The Last Ruler: The Return of the Goddess
A Loneliness Girl

After seeing how Altair was thrown from the top of the castle like Aksa. Mira, Derrick and Aksa themselves immediately rushed to her with worry. Altair was seen lying helplessly in the snow, his head badly wounded enough to be covered in blood, apparently from the impact.

Therefore, Mira hurriedly checked her condition. Fortunately, it was only an external wound. But Altair lost consciousness.

" How can.." murmured Aksa saw that, he then turned his attention towards the castle. " What happened after a while I was kicked out??" he said it was really confused.

Everything was going too fast, even the Altair they knew was strong to such an extent.

Amidst the confusion as to what was going on, the three of them then felt an extremely cold huge energy as if pressing down on them. Both Mira, Aksa and Derrick pegged at their place when it appeared behind them, barely able to move their bodies in that situation. It was a power greater than Aksa had felt before.

The figure that appeared behind them slowly approached as calm as air, the three of them holding the weapons in their hands tightly as cold sweat began to pour out they felt. They tried their hardest to move and looked back there while resisting the pressure that came up.

And what they saw was no longer the figure of Flora above the previous castle. It is a body completely taken over by the power of Ruler. His skin turned black, starting from his hands. Meanwhile his face was as pale as white as his hair. And his two eyes shone with a bright and sharp blue color.

['You guys... The humans.. Stupid.'] he said in a double voice that sounded like it was echoing. ['Hope.. It brings you to think.. Can fight us.']

" Khh! The energy keeps getting stronger..!" Mira gritted her teeth realizing that.

['Find.. By the great Boreas.']

The figure raised his hand about to attack, at the same time Mira, Aksa and Derrick prepared to hold it. Hour....

" duh... Oh my goodness."

They heard that voice. They were still motionless in their place, but they felt someone standing right on the other side. Even Flora who before staring at them was now staring straight at the sound that appeared.

And even more surprising, it was Altair. He was now actually already standing back up, in an instant. Not even the three of them heard anything or felt any movement from him.

Altair was now standing on both feet, with his right hand holding his face like someone who was enduring pain. And he started walking, moving his legs back past them still in that position...

Derrick who saw it was about to stop her, but Mira held her hand to remain silent. Therefore, Derrick looked at him, and he could see how Mira was currently expressing. An expression that was holding back fear as well as anxiety.

Meanwhile, Altair's current move came to a halt. right in front of Flora who was somehow shaken by it.

['You... Why.??']

" Eh, what..?? Why are you doing this..??" Altair responded with such a question. " ...This child has not finished preparing for the world, why are you oppressing the weak??"

Altair then lowered the hand that covered her face and stared intently at Flora, with her two eyes that had turned red. Making Flora even more shaken and immediately launched a huge attack on her.

Duars..

" Ugh..!"

" Crazy!."

Big explosions happen because of it.

Making the three people behind was almost knocked down by the impact of the attack carried out by Flora there. Thankfully they survived.

And shortly after, the snow that was flying over the view vanished, they could see Altair still standing there without shifting a bit. He managed to withstand an attack from Flora with a strong barrier, and left only a circle of craters around him.

Seeing that to the point of making Aksa flabbergasted, Altair's power level increased by leaps and bounds at the moment. And he seems to be able to relax with it...

" You're done..?? So it's my turn." said Altair who started grinning.

He stretched out both hands, created a huge magic circle and shot a bunch of black energy balls towards Flora. Of course Flora who was the target of the attack also tried to avoid all that by flying to find a gap. At the same time, he also attacked Altair with sharp ice that he created in the air.

But that's all? Altair easily hit and kicked all the ice that fell like rain towards it until it was destroyed.

['Ugh.!!']

" Aahaha...!"

Flora looks depressed by the situation, but unlike her, Altair now looks to enjoy everything that happens there. And he even returned in retaliation with the martial arts taught by Mira, and threw a giant bluish-colored fiery fist at Flora.

['Damn it.!']

Flora had to endure with great difficulty from that attack, as the temperature of the blue flames that Altair had created was equivalent to Yi's previous strength.

The flash of both their powers was truly so fierce, that it blew away everything there. Even the ice monsters that started to reappear instantly shattered into snowflakes because of them.

Because of that, Mira, Aksa, and Derrick had to retreat a few meters to escape and hide behind the boulder that was there and could only see how the fight continued.

" Crazy.. This is really crazy..! They will destroy everything here." said Aksa rather frantically seeing how fierce the fight between the two of them.

But Derrick was surprised at what was more important to him, " ... I didn't know Altair had this great power.." He had never realized it before.

And Mira, she was busy with her own thoughts at the moment. While staring at how the fight of the two unreasonable creatures was going on, he covered his mouth and sank into his own thoughts.

" What is the demon side of Altair..?? I know both of his parents had a demon side while living as a human, did it also decline to Altair..?? Blood cannot deceive..." Mira can't help but worry at the moment.

Seeing how Altair's fighting behavior and manner were starting to get different, he could have gotten out of control. But he doesn't even know how to stop it...

Syuutt.. Duaakk!

As he regained his senses as Flora crashed hard and fell onto the snowy ground.

['Aagh!']

He tried to get back on his feet, while Altair who had chased him well into the sky landed right in front of him.

" God, you want to lose...? Boring." he said while staring at the cynical Flora.

Making him grit his teeth hard, ['Khh!! Not likely... I won't lose to someone like you.!!'] he shouted out loudly and began to absorb the energy around him very fiercely.

" Hmm..." Altair himself seemed to be aware of that.

Flora absorbs everything like a black hole that would swallow everything, but Altair looks ordinary with it. Although in truth, he was also a little irritated by that.

" gr.. Want to make yourself a bomb, huh..?" said it.

One more person who realized it more than anyone there, is Aksa, and now he looks very miserable while covering both ears as much as possible.

" Aksa, hold on.." Derrick, who is also aware of the strange gurgle, tries to make Aksa conscious.

As an Elf, Aksa's ears, eyes, and sense of taste are far more sensitive than any other creature. Moreover, he is connected and can feel directly the energy that is in nature.

" Eughh..!! The entire natural energy screamed around me..!! His strength was truly insanely incredible..!!" Aksa was completely made crazy by everything going on around him at the moment.

" What kind of explosive impact might be generated..??" tanya Mira confirmed this.

" Ugh...! If he really blew himself up. Half of this mountain could vanish..!"

" It's really a disaster for us.."

That's beyond estimate. Mira did not expect the newly born Ruler to have such power in such a short period of time, but she felt that there was no other choice at the moment.

" Derrick, can you get rid of the current of power around that girl so I can get in..??" ask Mira.

" What..?" Derrick asks why he asked him that, but more than that the current situation does not allow him to linger. " no. His current strength rolled like a wave, unless there was an attack from two-way-... Oh!." Derrick's words came to a halt when he saw something.

" good. Wait for my aba-abaku." Mira was grateful to hear that, she grasped the sword in her hand tightly and prepared.

Meanwhile, it was up ahead, Flora who was still gathering her energy. And Altair was still silent in his place...

Altair just smiled seeing how Flora so eagerly made an energy protector and interpreted it at the same time. Make it an interesting thing to look forward to, or destroy.

" You're desperate, yeah... Unfortunately..." Altair also began to exert power in his hand to carry out attacks, but...

" Mil!!"

Patsse!... Srinnk..

" What..?!"

The necklace around her neck suddenly responded to the voice of Mira calling Lumine inside her, and took out the golden chain that bound her. Sealing is done again. Therefore, his consciousness at this time also began to waver..

" Basic..stubborn..!"

In the end Altair's eye color returned as before, and he lost consciousness again until he fell on the snow. He is in a very dangerous position because he is right in front of the enemy at this time.

And Flora who was currently nearing completion gathered all the energy she needed to obliterate everything. Unfortunately it would be too soon for him to celebrate...

" Derrick, now!."

When Mira gives the command, Derrick immediately darts forward and cuts off the energy currents surrounding Flora there. There must still be another attack that opens the full path to the Ruler. In the current condition Aksa, he can't do it. And Altair lost consciousness.

Just then, a sword slid through the air and continued what Derrick had done. The sword cut off another part of the current of power protecting Flora, and left her shocked. The sword that was thrown by Israhi from the top of the ice palace, they could see her being swept away by Yi who had made it out of the ice cage that Flora had made.

Mira could not of course not waste the opportunity that all these people had made, Flora who was in an unstable state after fighting back, Yi, Israhi, Aksa, Remila and Altair. Then the path that Derrick and Israhi had opened for him. He immediately took the horses forward and ran as fast as he could through the open road.

['No.!']

Flora who was panicked by the circumstances could not control her abilities properly, while Mira's sword began to light up enveloped by red flames. Flora was still fighting, she made a wall of ice to stop Mira's steps there. But his efforts were in vain...

" It's over...!"

Slassh! Prakkk!

['Huh?!']

Mira slashed and crushed them easily, and in the blink of an eye...

Jamba!

['Aagh!']

The hot sword entered through Flora's chest, making the entire world that Flora felt instantly turn into silence. He saw something sparkling out of his body, the Crystal that helped him.

*- 1 year ago...

When Flora was alone, at night while everyone was enjoying the festivities of the festival held in the city. He just kept silent and stared at the excitement in a quiet hilly, no one accompanied him. He was lonely, in pain, and also isolated.

" Hix.. Hicks..."

When she cried alone, that was the moment...

<'Are you lonely??'>

" Huh?! Who's that..?"

<'I'm here.'>

" A... Crystal..??"

That night for the first time in his life, he saw and heard a Crystal talking to him.

" Who are you..?" The lonely Flora could not help but feel curious, to something that by itself spoke so gently to her.

<'I am Boreas, what is your name?'>

" I'm Flora."

<'Flora... You have a beautiful name. Why don't you enjoy the festival like everyone else and instead stay here alone?'>

Hearing the question made Flora return a little sad, given her unfortunate fate.

" Hix... No one likes me. Everyone treats me badly, they hate me.."

<'...Are you lonely?'>

" ..Aye." Yeah."

<'Don't worry, me too.'>

" You too? But why?"

<'No one is looking for me, I'm always alone..'>

" Really..??"

For the first time Flora discovered something so similar to her, she sensed something strangely familiar and a power that was somehow developing within her.

" I wish I could have at least one friend.."

<'really? Then I'll be your friend..'>

Something that accepts it..

" Really??"

<'Yes. I will be your friend forever.'>

Someone who promised him.

At that moment, the Crystal that claimed to be his friend was penetrated into his body, and Flora began to feel a new world.

<'Start now... We are friends, we will be together forever. I'll give you the strength that can achieve everything, and protect everything you like.'> That enormous power is flowing within him.

<'Get rid of all your enemies... Floras.'>

After that day, Flora really lived differently, and she was not alone anymore because the monsters were there to play with her. Even so, he also felt that something was never right, something was lacking...

And he found this group. The group that boldly came to him, the group that fought him together. Flora did not understand. Though he had immense strength, but how could he lose to them.

" no... Nay! Krystalline.. My only precious friend! Don't leave me..!" Flora reached out her hand trying to grab back the Crystal, but she could not reach it.. He can't, especially with Mira who keeps pushing him to fall.

" My friend..."

For the first time in a long time, her tears spilled from her eyes. Tears that had frozen, all that harbored his immense sadness and loneliness.