"This is the answer..."
As Filvis finished speaking, Ein, who was beside her, spoke.
"There's no lingering attachment left now, is there? This won't hinder Lord Dionysus's plan anymore, will it?"
"Fantasy ends, soul returns to its place—your bonds, inseparable."
Following the incantation, the two Filvises simultaneously uttered the magic name.
"Einsel."
As light flashed, the masked Ein transformed into countless light particles and dissipated, absorbed by the main body, Filvis.
The moment they merged, a violent magical wind swept through the surroundings.
With the return of the doppelganger, the power that had been split off by the doppelganger returned, not only did her magic power increase, but the physical vitality belonging to a Creature made Filvis's shiny black hair grow longer, dragging to the ground.
And the Magic Stones revealed on her body also shimmered with intense, extreme colors.
The power that couldn't be integrated into her body formed something like leaf veins centered around the Magic Stone in her chest. The crimson leaf veins spread across the girl's fair skin like blood vessels.
Her eyes sunken, her originally crimson pupils were also polluted into murky dark green. As her form changed, her fair skin also began to turn pale.
Finally, as the roar of magic power ended, the light points and smoke dissipated, revealing a fallen monster before everyone's eyes.
"I'll take care of all of you."
Just as Filvis finished transforming and was about to act, suddenly, she felt a huge force from top to bottom, hitting her body, while Kiana and the others in front of her just stared blankly as a huge fist pierced through the ground, sending Filvis flying into the sky with one punch. The space, twenty to thirty meters high, was instantly pierced, embedding Filvis completely into the ceiling.
"What... what happened?"
A group of people had prepared for a fierce battle, but they didn't expect it to end so dramatically.
"I told you, if you punch from this position, you can punch through two floors at once."
The fist that sent Filvis flying quickly disappeared, and a voice came from downstairs.
And clearly, that voice was talking to someone, and soon a female voice also sounded.
"But Takatsuki-kun, what if you accidentally hit someone else?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, I won't hit anyone. I've already sensed it. Although the aura sensing above might be interfered with by those green fleshy bits, I still sensed some people's magic power reactions. I avoided them, don't worry. Maybe, Kiana and the others are up there."
The people on the twelfth floor listened to such confident words and were all speechless. Not only did you hit someone, you also sent them flying, and you're completely unaware of it.
"Ah, it's Kiana, and Bronya, Mei, look, I wasn't wrong."
With a sound of stepping on air, Takatsuki and Mei successively jumped onto the platform on the twelfth floor.
Then they saw a group of people standing opposite them.
"Hey, Kiana, you guys are here too. Looking at the surroundings, it should be the battlefield, right?"
"But where's the enemy?"
Upon coming up, one could immediately see the green flesh covering the ground and walls, but this green flesh was not sturdy; even ordinary attacks could destroy it, and it was even less sturdy than the walls, but...
"This thing regenerates a bit too fast, it's a bit disgusting."
The large hole that was destroyed was quickly filled by the green flesh again.
"Although Bronya also finds it disgusting, Bronya thinks Takatsuki needs to deal with the enemy behind him first."
Actually, Takatsuki had already noticed something descending from the sky behind him, even without Bronya's reminder.
"Snap!"
With a snap of his fingers, a huge fist suddenly appeared from behind him, sending the attacker from behind flying horizontally with one punch.
"Filvis!"
"Hey, hey, what kind of move is that?"
"Ahhh! Filvis-san!"
"Wow, that looks painful."
Although she was an enemy, everyone still sympathized with Filvis, as Takatsuki's fighting style was not at all righteous.
"Ah, no! Takatsuki, you must have a way!"
Kiana suddenly remembered something.
"No, Kiana, if you suddenly say that, I don't know what you want to do, and I'm not Doraemon."
Takatsuki, who had just thrown a bunch of projected weapons at the enemy he had sent flying, looked at Kiana, who was running over, with a speechless expression.
"And what did you just say? Was that Filvis?"
Takatsuki had just glanced at that enemy; no matter how he looked at it, she was very different from Filvis.
"There were two Filvises, and then they suddenly merged, and then she became like this. Takatsuki, do you have a way to change her back?"
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"Idiot Kiana, how can they understand if you say it like that."
Bronya also walked over and briefly explained Filvis's situation to Takatsuki.
"In other words, Filvis is a subordinate of the mastermind behind this incident, and she was transformed into a so-called Creature."
Compared to the emotional Kiana, Bronya explained the matter clearly in just a few sentences.
"That's right, Takatsuki, do you have a way to save Filvis!?"
Hearing Kiana's request, Takatsuki said helplessly: "Even if you say that, I don't know how you want to save her."
"After all, Filvis has a complete consciousness. Her decision to do this was her own consciousness, unlike the Herrscher's dual personality."
"Ultimately, all Filvis needs is a place where she can belong."
Takatsuki looked at the monster standing up from the dust by the wall and said, "Right, Filvis!"
"Takatsuki of the Hestia Familia… why are you here?"
She pulled out the longsword impaled in her body and threw it to the ground. In the instant it was pulled out, the wounds left by the sword healed with a burst of steam.
"I fought my way up from below, but instead of talking about that, you must have heard it just now, Kiana wants to save you. So, can you surrender obediently? As long as people can communicate, there are infinite possibilities."
"Communicate? People?"
Filvis scoffed, retorting, "Can you accept it then? Accept me like this, with a body… like a monster!"
Although Filvis said this, she was actually only looking at one person.
That was her compatriot, Lefiya, also an Elf.
Although Kiana considered herself a friend to both, for Filvis, who was once an Elf, the person she felt closest to was still Lefiya, especially since she considered herself a noble Elf.
But when she saw Lefiya covering her mouth, shaking her head, and backing away, her originally hopeful eyes filled with disappointment.
"Lefiya, you are still so noble, so pure. If I turn someone like you into a monster like me!"
"That's right, if I can defile you too, then we can be friends again!"
"I really want to see, I really want to see what a noble person like you would become if you fell!"
Although the clone had been recalled, it was as if the clone still existed; Filvis muttered to herself like a schizophrenic. The immense despair, the fusion of two completely different personalities—the formerly noble Filvis and Ein, who had fallen into a monster and bore all the defilement—after the two personalities merged, they became the current appearance. The monster before them was both Ein and Filvis.