Chapter 163: Tetsuya

The battle is going really well… for my side that is. My simple strategy has managed to breach the walls and my undead minions are now flooding the city. But it seems that the defenders are well prepared and they have activated some kind of Artifact. Thanks to said Artifact, my zombie minions are weakened and each defenders are now capable of dispatching many of them with ease. The suicide bombers among the zombies can't even access their self destruct function now. I see what you did there, No. 001. But how long will this advantage last?

I see that Yukime has engaged three opponents in combat. That fight will be… a little interesting but I have no doubt that she will toy with those cannon fodders. What's more interesting is the battle between the two kaijus that me and my nemesis have created.

The King Ghidorah creature I created has performed well enough for now. I do notice that it is trying to damage the Godzilla's chest during the fight though. Most likely it intends to devour the Godzilla's magic core and add it to its own. I was in quite the hurry and thus I didn't have much time to subjugate it so it still intends to resist me. How interesting. It… no… he has made himself worthy of my attention.

My decision not to place any subjugation spells on him and just tame him with raw power is apparently the right move… for entertainment purposes of course.

I'm excited… will he live up to the reputation of the fictional King Ghidorah or not? It all depends on him. Now... show me your villainy, Chimera Ghidorah.

Tetsuya…

I hear the familiar whisper that calls out to me directly at my soul.

There he is. I knew he would come. His inevitable arrival is part of why I rushed the work with Chimera Ghidorah.

He is getting close… dangerously close. But this time I'm well prepared. With the part of your soul I have devoured, I have increased my powers exponentially. And I shall soon devour all of you. There can be only one of me… and that is Claude Normann.

"Now come… my other self! COME!" I shout at the sky it splits apart, revealing not the familiar form of my eldritch counterpart but a boundless darkness. With several red orbs shining inside… and they are not gazing at me like during our last encounter.

I'm confused. I am his target. Why is he not coming after me? And why is his aura not as wrathful as before? In fact, it is so subdued that no one but me has noticed the sky being split apart.

I thought what we had was spe-

Something's wrong. Is he… Oh I see. Feeling nostalgic, are we? Very well. I shall allow a brief moment for you to indulge in nostalgia before we destroy this world together. Heh heh heh.

"Magi Magi Maririn-chan Beeeeamu!" I shout as I imitate the signature pose of my favourite character in the anime I'm currently watching.

"Beeeeamu!" I suddenly hear a boyish voice from behind me, which startled me.

"UGYAAAA!? Onii-chan! Don't do that!"

"A ha ha ha! Sorry sorry! You were just so cute that I couldn't resist!" My stupid big brother laughs as I pout at him angrily even as he pats my head.

"But seriously. You still like this anime even though there's other better mahou shoujo anime out there?"

"I-I like what I like, okay!?" I agree that there are other anime with better quality than Magical Maririn-chan but the reason why I like her so much…

"Is because you like her interactions with her big brother… and because her name is similar to yours."

"AAAGH! Onii-chan! Stop reading my mind!" I start pounding on his chest angrily with my tiny hands.

"A ha ha ha! It's not my fault that you're just so easy to read." He says as he hugs me, making me stop my assault on his chest and just enjoy his warm kindness.

"Nee… Onii-chan. Will you always be kind to me? Will you always stay by my side even when you get a girlfriend?"

"I thought YOU want to be my girlfriend."

"I've grown past that phase, Onii-chan! Just answer me!"

"Of course I will! It's what brothers do after all!" He says with a bright and lovely smile… a smile that I will forever cherish… a smile that I missed a lot.

Onii-chan you liar…

Ah… Why did that memory suddenly… No! I musn't be distracted! There's a great enemy that I must defeat!

"Hm. What a curious barrier you've made. It may have worked against the cannon fodder undead minions but it won't work on me." I hear the sweet lustrous voice coming at me and I prepare my weapon.

*CLANG*

My naginata clashes against the white vixen's war fan… That fan is harder than I thought. I thought with my naginata I can gain range advantage as long as the enemy doesn't use a longer weapon but she proved me wrong.

Her martial arts style somewhat resemble a traditional Japanese dance and not only is she strong… she's fast. Damn fast. With such a short weapon she can handle not just my naginata but also Goro-sensei's nodachi and Aragaki-sensei's spells.

And most importantly, the Artifact that Alpha-sensei and the others created, which targets non-human and non-elves, which should include a yokai like her, didn't work on her.

"Tch! What a monster. It seems that the Artifact that you guys created didn't affect her." Goro-sensei says uneasily.

"Buddhist Art! Spirits of Preta!" Aragaki-sensei didn't reply and merely shouts the spell name as he conjures the phantom soldiers to aid us. We have the overwhelming numeric advantage but all the white vixen does is frown in response.

"Hmph… You just reminded me of a bad memory. Naughty boy. I shall punish you for that." She mutters in that sweet voice of hers that barely conceals her malice. She immediately dispatches many of the phantom soldiers with a single swipe of her fan, which is coated in yellowish magical aura.

"Tch! So you knew the weakness of the phantoms as well."

"I have fought real spirits of the dead, monk. You need to do better than that to frighten me." She says in response. I suppose there is little we can do to surprise a centuries old mythical creature like her.

"Tch! Then all we need to do is seal you again!" Aragaki-sensei declares before beginning his Buddhist chant, preparing a grand spell. This is our cue to distract her so he can complete his spell.

"Uryaaaa!" Goro-sensei shouts as he delivers a downward slash from above her. She grins as she prepares to respond as if mocking Goro-sensei who announced his attack loudly but as someone who sparred with him extensively, I know that's not what he's doing.

Before the attack lands, he maneuvers his blade to the side. She jumps away from the attack but we notice a small bruise on her cheek which is shaped like a line. Even with our cutting edge etherite and the new magic enchantment we still can't even leave a cut on her, huh?

Goro-sensei didn't stop there and kept slashing at her. She dodges and occasionally blocks his attacks but through feints and tricks he managed to breach her defences bit by bit, landing his blade on her despite not actually harming her.

Having enough of letting his blade harming her, she conjures a small tornado with her fan, pushing Goro-sensei back.

"Heh. Your swordsmanship is impressive. Almost reminds me of my lord's." She comments on Goro-sensei's skills… which once again confirms this suspicion of mine.

"Ho? So your master is a swordmaster himself? I thought he's just your ordinary conjurer! I'd like to test his blade myself after I cut you down!"

"Ha! You can't even scratch me with that dull blade of yours. What hope do you have against my lord?"

"Don't underestimate the strength of humanity, vixen!" As the tornado she conjured disperses, Goro-sensei once again jumps to strike her. This time I join the fray.

Both of us deliver many strikes, both feinted and committed, but she has learned well from her earlier exchange with Goro-sensei and parries everything we throw at her. The remaining phantoms join in but she easily dispatches all of them with one strike.

"Hmm… I'm getting bored. That monk's chanting is taking too long so I shall end it." She says as she conjures several blue fireballs and sends them towards Aragaki-sensei.

"Oh no!"

I and Goro-sensei can only watch as the fireballs explode on him. But she didn't laugh and bask in her victory in response. In fact, she remains wary.

"Aragaki won't die from just that, Mari-chan." Ah… right. I musn't lose hope that easily. I should pay more attention to my surroundings. In fact, now that I actually pay attention, Aragaki-sensei's power level didn't drop even a little bit from that attack. In fact, I'm sensing two other power levels in front of him.

"Shiina-chan! Aki-chan!" I shout their name as the dust and smoke from the explosion disperses, revealing their forms and the barrier they conjured to protect Aragaki-sensei.

"Well done, girls!" Aragaki-sensei exclaims in gratitude as my two comrades joins the fray as well, brandishing their weapons to strike at the white vixen.

"My… how cute you all are." She says teasingly as she parries all our attacks. Even with four people attacking her, she's still able to—

"What!?" Shiina-chan exclaims in disbelief as her hook swords are pushed away.

"Impossible!" Aki-chan follows as her huge mace is also pushed away.

"As I said. How cute you all are." The vixen says with a teasing grin, which infuriates the hot headed Aki-chan.

"Oh, You'll see how cute we truly are!" Aki-chan charges again, raising her mace high above her head. But instead of striking the vixen, she drops her mace to the ground near her, obscuring the nine tailed fox's vision.

"Nice!" Shiina-chan shouts as she and I follow up with a pincer attack.

But the fox conjures another tornado to push all three of us away while also dispersing the dust.

Goro-sensei didn't let the opportunity go to waste as he attacks the vixen from behind, intending to cut her tails… but the vixen's tails whips him away before he could do that.

"Your blade is far too dull and unworthy to trim the fur of my tails." The white fox says so smugly.

"Sorry to hear that. And sorry to keep you waiting but you need to go back to the rock!" Aragaki-sensei shouts as he completes his spell.

"Supreme Buddhist Art! Palm of Buddha!" Aragaki-sensei conjures a shining hand in the sky that falls rapidly to the earth, slamming the white fox underneath and keeping her there as if she is the monkey king.

"I was saving this spell for your master but… You will-" Aragaki-sensei's words are interrupted as the ground shakes and the palm shines brightly… but the light didn't originate from the palm… it comes from the fox who's underneath said palm.

"Wha!?" Aragaki-sensei exclaims as we all feel the fox's power level rises until finally… she breaks the palm completely, emerging with her nine tails shining golden. In this form… she looks absolutely mythical.

"What the fuck…" Aki-chan swears like she often did before the three of us become magical girls.

"Tch… it seems that I'm still lacking compared to Buddha if I can't seal a monster of this calibre." Aragaki-sensei comments as he smiles uneasily.

"Aki-chan! Shiina-chan! Let's do it!" I shout and my comrades and they nod in response.

The two old men charge forth to distract her but she simply swipes them away with a flick of her fan. But instead of trying to stop us, she merely watches as we transform our weapons into magical wands and focus our energies around them.

"Ugh… do we have to do this? It's kinda cringe. Not to mention we haven't come up with a better attack name." Aki-chan complains but didn't stop.

"I also think we should at least change the name." Shiina-chan says while cringing. But it's too late! We've already associated that name with the spell in our minds due to extensive training! No time to change!

"Let's go! Together!"

"""Mystic Witches Purification Beeeaaam!"""

We shout as we unleash a tri-colored beam at the vixen, who receives the attack without flinching. Afterwards we cease our attacks as we sense that the fox's power level remains steady despite receiving our attacks head on. She emerges from our attack completely unscathed and still coated in that golden fox aura.

"Is that all you've got? Surely you have more." She taunts with a sultry smile.

"Old man! You know a lot of strong people, right? Do you know anyone who can help us?" Aki-chan asks Goro-sensei, who is well connected to other strong elderly figures.

"I know of one but she's busy fighting right there." Goro-sensei replies while pointing at Alpha-sensei's direction, who cannot be disturbed as she is doing more than just fighting but also commanding the troops. Fighting this fox would no doubt make her unable to do both.

"I meant besides her!"

"Well…" Goro-sensei hesitates for a second while glancing at me before continuing. "I know of one guy… a brilliant student of mine. Could've won the national kendo championship if he wanted to but he just never enters any tournaments. Said he wasn't interested. Sometimes I thought that one day he would've been able to surpass me. But… he died years ago."

"Well, fuck that! First Alpha-sensei's master being lost in another dimension… and now your student is already dead!? Fuck my life!" Aki-chan swears as I'm unable to comment on that.

"Ah, I remember. Tetsuya-kun, right? He used to come to me for questions about the mythologies and stuff. If he were still alive, I have no doubt he would've been a great asset considering his many skills and interests in the occult." Aragaki-sensei added.

Well I couldn't tell them… But he's most likely still alive… and unfortunately for us… is on the other side.

Author's Note:

No more red herrings, no more teasing and no more beating around the bush.

Generalliam0529: id post the secene of the godzilla im describling litterly jumping 3 times his body height, but links don't work.

Also, fun ghidorah design. Its not the first time ghidorah has had four legs (kaiaer ghdipeah from final wars, desghidorah from rebirth of mothra), and it definetly feels like it was created by a necromancer while keeping ghidorah's basic desgin concept intact.

maybe, if the two arenot killed in this fight, ghidorah could continue be modifyed by necromacer, while goji dose goji things to get stronger.

Answer: It's not about how high Godzilla can jump but how maneuverable Ghidorah is midair with his wings.

I'm glad you liked the Ghidorah design. And I intended King Ghidorah to be not just another random monster but a villain in his own right. Hope I can get him to shine more later on.

DerTrap: I think why Guest mentions Solo Leveling is because Sung Jin-woo, the protagonist of Solo Leveling has a Necromancer Ability too. But not only that, Jin-woo is also extremely strong physically, with his main weapon being daggers, but if necessary he just uses his hands instead.

So in a way Sung Jin-woo is a bit of a combination of Necromancer and Shadow(not personality, but ability wise). He has Necromancy(Necromancer obviously) with his Shadow Army, but he is also an extremely skilled and physically strong fighter(like Shadow).

Answer: Ah, I remember hearing about him being a necromancer too. But for now, I haven't watched/read the series so I'll just keep doing what I always do.

Guest: I can't wait until Necromancer enters the fray. I bet in typical villainous fashion, he will join when everyone has thought they've won and proceed to crush their hopes by soloing everyone.

Answer: He will do it later. For now a new player has joined the server.