Leveling Up by Seducing Milfs-Chapter 213. One Last Miracle

Rick struggled to move closer to them, trying to gather them and keep them safe in any way he could. However, his arms refused to respond.

He couldn’t kick with his legs. He was having a hard time keeping his head above water.

Rick whispered, "No..." through lips that were covered in blood. "This can’t be the end...!"

"N... Not like... this... not after all that’s... happened."

Cthulhu rose into the air above him, its wound from earlier mostly healed. The Guardian opened its huge wings, and corruption gathered in its many mouths, getting ready for a final attack that would wipe out everything.

Rick could see it coming together. With each passing second, a dark sphere grew in size, drawing all the evil from the ocean into a single point above the Guardian’s head.

It wouldn’t merely devastate the coastal cities when it was unleashed, but it would obliterate the entire continent, and then a billion lives—gone in an instant.

Rick felt powerless to intervene.

Floating in the corrupted water, he watched the preparations for the end of the world, feeling even more hopeless than when Cthulhu attacked him.

They had given everything. They had worked together seamlessly, fighting with love, courage, and determination. Yet, it still wasn’t enough.

Rick couldn’t take it anymore and closed his eyes. At least he would die trying. At least this time he wouldn’t be by himself.

Then he felt a soft touch on his shoulder.

He opened his eyes and saw Nerissa next to him. She was still awake despite her injuries.

She reached for his hand, and together they held the Trident of New Tides, which was still floating between them and barely flickering with golden light.

"We do this... as one and together, right?" Nerissa said in a low voice that held fifty years of guilt turned into determination. "Let this be my last act of redemption..."

"Let it be saving the world I almost destroyed..."

Rick wanted to tell her it was hopeless, that they were too weak, that one more attack wouldn’t matter. But something in her eyes stopped him.

It was hope... Real and true hope burned in eyes that had been empty for fifty years.

"Together as one," Rick said, because what else could he say? If they were going to die, they would fight to the end until their last breath.

Their hands gripped the trident harder, and their Spirit Bond glowed with new strength. Not much, they were both almost out of energy, but it was enough.

All it takes is just one last try before facing the end...

The ocean around them moved. Water rose in spiraling columns, drawn to the strength of their bond.

More and more people came together as Rick and Nerissa put everything they had left into one last chance.

Cthulhu’s attack had hurt and broken the New Leviathan, but it heard their call through the guardian bond. After falling, it rose again, its seven heads roaring in defiance despite corruption’s attempts to erode its golden scales.

The Guardian didn’t go after Cthulhu. Instead, it swam right up to Rick and Nerissa, and its huge body started to turn into pure energy.

The New Leviathan was giving itself up to become power that its bonded summoners could use.

Golden light enveloped Rick and Nerissa as the Guardian’s essence fused with their bodies. The trident in their hands glowed like a star, getting bigger and stronger until it was something that could really fight the Forbidden Guardian.

Cthulhu’s sphere of destruction had grown to a dangerous size above them. The attack was almost ready to be unleashed.

"Everyone!" Zephyra’s voice broke through the sadness, and Rick saw her floating above the water on her disc of solidified air, with baby Sophia back in her arms because she doesn’t want to face the end without her baby.

"I know you’re hurt...! I know you think it’s over...!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

"But..."

"The Emperor and the Empress Ocean... Rick Rolland and Nerissa Abyssryn... are making one FINAL stand!"

"They need us! They need our strength, our hope, and our refusal to give up! So give them everything you have left!"

"One LAST TIMEEE!!!"

The words echoed in the minds of all the people on the battlefield. Mages who could barely lift their heads started to use up the last of their mana.

Dragons shared the life force of their mounts. Demon soldiers gave up the last of their blood. Holy knights prayed even though their voices were hoarse from yelling.

And all of that power went to Rick and Nerissa.

Despite their injuries, Rick sensed that his partners continued to support him through the bond network.

Carmilla’s unbreakable will.

Natasha’s tactical precision.

Liora’s divine blessing.

Sylvia’s draconic might.

Zara’s demonic fury.

Every time someone gave it power, the trident got brighter. Rick and Nerissa floated up out of the water, held up by currents of pure magic.

The New Leviathan’s aura surrounded them like armor made of light and hope.

Cthulhu completed its attack and prepared to unleash its destructive power, bringing an end to Zorathia for good.

Rick and Nerissa raised the trident together and jumped toward the sphere of corruption that was falling.

""HAAAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!" Rick and Nerissa screamed together while letting out one last power they had inside.

The two attacks met in the middle of the ocean and the sky.

BAAAAAMMMMMMM!!!

The shockwave that came from the impact was felt all over the world. Light and darkness pushed against each other, neither giving in, both completely focused on their goals.

Rick clenched his teeth against the stress that threatened to shatter him. The corruption was so pervasive and fundamentally opposed to everything he believed in that he felt as though he was trying to break through it with nothing but willpower and borrowed strength.

Rick shouted, "Nrggghhh...!!! Grrrggghhhh! We can’t... break THROUGHHH!!!" over the noise of energies colliding. "

It’s... too FUCKING strong for us...!!!"

"Then I’ll hold it!" Nerissa let go of Rick’s hand and drove the trident forward on her own, using her whole body to keep it steady against Cthulhu’s attack.

"Rick, you need to finish this!"

"What!?"

"Go! Get it done! For this world... and for the upcoming future!"

"Nerissa, no—"

"JUST GO!" Her scream was full of guilt that had been building up for eight hundred years and turned into pure determination.

"Please let me do this one thing right...! Let me save something instead of destroying it!"

"This... is my chance to make things right!"

"AND IT’S MY LAST CHOICE BEFORE THE END!!!"

The Ocean Empress moved forward, her body glowing with blue-white light as she fought a corrupted god’s rage with her strength. She held back an attack that could have wiped out whole countries, but she wouldn’t let it go.

Rick understood while nodding. This wasn’t about tactics or strategy.

This was about Nerissa finally forgiving herself by giving everything to protect others.

He had to respect that.

Rick let go of the trident and made a fist with his right hand. All of his skills were turned on at the same time.

Blood Price gave up the rest of his health. Draconic Sovereignty made him stronger than he could have imagined, turning his whole body into half dragon.

Ocean’s Hope took in the whole Astral Deep. Demon Queen’s Wrath added destructive force. Divine blessing from Liora added holy purpose.

And the New Leviathan’s essence, which had turned into pure power, wrapped around his arm like a living weapon.

A shadowy figure appeared behind Rick’s rising form. The figure was huge, golden, and had seven heads.

The spirit of the New Leviathan was still there, but it had changed. It turned Rick’s wrist, showing him the best angle to hit, and then it opened all seven mouths in a roar that shook the world.

Rick’s scream mixed with the Guardian’s, and the voices of humans and leviathans became one sound of total defiance.

"FOR ZORATHIAAAGGGHHHHHH!"

He swung with all the strength he had.

BAAAMMMM!!!

The punch hit Cthulhu’s head right in the middle, and the New Leviathan’s spirit showed up in full. Seven heads of pure golden energy burst from Rick’s fist and wrapped around the Forbidden Guardian’s body, squeezing, crushing, and burning away corruption with the power of hope made real.

RAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Cthulhu’s scream was terrifying and final when it realized what was going on. It was meant to be impossible to kill, but it had never been up against anything like this before.

A mix of oceanic power, divine blessing, dragon power, demonic rage, and the desperate hope of an entire world, all coming together through a gooner from another world who didn’t want to die alone again.

Cthulhu’s huge body started to break apart as the New Leviathan’s grip got tighter. Corruption fell apart like ash, unable to fight back against this concentrated attack on everything it stood for.

But it still wasn’t enough. Rick could feel his attack losing steam, even though he had all this power and the New Leviathan had given up its life.

"No, no, no, NOO!!! NOOOOOO!!!" Rick screams in despair, knowing that it wasn’t enough.

Cthulhu was too fundamental, too tied to the concept of corruption itself.

"Just one more...!!! ONE MORE PUSH AND IT’S ALL OVERRR!!!" Rick let out everything he had inside, but it was already used, and his body slowly lost its balance before falling back to the ocean.

"N... no... I... lost..." Rick’s expression darkened.

"Please... someone... help us all..." Rick prayed for the first time inside his heart and mind.

They were going to fail. Right at the end, after giving everything, they were going to fall just short.

But then... a miracle happened, answering Rick’s prayer...

Rick then felt it. A hand, glowing with a soft white light, touched his.

It was not a physical touch, but rather an intangible, spiritual force that provided the final boost to his attack.

Rick’s vision became blurred, but for a brief moment, he caught sight of her. He saw a small girl, her white hair and kind eyes matching his own.

"Y-You are...?" Rick stammered, taken aback by the familiarity of her face.

She smiled at him and moved her lips, but he couldn’t hear what she said.

And with that... she was gone.

"W-What...?"

But the power she left behind stayed. That last push, that last gift from something or someone he couldn’t understand, was just what he needed.

Rick let out one final scream to end the Cthulhu.

"HRAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

BAAAAAAAAMMMMMM!!!

Rick’s punch drove completely through Cthulhu’s head. The New Leviathan’s coils crushed the Guardian’s body to nothing.

And the corruption that had formed its essence simply ceased to exist, purified by a power that shouldn’t have been possible.

The Forbidden Guardian, the ultimate weapon made 600 years ago, the creature that had come back to life to judge Zorathia, broke apart into tiny pieces of light that spread across the stormy sky.

And the storm started to clear after it died down...