It was dusk on the Lifaus Highway, and unusually quiet road was suddenly occupied by many sounds, ready for war as they marched towards Flugel's Tree.

That army is us.

The White Whale Subjugation Team, a combined force of the Crusch Camp, Anastasia's Mercenary Group, the Iron Fang, Reinhard, Subaru, Rem, and myself.

Thankfully, the highway has clear skies since we arrived a few hours earlier. Subaru's flip phone says 12:36, and the White Whale will arrive at 15:13. I sighed in peace as Ricardo, the head of the mercenary team, strode up to me on his Riger, and gave me a wide smile. "Everything good, lad?"

"Well, I think I'm a bit nervous to fight a 400 year old beast, but who isn't? So I'm just checking my supplies and strategies before the fight." I replied, and he laughed again.

"Well, you'll definitely be fine, lad! Seeing how my Lady has personally took a liking to you, you must be quite the strong character! Hahahaha!" Ricardo then left to talk to Subaru and Rem, and I decided to speed my Ground Dragon up to them, too.

Surprisingly, this ground dragon seems to like me, like how Patrasche likes Subaru. She had nice white coloured scales across her body, with a few electric blue streaks across her scales. In my opinion, that is one gorgeous dragon right there. "Yo, Fulgenta, let's catch up to your friend over there, okay?"

She whinnied like a horse in agreement, and sped up to the couple as we slowed down to travel beside them. "Yo! Subaru, you anxious?" I tried to put on my best enthusiastic voice.

"Well, I suppose I'm a little anxious about fighting a giant beast..." He scratched his head as Mimi and Hetaro, vice-commanders of the Iron Fang, strode up to us.

"Hello Y/N! Hello Strangers! I'm Mimi!" She said with her arms in the air, acting like a child.

"Not that I've ever doubted it... but you really are second-in command, huh?" Subaru said as he regarded the small cat demihuman.

"Eyyy? Have we met somewhere before? I can't remember..."

"I told him about you, Mimi." I told her just before she almost fell off her Riger.

"Ah... I see. And Hetaro is my brother! When Hetaro and Mimi are together, we're the strongest!"

Subaru watched the two children in interest, since they are veterans in battle despite being young.

And so... we headed off in the direction of the giant tree in the distance, ready to fight the monstrosity that will soon appear.

Timeskippu*

I was standing near Flugel's tree, admiring the piece of nature that was so unusual. Looking at it now, I don't think any tree on Earth can be that tall.

Wilhelm ans Subaru were talking on the other side of the tree, but I didn't need to listen in. Instead, I decided to take a look at the names engraved into the tree.

Flugel... Shaula... hmm... is no one else's name here?

I thought there would be more people to engrave their names as a memoir, but I guess not...

I took out my diamond knife, and carved my first and last name onto the tree trunk, and smiled at my work. "Y/N L/N." It will be a mark I left on this world, even after I left. I then filled the cracks I created with diamond, giving it a gleaming glow as I finished. After that, I joined everyone in preparation for the battle.

"So, before we start..." I gathered everyone's attention. "There's another thing you all need to know about before we begin. When the White Whale's eye turns red, it will let loose a deafening roar. The moment you start to its eye colour change, run away from it as fast as possible. Because right after it roars, it will let loose a bunch of fog that will eliminate you from this world. By that I mean nobody will even remember that you died. It's literally a Fog of Elimination."

Everyone nodded their heads and Crusch looked at me in confirmation, and she nodded before giving a slight smile that almost cannot be seen.

We readied for combat, and the mages lighted torches as I waited for the tune of Subaru's ringtone.

"Are you guys nervous?" I asked Alchemis and Cahya, who showed themselves after we got into formation.

"Well, you're the successor of the Deceit Witch Factor, right? Anybody who holds that cannot be defeated by a measly mabeast, I tell you!" Cahya laughed as she took a positive attitude, while Alchemis was worried yet excited.

"Well, at least you can try out that move you theorized, right? This should be good enough." He said as his glowing form floated to my side, and I patted Fulgenta as I looked to the sky to wait for the White Whale.

Minutes later, the ringtone sounded as the people glanced around the sky for the White Whale, but no signs of it was there. Crusch gave me a confused look and I nodded towards the tree, where the White Whale's shadow was. Another soldier noticed it as well, and his jaw fell in shock.

The giant beast appeared next to the moon, flying like a giant airplane in the sky. It swooped down to inspect its prey as it let out a deafening roar, and Reinhard, who was at the back of the ranks, glared at the Whale along with Wilhelm while Crusch looked at it in shock.

"Troops-" Crusch began, but was cut off as Subaru and Rem charged towards it with Patrasche, and Fulgenta rushed forwards as well as I told the spirits to get ready.

"Let him have it!" Subaru yelled.

"Ul Huma!" Four shards of sharp ice formed on Rem's pal, and shot into the White Whale's flesh.

"AL GOA!" Alchemis unleashed his fireball as it shook the sky with the force of its impact, and Cahya already had her new trump card ready.

"UL JIWALD!" The forces of the light beams split as they bombarded the White Whale all over, equivalent to the force of the cannons that we had.

Subaru and I raised her hands in victory as Crusch smiled at our actions. "TROOPS! Follow those three fools!" The soldiers cheered as they rushed forward with their steads, ready to fight as we rushed into battle with one of the Three Great Mabeasts.

The night banisher was launched, and I remembered to fully close my eyes while making some sort of diamond helmet to put on my own head. I'm not ready to make glass yet, so we're not going to have one of those PUBG helmets. Sad, but I need more elements. Guess Alchemis was right about gaining more elemental mastery.

The White Whale turned and followed Subaru as his witch's scent caught its attention, and I gathered Hydrogen and Oxygen to form an orb of water before shaping it into a giant pillar and froze it using Fire Magic.

"Al Huma!" I threw my makeshift ice spear at the whale, piercing it's side as it screamed in pain while Subaru escaped the White Whale's jaw narrowly. The Whale continued to charge after Subaru, but a blade of wind suddenly cut the White Whale as I recognized the technique.

Crusch held her lion sword as it flowed with a green light. I gave her a thumbs up as we both smiled and I caught up to Subaru.

"The intangible sword, with infinite range. That is Crusch-sama's sword art: One Blow, One Hundred Felled." Rem told Subaru as he watched the damage done to the White Whale in awe.

The White Whale finally decided to pay the others some attention. It veered towards the troops, and Crusch gave the order to disperse. The troops opened up a wide path, and Wilhelm's dragon carried him towards the White Whale before jumped off it, and leapt straight onto the White Whale to start slashing away at the mabeast.

I watched in awe as Ricardo and the Iron Fang members hacked away at the White Whale's flank, and jumped away just as Crusch unleashed another blade of wind, causing the White Whale to shriek in pain as it roared.

I continued supplying some attacks at the mabeast along the other mages, but although Cahya's Ul Jiwald and Alchemis' Al Goa are slightly affective, the White Whale showed no signs of fear as it continued to fly around.

This changed when Wilhelm stabbed one of his swords into the White Whale's eye, and blood surged out as he jumped down, before Ricardo boosted him up with his scary looking kitchen knife.

Wilhelm flew onto the White Whale once again, this time gouging out one of its eyes as it fell from the beast. Wilhelm landed on the eye as he stabbed into it, and raised it in defiance at the Whale. And just as I remembered it, I cast a warning look at Crusch. She nodded at my gaze and yelled her orders. "TROOPS! Get away from the Whale as far as possible, now!"

The people listened as they veered away from the Whale, and its remaining eye turned red just as it let out a deafening roar, causing many people to close their ears as I saw the green eerie things open up from its fur, and started shaking as I widened my eyes. "Everyone! GET AWAY NOW!"

The people began to tell their dragons to run, and miraculously, they obeyed as the riger and earth dragons carried everyone just outside of the safe zone as it unleashed its fog.

Okay, let's see what we should do here. We have everyone out of the fog, which is nice, because then we don't lose anyone in the fighting force. However... the Whale was now hidden from view, and we have no way of detecting it.

I ordered the light cannons to fire into the haze of mist, but it probably missed since the Whale can maneuver itself freely within the fog and continue to dodge attacks. Well, now that is a problem. The only solution left is... to go up! I suddenly thought of an idea as I immediately began to make platforms with pillars supporting them, in the shape of an ascending staircase towards the edge of the fog, where the last pillar reaches at at least a hundred and fifty meters tall. This drained the stamina out of me completely and I collapsed to the ground, the Crusch understood my plan, and she sent a wind blade at the fog, dispersing the first part of it.

Felix rushed over and healed my stamina back to full, and I noticed a little addition in my arsenal: Fluorine and Neon. Hmmm... Neon isn't great right now, but Fluorine... on the other hand, is great. Its reactive nature makes it almost catch fire with anything. All I have to do is throw something into the fog...

I grabbed a nearby stick in a carriage as I rushed up the stairs, and coated the thing in hydrofluoric acid before I set it on fire. "Akra!" I yelled as I strengthened my body, and the white light engulfed me as I threw the flaming stick straight into the fog. The light did not vanish, and a White Whale came straight at me as it destroyed my pillars, and I barely escaped by liquifying and solidifying the pillars into a slide shape as I slid down the tall pillars, and got out of there as I saw more things emerge from the fog.

No way... this is NOT REAL, IS IT?

Copies of the White Whale, to be specific, 6 of them, floated out of the fog as I watched in horror. Despite the fact that we gained the upper hand by staying out of the fog... six clones is just a bit too much...

Reinhard, at this moment, finally leapt forward and used the Swordsplay of the Astrea Family, and managed to completely destroy a White Whale copy. However, he was worn out and the air was devoid of mana to get rid of a second one.

We might actually be able to do this. I smiled as I rallied the soldiers together, and talked with Subaru and Crusch to come up with a plan as I suddenly noticed Flugel's Tree.

To give something like the White Whale a surprise attack... you would either strike it with speed, from a higher height, or an extremely powerful attack. Now that they know they're clones, they'll focus on attacking the main whale but its so high up... what could trump the White Whale's altitude? The tallest tree in this world.

We don't need to blast it down to do a wager that defies odds. I have a Great Spirit and an Elder Spirit, an Authority, the anime protagonist, the Sword Demon, and the Sword Saint. We can do this.

Flugel's Tree was the answer. As for how to get up there, it's easy.

Lightning crackled as I heated the atoms and molecules, causing them form unintentional cracks and sizzling in the air. The nitrogen atoms in my palm heated until they went pass their gas stage, and entered the next stage: Plasma.

"Crusch, Subaru, I have a plan." I said as they looked at me in confusion. "Give me 20 minutes. This plan will bring down and the White Whale for sure."

Meanwhile... in Y/N's body...

The Authority of Deceit's origin, the Deceit Witch Factor, rumbled slightly as it gathered excitement. There was something tasty in sight. Specifically, the giant purple magic circle on top of the Great Mabeast.

The Witch Factor, now a tesseract, rotated as its cubes gained momentum and spun faster, before the sealed consciousness suddenly emerged... by just one bit.

"Hm? The seal is broken by a bit? Has it really been five hundred years already?" A voice, a woman's voice emerged as her consciousness formed, and looked out at the situation.

"Oh, it's just one of Daphne-chan's creations. What's to worry- oh! My successor! He's fighting it?"

"I see... well, Y/N-kun... you'll find that the Deceit Witch Factor holds many, many secrets..."

"And they're all for you to use! So don't disappoint me and Echidna-chan, alright?"

"Your stage has begun, so make the most out of it! I don't want my successor to be lame, okay?"

"Ah... you can't hear me..."

"Well, I will see you someday... but the time has not come."

With that, the Deceit Witch Factor sealed her presence once more, the Witch of Deceit disappeared for a brief moment as she watched her successor's actions from the Witch Factor, excited for the upcoming show.

Authority(ies):

Authority of Deceit (Commonly known as Authority of Elements):

-Vacuum Trigger: An innate ability stored within the tesseract-shaped Deceit Witch Factor, allowing the user to spring themselves from unconsciousness when the mana fluctuations around them changes drastically, as a built-in self-defence mechanism of the body.

-Critical Overload: A mysterious ability that protects the user of the Deceit Witch Factor, causing them to unlock their true potential while their actions are coordinated by ?, helping them avoid certain death. This ability only triggers when the user is about to die and has a 15 minute cooldown.

- Haywire Warp: A variation of Critical Overload that allows the user to warp the attack that will kill them, creating a tear in space-time to absorb the attack. Meanwhile, the abilities of the elements are unleashed and they will defy the chemical laws before the user decides to cancel their existence.

-Pure Truth: Y/N's knowledge of the future. Although he claims that he can only know up to a certain amount, it is only a cover-up to avoid suspicion. This ability also allows him to lie without being detected (e.g. Crusch's divine protection), as long as it is part of his knowledge of this world's future.

-Veritas Oneiro Chunyu: The 'Truth Dream Injection'. A sub-ability of Pure Truth that allows the user to show others fragments of Pure Truth to get a better understanding of a situation or past. This ability cannot show the future.

Elemental Masteries:

Hydrogen Mastery: Stage 2, 150/5000 complete. (Spells: Hydrogen Gas Formation, Hydrogen Gas Wall, Hydrogen Gas Mist)

Helium Mastery: Stage 2, 90/5000 complete. (Spells: Helium Gas Formation, Helium Hydride Acid Creation)

Lithium Mastery: Stage 1, 1895/2000 complete. (Spells: Lithium Hydride Solid Formation, Lithium Pellet Bullets)

Beryllium Mastery: Stage 1, 1925/2000 complete. (Spells: Beryllium Solid Creation, Beryllium Mirror)

Boron Mastery: Stage 1, 1550/2000 complete. (Spells: Boron Metalloid Creation, Boric Acid Creation)

Carbon Mastery: Stage 1, 1745/2000 complete. (Spells: Carbon Creation, Coal Creation, Diamond Creation and Manufacturing, Adamas Wave)

Nitrogen Mastery: Stage 1, 575/2000 complete. (Spells: Ammonia Creation, Ammonium Creation, Nitric Acid Creation)

Oxygen Mastery: Stage 1, 755/2000 complete. (Spells: Oxygen Gas Creation, Ozone Creation, Oxide Creation, Water Creation)

Fluorine Mastery: Stage 0, 45/1000 complete. (Spells: Hydrofluoric Acid Formation, Fluorine Gas Creation, ?)

Neon Mastery: Stage 0, 15/1000 complete. (Spells: Neon Gas Formation, ?, ?)

Spirits: Alchemis- fire spirit (Elder Spirit, turquoise), Cahya- yang spirit (Great Spirit, fairy)

Magic Spells:

Goa- shoots a small ball of fire from the tip of the user's index finger when imbued with mana.

El Goa- manifests three fireballs around the user, and shoots them towards the opponent at high speeds.

Ul Goa- The user fires a large amount of powerful fire bullets. A powerful flame scatters when the bullets land.

Al Goa- The user lets loose a massive fireball, scorching away everything in its path. The bigger the caster's skill, the fireball hotter and bigger the fireball.

Ol Goa-?

Il Goa-?

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Al Huma- The user creates a sharp ten meter long spear of ice.

Akra- A yang magic spell that allows users to enhance their physical abilities as well as sharpen their senses.

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Jiwald- fires heat rays from the user's fingers.

El Jiwald- The user fires several rays from their fingers which are then brought down in a claw-like motion.

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