Part 1
The aim was perfected as the string was pulled waiting to be released, the tip was unlike any other not pointy but round with 30 little holes.
The rain that dripped fell sideways off the arrow.
The hands that held it was patient but the eye on the bow was rotating adjusting to the target which was giving without looking.
It scanned through the target looking for the one spot which is weak and hard to see.
One eye but three accuracies, aiming for a light that even the rain avoided at the same time burning the rain which came close to it.
Three layers of light, a spherical ring that covered 2 kilometers running clockwise, another spherical ring covering 500 meters running counterclockwise, and a small circler ring that stood behind her this one transparent as it released light energy reinforcing the light giants.
The wolf eye found three weak spots first one being the spine, the second being the temple, and the third being the foot.
On the spine to hit it accurately strike the lumber area in the back.
But to succeed you must first strike down the ring standing behind her which is impossible because that would alert the target.
The second is the most and best way to eliminate the target fast by striking the temple but four conditions are needed.
Deplete the target's energy.
Remove the spherical layers of light.
Render the target's ability to think.
Make the target immobile.
The third which is the last weak point is the easiest yet the hardest when one with normal eyes or senses sees they might think it to be as easy as taking an apple from a baby but that is wrong because a trained person will feel the threat of death from those feet.
The saintess is floating using her translucent wings but she is also standing on her feet in midair.
A great amount of energy is being circulated at her bare feet.
The energy which is coming from the center of her chest goes to every part of her body and when it reaches the feet a repelling force is created.
The Watcher though did their best to analyze the target wholly was hard.
"I must wait for the opportunity."
***
The clash was unlike any they had because both parties seemed equal in this clash pushing each other as the rain fell on them.
Spewing red poison from her fangs Diane was made to dodge to the side as the red lady followed up with a kick after jumping up to the level of Diane.
Dinae crashed into some houses after being sent flying with that kick.
"Acidic Blood Net"
The red lady unleashed a new attack as she was coming from above slashing down both her claws.
The hair wing on her back came together forming a shield at the incoming attack while Diane was getting up to dodge the slash.
While trying to get out of the way she was struck with a blood saber coming from her side and she could not perceive them as her hair covered her eye site.
"Amazon are you enjoying this because I'm at the top of my game." The red lady said as she never took breathing running after the Amazon.
"Auara Manifastion Flame of Restoration"
Not letting the attack stack up on her her flaming aura burned to replace the destroyed hair.
"Aura of Deflection"
Diane deflected the slashes coming her way as she took flight speeding up and even dodging the falling rain.
To keep up with her speed the red lady also sped up using the houses as a jumping point to get to her opponent.
She jumped from house to house rising higher with a blood rapier and saber thrusting blood spikes and slashing waves of blood.
The blood wave acted as a cover-up while the spikes were increasing in numbers following the silhouette of the Amazon who was flying.
Diane was flying in a circle attacking whenever the red lady was about to jump up.
Her eagle claw was ten inches away from the red lady who was in her hybrid form, but like having eyes from her back she turned around with a swing of blood saber striking the hand.
All the while Diane whose being flying in a circle wasn't just to torment her opponent but to create friction in her speed and as the saber struck her claw it was pulverized gripping the viper lady's arm.
Whoosh
Diane took a flight remembering how predators of the sky used to fight.
The red lady was being crashed through a building as the Amazon in her eagle mode flapped the wings faster breaking the sound barrier.
Boom Boom Boom
The county was in shambles as the fight was raging on.
But that was not the end because an eye for an eye Diane threw the red lady.
As she came from every side with punches sending the red lady above into her domain of fight.
The red lady put her agility to the test as the speed of the Amazon rendered her to counter-attacking thus she made use of every fiber in her body dodging what she could while striking back with saber slashes.
And as time went on she was struck from every side deflecting one-third of the attacks with difficulties but it wasn't to the point of losing sight of the Amazon.
The Amazon was losing to her pleasure of dominating the fight as she played with the red lady until the red lady caught on to this because she too knew this kind of game.
With the rain coming from above the red lady changed her form into that of the viper form spewing blood poison from her long fangs.
To the red lady in this form, she can almost tank any and all physical attacks except sharp attacks that cut but even that she can regenerate from.
Because her vitality depends on blood rather than the constitution of her body and with her ability of blood she's in a state of almost being able to recover almost from anything so long as a drop of blood remains.
"Hahahaha…" Diane laughed as she attacked from a distance to not get affected by the blood poison.
"Hundred Fold Consecutive Claw"
She palm struck with her claws sending a massive claw attack at the viper that was falling fast to the ground while spewing poison.
The claw attacks came from above while the poison was going up to confront them.
The attack met and fought to see who would be terminated.
To Diane, this would succeed so to make sure it succeeded many of the same attacks were sent after it.
On the side, for the red lady it came so fast as the attacks hit her like rain but denser and sharper as they continued to hit her recking her down to the ground with a boom.
The land where she landed became a crater and the red lady was bleeding and not from her ability but because of the attacks.
"AAARGHH… Amazon!" The red lady sprang up as her body changed yet again to her hybrid form.
"Bloody Spider Net"
She slashed all over but this was not an attack her blood became threads of spiderwebs that evaporated the rain that came into contact with.
This attack caught the Amazon who was coming with a strike.
When the attack was unleashed Diane was already close to hitting her but thanks to this timely attack that came in the form of defense and trap it caught her in midair.
"Ha, there you are." The red lady flashed coming to the Amazon as the rest of the blood net wrapped itself around her.
Bam
A punch full of bent-up frustration landed on Diane's face but it didn't stop there as she relentlessly continued punching.
Bam Bam Bam Bam
"YOU are fast when in the sky but that is all you hear me that is all."
Like a tank she let the red lady have a go at her but that didn't mean she would just stay like this for the whole time as her aura was rising with every hit she received.
"Aura Manifastion Caw of Thousand Eagles"
Caw
Her aura became that of a large eagle cawing a screech that erased all the blood that tied her down.
Then and there both of them started to pummel each other without dodging just to see who is tough and stronger.
"Woohhh… aaahhhh." Both of them screamed as they exchanged blows.
***
Part 2
The saintess watched and kept on sending the avatar of light one after another.
In as much as the serpent sought to approach the saintess, those giant ladies became more numerous, and like bees, they swarmed from all sides.
Their bodies made of light did more damage to the serpent as each time it crushed them they exploded and the weapons they wielded were injuring its body.
They just hit and slashed but it was enough to make a red-leveled monster have trouble.
Trying to jump through in the shadows the serpent was struck by a beam of light coming from the giant ladies as all their weapons vanished and were replaced by the laser beams.
Hiss Hiss Hiss
The serpent screeched in pain as the scales fell bleeding.
It rushed through the avatars running out of the light radius.
Boom Boom Boom
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The laser beams followed missing it as the ground exploded.
The avatars joined together becoming bigger as the saintess saw through its plan.
Saintess Ria has never in her life faced an opponent like this.
Looking at the fleeting serpent she thought to herself.
I'm starting to wonder if this serpent is capable of anything.
It was fast but not to the point where she had to chase after it.
The combination of the avatars was three hundred meters tall shooting laser beams after the fleeting serpent.
Seeing as the serpent didn't stop for a moment the saintess stopped the giant avatar, reabsorbing all the light she was releasing.
And like a blackout, every light in the surrounding vanished into her.
Only a layer of light surrounded her figure.
Drip Drip Drip
The rain started to make more noise and with each second the serpent distended itself from her its body was turning into shadow particles disappearing.
Tension took in the battleground.
One from afar waiting to unleash a deadly arrow and one in the shadow of night multiplying and ready to spring from every direction.
Not for once have I encountered such a monster before.
Seems like a monster with intelligence but not enough power to back it up or is playing around into tricking me to put my guard down.
Well, whatever plan you have I can reuse my energy and fight for more than a month.
"Avatar of Light Guardian Mode"
Whoosh
The giant standing close by disappeared reappearing behind her in the form of exact replica of her except being made of light.
And she clasped her hands creating two more of these guardian avatars taking her left and right in defense position while holding a sword and shield.
She just stood there as a shadow moved in the dark muddy ground as the rain hit it.
Her expression said it all because after sensing the shift of battle her nerfs reached its peak with a sense of uncomfortable.
Drip Drip Drip
Behind the sound of the rain was a silent movement of a shadowy creature moving fast with each shadow dividing into nine others.
From west to east and from south to north they were coming fast only being in the ground while the target was floating above covered by a layer three inch light.
The saintess's body started to descend slowly making the shadows retreat as the light surrounding her intensified like a scorching sun pushing them back.
And her avatars burst forth striking head down at the shadows in her back and left and right with slashes of light swords.
While with each second her feets got closer to the ground they were being rejected but the force was on the losing side because her feet elegantly touched the ground.
Springing forth from a distance was a long serpent coming face-to-face with her as hundreds of others like it fought her avatars the only difference being it was 5 kilometers long with spiked back and tail, four eyes two black and two red while the others were one or two kilometers.
The saintess is blind yes, her senses which were one with the light in the surroundings gone yes, and her defense brought to three inches yes.
But none of that mattered as her opponent finally showed itself.
She is not one to fight in close combat but when things like this happen she prepared mechanisms that strike forth indiscriminately.
The huge mouth of the serpent opened wanting to swallow her.
Within millimeter seconds she made hand signs creating a mirror of light in front of her facing the incoming serpent but it was a small mirror the size of half her body.
"Mirror of Reflection Thousands Blast Beam"
Within a kilometer, the ground had been scorched leaving a trail of destruction when a blinding light struck the incoming serpent causing the long body to turn like a train and accelerate.
Fear and shock were written on the face of the serpent as half of its body was missing as well as huge blood gushing out of it like a stream.
The serpent groaned in agony crying out loud.
"Curses… Curse you human curse you and generations of you I will eat you a thousand times… Hiss Hiss Hiss." For the first in years, it spoke because of the pain that was inflicted on it reminding it of the horrors of a past it has forgotten.
The saintess on the other hand said nothing as she flew up creating more mirrors to finish off the job.
A shower of blast beams started to descend as the saintess showcased her powers.
Boom Boom Boom
The serpent's body slowly regenerated as it dodged screeching to summon back its shadow clones that were fighting the avatars.
Name: Dread Serpent
Ability: Shadow Clones
Strategically, summoning them back was a bad move as the avatars were chasing after them, which would make things difficult if they also joined in with the saintess, but this did not matter since it had to be done no matter what.
Slithering to dodge while it was regenerating it breathed a black gas venom at the saintess to obstruct her senses.
Whoosh
A fast object came her way distracting her for a second as she caught it in puzzlement and exactly at that same time when she caught it another hit her left ankle spraying a sticky substance onto her.
"..."
Her flight came to a halt looking down at her ankle where the substance was.
Whoosh
Another four were unleashed coming her way but this time the avatars intercept them.
To pinpoint the enemy the light layer around her which was three inches enlarged to a 1,864-kilometer radius of her and reached even more but before it could continue to spread.
The arrow she caught released a purple gas traveling to her nostril faster than she could think.
Poison?
No, it's crystal mist made solely disintegrate life force as it is…
From where and since when?
Wait, all of this should be put aside.
Not letting this be a distraction she clasped making the light surrounding her and all her avatars come to her.
She was reconstructing her body from the inside out.
Like her body was a shell it fell off revealing a bright being made of white diamond came out, this diamond being's body enlarged till it reached a height of fifty meters having an Emerald Gem in between her chest.
Her eyelashes, eyebrows, lips, fingernails, and pupils were all emerald and the rest of her body was entirely made of white diamond.
White just like the color of milk or paint.
Emerald Gem-Light: Reflector of light either from the sun or moon will reflect that light or absorb it to turn it into light energy.
"Do you know what you have done?" She spoke her pupils glaring at a certain location while her body was facing the serpent.
"I have elongated so I can enjoy living with them as a human being but would you look at me now it's gonna take months if not years to turn back."
Her left diamond palm faced where the arrows came from as the dot of life signage of a nimble being was in her mind exactly 30 miles away from her running in a zip zap.
"Continues White Blast"
At first, it was like a hyper beam but then as time went on it continued never stopping.
In the distance after the watcher shot consecutive shots, they bolted away running as fast as they could.
And not long after the beam attacks came hot on their trail.
"Oh, boy now this is a problem." As the watcher spoke the cloak became one in the surroundings just like a chameleon hiding the watcher and their presence.
But that did not stop the beams that kept on pursuing them.
"Oy, what kind of monster are people becoming now in the world?"
Drip Drip Drip
While the beam was going off from her palm she was approaching the serpent That merged with all its clones exceeding ten kilometers long.
Hiss
The serpent warned taking a defensive posture ready to strike if the enemy came closer.
It struck the moment she was a hundred meters from it.
Hundreds of serpents struck from every angle but all of them were of one head as the sheer speed of its strikes looked like many heads.
This attack will go through castles and the bites could pierce mountains but the body of the diamond was untouched with each step she took her menacing power scorched becoming more brighter.
And as a last form of retaliation the serpent wrapped itself around her body wanting to crush her but a mamba no matter how fast it is or deadly its poison is its body is not meant for crushing.
Besides the saintess even smirched letting this last act of struggle continue to just show how much the difference between them is.
Her emerald pupils shone when her mouth started to speak as the sound of rain stopped.
"Light Be Your End Brilliant Nova"
Silence
The world froze becoming white for the whole region of the county and its surroundings.
The first to sense what was to come was the serpent as its whole body shook and the deadly aura of dread appeared just like its name made lower creatures feel death in its presence.
The second to sense was the running watcher falling face on the ground as a beam attack passed them making a soundless explosion in the woods.
Fortunately, the beam attack was evaded but the sense of death made them stop moving their heart.
The third party to sense was two individuals fighting inside the county as they were comparing speeds and exchanging blows.
The red lady and Diane were about to strike each other when their surrounding became white putting shining light on all snake-like beings as all of their insignificant lives were erased.
This shining light could be described as scorching heat as it decimated their bodies.
In less than a second all snake-like creatures were wiped out except for two who were burning with light as one cried in agony.
"Anguish be pain you will pay for this." Said the serpent as its body shrunk to minimize the damage and pain as for the red lady she withstood it.
Blood seeped through her eyes and every nostril abandoning the body which became a husk.
"Huh?"
Since the world became white Diane was able to see the blood coming out as the red lady dead feeling disappointed as someone she acknowledged died at the hands of someone else.
"Well, it's just… I'll surpass you in some other way." Diane flapped her wings made of hair going to where the saintess is.
The clouds above cleared as the saintess's brilliant nova ended and shining there brightly in the sky was the moon.
While below it the saintess was holding the core of the serpent in one hand as the other was holding a spear made of light that was piercing the head of the serpent to the ground.
"I don't know what plan you erected but listen well if any of your minions come near my home you will see my face in the pitch-dark mountain you dwell in."
It looked like she just spoke to herself but far away a shadow with many eyes and a slim body slithered and on the shadow was a husk of a humanoid creature lifeless. This lifeless creature had one red dot on its forehead wiggling as the shadow slithered.
The shadow thought as it slithered.
Scary just like the master if not for our ability today we might have died.
I don't know why they made us do this but I just don't wanna encounter someone like that ever again.
These two beings are exactly the culprits behind the county's incident.
The organization they belong to orchestrated a plan to mutate normal humans with the red mist of dancing plague and serpent blood to create blood serpents.
The dancing plague is a horrible outbreak that befell humanity yet today they are trying to recreate it with something more deadly.
It was just an experiment to see if the saintess could cure this amalgamation of dancing plagues and serpent blood in the county.
Although the experiments were killed they succeeded in the creation of blood serpent mutants.
The only healer capable of curing this proved not to be able to manage it once the experiment began to transform.
Meaning they have taken the first step in centuries to return and face the world openly.
When will humanity stop creating ways to destroy themselves?
***
Part 3
3 Days Later
In a white room, Jack's white room.
The white mirror vibrated as a masked individual picked it up.
"Jack here."
"What is the result, Jack?" The person in the mirror asked with a commanding voice.
"I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean…" Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa… Jack laughed in his mind anticipating something thrilling.
"Are you questioning my authority?"
"Oh, if you mean that then I'm sorry to say this but I have orders to keep this information until I arrive to land." Said Jack sounding sarcastic but the person on the other side was fuming with anger.
"Then give an update on your location."
"NO need for that we are already on our way on a military ship…"
"OK!" The mirror went back to normal as the other side cut the call.
"Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa… What a sore man, this is the beginning of a game you lost King of Spades… Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa."
Competition even within organized agents.
This is man's nature to decide who is best and stands above others even if you are a foot soldier.
And to make their agents the best at what they do leadership over others is their reward.
***
The saintess in her diamond form set on a building while conversing with the King of Gold who was bandaged up all over.
"So, you really are the saintess because you don't look like it?" He asked being confused at everything now that he was woke.
The saintess said nothing as a shining thread of light wrapped around his arm, it was warm and felt like a needle as his bones that were cracked were sewn together.
"Yep, you're definitely her… ow ok ok I promise that won't happen again." He screamed as it hurt all over his body.
A stitching process started to repair his broken ribs while the saintess started to explain what happened while he was out cold.
The night everything went down another battle took place at the capital.
King Laffitte with the new mantle of Sharif of Lies battled King Arthur, his childhood rival.
Their battle took the kingdom by storm as the king was known to be only two star-warriors but on that night he battled a king known for his incredible strength with the sword matching with the help of his new ally the serpent hole.
That's right King Laffitte defected to the serpents becoming their agent but his ploy to turn the citizens of his land into monsters came to light as his two generals revolted and saved the lives of the citizens.
Now this kingdom has no more king or noble because that night all nobles and their families were found dead and the assailant was unknown.
However, the duke was found dead with poison likely the doings of the snakes.
As for the county of red most of the citizens were turned into monsters too late to be saved and the only surviving were children of the orphanage and their caretakers.
The world is in a state of panic because a deadly plague of the past has returned now into the hands of the worst people in the world who made it a bio-weapon that turns people into monsters.
***
A castle somewhere in the Sun continent hidden from the world.
The red lady sat in front of a long table beside her and opposite her sat shadowy figures feasting.
On this table was forbidden meat.
Any sane person would have horrors seeing what these people were feasting upon.
Some of the meat on the table was live animals but as the cries of livestock were not worth their ears none listened feasting on them.
One of the people sitting next to the red lady was the individual who snipped the saintess, his bow on the table in front of him as his face was dark, not speaking while he watched them eat living sea creatures, cattle, and all other animals that can be found in a farm, pigs excluded.
He is a secret spy from an old order sent to infiltrate the serpent hole.
Known name the Watcher an archer who is on the fourth rank of the ranking assassin board in the world.
And the same went for the person who sat opposite him but this person had an evil smirk while drinking blood.
King Laffitte: Former king of Brisca now known by the alias of Sharif of Lies.
Ability Zoan Type: Two-Headed Cobra, Specialty Hipnotizame
A fat shadowy figure spoke, seeming dissatisfied by their guest who wasn't eating with them as they humbled him with open arms.
This fatso had a boned camel thigh in his mouth slurping up something in his throat.
"Hey, Mr. Watcher what is it you think by not dining with us… huh?"
"Now, now there is no need for any of that brothers and sisters our new guest isn't used to having delicacies like these so don't mind him he will eventually come around isn't that right Mr. Watcher?" This time a woman spoke with a mature voice and it seemed she was one of the strongest beings in the room as she spoke she had an air of dominance around her.
The watcher looked and shrugged it off by saying as you wish but he didn't speak a word.
Dinning of the 12 Revenant Serpents
The limbs of the Snake Empress have gathered. What do you think is going on and is going to happen?
It is unknown but the world won't like what they're going to do after this meeting.
***
In the sunset of the day, the night was coming and there sailed off to their home was the Amazon ship and another ship heading southeast to the island of Ice Bek on this ship were two familiar people the Ronin and the Viking princess Vulvadora.
The ship which was being pulled by two huge sea serpents left its shadow on the shores of Brisca with new members joining their family of sisterhood.
End of Chapter 18