Chapter 53: Lilia Lilith

-with Lucias-

"Queen someone named Lucias Frey requests your audience"

One of the Masou-Shoujo guarding the castle reported to the Queen, kneeling respectfully on the cold floor of her room.

"Lucias Frey... let him in..."

Lilia the queen of Virei ordered as she sat down on the throne while hugging a stuffed toy of a lion in her embrace.

"Understood"

The Masou-Shoujo answered before she left the room with an expressionless face.

"... Something's... strange about her..."

Lilia muttered as she stared at the direction in where the Masou-Shoujo left, finding her actions and the unfamiliar mana signature inside of her strange, but decided to throw it at the back of her head and waited for the True God, that piqued her attention when she felt his presence enter the dimension.

"May I come in?"

A voice of a boy asked behind the large door of her room.

"Yes..."

Lilia answered as the boy to open the two large doors of her room.

Revealing a young handsome boy with golden hair and eyes wearing a simple black jacket over his body as he entered the room.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Queen Lilia"

The boy respectfully greeted while bowing his head in an elegant manner before walking closer to her direction.

"Nice to... meet you..."

Lilia shyly answered while hugging the stuff toy in her arms tightly in her embrace before looking up to the boy in front of her.

"Why... did you want to meet me?"

"I want to talk with you for a bit"

Lucias answered before sitting down on an empty chair inside the room, facing the Queen with a light smile on his face.

"What do... you want?"

"Hmm... What if I said I wanted you, Queen Lilia?"

Lucias teased with a large grin on his face but Lilia didn't flinch nor did she react to what he said.

"... I can tell... you're not joking about your words"

Lilia says as she calmly stated at the boy in front of her.

"There's no need to lie... but it's strange... you have no greed in your eyes"

"As expected from the Queen of  Virie, you are unexpectedly sharp"

Lucias praised while casually sitting down on the chair without removing her gaze on the little girl sitting down on the bed opposite him.

"You're mana signature... are you related to the strange actions of my subjects?"

"Indeed"

"Why?"

"Straight to the point, huh?"

Lucias muttered before snapping his fingers causing two vampire ninjas to appear behind her.

"I never wanted to this if it weren't for a certain gift of mine... Sorry in advance, Queen Lilia"

Lucias said without a change in his expression while using appraisal on her to know the extent of her strength.

Lilia Lilith

Race: High Human

Sacred Gear: None

Title: Queen of Villers

Job: Masou-Shoujo

Level: 8,935

Hp: 9,470,000/9,470,000

Mp: 13,570,000/137,570,000

Strength: 9,112

Intelligence: 13,570

Endurance: 9,470

Agility: 9,347

Luck: 400

Charm: 10,000

Skills:

Ultraspeed Mp Regeneration (lvl maxed)

Ultraspeed Hp Regeneration (lvl maxed)

High Human's Physique (lvl maxed)

Psychological Magic (lvl maxed)

Support Magic (lvl maxed)

Mana Manipulation (lvl maxed)

No attribute Magic (lvl maxed)

Psychokinesis (lvl maxed)

All attributes Magic (lvl maxed)

Curse Manipulation (lvl maxed)

All status resistance abnormalities (lvl maxed)

Power Nullification (lvl maxed)

Time Manipulation (lvl maxed)

Space Manipulation (lvl maxed)

All element Manipulation (lvl maxed)

'... This won't be easy'

He thought as she saw her snapped her fingers, causing the vampire ninjas behind her to faint before jumping out of the window to create some time for her to cast her forbidden spell.

"I won't let you"

Lucias immediately jumped out of the window with Murasame on his right hand, slashing his blade at her in the air.

Lilia quickly erected a barrier around her to block his attack causing Lucias to spin his body around in the air, gathering her energy towards his sword while enhancing its durability to withstand the force of his attack before slashing it directly at her barrier, slicing it in half.

"...how?"

Lilia asked in confusion before trying to use psychological Magic on him to control his mind temporarily but to her surprise her magic was rejected before receiving a slash at her chest, sending her crashing to the ground, but her high defense broke Murasame in half.

"It's a shame that psychological Magic doesn't work on me doesn't it?"

[Mind control has been negated]

"What is your skin made of..."

Lucias landed on the ground on his two feet before dashing towards Lilia who was trying to get up from the ground, gathering all of his energy on his fist before sending a straight punch at his face towards the ground, creating a massive crater below them.

"You're... quite weak for a True God"

Lilia muttered while holding his fist with her small and soft hand before giving a kick on his stomach, sending him flying to the sky while spouting out blood from his mouth.

"Ugh..."

He growled in pain as a concentrated beam of energy blasted at his direction.

[Skill: Higher Pain Tolerance acquired]

"Shit, [Counter]"

Lucias casted holding the beam of energy directly with his hand, absorbing all of the mana of the beam before blasting it back to her.

*Cough*

Lucias coughed out blood as soon as he landed on the ground, but due to his new skill all of the pain in his body disappeared.

"Shit, if I only have my crimson ice, this fight would be much easier to resolve"

Lucias muttered before enhancing the power of his fist with his magic and natural energy.

"I need to activate that title if I want to win"

Lucias opened his status window, switching out his title to the one he despised the most in the past.

[Loli Defender]

"I have no time to be picky... I need to activate this along with Transcend Limit for me to match her status"

He muttered before dashing towards her in full speed, sending a hook at her stomach causing Lilia to erect a barrier around her, blocking off his fist as a massive crack appeared on her barrier.

Lucias immediately sent a another hook at the barrier using his left hand, shattering the barrier into pieces.

"Artoria now!!"

Lucias shouted causing a pillar of bright majestic light to shine, pointing towards the sky as a blond girl stood below the pillar of light, holding a bright sword with indescribable beauty.

"[EXCALIBUR]!!!"

Artoria shouted in a loud voice before swinging her sword down, sending the massive concentrations of divine mana crashing towards Lilia and Lucias close to the castle.

"You're insane..."

Lilia muttered while staring at Lucias grinning widely.

"Thank you for the compliment, Queen Lilia"

Lucias says as both them took on the full blunt attack from Artoria, destroying the entire castle behind them, launching both of them towards the infrastructures of the city.

"Mash!"

Artoria shouted causing a lavender color haired girl to charge and catch the bloodied Lucias in the air, regenerating his wounds with the help of his skill and Avalon inside his body.

"Master..."

Mash called out in a worried tone as she held her master gently in her arms, heavily wounded from Artoria's attack.

"Don't worry, Mash. I'm immortal"

Lucias assured her as his wounds all closed up, tissues, and broken bones quickly recovered.

"Are all the citizens evacuated?"

Lucias asked as he stood up from her arms, testing his body if it fully recovered from his previous injuries.

"Yes, everyone has evacuated master... so that's why we don't have to hold back anymore"

Mash answered as she blocked a large wave of concentrated mana aimed at Lucias with her shield, slightly pushing her back due to the force of her attack.

"That's good, Ariel... I'm counting on you"

He muttered as a silver haired loli appeared to where the Queen landed, manipulating the debris around her to levitate from the ground before firing all of them at Lilia.

"Ariel... you betrayed me?"

Lilia asked as she disintegrated all of the debris aimed at her with her magic, staring at Ariel with wide eyes.

"I was never on your side, Queen"

Ariel fired several waves of mana at her without hesitation, causing Lilia to fire one of her own to meet and block her attacks.

"I'm here too you know~"

"Huh?"

Lilia muttered in shock from hearing a familiar voice behind her before getting blow away by a large mana wave fired by a pink haired little girl.

"Chris... My curse..."

"Surprised are we?"

Chris grinned before creating a giant hexagram of pinkish light in front of her, gathering the mana around her at a single point in the middle of the hexagram.

"I haven't used this spell in a while"

She muttered before firing a massive rain of flames, destroying all nearby buildings from the sheer destruction produced as one of the lights made contact with the ground.

"Chris... you still haven't learned yet"

Lilia muttered in disappointment before stopping the time around them with a snap of her finger.

"This time... I'll kill you..."

She raised her both her hands, pointing her open palm at Chris and Ariel, concentrating all of the oxygen towards the palm of her hand before lighting it in flames.

"Goodbye"

Lilia muttered as she fired the bolts of scorching flames at the two of them to burn them to ashes but to her surprise a painful sensation of a blade piercing her back stopped her attack before looking back.

There Lucias held the contract dagger in his hands, stabbing her back with a massive golden crown on his head with blue circuit like connections visible on his arms, releasing a terrifying amount of magic aura around him. Shocking Lilia from the sudden change in atmosphere around him.

[The player has awakened the Infinity Dragon's Mark]

[All status it permanently increased by 100%]

[Affinity to dragons has significantly increased]

[Title has been activated]

[All status is temporarily increased by 200%]

[Transcend Limits has been activated]

[The player has unsealed 17% of ***********'s will for reaching 5 digits in all status criterias]

[Intelligence has been permanently increased by 400 points]

[New evolution path UNLOCKED]

[True Primordial Dragon God - A powerful variant of the race True God with the power of a equivalent psuedo-primordial being.

Requirements: Drink 5 liters of blood from both the Dragon of Dreams and the Infinity Dragon, and the blessing of the Dragon Empress]

"You..."

"Thanks for attacking them, Queen Lilia"

Lucias grinned at her as she passed out from the effects of the contract dagger before another notification appeared in front of him.

[Lilia Lilith has joined the faction]

[City of Virie has been captured]

[Initiating synthesis of Virie and Modified Aincrad]

[Synthesis complete]

[10 million Shop points received]

"Finally it's over..."

Lucias said in a tired voice before falling on the ground to relax his tensed body as the time around him continued it's flow, freeing both Ariel and Chris from their frozen state before quickly making their way towards Lucias on the ground.

"Let's go home..."

[Tobiichi Origami has completed her quest]

[Miku Izayoi has completed her quest]

"... Wait... When did Ophis marked me?"

-with Ophis-

*Achoo*

Ophis who was enjoying her meal together with Great Red and Asia cutely sneezed on the table before shivering from her seat.

"What's wrong Ophis?"

Asia asked worriedly as she moved closer to Ophis to wipe the stains on her face with her handkerchief.

"I think, Lucias found, out about, my mark, on him"

"Why do you think so?"

Great Red asked as she stole a piece of meat from her plate, causing Ophis to bind her with violet chains on her chair.

"Just a feeling... Also, don't steal my, food, baka-red" (Ophis)

"Can't you two just get along?" (Asia)

"We do get along" (Great Red)

"We do? Don't lie, baka-red" (Ophis)

She retorted before resuming her meal together while staring intently at her with dead eyes.

"Can't you just humour me in front of the empress?"

Great Red wryly smiled as she felt the chains around her tightened, causing the chair she was sitting on to shatter into pieces.

"Tch... If you haven't recovered your full strength, I could've easily escape this"

"Too bad"

Ophis says before completely ignoring her cries and concentrate on the food in front of her that was personally made by Asia.

"...can you at least let go of me?"

"No..."