Angel Monarch-Chapter 272: Defense of Rome (4)
Sera and Kastral flew towards the floating platform, which glowed with the colors of the rainbow. The circular platform was paper thin and a few kilometers wide in each direction.
Atop the platform, pure mayhem ruled. The time between the breaking of the Aegis System, their resurrection, and their arrival to the platform was close to two minutes.
The fighting had barely started, but it was already coming to its breaking point. Two Transcended and a couple abnormally strong Ascended could hold back six well trained Transcended.
From just one look, Sera determined the difficulty of the fight, and the odds weren’t in their favor at all. The six Transcended fought like a singular unit, each with their own job in maintaining order in the midst of chaos.
Sera’s own people, on the other hand, weren’t used to fighting side by side. They were all strong in their own regard, but they lacked in synergy, which quickly showed as they suffered more and more powerful blows.
The fighting turned into smaller skirmishes, with one person at its center. One of the six Transcended stood in the middle of the platform.
The man wore white robes, covering every part of his body. His presence had a healing and buffing effect on his comrades, while it debuffed and slowed healing for Sera’s group.
He also seemed to mutter something under his breath as he watched the skirmishes like a hawk. He obviously relayed commands to the rest of his cohort.
There were five skirmishes, but overall it boiled down to two dominant sides.
On one, Cass, Lucy, and Kim fought against two of the Transcended. One of them was a massive woman, wearing an armor made of some shiny material that resembled the chitin on the outside of bugs.
She used a gigantic three meter greatsword as her weapon. Both her armor and weapon were dark, almost black, purple.
She wasn’t very useful when she fought with the weapon, but no matter what they attack her with, her armor never gets penetrated. The only person who managed to do damage to her seemed to be Lucy.
Her Reaper’s Scythe ignored armor, and could kill much stronger beings. For this reason, the second person focused mostly on her.
It was a giant monster, over five meters tall, with seven arms growing out of its body at random places. Each had seven sets of claws that seemed to cut through everything.
It stood on three massive, spider-like hairy legs. The head was canine-like, full of rotting teeth, and with a putrescent breath. Pieces of blackened, scorched clothes hang from its hairy black body.
Fighting against it, Lucy wore a smooth black dress, made with the smoky substance of the Essence of Life and Death. Each time the beast touched it, a part of its soul got absorbed.
Her intricate black scythe had a similar smokiness to it, making the weapon even more deadly.
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Cass and Kim held the beetle woman up while Lucy fought. They didn’t like each other at all, but on the battlefield they fought with exceptional synergy, like some invisible connection existed between the two.
Kim fought like a maniac. The slow beetle woman had no chance of catching her, even as a Transcended. Her two green blades made minor scratches on the chitin armor, but couldn’t get past it.
She also tried to petrify the woman, but alas, it had also failed. Her transformed snake-human hybrid form could restrict the woman for a few seconds, and she used this type of attack often.
Cass fought a bit more unnaturally. She floated around in her glimmering rainbow form, and she kept causing havoc over the platform she made.
She caused random spikes to stab into the six Transcended, or summoned walls for no reason, which slowed attacks down. Sometimes, she even made the platform disappear below one foot of some enemies, making them stumble.
They were adapting to her inconveniences, but her ability was best for wasting time, and that’s exactly what they needed.
None of them fought to win, but to stall. If they managed to kill one or two of the six Transcended, then good riddance, but the plan was to fight defensively until Sera and Kastral arrived.
The second skirmish was a much worse state than the first for both parties. The last three Transcended fought against Bea, Joan, Eula, and Damien.
Bea wore her bark armor, with her usual wooden longsword. She fought basically one-on-one with a woman wearing black leather armor and wielding a plain-looking katana.
The woman didn’t seem to be transformed, or her transformation didn’t change her looks noticeably. Her weapon had a slight ethereal glow on it, but that was the only indicator of its specialness.
She and Bea crossed blades continuously. The woman as a Transcended was much faster, but Bea’s cunning swordplay almost made up the difference… Almost…
A few attacks went through, but the sword seemed to enter and exit Bea’s body, like it had no physical form. Each time it happened, Bea screamed in pain as the katana tore into her soul.
The weapon could damage a soul’s structure while ignoring physical defenses. With each attack, Bea’s soul got more destabilized, making her look pale and sickly.
Without removing any pieces, the soul would heal in a few hours or days; however, a prolonged fight would cost her life. She fought with this in mind, and tried to stay on the defensive, evading most strikes and not punishing openings.
The other part of the same skirmish felt like a fever dream when Sera saw it. Joan and Eula both wore their electric armor, with their longswords. They stood side-by-side and constantly tried to blast a strange small creature with their electricity.
It was a one meter tall humanoid rat. It wore a few scrap metals over its body, making clanking noises with each movement. It also had two small shotguns, which didn’t seem to run out of ammo.
The rat was also extremely fast, dodging lightning bolts left and right. It ignored the twins and instead tried to shoot at Damien rather insufficiently.
Close to hundred percent of the shot either missed or got blocked by ice walls, but a few got through Damien’s defenses, hitting his enormous tiger body.
The bullets only caused minor debuffs, so his focus stayed on the sixth and last Transcended.
Both Sera’s and Kastral’s eyes widened a bit in weirdness and disgust. Sera never knew she had hatred towards amphibians, but upon staring at the last Transcended, she wanted to vomit.
In front of Damien’s armored saber-tooth tiger form, a gigantic toad crawled around. The thing had no armor or weapons, but just its presence was enough to cause issues.
Around the toad, a cloud of purple vapor rose, which slowly crawled over the battlefield, poisoning everybody. It made no difference if they were allies or enemies, but with the white-robed healer in the middle, the six Transcended would outlast Sera’s group.
Another problem with the toad was its very tough, dry, brown skin. Each attack Damien threw its way didn’t seem to hurt it at all. The ice attacks broke to pieces, while his claws only left shallow wounds that healed quickly.
As things turned for the worse on the battlefield, the reinforcements had finally arrived.
Sera and Kastral spent a second looking through the battlefield, deciding on the best place to lend their support. They didn’t even have to talk, since the answer was very obvious.
They flew a few hundred meters away from the platform, and as Kastral began moving, he went past the speed of sound in less than a second.
He sped up as much as he could, so they reached the white-robed man without giving him time to react.
The plan worked greatly, or at least it should’ve. But as they flew above the toad, it opened its mouth, sending a long, slimy, revolting pink tongue their way.
It intercepted Kastral and brought him down to the ground. The toad’s mouth wasn’t large enough to fit the giant hippogryph inside, but it tried anyway.
Kastral’s flames didn’t even bother it, and a pulling contest began between the two beasts.
Sera had already left her mount behind, and instead, she flew straight towards the healer in the middle. They had run out of time, and with the white-robed man’s constant buffing, they had no chance of winning.
With the five meter lance in her hand, she beat her wings as fast as she could. She kept some of Kastral’s momentum, which further helped with her acceleration.
While the fight between the toad and the hippogryph distracted the white-robed man, Sera dropped from above, like an eagle, onto its prey.
Her long golden lance became alight with her cleansing flames, and as she sped further, the air burned around her.
Eventually, the man noticed Sera’s missing presence, but by that time, it was already too late. As he looked around, confused, Sera’s lance entered through his skull and exited through his crotch.
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The white flames then exploded, making his whole body vaporize. A large chunk of the platform’s middle also got destroyed, but Sera just floated above the opening without care.
Her eyes were already looking for her next victim!
