On the other hand, Varian's battle with Sarah continued.
Both of them were inflicted with equal injuries but thanks to a cheat called Plantae power, Varian's current injuries were barely a quarter of Sarah's.
And as time went on, their odds were only getting worse.
If Enigma wasn't so drained and injured in trying to bring the 'egg', they'd have defeated Varian comfortably. But with her out of the equation, Sarah was facing a much harder task.
"Hahahaha!" Varian laughed cheerfully and rose into the air. Looking down at Sarah and Enigma with a playful gaze, he opened his palms and summoned two giant swords.
The air grew chilly, hot, congested all at the same time. Two shining swords appeared in Varian's hands and aimed at the two girls.
Unlike his usual attacks, these swords were made up of almost complete combination of Varian's eight powers.
Even if you teleported, these swords would track you down, pull you into illusions, dodge your attacks, attack the weakest point of your defense and attack you without mercy.
Enigma had seen the pitiful state of the Undead who were subjected to the treatment of these swords.
Recalling the tragic screams of those Undead, and staring at the sword tips that were aimed at her, even a stoic like Enigma couldn't help curse. "Fuck!"
"…" Varian paused for a moment and seemed to be wondering what the tri-color girl said.
Using the rare gap, Sarah used the time power over herself and ran over to Enigma.
Even though grouping with her seemed to change nothing, Sarah didn't want to let the girl who sacrificed so much for Varian die under his own hands.
"Say, Sarah," Enigma stood up with her shaky legs. "After finding Varian, assassinating him in his Undead state, are we going to end here? Under his own hands?"
"…We can still retreat," Sarah said in an unconfident tone.
The moment those swords appeared, all routes of retreat were cut off. She knew it too.
Their situation was precarious.
"We'll either bring him back or we'll die here," Enigma sighed deeply and summoned a pitch black sword with the last bits of her darkness mana.
"Maybe we won't. His instinct stopped him from killing us when he's an Undead." Sarah summoned a glowing light spear and pointed at her lover in the air.
"Undead rely more on instincts. Varian can think now, however bad he might be." Enigma pointed out the difference in the two situations.
"…Thanks for crushing my hopes," Sarah shrugged with a relaxed face.
The moment those swords appeared, she felt it clearly. They're likely going to die here.
Varian in the sky was annoyed by their chatter and waved his hand. "Fight!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two swords cleaved the wind and reached the girls in a blink.
Having applied both the gravity and time powers on each other, Sarah and Enigma jumped away and dodged.
The swords spun fast and chased after the girls.
"I…If I get to live, I'll tease the hell out of him for roaming this place naked," Sarah bit her lip as the sword scraped her shoulder and blood spilled out.
"And I took some…pictures and videos, for blackmail," Enigma answered as the hilt of the sword slammed into her abdomen and caused her to cough out blood.
"…Will you confess to him if we live?" Sarah asked as she bent backward and dodged the sword.
"W-Whaaat?" Enigma yelled as the sword pierced through her palm and flew away.
The two girls used the talk as a means to distract themselves from the tragic situation.
Even though they tried their best, little by little, their injuries were piling up and their aura was dwindling.
Enigma's case was particularly concerning. She started off as the exhausted party and already accumulated many injuries.
At some point, Sarah began guarding the weakened Enigma. So, she had to face two swords by herself.
With every second, Sarah's injuries increased at an alarming pace while her stamina plummeted.
As blood spilled from every corner of her body and as fatigue pushed her to the brink of collapse, Sarah looked up at the man in the sky.
Her vision was red as the blood dripping from her forehead had long spilled into her eyes. Her hearing was growing fainter. The only taste she could feel was the iron of her blood.
"Varian, wake up!" Sarah said weakly. "I'm tired. Please."
The response was a hum from the deadly sword and a new injury on her shoulder.
Enigma knelt on the ground as she felt her body growing heavy. "If we die, it's over."
Varian. Sarah. Enigma. Sia.
All of these lives would cease to exist if they died here.
"I can't win him…" Sarah said in a despairing voice as her injuries worsened. "What can I do…"
"I have a plan…" Enigma said and transmitted her words through her psychic power.
On the other hand, Varian was looking to finish off these two females.
And as he's about to do that, Logos, the System was about to act.
Right before he died, Varian made an agreement with it. In case things went south and he's about to kill the girls, then he should be given back his memories and be sent back to solar system.
In that case, Varian would have one year to live. But after that, he'd have to obey each and every word of the System.
Personally, Logos didn't like this agreement. But to remain free of cause and effect, the price Varian would have to pay for such a divine intervention has to be very high.
This was the lowest price Logos could offer but it was already terrible.
As Varian prepared to drive his swords into the hearts of the girls, the System sighed. [Host, the System doesn't like what's going to happen. But alas…]
A ripple spread out from the System and enveloped Varian and the swords.
"Die!"
The swords shot forward and the System was about to act when the girls disappeared.
"Huh?" Even if they teleported, they'd be chased down by the swords and killed.
But to Varian's surprise, they teleported right next to him and grabbed his hand.
"Synergy!"
