F-Rank Puppeteer!! But I'll be Queen, and I'm not a narcissist!!!!!-Chapter 191: Ongoing Battles
"General Lucien, the troops are ready to go through the underground!" a soldier says to me as we march toward the plain. I give him a nod.
"Excellent. We can’t let the enemy exploit their tactical advantage. We’ll crush them quickly and force them into a short defensive battle." I see we’re almost there.
I can already see the angels’ defensive army. They have only forty thousand soldiers on their side, against our hundred thousand. They clearly didn’t have time to send more troops, since the [Bridge] is new. Not to mention the magic limit—activating it must consume a monstrously immense amount of Hikishin, requiring time to use.
"..." Their army begins to march, flying toward us. My troops who can fly start doing the same, while the ground forces advance against the angel troops who have also decided to go underground.
’It’s better if I handle the aerial combat, since that bastard Laplace will take care of the ground...’ I left one of my sub-generals leading the underground troops. We just need to be quick and unpredictable.
"..." I shoot forward at extreme speed, passing my own army and reaching the angels in seconds. The first angels try to strike me, but I grab my relic.
[Mercurial Star-Hunter]—a metallic slime that can change shape according to the user’s will. It can be used for attack and defense, has excellent magical and physical resistance, and great attacking power.
My weapon turns into a sword, and in an instant, I behead dozens of angels with a single slash. One tries to attack me from behind, but I block the strike with a dagger and pierce the angel’s chest with another dagger, using the weapon’s shape-shifting ability.
Because of my blessing, this relic is perfect for me. It changes shape rapidly and combines very well with what my blessing does.
"..." My flying army soon arrives here, clashing with the angels. The sounds of swords, armor, and screams begin everywhere, while I see the battle below has also started.
’Laplace should take a few minutes to complete the encirclement...’ I ignore that, focusing on my own fight. I form a large spear and impale several angels, saving one of my soldiers.
"[Pranice]." I use a fire spell, which generates a great wave of flames like a gaping maw. The flames cover a wide area, closing in and swallowing numerous angels, carbonizing everything within.
"..." I see one angel among them all, flying higher, emitting an intense concentration of magic. He’s doing something suspicious, which draws attention, and I immediately realize.
"A DOMAIN! SOLDIERS, FALL BACK!!!" I shout to give all the soldiers time to retreat. The angel is forming a domain. I don’t have time to form my own domain perfectly, so I use it however I can.
"Arena of Single Combat." I use my domain, and the angel releases his upon seeing I’m also activating mine. Our two domains collide simultaneously, covering a vast area. Reality seems to fragment for an instant, and then we appear inside the environment formed by the two domains.
Arena of Single Combat (Description = Creates a dimension that is a giant arena. Everyone inside is forced to remain in the spectator stands while a 1v1 fight occurs with each enemy within the dimension.)
My domain, unfortunately, loses its 1v1 effect because of the enemy domain. So all allied and enemy soldiers captured are free and continue fighting, with no one trapped in the stands. I look at the scenery.
The arena exists, but the sky of the place is completely golden, like liquid gold—different from my domain’s—while the environment smells of a strange, sweet fruity scent belonging to the enemy domain.
Because two domains are coexisting, we’ve both lost the more precise effects of our domains, though he also lost the best effect of his.
I charge at the angel with a sword, delivering a strike he blocks with a golden halberd.
"Impressive. An angel who knows how to use a domain. I didn’t think I’d see someone that strong around here," I say, praising him. I really didn’t expect an angel capable of using a domain, much less using it so early in the war.
"I have no words for a demon." Numerous circles appear in the sky, and from them, hundreds of weapons are fired at me. I block them all with a shield and dodge the angel’s thrust, grabbing his spear with a gauntlet.
I kick him in the face. My domain can still force everyone to fight without interfering with other fights, so no one can come to help this angel because of my domain’s "rule."
"..." He seems to be trying to make his portals fire at all the demons here inside, but he can’t. He’s forced to aim only at me, so he starts madly firing weapons in my direction.
But I easily defend against everything. My blessing makes fighting me with weapons extremely difficult. However, since he’s an angel with a domain, killing him will be hard if I’m not careful.
’I hope my sub-generals can lead without me.’ While I’m inside the domain, I won’t be able to command, so the soldiers outside will have to manage on their own.
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"Laplace-sama... we’ve verified the area and haven’t been noticed yet..." My sub-general says to me, his gaze blatantly going to my chest. I shift uncomfortably.
All my soldiers are acting strange about my appearance, and unfortunately, they can’t stop staring at my breasts, curves, and ass. On top of that, the whispering is irritating.
"...What is that..." The soldiers look upward, and I see Lucien has used his domain in the sky. A large black sphere floats temporarily before disappearing. Thus, no one else will be able to enter or break the domain now.
"You, go inform the other side to speed up! We have to encircle the [Bridge] in five minutes!" I say, as all the soldiers quicken their pace, breaking into a run.
The section I’m in soon arrives behind the enemy quickly after a brief run, reaching the area behind the [Bridge]. There are at least three thousand soldiers—not enough to handle all my soldiers who are surrounding the area.
"Attack." I give a command, which spreads through the sub-generals. All my soldiers advance from the sides and rear. The angels notice and prepare to try and defend the place, where they’ve built a small base with a tower.
’For now, I’ll let my soldiers handle it...’ I won’t be able to fight well. My new body is so disproportionate it gets in the way of everything. If I try to strike forward, these damn gigantic breasts throw off my balance and nearly knock me over. If I try to lean back, my ungainly body doesn’t help either, and I’m clearly slower now. So I’d rather avoid it.
"..." Carefully hidden, I point at the angels’ base and use my blessing, shaping the walls of their base into thorns. Then I fire them all like a storm of spikes that hit several angels in the back.
I stomp the ground hard, feeling the presence of the soldiers underground, and thus open a large space inside and around the angels’ base for everyone to pass through. However, considering the angels’ formation, we still can’t take the base now.
’At this rate, barring unforeseen events and if we defeat all the strong angels, we should be able to take the base in...’ Before I can finish the thought, an immense explosion of light occurs, vaporizing all the demons in the area. Even my three sub-generals, who were S-Rank, die instantly.
"!!!" I jump back, dodging a strike, and see a girl. She has short white hair and golden eyes, with two pairs of wings and a giant angelic halo. She’s wielding an enormous, pure-white spear. Her white armor looks like a powerful defensive relic.
’What the hell is a Royal Guard angel doing here!?’ Royal Guard angels aren’t normally sent to battlefields, so we never predicted one would be here, as their duty is purely and exclusively to defend their rulers.
"Dirty, sneaky demon." The girl delivers a strike, and I barely dodge. Everything behind me is vaporized by the spear’s strike. The trees in the distance turn to ash as a hole forms in the wake of the blow.
But I managed to touch her spear. And because of my curse, which makes everything I touch lose 50% of its attributes, her spear loses some of its glow and grows weaker.
"..." She jumps back and stares at me.
"You... are one of the Demon King’s children? Who?" She looks confused. Of course she would. After all, only the soldiers know I changed genders.
"I don’t need to explain myself to an angel." I try to use [Charm] on her, but the charm has zero effect. I normally use Charm to weaken, but I forgot that now I’m a girl, and the spell only works on the opposite gender.
"You... tried to seduce me? YOU SLUT!" She delivers a powerful upward strike as I fly high up, getting out of the attack’s area, which sends an immense white slash forward.
’She killed over twenty-nine thousand soldiers in one strike...’ I don’t know if I can win this, but with little time to think, I try another spell.
"[Lust Induction], [Downfall], [Seduction], [Brand of Concupiscence], [Chains of Desire], [Gift of Infernal Fertility]." I try to use several spells, but they all fail because we’re the same gender.
And I only learned spells meant to be used on the opposite gender. She feels no lust for me. She feels nothing for me. She doesn’t see me as seductive. She isn’t promiscuous. She has no desire for me. And because I’m a woman, she feels no reproductive desire for me.
All the spells hit the one barrier I never prepared for: gender. If I were a man, this many sexual debuff spells would have left her extremely weakened. She’d still fight, but I could easily dominate her. But now, they all simply have zero effect and only made me waste magic. And with each spell I used, her face contorted more into something furious and full of utter disgust for me.
"I’LL KILL YOU, YOU WHORE! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO SEDUCE A SERVANT OF THE ANGEL QUEEN!" She charges at me extremely fast, and for the first time in a battle, I can’t handle a girl well, feeling a certain fear that makes my heart beat faster. I’m being forced to try and fight with normal spells now.
