"Fufufu~ Keep struggling all you want! I've created the Nightmare Puppet Knights specially for beings such as you." Laughed the little girl sitting over a throne made of plushies, controlling the dungeon.
"No matter how many times you kill them, they'll keep coming back!" Laughed the girl. "And you know why?! Because they're fueled by the nightmares of everybody here… As long as they exist and keep dreaming, they cannot die! Invincible, isn't it?!"
"And in just a few more minutes, my dear Monica… They will never be able to wake up again." She smiled, while caressing Monica in her embrace. "Those girls you love so much, Yggdrasil… They will be the first ones to go! All the time you're wasting fighting my knights will be your daughter and her friend's dooms! Pfff… Hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"You'll FINALLY know the true pain my Lord went back then! When you and those bastards you allied took away everything from HIM! YOU'LL LEARN HIS SORROW!!!"
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"[Light Spirit Call]!" Elayne roared.
FLAAAAASH!
Her Terrain which had already expanded through most of the Dungeon shone brightly, the grown trees, flowers, and grass glowed, gathering their produced Spiritual Energy into her body.
At the same time, the hundreds of Spiritual Sprouts bloomed, as hundreds of tiny Lesser Light Spirits emerged around her.
"Now…" Elayne said. "Rita's powerful beam might be really strong, but even then, these things might not go down. In the worst case possible, I need to have a plan B!" She thought.
FLUOSH!
The hundreds of Light Spirits smiled and giggled innocently as they condensed together around Elayne's aura, fusing together into a mass of light that permeated her.
The Yggdragon powers within her armor and everything else also reacted to their spiritual energy, as Elayne quickly started to combine the concepts of her learned Spells, and even her equipment Abilities together.
"I cannot limit myself solely to what I've acquired through my Magic Circle or my Equipment's Skills." Elayne thought. "Just like before when we defeated Ephiales, I was able to combine my Divine Energy into my Spells and upgrade them into even stronger versions, even if that lasted a few seconds. I have to do it but without relying on [Pathway], as it exhausts me the more I overuse it…"
Her train of thoughts was incredibly fast and accelerated thanks to her upgraded Physique, that even enhanced her thinking speed and process.
She channeled the power of several Spells together, their Runes converged around her, as she built a huge spiritual magic circle made up of the Light Spirits themselves.
"Light… It is the element that can overcome darkness… I must channel it more, and more!"
FLAAAAASH!
"[Light Bullets]! [Light Shield]! [Spiritual Domain]! [Spirit Creation]! [Wide-Area Exorcism]! [Light Blade]! [Light Arrow]! [Sunshine Veil]! [Heavenly Light Flash]! [Life and Light Chains of Restraint]! [Spiritual Battle Aura]! [Spiritual Muscle Enhancement]! [Holy Light Spirit Smite]! [Yggdragon's Spirit Breath]! [Draconic Aura]…!"
Elayne kept conjuring Spells and fusing them into the magic circle, while Lily and Mark held on against the Nightmare Knights while Blackie protected her and Rita concentrated all the power she could, until her Malice Orb started gaining cracks!
"Here it comes!" She roared. "Let's do the strongest blast I can! Everyone, move away! [Abyssal Dragon Queen's Breath of Destruction]!" Rita created a new Spell on the spot, combining some of her spells and her gun's ability together similarly to Elayne. "RAAAAH!"
TRUUUUUMMM…!
The Malice Orb fused with her gun as the gun transformed into a gigantic draconic head, unleashing an enormous beam of darkness, blasting the nightmare knights into almost nothing, as the blast hit the gate behind and shattered the chains!
Crack, crack… CRAAASH!
"It worked!" Rita celebrated, although she felt exhausted right after. "Ugh… And- Ah!"
FLUOSH!
However, although the gates behind were dealt with, the nightmare knights weren't! Their masses of nightmarish liquid fused together, forming a giant black knight, with several dozens of arms and eyes.
"GRAAAAAH!"
"It merged together into something even bigger?!" Mark asked.
"N-No way, it is really immortal?!" Lily cried.
"Now's my turn." Elayne said, the huge magic circle she had created, which went unnoticed until now, was quickly noticed by her friends. Their eyes opened wide by the beautiful magnitude of the runic scripture.
"RAAAAAH!"
The Giant Nightmare Knight rushed forwards, as Mark, Lily, and Rita instinctively ran behind Elayne as her magic circle activated. A tremendous mass of light was materialized, concentrating so much light that the element was elevated to the next level of power.
"Shine with the brightness of the stars!" Elayne roared. "And bring down the darkness of nightmares! [Celestial Heavenly Sun]!"
FLAAAAAASSSH!
The sphere of light fully created itself, flying towards the gigantic, "immortal" nightmare knight, and engulfing it on its eternal brightness!
The light constantly started turning all nightmares into pure light, as the nightmare puppet knights merged together screamed in agony, their very existences were being erased!
"W-What?!" Dorothea sitting over her throne glanced at the scene in utter disbelief. "T-That's… no, it can't be! What is this light?! Yggdrasil… Yggdrasil never wielded such light before! Has she evolved?! What has she attained?!"
"GRAAAAAHHH…!"
The Nightmare Mass, the true identity behind the immortal Nightmare Puppet Knights, a B Rank Nightmare-Attribute Monster, screamed, showing its true form as it battled the light, resembling a chimeric creature with countless amorphous forms stuck together.
However, resistance was utterly futile!
"You cannot escape the light I've created." Elayne said. "Once it catches a darkness elemental entity, or something similar, it will encompass them into a sphere of pure light. There will be no place for you to hide or run away from! Now, compress!"
The valiant mother pressed her fists as the sphere of eternal light started growing smaller, and smaller, and smaller! The smaller it grew, the more light it unleashed!
Until finally, it became the size of an ant!
"Begone!"
FLAAAAAASSSSH!
A last blinding flash of light covered everything, and then, it completely disappeared. The "immortal" monster that Dorothea had created…
It was annihilated!
"I-Impossible…! T-This can't be!" Dorothea screamed. "W-What is she?! WHAT IS SHE?!"
The ghostly maiden started trembling in fear.
