NOVEL NEXT Final Voyage: Silver Princess
The Princess clad in Silver stares down at the reforming shadow of the World. Then she took in a deep breath as she continuously transmute water into breathable air, her Domination protected her from the pressure of the ocean.
"Hah...", she let out a breath, standing in the palm of her knight. A white halo in the form of a Rose Compass glows behind her head.
The Northeast Point glows a golden light and the Southwest Point glows a silver light.
"Manifest... Argent World of Chalk..."
With just a whisper, reality warped. The Ego of the World was cut off from its puppet for a moment before it could notice what happened... it saw Silver Cogs, hundreds of them turning in the sky, transmuting the water they touched into clouds of chalk.
The power to overwrite the World of Hope, and the spark to bring out the true potential of Ambition. Together they fully realized her Inner World.
The "snow" of chalk makes everything they touch colorless. The Ego can feel its power draining away into nothingness from the chalk, which was almost exhausted thanks to her stunt.
Tiamat sunk into the darkness, only to become a tide of nightmarish abominations trying to overwhelm the Princess. As it judges the girl too dangerous to be left alive.
Charlotte summoned her lance. The gold and silver light fade away. The West Point ignited into the red light of Malice and the North Point turned azure blue to represent Survive.
"Escalation Theta...", she pointed Quirinus up to the sky, its spikes glowing azure and red— then they broke off, "Nameless Light."
The shards of Curruid spun around as the storm was unleashed, stabbing into the tendrils of Tiamat—
The shadows stopped for a moment—
—then they exploded into a crimson forest of thorns, dyeing the ocean red and white with the help of the chalk snow. Then she twisted her lance, igniting the thorns - bursting into Malice Flame burning themselves.
From the flame, the Black Dragon emerged, and its four arms grabbed hold of Charlotte. Utopia tried to take hold of the Ego, but he was grabbed by Cthulhu who emerged from the depths. He was separated from his Princess.
A giant tail extends out from the robe of shadow, it arches and tries to stab Charlotte— blue flame sparked around her coat.
While her flame can burn all to nothingness, the Fire of Human Malice also represents progress through blood and wonder. That very flame molded humanity, the fuel for passion and ecstasy - and that very flame is capable of giving and forging anything Charlotte needs...
"Calculation Complete.", her eyes burn an azure flame. Her coat tore apart in azure flame and reformed into a demonic armguard and gauntlet made of silver cloth for her left arm.
She grabbed the tail while kicking Tiamat off, flinging the Ego far away.
She turned to Utopia, who was burning the Deepsea Dragon off by overheating the entire ship.
"Utopia, you have Ouroboros Omniscia with you, right?", Charlotte asked.
"[Of course, Your Highness.]", he replied as he got Cthulhu off himself, returning to his Princess' side.
"Then I command you.", she touched his chest with her silver claws, "Combine and play the Melody of Destruction."
His entire body glows as she Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Vessel of the Machine Herald with the Imprisoned Arsenal. Only the Grand Array, the Knight of the Silver Princess, can unleash the full potential of the near-infinite amount of weaponry.
!!
Charlotte turned around, parrying a giant sword made of bedrock and lava. Then from far away, the Ego of the World came rushing at them in its full draconic glory.
Utopia unloads all of his guns towards it, pressurizes bullets to travel underwater, spears tipped with thousands of venoms, energy beams cutting through the currents. Yet against the Ego of the World, the same rain that killed billions only slowed it down.
—BOOM!!!
Tiamat was hit in the side by a blue atomic beam. It snarled and turned to the assailant - they were Avalon, using the body of the atomic lizard.
Then came a rush of deep sea creatures attacking the Ego of the World.
At the same time, Charlotte's halo changes once again. The color of Survive fades away, and the Southeast Point of the compass glows a lavender light of Delusion.
"Awaken, Quirinus."
She raised her lance to the sky as boiling purple steam and blue flame swirl around it. The fire that burns all, erasing the existence of all that it touches, and the smoke that covers all trace of the truth. The power to tear and hide history.
"The Arden Flame of Possibility!! May your light be Unleashed!!"
"DON'T YOU FUCKING DO IT AGAIN!!!", the dragon roared.
Charlotte merely smiles, "Split the Heaven and Rend the World!!"
Then she pointed her lance at Tiamat, who was held in place by Avalon. The Black Dragon struggles to get away from them, not knowing that over twenty percent of all animals on Earth perished for these fishes to inherit the strength to be able to hold it down
"In the Name of Humanity!", the steam and flame condensed into a spiral covering just the lance, yet glows violently, "Carve a Path to the Future!!"
"World Breaker!!"
The vortex of destruction crashed into the Black Dragon, the spacial tears of Delusion ripped it apart while the flame of Malice burned away its form and made it unable to regenerate.
Clank!!
Charlotte once again parried the bedrock sword. She glares at the sword as it flies far away... there is something going on here that she does not know.
The color of Malice and Delusion fade away, replaced by the light of Survive filling the entire halo. Her search range expanded to over eighty kilometers. Then she realized, creeping from all sides, are walls of writhing tendrils made if darkness and crimson veins.
It won't be long until she was surrounded. So she summoned Walpurgis Festival.
"Awaken once more, the Greatest Witch of Humanity, Aradia!", she tipped her hat, igniting it with the fire of life.
The purple bat came alive, squeaking as it freely flew through the water. Then it did its job, with a squeak a massive Runic Circle was formed, along with multiple distorted cracks meant to personalize the World's magic into its own.
The circle crashes upon Charlotte and Utopia— transporting them to another location - right in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
Clank!!
Once again, Charlotte parried that strange sword, making it crash into the golden sand.
"Alright, now...", the compass returned to its neutral state, she took in a deep breath with a smile, "Show yourself."
What appeared in front of her, out from the Dragon's corpse is a dragon-human hybrid, no... more of a cross between Tiamat and Theia. A fair maiden of black and crimson. Wearing a dress made of gleaming black and red scales, its four arms covered in glowing dark red gauntlets, a red collar carrying a molten stone.
On its head a crown made of six glowing white horns, flowing red and black hair. Although its face was covered by a black veil, the crimson glare shone through, bearing down the weight of the World upon all. And on top of it all, two pairs of draconic wings folded to create a cloak.
An elegant yet imposing stature...
"I am Terra, the Dragon of Conflict and Destruction.", it pointed one of its claws at Charlotte, "I deemed you too volatile and dangerous for the existence of Life. As the Ego of the World, I shall extinguish you."
Charlotte stabbed her lance into the ground, and with a snap of her finger, all her remaining weapons were called.
Incognito Zero crashed down in front of her, the black tower shield pulsed with blue flame as she picked it up.
Agápi kai Polémos snapped into existence, she grabbed the knife in mid-air.
Galatine formed on her hip with a holster of its own.
Anima Lacero crashed into the ground behind her, stringing up a distorting ripple that made her halo flicker.
The Emblem of Monte Cristo flickered its golden flame as it formed on her chest, and the coins bearing the essence of hatred flooded the desert.
Aradia flew around her, flipping Walpurgis Festival off of her head while shrinking the hat to wear it.
Utopia standing behind her with all of his weapons on standby, transforming into a beastial form similar to a werewolf.
And finally, Fallen Starlight appeared with the stock deep in the sand.
"Fu...", she closed her eyes, "In the Name of Humanity..."
Then she opens them, both displaying the symbol of the Akasha - her Rose Compass. The golden sand transmutes into chalk, and the silver gears of her Inner World manifest once more in the sky.
"By the Rite of Steel and Gunpowder..."
She pointed Quirinus, swirling with a current of air, at Terra. The sky cracked open, and the serpentine gaze of Terra bore down upon Charlotte.
Yet it does not matter to the Princess.
"I shall grant you a Peaceful Slumber."