When Nysia determined that it's over, she put back the Sanguine Aegis into its compressed form and went back inside my Metagen.
Using my lap as a pillow, she comfortably lay her head on it.
"You did well, Nysia."
I praised her while brushing her silky light-pink hair with my fingers.
Nysia lifted her head to look at me before showing me a charming smile. After that, she lay her head back on my lap. I guess she didn't want to talk about it or she just wanted to relax after that battle.
My eyes went back on the screen and noticed something.
"Ah. There's still a use for this."
I brought out Dannae's gun and reopened the cockpit.
With the sky as its target, I pulled the trigger.
The huge energy beam produced by the gun instantly flooded the night sky with an enchanting brilliant light. As it approached a certain area in the sky, numerous concealed figures could be seen scrambling out of the beam's way.
However, the light was wide enough that it lit up the night sky like a beacon as it also encompassed those figures.
As soon as they were lightened up by that beam of energy, their concealment came undone and at least 5 Darkgens and 5 Metagens appeared. Each one of them visibly melted under the horrifying power of that seemingly harmless beam.
Just like how the Door of Transcendence was broken open, the sneaky observers of Nysia and Lucas' fight died without even leaving their ashes.
If I have to guess, inside those were Corrupted Researchers and Researchers from the Empire. They were hoping to take a peek at how the strongest fight each other.
If I hadn't discovered them, they would draw inspiration from the fight they had witnessed and incorporate it to the next Metagen or Darkgen they will make in the future.
Unluckily for them, I discovered the unusual flow of energy on that spot.
They should stop doing that in front of me, really.
As the night sky went back from being brightly lit to dark once again, I closed the cockpit and went back to pampering this very special woman at my side.
Our objectives were all completed. With Lucas out of the equation, we could take over the whole Empire tonight.
The only problem left will be the Dark World and its Portal.
That Enthroned Prince will also soon be dealt with by the Transcendents assaulting the Eldur Mine. I already lowered my view of him after being swayed over and over. He's as hopeless as Lucas.
After a while, I flew over to where Lucas' body landed to pick up his corpse. Though his body is intact, the bones and his internal organs were pulverized by the Bluntforce delivered by Nysia. He also ran out of energy reserves that's why he failed to protect his bones and most of his internal organs.
I could've left him to rot in here but Leianne and Liam might want to see his body.
A Transcendent dying like this. All his schemes and his ambition, in face of absolute strength, it's really nothing. It's a shame to kill him but I don't regret it. He's an enemy. That's all that matters. If I leave to another world and let him run rampant here, I will just be worried about Nysia's safety. Even if she's strong, I see that guy as a threat strong enough that I wouldn't be able to rest easy if he was not cut off as soon as possible.
His death this time reminded me that even at the height of being a Transcendent, one wrong move and we will similarly die like him. Especially when the leaders of our enemies were at a height wherein they could easily crush us like ants.
Being a Transcendent is just the start. As we progress further in this path, we all still need to grow in strength to continue protecting what's important to us.
10 minutes later, I flew back from where we fought Lucas to where most of the battles are happening.
Even from afar, the sounds of explosions and Metagens being damaged and destroyed could clearly be heard.
The four Aegis Battalion soldiers which I left to deal with the standard Metagen and Darkgens fought with their lives on the line.
They were already on their last assault. The remaining Metagens and Darkgens which finally woke up from the reality were all about to retreat. However, before they could even do that, the four soldiers did a combination move wherein one of them was thrown towards their enemies.
The thrown Metagen then grabbed onto the retreating enemies to prevent them from lifting off the ground.
The other three then used that opportunity to draw a conclusion to their battle.
Because of the huge increase of their stats due to the buff, they won the outnumbered battle with no casualty. One of them was slightly injured but it was not life-threatening.
In the earlier parts, when we're busy taking care of Lucas, whenever the buff from the Domain of Valor and Bulwark of Invulnerability was about to run out, they would all fly together to step inside the zone of my opened buff to reset its duration.
Prevailing even the odds weren't exactly favoring them, I noted their contribution this time and Nysia will surely provide compensation for them when we're back at the city.
Now that they're done, I had them clean up the area and rest before I continued to control the Purple Haze to fly to where Lunaria and the others were currently fighting.
It seems that when I was not looking, they also managed to prevail even if they're outnumbered.
On that enemy's side, Kreed and the elites of the Empire were cut down from more than twenty to a mere eight blood-red Metagens.
Out of all the Empire's elites, those four Legend-ranks including Kreed were still alive, however, their domains seemed to be inferior to Lunaria's Moonlight domain and Leianne's Blizzard domain.
When I arrived and landed behind them again, the 5 women were energized and they launched their last assault.
Upon seeing that, the eight enemies all took a step back. But the two domains engulfed those without it.
Four blood-red Metagens froze and started to move crankily. Upon seeing that, Lunaria and Leianne went past those to chase after Kreed and the other three Legend-ranks whose domains seemed to do nothing but delay their impending doom.
The Minowa Triplets followed after them and swiftly dealt with the frozen Metagens that were left behind.
At the end, when the three Legend-rank around Kreed fell against Lunaria's spear and Leianne's rapier, he faced Leianne and asked for a duel.
"Why don't you surrender now, Uncle Kreed?"
Leianne stopped and asked him instead of accepting the duel. Like her father, that guy was surely someone that was always within her line of sight as she grows up
"No. How can I surrender? I've followed your father for longer than you thought. His aspirations are also my aspirations."
"I see. Sir Daisuke, can I?"
She knew that now that I reappeared here, his father's fate was already done for. This act of trying to convince Kreed to surrender was due to that. But that guy was probably intending to follow him to the grave.
Such a waste of this world's elite denizens. The other worlds would've envied them for the number of Rank 5 Mortals and those at the 5th Realm but they're just wasting their lives like this.
Leianne had a solemn expression as she stared at me from beyond the screen. I also stared at her for a minute to look at her unwavering conviction. Afterwards, I nodded my head and gave her the permission to grant him that duel.
"Do as you wish."
Lunaria and the triplets pulled back to give the two the space.
Leianne's Ice Sylphid hovered on the sky as it waited for Kreed's Blood Executioner.
That previously imposing blood-red Metagen was already far away from its previous grace. Holes and cracks could be seen due to the damages it sustained earlier.
The Ice Sylphid also has some damage but compared to him, it's negligible.
When they started, both of their domains were activated in its entirety. Nonetheless, Kreed's Blood domain was still proven to be inferior to her.
When Leianne stepped on it, instead of sinking, the areas that her Metagen's feet stepped onto were instantly frozen solid.
Subsequently, her Blizzard domain expanded and devoured that frozen pool of blood destroying his domain.
Upon seeing that scene, Kreed gave up contesting against her using a domain and instead, he brandished his broadsword with its red Swordforce and assaulted her using it.
With her rapier with that blue Swordforce in hand, Leianne confronted Kreed's broadsword.
Clang! Clang!
2 minutes later, the two Metagens separated. No. The blood-red Metagen pulled back while the sky-blue Metagen stayed from where it was. After seeing that, Leianne made a stance and activated a sword skill which pierced through the cockpit and decided the end of that duel.
In the first place, Kreed never had a chance to win against her.
As the Blood Executioner slowly fell down from the sky, Leianne turned around and flew down in front of me.
After a period of silence where we just stared at the aftermath of this battlefield, the troops that were on standby that Nell called finally arrived at the entrance.
They swiftly took over every important point of the mine before organizing a new unit that will continue to the Empire.
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