The days pass as Rhiannon approaches Changan so that the girls arrive at the twelfth and last book of Lilith. The trip was 8062 km, much further than the trip to America where they got the penultimate book, but this time was much faster, since they had the advantage that Rhiannon could fly at a cruising speed of 150km/h. It was 53 hours of travel, and in the last 3 hours who was flying the ship was Athena Meridies.
In Changan, Wu kept looking at the book, every hour and every minute waiting anxiously for the girls to arrive and so she got the other Lilith books. So much so that one of the soldiers said that they had seen a huge flying boat at the borders, which Tang said to let it pass.
Athena at the moment she wasn't flying Rhiannon, also tells the girls about the story of her meeting with Wu, how she almost died for a little girl who until then was only 13 years old, how dangerous it was to get this book and that maybe she should be the evil empress who speaks in the surrounding nations. This left some of the girls a little tense and others more excited to know that they would have a possible fight for the last book.
16 October 625, After two days of an intense trip to Changan, the girls were almost arriving in the evening. Wu was already anxious waiting from the top of the palace tower for the books to come to her, hearing from afar the sound of Rhiannon approaching. Meanwhile inside Rhiannon, the girls took their broomsticks and were in the cockpit waiting to get closer.
- Very well, you will jump from Rhiannon and go by broom to the location of the book, I will give you this tracker and this device, with it we will be able to talk no matter the distance, now go! I will fly to the other side and refuel in the media, as soon as you get the book, let me know.
Says Athena.
- Right!
So the girls say.
The ten witches take their broomsticks, go to another Rhiannon's compartment, where it was next to the exit and from there take a deeper breath. After taking a deep breath, they throw themselves from the aircraft and from there they start to leave in free fall. Athena flying the aircraft, looking back seeing the girls jumping and taking off.
- (Good luck girls... I hope you don't die... I'll wait for you to get the book, I trust in ten you won't lose to this wicked witch... Hera... Please don't die my daughter).
The girls fly with their broomsticks towards the city of Changan, which was beginning to appear on the horizon, confident in fulfilling their mission of getting the last book. On the way they were looking at each other and talking.
- So, are you ready to face this evil empress?
Says Harriet.
- I hope I don't have to face her... I don't want to have to use violence...
Says Freya.
- Well, I want to! I will show you that I have become very powerful in this time!
Says Marianne confident.
Wu was from far away with the book in her hand watching, until she starts to notice that the twelve points had changed course and in this she gives a malicious smile and decides to use a spell to feel the presences around, noticing that 10 presences were going towards her.
- (So that's it? They think that leaving the books in that noisy flying boat will be useful for them to focus on getting my book... I'm wrong, it will only make me want to kill each one of those ten even more).
After a while the girls begin to appear on Changan's horizon, and Wu watched them from afar, so much so that some of the guard witches appear where Tang was, wondering what to do with those 10 strangers.
- Sovereign! What do we do with those ten strangers coming towards the palace? They completely ignored the wall.
Says the witch.
- Leave them to me; they are expected visitors, now return to your post.
Says Wu with arms crossed.
The witch returns to her post, while Wu continues to watch the ten witches gradually arrive and approach the empress. After a few minutes the ten arrive and face the Tang who had her arms crossed and a bag at her waist that contained Lilith's book.
- We come in peace, we are the ten witches and we are in search of the last of the twelve books of Lilith.
Says Harriet in Mandarin until Wu completes it.
- I know how to speak your language; you don't need to use the language learning spell.
Wu says what makes the girls shocked.
- I wonder if... Remember that my...
Whispers Hera to Anna.
- I see that woman with lilac hair has a daughter. You the face of your mother girl.
Says Wu which causes the girls to enter into a defensive pose, while Wu continued to laugh maliciously.
- (What a nostalgic feeling it has hit me now, I can't kill the mother, who may possibly be flying that thing, but I can kill her daughter and all her little friends).
- Is this how you receive Empress Wu Tang? Stay calm, just because I almost killed the girl's mother with lilac hair, doesn't mean that I will almost kill you. After all I won't make this mistake of not killing someone twice.
Says Wu while the girls were frozen in fear.
Wu walks slowly to Harriet and puts his hand on Benson's chin that was sweating cold and shaking a little on his legs and arms.
- (Her magical power... It's impossible that in such a short time... With just one book... She's more powerful than all of us... So powerful that I'm even afraid to move... It's as if a stronger energy is holding me back to do nothing).
- (She is powerful... But I swear that if this Wu Tang does any harm to my Harriet I will take away the strength I do not have to use violence against her).
- What was it that bit your tongue?
Says Wu with a malicious smile and passing the hand in Harriet.
- Tell us what you want? Are you going to stand there with drama?
Says Marianne until everyone scolds her.
- Marianne!
They all say scolding Marianne while Wu kept laughing.
- Hahaha! How about being the first to die?
Says Wu with a malicious smile while Marianne got all brown.
- You are all finding yourself, but you must be trembling with fear against us ten and can do nothing, your empire of terror ends today Wu Tang.
Says Marianne signaling with her thumb down.
Wu gets a little enraged and uses a purple energy spell that hits Marianne's left shoulder, puncturing her with a minimum puncture just so Hoffen could shut up, in which the blonde starts screaming in pain as she feels the puncture and Chenoa gets in front in an attack position to cast a spell on Wu.
- Don't attack my wife like that!
Says Chenoa casting a spell on Wu that allows itself to be hit.
When hit, her face just moves back a little, as if she had taken a punch, in which Tang turns from the front and releases an evil smile to the girls who were still terrified of the empress who felt nothing.
- You're all very excited by the sight, if it were anyone I would have killed all ten of you just to see your heads being cut off, you begging for pain, begging for mercy, but I'll be good, come with me I'll be fair.
Says Wu.
- And why should I trust someone who pierced my shoulder?
Says Marianne furious using a healing spell.
- So that I don't make a bigger hole in another place that keeps you alive.
Says Wu while the girls swallowed saliva.
The girls then without choice, follow Wu through the corridors of the palace, while all the servants and guards were looking at the ten with an expression of "They just made the biggest mistake of their lives," "May they save themselves from Wu. Until they arrived in a hall that had the view of the whole city, staying at the top of Changan's palace, Tang took her broom and took the girls to the place where she would hit with the ten witches.
It was a garden with a rectangular ring of 45x30m where the edges of this ring had a well of spears 3 meters deep, which could kill on the spot depending on how to fall. The ten girls as they put down their brooms swallowed their saliva in terror while Wu landed in the ring with an evil smile. Beatrix and Woodward even stared at each other with an expression of almost crying.
- (Shit... After running away from my village I never thought I'd come back someday from having to do a mortal combat... This Wu Tang is more cruel and crazy than any man from Weddinburgh... I'm amazed at how we are simply accepting what she does, how frightening this girl is).
- (Bea is terrified, in a way I haven't seen since the day I almost killed her with my spells, she feels like life is hanging by a thread... I will give everything from me to protect you my love, this Wu Tang will know the power of the ten witches).
The ten land with the brooms and the moment they touch the ground the brooms suddenly add up, all that some observed were the purple energy spells passing by them and throwing the brooms away. Wu takes her broom and breaks in half on her knee and then throws it into the spear pit. After that she faces the girls with her hands on her waist and just calls them to go towards her.
- They can come. I am being the most benevolent person in the world in not having killed them until now, I want to see what these ten witches are capable of.
Says Wu.
- You will now see your maldi...
Says Marianne until the nine hold her.
- Calm down! Don't drown, no girl!
Says Kara holding Marianne.
- She is leaving the guard open! Will she be wavering? Let's go up at once!
Says Marianne.
- You are crazy my love! She just wants you to go up!
Says Chenoa.
- Better listen to your girlfriend, she is right I just want you to come close to be my first victim, after all, you don't want me to leave here and go towards you.
Says Wu laughing and in a tone of debauchery.
After holding Marianne, the girls start to follow with a different plan, in which the ten of them distance themselves a little and together they just concentrate a spell casting against Wu that lets itself be hit in full, in the same instant that the spell explodes, she makes the smoke dissipate and takes dust off the clothes.
- Is that all you ten have to offer?
Says Wu shrugging.
- She is unharmed...
Says Beatrix.
Wu closes her eyes and disappears on the spot using a purple energy spell to impale the ten witches who, luckily, deviate on the spot using instantaneous transport spells, but were there the whole time running away to get it right, to the point where they decide to unite to use a force-field spell that makes the purple energy stop antigirating them.
- How wonderful! They lived faster than I thought, but a force field like this won't last that long.
Wu says until she hits Marianne who was the only one outside, using a purple energy spell that ends up puncturing her leg and leaving Hoffen impaled in the calf region struggling with pain.
- Ahhhh!
Says Marianne trying to leave.
Wu continued to release the purple energy until the force field breaks and in the fury Chenoa throws a spell that fights all the purple energy towards Wu who only carries herself and ends up releasing Marianne who cried in pain, Ayana carries herself to her girlfriend and soon is also hit in the arm region, but with this she hits an explosive punch in the face of Tang who ends up being thrown everything backwards. She falls to the ground and lies down.
- Mari... Mari...
Says Chenoa in despair.
The other eight witches soon arrive carrying themselves instantly, in which Beatrix uses her healing spells that soon make Marianne's leg and Chenoa's arm heal. Meanwhile Wu stood up and looked down at the drops of his own blood dripping on the ground.
- (Is it my blood? That damned one took my blood? My blood? That damned one! I will kill them all without mercy).
- You will die here and now!
Says Wu standing up.
Wu gets up totally and passes her hand on her bleeding nose, in that she starts to levitate herself while concentrating all the purple energy around her, the ten witches have no choice but to use a magic shield. Until the Tang casts the spell with everything towards the ten, who tried their best to hold on, but little by little the barrier was broken to the point of energy crossing. In this Freya makes it even stronger by getting another barrier that doesn't last long, causing the spell to cross and hit all of them, which ended up sinking into all that purple energy.
- You will pay dearly for what you did to Wu Tang!
Says Wu.
The girls were in a dark place where they couldn't see anything, they weren't breathing, their bodies were slowly feeling an enormous pain until suddenly they are transported outside and stop on the other side of the arena and in this a silhouette appears in front of all ten.
- Ling? Weren't you supposed to be dead?
Says Wu stunned while the girls were all on the floor.
- Get out of here, quick! I hold Wu Tang!
Says Ling using a spell in Wu that dodges.
The ten girls use a healing spell and try to heal themselves as much as possible, while Ling uses a purple energy spell to throw the girls out of the garden, where they fall close to the broomsticks and stay away watching the fight between Wu and Ling.
- How did you survive? Were you supposed to die in that massacre?
Says Wu casting a spell that is stopped by Ling.
- I escaped in a way that you would never notice.
Says Ling.
- If it was for animal metamorphosis, it wouldn't work, I used the purple energy to suck even the vital energy out of all the animals in the village! Including even insects!
Says Wu casting a stronger spell that pushes Ling to almost the edge of the spear pit.
Ling changes to a more concentrated expression and transports herself behind Wu who also transports herself, in which the two begin a battle to be shocked and the girls could barely follow with their eyes moving all over the ring, sometimes even getting close to the spear pit.
- This Ling saved us...
Says Beatrix panting.
- This Wu is crazy... She could kill us with ease... How can a witch with only one Lilith book be stronger than us?
Says Harriet.
- What shocks me the most is this purple energy that it releases, when I was hit it was as if there was nothing around me, I don't know how to describe it... But that magic in the moment that went through my body seemed like I had that whole part where the spell pierced me, erased.
Says Chenoa coughing.
- I only know that she drained part of our magic, I felt something sucking me...
Says Hera.
Meanwhile the fight between Wu and Ling was intense, until after bouncing off each other all the time the two of them stopped in the arena after hitting each other with a punch and staying separated on both sides of the arena.
- I guess someone survived more than they should have...
Says Wu panting and blood coming out of her mouth.
- You cannot kill a purple energy user with purple energy.
Says Ling with her nose bleeding.
- So you have corrupted yourself using purple energy? Who would have thought that the nicest person of all would surrender to power, that's why she is such a powerful witch.
Says Wu laughing.
- Let's leave it at that! Now give me Lilith's book right away! I won't let it get into the wrong hands again, I was listening to everything! And those witches are the ones who deserve it more than you do.
Says Ling with her hand out.
- If only over my dead body! If you want this book you have to kill your own sister!
Says Wu laughing.
Ling gives a snort and then begins to concentrate a spell, casting a purple energy in the direction of Wu who dodged and cast the same purple energies in the direction of her sister. The girls looked and some even heard the conversation of the two of them and were still stunned by all that fighting.
- I knew they were sisters, without that purple energy we will never be able to beat this Wu Tang... What a powerful witch and son of a bitch, I thought that Floyd who hunted Beatrix and that Thule who almost threw us on the fire, were the worst people to step on this world, but I am wrong. Wu Tang is all that's rotten in this world.
Says Kara.
- Now what? What are we going to do, I can barely move... What about you? Can you move?
Says Madeleine panting and trying to move.
- Ahh! I can still move my arms, but my magic won't be enough to heal you all... I'll only be able to heal part of you and I'll still be exhausted...
Says Beatrix feeling strong pain.
- We just need to get brooms, you can use everything Bea has, the important thing is to get out of here.
Says Harriet.
- I can try to make some brooms with the branches of these trees...
Says Woodward.
Beatrix begins to use a healing spell. While Ling and Wu were in an intense fight which Ling was winning over her sister and in this she threw her into the spear pit, where the younger Tang only manages to prevent the spears from impaling the region of her back and vital organs, but was left with her legs and shoulder impaled. Ling uses a spell to hold the spears and bent them so that her sister would not leave. She picks up the book that was on Wu's waist that only lets out a malicious smile.
- You beat me now, but know that it was a stupid decision not to kill me.
Says Wu with a wicked smile.
Ling leafing through the book noted that it had nothing and were blank pages, throwing the book with everything in Wu that just screams in pain, but could not use any spell, since her older sister used a spell to seal the magic of the younger Tang for a while.
- This book is fake!
Says Ling.
- Of course you are, do you really think I would be stupid to show up with the book to my enemies?
Says Wu.
- You saved yourself for this time, but know that I will come back and this book will stay in the right hands!
Says Ling coming out of there.
Ling leaves the arena and goes towards the girls who were already finishing their brooms, helping the girls to finish with their brooms and with this the eleven take off following Wu's sister until they enter a forest and hide in a cave that was quite spacious. The mission for the last book would be more difficult than they found, even more so that Wu Tang was an extremely powerful witch.
See you, chinese witches...