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Legendary Witches 3: Cross World Battle
Chapter 36: Inanis Victoria
Chapter Quote: "Empty Victory"
-April 28th, 1953-
Shortly after Toshiro and Aya seemingly appeared out of thin air and reengaged Maia, the thirteen Strike Witches appeared.
"Show no mercy!" Kye commanded. "Use your full power! Awaken!"
"Awaken!" Rei echoed.
"Divine Power!" everyone else shouted.
Mavet saw the group coming and responded in kind, "Awaken."
"Usque ad finem!" Kye shouted. "To the very end!"
In a fierce combination of attacks, the Strike Witches spread out and began their battle with Mavet.
"Magic Arrow!" Eila shouted as she fired a powerful magic imbued arrow at Mavet.
"Sturmschlag! (Stormstrike!)" Erica swung her glaive toward Mavet and launched a finely super compressed wind blast.
"Eye of Destruction!" Using her Magic Eye as a catalyst, Mio sent an orb of black magic at Mavet.
"Speed Force!" Shirley manually loaded a single potent round into the chamber of her rifle and imbued it with a great amount of speed magic before firing. "Speed Breaker!"
"Solar Storm!" Lucchini held both hands forward and hurled a torrent of solar energy at Mavet.
"Orage!" Perrine threw a powerful bolt of lightning toward Mavet, but instead of splitting it off to generate hundreds of lightning bolts, she intended to use the entire force of her spell on him.
"Ballistic Surge!" Lynne fired her Shockwave Rifle at Mavet and used the spell she can only perform with the Ultimate Magic Aura, but instead of splitting the shot into multiple projectiles, she imbued it into a single supercharged round.
Mavet grinned as the barrage of magical attacks flew at him. He raised one hand forward, formed a powerful spherical barrier, and took the blasts head on.
As soon as the several attacks hit his barrier, multiple other witches launched close range attacks, each using their own powerful techniques to follow up. The explosion generated by the combined power of the witches' attacks faded by the time the next round of attackers were within range.
"Spectroscopic Radar!" Sanya took control of the electromagnetic radiation waves, specifically visible light, and blinded Mavet before following with a powerful melee attack to the front of Mavet's barrier. "Großer Vernichtung!"
"Transcendent Strength!" Trude used her Ultimate Magic Aura to vastly improve her Super Strength before launching her own attack from above. "Großer Trümmerschlag!"
"Absolute Analysis!" Minna used her Ultimate Magic Aura enhanced Area Analysis to instantly analyze Mavet's power and barrier, as well as the power that Sanya and Trude's attacks carried. Quickly calculating the damage their attacks would do, she found the spot on Mavet's barrier where she needed to attack to deal maximum damage - the lower back. She built up magic in her glaive as she approached and launched it at the target spot at point blank. "Großer Zauberschlag!"
While the Strike Witches began their battle with Mavet, Toshiro and Aya were fighting fiercely against Maia. Maia proved to be both very powerful and very aggressive. Each time they met blades, Toshiro felt as if he was a child trying to hold a sword against an adult that was continuously pushing the child backward.
With Oblivion Lost, Toshiro could block Maia's blows, but was pushed back each time. Even with Aya continually attacking in tandem, Maia continued to gain ground on Toshiro. The chaotic fighter was able to keep the grandfather-granddaughter combo on their toes.
"Master, we have ten seconds left!"
"Roger that."
"Aya!" Toshiro called out. "Do it now!"
"Do what?" Maia asked without missing a beat in combat.
Aya quickly formed and threw two orbs of celestial magic toward Toshiro and Maia. Toshiro stayed until the last second, teleporting away just before they detonated.
"Five seconds!"
"Celestial Reppuzan!" the two Celestial Order champions shouted in unison as they fired enormous black waves of magic that glowed white and were littered with stars inside, empowered by the full name of the technique.
Livy and Kari cut off their Awakened States when the massive Reppuzans were about halfway to their target. With Maia's Awakened State being forcibly cut off at the same time, she couldn't properly defend against the super powered attack.
As the light from the attacks cleared, Maia was shown to be in bad shape. Her clothes were in tatters and the bands holding her twin tails together had disintegrated, letting her hair fall free. Her shirt was torn and singed, only the lower portion of her sleeves were left, and the wrapping that tied down her breasts was partially visible. Her pants were torn so badly that nothing was left of either leg, and only a few scraps held together around her pelvis, showing much of her black underwear. She had several burns all over her body. Despite that, her eyes and expression were calm.
"Well done, Champions," Maia said. "That was clever use of the mortal Awakened State timer." She tore off what was left of her tattered sleeves, shirt, and pants, burning them with chaotic fire as she threw each piece away. Only her breast binding, underwear, and shoes remained. "I hope this sight of me won't hinder you."
Toshiro immediately noticed Maia's muscles. While not overbearing, they were very well sculpted and complimented her figure well. Aya sighed as he eyed her body. "Grandpa..."
"What? I'm a guy."
Maia smirked. "Turned on, are we?"
"At first, I had the intention of fucking you up with my sword..." he said, "but now I have a different method in mind."
"Grandpa!" Aya shouted at him.
Maia floated over toward him slowly. "That would be more fun than this battle. Are you good? We could mutually benefit from such an arrangement. What do you say?"
"Well now that you put it that way... I think-" Toshiro began but was interrupted.
"I think we are in the middle of a battle!" Aya argued. "We cannot win this simulation without defeating her!"
Toshiro sighed and said, "The rules are complete domination."
"It's a good thing I've used a lot of power, otherwise I'd be hurting from the complete mastery penalty."
"Toshiro! You can't be serious? Are you really wanting to get this girl in bed?"
"Kind of. Look at her body! Hell, if we win and the others beat Mavet, I could piss him off by fucking his daughter!"
"If that's the only reason-"
"It's not like it'll happen, though. I have a feeling she's as big a tease as the redheads."
"Heh..."
"That's too bad. I'm kind of turned on now after being looked at with such perverted eyes," she said with genuine disappointment. "Tell you what, Toshiro, beat me and we'll talk."
"And if you win?" Toshiro asked.
"If I win, then I'll take you as my sex slave," she said with a glint in her eyes. "I'll take Aya, too."
"Leave her out of it!"
"Hey, if I win, I'm going to go help my father with your friends, and that'll mean that we win the war. If we win the war, then that means your world goes bye bye, so if I take her, she doesn't get erased."
"That's assuming you win."
"Assuming. Hell, if you are good sports about it, I might even nab up that boyfriend of hers and let them stay together."
"What about me and Yoshika?"
"If I let her have her boyfriend but leave behind your significant other that would be unfair to you. However, I don't like sharing."
"My Yoshika is bi."
"Hmm..." Maia mused. She gripped her blade and charged toward Toshiro. He blocked her attack, but she didn't push at him. "How about that deal? If you win, you can have me in bed a few times... say five? Heh, an argument could be made for more if I like it. If I win, then I get you and Aya as sex slaves, and I might even throw in your lovers."
Toshiro shrugged. "What the hell, why not? If I beat you, I get an extra reward. If you win, my world gets destroyed, so I guess being a sex slave wouldn't be that bad."
"I suppose there's always good in the bad..." Aya said reluctantly. "Being a sex slave is better than being erased from existence with no afterlife."
"Then it's a deal," Maia said as she changed her tactics and attacked Aya, who managed to block the massive blow. "I've never done it with another girl before. I have incentive to win now!"
"Yuki, I don't even know what to think about this development."
"Hell, if our world gets destroyed, it'll be like going to heaven for you. You're a ravenous beast anyway."
"Rawr."
Sanya, Trude, and Minna hit Mavet's barrier simultaneously with their most powerful attacks in just the right places to deal maximum damage. The power from their attacks shattered Mavet's barrier, leaving him open to the next round.
"Dance of Death," Rei said quietly as she started the final round. She greatly empowered her blades with light magic to improve the potency of her technique.
With Mavet's barrier down, he was forced to counterattack, but with each swing, Rei gracefully dodged. She moved to his left, slashing his arm with her left blade. In fluid motion, she spun clockwise as she moved around behind him, bringing her right blade across his back. Mavet brought Armageddon around clockwise, but Rei dodged downward and continued her offensive with her left blade, slashing his right side.
Mavet attempted a downward slash at Rei, but she spun clockwise while her body was perpendicular to Mavet and push his blade back toward him with her right hand blade, causing him to skin the outside of his own right leg.
As Rei's clockwise spin turned her upside down, she simultaneously flipped backward and brought her left hand blade up behind her, slashing across Mavet's chest. This left her right side up and facing away from her target. She continued to dance around him, twisting so that she could strike him again with her right hand blade, but as she swung her right blade across Mavet's chest, she poured magic into the attack and hit him with the finishing blow. "Death's Dance: Grand Finale."
The force of Rei's final strike tore a deep wound in Mavet's chest. As Rei finished her follow through, she jumped away just in time for Yoshika and Kye to join in. They charged toward Mavet from opposite directions.
"Senkou Suto!" both shouted as they simultaneously vanished, reappearing a short distance away, each on the opposite side they started. Kye's attack cut clean through Mavet's abdomen, separating his legs from his torso. Yoshika's attack cut cleanly and separated Mavet's right arm, right shoulder, and neck from his torso.
Blood sprayed out of Mavet's wounds, but his dark aura of chaotic power did not cease. His body's parts soon started to move back toward each other and were burned together with his power. Just as Celestial Order also granted its user Orderly Creation and Orderly Destruction, Celestial Chaos granted its users Chaotic Creation and Chaotic Destruction, which indirectly granted him powerful healing abilities through his creation abilities. Mavet's wounds healed quickly, though they appeared ragged and singed under the healing effect of his chaotic power. He popped his neck both ways as he made sure everything reconnected properly.
Before the witches could launch any more attacks, Mavet dropped Armageddon, which floated in place, and thrust his arms outward, launching a wave of chaotic power that threw the witches backward several hundred meters in several directions.
Before the witches could recover from the knockback, Mavet launched another wave of chaotic power. However, the witches were thrown far enough away by the first that they managed to recover and avoid the second wave before it caught up to them.
"Now's the time, Ladies!" Minna called out as she launched a beam of blue magic at Mavet from her right hand. As she did that, so did the other twelve Strike Witches.
Mavet attempted to raise another barrier, but he couldn't materialize a strong one quickly enough. The thirteen beams broke through the weak barrier and immobilized Mavet.
"This is it," Kye said. "Whether this works or not, the battle ends with this attack. Is everyone ready?"
"Yes," everyone resounded.
"On three. One... Two..."
"Sturmkraft Brecher!" called the voices of all thirteen Strike Witches. The witches poured the full force of their magic into their beams. The beams widened as the immense magic power closed in on Mavet from thirteen directions.
The thirteen beams collapsed upon Mavet and resulted in a blinding magical explosion. Several long seconds passed before the witches could see through the cloud of magic fallout. Nothing remained where Mavet had been. The witches flew in to that central point.
With newfound incentive to fight, despite the perverted nature of it, Toshiro, Aya, and Maia resumed their fight. Blow after powerful blow, the trio shook the very sky.
When Maia blocked a blow from Toshiro, Aya discharged a powerful wave of celestial magic from her blade. Maia sensed it coming and managed to dodge it, but that left her open for a split second.
Taking advantage, Toshiro jabbed her gut and knocked the wind out of her. As if by instinct, Maia countered with a wide swing of her blade that would have cut off Toshiro's head had Aya not blocked it with her own sword.
"Livy, hand to hand mode!"
"Yes, Master!"
Oblivion Lost disappeared and she formed into two rings on Toshiro's biceps. Toshiro hit Maia with an open palm strike, followed quickly by a left jab to her ribs. Maia took the full brunt of the open palm strike, but was able to defend against the left jab.
Maia countered with a strong kick to Toshiro chest, knocking him a fair distance way, then following up with a massive discharge of chaotic celestial magic from her sword aimed at Aya and a chaotic orb aimed at Toshiro.
With both of her opponents temporarily occupied, Maia took a moment to catch her breath. She didn't have long before she was forced on the defensive again.
"Himmlischer Zauberstrahl!" Toshiro shouted as he fired a beam of celestial magic at Maia. She was able to block it without any problems, but she didn't see Aya's attack coming.
"Celestial Arrow!" Aya had already asked Kari to transform into a bow and was preparing her attack when Toshiro used his beam attack. She released her bowstring and fired the black arrow, glowing white, at Maia. Aya's arrow pierced Maia's chest just above her heart, but before the arrow could explode, Maia pulled it out and blasted it with her own celestial power.
Predicting what was coming next, Maia twisted around and slashed in Toshiro's direction, landing a solid cut across his chest. She pumped a lot of chaotic magic into Toshiro's wound as her sword tore his flesh, leaving him stunned shortly after.
She followed through by attempting to run her blade through his chest, but Aya already began her counter and kicked Cataclysm from Maia's hand. She brought Hikarimaru around, having already asked Kari to revert to katana form, and intended to cut across Maia's midriff to separate her upper and lower halves. Aya dug Hikarimaru into Maia's side, but soon found herself flung outward by a powerful palm strike to her chest.
Maia quickly burned her wounds closed and healed them somewhat before summoning Cataclysm back to her hand. Aya held her free hand to her chest, not sure at first why she was in so much pain, and coughed up blood.
"Mistress, you have internal bleeding from that palm strike," Kari told her. "Your blood is filling up your lungs. You must use your power to heal yourself now!"
Aya quickly did what Kari told her and was able to erase most of the pain, but her internal wound was still clouded with a small amount of Celestial Chaos from Maia's blow, so she couldn't completely heal it. When she looked back to the battlefield, Toshiro was already in another brawl with Maia.
"Chaos Cremation!" Maia shouted as she flung both arms upward, generating a massive pillar of chaotic flames. The flames completely obscured both Maia and Toshiro from view, leaving Aya to wonder what would happen.
Aya began to launch a blast of celestial magic at the flames, but she stopped short when she heard Toshiro's voice.
"Dou! Tetsu! Hagane! Chitan! Sekiei! Ogyoku! Kougyoku! Kongouseki!" Toshiro struck Maia with the eight hit combo of Kyoukujitsuken, each strike empowered by his mastery of Celestial Order. The flame pillar soon dissipated, revealing a crispy Toshiro and a very bruised Maia.
"Himmlischer Trümmerschlag!" Toshiro attempted to follow up with another powerful blow, but Maia grabbed his wrist before he could execute the technique and threw him to the side.
"Chaos Wave!" Maia launched a powerful blast of chaotic energy at Toshiro just before feeling an intense, unbearable pain in her back.
"Himmelsklinge!" Aya brought down an immensely powerful slash upon Maia's back augmented by her celestial power and simultaneously discharged a blast of celestial power as her blade dug through Maia's flesh.
The result was a very nasty and very large cut across Maia's back. Her breast bindings were cut from the attack and fell from her chest. Blood gushed wildly from the wound.
"Combining both functions of the Caelestis Telum technique proved to be very effective, but I'm nearly drained now." Aya told Kari.
"Be careful, Mistress. Your defensive power is much lower now. If you take a hit, you'll likely be-." Kari couldn't finish her sentence before Maia countered.
"Chaos Blade!" Maia spun around and landed a deep slash from Aya's left hip to her right shoulder, slashing apart and burning her Striker Flight Suit and leaving the girl stunned from the sheer damage the strike caused.
Aya almost lost consciousness from the sheer amount of blood loss. If not for her mastery of Celestial Order and subconsciously healing herself, she would have likely died from the aftermath of Maia's attack.
Maia, now clothed only by her black underwear, quickly set to work on healing the injury on her back. Aya's SFS unit was completely slashed apart and burned, leaving much of it in tatters. All her clothing from her waist up was gone, and only bits of her leggings were left intact.
Toshiro, after seeing the scene unfold, grew angry and charged back in. He had Livy transform back to sword form, pumped the blade full of celestial magic and thrust his blade through Maia's chest, although she managed a dual counterattack, one with her own blade ran through Toshiro's gut and the other in the form of a chaotic orb that exploded point blank, catch all three in the blast.
As the residual energy of the blast cleared, Maia found herself not only with Toshiro's blade through her chest, but also Aya's. One pierced her heart while the other pierced her right lung. The explosion blasted away what little clothing Aya and Maia had left and singed away most of Toshiro's suit, leaving only enough to cover his privates. All three had severe burns on their bodies from the explosion.
"Damn..." Maia said between coughs. "You still have some clothing left. It's not fair, you know. Aya and I are completely naked. I am defeated, and will soon die and be removed from the simulation. So could you do me a favor?"
Toshiro smirked and disintegrated the rest of his clothing, leaving a smiling Maia. "I look forward to having that. I do hope you will cash in on our deal soon." Maia's body disappeared before either Toshiro or Aya could respond.
Toshiro took a deep breath and healed as much of his injuries as possible, just as Aya did for herself. The two soon followed up their healing endeavors with generating new SFS units for themselves using the Orderly Creation component of Celestial Order.
"Grandpa, that was... an exhilarating battle," Aya said, almost lost for words to describe her experience. "And that Maia..." Aya's face turned red. "She's enough to turn me lesbian... well bi."
"Oh really?" Toshiro mused. "Well you also won, and she wanted a piece of you, too. You could cash in on our winnings, too."
"I won't lie... both of us fucking the same person?"
"Kind of weird, but what the hell? She's a gem, and we both earned it!" Toshiro declared with intensity.
"Eh, whatever," Aya said. "My lust is winning over my reason right now."
"That's an Edelweiss for you! Haha!" Toshiro laughed. He turned toward where the others were fighting, but only saw the Strike Witches floating in a circle. Mavet was nowhere to be found. "Do you see that, Aya?"
"Yeah," she said, sounding somewhat melancholy. "We've won."
"You don't sound overly happy about that."
"Disregarding the war portion, I really enjoyed my time here with everyone. I'm glad we won, but I'm not looking forward to what comes after."
Toshiro sighed, but agreed. "Yeah."
Aya took off toward the Strike Witches, followed closely by Toshiro.
"I don't sense him," Minna said with urgent surprise in her voice.
"Not a trace!" Sanya added, unable to mask her excitement.
Yoshika and Kye traded glances, confirming to each other that they had won.
"We did it, Sanya!" Eila cheered as she flew up to and kissed the Orussian.
"I can't believe it! Francesca, we won!" Shirley cheered.
"Romagna is safe again!" Francesca added excitedly.
"Not just Romagna," Trude said.
"The whole world!" Erica cheered.
"Yoshika!" Lynne said as she flew up to her Fusojin friend. "We've won!"
"Of course we did," Perrine stated.
"The war is over," Yoshika said.
"The war is over," Mio echoed as she exchanged glances with Minna.
"Once again, the Strike Witches have saved the world," Kye said. "And not only one world, but two!"
"Hey, I hope you don't plan on taking all the credit!" Toshiro called out as he and Aya arrived.
"Yeah, we helped!" Aya added. "We not only won our battle, but won some hot nooky, too!"
"W-what?" Trude gasped.
Toshiro pounded his chest and said, "Midway through our battle, Maia made a deal with us. If we won, we get her in bed. If she won, she got us as sex slaves."
"Sex slaves? Isn't that... a bit lopsided of a deal?" Minna asked.
"Well, if she had won, then she would have come to finish off you as well. Given the alternative was go home to a destroyed universe or be sex slaves to a very well built and toned woman..." Toshiro explained.
"Yeah, if she had beat you two, there's no way we could have held out against both of them, or even her by herself after using the Sturmkraft Brecher..."
"Doesn't sound like that bad of a deal when you put it that way, eh?" Toshiro said.
"And of course you won and get to defile the girl," a familiar voice said just before the gods appeared. The other survivors also appeared with them, having reverted to their full power with the simulation over.
"Ami!" Toshiro greeted.
"Well done, my Chosen One."
"Well done, indeed," the godly Kye said as she appeared amongst the others. "With complete domination achieved in favor of the Witch Forces, the war has ended."
The witches cheered loudly, and even the immortals and a few of the gods joined in.
"Don't celebrate just yet," the voice of Mavet echoed through the sky just before he appeared in the full glory of his Elder God power. "I may have lost the war, but that doesn't mean my business with the lot of you is finished." He instantly generated an orb of Celestial Chaos energy so large that it eclipsed the very sky. "With your power weakened so much now, Kye, even with the help of Jouten and Oblivion Lost, you cannot stand against me. I may not be able to kill the three of you, but I will erase all of your friends. Prepare yourself."
"Mavet, you lost the war simulation!" Goddess Kye shouted at him. "Leave now!"
"I don't think so. I openly invite you to stop me, but you will only feel pain under the wake of my power."