Saintess? Not Anymore! I'd Rather be a Destroyer

Chapter 400 - 337: annoyed 9000

If you guys don’t like this arc tell me and I’ll make it a filler arc but I low-key thought it was cool.

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"Seriously, 567, what have you done? You wasted all of my hard work. Ugh, that’s why I told 1 I don’t want such a hot-headed person as a partner," 9000 stated with a deep frown as she floated above the scorched land, her overwhelming aura pressing down and suppressing everything below.

"She lives in her own world happily, ignorant, while we had our entire verse destroyed by her sister and her people. Repulsive. Unforgivable," she continued coldly, her eyes narrowing. "I should probably chase down those mortals."

"You aren’t going anywhere!" Aurianna yelled, her voice cracking with fury as she forced herself back onto her feet, her body trembling but unyielding as she glared up at 9000.

Aurianna’s gaze shifted, locking onto Ipha and Queen, whose bodies were twisted unnaturally by 9000 while the others were still busy fighting 567. The sight made something snap inside her. Rage burned violently in her chest.

"Oh?" 9000 scoffed, looking down at Aurianna with clear amusement, as if she were nothing more than an insect daring to buzz too loudly.

"Chaos Parade!" Aurianna screamed.

The entire sky shattered before turning rainbow-hues in an instant. Even though Pectus was far away, the sky above them was swallowed by the Chaos Parade. Trumpets blared from the skies, and strange times began to play. Monsters fell from the sky and got up as they rushed towards where Aurianna was, while others tore themselves out of the ground, clawing their way free and running forward as well.

They rushed toward 9000 and 567 in a relentless wave.

Aurianna joined them, gripping her saber tightly as she lunged forward, desperate to land even a single strike. But just as always, her attack never reached its target. An invisible shield blocked her attack, and a massive force slammed into her, hurling her backward. Her body skidded across the shattered ground, pain ripping through her as stone and debris tore at her skin.

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"Hey, you didn’t answer my question!" Penma demanded, staring suspiciously at the woman standing before her.

"Oh, calm down. I’m with them," the woman replied casually. "Lady Iris placed me here to protect Aurianna. I was made to handle situations like this specifically." She glanced toward the fight happening from afar, chuckling softly. "And it seems Aurianna has grown strong. She can now make a domain of her own, covering a massive area, an entire country, even. I’m proud of her. But..." her tone shifted slightly, "...I doubt her monsters would be enough to stop both of them. I doubt anyone would be strong enough."

She tilted her head. "Also, I’m a quartz like you, but a black one. So we’re kind of from the same family branch. My name is Ragna."

"Well then, what are you going to do?" Penma asked sharply, pointing toward the massive explosions in the distance as monsters moved and charged forward. "Seeing that, I doubt she can handle much more."

As they spoke, monsters ran past Pectus, causing screams and panic as people stared in confusion, they couldn’t even ran away because of the protective cube they were in.

"Well, I doubt we have time to worry about that," Ragna said with a light chuckle. "Because it seems one of them is chasing us."

From afar, 9000 flew toward them, utterly unbothered. Any monster that got close was twisted and crushed as if she were wringing out a towel, only far more gruesome. She did it effortlessly, her expression stoic.

"Well, this is bad," Ragna admitted, shaking her head.

"You’re saying it’s bad, but you’re clearly not doing anything! Can’t you see she’s coming toward us? Oh my god, we’re going to die!!" Kiana cried, panic flooding her voice as she stared at Ragna.

"Well, you’re way too comfortable talking to me like that," Ragna huffed.

"Does it look like this is the time to care?! If you can do something, do it before she gets here!!" Kiana screamed.

"Well, it seems that it’s too late for that," Jade stated coldly.

Everyone turned as 9000 appeared before them, floating calmly with a bored, almost irritated expression.

Nia reacted instantly, slashing her saber toward 9000. But no matter how hard or how many slashes she landed, the blade wouldn’t move any closer. It was like striking an invisible shield.

"Boring," 9000 muttered.

She snapped her fingers.

Nia and Abed were twisted violently, their bodies shattering apart. But just as 9000 assumed it was over, a massive crystal arm suddenly wrapped around her and hurled her far away. The sheer force of the throw caused the landscape to collapse into fragments, the ground splitting apart.

For the first time, 9000 looked surprised, only for a moment, before she quickly composed herself.

"How did that thing do that?" she muttered with a frown.

"Hey, Ragna, do you have a plan?" Nia asked grimly as her body re-formed back to normal, Abed doing the same beside her. "Because I don’t think we can even hold her off for a minute."

Abed raised his bow, aiming it toward 9000. Releasing the string, he fired his arrow and it multiplied into thousands of arrows into the sky. They rained down like a storm, engulfing the entire area around her in massive explosions.

"Do we really need the mortals alive?" Ragna asked, her expression filled with disgust.

"It’s imperative that they survive!" Penma snapped arrogantly. "It’s my Master’s wish! If you let them die, you’ll face her wrath!"

"Zeche... do you understand what they’re saying?" Elena whispered, leaning closer.

Zeche shook her head. "Their language isn’t registered in my database. However, from what I’ve gathered, alternate versions of Aurianna from different timelines have come to attack our world as some sort of revenge. Though I find this unlikely. Dimensional travel is possible, but multiversal travel should be impossible."

"Impossible for mortals like you and lower gods," Penma yelled. "But for divine deity descendants, it’s easy. Still... how they escaped Master’s sister is a mystery." Her fists clenched. "This means they’re going to be a nightmare!!"

"I feel like I’m involved in something I really shouldn’t be," Avriel muttered, leaning against Jugi’s shoulder. "Because this is... totally crazy."