accompany that.

-Boooooooooom!

To even inflict any kind of damage to a corrupted being, the attacks del to them glad to be of a secific kind and type, or, they had to be so overwhelming that even those creatures couldn’t handle it.

I only had one of those overwhelming attacks, but to use that, I first had to bring this one’s health down to a certain level. Or else it would all be meaningless.

’El calculated the real time properties of this one and made this support spell, this armor, this warm energy, as the perfect counter for this one.’

The difference in stats was unavoidable, but this creature didnt have any kind of fighting strategy. It was worse than the dumb Eisheth. It all had it’s powerful skills and overwhelming strength, as well as this power of corruption.

El locked those skills, the overwhelming strength doesn’t work against me, and this armor negated effects of the currption to a very great digree. So the creature alredy had many disadvantages.

’{Horizontal slash}.’

On the other hand...

’{Quick stab}.’

I had not one, but many advantages against this overwhlminghly powerful opponent.

’{Light walk}!’

-Boooooooooooom!

’{Shallow breathing}, {Silent cut}!’

I wasn’t stronger, not in the slightest. I was like an ant before this behemoth. But...

’An armoured ant can sometimes possess the power to make even that behemoth jump up with excruciating pain.’

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiish~!

In this red world shrouded in dark clouds and a dark murky torture covering the ground, the giant creature, the currupted demoness, was throwing its hands around, trying to catch an ant covered in a pink light shaped like a heroic armor.

It was mad, the large red eyes contained madness. A great madness, and a strength so great that whenever it’s attackes even graced me from a distance, I was thrown back a few mile.

It was strong. Too strong to take on with my currnt level. But a few scaractues and fractures were nothing when I had her healing me from the back.

She had my back so even this guy was nothing more than a super strong oppoenet that we were foolishly fighting.

It was strong but nothing we couldn’t-

[ "Wait, Lucy! Something’s wrong.’ ]

[ "What do you-" ]

-Boooooooooooom!

Out of nowhere, the shadowy creature that had maintained a humanoid form grew a tantacle... no, it wasn’t a tantacle. It was a tail. A thick one.

[ "Lucy! Are you alright?!" ]

I was thrown back from the impact of the tail that appeared out of nowhere, crashed onto the black fluid filled soil, bounced from there like a rocks thrown on the still waters six times, broke half of the bones in my body, but I managed to avoide leathal injuries thanks to the pink armor of light and my Six wall that I was able to materialise midair.

"Ahem! Ahem! Ughhhhh!"

I coughed a mouthful of blood when I had finally stopped and stabilised my spinning mind. It HURT like HELL!

"Lucy!"

I survived that imapact, though by a breadth of hair.

El came ramming, deployed a few shields here, took out some potions from her storage space, and poured them all in my mouth.

They were of the highest quality but they did practically nothing... the injuries I recived needed more than some potions if I wanted to recover to a positive level.

"Fuck!"

This was also an energy situation like was had outside this dungeon, but the elixir was out of question this time, and the inhjuries i recived were mostly external, physical ones.

I needed helping skills or spells. And she only had one. Which was not going to be enough. She knew that better than me. So...

"Skill!"