Now that she had seen Akira's [in] for what it was, she was at the very least more fortable with her step, granted she hadn't been sure it would show like that. So far, she khat [ins] werely a known sce for her.

  Hell, she didn't uand half of what her own [in] had shown to her, but Akira's in?

  Yeah, that couldn't be read any other way but the obvious one, he was [The Depraved Tyrant], there weren't many ways that one could be read.

  "I could ignore you before. Even if you weren't a pyer, you have a good body, so I wouldn't miing you live." Akira said as the knight's sword dissolved into motes of sludge-looking mana and fell onto the floor, eroding it and making a sizzling sound. "Hell, even if you were a forty-year-old man ihat meatsuit I wouldn't mind it, you do you and all of that."

  His mana seemed to boil more and more within his [Vessel] as he spoke. Elizabeth wasn't sure what he was thinking as ht noould he even think she was a forty-year-old man inside her body? Wasn't she feminine enough? What the hell kind of world did Akira e from?

  "But this will be your st ce, Lizzy, [Ko me], bey [Meat sack], and I will maybe let a figment of your [Self] survive within that body. Hell, I may eve whatever daughter you birth be my [Sve]. " Akira said as she heard the scream of agony in his mind from her [Shadow Scout] running away from within Akira's shadow. "Hoh...So that's how you did it, you wormed a [bug] within my shadow?"

  "[Report....Mistress...Target...has...arrived...at...breaking...point.... beware...]" Her shadow scout said as a st status s fred within her mind.

  Status

  Name: Suzuki Akira

  Title: [Hero Trainee]

  Passive Titles:

  [The Promised Hero]

  [Awakened - Brave]

  [The one who ran away]

  Level: 30

  Health: 100%

  Mana: 100%

  Stamina: 100%

  Age: Body 17

  Soul: 50 / Degrading

  Strength: 200 +170

  stitution: 36 +20

  Agility: 100 + 270

  Dexterity: 90 + 60

  Intelligence: 20 + 80

  Wisdom: 5

  Charisma: 5

  Job: [Hero]

  Job Skills[9]:

  General Skills (9)

  Title Skills: (4)

  She firmed the st bit of information and thahe [Minion] while sending him towards the [Healers] within her [Shadow Haven], not sure if it would help, but she wao make sure the ohat risked [Corruption] from suasty mana had the best ces to survive.

  She wasn't quite sure where she stood with all the [Minions] having Souls that she had going, but for now, she would treat them as panions, lest she end up mistreating them only to find that Beato or Sebastian would feel unwanted...

  But for now, she focused on Akira aiting for her answer, she found it iing that he wasn't sending more mana threads her way, had he learned his lesson?

  "So, you wao bee like [Rena], and the only advantage of it would be that whatever hellspawn that was birthed would maybe survive long enough to repce me?" Asked Elizabeth, feeling dirty from the mere thought of such a cruel fate.

  "Being the [Daughter] of a top [Hero] like me should be blessing enough for them. Servihat would be a reward in itself." Akira answered back at her as a bastard sword maed in his hand.

  "My answer will be a [No], or to be precise it will be a [Go and F#ck yourself.]" Elizabeth answered at Akira.

  And after doing so she started her pn, it was simple enough really. She first anded her [Minions] t from within the shadowed floor to burst forward, each hidden within a [Shadow Spear] and all of them flying straight at Akira at the fastest speed possible for her mana.

  He, however, didn't seem to be too uled from this, "[Buster Sword - Sevenfold defense.]" Akira intoned as his buster sword broke into seven different swords that danced around him.

  He then started by grabbing the o him and using that one he sliced in two the first attack from the closest spear, then when his sword iably got stu the cws of her minions, he discarded it and grabbed the one. Like this, he started dang around as he grabbed the sword aed it like that.

  His swords were bathed in his murky mana and they eroded the shadow minions ging to them, so as they evaporated auro her [Shadow haven] for deination the swot released, and so, he tinued his macabre dance as he sshed apart the attacks that flew to him.

  Dang around the seven swords as he struck down eae of her attacks, it wasn't long before he had fihe round of spears that she had sent toward him. And as he fihem off, he threw one sword after the merging them bato the inal buster sword.

  "Heh, I khat those skills were better put to use in a [Hero] like me. That bitch could never do something like this even with all those levels she has over me." Akira smirked at the sword as he poi towards Elizabeth. "Let's see, how was it again? ht...It was [Getsuga Ten50u]."

  And as he fihose words he swinged his sword down, but unlike before that Elizabeth hadn't been ready, she knew what to expect, so her body started moving as soon as the mental and to her [Shadow Puppeteer] skill pinged.

  Her body started reag as soon as the sword bde started flying towards her, only, uhe one before, this one was faster and sharper. It was traveling almost twice as fast as the one before. Her body still mao get out of the way (Mostly), but the sharp mana withiack still mao hurt her.

  As the sharp winds created from the attack left cuts all over her [Shift], and that wasn't the worst part of it, each wound created from that attaehow mao make her [Bleed], not mana like it should be since she was in her [Shift], but actual blood.

  Her body still mao close those wounds as they got created, but she was still ed from the wounds created from the attack, that shouldn't be possible.

  "Stop dodging, if you are a [Pyer] you should fight like one." Akira said with an ainge in his voice. "Or if you aren't a [Pyer] but an [NPC] then act like one and bee [EXP] for a [Hero] to grow!"

  That was getting annoying, "[Fire]+ [Water Wind] +[Lighting]+[Earth]+[Light]+[Shadows]+[Space]+[Merge]= [Barrage Elemental Bster]" And after merging almost all the elements Elizabeth knew she unched her [Spell].

  Seven different magic circle joined maed around her as they merged above and shot a rainbow colored barrage of attacks towards Akira, she wasn't uhe delusion that this would make him flinch or anything.

  Really, he had so many stats above her that it ossible that he may even think about tanking the attack, but in the end his self-entitlement won as his [Buster Sword] split in seven diferent swords once more.

  She didn't even deign to listen to what he was saying as she left the trol of her [Barrage] to her Royal Mages, instead she focused her mind into the spell she o cast.

  "[Soul]+[Mind]+[Shadow]+ [Body of Mana] +[Transform]= [Shadow Meld]" And with that she felt her body transform into a stream of shadows that sank into the arena floor.

  Akira was too busy trying to dodge or destroy her [Barrage], up there in pce of her body she materialized a [Shadow Doppelganger], a skill that she hated with all her [Soul], but that it was just too useful to not use, she had dug into her [Soulscape] till she found enough rema of its use to materialize it once more and then immediately [Banked] it.

  She didn't want to touch it, and it seemed that those [Banked] skills didn't grow with [Proficy] or skill levels, but with her knowledge of the skill and its use.

  So, while she wouldn't get nice bonus from it, so long she uood what she was doing she could use it nicely enough, and since she [Knew] herself, she could make [Doppelgangers] of herself easily enough. Not that they had that much power, nor were a game ger. Most of what those [Shadow Doppelgangers] could do, she could do easily enough without one in the area.

  But the ability to pretend to be in two pces at the same time? No way that wasn't going to be useful iure, and while she could only link her [Sight] with them, she had hopes for the other senses remaining to join soon enough.

  But for now?

  "[Move along with the pn, try to not get hit]." She ordered to the [Doppelganger] as her [Self] traveled within the shadows to her target.

  Akira had almost finished dealing with her [Barrage] and was still speaking about something, she could see the [] that traveled towards Rena shining brightly under her [Sight], and [Mana] traveling towards Akira from it.

  It wasn't the murky mana that he wielded, instead it was fire red mana that turned darker and murkier as it traveled towards Akira, she had a bad feeling about that one, but tried to not think too much about it. Instead, when she was close enough to Akira she moved to the part of her pn.

  "[Start phase 2]." She ordered her [Shadows], and as her orders left her metaphorical mouth her doppelgaarted ting. "[Dwellers of the dark heed my call, rise from within the deep pce hidden from mankind, rise once more and bring forth the destru that pgued the birthpce of your kind...."]

  That sounded slightly more ominous than she remembered, wasn't the inal t that her [Doppelganger] was going to use a bastardiced version of Alexanders?

  "[...RISE ONCE MORE, SEVER THE TIES FED IN BLOOD, SEVER THE TIES UNILATERALLY CREATED BY THOSE THAT SEEK TO DESTROY, SEVER AND SEVER AGAIN.]" The voice of her [Doppelganger] started to resohin the shadow dome. Echo’s from the maws of her shadows speaking with her, eae distorted, a mockery of the voice of a human.

  "[SEVER ALL THAT EXISTS UHIS CURSED HEAVEN, SEVER ALL THAT EXISTS UHIS CURSED BLOOD, SEVER ALL THAT EXISTS FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF THE TYRANTS IN THEIR BLOODSTAIHRONES MADE OF GOLD AND JEWELS, SEVER ALL THAT WAS MADE WITH THE BLOOD OF THE I.]" Was...Was her [Doppelganger] okay?

  "[UHE MAIDEN OF SPAER NAME, I CALL UPON THY THE JUGDEMENT OF THE STARS!]" Her [Doppelganger] was what!?!?

  "[STAR ANNIHILATOR]!?" And with that her [Doppelganger]'s hair shone in a mysterious purple light as the shadows behind her shoh the light of a steltion made of purple stars.

  Her mana didn't felt like hers, it felt...filled with [Pain], but it still formed a magical circle with the design of a [Wanning Moon], and when it finished f a purple beam of light shot straight at Akira.

  He however didn't mind all of it, instead he stuck his sword in the arena floor near himself and started his own t. "[In the name of all that is-]" It robably a self-serving t full of pompous words and a t full of lies.

  "[ce!]" But for Elizabeth it was the best ce for her move. She quickly darted behind Akira and turned all the shadows behind Akira into a spear of darkness, the design was normal enough, it ear made with the core of [Stabby] and reinforced with all the mana she could spare.

  The spear had veins made of azure light bathed in golden mana, it ear that resembled the spike that the world had used to attack her before, so she knew of the efficy of this design.

  And without further ado "[SHOOT]! " She attacked Akira with it.

  "[-for all that is sacr] WHAT THE HELL?!?" Akira's t got interrupted as his reflexes (Probably those that he stole from Rena as his body fred with Red Mana before he reacted) made him spin and grab the buster sword to deflect the spear made of shadows. " DON'T YOU HAVE SHAME? YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO ATTA A TRANSFORMATION T OR ATTACK T!"

  But it was too te, she hadn't traveled with the spear of shadows ana, instead she had traveled uhe shadow of her attack, and she was right now... within Akira's defense.

  "[DEVOUR]!" And so, she morphed her [Self], her [Identity], her [SOUL] to truly embrace what her [in] was, she turned herself into [THE DEVOURER], but more importantly, she turned herself into [The One who weaved shadows]. And so, she dove within the [Shadow] of Akira, deep into his [Self].

  "Wha-?" Was the st thing Elizabeth Starbright heard in the realm of the living as her [Self] morphed closer and closer to a [Shadow], as she dove deeper and deeper into Akira.

  She turned from a human to mana, from mana into [Idea], and from [Idea] into [Shadows]. And as she dived deeper into what made Akira who he was, she found herself melding into nothingness.

  So, the ime she maed herself as [Her] she was surprised for where she had found herself. Why? Well, because she was within a school building.

  It was simir to the MPI main building except for a few differences, first of all.

  This school was wrong, no student was in a and they all traveled from building to building smiling while speaking about nothiweehey all seemed busy, but at the same time they were going in circles.

  Sed of all, the students itself were wrong, how? Easy, they all were females, there wasn't a single male in the campus as far as Elizabeth could see, and while it could mean that it was an all-female school, not even those that looked like teachers were male. Not the custodian, nor the guards, the prefect, teachers, cooks, gardener...no one.

  Third, and this was the main important reason, all the females dressed in miniskirts with shirts that stuck to their body and they all had more cleavage than fabric.

  " Where is your uniform?" And if that wasn't enough, a girl rushed to Elizabeth while speaking at her angrily, she was a blonde girl with blue eyes and a body that would make an actress weep.

  "You 't be around looking like this, what would our [KING] think, e with me, I have a spare uniform, you seem to be my size so it should work for you...And if not, retend that you are using the sports uniform." The bloarted speaking while grabbing her by the hand and pulliowards the school building.

  Elizabeth could see irls moving around, speaking and writing silly letters into envelopes with hearts ihey all kissed them close, dripped their perfume, put their hair and one even fondled her chest with the letter. They all were crazy.

  "Did you found a udent trying to worm into our [KING]'s attention by being different Lizzy?" A pink-haired girl spoke to the blohat had brought Elizabeth into a ging room.

  "You think she did it for that reason Lina?" Asked the blonde as she turo the new girl that had walked into the room.

  Elizabeth couldn't think straight right now, the world seemed to be wrong, "Rossie?" she said as she took the figure of the new girl into sideration.

  It... looked like her Rossie, but it was [WRONG], this girl had waist long hair uhe short hair her Rossie used, all the girls around had waist long hair with ponytails now that she took the p full.

  "Rossie? I'm Rossaline Singh, or how our [KING] named me, Lina." [FAKE]Rossie said as she turo the blonde, "Just like how Lizzy was Elizabeth Starbright before our [KING] bestowed his [SEED] to her and baptized her."

  "Lina, not in front of the new girl...You will make me blush remembering my baptize." The blonde girl blushed as she fondled her chest with one hand and the other went into her skirt.

  "[...stres....no.....sig.....nal....gen....cy....tocol....gage.....]" Elizabeth received part of a transmition from her shadows, but she ig.

  She couldn't feel a single [Shadht now, "Oh...I see...So this is how it is..." Elizabeth smiled as she saw both girls, both...[THINGS].

  She felt within herself and found her body didn't seem to fun as it should, she didn't felt the o breath at all, nor was anyone breathing for that matter, she touched her hand and searched for a pulse and found not only her body cold, but no pulse at all was within.

  Afterwards she grabbed the hands of the blonde and the pink-haired [THING] and found no pulse either in both girls, they didn't eve warm at all.

  "Hey! Only our [KING] touch us!" Screamed the pink [HIDEOUS THING] as she fought to release herself from Elizabeth's hand, she seemed almost deranged as she did so.

  In the meanwhile, Elizabeth focused and excimed "[BEAT]" as she forced the [Mana] within her body to kickstart.

  Nothing.

  "[BEAT]" She ordered once more, this time transf part of her [Mana] into [Lighting] and discharging it into herself, she screamed as the shock traveled through her body.

  She felt part of her [Self] burn within a lightheaded. That had [Burned] part of her [Existence] away, that was dangerous, she would need something stroo kickstart it again.

  But how was she supposed to get more mana without her [Ma] geing it?

  "Lina I think this girl is crazy!" The blohing] spoke as it hugged the pink [HIDEOUS THING].

  "Maybe...maybe we should get our [KING] ? He should know what to do Lizzy!" The pink [HIDEOUS THING] spoke back at the blonde one.

  ht...She only needed [Mana]...

  "Well well well, I think I know just the right thing to fix this." Elizabeth smiled as her clothes turned into [Mana] and then morphed into shadow s that flew straight at the two [THINGS]. She walked towards the door of the ging room and with a g she locked it close.

  "...wha- Is it Sunday already? Will you prepare us for our [KING]'s dinner?" Asked the pink [HIDEOUS THING].

  "Oh, you scared me for a sed, why didn't you said so? Now it makes sense why you don't have your uniform, you were going to use mine right? Our [KING] loves to find multiple smells in our uniforms after all, that is why I use a different part from multiple girls in mihe Blohing] said.

  But she was too busy ging her clothes into [Shadow structs] she would o [DEVOUR] two whole [THINGS] to turn into mana, so she o be sure that she would be able to digest them and turn them into [Mana] to kickstart her [Ma].

  But for now?

  "[DEVOUR]" She opened her mouth as the shadows that got created from her clothes turned inton maws and she bited down into the two [THINGS].

  All that could be heard was a chy a sound from the ging room, followed by the screams of two [THINGS] as they tried to fight back. It didn't st long before only silence was the only thing that remained.

  Followed by small cries of a girl in ay room.

  "...I'm sorry Rossie." And after those words the whole room shoh the light of thunder as it rained down into the room. Lighting strike after lighting strike. It took almost 14 attempts before the cries of Elizabeth calmed down.

  But in the end...

  *boom*

  A single beat could be heard, as it started to gain speed and soon enough it turned rhythmic. The [Drago] had awaken.

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