Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1337: All's Fair In War and Women (2)



The burning town was no more. Not even the embers of the burning structures which had been within it could be seen. The ground was clear and slightly depressed. When a Territory was erected, it pushed all nearby constructs away to make room, and only pulled in its targets.

What the possessed Skullius had accomplished, binding man-made objects and the environment from Aigas with his Territory as it manifested, was a special feat which most experts didn't bother to learn as it didn't give any merit a majority of the time.

Yuyui wiped the blood from her face. One of her skills, [Tenacious], rapidly healed her peeled skin and exposed flesh. Her eyes were on Porria, Aizel and Nigerra. Two of the three women - Porria especially - were befuddled by how Yuyui had just obliterated the Territory so casually. Whether from inside or outside, once a Territory had staked its claim, it was extremely difficult to break; the sure-fire method was killing the user.

'I had to crush it instantly. Their tier of Territories is definitely greater than mine. Like that woman, Porria, they must all have Territories with living beings," Yuyui thought, briefly thinking of those flame sirens she had seen. They indeed were living beings, and just their singing alone had been pressuring her defences. That was all before its more dangerous functions had been activated.

Yuyui locked eyes with Nigerra. Those arrows in her eyes...

'The Eye of Moving. She even has two of them. I didn't know they could create arrows that generate and control all sorts of motion. In this battle, she can force me to stop or misstep at crucial moments, and that could be fatal,' Yuyui thought. Then she again thought about what Nigerra had said before.

'I'm not sure how many eyes you have awakened, but it seems perfect to match yourself against us.'

'If she doesn't know that...' Yuyui thought, and her right eye suddenly changed. It became a blue eye with a golden slit in the centre; the Inhumane Eye. Her left eye's iris and pupil

became one purple arrow pointing upwards.

Nigerra grinned.

"How sweet. All in then?" she said. Yuyui didn't respond. Instead, she braced, for this frightful woman attacked with ferocity right then, and she retaliated just a moment later. Yuyui was suddenly in a large cavern with thick, unnaturally large fireflies attached to the walls, giving pale light. Many holes bore into the cavern walls, seeming to lead elsewhere from the main.

A figure sat a few dozen meters in front of Yuyui, clapping her hands while quivering and muttering some incantation in a language she couldn't understand. She looked old, haggard and frightfully similar to Nigerra.

But Yuyui had not come here to explore. She was already gathered a massive chunk of mana in her fist and she smashed it into the wall on her left side. The cavern shuddered, the fireflies flying in all directions, disturbed. Deep cracks limned their way everywhere and caused a massive portion of the cavern to start collapsing.

...And then Yuyui was back in Aigas, standing opposed to Nigerra as she had been just a moment before.

Blood sprayed from her eyes, nose and mouth, but she kept her sights on Nigerra.

The woman was still grinning, but drops of blood were also sliding down her nostrils.

Both women had used their Eyes of Moving nigh simultaneously to attack each other's Reflection of the Soul!

Yuyui had only gotten the chance to deal one blow to the cavern, Nigerra's Reflection, but Nigerra had dealt much more damage to hers before Yuyui forced her out with her eye; Nigerra had done the same.

Yuyui had learned to do this when she saved Stylla from the BoneTender. The Eye of Moving worked by actualising any form of 'motion', after all.

(A/N: Refer to Ch.1138-1140.)

But Yuyui didn't have time to reflect and heal. Aizel, the stocky woman had rushed her, and Porria was only a nanosecond behind, her double-bladed sword spinning in her flexible grip; she was only lagging behind because she had had to restore her mana with Creeds after projecting her Territory.

Yuyui's Granted Vision was active. This Starmation allowed her 360-degree vision with extra focus when she needed it. She essentially had no blind spots. With her eyes keen, Yuyui saw Aizel's right eye change. It was suffused with a terrible, dark brilliance, and a white symbol, like flame sat comfortably in that darkness.

...!!!

A crown appeared over Aizel's head, white and afire. But Yuyui couldn't wonder what this was about, because though Porria was lagging, she had already launched her attack. She swung her sword so fast that the canvas of Aigas was pulled with force. Its edge blazed with crimson fire, and before Yuyui could even process what this kind of sword slash meant, she up in the air, dodging. Where she had just been, a line of flame was marked on space itself.

Yuyui had the feeling if she allowed herself to be caught by that attack... well, her fate would be most unpleasant.

But Porria was gliding in the sky after her, using Yuyui's momentary distraction to reach her. Porria was a Form User, Yuyui knew from the guidance field. Predictably, the stocky woman's foot came hissing at Yuyui's head with a torrent of Nitros, and Yuyui raised an arm to guard while preparing to unleash an Aggrante with the other!

But it didn't work.

She was not allowed to guard.

Yuyui's arm decided it didn't want to bear the attack coming towards her midway through, and she received the full force of an attack with the innate strength of a hand-to-hand master Form User with the basic enhancements given by their passive Territory!

The kick caught Yuyui on the neck. Because even her mana rebelled and refused to mobilise and guard against the attack, her neck bent inwards, nearly lopped off in a single strike. Yuyui remained alive and conscious, but it didn't help that her Reflection of the Soul was pulsing with pain.

'What... what did that black eye do?' she thought as she pointed a finger at Porria. But even her armour refused to attack the woman. Aizel grinned. Her hands whipped up to form a complex

gesture.

It was a Territory, Yuyui knew at once!

She didn't hear its name, but she noticed how it quickly manifested, just like Porria's.

Unlike Porria's, however, it seemed determined to kill her at once.

Something howled in a terrifying bass above. Yuyui looked up and saw a gigantic volcanic mountain tipped over such that its open mouth, glistening with blinding bolts of silver lightning was aimed at her. Great serpents of many colours and many designs, numbering in the tens of thousands were coiling around this mountain, the mana in their bodies flowingn/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

into it.

And when Aizel cried, "Grand Gale!", one pillar of lightning fell on Yuyui's head with such horrifying force that the lime-haired girl knew without dodging, she was dead.

But she couldn't dodge.

She wasn't allowed to, not when an attack came from someone blessed by the Eye of the

Prince.

And thus, the cruel attack met her in a fatal kiss.