NOVEL NEXT Final Voyage: Daughter of Judgement
The gold coins of the Legacy spread out, spreading everywhere on this battlefield of sand. These coins, they have the power to alter destiny and distort fate, but with this sheer amount existing in one place - fate and destiny have no meaning.
With a flick of her left hand, Galatine, Agápi kai Polémos, and Incognito Zero combined into a white sword ignited in the golden flame of Judgement.
"Open, Book of Akasha...", she growled and hissed with a wide grin. Her halo spun and turned completely black, "Ars Paulina, Ars Theurgia Goetia, and Ars Nova..."
The silver book of humanity appeared behind her, and strips of black, red, and blue cloth flew out. Ars Goetia unwrapped from her left arm, joining those strips made from the items King Solomon left behind as they weaved together.
She grinds the sword against Quirinus, igniting the lance in the golden flame.
"Combine... Solomon", she commanded as she took steps toward the Ego of the World—
She clashed her lance and sword against the claws of the World. Who deflected her attacks effortlessly and just sneered at her.
"Lemia (Swamp Queen)", it spoke in Dragon's Tongue.
Apparition of the multiheaded dragon appeared behind Terra, its hundred heads lunged forward to sink their venoms into the Princess. Yet her new garment was completed, a trench coat bearing the white light of her soul - her purity, and adorned with blue gems and silver frame of her majesty.
The Apparition shattered like glass as they tried to bite down on her. She just stared at Terra with full confidence.
The crude blade of bedrock flew at Charlotte— she sensed that she could not deflect it with her Domination and her new garment, so once again, she parried the blade upward.
In the same motion, the Emblem of Monte Cristo ignited, resonating with Solomon. She was faster than before. She slashed an arm off Terra, then she stabbed forward into the puppet of the World.
"Apophis (Sun Eater)"
The sand under her rumbled, so she took a step back— narrowly avoiding the giant maw of the Sun Eater, who continues to rise and block out the sun with its massive size, the Apparition roared and shook the land.
Charlotte guided her sword across the ground, commanding the coins to light up the place... then explosions rang, Utopia unleashing his arsenal against the Great Serpent of Egypt.
"Scylla (Ocean Rage)."
Four serpents rose from behind him, each one adorned with canine heads covered in deep blue scales. They wrapped around him and knocked him over, attempting to drag him into the sand.
But Charlotte did not care for the well-being of her loyal servant, as to care would be disrespectful to Utopia. She knows he can get up and support her, as a knight should, and she trusts him.
She continues to engage Terra, once again appearing in front of it. But Terra opened its palm, revealing a still flame.
"Zhulong (Scorched Candle)."
The image of an Eastern Dragon flashed for a microsecond - Charlotte realized the power of that still flame in an instant, it was a nuke. As the Scorched Candle was about to go off, Aradia swooped in and teleported the flame away before it could blow off in Charlotte's face.
BOOOOM!!!!!
An explosion rang out from above, and the Apparition of Apophis shattered... all that remained was a red ball of flame. The bat giggled mischievously as it flew away just in case it catch mote of Terra's attention.
She crossed her lance and sword, grinding them against each other. Her halo spun again and turned from black to a lavender purple. Then the two weapons in her hands boil in lavender steam.
"Leviathan (Ocean Terror)"
The crude blade dropped down as Charlotte was about to engage.
Clank!!
She knocked the crude weapon away and stabbed her lance into Terra, it tried to defend by grabbing the lance— but the spiraling steam of Delusion made stopping it impossible. And the lance penetrated through it.
But Terra only looked annoyed at Charlotte— then a layer of water suddenly filled the entire place, floating above the sand. She glanced at the crude sword... it was gone.
"Charybdis (Abyssal Vortex)"
The water turned dark as the Apparition of the Greek Leviathan formed, seven rows of teeth rose and spun counter to each other - creating a vortex with her in the center.
Before Charlotte could get out, shadow tendrils grabbed her feet and stopped her from escaping. The seven maws shut, trapping her in the vortex... and the final light from her halo was... red and silver.
"Declaration of Annihilation: Nihility Incineration."
BOOOOOM!!!!
The entire Apparition exploded in blue flame and crackling lighting. Charlotte merely smiles as her halo changes again, this time the magenta and silver points are lit.
"Utopia.", she commanded.
His eyes lit up and tore the Apparition of Scylla into pieces, he placed his giant arms down and his head and upper torso morphed, transforming into a 50-meter-long cannon.
"[I am always at your command, Your Highness.]", he responded.
Terra stepped out as several tendrils unraveled, revealing that Terra had lost another arm from defending against the explosion, but the wound in its chest was stitching back together.
She spread her arms with a sadistic smile, "Show the World what humanity has created."
At that moment, Utopia, who had access to humanity's entire arsenal of weapons, took over command and activated all launch sequences of nuclear arsenals and other weapons of mass destruction. And there is no way to stop it. Driving the world to absolute panic as the machinery activates without any order.
"Argent World of Chalk: Everflame Cage."
Once again they clashed, the Claws of the World was an even match for Charlotte, but it was pushing the more it fought. But Charlotte only needs to hold the World down for a bit...
The silver gears faded away, and silver crystal spires grew around them.
BANG!!!
Utopia unleashed a railgun shot at Terra's back, but it caught the bullet by bending its arm 180 degrees dead in its track. That created an opening for Charlotte to strike.
As if time had stopped around her, her sword had sliced Terra up hundreds of times in the span of a nanosecond.
And when time resumed, Terra was shattered into pieces. But the eye in the sky pulses, reforming its own puppet by expending even more of its own energy.
Just then, Charlotte disengaged in a flash of lightning and returned to Utopia's side across the desert, the spires around them came rushing in. And from the sky, ICBMs, Nuclear Bombs, R-type missiles from America, Ivan Tears from Russia, Astra Arrows from India, Code-C virus bomb from China, and hundreds of other weapons of mass destruction.
Terra raised all four of its arms, "Quetzalcoatl (Wind Lord), Amaru (Storm Bringer), Vritra (Blight Storm)"
And just before the barrage of world-ending weapons hit, a massive storm erupted with Terra in the center, taking every weapon for a spin—
Until Aradia cast gravity magic and made them all crash down on top of Terra. And the spires formed a cage made of her Inner World.
This land, The Argent World of Chalk, is the manifestation of Charlotte's Soul (Purity), a land where she is always alone - how she perceives herself in this world, on top of it all where no one can stand against her. Thus it drains all energy to maintain itself until only the Silver Princess remains.
The World is no exception, as well as the explosion from all of humanity's weapons of mass destruction. Rather, the energy generated from the bombs helped expand her world.
The sand of the Sahara desert began to turn white, buildings made of chalk rise and collapse, forever stuck in creation and entropy. Utopia retreated, going far away to not be affected by her Inner World.
Charlotte closed her eyes, and her halo changed again... this time, the only silver light of Ambition lit up. She then stares at the sky, the serpentine gaze of the World is flickering.
"This is the end, Terra.", she pointed her lance at the eye, "There is nothing you can do to stop my crusade."
Even if everything ends up the same as Sinclair's future, she will not regret it. As it is the path she had chosen, one of solidarity that she shall endure... but one she is happy with.
The cage shattered, turning back into chalk as they flew away. There stood Terra with its shadow garment tattered by all of the explosion, black blood bleeding out from its body, its veil was blown away and all that remained was an expression of disgust.
"You do not realize the extent of this transgression, Akasha.", it stated and reached its hand out, the crude slab of bedrock reformed in its hands, "Behemoth(Shundering Quake)"
"It is the right of humanity to be ignorant, Terra.", she sneered, "It is what you had created."
It narrowed its crimson eyes at Charlotte.
"That's it...", the Dragon growls, "Nero (Cursed One)"
The crude blade refined itself, it chips off and turns into a longsword. Then it ripped off two of its four arms with a growl.
"What are you doing?", Charlotte demanded as she sensed the air changing.
Terra merely smiles, "For the Pale Court of Order and Judgement, you shall fall today..."
"Tiamat (Mother of Monsters)"
From the black blood of Terra, an Apparition rose from the sand. An impossibly tall dragon bearing black scales, its wing span blot out the sun. This was even larger than Apophis...
Tiamat Abzu, the Black Dragon of Conflict, the creator of all Dragon is, of course, a Dragon itself. What to say it cannot summon itself in its prime? Before it crashed into Theia, in its primordial state.
Her halo changes, flashing the crimson glow of Malice and the deep blue light of Justice.
"Declaration of Annihilation: Grand Order."
The pure white land of chalk ignited in blue flame and the ground covered in blue mist. She took a step forward, and thousands of weapons began to shoot out from the ground like a reverse rain. Each sword has enough power to sink a city into despair, peppering into the Apparition of Tiamat.
Terra glared at the Princess, commanding the Apparition to use the fabled Dragon's Breath down at Charlotte. And despite fate and destiny being cut off, she still could not witness the attack.
As Utopia tackled the giant dragon, despite his mecha form reaching only 70 meters compared to the titan of a Dragon, he landed an uppercut to the mouth, making the attack go off in there.
"Hah...", Charlotte sighed in disappointment, wings made of weapons formed behind her as her halo switched to be fully dyed in the color of Justice.
She went ahead and engaged Terra directly while letting Utopia deal with the Apparition, knocking it off the Dragon's head. Its black sword clashed against both the lance and sword.
Terra raised its left hand to Charlotte's face, igniting a still flame, "Zhulong (Scorched Candle)"
But it was not for Charlotte. Aradia swooped in trying to teleport the nuke away— only to get it slammed into its mouth, going off inside the metal bat, blowing the bat into pieces, and scattering it amongst the sand and chalk.
It held its sword with both hands, slamming Charlotte down into the ground. She noticed Solomon had a tear, meaning that the shockwave from the sword Terra was holding could touch her.
Then Terra spread its wings, hovering above Charlotte.
"I have heard the greatest wishes of humanity, of the species worthy of The Pale Court's care.", it spoke with disdain in its voice, "Of how you wish to gain wings of your own, to soar and unbound by the constraints I placed."
"Let's see how far you can fly, on borrowed wings, Charlotte Silvi."