Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1344: Promised Triumph



The beetle squirming in Yuyui's grip was one thing, but the palpitations of something deep with her body, thoroughly enjoying its growth, was another. The lime-haired girl's soul was thriving. She felt her body rebel against its growth. Apparently, there was an imbalance now.

But Yuyui couldn't have cared for it. Her Eye of Dispersal, Eye of Moving and Inhuman Eye were resonating with the changes in her soul. She felt them grow more powerful, and they eagerly pushed her to use them, to refine them. Each of them began revealing different ways they could be used.

She smiled.

'I see. So Incandescent Stage experts and beyond were supposed to be a lot stronger than they are now - at least with just their body and soul. Gaining the ability to use Territories forced them to ignore the growth of their souls...' she thought. She could have laughed.

She hadn't thought she'd grow even stronger in this battle and begin to understand things even her master wasn't privy to.

'That vibration I just released... It's the same thing I sensed before Franceesta caught me in her Territory. It was Nigerra's doing. That must mean...'

But Yuyui didn't get to finish her thought.

Unlike Nigerra, who was watching her with an intrigued grin, Aizel was panicking. She had reached the same conclusion as Yuyui: that the lime-haired girl was a freak who had managed to tap into powers only Beyond the Veil Stagers could awaken (at least according to her own knowledge).

Thus, Aizel didn't hesitate to...

"Majestic Territory Expulsion, Serpent-Kissed Peak!" she cried desperately.

Yuyui had seen her motions vividly. As much as her body was rebelling against the new strength of her soul, it was forced to inch itself towards a state where it could equate to the soul. Her Eye of Moving prompted her body to react faster.

The Unlimited Star had several options to deal with Aizel now, but she chose an alternate one that was a bit daring.

She reacted just in time to match Aizel.

"Majestic Territory Expulsion, Premature Maiden," she called.

...And a clash of Territories ensued.

Yuyui's Nitros and Aizel's met in the middle in a terrifying clash that shook Pelian. But it wasn't looking too good for the former.

A streak of silver lightning shuttled out of Aizel's still-forming Nitros while a sky-blue, feminine outline rose from Yuyui's. The two aspects smashed against each other above the Territories, but the winner was obvious. The outline was blown back by the lightning, and it began to fade like smoke.

When two Majestic Territories clashed at the same time, their Primary assault functions were matched against each OUTSIDE the Territories. Usually, the more physical and less abstract Primary functions overwhelmed their counterparts in such a match up, and if both Territories happened to be equal in this respect, the quality of the Territory (if it had living beings growing within it or not) decided the battle.

(A/N: Refer to Ch.1026, Mash of Domains.)

Aizel's Primary assault function was meticulously crafted for situations like these as well. Though Yuyui's was a physical attack type like hers, it was simply weaker.

This gave Aizel confidence. A glimpse of a smile had even begun to show on her face. Until...

"Majestic Territory Expulsion, Premature Maiden."

"Majestic Territory Expulsion, Premature Maiden."

"Majestic Territory Expulsion, Premature Maiden."

...And then it wasn't a contest at all.

Aizel's face lost color.

Right as Yuyui's Nitros ballooned to cover the region, the sky-blue outline above it also grew to more than ten times its original size. It grabbed the branches of screeching silver lightning pouring from Aizel's Territory and tore them apart as though they were mere grass roots. After it was done, it locked its hands together and smashed Aizel's Territory apart. The impact was felt through the entire region. It might have been worse than the worst earthquake.

Aizel was stumped. She managed to survive being crushed, and was huffing in deep breaths to stifle her fear. She prepared to replenish her mana, but too late... Yuyui had taken her head. The naked lime-haired girl tossed the head away while almost entertaining the influx of cumulative mana experience her guidance field announced.

"Master was right," she said to herself. "It works perfectly."

She then turned to Nigerra.

The woman was again unconcerned by Franceesta or Aizel's deaths. She only had eyes for Yuyui.

"You're perfect," she said. "Franceesta saw it in her final moments. You are everything we hoped to create, and you haven't even awakened nine eyes."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

She was touched, but Yuyui was not.

"You were dismissive of me earlier."

"When you weren't anything special. Now you are."

Yuyui scoffed, but Nigerra's enthusiasm was in no way disturbed.

"With strength like this, can you not see how much more you can accomplish outside someone else's shadow? You needed no help achieving something all the monsters from my time would call impossible. Open your eyes and see it," she said.

"No help?" Yuyui said, looking offended. "You're wrong about that. I needed my master's help to beat your... sisters. Perhaps, I might have found another solution the more I died, but in this case against hundreds of Territories - I had to lean on what I had been taught."

Nigerra looked disappointed. A scowl was on the verge of appearing on her face.

"Is that so?"

"Yes," Yuyui said and she looked at her hand. She tried to manifest that strange vibration which had killed all the summoned beasts. She failed. "But what matters is that my master didn't give me complete information - a golden spoon. I achieved what I achieved by interpreting his words on my own and producing a result." She smiled. "I even managed to touch upon something he will never be able to."

Yuyui faced Nigerra with a grin.

"I know you used it before. What is it called?"

The long-faced woman was surprised. She could feel the joy in Yuyui's voice.

'Amusing.'

Her body suddenly became a blur as she stood, as though it was vibrating at an intense speed. Then, something like an audio spectrum given human shape started lifting from her body. It was coloured ebony. It was quivering, shaking, trembling.

It made the world around it do the same, forcing a vibration through it which made everything blurry. Yuyui felt its effect vividly - its intensity, which pervaded all things seamlessly - but unlike before, when it had terrified her, she felt a close connection to the

sensation.

"It's called the Aspiring Immortal Shadow," Nigerra said. The entity didn't look like her at all. At least it didn't appear so. It wasn't fully manifested. It simply inched out of Nigerra's and

looked like a limited shadow behind her.

Yuyui studied it briefly.

'The fact that it's not fully realized only validates master's theory. Beyond the Veil Stagers can't use this Aspiring Immortal Shadow to its fullest extent because their path of growth from the Incandescent Stage - where it is supposed to start growing - has been poisoned by the introduction of Territories.'

It was rather interesting how the actions of one man from more than four thousand years ago impacted all experts so badly today.

"Shall I kill you too?" Yuyui said to Nigerra. "Or will you kill me? You still have the means to do so permanently, don't you?"

Nigerra considered her with a smile. She dissolved her Aspiring Immortal Shadow.

"Why should we talk about killing each now? That would be waste of both of our lives. I've

suddenly become more interested in seeing how much the legacy I brought about will grow," she said. "Interpret the words of men all you want and evolve. Perhaps that is one of the more decent ways women transcend men - at least in this age. When you grow some more, I'll be willing to be either kill you or die by your hands then. I'm sure the rest of my sisters will feel

the same."

Nigerra gave one last grin and then she was gone. She took the corpses of Franceesta, Porria

and Aizel with her.

Yuyui plopped to the ground and sighed in relief.

She stared at the night sky.

"I wonder if I really could have killed her just now," she said to herself, but the thought was

drowned by her immense joy.

And she had so much of it indeed.

She had accomplished a great feat. She had bested three opponents who were supposed to be

way beyond her level and grown from the experience. If that didn't prove her strength, then

nothing else would.

This was a great triumph.

[You have earned 375 Creeds!]

Yuyui grinned. 'Of course, I did,' she thought, and rubbed her right eye. It grew slightly itchy and a tear

scrolled down from it.