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Wait, what?
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Madrid, Spain
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Spoiler for It begins:
Alice is in a horrible place emotionally and mentally. She asks him what he thinks about all of this.
He honestly wasn't thinking about that, his mind was on the puzzle of the star swords and what Crosswell had in mind for him and the words he was left with.
He's not in any position to understand how Alice and Rin feel, nor is he going to pretend to know. He has no idea if they instantly lose it all, if it would take days or decades. But he honestly is not interested in knowing the lapse of time.
Alice asks him if this means he's no longer going to be interested in her once it's all over. But he asks Rin if she's going to stop being Alice's servant once they lose their powers. Rin answers no without thinking, then double takes.
Iska hasn't changed what he said back in volume 3. To him, Alice is herself, no matter what's on her skin or what is or isn't inside of her.
And what could have been a very emotional couple of hours....gets interrupted because Elletear sent corrupted Astral spirits after the Oasis.
One is the corrupted spirit of the Sun, a faceless lamia attacking from the perimeter, May senses something else inside the Oasis and the group splits up with Iska, Kissing and May fighting the Sun and everyone else going rushing inside the oasis.
And as Talisman and crew descend into the eruption site far away, Elletear appears before them.
As proper nobles, Talisman and Elletear have cheerful, polite and threatening words to exchange before the violence breaks out.
The Corrupt Sun is ridiculously fast enough that May has trouble dodging unscathed and Iska is also in trouble. But it has little sense of self preservation, and gets turned into swiss cheese by Kissing's power.
Except the catch is that it regenerates fast enough for this to not matter.
And as Iska goes to save Kissing, he's in for another one of those "miss by a hair" dodges as the Sun was willing to feint out in order to kill him. But barring that, taking away the black star sword will serve just as well as the monster has no issues sacrificing a (quickly replaced) arm for that reason.
That's enough time for May to set up her gun and blast the monster viciously into a puddle of flesh from a different angle. But who are we kidding, that's not enough to put the monster down either.
According to Elletear, the sun is a symbol of rebirth. No matter how long and dark the night is, the sun rises again in a beautiful manner.
And cheerful Talisman says that her power is now so wonderful that she can clearly express the inferiority complex inside of her. Elletear agrees but it's not enough, she needs more and more power, speaking of her dream and goal.
Vichy interrupts with fire to the face, Talisman goes for body blows and calls her drunk on power, dull and no longer as sharp as she used to be.
Neither attack works, but it bought Mizerhyby time to finish powering up the soldiers and just blast Elletear with the enhanced astral powers.
Which is painful to Elletear, and it might hurt her a bit had more purebloods been around rather than Talisman (who has most of his power locked into physical enhancement rather than throwing around waves of astral power).
So Elletear decides that the family finally knows enough despair and fear because of how hopeless they are in front of her, shows her monstrous form and sings. There's no shield around the heart that can protect people from the Requiem of the Stars, and the Hydra family falls.
Or does it?
Spoiler for Fate?:
And Elletear is very confused. Only three people out of a large group are slowly trying to get on their feet, Vichy, Mizerhyby and Talisman. Vichy is like Elletear and can resist the song to an extent because of Nightmare compatibility, but Mizerhyby and Talisman?
Talisman calls it pure luck. Because while astral power can help repel the influence of the Nightmare in theory, the Reqieum of the Stars would still get a mage's heart, because the astral spirit and most of the power is concentrated on the astral crest. And the song enters the body from all directions.
Since Mizerhyby's astral power flowed through her whole body in great amounts, it deadened the effect enough for her to not fall into a total coma. Talisman through his training is the same way, although he is holding his chest from seeming exertion.
And now Elletear is mad. Seriously mad. Mad enough to freeze Mizerhyby and Vichy in terror.
If their heart can't be broken in a gentle way, all that's left is to break their bodies in a brutal and thoroughly unpleasant way.
Talisman sinks one fist into her body, calling Elletear drunk on power again. Elletear finds it hilarious that now he's trying to protect the princess like a knight in shining armor, though his pointless struggle is pretty sad at this point.
Talisman acknowledges that his strength will never hurt Elletear at all. She does have the power to change the world and make everyone kneel before her in terror.
But the terror of the mad scientists that created her is why she's about to lose
According to the afterword, volume 14 will be Mizerhyby's time in the spotlight, the start of the final phase of the war, also featuring the clash between Shanorotte and Mismis
Last edited by manifla; 2022-03-30 at 23:24.
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