Leveling Up by Seducing Milfs-Chapter 195. Poetic Justice

Typhon’s eyes blinked, and for a brief moment, Rick thought he saw something that might have been shame behind the corruption, but then the purple energy grew stronger, and Typhon broke free of the control.

"All this bullshit you say about freedom and responsibilities... You talk about these things like they’re easy to handle," Typhon said, and there was real pain in his voice despite the corruption. "But what about Nerissa’s responsibility for genocide?!"

"What about her duty to kill seventeen innocent children, huh?!"

"Where’s the FUCKING justice for the three thousand ocean dwellers she crushed under the deadliest pressure?!"

Rick hit Typhon’s jaw with his fist hard enough to make his head snap back. "She knows what she fucking did was wrong!"

"For fifty years, she’s been feeling guilty! You and Nerissa are different because she is trying to get better even though it hurts, while you are using the Archon as an excuse to give it all up like the coward piece of shit you really are!"

They crashed into another building, leaving a path of destruction across the citadel as they fought. Typhon’s corruption-enhanced regeneration kept him in the fight even though Rick was beating him up badly.

However, Rick observed the Emperor Consort’s retreat. "You can’t justify the horrible shits like this!" Rick yelled and hit Typhon with a combination that broke his ribs.

"Your choices were avoidable! You were a husband and an emperor, but you were too selfish to succeed at either!"

At the same time, Nerissa’s fight with Seris and the Leviathan had turned into something amazing. The Empress had called forth tidal forces that shouldn’t exist underwater, which caused pressure changes and current flows that were impossible according to physics.

"Oceanic Judgment: Seven Depths Annihilation!" Nerissa screamed, and seven huge columns of water appeared around the Leviathan.

Each one spun in the opposite direction, making a cage of shearing force that ripped at the Guardian’s corrupted body.

Seris yelled in anger and moved the Tidecaller Trident through the water in a complicated way. "Corruption Embodiment: Abyssal Nightmare!"

The water around the Leviathan turned black with concentrated corruption, and the Guardian’s shape started to change. It got bigger, with more heads growing out of its body and its scales turning into sharp spikes of corrupted crystal.

The newly powerful Leviathan broke Nerissa’s seven columns with brute force. Its twelve heads had grown into twenty, each one bigger and more dangerous than the last.

"You can’t win this one, bitch!" Seris cackled, her twisted body radiating victory. "The Archon gives the Leviathan more power the more you fight!"

"You and Typhon made this Guardian together, remember!? It has both of your magical signatures on it. And now that signature is being used against you with the boost from the corruption...!"

Nerissa’s eyes got bigger as she realized what was going on. The corrupted Tidecaller Trident wasn’t the only thing that controlled the Leviathan.

The Archon was actively giving it power through the magical link she and Typhon had put into the Guardian six hundred years ago, when they were still in love.

Every time she struck the Leviathan, it changed and adapted in response. Every spell she cast gave it information that it could use to stop her next move.

The bond she had made with Typhon hundreds of years ago was now being used as a weapon that made the Leviathan stronger with each exchange. "FUCK...!!!" Nerissa swore, which she hadn’t done in six hundred years as queen.

She changed her strategy and stopped attacking directly. Instead, she used defensive barriers and manipulated space.

She would keep the Leviathan in check if she couldn’t hurt it without strengthening it. "Abyssal Prison: Eternal Depths!"

Around the Guardian, huge walls of compressed water formed, trying to trap it in a cube of pressure that got stronger as it got closer to the center, but the Leviathan that had been empowered was getting stronger by the second.

Its corrupted form pushed against the walls, breaking them.

Seris laughed like a crazy person. "You see?! The Archon’s gift is the best thing you’ll ever fucking get in Zorathia!"

"Your own work turned against you! And your own power is what is killing you!"

"NERISSAAGGHH...!!! THIS! IS! POETIC JUSTICEEE!"

One of the Leviathan’s twenty heads broke through the barrier and hit Nerissa with incredible speed. The Empress barely got out of the way, and the attack grazed her shoulder, leaving a burning wound where corruption touched her changed flesh.

She hissed in pain and quickly got rid of the corruption before it could spread, but the damage was already done. The Leviathan was fast enough to hit her now.

Another head hit from a different angle. Then one more. The Guardian had figured out how she moved, and now its many heads attacked in a way that made it impossible for her to move.

Nerissa took hit after hit, each one filled with corruption that she had to get rid of right away, or she would get sick till she was corrupted. Her huge body was strong, but the Leviathan’s evolved state was too much for her.

A powerful blow hit her in the chest, and Nerissa fell through the water and hit the plaza floor so hard that it made a crater.

Rick noticed this from the edge of his vision as he continued to battle Typhon. Rick’s sense of danger ignited with ferocity.

Nerissa was losing. The Guardian, constantly evolving, had become too formidable for the Empress, who had appeared invincible only moments before.

"NO...!" Rick gave up his fight with Typhon and used all the speed his Draconic Wings could give him to fly toward Nerissa.

The Leviathan’s largest head gaped wide, gathering a surge of corrupt energy for a devastating strike aimed directly at the fallen Empress.

Rick got to her just as the attack began. He jumped in front of Nerissa, and all of his defensive skills kicked in at once.

The bond between Carmilla and Resonant Shield turned into a ghostly wall. Natasha’s bond, known as Glacial Fortress, absorbed half of the incoming damage. Divine Aegis from Liora went off on its own, making a golden barrier of last resort.

But the Leviathan’s corrupted blast was just too strong. It broke through Rick’s defenses one by one, giving him a few extra seconds each time, but it didn’t stop the attack completely.

The corruption beam struck Rick squarely in the face, causing him to scream in agony as it seared through his body. In that single blow, his health bar plummeted from 100% to 15%.

His Draconic Sovereignty struggled to sustain him as blood mingled with the water surrounding him.

"Rick!" Nerissa’s voice was full of fear as she watched the surface dweller who had made her feel again throw himself in front of an attack that would have killed her.

The Leviathan continued its assault. Multiple heads targeted Rick, sensing his vulnerability.

One head coiled around his waist, its grip tightening and breaking his ribs. Another head lunged for his shoulder, tearing through armor and flesh. A third struck him repeatedly, slamming him hard against the ground.

Rick wouldn’t give up his job of protecting Nerissa. Despite his body deteriorating and his health dropping to ten percent, then five percent, Rick remained steadfast.

"Get out of the way, you IDIOT!" Nerissa screamed at him. "You’re going to die if this keeps on!"

Rick gasped through the pain, blood pouring from many wounds. "Already died once... and being alone when you die is the worst thing to happen..."

"But this is..." Rick smirks.

"...far better!"