Emilia opened the door she, along with Tetra, Silvera, Ondine, Sumara, and Cantia, walked out of the house to meet a large group of black cloaked figures. The intruders were keeping their distance from them by several metres and were grouped together, with each of them showing a symbol of some kind on their cloaks.

“Uh…? Looks like a cult to me,” said Cantia quietly.

“Yes. It does look that way,” admitted Ondine, narrowing her eyes with seriousness.

“Whatever! Can't we just blast them away? They're clearly hostile!” Silvera suggested, looking a little eager at the prospect of a fight.

“Jumping to conclusions won't help our cause,” commented Sumara with a raised eyebrow.

“I think self-defence does,” replied Silvera curtly, causing Sumara to roll her eyes in exasperation.

Emilia smiled at them before turning to face the group and asked, “Whoever you are, are you aware that you're on private property belonging to the Phoenix Titan?”

“I would advise you to leave immediately, otherwise, we will be forced to send you out by force!” Ondine threatened in a dangerous voice.

There was a moment of silence before someone chuckled from amongst the cloaked figures. Then, a man stepped forward and pulled his cloak down to reveal his face, startling all of them in the process.

“Greetings, wives of the Phoenix Titan,” said Jagav Mangrad with a sinister smile on his face.

“You…?” Sumara said in surprise and asked, “What are you doing here… with all these people?”

“These,” he said, gesturing around at the people behind him with a hand, “are my new compatriots, here to aide me.”

Sumara narrowed her eyes in suspicion and asked, “Aide you? In what?”

But it was Emilia and Ondine that first realised his hidden meaning behind his words. They could also understand what the true intentions of why so many shady characters had gathered in front of their home.”

“What else… but to exact my revenge!” He said firmly with the same sinister smile on his face, making both Emilia and Ondine sigh.

“As expected,” commented Emilia quietly.

“Seriously…!” Ondine muttered in exasperation.

Sumara, feeling as though she finally understood his intentions, sharpened her expression and said, “I see. You never had any intention of turning over a new leaf in life after all.”

To that, he burst into a mirthless laughter smiling evilly at them and said, “Ha! You actually believed my act? You're stupider than I thought.”

While Sumara appeared to be hurt, Ondine covered for her and replied, “I didn't believe you in the slightest, but our husband always told us to give people like you a chance at redemption.”

“A chance? Ha!” He said arrogantly. “You can keep it! I don't need no pity from my sword enemies because I know I was wrongly imprisoned!” He pointed a finger at each of them and said, “I launched my quest to dominate the world and etch my name into history as a man that became the Emperor of the World, but your husband ruined it, stamped on it, and destroyed my life! For that, I was it all back… everything I lost… I want repayment for it!”

“He's gone mad,” stated Silvera.

“Can't argue with that,” agreed Tetra with a shrug of her shoulders.

“I guess this is the conveniences of locking him up for so long,” suggested Sumara in a sad voice.

“He deserved what he got!” Ondine said firmly. “Conquer the world; people with such ideas are destined for ruin!”

Emission looked at him, who was looking very angry because of their comments and said, “Conquering the world for the greater good is something but you wanted to do it for your own self-satisfied gratification! You didn't care about the lives you would have had to destroy to achieve that dream of yours.”

“Blood must be spilled somewhere and it's inevitable when a man, such as myself, embark on such a glorious quest!” He replied, supporting himself fully while ignoring reality. “Those people should've felt honoured to be destroyed by me, the Emperor of the World, but… I failed all because of him!”

“My husband is stronger and better than you ever were!” Tetra replied with a proud smile on her face.

“You are just a sore loser,” stated Silvera with a look of satisfaction on her face.

“I… am not… a loser!” Jagav yelled angrily.

He suddenly exhibited his powers from rage and created a wild blowing wind that buffeted them. As he fumed with uncomfortable rage, one of the cloaked figures stepped out and placed a hand on his shoulders. Instantly, the man's rage subsided, but he still remained angry as he faced them.

“Relax, friend. These people are provoking you,” said the cloaked figure in a quiet soothing voice.

Jagav nodded and said, “Yes. You're right!” He looked at the women and said, “You know, I wanted to show some mercy on you as the bearers of your husband's actions but I no longer care! You can all go to hell!”

He spoke in a deadly voice that would have frightened anyone that faced him. In addition to that, the cloaked figures took a step forward when he said those words as if to reinforce their intention.

Cantia, however, suddenly burst into a hilarious laughter. Her act surprised everyone, except for her sisters, who looked at her in amusement.

“What? What are you laughing about?!” Jagav demanded, glaring at her with an uncertain expression on his face.

Despite calming down within a few seconds she continued to smile at the cult before them and spoke in a strong confident voice.

“You came here, expecting to scare us and make us go” and she spoke in a frightened voice by saying, “Kyaa! Help us! Save us! Someone! Anyone,” with a mocking lokm on her voice before turning to speak normally by saying, “with fright because we're women?!”

As she spoke her expression changed from smiling to looking very serious as she stared at him.

“Well… You're. Dead. Wrong!” She said, and made a thumbs down gesture with her hand.

“I don't know what impression you got from us during your meeting with us today,” said Ondine with a bemused look on her face, “but we're as helpless as you might think?”

“Let me show you,” said Tetra, aiming her hand at the cult.

In that instant, she activated her powers and summoned a brilliant fire that she launched at them. The fire quickly spread and traveled quickly towards them, making them jump away at the last second.

As they landed, a magic circle appeared above them before rain began pouring down on them. The caster was Sumara, who looked angrily at them for deceiving her.

The group's cloaks got soaked with water and caused them to struggle moving in them, however, steam suddenly began coming from them as their clothes quickly dried due to a heat magic activated by one of them. With their clothes freed from the wetness, they straightened up and turned to face them with an air of anger surrounding them.

“How does it feel to be washed?” Cantia asked gleefully.

Jagav became angry and said, “That's it. You're all dead! Men! Attack!”

With that order, the cult members quickly spread out and began activating each of their powers. Some took off their cloaks and charged at the women in a rush while the remainder stayed back and fired magic spells at them.

Emilia, and Venezuela quickly cast her barriers and successful stopped the attacks. Though they managed to remain unharmed from the magic bombardment, they looked down the like of warriors charging towards them.

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“If it were Lucky, he would probably be able to send them all flying,” commented Cantia, performing the act she imagined he would do and looking disappointed.

“Hey, it's okay,” said Ondine encouragingly, patting her on the shoulder. “He may not be here with us right now but he is with us in spirit.”

“Yeah,” replied Cantia, nodding in understanding. Then she turned to face the oncoming men and said with a fierce expression on her face, “Right. That's all I need to take these bastards down! ARRGGHHH!!!”

There was a blind light with the activation of her powers, and she had transformed into her beast form that only Camdra Beast Clan are known to posses. She was several metres taller than them and appeared like a wild animal that roared so loudly that caused a wild wind to get sent towards the charging warriors, who faltered at the sight of her.

“RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

She screeched and charged at them by running on all four legs at high speed. As she went, she opened her mouth and spit a large fireball at them, causing it to explode with great intensity.

“Damn!”

“Get that thing!”

“Bring it down!”

Several of the warriors shouted and began focusing on their attention on her. By that point, she sprinted at them and though those directly in front of her got away, a few unlucky were hit by her two tails and were sent flying away.

A few remained to encircle around her, and Cantia in her beast form stepped carefully around them as they surrounded her. Then, with attempt they made to get at her, she would soon her body around and away her tails while breathing fire out of her mouth.

“Bind its movements!” One of them shouted.

Upon hearing the command, two of the magicians aimed their magic at her and cast a binding spell. Out of the grounds, chains sprung out of the magic circles that formed near each of her four legs. She attempted to use her trails to smash them aside, and succeeded in momentarily freeing herself before several more chains appeared out of nowhere from newly formed magic spells and wrapped around her waist.

“We got–!”

Just as one of them was about to shout in triumph, Cantia let out a bellowing road before she was suddenly surrounded by wild burning flames. Then, in the next moment, her body grew larger and the chair snapped in an instant, allowing herself to curl her body and curl her body into a large ball and roll against them like a large boulder. In this process, she easily flattened several of them while continuing to injure several more as she moved away from their clutches.

“She's doing good,” said Emilia with a smile but then said with a look of worry, “though, she's taking unneeded risks.”

“Let her have her fun,” said Ondine with a laugh. “We also got a fight on our end.”

She pointed at the people that still were charging at them. A few of them started launching their attacks at the women, who were protected by the barrier cast by both Emilia and Venezuela.

“We got this!” Silvera said excitedly beside Tetra, who nodded in agreement.

Silvera held her hand out and conjured her Legendary Weapon known as the Blades of Darkness, which are twin swords that emitted the power of darkness. Tetra did the same; holding her hand and summoning her Legendary Weapon, which was the Swords of Blaze that consisted of two swords that radiated a fiery aura from their blades.

“It feels kind of strange to use these weapons after so long,” admitted Silvera with a wry smile.

“I am at your service,” said the voice of her Legendary Weapon inside her mind.

“Good, but I'm surprised you never had the chance to find a new owner?” Silvera asked curiously.

“After your deaths, we were locked away by the Spirit King on orders from the God of Justice. That is why I'm able to come at your summoning.”

Silvera nodded in understanding and said, “Still, it's good to have my favourite weapon back in my hand after so long.”

“Sil!” Tetra called, and Silvera looked at her in surprise. “Not now!”

“Fine!” Silvera replied, understanding her meaning and focusing on their enemy. “I'm ready to hand these people a beating they won't soon forget

Come on!”

With a shout of urging them to come at her, Silvera began to radiate a colour that had a mix of blue and purple in it. She lunged forward and charged towards the warriors with a gleeful smile on her face.

A few of the warriors pulled out their swords and stepped back as she reached them and began fighting with incredible skill. They were taken by surprise as she moved really fast, fast enough to fight four warriors at the same time.

Seeing her occupied, several attempted to sneak up on her when they suddenly Bernard danger from behind and avoided the numerous swords that flew at them. They turned and saw Tetra standing there with two magic circles active on either side of her that had several swords poking out of them.

“She's not the only thing you have to deal with!” She said, and waved her sword at them while shouting, *Hell Blades!”

Swords began flying out of the magic circles and flew towards them at high speed. Each sword possessed a strong metal while the entire body appeared to be covered in an intense fire.

The enem warriors did their best to dance around them while using their weapons, a spear or a sword to divert them away. In retaliation, several of them began launching energy blasts towards her, but she defended herself by conjuring a large wall of swords that acted as her shield. Despite that, her sword continued to fly at them, and they had to evade quickly while being unable to return fire.

You haven't lost your touch, mistress,” said the voice of her Legendary Weapon. “Reminds me of the good old days.”

Tetra laughed and said, “True, but I am amazed that I was able to summon you when I actually expected nothing to happen.”

“I’m always yours, mistress.”

That statement made Tetra smile and focus on attacking the enemies and keeping them scattered. A few times, magic bullets of fire, earth and air almost reached her but her sword quickly blocked them and got destroyed in the process. She return fired by casting several magic circles on their end and causing them to get injured despite them casting their own magic barriers on each other.

In the meantime, Sumara was launching water magic from their end.

“Water Stream,” said Sumara, launching a massive jet stream of water at the enemies that came closer to the barrier and sent them back.

“They aren't that tough to fight actually,” said Venezuela with a smile, “and we worried.”

“You mean you worried,” claimed Ondine with a cheeky grin on her face.

Venezuela rolled her eyes and admitted, “Yes. I was worried but it's difficult to not to when you don't know how strong your enemies are.”

“True but when we're working together, there's nothing that'll harm us!” Ondine replied assuring.

Just then, a few of the magicians on the enemy side began casting a large healing spell, causing a bright glow of green light to occur.

“King Ranked Magic?” Venezuela asked looking surprised as the cult recovered from their injuries and renewed their fight. “No wonder they're able to keep up this much.”

“If their plan is to tire us out by constantly healing each other, they're going to run themselves into the ground,” said Ondine firmly, holding her hand out and grabbing gold of the golden trident that she had summoned out of thin air.

She stamped the trident into the ground and said, “Wooden Circle!”

The moment she finished her incantation, a large magic circle appeared beneath the large group of men before the ground started to shake. In the next moment, something completely made of wood rose out of the ground and closed in around the enemies on all sides.

Emilia, who was observing the battle from beside her, was not feeling exactly the same She was happy to see this one sided battle. Each and every one of them were fighting hard against them but something about their method of fighting felt off.

At first, she thought it was just like Ondine said, that they were hitting, getting injured, and healing themselves to exhaust them. However, she started to feel that was not it and that it felt more like a distraction for something else, something that she could not point her finger at.

“I don't like this…!” She muttered, voicing her concern while narrowing her eyes.

“What is it, Emilia?” Ondine asked, turning to her and frowning.

Emilia turned to her anxiously and confessed her misgivings about the current battle. Ondine nodded in understanding as she felt it made sense considering she also felt something was off.

“They're not trying too hard” said Ondine as she identified the main fault in their enemy's attack. “It's like they are stalling for–!”

Just as she was about to finish her sentence, a mighty explosion occurred right behind them all. All of the women, both nearby and in the midst of the battle, turned and looked towards the direction the explosion originated from, which was from the first floor from their house.

***

Around that time, Lakshman, who was sleeping peacefully on his bed, suddenly woke up with a start. He sat upright in a quick motion and breathed quickly as if he had run around the world within seconds.

His heart was beating rapidly like his fast paced breathing, not from having woken up so suddenly, but because he felt something terrible had happened somewhere far away to someone close to him.

“What's wrong, Lakshman? You surprised me,” Asura asked in his mind.

“I… I don’t know but… I… I felt… something…!” Lakshman said slowly, his breathing slowly steading but still fast.

“What did you sense?”

Lakshman gulped nervously and spoke with a scared look forming on his face.

“I… sensed something bad… happen to my… my wives…!”

***

At the same time, someone else sensed the disturbance occurring with Lakshman’s wives. They were presently in the Demon World alongside their protege in order to help the Calamity Titan reform the demons there into an organised race.

He looked up at the sky where two moons floated there with a medium size gap in between them. At that time, he and his protege were out strolling to enjoy a night walk after a long day of hard work.

There was no expression to be seen on his face because it was hidden behind a mask with holes that showed res gleaming eyes and a red smile etched into the mask.

“What's the matter, Sevedant?” His protege asked from beside him, who was none other than Ash, the Demon Titan.

“Something. Strange. Very strange. Yes,” he said slowly in his small word breaks manner of speech, somehow possessing an ominous sound in his voice.

Ash blinked with a puzzled look on her face and asked, “What did you sense?”

He paused for a moment before saying, “Death.”