Chapter 33: Double Purple

We've been fighting the lizard according to our plans, but none of them have worked. Standing tall in front of our opponent, we began to start the execution of Plan C, the Double Purple. But before that...

The lizard had grown thin black spines on its tail. It turned its body at bullet speed, despite its massive size, and shot dozens of six-inch-long sharp spines in our direction.

"It is not even at the level of Mom's Water Bullets."

I couldn't help but criticize the spine and compare it to the sparring with Mom before. Sure, it's fast, but only in the eyes of average people. I just repelled all the spines with a single swing of my sword, and so did my sister.

Witnessing how we effortlessly repelled its projectiles, the lizard charged its massive body towards us. It opened its mouth, filled with rows of small, sharp teeth and sticky, acidic saliva, and attempted to chomp my standing sister, who was the one closest.

But before the lizard could snap its teeth, Sister slashed her sword at incredibly high speed. The upper jaw, along with its forehead, went flying in the air and cleanly cleaved its skull and brain. The forehead flew back to the head as if being pulled by a bungee cord.

The lizard's not finished yet. It raised its claws and slashed it horizontally. As predicted, the slashing limb went flying in the air on my sister's sword and flew back to the main body.

The lizards attacked simultaneously against my sister, but she just avoided the claws effortlessly and gracefully. With my preparations finished, I finally make my move.

"Step back, Sis!"

"Got it!"

Following my words, Sister quickly leaped backwards away from the lizard. I dashed towards the lizard and laid my free left palm against its gray-toned left torso.

"Warp."

In an instant, the scenery changed and the temperature suddenly dropped. Cold, gusty winds and foggy clouds wildly touched my pale skin as we dropped from an altitude of twenty thousand feet.

I let go of my sizzling hot palm away from the lizard's hide and cast "Warp" back to the surface.

"Raphael! Are you alright?"

"Yeah. I have Corrosion Resistance so it's nothing to worry about. We still have thirty seconds until the lizard falls here."

My palm is still sizzling from the lizard's Cursed Body. But I healed almost instantly with my Regeneration skill.

Before we started Plan A, I already sent my Clairvoyance to the sky. Calculating the trajectory and the air resistance, I pinpoint where to drop the lizard and land it in the exact position.

We waited for several seconds until we could see the falling lizard with our naked eye. We wait for the right moment before we can activate our abilities. It's mana-consuming, and we don't want to run out of MP during the execution.

"Let's get started, Sister. Let this dreadnought lizard feel true despair."

"And guide it to its inevitable death."

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The Indestructible Lizard had dropped for kilometers and was already a few hundred meters above the surface. From the drop point, it's already reached a velocity of over a thousand kilometers per hour before it falls to the ground. And that is the time for us to do our job.

"Purple Lightning!"

Like a snake slithering around her fringe arms and thicc legs, Sister's body is now enveloped with flickering and dazzling purplish-white flashes of lightning. Her beautiful amethyst eyes glowed, leaving a trail of light amidst the darkness, except it's afternoon right now. The purple lightning bolt was also wrapped around her blue katana by the Weapon Enchantment skill as an additional attribute.

Not only did it increase her speed exponentially, but it also accelerated her perception and thought process with the same growth. It's a super difficult and complex magic spell that greatly increases the lightning temperature and can inflict a bit of damage to the soul.

Because the lightning element is rare and difficult to control, only mages with high AGI stats can handle it. A handful of people with an incredibly high AGI stat like Mother, the Sword Saint, can do the Purple Lightning.

But now, in front of my eyes, I witnessed my sister's first successful activation of the Level 10 Lightning Magic: Purple Lightning. Of course, she's not the only one with purple powers.

"Infernal Flames! Sacred Light!"

I didn't activate my Thermal Blade, so there are almost no changes in my appearance, except for one thing. My eye. Like my sister, the eye glowed, which would be greatly emphasized in the dark.

Infernal Flames is also a Level 10 Magic spell like Purple Lightning. It is a spell that greatly increases my flames' temperature and also damages souls a little.

I activated the Sacred Light again for additional damage, but this time, I cast it on my sister. It was effective on the lizard before, and I heard its slight pain for the first time. We have to finish the lizard quickly because Level 10 spells consume too much mana.

The lizard was only a few meters from the surface. Sister bent her knees as she sheathed her lightning-streaked blade. She held the hilt of her sword, which was hanging on her left waist, with her right hand and waited for the right moment to make a move.

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A meter before the falling lizard hit the earth, the girl clad in purple streaks of lightning, Louise, launched herself at unimaginable speed with her blade unsheathed. The speed that the boy, Raphael, could not perceive with his eyes.

Enhanced with Purple Lightning, she racked her brain and body to the point where she is in a suspended world. She traveled dozens of meters before she finally drew her navy blue blade.

With the falling lizard in front of her, she instantly slashed her katana at high speed. So fast that it reached high-hypersonic speed.

(I can do this!)

She screamed in her own mind as she was thinking about the success of her next move. She increased the speed of her blade even further and executed her ultimate technique, the Level 10 Sword Art: Thousand Slice.

She slashed her sword a thousandfold in a matter of split seconds. Each slash has a speed surpassing high-hypersonic. With that speed combined with its lightning effect, her blade cleaved the airborne lizard without any resistance and instantly burned the lizard into a thousand chunks of charred meat.

After she finished the technique and passed the lizard by several meters, she stopped her feet in the suspended world and raised her blade's sheath to eye level vertically. Along with the floating parts of the monster behind her, she slowly sheathed her blade back to the scabbard.

As the golden tsuba touched the mouth of the scabbard, Louise dispersed the lightning around her entire body as she felt the by-product of forcing her body beyond its limit.

Upon releasing the suspended world, the world returned to its own pace, and the chopped lizard continued its descent into the ground. Hundreds of thuds resonated around the vicinity as the chunks fell one by one to the earth.

She panted heavily from exhaustion and felt a sharp pain in her head as she depleted too much mana. These were the drawbacks of using two Level 10 moves at the same time.

Amidst the agony, she had the willpower to just turn her lissome body around and take a glimpse at her little brother, who is preparing for his final move, with a confident smile.

(Finish that lizard, Raphael. Show that lizard its real demise.)

She then used her remaining strength to dash away from her little brother's spell range.

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After seeing his sister's ultimate move, Raphael couldn't help but be in awe. He couldn't even catch a shadow of her sister's blade. All he could see was the dazzling streak of purplish-white lightning piercing the lizard.

He immediately brushed off that thought and began to cast his current most powerful spell. A one hundred-meter diameter psychedelic purple-colored magic circle appeared on the earth, with him as the center, engulfing the lizard pieces and the vegetation.

When he saw his sister dash away from his attack range, he pointed his blade towards the charred lizard.

"I restricted myself from using this attack. It was too destructive that I have to only use it when I don't mind my surroundings."

He flips his katana to an underhand grip and holds it overhead. He poured out a tremendous amount of mana and spread it out inside the magic circle.

Sensing the inevitable danger, the lizard desperately tried to heal itself but couldn't. The reason for it was the attack before.

Techniques created from the movements of the physical body. Magic spells are the products of one's imagination. Skills are the powers that are engraved in the soul.

The Purple Lightning of Louise had soul damaging properties. Hence, damaging the lizard's soul would render skills like Infinite Regeneration useless.

Damage to one's soul invalidates the use of skills, including some resistances. Therefore, the dreadnought lizard felt fear for the first time in centuries.

"Let the fear engrave into your soul... bring it even to Gehenna."

Then he channeled an enormous amount of mana into his right blade. The thick condensation of mana leaked out of his body and sword in the form of a carmine helix.

"Infernal Flames of Hell."

With those words as a sign, he struck his carmine blade to the earth, causing the concentrated mana to fill the magic circle. Without a delay, the magic circle finally released the stored energy.

A swirling pillar of psychedelic purple Level 10 Flames of Hell engulfed the fifty-meter radius zone. Reaching the height of a kilometer, the flames set a beautiful light in the middle of the afternoon sun. Catching the eyes of panting Louise and other monsters from afar.

Burning the trees causes them to crisp and disintegrate. The lizard felt the intense heat and suffered unimaginable pain before it vaporized in the hellish flames.

Dozens of seconds have passed before the purple flames subside and vanish. The aftermath of the attack slowly manifested itself as the smoke faded away.

Molten earth is displayed in the scenery. The flames burned everything within their range. Not even a piece of charcoal or any remains of the lizard appeared on the site.

Like Purple Lightning, Infernal Flames was also a soul-crushing spell. Before the lizard got its skills back, the flames completely burned its whole material body, including its soul. The lizard completely disintegrated as if it had never existed.

The only one standing in the aftermath was the boy who created the said aftermath.

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"Hah… hah… hah… That worn me out."

I wrapped my hands around the hilt of my sword. I use my sword to support my tired body and breathe heavily after I used two Level 10 Magic spells at once. The drawbacks hit my entire body as I exhausted most of my mana and stamina.

"Raphael!"

The voice of my beloved sister vibrated from a distance. She showed her raddled self out of the woods. She set her feet on the hardened molten earth and ran with weight on her steps straight to mine.

"Raphael! I'm glad you're okay." She said this, hugging me tightly.

"Thank you for your concern, Sister." I let go of my hands at the hilt to wrap my arms around her and hug her back.

"You really defeated that lizard."

"I won't be able to do it without your help, Sis. So we defeated it together."

We laid our butts on the spot until we regained some of our strength. When we restored half of our strength, we used the Warp spell to transport ourselves back to our abode. Sister cannot use the spell, so she just uses her golden bracelet to teleport.

When we reached home, our mothers saw our ragged appearances and asked what had happened. We told them about the stampede and how we defeated the monster that started it.

They reprimanded us for being too reckless in fighting an unknown monster by ourselves and for not informing them first. But they seem glad to see us in one piece.

Mother seems happy that Sister successfully mastered the Thousand Slice. Mom, on the other hand, happily praised me for casting two Level 10 magic spells at the same time.

Later on, a report from the Adventurers' Guild reached our Mother's office. It stated that there was a monster stampede in the forest, but the adventurers managed to subjugate it.

Even though we recovered physically, we still had mental exhaustion. I washed myself first before I laid my body on my bed and immediately fell asleep.