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Kato was sitting sideways on her throne reading a book when a sudden gust of wind forced her to sit properly.
"I do not think I will get used to that" she said in a monotone voice while looking at Kaito in front of her, who was gently lowering Mashiro to the floor.
"Who is she?" Mashiro asked while looking at Kato.
"She is... mmm" Kaito hesitated for a second before introducing her.
"You forgot my last name? It is..."
"Do you really think I would forget your last name?" Kaito interrupted her.
"It happens a lot" Kato simply said.
"It is not that" Kaito denied, "It is just that your last name looks too similar to my name, can we call you by your first name?"
"You are the Lord, you decide" Megumi replied.
"Thanks" Kaito smiled before introducing them.
"Mashiro, Lord White, rank two of the server, queen of the fairies, she manipulates all magic with ease.
Megumi, Lord Colorless Queen, rank five of the server, being of the void, capable of avoiding all kinds of attacks by entering a void state, she can also steal things from the inventory of others and is very good at stealth"
Kaito introduced them quickly.
"How do you know my name?" Megumi asked.
"Had you not told me before?" Kaito pretended ignorance.
Megumi obviously knew he was lying but decided not to ask further.
"You..." Mashiro pointed at Megumi. Despite Mashiro's innocent appearance, her power was clearly perceptible, so Megumi became nervous when pointed at, but her next words only confused her.
"... you are like Obito" Mashiro finished.
"Who is..." Megumi asked, confused.
"Not really, she only becomes intangible, he is not actually like Obito" Kaito explained to Mashiro.
"Actually, the description of my race says the void is another dimension, more than making myself intangible you could say I enter that dimension partially, in the future when I become stronger I will be able to enter completely and even take people there, where I am invincible" even though Megumi did not understand what they were talking about she still explained her ability in more detail.
As Megumi continued explaining, Mashiro's eyes shined more and more.
"It is Obito" she repeated excitedly, this time more certain, looking at Kaito.
Kaito was left speechless because they were basically the powers of Obito's Mangekyo, except for the fact that according to what he read about her abilities the void is white instead of black.
"Who is Obito?" Megumi repeated the question.
"A ninja from one of Kaito's stories" Mashiro answered.
"You write?" Megumi asked while looking at Kaito.
"No, Mashiro came to Japan to learn how to draw manga so I tell her some stories sometimes"
"So you invented Superman then?"
Kaito opened his eyes in surprise, "As perceptive as always, yes, I..." halfway through the sentence Kaito stopped as if remembering something before exclaiming, "How did we end up talking about this? We came for the necromancer.
Hold on tight!."
Kaito held both of them, spread his wings, and took off toward the north at high speed.
After five minutes of flying at full speed, Kaito was in the sky looking into the distance.
The dome was barely a hundred meters ahead, right in the center of an army of weak looking black skeletons.
But in only those hundred meters there were so many stacked skeletons, almost without separation, that the ground could not be seen, it looked like a massive swarm of ants.
Considering the dome is at the center, the total territory these skeletons occupy is only about two hundred meters in diameter, but their number is a staggering one hundred thousand skeletons.
At the same time in the sky there were more than five hundred wyverns, all around ten meters long so their size matched the dome, yet none of them could penetrate it, although this might have been mostly due to their attacks.
One of the most famous nicknames for wyverns is fake dragons, because although they look like miniature versions of dragons it would be more correct to call them giant lizards.
Aside from their size and their ability to fly they have nothing special.
They have no magical capabilities like dragons nor their intelligence, they are just beasts with basic awareness, even worse than some monsters.
Thus their method was to strike the dome trying to break it, which of course did not work. Instead, when one descended to strike the dome it was grabbed by a skeleton.
Before it could free itself, hundreds more grabbed and attacked it, although the wyvern kept attacking and killing hundreds per second it meant nothing against the tens of thousands that continued overwhelming it.
Although this method was extremely slow, according to Megumi the total number of dragons had only decreased by a dozen since she last came, but it worked, and if left like this in the end all the wyverns would eventually die.
Perhaps when only a few dozen remained the wyverns would finally decide to flee, but by that point there would be more undead wyverns than living ones, and hunting them would be easy.
"Mashiro, can you handle them all?" Kaito asked the girl in his arms.
"Nn" Mashiro nodded confidently.
Without saying anything else she conjured a huge sphere of light from which motes of light began to appear.
Although at first there were few, after a while the quantity was comparable to the skeletons below.
The motes of light soon took the form of small flying insects that headed toward the ground like a swarm.
The skeletons noticed this the moment it happened, when they saw the insects approaching they tried to attack but with their clumsy movements the insects dodged easily and positioned themselves above their heads.
While the skeletons clumsily tried to hit themselves, the insects had already reached each of them and settled on them.
With a single thought from Mashiro.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Chain explosions echoed across the battlefield while the insects, and consequently the skeletons' skulls, exploded.
Since they were summons, all of them disappeared instead of their bones falling to the ground. Suddenly the entire wasteland fell into absolute stillness.
Kaito wasted no time and flew to the center, exactly where the dome was, and landed there.
"Protect me" he told both of them before focusing on trying to break through the dome.
Kaito began moving at full speed on the spot, making his entire body appear blurry while extending a hand toward the barrier. But as soon as he touched it, his hand was stopped by its solidity.
Of course for any other person this would be normal, but for Kaito this should not happen. So he continued vibrating at different frequencies, adjusting each time he failed. Even if no difference could be seen from the outside, Kaito was getting closer and closer to breaking through.
Meanwhile, explosions continued sounding again and again.
The skeletons took less than ten seconds to recover half their number, and the only reason their quantity did not return to the original was because Mashiro continued destroying them as they appeared.
It was hard to see ahead due to the number of explosions, but Mashiro did not need to see them, it was enough to feel them, and her insects moved on their own searching for their targets.
Meanwhile, Megumi dealt with the wyverns that approached from time to time.
The reason she did this is that wyverns have resistance to magic. It is only mid level so it is enough to attack them with force from Mashiro, but that would slow down dealing with the skeletons.
Even so, wyverns are not too strong, at least not for the top ten of the server, so all she needed to do was avoid their attacks at all times and strike them with melee weapons in vital points so they would die.
Meanwhile, Kaito kept focusing on trying to penetrate the barrier, when finally as he approached his hand it passed through the barrier as if nothing was there. Kaito smiled with satisfaction before moving forward.
...
"Hey, Hikigaya, hurry up, they keep destroying them at incredible speed, who knows what terrifying thing is out there?" said a girl of medium height with blonde hair that fell in soft waves. The girl, with a straight posture and a well proportioned body, had a frightened expression on her face as she spoke.
"I am working on it, Miura" a boy with messy black hair and long bangs replied with an anxious and irritated voice. His shoulders were slumped, his gaze tired, and his eyes had a dead fish look.
"Can you not summon the dragons? They are stronger" Miura said nervously.
"They are wyverns, and no, they are powerful. It will take time to summon them and I will waste mental strength on it. Right now I am giving everything I have to replenish the skeletons" Hikigaya replied.
"I am going to die, I am going to die, I bet Hayato would have saved me" Miura murmured.
"Then go with him, I do not want to die either" Hikigaya replied, irritated.
But Miura did not pay attention.
"Kyaaa! What is that?" she screamed while pointing at a specific place.
Hikigaya followed the direction she was pointing at and was also shocked by the sight.
The place they were in now was obtained in the first mission world, it is an almost indestructible and even self repairing shield, but it has some flaws. One of them is that you cannot see outside, you only see a large dome of yellow energy covering them.
But now a hand was protruding from that dome. And it was not a normal hand, it looked like some kind of glitch, a figure moving at impossible speeds in the same spot as if vibrating infinitely.
The hand soon transformed into an arm and then into a full body as it advanced toward them.
As it approached, both of them remained completely still, staring at the figure in front of them. Despite its humanoid silhouette, the vibration did not allow them to see its form clearly, even so the red glow where its eyes should be was looking straight at them and they even thought they saw a smile on its face.
Finally, the voice of the figure sounded. It was a robotic voice filled with echo that froze their blood as it uttered a simple sentence.
"I found you"
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Small bits of information that really don't matter, but I wanted to include them:
There are quite a few names that are basically just a color, so here are my excuses for each one so it isn't just because I had no ideas.
Mashiro is called white because it's her favorite color, so she simply chose it without thinking too much.
Kaguya is called black for the opposite reason, she wanted something that would be hard to associate with her true identity and wouldn't reveal anything. She overthought it until she decided on black.
Between these two it's not a coincidence that their names sound similar, since they are directly the opposite of each other.
Mashiro is total purity, completely naive and basically clueless about interactions. Meanwhile, Kaguya is completely dark, she grew up being influenced and manipulated by adults, so she sees the world in a calculating way.
At the same time, while Mashiro is pure, she also has traumas because of certain situations, you could say her white has a bit of black in it.
And Kaguya, despite growing up in that contamination and being a calculating person, is still, deep inside, naive about some things and quite pure, a bit of white in the black.
Then there are Eriri, Tomoya and Megumi.
Eriri chose Golden Queen as a reference to the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland. Even though it was never mentioned in the series since I never described her clothing, she dresses in a similar way, wearing red and noble attire. And she was the one who made Tomoya choose the name Black King, you can probably guess why.
Megumi is called Colorless Queen because she didn't really care about her name. When she saw the other two and found it interesting, she wanted to imitate them, but then thought she doesn't really have a color, so she went with Colorless Queen, also as a reference to how she is hidden and unnoticed, whether due to her abilities or naturally.
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+15 chapters in advance on Patreon.
(They don't reach 15 at this moment, since there is a marathon of my other fic because it is ending.)
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80 power stones = 1 extra chapter (cumulative)