An army of corrupted ran toward Albriar.


    "Isn''t something weird?"


    Dramia stared at the enemies, and realized quickly something.


    "Yes. This looks like the same pattern as when Noah was fighting the beast''s onslaughts in the past. Why?"


    Quick at remembering, Drania agreed with her sister.


    "Amelia, if everything''s exactly as we know it, the attack is going to happen in three waves. What is going to be different is that we have humans against us this time."


    "If you can call that humans. So, can you explain a little more?"


    She nodded and developed her thoughts.


    "In the past, we saw Noah dispatched a whole army of fifty thousands corrupted beasts in an afternoon. There is obviously less beasts in front of us, but the attack should happen the same."


    "The first wave is full of the weakest corrupted, they are quick to deal with, and easy to kill. The second is full of larger beasts, with lots of deadlier ones. For the last wave... it usually ended with a leader of sort. A strong corrupted with elites."


    Amelia observed the army of creatures that was closing in.


    "I don''t think there will be any of the elites this time. I don''t think you will be finding that mixed with humans."


    "I agree with you, I can only see the medium sized beasts, so we have only two waves to deal with. Instead, the third and onward waves are all humans."


    The two women, who grew fond of each other through cooking together were discussing what to do in details.


    ...


    "Are you sure?"


    "Yes, I will leave the rest to you two."


    Amelia nodded to Dramia, and walked forward.


    "Don''t overdo it. Though, I know you only listen to Orion."


    With a stern face, the coldest sister looked at Amelia walking toward the army of beasts.


    "I won''t. I''ll only come back when everything is dead, don''t worry. Be prepared, after that, it is your turn."


    *sigh*


    "Right. Have fun, I guess."


    Amelia smiled, and before anyone could understand, she was already running at full speed toward the thousand beast army.


    Dramia turned around and looked in the air. Her gaze fell on three people looking over the battlefield on the wall of Albriar.


    Orion was focused on the field in front of him, looking for one particular man.


    "..."


    "Sis, are you alright?"


    Drania worried about her sister, but there was no reason to.


    "I''m fine. Let''s prepare for the next part."


    The sisters turned around and walked toward the men and women fighting for Albriar. They would join these people to defend against the corrupted human wave.


    ~


    ''We''ve got our work cut out for us, let''s not waste any energy and blast through these guys!''


    Amelia was approaching fast. She had received Orion''s speed enhancement, while also using her wind element to make her steps feel lighter.


    The two waves Dramia spoke about were evident to her, as the smaller were in front, with the larger near the back.


    ''A minute before the encounter. How am I going to blast as many as possible in one strike.''


    The sun had settled, only a small amount of light was helping her seeing the enemies.


    ''Let''s bring light to the battlefield first. Thank me later, Orion.''


    "Vesta, time to light the way forward."


    The fire dagger appeared in her hand.


    She jumped high in the air thanks to the wind element, and pointed her dagger down toward the beast running at her.


    Her physical appearance changed. Her hair turned red, her eyes changed crimson red, and flame engulfed her body.


    "Inferno."


    A little spiral of fire formed at the tip, gathering all of the fire Amelia was creating around her. The ability seemed to change with her emotions, as it was less explosive compared to her first use against Orion.


    Once the fire had gathered enough flames, she slashed downward, sending a scorching blade toward the ground.


    The attack touched the first poor creature that was running, evaporating its everything, before exploding on the ground in a large pillar of flame, engulfing at least a hundred creatures.


    Fire continued to burn the creatures that thought of running straight through, and made more victims by the second.


    ''Return. Dana, Leima, your turn.''


    Her appearance returned to normal, as the water and lightning dagger replaced Vesta.


    With the momentum of the jump, and the few meters high in the air she had over the ground, she fell right in the middle her previous attack.


    ''Good thing my own fire doesn''t seem to affect me.''


    This was something Amelia realized while fighting her fire clone. Her elements were unable to damage a single hair on her body.


    Even her lightning element, known to injure its user, wasn''t able to affect Amelia. It was normal to think that she was immune to her own magic.


    She truly was an anomaly of a human.


    Now, with Dana and Leima in hand, she turned around and jumped again, but not as high. It was a normal jump.


    Adding a little spin, she began to turn in midair.


    ''I won''t let any of you escape.''


    The front of the beast army had managed to run past the explosion, so she had to turn around and finish them off before they got closer to the city.


    So she took her two most flexible daggers, and tried something.


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    ''Extend.''


    Both daggers changed forms. Dana''s water blade began to ripple, before elongating itself. The same happened for Leima''s electric blade.


    Gaining a meter, and with the spin she had, she cut through a large portion of the beasts.


    When her foot touched the ground, she spin-jump in another direction, repeating the process of cutting everything in her surroundings.


    ''I won''t be able to stop everything like that.''


    And she was right. The more time passed, the closer she found herself to Albriar.


    ''Dana, switch with Ceres. We''ll stop them in their tracks.''


    The water dagger switched with the earth dagger, before Amelia instantly threw it in front of the army.


    Shakings happened. Many beasts tumbled over after losing their balance, while a large wall of rock broke through the dirt and blocked their path.


    Everyone wondered what was happening from afar. The last thing that had this kind of large scale attacks was when the Azur Dragon attacked. Such power was only given to the Apostles, and even then, not a lot would jump in front of a thousand beasts army.


    Such an army was hard to find on the continent. Yes, it was hard, but not impossible. It would require a lot of gathering, but the problem was how to control them. The only one able to do that would be The Miasma itself, and that''s what Orion was suspecting.


    The only place that had regular attacks with this many corrupted beasts would be near Turric, where the beasts came from the Frigoria Plains.


    And now, Amelia was dealing with the remaining members of such an incredible army.


    Taking some distance behind the beasts that hit the wall, she pointed Ceres at the enemies.


    "Nailing time."


    With a cute smile, a terrifying thing was about to happen where no one was able to see.


    A thousand nails flew at the beasts. Some were instantly pinned to the rock walls, cleanly pierced through, or reduced to minced meat.


    Just like that, only a third of the beasts remained. Many were injured, crippled, or had broken limbs, hindering their advances.


    At that point, the beasts seemed to have realized the mistake of ignoring her, but it was too late.


    "Aura, Leima, let''s finish this off."


    Amelia released the earth dagger, and the wind dagger appeared at last. The lightning dagger she kept until know was going to be used for another purpose.


    Gripping the daggers strongly, she looked at the beasts running toward her.


    "Hmpf!"


    She scoffed at them, and unleashed a flurry of wind blades, helped with the electrical current flowing through her back and arms.


    With heightened speed, and an incredible accuracy, she slashed so many wind blades that it looked surreal.


    Nothing was spared. The blades found their targets, and shred their body to pieces. Legs, head, paws, nothing was ignored. Blood exploded everywhere, and the cries of the beasts echoed through the plains, giving shivers to the human soldiers.


    The result? A gruesome dismembered mess of creatures. There had been so many wind blades that she managed to break the giant rocky wall she had herself created.


    Everything crumbled in a giant mess. Dust scattered everywhere, and Amelia remained alone on the battlefield.


    A clean dispatch. Dramia and Drania looked at Amelia, and saw Noah through her. The way he fought was similar, yet different, for obvious reasons.


    "Job''s done, time to go back."


    Without wasting time, she ran toward the city, leaving the disgusting mess behind, and avoiding stepping on any blood, organs, and limbs scattered.


    But she stopped in her tracks when she saw one beast still alive, and creepily moving around the corpses.


    ''I need to finish this one.''


    She thought she was done, but here was one last enemy that had to be dealt with. It looked rather in shape compared to the other beasts that were shredded to pieces.


    The beast looked at Amelia, and plunged its head inside the body of one of his dead ally. It ripped through the skin, and took out a black core from its inside, and ate it.


    "!"


    ''I need to finish this one fast!''


    Amelia had a bad feeling about this one. If it wasn''t dealt with immediately, something out of her control would appear.


    Her blood was pumping, but her mind was calm. The fight with Orion, and the talk with Karteira.


    Both of these events made her take pride in herself. She had what it take to fight a whole army by herself, and that, simply because she had progressed a lot.


    She remembered the first corrupted beast she fought. A wolf. She had no abilities, weaker strength, and no experiences.


    With a smile on her face, she looked toward Albriar. She looked at the only man she believed into. He looked at her, smiled and returned to look for his prey.


    While staring at her own prey, Amelia took out Vesta and Leima without hesitation.


    The lone beast that looked like a malformed deer with greyish tones looked at Amelia and rushed at her with a speed it wasn''t supposed to have.


    ''Close!''


    With a side-jump and a roll, Amelia avoided being impaled by the horns. When she turned around, a gruesome scene was happening, again.


    It kept eating at the dead beasts cores, and was growing stronger while doing so. Some of its body parts were bulging weirdly too, like its right hind leg, and the right side of its head along its lower neck part. Its body also seemed to grow larger and taller.


    Just when Amelia thought that she saw enough, the deer began to writhe in pain, as its body began to mutate.


    The leg split open, in a burst of black blood. Tentacles muscles disgustingly moved around, until it took shape. The same happened for its head and neck.


    Something unnatural was happening to this corrupted beast. This was how a Corrupted Lord was created.


    ''...''


    Amelia was disgusted to her core. If she wasn''t on the battlefield, she would be throwing up right now. The gruesome scene of the dead beasts was similar to going to the butcher, so she was fine with it, but this gross dark blood and exploding body parts? This felt wrong.


    Magic began to gather around the deer, as three dark cores formed were the bulging parts opened. Its size was twice as much as Amelia now, which meant that it was past three meters high.


    An element rare even for a corrupted beast, lightning, was forming around the deer.


    ''I''ve got this. I can''t let a baby Lord take me down, right?''


    The deer opened its eyes and looked at Amelia, before running toward her faster than before. The lightning empowering its legs, it tried to stomp on Amelia.


    But Amelia also had an advantage. She possessed the ''Calm Analysis'' ability. While slowing down time was impossible for her, she was still able to find the right moment to dodge.


    Leima in her right hand, she gripped it strong. She wanted to try something first before releasing the full power of Vesta.


    When the deer got close enough, Amelia crouched and slashed at the right antler while dodging to in the same direction.


    It wasn''t enough to break the tough bone. Amelia wasn''t stupid, she knew that she had to destroy all cores to definitely kill the Corrupted Lord. The hind leg was easy, she could break it at the next encounter.


    But the head and neck was hard to touch with the antler protecting the cores. It was in the way, and had to be dealt with.


    The deer made another run toward Amelia after turning around.


    ''Sharper.''


    Leima''s blade began to change from blue to green.


    Another exchanged happened.


    "Tch!"


    ''Not sharp enough.''


    The blade once again changed colors. From green, it changed to yellow.


    With the deer preparing its next charge, Amelia watched it carefully.


    It finally charged her, just when Amelia had readied herself completely.


    Lightning coursed through her muscles, causing large pain from the strain of such enhancement. Amelia stared inside the eyes of her enemy, and the blade touched the right antler just like she did before.


    "Gh-Grr!"


    She gritted her teeth and resisted the charge as the blade made contact with the antler.


    But the deer moved its head and pushed Amelia away from it.


    ''I missed it?''


    Observing the deer for any trace of damage, a shadow was cast over her.


    "Woah!"


    She jumped out of the way and looked at the place she was standing. There, was stuck in the ground the antler Amelia had managed to cut.


    To say that the deer wasn''t happy was an understatement. It was in rage, and lost itself in the process.


    It ran toward Amelia, and tried to crush Amelia by standing on its hind legs.


    ''I couldn''t hope for a better opportunity!''


    ''Vesta!''


    The link between her and the elements took place once again, but not for long.


    She stabbed the fire dagger in the belly of the deer, before rolling out of way, Leima still in her hand.


    Standing up to see the deer in pain, she took the opportunity, and destroyed the three cores in a second.


    The deer let out one last cry, before falling down completely, and evaporating to dust.


    *Sigh*


    With a job well done, and after recovering Vesta, she returned to Albriar, and to the sisters, without a scratch.


    But she was exhausted.


    ~


    "WHY?! This was supposed to be an easy invasion!"


    One man was losing it, hidden a forest not far from Albriar.


    He could see the whole fight from were he was, and just observed the beasts get shredded.


    "Huh?! It''s not that important?"


    "We still have the humans? Mmh... right. Send the armies next. Let''s see what you do against my army, and the armies of Leonis and Kiel I recovered."


    "I''m sure three thousands men will be enough to destroy Albriar."


    "But I wonder, were did that woman come from, and why is she able to use all elements?"


    His eyes glowed bright red.


    "I need to capture this woman."


    With a wish that would never happen, the man looked at the three armies running toward the city.


    "Heh. Good luck, without Florian here to supervise, this is my win."


    ~


    "Found you, little coward."


    With a smile, Orion looked toward a forest on the far east of the battlefield.


    "How did you find him?"


    Florian asked.


    "I''ve traced the back the corruption to its source. Where there is corruption, there''s Miasma. I learned that the hard way. Follow the corruption, and you will find its pawn."


    Orion jumped from the wall, and created a portal next to the sisters.


    "Girls, I''m going. I''ve found that little coward of an Apostle. Take care of the last part. I won''t tell you to protect the humans, just be careful. Also, I know Tiohr-nam has hidden your fairy appearance, but if you need to, release it. I''ll take care of the aftermath."


    Before they could say anything, Orion was already back on top of the wall.


    "We''ll do that then."


    "Yes! Let''s play rough!"


    Both sisters closed their eyes, and released the protection Tiohr-nam gave them.


    All humans turned their heads and looked at the brown colored haired girls changing back to their green colored fairy form.


    "What, you''ve never seen a fairy before?"


    "Sis, they''ve never saw one ever..."


    Dramia shrugged, and walked forward, leaving her sister behind.


    "Wait for me!"