Lillith - Chapter 66 - Battle!

Hello everyone! Thank you so, so much for being patient and waiting for me to post... Things are still very tense here, and I'm still not 100%, but I'm slowly getting better!

This second half of 2026 has been absolutely crazy... Things happen so suddenly... life doesn't exactly give you a warning, haha...

Anyway, I didn't want to leave you without chapters for even MORE time... so... here it is!

I know it's shorter than usual, but honestly, I'm just not able to write as much with so many things going through my head right now...

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it!

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Chaos takes over the room. Armand jumps to the left as a man glides over his head, aiming a kick at ear level. The man is fast, after all, his foot came dangerously close even though Armand dodged it.

Armand lands from the jump with a roll, stabilizing himself on the ground with his left hand, while his right hand is already opening, several lilac-colored chains emerging from his palm.

At the same time, two men jump at Morgana. One of them throws an object that looks like a bladed boomerang. Morgana extends her hand, creating a small shield that blocks the object, which returns to its owner's hand. He spins his body and throws another one just like it, this time with his left hand. Morgana blocks it again, but then she sees a blade only a few centimeters from her face. She dodges at the last second and sees a man running past with a spear in his hand. The shock leaves her vulnerable for a fraction of a second, just long enough for another boomerang to ricochet off the counter near her and hit her arm, causing a small cut.

At the same moment, Celestina, who was near the entrance, is grabbed from behind by a man. Seeing the girl being attacked, Oswin brings his hands together. A spark appears between his fingers, but quickly disappears, and after half a second...

"BANG!"

The shot fires, the mana line connecting to the arm of the man holding Celestina, but the man doesn't let her go...

Oswin considers activating the electric spell, but the electric arc would hit Celestina as well...

He aims again, this time at the man's head. He concentrates... the sparks cease, and...

"BANG!"

The shot goes upward when another man appears, using his arm to knock Oswin's hand upward. Then, the man lands a precise punch right into Oswin's solar plexus.

Meanwhile, Celestina feels completely helpless... so much preparation... so much training... she wanted to make Armand proud... but there she was, nearly passing out, her oxygen slowly running out as the man squeezed her neck tighter and tighter.

Suddenly, she feels someone crash into her. She falls to the ground, rolling, finally breaking free. When she manages to get back up, still recovering little by little, she sees Crinlah grabbing a man whom she had just thrown into her. She grabs him by the hair and slams his face into the wall with all her strength, making him immediately pass out.

"Is this what I taught you, girl? Get up and show me that your training wasn't for nothing!"

Celestina looks at her for a second without answering, but she knows Crinlah is right. She isn't that weak girl anymore. She was prepared for this. She smiles and nods.

Crinlah turns around and runs to help Oswin, while Celestina gets back on her feet, staring at the man who had grabbed her moments earlier.

The man spits out what looks like a broken tooth from the impact. But he keeps staring at Celestina.

He bends his legs, taking a fighting stance... he is clearly experienced.

Finally, the two run toward each other. He kicks high, Celestina blocks. She thinks about counterattacking, but before she can even decide what move to make, the man spins his body, using her arm as support. He prepares another strike, which Celestina manages to block as well.

"Holy shit, he's fast!"

Celestina thinks.

Right, left, right, left, up, down. She blocks everything, but she can't attack even once. The training had clearly paid off. In the past, this would already have been a defeat. The man's speed was impressive.

Until...

"PUFF!"

He lands a punch on her breast.

That hurt... a lot...

"PUFF, PUFF, PUFF!"

Because of the extreme pain, Celestina couldn't block the next three strikes.

"It was all for nothing... all that effort was useless?... No! I'm not going to lose. Swallow the pain, swallow those tears, and focus!"

Celestina thinks.

She blocks the next strike, and the next, and the next, and the next... she needs to think of something. She analyzes his pattern and comes up with an idea, but it's going to be risky.

She deliberately leaves her guard open below her waist. The man notices and instantly kicks between her legs. The kick is incredibly fast and powerful. Celestina closes her thighs, trapping his leg. He then grabs her shoulder, pulls her forward, and raises his knee.

"THUFF"

The sound of the impact against fabric is loud and clear...

Celestina takes two steps backward, the man taking the same two steps, both still staring at each other...

"Agh..."

Celestina groans, her leg losing some of its balance...

"Shit, his kick is one of the strongest I've ever seen. What the hell was that?... Can I still fight after a hit like that? I can't lose again, I can't... Ahn?"

Celestina's thoughts stop when she looks at the man.

He was still standing, in a fighting stance, but he was as red as a pepper, and his eyes were watering heavily.

Celestina advances. She throws a punch, her fist hitting his face with ease. He was much slower... actually... now it didn't even seem like the same fight.

Celestina lands an elbow to the side of his stomach, followed by another punch to his left cheek. That makes the man completely drop his guard, and finally, she finishes with the final move Crinlah had taught her to always use to guarantee victory.

Her foot rises, striking the man's already-damaged orbs...

"THUFF"

This time, he can't take it and collapses to the ground.

"Uhhhhhhnnnnn... my balls... my... balls..."

Celestina breaks into a smile as she listens to the song of a man she always enjoys hearing, but her happiness doesn't last long. After all, the very next second, another man is already standing in front of her.

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"Thank you!"

Oswin says to Crinlah as she lands another hammer kick to a man's ear.

"Oswin! Help Morgana!"

Aveline shouts as she runs toward Armand.

Oswin looks at Morgana and sees her fighting two men at the same time. He raises his hand into a pistol shape again.

"BANG! BANG!"

Each shot hits a different man. One is struck in the chest, while the boomerang-wielding man is hit in the forehead, creating the mana lines between them and Oswin.

Morgana takes advantage of the opportunity. The shot makes the man with the spear spin to the side and fall. Morgana quickly assesses the situation and opens a portal above his leg. The man's leg gets trapped inside the portal while the rest of his body falls. Morgana kicks sideways, between his legs.

THUFF

Her foot strikes his defenseless testicles in an extremely uncomfortable position. The tip of Morgana's heel catches his right ball between his thigh and groin, compressing it to half its size before it springs back a second later.

She closes the portal and leaves the man lying on the ground, turning toward the other man.

To her surprise, he is already halfway through throwing another boomerang. She had turned around in fury, ready to attack, but now she needed to defend against the attack. This made her freeze... a stupid mistake... a beginner witch's mistake... one that could cost her life...

But...

The sound of an electric shock is heard, and the man stops in the middle of his movement.

The line between Oswin and the man glows as the man's entire body is electrocuted.

Morgana admires the scene, grateful to have received the help.

She walks toward the man and extends her index finger toward his groin. A ghostly padlock appears and closes. Then, a ghostly weighted ball drops from the padlock, between the man's legs.

Through the man's pants, two spheres can be seen, as if they were being squeezed at the bottom of his trousers.

Oswin's electrical shock finally stops. The man falls as if he were being pulled down by a weight... as if he were being pulled down by his balls...

"Thank you for the help."

Morgana says in an almost completely emotionless tone.

At the same time, Armand has a magical shield up, blocking several astral arrows flying toward him.

"BANG! BANG!"

The arrows stop... Armand looks at the man who was attacking him before, now hunched forward with his hand between his legs... two strands of mana extend from his hand, connecting to Aveline behind Armand.

"One for each ball... it's been a while since I've done this!"

The man drops to his knees, tears in his eyes.

"Huh? Down on his knees just from the impact? Huh..."

"Thanks for the help."

Armand says.

Aveline looks at the gasping man and smiles.

"Just doing my job."

The man then braces one hand against his knee and begins to stand up again.

"Uh? Ah! That's exactly what I wanted! I love the ones who don't realize they've already lost."

She ignores the screaming man and asks the professor.

"Do you have a plan, Armand?"

He looks around the room, seeing the chaos. On the left, three mages are using every spell they know to defeat a huge man, practically a mountain of muscle. On the other side, another equally gigantic man is crying like a child, with a student grabbing him by the balls. Everywhere he looks, he sees combat.

"Let's help whoever needs it. After that, I'll join Morgana and we'll go through the exit on the left. You and Oswin go right. You two guide Esmeralda and her group. We'll guide the rest."

"Right!"

Aveline shouts as she runs off, shooting another man's groin while he fights Esmeralda.

Armand gets up and runs toward the mages fighting the gigantic man while preparing a spell in his hands.

"Seraphina... we're on our way... I'll save you no matter what!"

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