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    Lux looked at Queen Bianca''s peaceful face while her two daughters cried by her side.


    The monsters were still rampaging inside the city, and screams of pain, death, desperation, and horror spread in the surroundings.


    "Mother…"


    A voice familiar to Lux reached his ears, making him raise his head to look behind Queen Bianca.


    There, a youngdy with long pink hair stood in a daze.


    There were two horns on her head and bat-like wings behind her back. Her gaze was fixed on the Queen, ignoring the carnage that was happening around her.


    "It''s your fault…" Aurora said as tears of blood streamed down her face. "It''s your fault. If not for you… mother would still be alive!"


    Without warning, her spade-tipped tailshed out like a whip, heading towards the pink-haired girl who was bawling her eyes out, while hugging her dead mother.


    Lux reacted on time and used his body to shield the young Aurora from the Subus who seemed to be dead set in ending her life.


    Aurora''s tail bounced off the Half-Elf''s arm, which was now covered in Dragon Scales.


    "Aurora! Snap out of it!" Lux shouted. "Don''t let your heart demon consume you!"


    The subus ignored the Half-Elf''s words and raised both of her hands.


    "Because of you, my mother died!" Aurora shouted. "You deserve to die!"


    The Subus unleashed a wave of zing mes toward her younger self, who was still clinging to her dead mother.


    The mes engulfed her targets, making her smile.


    "Good!" Aurora sneered as she intensified the power of the mes which had created an infernal hell in front of her. "You deserve to die. You should have died long ago! If not for you, Mother would still be alive!"


    A few secondster, she stopped her attack and watched as the mes slowly receded.


    She believed that after everything she had done, the little devil would have now burned to a crisp, and that thought made her smile sweetly.


    However, the smile on her face disappeared when she saw something ck within the mes, resisting the inferno that was burning around it.


    Lux opened his Draconic Wings and dispersed the mes from the surroundings.


    Shayna, the young Aurora, and their dead mother were safe, even though everything around them had been reduced to ashes.


    "I should have expected that the child of Bad Luck would be hard to kill," Aurora said in a hoarse voice. "But it doesn''t matter. I will erase her existence from this world, and end everyone''s suffering once and for all!"


    She then shifted her gaze to the ck Demi-Dragon in front of her and sneered.


    "Why are you protecting that THING?!" Aurora growled. "That creature doesn''t need to exist! Get out of my way! I will kill her!"


    "No," Lux stated. "You can''t kill her."


    "Fine," Aurora sneered. "I''ll kill you first."


    The Subus'' body was then engulfed by purple mes, making her look like a devil from hell.


    "Anyone who stands in my way will die," Aurora stated as purple ming swords appeared in both of her hands. "Anyone who sides with Misfortune''s Beloved doesn''t deserve to live!"


    Lux took a step forward, making the ground under his feet shatter.


    With every step he took, the ground crumbled as if there was an invisible force that was strong enough to break everything in his way.


    "Protect them," Lux ordered. "Do I make myself clear?"


    All of his Named Creatures and the members of his Covenant all appeared behind him.


    Lux''s Corpse God materialized and positioned itself to protect Shayna and the young Aurora from any harm.


    Even ckfire was there, hovering above Queen Bianca''s head like an imprable fortress, shielding the living and the dead.


    Time seemed to move slowly as Lux and Aurora walked towards each other.


    zing mes trailed in her wake, while destruction followed behind the Demi-Dragon.


    When they were only a few meters away from each other, both of them disappeared, and a powerful shock wave erupted at the city''s center.


    Purple mes and ck mes shed in a never-ending dance of death and destruction, destroying everything around them.


    Aurora''s swords and Lux''s Draconic ws shed repeatedly, sending sparks flying in every direction.


    Seeing that she was unable to get the upper hand, she used her tail to grab one of Lux''s legs and threw him towards a house, destroying itpletely.


    Just as Aurora was about to throw a fireball at the fallen Demi-Dragon, Lux opened his mouth and unleashed Transcendent ck Dragon mes that were very effective against Abyssal Creatures.


    Aurora gritted her teeth and dodged to the side, avoiding Lux''s counterattack.


    However, before she could even recover her battle stance, Lux''s draconic tail smashed against the side of her body, sending her flying backward, and destroying houses along the way.


    A few secondster, a scream erupted in the distance, and a zing purpleet flew toward Lux with a vengeance.


    The Demi-Dragon didn''t back away and covered himself in ck mes, charging towards the crazed Subus, who had lost her sense of reason.


    The two shed and tried to overpower each other.


    Half a minuteter, the Purple Comet became bigger pushing the ck Comet to the ground.


    An earth-shaking explosion erupted, destroying a quarter of the city.


    When the dust cloud receded, the figure of a Subus, who was trying to sever the Demi-Dragon''s head from its body, could be seen.


    Lux was holding her hands, preventing her des from cutting his neck. However, to his surprise, Aurora was slowly but surely winning the battle of strength.


    "All who side with Misfortune must die!" Aurora growled. "The Misfortune''s Beloved must die!"


    "Why do you girls always like to be on top?" Lux replied through gritted teeth. "Shouldn''t our roles be reversed?"


    Aurora sneered as she continued to push her des towards the Demi-Dragon''s neck with a crazed look on her face.


    Just as the des were about to touch Lux''s skin, a set of bony hands grabbed hold of Aurora''s arms, preventing her from going for the kill.


    The Subus nced at the two Little Skeletons who were holding onto her in confusion.


    "Why?" Aurora asked them. "Aren''t you two supposed to be on my side? Why are you helping him? Whose side are you on?"


    The two Little Skeletons opened their mouths, and because Lux could understand the Undead, he heard Zane and Zeke tell Aurora that they were always on her side.


    "Then why?!" Aurora growled. "Why are you getting in my way?!"


    The two Little Skeletons urged Aurora to stop and return to her senses. However, instead of calming down the Subus, their plea only enraged her more.


    "Are you going to betray me?!" Aurora asked, her voice filled with killing intent. "I trusted the two of you, and now, you n to betray me?!"


    The Subus'' eyes zed brightly.


    "Unforgivable!"


    She then used her wings to p the two Little Skeletons, shattering their bodiespletely.


    "Traitors," Aurora said as blood seeped from the corner of her lips. "All of you betrayed me. All of you left my side. None of you care about me. All of you threw me away."


    All of you…


    All of you…


    All of you…


    All of you… deserve to die!


    Just as she was about to hack Lux apart with her swords, the Demi-Dragon''s fist connected with the side of her face, sending her flying to the side.


    He then snapped his fingers and the two Little Skeletons reassembled their bodies and looked at their Mistress.


    Although they were only made up of bones, and no expressions could be seen on their faces, a feeling of sadness reverberated from their bodies.


    Zane and Zeke then walked towards Aurora with their arms stretched wide, as if pleading for her to calm down.


    However, instead of listening to them, the Subus obliterated them with two fireballs, making them turn into particles of light.


    These lights then flew towards Aurora and she engulfed them with purple mes.


    A few secondster, two Little Skeletons that were coated with purple mes stood beside their mistress as their ming eyes locked onto the Demi-Dragon''s body.


    "Zane, Zeke, you love me, right?" Aurora said as she patted the heads of the two Little Skeletons. "You will help me, right?"


    The two Skeletons nodded their heads at the same time.


    "Then help me kill this fool," Aurora smiled. "After that, the three of us are going to y, okay? Back in that dark ce where no one will hurt us anymore."


    The two Little Skeletons nodded and summoned two bone swords in each hand. They then walked side-by-side with their Mistress, who wished to kill the Demi-Dragon in front of her.


    Lux sighed before taking a fighting stance. He finally understood why Aurora was able to overpower him.


    Since this was her memory, the entire world was considered to be her Domain.


    As long as she wished for it, she would gain the power she needed in order to destroy anything that stood in her way.


    "Are you sure you want it to end like this, Aurora?" Lux''s clone said as he looked at the younger Aurora, who was still hugging Queen Bianca. "Your mother sacrificed her life to save you. Is this how you want things to end? Does her sacrifice only amount to this?"


    The young Aurora''s body shuddered after hearing Lux''s words.


    "Someone like me doesn''t deserve to live," the Young Aurora said softly. "I only bring pain to the people around me. I would be better off dead."


    "Then what about your sister?" Lux asked. "She''s already lost her mother, do you want her to lose a sister as well?"


    The Young Aurora nced at the crying Shayna, whose snot and tears were mixing together as she clung to her mother.


    "Mama!" Shayna cried. "Mama, wake up!"


    Seeing her sister in such a state, an indescribable emotion surfaced within the Young Aurora''s heart.


    It was as if her heart had a big hole in it, making her feel iplete and incapable of feeling any other emotions aside from extreme sadness and powerlessness.


    And yet, as Shayna''s wails reverberated inside her head, something stirred inside her mind.


    Something that once belonged to her in a time when she and her family were still living happily together.