BXBX NOVEL Chapter 333 333 - A Harrowing Sight
Chapter 333 Chapter 333 - A Harrowing Sight
Dropped out in the real world by the Ballerinas Stella fell face-first into the dust beside a lone tree standing tall in a light clearing. Attempting to get up, she coughed the dust out of her mouth and dusted her clothes after finally getting back on her feet.
At a loss from the sudden teleportation, she couldn't remember who or how she'd ended up here, yet the one thing crystal clear in her mind was that she needed to get closer to her father and help him.
"I should get going," she whispered, but before taking even a step forward she heard a wave of rustle through the trees echoing around her. "Wh-what's there?!"
Turning transparent, Stella prepared herself for whatever was lurking in the trees and watching her. Realizing that her little amount of training in battle was bound to be inadequate against a seasoned foe, Stella slid her feet in the direction of the battlefield and stayed on her toes to sprint away at the first sight of trouble.
With every rustle through the bushes, her heart raced with a horrid thrill. Gulping the tension-built saliva from her mouth, she took a deep breath and just bolted in the form of a liquid zapping through the air. The sounds chased behind her and even kept up without any signs of letting her go.
"Get away!" Screamed Stella as she stopped to catch her breath leaning against a tree.
Instead of trailing off, the sounds increased even more, and picking up the discretion of the noise, Stella could even hear it right above her head. Petrified in place, she clenched her teeth and attempted to look up, but before her eyes could spy the creature an arrow shot right through her skull from above.
"Ug-h…" Like a deer struck in its vitals, Stella flopped onto the ground lifeless.
The sounds all around her kept growing closer, and eventually, as the faces of numerous goblins appeared looking down at her from all directions, the arrow dissolved into her skull and she blinked their eyes at the familiar faces.
"Fuck…" Huffed one of the goblins, biting her nails as she realized how they'd messed up.
"He'll kill us for sur-" Before another could finish his sentence, Stella shook her head before reaching for help in getting up.
Still a bit terrified, it took the goblins a moment to even register the reality in front. After all, seeing someone rise with no injuries after being shot in the head wasn't a sight anyone could just scoff at. Finally, giving her a hand, they helped Stella up. Distancing themselves from her quickly, they all bowed their heads in unison.
"We thought you were an enemy!" Said one of the female goblins, the other aggressively nodded to display their remorse.
"It-it's okay, I thought you were some monst-I mean an enemy too," shaking her head, Stella gestured them to raise their heads, but then stopped; as far in the distance, she saw someone that could easily ruin her plans for coming here.
'Goblin queen! She's coming!' Looking around frantically, she tried to judge the direction of the battlefield and bolted once more. In the distance, as she fled, she even heard the queen call out to have her captured but she couldn't make out the exact command.
"Max! Help me!" Summoning her pet demonic spy, Stella fueled him with mana so he could turn into a giant and buy her some time.
"Leave it to me!" Said the demon spy, his body blocking off the oncoming goblin pack.
The ones who'd just captured Stella a while ago were still at a loss as to what was happening, but one smacked in the head from the queen and they too began rushing at the giant demon eye with a snarly mouth and tongue as well as razor-sharp teeth.
"Songbird!" Transforming into a transparent blue bird, Stella took to the air and away from the sigh of the incident.
Staying under the trees, she made sure not to be easily detected while also swiftly making her way towards the battlefield. The screams and screeches of bloodshed had already hit her ears, urging her to get to the site faster before who knows how many people were hurt.
"Arrow!" Taking a brief stop at a branch, she confirmed part of her body into a spear and shot it upwards in the form of an arrow. As the thing reached high, it turned into a translucent eye that let Stella see exactly what was happening in the direction of the battle from up above.
'Is that?!' Seeing someone in a cloak fighting against a creature with numerous wings, Stella knew it was none other than Haruki and the queen capable of bringing down gods. 'How are they moving so fast?! I need to hurry!'
"Wolf!" Throwing away all caution, the slime girl dropped down from the tree and transformed into a wolf to traverse the land even faster.
At this point, she couldn't hear the goblin that had been chasing her a while back, but that didn't mean she got to enjoy the silence as the screams from far ahead were tearing into her soul and body.
"Stop!" Emerging out of nowhere, the queen of Arachne's planted her staff right in the ground right before Stella's face. "Slime, always hated that girl."
Although she wasn't talking about Stella, the slime girl took it as a threat against herself.
"Let me go!" She growled, baring her fangs against the Arachne.
"And risk having my children slaughtered by your father's underlings later?" Raising an eyebrow, the queen took the staff out of the ground and directed it towards Stella's face. "No way!"
From the end of her staff a strand of web was shot at Stella, but expecting the kind she simply phased through and stormed past the queen. However, unlike the goblin queen, this time, the Arachne kept following her along with her children who crawled out like giant spiders from every possible direction.
'Gosh'darnit!' Closing her eyes while still sprinting forward and phasing through everything and everyone, Stella looked through the eye above the forest. 'She's gonna kill him!'
Witnessing Helga tearing off Haruki's wings, Stella felt overcome with emotions. No longer being able to hold back, she screamed out loud and poured all mana into expanding her body into a flood of liquid that would drown any and all that came in her way. Even still, as her body rose high and turned into a tsunamic wave, she fused her cells with healing powers so nobody would die from the neutralizing attack.
While the waves were still washing over the forest, Stella parted herself from the rest of her body and stormed forward through the skies in the form of a songbird. From there on it didn't take more than half a minute for her to arrive at the battlefield with everyone clawing at each other's through.
Keeping to the sky, she landed her eyes on Margarette and flew right in her direction.
"Aunt Margarette!" She screamed, landing beside her on the plateau.
Instinctively drawing a fire bow, Margarette fired it at Stella. Thankfully, even though the arrow grazed against her shoulder, fire was the easiest element for her to deal with.
"Stella?!" Shocked by the sight of her niece, Margarette was about to move closer, but then remembering how she was in the middle of directing her soldiers, she bit down on her worries and turned to the front. "What the hell are you doing here?!"
Drawing another arrow, she shot it at multiple Valkyries trying to take advantage of their wings against some monsters. With a single fiery shot infused with hate, she managed to tear through their chest and even light their wings on the back. One after the other as the winged creatures fell, her soldiers easily picked them all off.
"I came to help stop all this!" Repulsed by the carnage, Stella turned her head away and explained her reason for being there. "I don't want Father, you, or anyone to die in this stupid thing, we've lost enough people alrea-"
"Duck and use your rings!" Breaking Stella's words with orders to her soldiers, Margarette unleashed the fire spirit to burn everyone not protected by the fire-repellent ring. As the screams of Valkyries filled the ground, Margarette raised her hand again and unleashed the other spirits from her rings as well. "Spirit of nature, Spirit of thunder, and oh spirit of light and dark, I offer you the blood of my soldiers so pluck those stubborn flock of birds!"
Heeding her calls, vines erupted from the ground and began tearing the Valkyries limb by limb. Zapping the wings of the flock, the spirit of thunder rendered the Valkyries unable to fly, and then there was light as well as dark which burned off their retinas or simply enshrouded them in eternal dark.
Watching it all happening before her eyes, Stella couldn't have fathomed the cranage that goes into wars. Spears, blades, and blunt weapons all shattered, sliced, or tore through the weakened Valkyries while many of her own people also suffered from the sheer number of those winged creatures. In terms of strength, the demi-gods were superior, but the much larger army of Valhalla was nothing to shrug at.
"Do you think they'll listen to us now? That there is a middle ground we can all agree on and just stop fighting?" With a look of frustration, Margarette glanced at Stella from the edge of her vision. "They are here to destroy the world you were born in, do you know what that means? They had no pit for you, your family, your dreams, or desires, nothing matters to them! And you think you can reason with such people?"
"I-I…" At a loss for a word, Stella stood silent for a moment, onlooking the bloody carnage.
Glancing back up at Haruki and Helga, however, she broke out of the trance. Drawing her hand close to her heart, she began breathing heavily as her resolve only grew stronger. Closing her eyes just for a moment she exclaimed.
"I-I don't care what they're here for, I'll stop them!" Opening her eyes this time an auroric glimmer emanated from her vision, just like the time she'd broken out of her glass vessel in Laria. "Because I don't want any more of us to die!"
'Benevolent actor: Peacemaker acquired!' Following the announcement, Stella's body began shining brighter than any star. The light kept growing until the demons, the Valkyries, and even the two fighting up above were blinded by a shimmer sharp enough to burn off their retinas.
"Another god?" Thought the queen of Valkyries as her eyes were burning out by the radiance.
"No…" Having felt this presence before while fighting against Moriyana as a dragon, Haruki knew exactly what was happening in that instance. "Just a clone of one, and miraculous…My daughter."
Peering down through the light, he wasn't sure whether to feel proud or angry, either way, something had happened as neither he nor Helga could raise their weapons against each other.
'Why are you here?' He thought, feeling stripped of his chance to die in glory.
However, as the light retreated back into Stella, and her body was revealed laying lifeless on the ground, Haruki's mind quickly changed about the situation.
"Dammit!" He cursed before flinging himself towards his daughter.