LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 369: Third choice
Ninth had to decide now. The Queen's vengeful hand was nearing towards her teammates, her friends, who she has called her family for years on end. The only thing she had to do was to push Tulip towards the Queen, and she would save not only herself, but her teammates.
It would be so easy. Just when Ninth was wracking her mind over this monumental decision, she felt a warm hand on her shoulder.
She looked behind and saw Tulip looking at her with the kindest of eyes. The Canzer nodded, giving the implicit assurance that she was okay.
Tulip was letting Ninth choose her teammates.
After all, Ninth knew she was going to do either way. At least now, there wouldn't be more casualties because of her.
Ninth and the other humans that had been so kind to her didn't deserve this kind of fate. Tulip wanted to make sure that they didn't get caught up in her death.
Tulip began walking over to the Queen, offering herself up to be killed in exchange for the lives of the humans.
'A traitor till the very end, huh?' the Queen ridiculed Tulip. In her opinion, Tulip should have at least struggled a little bit. She should have tried to manipulate the human to save her. After all, that's what humans were good for.
However, Tulip acted unlike her own kind. She was willing to save the humans who killed thousands upon thousands of her soldiers. They might have been monsters, but they were still citizens of the kingdom. No matter what, Tulip should have acted a little bit more sympathetic towards her own kind.
But no. Tulip sided with the humans. This infuriated the Queen.
If the prophecy became true, and Tulip became the one to surpass her to become the Queen of this kingdom, then Malificient was worried about what she would do to her subjects.
Tulip showed no loyalty to the Canzers. She was willing to befriend and side with the humans. If she became Queen, then the whole kingdom would be in danger. She would surely want to make peace with the humans—or worse, trust them.
That would spell the end for the entire kingdom.
Malificient couldn't let that happen. She had to stop the prophecy and keep her throne in the kingdom, ensuring that she would be able to lead the Canzers into the righteous path.
'Please get it over quickly,' Tulip begged, with her body shaking in fear.
One of the Queen's clones floated down to Tulip. She looked ready to receive her prize. Her eyes shone in excitement, feeling triumphant that she was about to defeat the prophecy.
And in her elation, she wasn't able to notice the subtle movement behind Tulip.
Ninth suddenly appeared next to Tulip, with her one-handed greatsword about to pierce through Malificient's heart.
The Queen's eyes widened, not expecting this kind of outcome. But after a fraction of a second, her face returned to normal. She raised her hand and used the power of the void in her domain to defend against Ninth's attack.
'You could have saved yourselves the trouble, human,'
But just as the Queen was about to repel Ninth away into another dimension, Ninth's sword suddenly glowed white with power.
If the Queen was paying attention, then the power that emanated from the blade was extremely similar to the prismatic dragon's power.
With this brief spike in power, Ninth was able to overcome the black hole void that was manifested to block her attack.
SHING!
The prismatic energy collided with the dark void, sending bursts of energy everywhere.
The mere fact that Ninth could contend with her void surprised the Queen. She would have never thought that a single human could produce this kind of power.
The sword sliced the void in half before continuing to pierce towards the Queen's heart.
Ninth's eyes were full of focus and determination. As soon as she decided to attack, her mind was as sharp as it had ever been.
But using this much power overclocked her body.
Blood trickled from her nose.
She shouldn't have been able to manifest the power of the prismatic aura alone. After all, it was the combination of their team's domain powers.
But Ninth was able to reach down deep inside her Soul System to use the remnants of the prismatic aura for one last fight.
This would allow her to temporarily have the power of the prismatic dragon.
However, doing this meant that she would do permanent untold damage towards her body. Her Soul Time was ticking down by hundreds of years every second. But she didn't care.
The Queen gave her a choice whether she was going to save her teammates or save Tulip.
Ninth's answer was none of those. She chose to save all of them, even if it meant it would result in her death.
In this moment of crisis, Ninth was able to overcome her fear of the dragon. Her mind was clear. Despite facing death in the face, she was not scared at all. She was at peace with her own choice.
This allowed her to push herself even stronger, pushing the sword towards the Queen's chitinous chest.
The Queen felt a stinging pain as the sword pierced through the chitin as if it was made out of rubber. Slowly, the blade pierced through her heart, killing her in an instant.
"RAGGHHH!" Ninth screamed as her entire body got engulfed in the power of the prismatic aura.
The prismatic aura slowly spread towards the Queen, infecting it with the ever-lasting destroying properties of the aura.
It wasn't able to regenerate itself, and it wasn't able to clone itself.
With one of the clones dealt with, Ninth set her sights on the two other clones in the air. Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire
She leapt up, with a transparent outline of dragon wings behind her back, and sliced her sword towards the two clones.
The clones tried to use the power of the void to protect themselves, but Ninth didn't let them have the chance to defend.
She gathered all the prismatic energy inside her body and pushed it out of her Soul System, damaging it in the process.
BOOM!
But in the end, she was able to let out one giant explosion that destroyed the void protection of the two clones. Soon enough, the clones were engulfed in a blinding white explosion.