LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 367: Queen’s retaliation
"How's that possible," Ninth muttered under her breath. Throughout her life, she was taught by all the best Saviors she knew that Canzers were divided into two categories: Infectious Canzers and Destruction Canzers.
One of them was able to clone themselves infinitely, while the other could regenerate their wounds till full health.
It was an overpowered ability that all Canzers had, and Saviors were the ones tasked to make sure that their ability was disabled before they could kill them.
Of course, things were balanced by the fact that they had their own weaknesses, just like all things in nature were.
Infectious Canzers may be able to clone themselves infinitely after death, but that meant that their defenses were extremely weak compared to a normal Destruction Canzer. Their chitinous armor was basically nonexistent.
Destruction Canzers had better armor and survivability because of their regeneration, but they couldn't exert as much pressure as the Infectious Canzers because a team of Saviors only had to fight one or two of them at the same time.
Despite how overpowering their abilities were, Saviors like Ninth were comforted by the fact that they could take advantage of their weakness to fight them to the death.
For Infectious Canzers, Ninth and her team liked to group them all together and kill them in one big go. This necessitated a long preparation period, even while they were fighting. They had to make sure that they wouldn't accidentally kill just one of the Infectious Canzers, lest they multiply and snowball into a much bigger threat.
For Destruction Canzers, Ninth and her team planned to give it all they got at the very start of the fight. If they attacked the Canzer and didn't relent on their offense, then it wouldn't have time to regenerate its wounds. This would give them time to set up their construct and disable its regenerative abilities before killing it.
That was how they dealt with Canzers, and how Ninth survived all this time after fighting thousands of Canzers.
But the Queen…she was a beast all on her own.
With her strength alone, Ninth thought that the Queen was a Destruction-type Canzers. That was the reason why she wanted to manifest the prismatic dragon so early in the fight so that they could try to kill the Queen as quickly as possible.
But then, the Queen suddenly multiplied after her death. One became three.
It was such an absurd sight that Ninth and her team thought they were seeing a mere illusion. After all, that was supposed to be impossible.
Having the regenerative abilities of the Destruction type Canzer and the cloning ability of the Infection type Canzer was the recipe to become an unkillable demon.
They almost used all of their resources, their energy, and all their effort trying to kill the Queen's body. But as it turned out, it only spawned three more bodies as if fate was playing a joke on them.
'This is the true difference between a true dragon and a Canzer. I am different. I am transcendent,' the Queen said, spreading her arms to the heavens and proclaiming it as hers.
Ninth felt disheartened. She didn't know how to proceed. She knew how to kill an infinitely cloning Infectious Canzer. She knew how to deal with a regenerating Destruction Canzer. But she didn't know how to deal with the Queen who could do both.
There was nothing they could do. If they tried to fight and kill the Queen before it could kill them, then it would only spawn more clones of her.
And if they did nothing but defend themselves, then they would quickly lose the battle of attrition since they had just expended all that energy trying to fight the horde and killing just one clone.
She didn't know what to do.
And in her desperation, she turned to Tulip, the only being who could give them a way out of this situation. Continue your journey at My Virtual Library Empire
'Please, do you know how we can kill her?'
Tulip could feel the frustration and desperation in Ninth's voice. But no matter how much she tried to think of something, Tulip had no idea how to kill the Queen. After all, this was the first time she even saw her pursuer.
'I'm sorry…I…I don't know…"
But Ninth wasn't going to accept that answer.
'What do you mean?! You're supposed to know that! It's the entire reason why we protected you all this time!'
Carmine promised them that Tulip was the weakness of the Queen, the creature in the castle. It was for that reason that they took her all this way without abandoning her.
Ninth simply couldn't believe that Tulip had no idea how to kill the Queen. After all, their similarity was truly alike. It was as if they were twins.
And because they looked so much alike, her anger toward the Queen transferred to the innocent Tulip.
'You're useless!' she screamed.
In this stressful situation, Ninth couldn't help but feel as if everything had gone to the sewers. No matter how much she tried, no matter how much energy she expended, she still couldn't overcome the dragon.
She thought that it was only her frightful thinking that prevented her from reaching her true potential and killing the dragon, but as it turned out, she was outclassed from the very beginning. Even when they combined all their domains and achieved perfect coordination with her teammates, they still fell short of slaying the dragon.
It was at this point that the Queen approached the prismatic dragon.
All three clones surrounded the dragon, raising their hands in the air and summoning magic in their hands.
Suddenly, Ninth and her team felt as if their body was getting ripped apart from their very bones.
A strange void had captured the dragon's limbs, head, and wings.
It was as if a black hole had appeared and sucked in the different parts of the dragon, trying to dismember the once powerful being into mere pieces.
No matter how much Ninth and her team struggled, they were helpless as the prismatic dragon's body started to spaghettify, turning the prismatic dragon into a stream of particles that got sucked in by the void.