Conqueror

"Hey Yefa! Are you okay?" I can't even move closer to her. Her oozing that dark energy is sending shivers down my spine. I'm in absolute fear. But at least one of us needs to stay cool headed to face the enemy before us.

But Yefa is in another league. She defeated the basilisk with ease, literally ripping its body apart. Damn, are all my teammates monsters or something? Am I the only sane one here?

The thunder bear took on all fours again and charged at Greta. But she blocked its charge like its nothing. Without the help of Helga too. "Uhh… Helga, Feran, you see this?" I asked over the telepathy Feran connected at us all. "Is she fine? Seems like she's out of her mind."

"Cleanse doesn't work on her…" Helga spoke. "I don't know how to dispel or counteract that kind of skill."

"We'll leave her like that for now." Feran joined in.

"What!? She's in that berserk state, leaving her like that for a long time will make some permanent damage on her or something. And I can't cure her like that."

"Let's just wait for a while sis, it seems that she's the only one that can pierce through the lightning barrier around them."

"But… Fine… Let's wait for a while."

"I'll be fighting alongside her. Though I don't know if I can be much of help." I told them.

"Sure, I'll be contacting Zeta and Zieglind about this. Hold on tight for some time." Feran reassured me.

"Got it." And our conversation ends there.

Greta is going wild getting in a slugfest with the thunder bear. Every time she punched, the bear counter attacked with a punch of its own. Despite the size difference, they're slugging it out like they're equals in both strength and speed.

The thunder bear gathered lightning on its hand and threw it at Greta. She absorbed it all like it was nothing and blasted it back on the bear. But it seems to be immune at lightning too.

But then I noticed something, when the thunder bear did that move, the lightning barrier surrounding its body suddenly disappeared. The barrier is slowly regenerating thanks to the cloud above.

I finally found a way to help Greta somehow. I just need to wait for the perfect timing.

Greta jumped down to the ground and squatted extremely low then her feet acted like a spring as she leapt incredibly high. Using the momentum from the leap, she managed to tear off the left hand of the bear.

"Woah!" I couldn't help but be surprised at that explosive attack.

The lightning barrier around the thunder bear moved again on its left hand and it seems to be growing back at an increasingly worrying rate.

Just as Greta was about to jump again at the thunder bear, she was suddenly wrapped around by the basilisk and began to be squeezed by it.

"WHAT!?" I looked back and the basilisk's body wasn't there. There was blood, yes, but it seems to have resurrected. Was it because of the cloud above? It seems so. The lightning was again surrounding the basilisk's body.

While Greta was being squeezed by the basilisk, she bit on its body and the basilisk loudly screeched. She forcefully pried open her way out and grab its tail then threw it straight to the thunder bear.

The bear grew angry and shouted a large roar. It smashed the ground lifting us all off to the sky. The trees, the structures, the ground and the poisoned water that is currently flowing with electricity came flying in all directions.

I couldn't stand still anymore and just defend Afal charging here, I need to join the fight with Greta and do my best even if it's little.

I took advantage of the lightning barrier healing the thunder bear's arm and flew right to its back. Good thing it didn't notice me. "Paralyze Infusion!" My blade got infused with a debuff. I struck it down on the thunder bear's back and slid right down opening up a giant wound on its back combined with a bonus critical damage and a paralyze effect which will stun the thunder bear for ten seconds.

Greta noticed this and punched its face and dug her claws into the eye of the thunder bear. But the bear broke free of the paralyze in just two seconds and threw us all away at the ground. It seems that it has a high resistance against disables too. Are these monsters the enemies that the Crimson Knights always fight? This is hardcore.

The left arm of the thunder bear regenerated and so did the wound I inflicted on the back of it within a matter of seconds. The lightning barrier's back.

"ARGH!" A sudden jolt of pain was felt throughout my whole body. I tried to endure it to at least move my feet. I ran away as fast as I could. Even with the lightning resistance of Helga, I still take a lot of damage and incredible pain.

"I'm done!" After I heard that voice, I was filled with relief. It was none other than Afal's voice. He flew up to the sky and the higher he got, the more he got struck by lightning of the clouds. But he ignored this and flew higher and higher until he disappeared.

A large wind was generated out of nowhere and the dark sky was being sucked in by Afal. "SINNER'S CORRUPTION!" The lightning on the seawater disappeared and so are the lightning barriers around the basilisk and the thunder bear.

Afal was there, floating in the sky, he absorbed everything. The aftermath on his body was noticeable.

His eyes aren't visible anymore due to the lightning coming out of it, his hair turned white and has become longer. Within my eyes, he looked like a deity, no… a thunder god.

He raised his arms as if reaching for something more higher on the sky and as if he was calling for something. Lightning struck his hands and summoned a lance, it was overflowing with violent dark lightning.

He threw it with all his might on the bear and it easily pierced through its chest completely destroying its heart. He killed that monster in one shot. He then pointed his hand at the basilisk and came hundreds of lightning strikes came raining down killing it completely.

The fight was over in an instant.

Afal's form were suddenly turned off and he fell from the sky. I rushed up to him and caught him as he fell. It seems that he's unconscious. "Helga! Are you there?" I asked as if the telepathy was on.

I then heard her voice over, "Yeah we're still here. Is the fight over?"

"I think so."

"Got it we're coming over!"

Helga and Feran came our way and began to heal us all and put some pain reducing effects.

"So… what about Greta?" Feran asked.

After the fight, she was just standing there for a couple of minutes. We don't know if we need to go there to talk to her or something.

"I'm her- woah… This battlefield over here is completely in ruins." We heard Zeta's voice over the telepathy. We then guided him to our direction and he was overfilled with relief. "I'm glad you're all fine. Where's Greta?"

"There." I pointed at her.

"I'll be going."

Zeta flew to her side and tapped at her shoulders. But she doesn't react. He put his face near Greta's, I'm guessing to see if she's still alive. "She's breathing… Hey, Greta! Snap out of it!" He called out to her.

But Greta responded by attacking Zeta out of nowhere.

"Greta! What are you doing!?" Zeta was just dodging as her attack were simple and telegraphed. Zeta doesn't want to attack her.

But she doesn't speak nor show any signs of a stable mind.

Zeta took action, "Neco! Take care of my body, I'll invade her mind."

I agreed, "G- got it."

"Soul Invasion!"

Greta's attacks suddenly stopped and Zeta's body suddenly dropped to the ground.

After a few seconds, he snapped back to reality and had a horrified look on his face. "Neco… did… did she look the Basilisk in the eyes?"

I remember seeing that, "Yes. Is something wrong?"

"Remember what I said in the briefing?"

"That we shouldn't lock eyes with the Basilisk?"

"Exactly. Basilisk shows your greatest fear and feeds it onto you again and again until you lose your minds. And for Greta's… it's not exactly that normal type of fear like heights or spiders. It's… something else."

"What is it?"

"I don't want to talk about it. Invading her mind was already a breach of privacy. Let's discuss this after we get out of here." Zeta pointed his wand at Greta, "Forced Slumber!"

Greta dropped down on Zeta's arms.

"Zeta, how's the fight with Jormungandr?"

"Ah… I left Zieglind and Herold there. We can escape now. But I'll be joining with them. Take Greta. Go back to Izgoy IMMEDIATELY. No arguing about this."

"Got it."