Chapter 140 140 Fighting a corrupted soul
[Lucy's POV: ]
The darkness overtook her and the materialization 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 power that wasn't liked by any of the factions 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 knowledge of it, don't wish for even their worst enemies to fall into this state.
There is little knowledge 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 of all the sanity, rationality, logic, reason, and 'light' they possessed as conscious beings.
The process of corruption starts slowly and takes time depending on the subject of corruption, 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 and 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 are 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 analyzing this creature and it's current characteristics and attributes, used her [Parallel mind] to accelerate the already 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 would earn her a few unique achievements when all of this was 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 instead of telling me through the link, and the name was pretty good for a newly created magic so, it was pretty alright…
The magic circle circling above me vanished after giving me a 'pink' armor of light which looked pretty okay, but the strength I could feel after receiving this buff was tremendous compared to the pretty looks.
I could feel the strength as I had never before, in this specific environment where the energy of corruption was spreading rapidly and was weakening me until a moment ago, it now seemed like this translucent armor that I received from her was absorbing the atmospheric powers and supplying it all to me instead.
The threat I felt from the creature 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 know even though I couldn't see them on the other side. Those two were definitely crazier bastards than 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 didn't 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 path. 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 materialized corruption energy, something that not only induced an insurmountable amount of pain with just a simple touch, it also affected the minds directly and induced 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 already so we had to obliterate 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 dealt to them had to be of a specific 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 didn't have any kind of fighting strategy. It was worse than the dumb Eisheth. It all had its powerful skills and overwhelming strength, as well as this power of corruption.
El locked those skills, the overwhelming strength didn't work against me, and this armor negated the effects of the corruption to a very great degree. So the creature already had many disadvantages.
'[Horizontal slash].'
On the other hand…
'[Quick stab].'
I had not one, but many advantages against this overwhelmingly 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 armored 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 dark murky torture covering the ground, the giant creature, the corrupted demoness, was throwing its hands around, trying to catch an ant covered in a pink light shaped like heroic armor.
It was mad, the large red eyes contained madness. A great madness, and a strength so great that whenever its attacks even graced me from a distance, I was thrown back a few miles.
It was strong. Too strong to take on at my current level. But a few scratches 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 opponent 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 tentacle… no, it wasn't a tentacle. 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 rock thrown on the still waters six times, and broke half of the bones in my body, but I managed to avoid lethal injuries thanks to the pink armor of light and my Six walls that I was able to materialize midair.
"Ahem! Ahem! Ughhhhh!"
I coughed a mouthful of blood when I had finally stopped and stabilized my spinning mind. It HURT like HELL!
"Lucy!"
I survived that impact, though by a breadth of hair.
El came running, 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 received needed more than some potions if I wanted to recover to a positive level.
"Fuck!"
This was also an emergency situation like what we had outside this dungeon, but the elixir was out of the question this time, and the injuries I received 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!"
She could only use it three times a week. We planned to use two uses at most but, this was an emergency, an even more grave one than what we had outside.
"[Aspect of magic]!"
It allowed her the power to do things that weren't possible by normal means and with the current body she possessed.
"Skill enhancement! Reverse engineering initiation!"
She could do things that were impossible without the core understanding of what skills, magic, techniques, powers, authorities, and abilities actually meant.
"Strengthen skill: [Drop of health]!"
It was a [Grade-4] skill like my Aspect of sword and her [Dismental]. But, this particular skill was beyond what was possible even by her Dismental.
-Ooooooooooooooong!
If [Dismental] gave her a tremendous advantage during any 'situation', her Aspect of what she understands as 'magic' gave her a unique 'authority' to do things that were nearly impossible with the current humanly authorities we had.
"Don't worry. It's fine… fuck. That shitty thing materialized the [Hate]. Fuck!"
She was angry, enraged even. But she certainly had a reason to be like that.
The complicated fight we had thoroughly confirmed to be deadly but possible, became even worse and absurd, and nearly impossible just now…
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