"Well then, work hard. I'll appear when you've finished the mission." The Little Yellow Chicken bumped into Illustrious's head, dove into her consciousness world, and fell into a deep sleep.
A dozen AST members fired missiles at Illustrious. Over thirty missiles instantly blocked her path of escape.
Illustrious frowned. This Spacequake wasn't caused by her on purpose, yet they fired missiles with such hatred right off the bat. Do they really think I'm the Hermit, Yoshino? "I need to show you some color."
Illustrious gripped demon king: sandalphon tightly and swung her right hand horizontally. A sword qi as large as fifty feet burst forth from the blade.
The missiles were all sliced in half by this sword qi midway through their flight, finally exploding one by one in the sky.
Seeing Illustrious destroy their missiles with an easy swing, the dozen AST members were all surprised by her great strength. However, they did not retreat. Instead, they became more determined. Such a monster could not be allowed to live in this world; she had to be annihilated, otherwise, the world would be destroyed by this monster.
Most AST members were orphans who had lost their parents in the Great Eurasian Spacequake thirty years ago. Once they learned that Spacequakes were caused by Spirits, they all hated Spirits intensely. If it weren't for the Spirits causing Spacequakes, their parents wouldn't have died, and cities and towns wouldn't have been destroyed.
When they saw a Spirit, they wanted nothing more than to skin them, eat their flesh, and drink their blood.
A group of AST members charged at Illustrious with swords. Among them, a beautiful girl with long golden hair and blue eyes took the lead and slashed at Illustrious. Illustrious raised demon king: sandalphon to clash with her.
"Spirit! You monster, I, Artemisia, will bury you with my own hands!"
Artemisia? Hearing this name, Illustrious, who had only watched the second season of the date a live anime, was confused. There didn't seem to be such a person in the anime!
Looking at Artemisia, seeing the cat-ear decorations on her head, the skirt-like part at her waist, and the wing-like device on her back, she looked quite cute. A character like this was probably one of Shido's harem members.
"I don't have a grudge against you, do I? Is it necessary to kill me?"
"Hmph! You destroyed the forest like this and dare to say you're innocent? Fortunately, this is a forest. If it were a city, God knows how many people would have died at your hands," Artemisia said angrily.
Illustrious used her sword to forcefully push Artemisia's body away.
"Ah!"
Artemisia flew backward, but after thirty meters, she suddenly manipulated her Realizer to stabilize herself and charged back toward Illustrious with her longsword gripped tight.
Seeing Artemisia being knocked back, the other dozen AST members quickly followed up with attacks on Illustrious, but they were all knocked away by a single horizontal slash from her sword.
Seeing the other AST members being knocked away, Artemisia was furious. She accelerated her flight and reappeared before Illustrious in an instant, raising her longsword to strike down.
Illustrious raised demon king: sandalphon to block the strike, and then the two of them began a fierce sword duel.
Where the two clashed, sword light flashed and dust billowed, with the shockwaves from the impacts constantly spreading outward.
The group of AST members were all stunned watching the two fight so intensely. Holding their swords, they could only stand there foolishly, unable to do anything.
"Do you think the Captain can win against that damn Spirit?"
"Are you looking down on the Captain? She's the British AST Captain and the top ace. Her strength is among the top Wizards in the world. Killing a mere Spirit should be easy for her."
"Go for it! Captain, kill that hateful Spirit."
"Yes! Just like that! Kick the Spirit in the crotch so she can't have children!"
"Captain, hurry and cut off that Spirit's low-class chest. How dare a mere Spirit grow larger than us humans? It's simply unfair."
Seeing that they couldn't join the fight, the dozen AST members stood to the side and cheered for their captain, Artemisia.
While fighting fiercely with Illustrious, Artemisia saw her AST members idling and watching, and she was so angry she almost spat blood.
"What are you standing there for! Hurry up and come help!"
The dozen AST members looked at each other, but not one came out to help Artemisia. After watching the battle between Illustrious and Artemisia, these AST members realized they couldn't help because this Spirit was too powerful. They felt that if they rushed in, they'd just be throwing their lives away.
Artemisia, constantly clashing with Illustrious, felt miserable having such a group of 'pig teammates'. This Illustrious was very powerful, and she was about to reach her limit. "Are you still not coming to help? Do you want me to die? If I die, the Spirit will eventually kill you too."
"Yes! Captain!" Left with no choice, the AST members had to charge. They knew that if they continued to slack off and watch, the Captain might really be killed.
The dozen AST members charged at Illustrious with their swords.
"Spirit, die!"
"Justice will prevail!"
"In the name of the moon, I will eliminate you, evil Spirit!"
Illustrious, who had been having fun clashing with Artemisia, was suddenly enraged when she saw the dozen AST members charging at her. "You pieces of trash think you can fight me? You're overestimating yourselves. I don't want to play with you anymore. Get lost!"
Boom!
In an instant, a powerful spiritual power erupted from Illustrious's body. The spiritual power took the form of a shockwave, blowing Artemisia and the dozen AST members away.
Illustrious had injected these spiritual shockwaves with Spirit-slaying power. Realizers were created by researching spiritual power, so the Realizers on these AST members directly turned into dust and disappeared into the sky.
"Ah!"
The AST members who had been blown back to the ground screamed when they realized all their clothes were gone.
Looking at these naked girls, Illustrious immediately blushed. She was a decent person; doing this was definitely not intentional.
Illustrious flew up, then landed and slowly approached Artemisia to apologize.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it."
Artemisia covered her chest with her left hand and her lower half with her right, screaming.
"Ah! You perverted Spirit, don't come over here!"
Hearing someone call her a pervert, Illustrious was displeased.
"What! You called me a pervert? I'm not a pervert. I really didn't mean it."
Splat!
As Illustrious approached Artemisia, she accidentally tripped over a rock. Her body accidentally fell toward Artemisia, and she pushed Artemisia down.
Illustrious, who had pushed Artemisia down, accidentally touched the softest part of Artemisia's body with her left hand, while her lips accidentally met Artemisia's.
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