Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

Chapter 145: Confronting The Queen

The queen of Lamias, Libyan wasn't unaware of the infiltration by the hero's party, and yet wanting to face them head-on, she remained seated on her throne while her servants threw themselves at them in an attempt to slow their march toward their queen.

But alas, when they'd all but fallen to the ground, their bodies lifeless, mangled, or bleeding, Raven and his party walked right into the throne room to their queen.

"And so you've arrived," smiling at the approaching party, Libyan got off her throne. "I've been waiting to see just how long it would take for you to destroy this colony I've spent years building."

More amused than angry, Libyan rose on her tail and towered over the entire party. Right before their eyes, her body grew larger, and before they even realized her tail was cramming up the entire room.

"If you've been waiting then you probably know why we're here…" Glaring into her diamond-like reflective eyes, Raven stood tall before the queen to give Aria's clone an opportunity to come out of hiding and start the assault.

"Oh I know, you've come to kill me," however, the moment the clones formed into Aria from their insectoid bodies, Libyan whipped them so hard they turned into a pile of dust. Forcing a smile on her lips as her white scales turned slightly red, the queen frowned at the cheap tricks the party was trying to pull on her.

"As hard as a diamond, I can take your heads off with my tails, so don't dare anger me more than you already have."

"Too late for that," appearing behind Libyan, Erika etched a quick rune on her back. The queen tried to retaliate, but by the time her tail reached Erika, the priestess had turned back into a cloud of crimson mist.

Taking the opportunity to rush her, Raven and Aria dashed towards the queen, and supporting them by binding Libyan with vines, Mel kept concentrating and adding more and more vines just as quickly as the queen tore them off of her body. Despite the calculated attempt to overpower the lamia, the sudden loss of light as it retreated into the queen's scales, left most of the party blind.

Mel tried to keep focusing on the vines, but unable to see what was happening it didn't take long for her concentration to break. Being the only ones capable of seeing through the dark, both Erika and Raven continued on with their assaults.

"Burn!" Activating the quick seal she'd written down, Erika burst Libyan's body into flames.

But to her surprise, the fire didn't even make her flinch. Instead, a harrowing laugh echoed through Libyan's mouth. She found it amusing that these kids truly thought that they had a chance.

"Shut the fuck up!" Screamed Raven as he tried to slice her neck with a blade made of darkness, however, the moment he swung his hand, he realized that he'd made a mistake. The weapon, it never conjured up, for there to be darkness there must be light, and without a source of light his skills as a dark mage were pretty much useless.

"What did you say again?" Grabbing the mage with her massive hand, Libyan cackled in his face while bringing it closer and closer to the unhinged look in her eyes. "The only one who's fit to order anyone in this throneroom, IS ME!"

Throwing Raven towards the walls, she nearly shattered his skull, but Erika managed to grab him with a phantom hand before his body collided with the walls. Letting him back on his feet with phantom hands, the priestess joined the rest of the group.

Racking their minds as to how to deal with the queen, nothing seemed to come to mind, and her voice echoing from every direction only worsened their ability to plan.

'Let's check if this thing is as useful as Linkle claimed!' Closing his eyes for a moment, Raven tried to share his own vision with the other through the mana-fused eye. And although he was doubtful at first, it seemed to have worked, but at the worst possible time.

Whipping the entire party with her massive tail, Libyan thrashed them against the wall, and this time not even Erika could save them as she herself was crying out with hurt. Feeling the pain seeping throughout their bodies, the party fell face first into the ground while Libyan's laughter only grew louder and louder.

"I'VE BEEN ALIVE MUCH LONGER THAN YOU RUNT! DID YOU REALLY BELIEVE YOU COULD UPROOT WHAT I'VE ESTABLISHED AND LEAVE UNHARMED?" Slithering closer and closer to the group wearing a crooked smile, the queen of Lamias was already planning their torture when they finally gave up. "I'LL TURN YOU INTO SLAVES, SLAVES THAT WILL BUILD MY CASTLE ONCE MORE! IT WILL BE BIGGER! STRONGER!

AND FILLED WITH HUMAN SLAVES FROM THAT CITY WHERE YOU CAME FROM!"

With the queen blabbering about, the party members reached into their pouches to take out their potion bottles, but feeling shattered glass inside, they knew that none of them survived the crash.

"D-damn it! DAMN IT ALL!" Fueling herself with rage, Aria was the first one to get up, and without thinking twice, she gave as much blood to her gauntlet as it could handle and lunged at the queen with every intention of bashing her face in.

Smiling, the queen stood unmoving, she expected it nothing more than to be a prick to her nose. However, noticing dark smoke coming from her gauntlets at the last moment, she knew something was wrong which made her smile fall right off.

'I-it's just a girl!' She thought before being flung across the room and getting the skull bashed against the walls just as she'd done to Raven and his group. Feeling pain for the first time in a long time, Libyan's eyes widened even as her upper body flopped to the ground.

Bleeding through the nose, she slowly reached out for it in shock, but the moment she saw her deep blue blood on her fingers, she freaked out of her skull.

"I-I….I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Screaming like a banshee, her voice made everyone's ears bleed up, however, with Erika finally back to her senses, it didn't take more than a few seconds for them to get healed up.

"T-that's…MY FUCKING LINE!" Even more pissed off by the queen at this point, Raven matched her scream to give her a taste of her own medicine.