Melody was pissed off the Earthshaker wasn’t going down.

Her [Heavenly Eye] backed by [Scarlet-Brand Soul-gazer] already told her the truth that someone was boosting the six-eyes dragon power with soul resonance. It was an unstable boost in power never meant to last long.

But Melody knew she couldn’t afford to waste more time.

Her contest with the Earthshaker already dug a new valley. Mountains were obliterated by lightning and rivers were diverted by Melody’s [Astra]. The dragon’s breath had dug a new gorge on the very Earth and the tornado created from the Dragon attack.

Melody focused her soul energy into a canon and showered the six-eyes beast with [Vajra] the sent gasping in pain, but the humongous size prevented her attack from scoring the hit that actually matter. Knowing full-well, their battle could permanently damage the atmosphere, the Empress went all out.

Conjuring [Scarlet Brand Soul Gazer], she cast an enchantment on herself.

[Dravritra]

Crimson patterned emerged on the empress like an illusory armor and Melody disappeared.

The six-eyes black dragon suddenly felt the kick the knocked off its jaw and shattered most of its teeth. The blow hit like a tail-swipe from a primordial dragon. Not wasting a move Melody lifted her feet up to deliver the knee drop of the century. The blow slammed like a dropping mountain, knocking the kilometer-huge dragon unconscious and out of the sky. The collision parted the cloud and finally allowed the sin to shine.

The dragon woke a feel breath later from the sun’s shining light to feel Melody impaling its chest with the lance of [Vajra] enhanced by the power of ancestral dragons. The air flashed with scarlet light. Earthshaker’s innards boil from the grievous injuries as it fell into the ground with enough to collapse the very landscape into a new open pit mine.

The Dragon burst with even more power, widening the pit in an explosion of force, but refusing to surrender. Melody used her Aura to tank that last struggled of the critically injured beast, unleashing one more technique to end the battle.

[Soul Servant].

Scarlet brand emerged on in the pit, and from its countless arms of rock rose from the Earth to obey their mistress’ desire. Several arms put the dragon in the head-lock, stopping it from firing the destructive breath. Hundred more works to encircled its wings, pinning to the earth.

But the Earthshaker refused to surrender, it lifted it four limbs to escape the bandage but the spear of Melody’s [Vajra] pinned the limb to the ground.

The Dragon finally realized it was more or less doomed when Melody stepped on its snout and began waling on the dragon. Each blow cracked the atmosphere. It was a bloody display of dragon abuse.

And the game of whack-the-dragon didn’t stop. Its humongous length did exactly nothing to stop the unending punishment, which aimed to bring it to submission.

“Just. Get. Lost. Already.” Melody repeatedly bashed the energy spear on the Earthshaker with enough force to shake the county and caved hills. The Knight didn’t allow the Earthshaker any right to get up or defend itself. After the lightning and landscape of scorching draconic breath, Melody was fresh out of mercy.

Finally, after what had to be fifty bashes with the lance of soul-pressure tipped with extra dripping from a [Dravritra], the guardian beast of old Centuria kissed the ring into a bloody mess, leaving the Empress of Horizon Dawn standing.

The terrify space mice slowly tried not to get notice by the venting demoness as it teleported her into the land god only knows.

…

On the other side of the land, Luxinna was having a grudge-match, and it went exactly like Earthshaker bout with Melody.

The mechanically enhanced cyborg that used to be the nightmare of all maiden and woman in Centuria put up it best fight it could give, but Luxinna was to piss to give a damn. Outside the battlefield, the space mouse sent to teleport her quaked in the distance as it watched the beating of the century.

Kakia bounced across the field like a football. She swung leg, armed with high-frequency blade, at the elf. Instead, she hit nothing, and the counterfire of [Assault Flora] hit the worst place possible.

Two of Kakia’s appendages fell off, taking the barrier projector with it.

“Oh, I guess you needed that,” Luxinna growled, grabbing the mechanical abomination by the face. “Yeah. I know how annoying shield could be.”

[Jewel Sword: Salvation]

The very earth boiled from the blasted of molten glass and heat that transformed everything it touch into molten sand. Kakia ate the blast in the face. Her high-durability fame and godly electricity grounding would prove adequate against every lighting-user, but Luxinna was armed to the teeth with particle canon.

Kakia flex across the battlefield. Her body heated from the intense temperature. The inner force-field generator absorbed most of the damage, but Kakia was stunned.

Not wasting any chance, Luxinna closed in and severed Kakia’s arm again, lopping off the contraption on the heavily armed limbs. Sparks flew from the stump that used to be her arm, but Kakia’s electronic mind aimed at her nanite-power bunker buster with electronic precision and fired. However, the ammunition [Assault Flora] intercepted the weapon. The glass sword sliced through the missile and impaled the launcher.

With four out of ten limbs down, Kakia aimed the appendage with the super laser and floored the firing mechanism.

High-intensity Laser beamed flashed, blasting the top of the mountain. However, the elf already calculated the attack’s trajectory and evaded.

Kakia readjusted the path of the laser, but Luxinna, in a twist of quick thinking, constructed a special [Guard Flora] which acted like a mirror to reflect the beam of light at Kakia’s leg, cutting it off.

Fallen to the side due to lack of balance, Kakia lifted her remaining arm contraption and fired a barrage.

Luxinna dodged the micro-missiles and powered through rapid firing laser bolts. An [Electro Lorde] discharged. dissipating the roaring flame unleashed on her face. The elf flashed forward at the speed of Mach 15, unleashing the sonic boom. Luxinna dodged a coming high-frequency chainsaw by a hair breath, slicing the cable connecting with it in a single slash, and sent the problematic weapon flying in the air. She pirouetted past another chainsaw, attempting to cut her in half, and severed it — length wise.

Kakia responded by firing a last-ditch effort of laser, but even the high-energy photon beam could stop Luxinna. Blocking the laser with [Historia], the elf flew through the photon ray, diffracting the beam of devastation, which devastated the entire area they fought.

Luxinna tackled Kakia in a flash of lightning and took her into the mountain.

The dazed cyborg felt an audible snap as Luxinna crushed the laser-appendages under her foot.

“Out of tricks?” In the elf’s hand [Historia] morphed into a giant sledge-hammer. “Great. What did he say again?” she recalled Rem’s word. “Impale you for all to see that we are not fucking around. Okay, Hellspawn, I know you are already dead, but in case there is a single part of Kakia in there. I want you to know,” Luxinna lifted the sledgehammer over her head with vengeance, “This. Is. Personal.”

And she brought it down…

Crash! Crunch! Bang! Fizz! Bang! Bang! BANG!

Correction, she bought it down until Kakia resembled a bloody chunk of scrap-metal.

The space mouse saw his target gruesomely dragged the mangle pieces of metal by its remaining foot. It saw the elf embalming the mangled result of her rage in an obelisk of golden glass and decided that ambush would not work.

Luxinna turned back to see the mouse supplicating itself to the ground. The glass spired holding the mutilated wreck lighted a surreal god-like feel to Ace.

“Hey, little guy,” Luxinna blinked at the mouse. “What do---”

The mouse exploded amid its surrender. It knew cheap shot was the only way to achieve its mission.

…

Rem got up from the ground and looked at the mouse peaking at him by the corner.

Great, Hades wanted a prick. Luxinna, Melody and Hikma were already relocated where they needed to be. Guess it would be his turn next.

But Rem already made the calculation. Pieces were already in place to accomplish this mission.

It was time for him to follow the scripted.

Behind him, Ehto landed at Rem’s request.

“Architect,” Rem said and motioned toward the three. “Take Phillip and the girl away from here. Tell Cytortia the Dawn will be scattered a little.”

“R—”

“Code name,” Rem prepped Central.

“Fine, Dream, what do you mean?” Ehto said.

“Circumstance has moved beyond my control,” Rem said. “Architect, Empress and Ace have been sent into a vital location. Hades needs our help, and he is being an ass about it.” Poppies gathered in Rem’s palm. “I will be gone too. Don’t worry. I believe we can still contact each other, but I doubt we can count on united soon.”

“Wait, Hades?” Ehto watched the killer robot rose with another particle beam. “How come a Primordial god gets involved?”

“Because fairies are Titania’s offspring,” A sword formed on Rem’s palm out of poppies. “Hades wants to resolve the sin of Tengen and make a stupid amend he shouldn’t be making.”

“What?” Ehto said.

“The man is so upset at his daughter action he wants to make it up to the tiny ants by ‘protecting’ them,” Rem shifted into the stance. “Leave, Architect, I am clearing the field.”

“I—” Phillip started.

“Go,” Rem yelled as the killer-bot fired the beam again. “We can’t to have you caught up in this. Go now!”

Ehto promptly put Penelope on his back, hauled both Phillip and Atlanta into his arm and flew away. A microsecond later, Rem caught the beam with his spectral blade.

[Tenno-no-Ken]

Psychic storms ripped across the canyon, blasting apart everything. Anyone who was still awake was sent into unconsciousness. The robot facing Rem disintegrated as light filled the canyon. As soon as the light flashed, it was gone, and Rem was nowhere to be found.

…

Several things happened after the legendary Hidden Vault Showdown.

Only 30,567 soldiers made it out of the valley on two feet. All three Dukes’ faction utterly collapsed from the battle. With Penelope declaration published into the paper, her voice-recording spread all over Centuria. As Rem predicted, the infrastructure waiting for the victor met with no one and fell into chaos and infighting as warlord popped all over the place.

Acrisius flee the battlefield and was found several weeks later, murdered by a roaming band of bandit—an inglorious and anticlimactic death. Rem would have called it fitting for the wannabe king to meet his maker in such a pathetic manner.

Minos was killed during inside the Hidden Vault. Balos Aurorin and Ornith were found alive beneath the rubble by the team dispatched by Aurorin themselves. However, with Balos being in no state to command the army, Minos’ faction splintered into several groups of warlords, vying for glory as the unifier.

With Eurytheus captured, Elish Metis and ZZZ Millione found themselves utterly overwhelmed by the raw carnage and frankly cut their loss in Centuria. After surviving certain death together, the two may or may not have reconciled. The floating rumor of them dating wasn’t clarified nor confirmed.

Nereo Melosov and Sameal Wayward had disappeared. Elin Rockshooter luckily survived the epic carnage and promptly left Centuria a day after.

As for the Horizon Dawn and Acropolis…

…

“Fifty-two,” Penny struggled to complete the sit-up before collapsing. “How can you survive this?”

“Guts,” Phillip replied, and handed Penny a cider. “Drink this, it helps boost your sugar content.”

The sun was happily beating over Acropolis. Penelope had been successfully rescued and insisted she wanted to be trained in the Acropolis’ specialized self-defence course. Phillip, as the graduate, acted as her trainer. The former monarch progress was even, and Phillip expected her to move past the C-ranks soon. Surprisingly, Penny had an affinity for fire and her Adamakles were heavily inspired by Luxinna’s base creation types.

After a feel more laps of training, the two went to greet Atlanta at the café.

“So, your highness,” Atlanta spoke and quickly corrected herself. “Sorry. Force of habit. Well, Penny, what are you planning to do?”

“Well, I consider becoming an ambassador for Acropolis,” Penny sipped the cider. “This is a damned good cider.”

Phillip groaned, “Please told me you won’t be kidnapped again?”

“By the time I actually become an ambassador, I won’t be that useless,” Penelope argued and turned her attention toward Atlanta. “Are you sure this place is going to be okay?”

“The garrison is increasing at a decent pace, and the solar, wind and wave generator meant we are on our way to sufficiency,” Phillip said. “Our wall is one of the best in the entire Phantasia.”

“I am not doubting our defense,” Penny said. “I am asking about the refugee that is coming here. The current conflict uproots many people.”

“Well, we have the cerebro project,” Phillip said. “Can’t believe actually pull it off.”

…

‘They’ were in a little rut.

“So all our strongest members disappeared to the wind,” Cytortia surmised. “And Hades is getting involved. Well, Tengen is going to turn into quite a fight.”

“With Cerebro online, things here will stabilize,” Ehto spoke as he scanned the data from the computer. “But what are we going to do, Cytortia?”

Cerebro project was Rem’s psychic enchantment meant to make sure only a certain people with the correctly mental aptitude and psychological profile could find their way to Acropolis. Horizon Dawn created to screen the unwelcome criminal, deterred bandit and attracted the man-power. It was Rem’s basic idea to make sure the Acropolis remained protected even when the Dawn leaved.

Cytortia looked through the sunny evening skies and the Ocean beneath. “Ehto, you think is the end. Just because those guys are scattered for a little while doesn’t mean they are going to be gone forever. Don’t worry, I believe we will find Rem again. This is just a beginning, Ehto. Rem and I didn’t get this far by calling quit at the slightest sign of inconvenience.”

The two-remaining members of the Dawn stayed in that room, discussing their path forward.

...

With that, the saga of Centuria came to a close. Event would only escalate from there on. Unbeknownst to everyone the forces of Divine Fist and Isle of Knowledge were rapidly closing into Tengen continent.

However, those would be another story.

This was the end of the foundation saga.

Soon, the Dawn Avante will begin.