Walking out of the main building, Samuel saw a woman with a calm expression on her face. Above her a title card was displayed.
[Yulia LVL 500 Spirit Queen]
“The one who has claimed my title is a fraud! I had decided to stay hidden away for now to see the current situation but who knew someone would claim my title in my absence.” Yulia shouted out as Shiro who heard this suppressed a laugh.
“Your highness, please ignore her. We’ll deal with her quickly.” Ophrit said with a troubled expression.
“No need. I want to see what she has up her sleeves.” Shiro smiled.
Stepping out of the building, she saw a rather tall woman with long black hair. Her golden eyes pierced into Shiro’s as Shiro only smirked in response.
“Who’s taking who’s title now?” Shiro called out as she made sure she didn’t release any aura. After all, she wanted to see how gutsy this woman was.
“You’re taking what’s mine. In my absence, you have displayed your powerful class and lied to everyone about your identity. Who here doesn’t know that the system would title the queen with the proper class.” Yulia called out her class as Shiro still had it hidden right now.
‘They probably saw through my disguise and figured that I must be lying.’ Shiro thought to herself with a smile.
“And you only came out now because I claimed myself to be queen? Tell me, what do you know about being the queen?” Shiro asked.
“I won’t say anything to a fraud. However, you better retract your statement about being queen or else I’ll have to demonstrate who’s the real queen here.” Yulia declared.
She was feeling rather positive since Shiro was just a lvl 300 compared to her who was level 500. There was no way that she could lose against this fraud.
While she understood that she herself was also a fraud, it was better her lead the race than a lvl 300 fake.
“So quick on picking a fight.” Shiro chuckled as the elders were furious.
Before they could say anything, Nan Tian placed a finger against where his mouth would be on his lip.
“Let her do her thing.” He said with a chuckle.
Hearing this, the elders furrowed their brows but decided to see what happened. If a fight breaks out, they’ll help out Shiro immediately.
“Fine I’ll humour you a little. Show me the power of this so called real queen.” Shiro smirked and flexed her fingers.
Creating a normal long sword that had no skills attached, she taunted her Yulia to attack her.
“Lil Tian, protect everyone for me.” Shiro said as Nan Tian nodded his head.
“Sure.”
Watching as Yulia flickered from her location, Shiro only chuckled and raised her sword.
*CLANG!!!
Clashing against Yulia’s sword, Shiro watched as several orbs of light appeared around her.
Understanding that they were going to blow up, Shiro only rolled her eyes and flicked her wrist.
Activating Celestial Path, she cancelled all of them out in an instant.
“Anything else?” Shiro asked, pushing Yulia away.
Looking at her with shock, Yulia didn’t understand how someone 200 levels behind her could react that quickly.
Even the elders were surprised at Shiro’s prowess while Nan Tian was focused on making sure none of the spectators got harmed.
Taking a deep breath, Yulia narrowed her eyes.
Bringing her sword down, she flickered from her spot.
Suddenly, hundreds of blades appeared around Shiro.
Activating her boundary, Shiro slashed towards the blades that would harm her and ignored the ones that didn’t.
*PING!!!
Shattering tens of blades in an instant, Shiro didn’t move a single step from where she stood.
“Anything else? I’ll give you a few more seconds to do whatever you want. After that it’ll be my turn to attack.” Shiro chuckled while glancing at Yulia lazily.
At this point, the elders could already see a winner as the difference in ability was far too great. Even then, they were still underestimating Shiro as Nan Tian knew what she had stored away.
She wasn’t using her sword, her skills or her guns. This was Shiro with her most basic abilities.
Gritting her teeth, Yulia activated her spirit nature as a white and gold aura exploded out from her body.
Wrapping her body in some light armour, she dashed towards Shiro once more.
Raising her eyebrow, Shiro could sense energy gathering around her but it was invisible to the eye.
Reappearing before her, Yulia slashed out with her sword. Just as she did this, the invisible energy started to detonate.
In a split second, Shiro was surrounded by a web of blades with no exit in sight.
Seeing this, Shiro narrowed her eyes and took a single step back before crafting a second blade.
Takemikazuchi Technique + Boundary!
*PING!!!
Shattering the blades apart, Yulia was now open for an attack.
Just as Shiro was about to slash towards her, she sensed the invisible energy forming chains and lashing out towards her.
Flicking her wrist, she deflected these chains with relative ease.
“Is that all?” Shiro asked while blocking a few slashes.
Yulia didn’t say anything as she was starting to feel as though something was wrong. There was no way that a level 300 could actually block everything she threw at her.
“Seems like you’re done. To think you actually claimed to be the queen with such meagre power. Laughable.” Shiro narrowed her eyes as she released her aura.
*BANG!!!
Feeling a large pressure crash down on her, Yulia was instantly forced to kneel as the skies darkened.
Snapping her finger, hundreds of tier 6 magic circles appeared in the air as nanobots swarmed together to form a myriad of bladed weapons.
Raising her hand in the air, Shiro looked at Yulia and opened her mouth.
“Should I commence the attack, all the blades would pierce towards you without fail. You will die. For those that now have concerns over whether or not I am the queen, I don’t care if you don’t believe that I am indeed the queen. However, if some random idiot thinks that they can appear before me and claim that I’m a fraud, they are dead wrong.” Shiro grinned as she allowed people to see her title card.
[Shiro LVL 300 Divine Sylph Nanomancer]
Activating her True Spirit Nature, she allowed her full aura to be released as everyone in the area felt her presence. Understanding that she was indeed the queen despite not having it written on her class, the spirits accepted Shiro as their queen.
“You can think about how we should deal with this idiot. We’ve got more pressing matters to attend to.” Shiro glanced towards Samuel who nodded his head.
Grabbing Yulia, Samuel could feel that she was completely drenched with cold sweat. Her face was pale and her lips quivered. During that single moment, Shiro had focused her killing intent towards her.
With the addition of blades surrounding Yulia, her killing intent made her imagine herself dying in several ways within that split moment.
Seeing this, Samuel could only click his tongue with disdain as the woman had lost her will to fight. Even those that are lower level could have better wills. The ones that died to buy time for their escape fought to their very last breath and yet this woman lost all her will with a single demonstration from her highness.
Shaking his head, he grabbed her by the shoulders and walked away with her in tow.
After the woman was dealt with, Shiro discussed the plans with the remaining elders. Their main goal is going to be saving the elders that are being held captive. As for dealing with the queen, if they are able to distract one with all of their powers combined, then Nan Tian could take care of the other.
With the two tier 6’s out of the way, Shiro would be allowed to deal with the queen on her own.
The only problem was one tier 6 could deal with a whole bunch of tier 5’s so it was going to be hard.
“Let’s go with this. We’ll scout first and see where the elders are being kept. Being in the area decreases my power by 20% so I want to avoid fighting with that kind of debuff if I can.” Shiro said as the elders agreed.
“We do know a spirit who is good at scouting so we can have them follow us for this excursion.” Samuel suggested as Shiro nodded her head.
“Anyone who you think can help us, bring them along. But try to keep the numbers lower since it’ll be hard to go unnoticed with a large amount of people.” Shiro reminded.
“Understood.”
Finishing the meeting, the elders showed Shiro to her room as Nan Tian’s room was next to hers.
“What do you think about the success rate of this excursion?” Nan Tian asked.
“Honestly, 50% or maybe lower.” Shiro sighed.
“Well there are two tier 6’s so 50% is quite high.”
“Mn but I don’t like the odds.” Shiro shook her head with slight amounts of worry.
