"Looks like you're in trouble, Corolla; mind if I help?" Another shady individual joins in the middle of the fight. As they unveil their appearance, I can't help feeling a void in my abdomen as this person was probably here ot make things even harder for me.
"What took you so long, Ana Lu?" Corolla quickly makes way for his new companion, who turns out to be a sexy woman wearing a leotard costume like Wonder Woman or something like that. Gosh, her sexy body shape and the thigh leather costume look quite suggestive, and while I don't feel much, something inside me doesn't want to hurt her.
Perhaps it was my unconscious bias telling me I shouldn't hit a girl, but I quickly got over it as I remembered that they would both try to kill me, so it was okay to hit a woman in self-defense. Besides, I am not a male anymore. So, I am totally justified in hitting her back if she hits me first!
I wonder if I will look like her whenever I grow up; wait, why the hell am I thinking about that? Besides, if I grow up since my mother is Ariel, I will most likely look even better than this new girl. Whatever matters right now, so back to the story.
"Oh, cute, so you need help after all. Am I too much for you?" I taunt Corolla again, and while he seems to bite the bait, he gets quickly stopped by the new girl, Ana Lu, as she points out that they should always keep a leveled head. Damn, this girl was going to be trouble.
"Don't fall for it, Corolla; she's trying to get to you, which means she can't beat you yet." Ana keeps Corolla in check while I take advantage of their monologues to heal a couple of wounds I had from my first squabble with Corolla.
"She's healing! Use your magic to help me!" Corolla quickly resumes his attacks against me, using only air-sucking attacks so Ana can finally reveal her powers. Ana places her hands before her as if about to pray, but when she moves her hands in the opposite direction, she vanishes in the blink of an eye.
When I start looking around for her, the entire scenery of our fight changes as Ana screams, "Domain Expansion!" A dark wall of void in a slight tint of purple suddenly starts covering everything around Ana, Corolla, and me, leaving me confused about what this place was supposed to be.
"Welcome to my domain, trash and gentleman." Corolla chuckles as Ana starts floating out of nowhere, followed by the sudden appearance of a couch next to her, which she flies to sit down and watch Corolla fight for now. "You're fucked now! I am invincible in a place like this!"
Corolla screams as he starts dividing into two, followed by those two new Corollas dividing into two as well, and then those four into eight and later those eight into sixteen until they finally reach thirty-two. "What the hell!?" I say as the lady sitting on the couch laughs, followed by a bulgar comment. "I hate to agree with Corolla, but you're so screwed; my domain expansion is too much for you to handle."
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"Crown, how long could I last while using that Bond of Life skill?" I asked my crown out loud as I tried to scare them with the name of another skill I had recently discovered inside my appraisal stats. The Bond of Life mechanic was weird, however, as it was deeply tied to my HP and overall sucked since it prevented healing of any kind for a significant damage trade-off.
[You can last for up to two hours with Bond of Life, but be aware that you can't heal at all while it's active, and it can only be deactivated once your opponent with whom the bond of life is set dies]
Yes, I know, this skill sounds badass on paper, but its disadvantages and overall mechanics were too much of a gamble. There is no way I would use it still, with thirty-two Corolla's now all shooting explosive and corrosive attacks; the idea of using it sounded great.
{ 謀略 - Yugo Kanno}
Once it all came down to my fight between Corolla and me, things didn't look much better as the damage on my body kept getting worse with each wave until I eventually found myself cornered and bloodied after only three waves of constant attacks from thirty-two equally powerful Corolla's who I couldn't even destroy.
I did try kicking one of the copies to make them disappear, but another Corolla simply appears out of the fragmented slime they turn into once I destroy one of them, and they regenerate so fast I can't do much to stop them from coming back to life.
I keep on trying to escape from whatever this place is, but it doesn't seem to matter how far away I try to get to the void of nothing doesn't seem to end, and worst of all, Ana Lu just teleports next to us every time, while Corolla gives chase after me, just what the hell was this place!?
I try to punch the ground with concentrated dark power occasionally, but that also doesn't seem to do much, and neither do my futile attempts to destroy all of the fake Corolla copies as they keep coming back to life, which placed me on the opposite side of my plan.
I was now consuming too much MP way too quickly, but I had to; otherwise, there would be too many Corollas attacking me all at once, and whenever that happened, my body got incredibly damaged. Still, what was my plan for victory this time? I had to find a weakness in this dimension soon, or I would die here.
[There's a chance that defeating the owner of the domain will return us to the normal world]
The crown quickly places my attention back on Ana, who I see eating popcorn as if we weren't even fighting to death. "Alright, Ana Lu! My fight is with you now!" I scream as Ana simply chooses to quickly start hovering away from me on her couch while all the now restored Corolla's shoot explosives and other attacks at me, quickly taking me down from the sky.
"You're fighting me!" All the Corolla's scream at once as I struggle to stand up from this round of attacks as I see the precious situation I am currently in. I can't do much now, and my body is completely messed up; should I beg for mercy? Like heck, I would! Besides, neither of them would grant me mercy, so that would be pointless.