Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1342: All's Fair In Women and War (7)



Yuyui gritted her teeth. She and Bubbles were separated when the Territory was cast and thus she couldn't help by shielding him with her Nitros from its effects. Nigerra's arrows also continued to press her down, and in the small speck of time she needed to save Bubbles, she couldn't have dispelled them to free herself. The arrows - in great number - were so powerful, they disallowed her even from using Granted Warp, she found.

Luckily for her, this Territory did not focus on direct offensive functions.

Sovereign Beasts' Crystallice was a terribly vast Territory that looked like a humongous cave of bluish-green mountain-sized crystals. They expelled soft lights, which gave the expansive world a picturesque look and the illusion that it was not bound by a ceiling overhead. The crystals formed an assortment of animal habitats everywhere: nests; what might have been giant kennels; and even coves where large bodies of water slid out within the Territory.

Oddly, pairs of gleaming eyes could be seen within the habitats. They belonged to the denizens of the Territory, but these creatures showed no sign of coming out to assist their master.

Their master had no use for them yet. She instead desired to beat Yuyui with the collection of beasts she had summoned.

Franceesta's Territory specialised in empowering her summoned beasts to freakish degrees. Like Aizel, she wanted to ensure that opening her Territory meant the immediate defeat of an enemy. However, she didn't just juice up her beasts with a 12,000% increase in power.

No.

As some of the beasts she summoned came from outside Aigas, they did not have the properties of its power system.

Franceesta's Territory temporarily enlightened them to the Aigas' system and granted them its benefits according to their strength. Through impressive Creeds, it even informed them on how to use these powers.

And that was why, in addition to being elevated to quadruple digit tiers of power upon entering the Territory, the summoned beasts - the hummingbirds, the monkey, the remaining fish, the suspicious blob and the others which remained - were coated in monstrous volumes of Nitros.

At once, Yuyui knew this was bad news.

The beasts were strategically placed, positioned in a sphere around her when the Territory fully formed.

Yuyui managed to remove Nigerra's arrows right then, and attempted to flee the ominous formation, but tens more arrows appeared all over her body, pointing in all directions chaotically. They pulled her every which way, restricting her.

Yuyui grunted. As her Eye of Dispersal began to open, she heard Aizel cry out.

"FRANCEESTA!" She gouged her Eye of the Prince and flung it at Franceesta who was repairing her chest with the help of the odd beetle Yuyui had seen in her brain. She caught the eye, and without hesitation, she pulled out one of her own, and pushed the dark eye in its place!

But Franceesta had already been chanting before the Eye of the Prince was in her possession. She had anticipated Yuyui would simply use her Eye of Dispersal in one burst and end it all. "This is my Creed! My Territory is the perfect nest for the dark eye, the Eye of the Prince!" And thus, when the eye perfectly connected to her flesh, becoming hers, Sovereign Beasts' Crystallice thrummed, and then suddenly... its GeoScape became one solid block of darkness that consumed everything without reservation.

With her Creed, Franceesta applied the effect of the eye to her Territory, temporarily amplifying it!

And thus, there was silence.

But then, deep within this silence, Nitros exploded out in great, potent measures!

It was expelled in a wide, hollow, spherical shape formed by two hundred smaller spheres of Nitros. These spheres expanded towards the dark gap in the centre mercilessly, and soon, their combined force smote it!

And indeed, over two hundred, incomplete Majestic Territories had been expelled in a great formation to crush Yuyui!

They had not failed.

The Eye of the Prince, now in Franceesta's possession, disallowed Yuyui from responding to any attacks Franceesta threw at her. Thus, she couldn't counter with the Eye of Dispersal, at least not when two small purple arrows had appeared on both sides of the eye and forced it shut right before the Territory turned dark!

Yuyui cursed Nigerra right as the combined force of the Territories smashed into her and killed her.

But when she respawned, she was still smack dab in the middle of the Territories within a Territory. Thus, she died. And died. And died. And died.

It was cruel.

It was mess.

But it was perfect.

A strategy like this could have killed the possessed form of Skullius which fought the Warmoth's Progeny - before he started evolving his sword skill [Infinite Sword God], of

course.

No expert on Aigas in the current time could have survived.

However...

In-between the deaths, Yuyui laughed.

She hadn't felt this hopeless since the Impossible Task. The versions of herself she had had to fight were ruthless, calculated and observant. They noted how she responded their attacks and adjusted accordingly.

It had been a task and a half to kill more than 3,000 of them.

And indeed, it was still way harder than this. Dying was a part of Yuyui. She didn't go into a battle expecting not to die. In fact, death brought revelation, she believed.

A funny laugh came from her lips, but was drowned by the droning of the Territories. 'And now, to evolve again...' she thought.

...

Meanwhile, Franceesta was allowing the Fervent Mystery, the brown beetle she had stored in her flesh for the battle, to finish healing the intense damage to her chest. She had once again donned the beetle armour, and was gazing at the beautiful light show in her Territory with an/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

grin.

'She even managed to get one over on Nigerra. Hahaha. She's freakier than I thought. If her ideals weren't so skewed and nonsensical, I would have gladly called her sister and staked an oath to serve her for the rest of my life,' she thought.

She sensed Aizel watching from elsewhere, and Nigerra as well. Her eyes were shining in that unnerving fashion they always did when she found yet another woman who was better than most men in combat.

'Is she still not planning to kill wom-'Franceesta began, but an abrupt rise in the intensity of the Nitros above her stole her attention.

In the centre of the Territories erected by her beasts... a strange power was emerging.

It grew rapidly. It ballooned wildly and quickly eclipsed the other Territories around it,

pushing them back!

'What the...!' Franceesta thought, bewildered.

What in the world was happening?

A Territory?

How could that woman expel a Territory when she was under the influence of the Eye of the Prince amplified beyond what she could handle with just her Eye of Dispersal in a single burst?

It didn't make sense!

It didn't make... sense...?

In the next second, as the two hundred Territories were pushed away in a magnificent, queer display of power, Franceesta was overwhelmed by what she saw. She gaped, and tears began

falling from her eyes.

Nigerra damn near had the same reaction. Her eyes beamed with both joy and admiration.

But Aizel was disgusted and horrified.

It was then that she realised it. There was no way she could compete with an enemy like this.