The return from the world within her skill, was…quite harsh, she returo her body only to find it weaving around shadow spikes. Apparently she hadn’t quite experimented a time stop as she had thought.

  So [The Shadow Tide] took the ce when her sciousness left her body. At least her body had reacted accly moving to dodge, while she was dealing with the remnants of Aetheria, at least she had learned some things about her skill.

  “[Hmph, so what if you make puny ons. Your weak skill will not be able to pierce all the way, my Divine Granted power will grant my Wish.]” [The Shadow Tide] ranted as he summoned more and more shadow zombies from within his [Shadow Tide], they stumbled and crawled away from it and zeroed into Elizabeth.

  As if she was a bea of light in the darkness…And sidering she was bathed in Holy Lightning, she may as well be.

  Even so, she wasn’t scared, not anymore. Not after she awoke this new skill, a skill that ected her to her Haven, to the space within her Soul, straight to her Domain. This skill was a game-ger, a trustworthy armory full of ons that could help her with her battle against [The Shadow Tide]. And since Reginald was ensuring no influence was left on that part of her skill, she could finally let go.

  So raising her hand Elizabeth called upon her skill.

  “Opee to the Armory.” Elizabeth felt a ripple in the space spread behind her, owo, three…a huwo hundred….a thousand….ten thousand…. From the inal ripple in space, Elizabeth felt the space behind her distort as thousands of swords, spears, maces, hammers, arrows, and even s poked their head from the empty space. Each on was unique, with intricate designs and a menag aura. “Open your eyes wide and prepare yourself.”

  Elizabeth smirked as even the mindless shadow zombies stood there awestruck as Elizabeth’s Armory en and the ons showed themselves.

  Of course, this was not a free show; Elizabeth khat these were mere illusions of the ons she could summon; not even her mana was that vast. Should she summon all these ons, she would end up without any mao fight.

  But then again, she didn’t o summon them all in one go… Even though Elizabeth liked to joke about how she failed to fight back the bimbo allegations, she was not stupid. She khat summoning all these ons at once would deplete her mana, leaving her vulnerable. Instead, she po summorategically, o a time in small quantities, testing how much mana they ed. She slowly ramped up its use when she was fortable, using them to her advahout exhausting her resources.

  “Seven Series - Pride’s ” Elizabeth, first and foremost, only o take what had made from a washed-out A-Tier Hero into this mohe unending horde of victims afflicted by his Taint. So she summoned her , the ohat she had got a few days ago.

  The ohat allowed her very specific power she had thought would never use, but now was very useful. For it would allow her to take his power away…

  “Railgun - Gattling.” After getting the on her head, the thing was quite simple for something that was based upon her [Pride], if anything it looked more like a Tiara than a .

  Even so, Elizabeth used what had bee one of her best ways of attack; she summohe lighting at her bad focused it on the seven ripples near her. Each space ripple got a Railgun, eaaterialized a on and all of them shot at the same time.

  As soon as a on materialized it got supercharged and shot at three times the speed of sound towards the gregation of Shadow Zombies, to be ho Elizabeth couldn’t see quite well the projectile flying, she could, however. See the destru that happened when the on embedded itself into the ground.

  In the best-case sario, the Shadow Zombies got vaporized at the tact. Elizabeth felt a trickle of her mana dissapear as something was caught into her and ripped away and shoved into her Domain.

  At first, the effect was negligible; what mattered if a few dozen of Shadow Zombies got annihited?

  “[STOP!]” But soon enough even a monkey would notiething was amiss, “[WHAT ARE YOU DOING?]”

  [The Shadow Tide] seemed to focus on and try to pull something from his [Shadow Tide], but nothing came out of it, “[What have you stolen from me?!?!? You all fot my Sister and then dared to steal what is rightfully mine?!?!?]” [The Shadow Tide] screamed as he raved and threw Shadow Spikes at her.

  “Rho Aias.” Elizabeth merely said raising her hand and was holy waiting for the weird leather shield that Akira had used, that one looked shabby as hell, instead what maed in front of her was a beautiful seven-yered magical circle, each yer was made out of a superimposed shield out of different materials.

  The first yer seemed to be made out of Goldeal, followed by a bck material, then blue, red, pink, white and finally silver. Seven yers of different colors set oer the other.

  The Shadow Spikes struck against the golden yer and seemed to evaporate as usual, but Elizabeth got the impression that the yers could be moved as needed. How had the shabby leather shield turned into this?

  Perhaps what she was calling and what Akira called were fually different?

  “Hmm….if so….” Elizabeth thought back at the fight and the ons that Akira had summoned, he had called forth dangerous ons that looked shabby too, “Longinus.”

  Elizabeth focused oh behind this Spear, a spear that was allegedly used to kill gods in some myths, while other depis told a tale of a standard on that got almost revered si was used to make sure the son of God was truly dead.

  In a sense, both had the same implications, to fatally wound the divine. But the implications vastly made for different ons, what Akira had summoned was closer to what she expected from the inal to be…

  But what Elizabeth got….

  “Yeah….mine are….weird.” Was vastly different, her ‘Spear’ was closer to a diapason than a spear, it had a blood red metallic shaft and instead of a pointy end it, it forked into two ends. “This is more of a diapason than a spear tho…”

  It was weird, but Elizabeth was fully aware that this Spear was dangerous, it had an ominous feeling, and it was closer to something that Elizabeth felt could truly damage her Domain. What was it called? A Bident? A twed implement resembling a pitchfork of a on.

  “Railgun - Sealing Shot.” So she threw it into the air and made a maginon for it, she poi straight at [The Shadow Tide] ahe skill do the rest.

  She felt some resistance from her skill, as if the Spear of Longinus refused to bend down to her, even so. She didn’t he permission from the on, nor its acceptance, she was using cold physid logic. If the on refused to magize itself to the wavelength of her Railgun…

  “I only o ge the el to fit the magic properties of your make…” Elizabeth felt a smirk form on her face as the properties of the Spear of Longinus started flowing into her mind.

  The make of the metal and its properties, she ighe Mystic properties and instead focused oals, she he magic charge and nothing else, she felt the data flow into her brain and sure enough, the on was metalli its make.

  Mystic Metal? Perhaps, but aal had a magic field, and Elizabeth only o match it and make the on of her Railgun patible with it, she only needed a spark to match it.

  And after some fiddling with the magic field she made it possible, the Railgun matched the correct frequend so, it mattered not if the Spear wa or not, it was shot at almost five times the speed of sound (Elizabeth may have feed more power into it to get back at the on) against [The Shadow Tide] and his [Shadow Tide].

  Just as before [The Shadow Tide] sank into the wave of shadows to try and protect himself, perhaps he expected this to fail like the previous attempt?

  Elizabeth couldn’t help but smile at that; the previous attempt had failed because her ammo couldn’t withstand the might of her power, but this? This was a on out of the Myths, quite literally, not the recreation of the on wielded by mortals.

  And instead a recreation of a on from what said mortals thought it would be, instead of the generic Spear made for a soldier. It was a Divine on capable of felling gods; it should be able to withstand the rigors of Match 5 and the immeemperatures from the fri as it pierced the sound barrier.

  So, as she expected, the Spear bsted through the [Shadow Tide] and sank into the floor, leaving behind a huge hole and the stare of a surprised [Maximilian Windsor], not [The Shadow Tide], but the faaximilian Windsor].

  How was it different? For a sed Elizabeth had seen not the Madness of [The Shadow Tide], but the astoundished face of a broken man.

  “Also, for your information. I do know the name of your Sister, she was someone important to me too.” Elizabeth said as she took the image of the broken man that once had been her [Hero].

  “[Impossible.]” He said as he turo look to his arm, or what was left of it anyway. The Spear of Longinus had ripped it apart and into the floor almost 300 meters behind him, had he attempted to use it to shield himself? Did he miss his ce to dodge ahe arm nailed instead?

  Elizabeth didn’t know.

  “[How you, a mere brat. Remember the name of MY SISTER.]” [The Shadow Tide] shook his head as shadows bloomed from his stump, making a new arm made entirely out of shadows. “[I will not stand for this disrespect, you may have proven to be a worthy ior of the power of one of my former friends. But your power shows your allegiance.]”

  It did?

  “[I will not be thwarted by the Italians. Even if you hide your name, only a De’Medici would wield Divine ons like that.]” [The Shadow Tide] said as he cloaked himself in more shadows, these seemed to have red pulsating veins c him as if to spread and make sure he was fully Tainted. “[I will recover what is mine!]”

  …Yeah, that still sounded sketchy as hell. Did Chloe really have a healthy retionship with him?

  But then again, who was Elizabeth to judge the retionships of other people?

  So Elizabeth re-energized the Railguns she had made before and tweaked the dire they pointed “Reload, Aim, Shoot.”

  As the words left her mouth, Elizabeth felt the mana drop and the Railgun ons re align, her Armory still had plenty of ons and she could even feel some ons brimming with energy as if to askio use them, she of course took them into sideration but decide to set them apart.

  For now these would remain at the side finald to use if needed, she was still wary about Aetheria and Akira. So she would save those for ter unless she got a kill shot…But then again, she wasn’t suppose to kill [The shadow tide]....

  “[YOU.WILL.FALL!]” Even if he seemed to be quite i on making her kill him, he tinued raving and throwing spears made out of shadows at her, Elizabeth was starting to get a what once was quite a valid strategy that she loved to use.

  And so he started spreading his shadows, using his own [Shadow Tide] as fuel, making solid walls out of shadows to block her barrage. Each time one of her attacks hit these walls, Elizabeth could see the shadows attempting to taint her ons, but all her ons had been supercharged with her Divine Lightning, so they not only resisted the influence, but they bursted into spheres of purging fire.

  [The Shadow Tide] was still trying to fight her away, even though both of them khat Elizabeth had the advantage by the mere fact that her Divine Lightning was ao his shadows. He could not Taint her, and Elizabeth could destroy his shadows.

  Even so, he raised his attatensity trying to nail down Elizabeth, while Elizabeth just kept her Rho Aias active, blog as many attacks as they came her way.

  At this point, what had been a dangerous enter had morphed into...something pathetic.

  There was no thought behind these attacks, no master pn, no trap hidden within the barrage, nothing. Just a broken man throwing a tantrum.

  "You really are a pathetic little man." Elizabeth said as she sighed, as she took in the appearance of this man.

  She couldn't help but pity him a little.

  But only a little, since he did cause much pain and suffering to not only two different Chloes, but also to Alice. He could not be allowed to get away with that.

  So Elizabeth started analyzing what she had achieved, the amount of damage she had made, the size parisoween the [Shadow Tide] of now and the ohat was at the start; the differewardly didn't seem as much. From where Elizabeth was standing it looked about the same, but acc to her se was different.

  The pressure ing from the [Shadow Tide] was weaker, it hadn't as much gravity to it, or was it mass? She couldn't quite , but she k seemed more brittle.

  So looking at her oool and how much it was going down...She was surprised at seeing that it wasn't quite going down as low as she had thought, turnitention more to it she noticed that she was getting a trickle of mana from a new part of her Haven.

  What looked to be some kind of tribal group of...birds? They seemed to be some kind of small round-ish yellow bird that occasionally burst into lumps of lightning to move around.

  But whatever they were they seemed to be the reason that her mana wasn't going down as far as it should, these ones seemed to be fueling her mana regeion...Somehow.

  She would look at them ter.

  For now, this meant that she had a bigger allowance for what she was able to use in this bat, case in point...She now could afford to spam her ons and increase her allowance from seven railgun ons to fourteen.

  Not that mu the grand scheme of things, merely going twice as much... But when you were shooting, what was a railgun from Mach three to Mach Five that was almost iructible projectile? Well, each on made you more of a nuisahan before.

  "Railgun Rain." Yeah, Elizabeth was not proud of that one. But the effect was felt heless, as another series of seven Railgun aterialized surrounding her.

  Eae of those had their own ripple into space that loaded a neon; this time, Elizabeth focused her ons on spears, as they were more aerodynamic for throwing. Granted, some of those had ored parts as they seemed to be famed ons. And uhe practical ohese were designed frandeur and not so much for war.

  Even so Elizabeth didn't mind that much, what does it matter if a on loses some speed when its base speed is around Mach 3?

  Not much; Mach 3 and Mach 2.9 are around the same; if you get hit with something at that speed, it will still hurt. And so with a rate of fourteen on shot at [The Shadow Tide] Elizabeth slowly ahodically started destroying his [Shadow Tide].

  First she went ahead and cut the e he had with the broader part of his [Shadow Tide], she sent her Railguns as if they were a beam using them to cut him away from the rest. As soon as the broader parts were separated it was a child's py to extermihe other parts.

  Elizabeth wehodically redug his broader access to shadows, [The Shadow Tide] of course caught on to it and started to pull the excess shadows into himself. However, not even Elizabeth could house that many shadows, and she had her Haven to offload most of them.

  So it was now only a matter of time. The critical bit would be if someone would e to interrupt her before she was done, and she would have to trust Jenna to prevent that.