Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System-Chapter 636: Challenges Daimon & Nethereal sisters, Jazmine’s version (part 25)

After the initial shock, the enemy queen couldn't help but exclaim.

"What is up with that nether, weren't you the daughter of the Lord!".

To which the light princess put on a disgusted expression as she coldly answered.

"He created me, but I'm not his daughter… besides there is no rule that states that just because our nethereal part comes from them, we have to be like them".

"Bullshit, the variation that happened for that blood affinity blond woman and the crazy purple haired one might be out of the charts, but their nether is still based in death and lust, as for you not only is there no wrath in that nether but it's also positive light based!", shouted Erika.

She is right, the Balax Lord failed to notice the fact that Jasmine had awakened nether, because he focused in looking for a wrath focused one which leaned towards the negative side of the spectrum, like his, and Jasmine's nether didn't match any of those characteristics.

But before we get to that, a certain light green haired girl who was standing next to Sarah couldn't help but frown as she asked.

"Did you teach her how to awaken that?", ever since they learned the tendencies of the nether used by the Lords, Cassy was worried that Jasmine would be consumed by "Wrath" when she awakened hers.

After all, the light princess has been deprived of too much in her life, like her mother for example, not to mention that Adam shattered her trust in others, though Daimon completely healed that wound, there was for sure a lot of anger bottled in Jasmine's kind heart, that it was a genuine worry for Cassy.

"As much as I would like to claim the merit, nope, this time it was our little Reyne the one that contributed the most~", playfully said the crazy girl, making the nelapsi girl softly snort.

"Humph, you talk as if you didn't go out of your way to bother me with that nether of yours, to prepare me for when I awakened mine, that was your plan all along right, to teach me so that my awakening will work as a guide for Jas", she said, to which Sarah giggled.

"I don't know what are you talking about~", she limited to say.

Unlike Sarah and Reyne, Jasmine had no predisposition towards nether, so the crazy girl who had the highest talent among the three for it, couldn't think of a way to teach her about it, in fact, Sarah didn't even know if it was possible to awaken positive light based nether.

Since nether works by adding an emotion that you want to transmit to others to one's mana, and you wouldn't want to make your enemy feel happy, or peaceful, so naturally it has to be a negative one, which also aligns with the fact that nether is an energy that leans towards the negative side of the spectrum, so while a positive on affinity on the lower side like let's say water or earth, wouldn't be strange, one like light would be incredibly hard to use as a base to nether and then add to that the fact that Jasmine's light is of extreme positive side and you get why it was harder to know whether it was possible or not.

Also, Sarah didn't really "awaken" nether unlike others, she was innately born with it, she was simply unable to use it for her benefit due to the curse, that was her "awakening".

So, she took a different approach, the crazy girl taught Reyne whose disposition was on the negative side of the spectrum, given that she is a nelapsi and that combined with the enhancing effects of this field and their lineages which had become stronger thanks to the challenge, resulted in Reyne awakening her nether midway through the fight.

And in case you forget about it, Jasmine is… a fast learner, something with which Sarah counted, that's right, the light princess has been doing self-introspection since she saw or more accurately "felt" the process of Reyne's awakening, and she finally reached the answer she needed.

'One was born with it, one awakened it midway through the fight and the last one awakened hers before her fight, that crazy girl surely is scary when it comes to helping Jasmine', thought Daimon, Sarah prepared all this to help Jasmine awaken her nether.

It's not as if she simply "used" Reyne for her plan, but more as if she hoped her awakening would be of help for their youngest sister.

The result is as you see, not only is her nether positive light based, but the emotion in it is also a positive one.

"Well, that's easy to answer, unlike that guy, I don't need to disguise "wrath" as a source of motivation for others, because the ones on whom I'll use my buffs are my friends and family not disposable pawns or fanatics to adore me…", Jasmine stopped for a second there to gaze in the direction of Sarah and Reyne before continuing.

"This time, I'll be the one to protect them", she said with her pretty blue eyes burning in a white light coming from the halos that had appeared in her pupils, if isn't clear by now, the emotion in her nether is the wish to "protect".

And it perfectly aligned with the light princess, because she isn't a combatant but a support type mage, so she uses her mana mostly in her allies instead of her enemies, so her nether grows stronger whenever she makes others feel protected… like when she casts buffs on her allies for example, it was a clever solution to the problem of her nether being positive light based too.

"Humph you are a damn mutant, but so what, your nether might be strong but it's still not combat oriented so… you are dead!", roared the enemy queen to then explode in both dark orange and dark brown nether battle aura.

"Legion Reinforcement, Captain Wild Flame Armor!".

"Legion Reinforcement, Captain Ancient Rock Armor!".

The enemy queen was engulfed in a cocoon formed by battle aura of two different elements for a second, before emerging wearing a fierce ethereal orange-brown armor.

She was actually using two types of armor at the same time, the interesting part is that the fire armor martial art she used, is the one that received the horned horse pawn, and that resulted in her own armor having a wild and beastly aspect to it, with spikes and claw like decorations on the shoulders.

"Battleground Heavy Charge!", with a loud battle cry, Erika's tall figure turned into an orange-brown blur that travelled the distance between her previous position and Jasmine's in a fraction of a second.

She appeared in front of the light princess with her right fist aiming at Jasmine's face, she hadn't forgotten about the humiliation she felt when being slapped earlier, so naturally she was planning to return said humiliation by a hundred-fold at the light princess.

Or at least that was the idea, because when her double armor cladded fist was a centimeter away from reaching Jasmine, a silver fortress manifested behind of the light princess.

"Clang!", a thunderous metal-colliding sound echoed through the sky as Erika's fist clashed against the silver light that was enveloping the light princess, resulting in sparks flying due to the impact, before the enemy queen was... forced backwards.

"Tsk, a damn defense increasing buffing spell, so you did prepare something before running out of mana, whatever, it won't last long and it's not the same as the one with which you destroyed the armored ride, so there won't be any problem".

"In fact, you didn't have the time to learn spells that use nether instead of mana, which is why the defense increasing buff is being applied to your "Protection" nether directly, right?", mockingly said Erika, to then jump backwards.

With a grin on her face, the enemy queen exploded in dark orange battle aura to then punch with her right fist at Jasmine.

"Battleground Explosive Flame Impact!", Erika's dark orange battle aura gathered on her fist to then be shot in the form of a giant flame fist, that flashed the moment it was formed, appearing in front of Jasmine in a fraction of a second.

"Booom!", the moment that agglomeration of fire battle aura met with the light nether that Jasmine was using as outer protection, it exploded and engulfed everything in the vicinity in a cloud of flames.

But that wasn't all, Erika then stomped her left foot breaking a piece of the ground which then floated, dragged out by her earth battle aura.

"Battleground Explosive Rock Impact!", with her left hand, the enemy queen grabbed the giant piece of rock which was now covered in her dark brown battle aura to then be thrown towards the flame cloud.

"Booom!", the giant rock was pressured by Erika's battle aura and exploded upon reaching the flame cloud, adding a curtain of dust and a rain of debris covered in battle aura to the ongoing destruction.

"And now, for the finale… Battleground Rock Spear Ascension!", the enemy queen placed her hand son the ground and injected a large wave of earth battle aura into it, the result were dozens of rock spikes raising from below the flame of cloud and dust, since Erika didn't know what the defense buffing spell of Jasmine worked against, she tried three different types of damage.

First and formal, pure elemental damage in the form of a fire battle aura explosion, then a combination of both elemental and physical damage by using thar rain of debris and her earth battle aura and last but not least those rock spears for pure physical damage.

"Quite lacking compared to what I expected from someone that supposedly focuses in combat", unfortunately for Erika, the calm voice of the light princess could be heard coming from the ongoing disaster, before Jasmine casually came out of it, she was… completely intact.

"Damn it!", the enemy queen saw red, she put her previous defeat under the excuse that while she is skilled in terms of buffing martial arts, she is ultimately a combatant, but then, her attacks didn't do anything to the light princess.

"Explosive Throw!".

"Burning Spear!".

Erika's body glowed in a bright dark orange light as she used two different buffing martial arts on herself, there was no explanation given unlike back at the game, but those two had been used by the enemy queen before, so Jasmine knew that the first increased middle range damage while the second one had an armor breaking effect.

Which would make one believe that the light princess would do her best to move out of the firing range of the enemy queen, but instead of that she simply kept walking towards Erika, who gritted her teeth in response.

'Humph, arrogant bitch', she thought to then extend her arms which exploded in battle aura of different colors, in opposite directions.

"Battleground Blazing Meteor Rain!".

With those words, Erika continuously punched with both of her fists, releasing a barrage of flame battle aura projectiles with her right hand and earth battle aura ones with her left hand. ƒreewebɳovel.com

Now, this is actually Erika's strongest ling distance martial art, but it could be used for middle range as well, in this situation since the distance between herself and the light princess is not that big as of current.

"Booom!", the double element barrage of battle aura projectiles immediately rained upon Jasmine, causing a continuous explosion that made the ground in the vicinity to explode, sending flying debris in every direction.

"The last time that winged swordsman pawn bastard only survived because you used that light mana sword as a shield, so let's see you come unscathed out of this…", the words of the enemy queen were interrupted by the light princess's mellow voice.

"Maybe, but I assure you that my defense is for sure higher than that of the swordsman pawn", said Jasmine as she came out of the explosion, this time Erika did manage to see how the attacks actually landed on the light princess just to explode a few centimeters away from her body, the moment they touched the light nether that was enveloping her.

'She isn't even using nether armor, that's just the nether covering her damn body so how can she come out completely unscathed from a barrage of my blazing meteor strike', thought the enemy queen in disbelief, to then snort as she extended her right hand to then take out her magic weapon.

It was also a familiar one, as in she used a halberd like the ones she gave to the general pawn, the difference being that she only used one, but in exchange it was quite a "special" one as it seemed to be created with the purpose of working with both fire and earth nether.

In other words, Erika's halberd was meant to use with her two affinities at the same time, one could really see the difference between the special unit from the Balax army and the subordinates of the other Lords.

"Flaming Explosive Halberd!", said the enemy queen, in response half of the halberd was covered in dark orange battle aura.

"Heavy Rock Halberd!", with that second martial art, the remaining left half of the halberd was covered in dark brown battle aura.

"If attacks from distance don't work, then I'll simply crush you head on!", roared the enemy queen as she charged at the light princess, turning into a blur midway.

"Heavy Charge!", Erika used her movement martial art to increase her speed in order to gain momentum, as she swung her halberd at the light princess.

"Clang!", sparks and the sound of metals colliding was the result of her halberd clashing against Jasmine's light nether.

This time she did manage to produce an effect on it though; the blade of her halberd sank around a centimeter into it…

"Pathetic", disdainfully said the light princess, making the enemy queen's eyes become bloodshot, her halberd exploded in battle aura of different colors as she actually used two martial arts at point blank.

"Inferno Cleave!".

"Mountain Cleave!".

There is no need to explain to which element does each one belong; Erika raised her halberd to then slash at the light princess with the intention to split her body in half.

"Boooom!", this time Jasmine did something as well, she released a wave of light nether out of her body to meet with the incoming attack of the enemy queen, resulting in the sky being illuminated half in a bright white color and half in a mix of orange and dark brown light.

Erika whose hands were now shaking a bit, saw in disbelief how she was forced backwards due to the shockwave, however she felt her halberd cutting something, so she gazed at Jasmine's direction hoping to see the light princess missing an arm at least.

Unfortunately, reality is often disappointing, the only thing that she cut was the outer layer of light nether that was protecting Jasmine.

"How long will that damn spell be active, there is no way such a high increase in defense can be continuously maintained!", she shouted with an incensed voice, to which the light princess smiled as she answered.

"The thing with the buff spells of the Light Palace is that by placing "restrictions" on them, the effects one can get exponentially increase, and since a person can only receive "Silver Fortress" once a day, then its effect which is increasing magic and physical defenses by 300% each, lasts for a whole ten minutes".

"Of course, since I'm using my nether as a defensive mean, then it costs me a certain amount of it to block each one of your attacks, but since my focus is protection then my nether's defense won't lose in terms of toughness even against battle aura".

"What!", Erika nearly lost it for a second, a defense buffing spell that lasted for ten minutes and light nether which already doesn't have a high solid property, having toughness on par with battle aura, it was too much.

Now imagine her expression when Jasmine casually added.

"But don't worry, I'm not planning on using it for that long… after all why would I need to defend when my enemy is no match for me".

"Heavenly Paladin!", the light princess's body suddenly burned in a bright white light, one that after blinding everyone for a second, condensed into a white nether armor that completely enveloped Jasmine, giving her a way more imposing appearance, since the armor's height surpassed the two-meter mark.

Naturally, it was oversized for the light princess, who looked rather cute wearing such big armor, at least until the helmet was added, hiding the fact that the one inside of it was shorter and much slenderer than what the armor would make one believe.

'So that is the spell she has been preparing ever since the fight started… incredible', thought Daimon, not only the amount of nether condensed into that armor was insane, nearing around 80% of all the nether Jasmine had at her disposition.

But the appearance given by that armor, was one that Daimon quite recognized, as it looked like a white version of the armor wore by… Freya.

And he wasn't the only one to notice it, the ancestor of the Ivory lineage, in other words Joanna who had remained silent all this time, and was for some unknown reason residing in a ring on Reyne's hand, instead of with Jasmine like before, couldn't help but mumble.

"Sister Alicia…", that was the name of Freya's second host and Joanna's best friend, one of the two ancestors of the Light Palace and the progenitor from the Brightstar lineage that flowed through the three nethereal sister's bodies.

And the Ivory matriarch wasn't alone, considering that the invisible ethereal silver armor that was covering Daimon's upper body, in other words the vessel in which Freya resided, trembled for a split of a second, despite the administrator girl being asleep as she was going through a "healing and adaptation" process according to Evangeline, she reacted to this state in which Jasmine was!

"You did manage to learn a spell that uses nether, so what!", shouted the enemy queen to then flash at Jasmine with her halberd aiming at her chest, only for Jasmine to smile behind her helmet, she used her staff to intercept the enemy's magic weapon, which made Erika snort.

"That twig is going to be slashed in half, I received this halberd from the Lord himself!", she said as she slashed with all her might.

"Clang!".

"Crack!".

The sound of metals colliding, followed by the one of something shattering echoed through the sky, however and to Erika's horror, it was the blade of her halberd the one that now had a crack on its blade.

And to top it off, now that she looked at the staff on the hands of the light princess, she was reminded of a bad memory, because it was enveloped in an intricate light spear-like shape, it was the heavenly spear she gave to the priest pawn!

And the surprises kept coming Erika's way, in the form of Jasmine's left hand forming a fist, with which she punched the enemy queen on the stomach, naturally with a double layer of armor Erika didn't think too much of the punch from a mage, she was way more worried about the heavenly spear since it had left a deep impression on her.

"Aghhh!", and that was a huge mistake, the image of a silver hammer manifested behind Jasmine and then, the light princess's fist actually broke through the double layer of battle aura armor, to then punch the stomach of the enemy queen, forcing a pained scream as she was sent flying into the distance.

"What the hell is this!", midway through her forced travel backwards, Erika exploded in dark brown battle aura to break her retreat, but was instantly met by Jasmine who had appeared behind of her with her legs cladded in silver light, to then grab her head and smack her against the ground.

"Booom!", the enemy queen was smacked into the ground face first, and actually sank quite a few meters into it, the impact was so high that the solid rock ground in the vicinity cracked on the spot.