Chapter 444: Dark and Darker

Chapter 444: Dark and Darker

No wonder I didn’t get a single level-up! Beatrice realized as she watched Asuna drain the life of one of her own soldiers.

“HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

Both of them? Beatrice’s worry increased when her attention was caught by the hamaxe-wielding, pink-haired princess. Not only did Annie survive Ember’s second Doomsday, but she appeared all but unharmed, swinging her hammer at Ember’s head with an attack that created an earthquake-worthy explosion and blew dust and smoke in all directions, including Beatrice’s.

“What the hell is going on!?”, “What are you doing, Commander Asuna!?” was what the soldiers were asking, shouting, or thinking in different variations of the same question before the blast of smoke from Annie’s attack obstructed their vision.



4396 damage dealt



Beatrice used the cover of the smoke to once again get behind the slow-moving princess and thrust the Eerie-Looking Dagger right where the princess’s heart was.

For a second, Asuna and Beatrice both just stood like that. Then Asuna turned her head, and with an audible crack bent her neck at an unnatural degree and looked behind at Beatrice with bright, cat-like eyes.

“So, you like sticking it into girls from behind?” Asuna asked before unleashing a dark aura blast that disintegrated the decrepit remains of her soldier that had hung on her blade and blew Beatrice’s dagger out of her back and out of Beatrice’s grip.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via N0v3l.B11n.



-50 HP



Apparently it had not crossed Annie’s mind how hard it could be to find someone in the burning, darkening chaos that she herself so flippantly created. And as it got hotter and hotter, the black smoke slowly descended back down, increasingly filling the hall with poisonous fumes. That was when Annie heard the horrified screams of Asuna’s soldiers.

“Nail Barrage!” Annie screamed and unleashed a storm of nails through the thickening smoke, using the screams as guides for her aim.

“UAAAAH!!”

“WAAAAAA!!”

The screams of Asuna’s soldiers confirmed each time Annie struck her target which she used to fire several more nails at each of them. And, having gotten a taste for this, Annie decided to upscale her approach to blind combat.

“Ultimate Nail Barrage!” Annie announced with excitement and threw countless nails up above her head. Thousands of nails flew high up into the noxious air, turning and spinning before finally one by one succumbing to gravity. As Annie watched her nails fly through the air, she grabbed the handle of her hamaxe, dug her heels in, swung back, and waited for the first nail to level with her eyes.

WHAM!

Wham! Wham! Wham, wham, wham, whamwhamwhamwhamwhawhawhawhawhawhawhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Annie laughed like a lunatic while launching her nails into whichever direction with an ever-increasing, inhuman speed. Like a stationary, turning minigun, Annie unleashed her abundant ammunition in all directions around her as thoughtlessly and joyously as she spread Ember’s fire.