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Ardent Dance

  Fallen Capital of China, Beijing.

  As the undead army moved forward toward the West, dozens of silver jet fighters made their presence known, raining down the undead with bullets, missiles, bombs, and napalm. Sending the world into a sea of fme. The Undead did not scream or fil, nor did they react to the devastation.

  "Escation Level Zero: Beat of Hatred."

  The fme around me became more intense, melting the jet I was on, and making it crash into the ground. Right in the middle of live fire too.

  My fme alone reduced the zombified civilians into ashes, leaving an area of eight kilometers reduced to a barren wastend of flickering fme. Buildings crumbled, wood burned away, concrete melted, and any trace of civilization was erased.

  "Utopia, focus the aerial assault on the frontline, I will handle the backline.", my target is Karakorum, the moving capital.

  "[As you command, Your Highness.]"

  —pak!

  I caught a golden arrow with my free left hand, aiming straight for my head. This is... a construct of—

  BOOM!!

  The arrow exploded right in my face, but it didn't do any damage, only agitate my Domination - crackling my electricity.

  "Escation Level One: Melody of Destruction."

  The fire briefly spun around me, then it expanded to 80 kilometers.

  "Escation Level Two: Path of Ruination."

  I took a step forward, and the radius of my fme expanded further to 480 kilometers. Moving just a little bit burned away millions.

  Another arrow came after me, which I just dodged. This arrow was made of... Judgement. An Eldritch God of Judgement? Or... a Herald?

  I have collected information over the months after Terra's slumber. There are five Juries of the Pale Court I know of, Judas Iscariot is somewhere in the Middle East, Adolf Hitler is in Germany, Andrew Jackson in America, the fucking Dino King in Australia, and...

  Genghis Khan is here, being a Jury of the Pale Court... they shouldn't attack me as per their oath—

  Utopia!!

  They will use Utopia as an excuse to stop me... hah... the greatest tyrant in history.

  This isn't just a simple cleaning-up-my-mess type of deal, this will be fun.

  I pushed my cane forward slightly, activating a spell. A beam of fire went toward the direction of the arrow was shot from... I missed.

  Should I go up one more Escation? No, that would affect South East Asia at this distance.

  I took in a deep breath, the halo behind my head flickered, and my fme changed color to an ethereal white. I held my left hand up, summoning Gatine. I point the Shadow of Excalibur toward Karakorum's location.

  Even if I can't see it, I know where it is. I can calcute the world after all, and those arrows... confirmed my calcutions.

  The golden gun began to glow white and become hotter. Nothing I can't handle, I held the Bde of the End before, after all.

  "Decration of Annihition: Nihility Incineration."

  And I fired, letting go of the gun due to the massive recoil. After all, it's an energy beam of destruction rips through the world at the speed of light.

  I turn around, picking up Gatine... five shots left.

  "[Your Majesty, your attack disabled Karakorum, it is unable to move due to being ripped in half.]", Utopia reported.

  "Good, and is it still alive?", that attack has Judgement in it, after all.

  "[Unconfirmed, Your Majesty.]", he replied.

  "Very well.", I nodded, "How is the frontline?"

  "[Your attack created an opening in the fire wall, so the Undead is pouring into Central Asia.]"

  Fuck... I have to be quick then.

  I flip my cane up, holding it like a sword.

  I crossed Gatine and Walpurgis Festival, grinding the two together, "Deconstruct."

  They broke apart into pieces, crackling with electricity between the fragments.

  "Reconstruct.", the two merged, becoming a golden sword with a purple tint to it.

  Solomon unwrapped itself, a portion of it turned into a pair of silver and blue sleeves with blue fme hissing out from the twists.

  I grind the sword against my sleeve, sparking fire as it goes.

  "Bloodhunt."

  My target is... Karakorum.

  Then I blitzed forward, becoming a bzing meteor as I rendered everything into ashes. I went straight through mountains, melting it from the inside, colpsing some, and redrawing the topography.

  I grin widely, my sword ignited in gold and blue fme. Then I swung my sword!!

  Cnk!!!

  I cshed against a bow, and all the energy from my momentum stopped all at once. But it rumbled the area around me like an earthquake.

  Because the person in front of me is a Jury, a muscle-bound man riding an ethereal brown horse, a bit shorter than me. Wearing ancient Mongolian leather and iron armor, he stares at me fiercely.

  Behind him is a giant piece of nd split in half, structures on it caved in the middle like a V. That is Karakorum, id waste by my attack.

  Now... where is the other one—

  I was forced to disengage him to avoid a hail of arrows. Those came from on top of a tower, where the other half is.

  I swung my sword, casting several spells— unching fire spears at the other one. In the same motion, I perform a vertical spin, applying Ars Goetia's True Spark and Ambtion's Potential at the same time.

  My sword bzed up, slicing Genghis Khan and his horse in two, killing him. All the while splitting the ground into an inferno of ashes and crumbling Karakorum even more.

  My sword shattered reducing its durability to zero. But...

  "Reconstruct."

  The sword reformed in my hand.

  "Now, will you tell me why did you go against your oath and attack me, a person born and raised on this pnet I call home?", I demanded an answer.

  The two stepped outside of a tower, staring at me and at each other.

  "You who use the strength of an alien, do you intend to betray humanity?", the female Genghis Khan stated.

  Me? Betraying humanity?

  Hah... that's it.

  "I am Charlotte Silvi, The Argent Monarch of Humanity, I am the Akasha, the Present separating Past and Future..."

  "Then prove yourself to us, self-procimed ruler.", the female Genghis Khan smirked at me.

  Temper now, Charlotte...

  "You who dare to insult humanity's rightful ruler, and to defame my knight as an enemy of my people...", I summon Quirinus to my hand, crackling with electricity, "Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire, you have one chance to apologize to me."

  "In the name of our Lord and Light, we shall bring upon you Judgement.", they stated to me.

  To antagonize me from the get-go... I see how it is.

  I took a step forward, and my halo flickered to silver, changing from Malice to Ambition.

  "To Honor the Past and Congratute the Future."

  I took in a deep breath, electricity crackling around me.

  "In Bzing Glory and Ardent Fme..."

  I grind my sword and nce against each other, sparking even more electricity.

  "This is my Path of Human."

  I took a step forward, crackling more and more. Am I good enough to kill a Jury? I don't know, but it would be fun to test it out.

  "By the Rite of Steel and Gunpowder, I shall grant you your Finality.", I handle both my weapons to the sides, open myself to be unguarded as a provocation, "For I am the Daughter of Judgement."

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