Operation Valkyrie

I was the third to arrive, landing square on my butt as the teleportation spell wasn’t particularly concerned with keeping me standing. I grunted in annoyance, still, I suppose it beats climbing the thing.

Sylphid and Cassandra were already at the hatch that would lead from the roof down to the bedroom.

As much as the other girls protested, in the end it was decided to keep the strike team small. Minerva was too vicious, she could rip apart someone like Sanakia or Fisti in seconds. The vast majority of our girls were already brought to a safe place.

“Fuck me”, Cassandra curse whispered. “Why the fuck do you want me to take part in this fucking suicide mission, Daddy? Do you hate me that much?”

“Sorry, Cass”, Sylphid grinned eagerly. “Don't worry, I protect ya.”

She said while fondling the huntresses butt.

“You only have to take care of the butler”, I reminded her. “Can you get the hatch open?”

“Sure, Daddy! If you want the entire fucking security on our ass”, Cassandra hissed.

True, getting on top of Minerva’s tower was the easy part, but for the rest we have to wait for our last two members to arrive.

“Yo, awfully nice of you to wait for us”, Femto said as she cheerfully floated towards us.

And finally, our last member, Beatrice teleported herself into our midst.

Sitting on a throne.

Carried by skeletons.

Once more in her adult witch form.

“Tonight the moon is shining brightly!”, the witch cackled. “A most glorious night for my return!”

She flourished her new magic staff and the image was enough to almost make me cry.

“You don’t need your gold anymore, right? With the matter of your sister resolved” the witch unbelievably audaciously stated. “This is an actual authentic red Kalar crystal staff. My, at 49999 Gold coins it was a most affordable bargain!”

Sanakia spotted the staff when she was on her quest for the Holy Blade Nikkou.

Kalar crystals are ridiculously rare magic artifacts. The Helman army periodically undertakes hunts into the Kalar forest to acquire them and according to a popular Helman saying one crystal is worth the blood of a thousand soldiers.

They come in blue and red variations with red being even more rare and powerful.

And luckily the Rasheul grand market just so happened to have one at sale.

Or perhaps unluckily should be the proper word. This thing drained not just all my winnings but all off my girls combined. I went from filthy rich to utterly broke in five seconds.

“With this and my inherent latent magic talent...”, Beatrice smugly announced as she proudly showed off the red gleam of the crystal. “I will be able to recall no less then 50 percent of my former mana. A pity it is not more, but it merely means this excursion will be a modest challenge for the great witch of miracles!”

“We know, brat. You told us so fifty times already”, Cassandra groaned.

“Just don’t show this thing to Asmo, alright?” Femto added. “Bit of a touchy subject for her.”

“We are going to sell it immediately after this is over”, I added with a grumble.

That is if we are still alive by then.

“Hmph”, Beatrice scoffed. “I wouldn’t expect a simple Helman peasant boy like yourself to comprehend the magnificent power of this, perhaps a demonstration...”

“Stop that braying before you wake up the entire fucking tower”, Cassandra barked. “Cunt isn’t our only opponent.”

“Leave Valk to me”, Sylphid confirmed one last time. “You focus on Minerva.”

Of course, ideally it wouldn't even come to that. But we can't rule out the chance that Minerva sets Valkyrie on us.

Femto silently popped her head directly through the towers roof down in the master bedroom below.

“Clear.”

Shit.

We timed this for three in the morning, in the hopes Minerva was asleep. Now matters will get more complicated.

“Unlock” Apparently the hatch on the rooftop was not only magically enforced but enchanted with numerous alarms that should make unauthorized access impossible. However, nobody told this to Beatrice’s new toy. The hatch unlocked itself just like that.

Femto took point and floated down in the bedroom below while the rest of us followed.

From there, we slowly and silently made our way to the main portion of the towers apartment.

And encountered Minerva’s butler.

He gasped loudly but Sylphid was upon him within the second. The butler was slammed against the wall with one hand on his mouth and the other on his crotch. “Sorry, cutie. Make this easy on you and tell us where Minerva and Valk are.”

He wasn't particularly forthcoming. That was until Sylphid started to squeeze his balls, then he nodded very eagerly towards the playroom.

“Hehe, thanks, and sorry for that. I can make it up to you later”, she winked. “Uh, Witchie?”

“Yeah, yeah. Sleep.”

Beatrice lazily waved her staff and just like that the butler was knocked out too. Huh, having a personal witch certainly was convenient.

“Yeah uh...I just make sure he is properly restrained, alright?”, offered Cassandra. “You have fun playing with the cunt.”

The playroom.

“If we are lucky Valkyrie is tied up”, I suggested.

“Don’t count on that holding Valk back”, Sylphid warned.

The magic sound isolation was in place. This was great since it meant it’s extremely unlikely our opponent knows we are here but on the flip side it also meant we had no idea what actually was going on in there.

Femto was once more taking point as we positioned ourselves all around the door. I opened it and Femto rushed inside.

“Carlson, I told you...ah?”

Minerva was indeed inside. So was Valkyrie.

“S-Sylphid...”, The Galmon muttered weakly.

She looked awful. Valkyrie was naked and had two massive dildo's inside her vagina and ass. She was bleeding there, but also from multiple other wounds, chiefly inflicted with hooks that were inserted in her flesh at multiple points. Most horrific however was the fact that her right eye was missing.

Minerva was completely naked too and covered in blood.

Femto didn't care for any of that, as her immediate goal was to strike at Minerva's vitals. Sylphid followed suit for a double ****.

The Dark Lord reacted immediately. She fell back while two black axes formed in her hand. “Valkyrie...”

There it is, she will **** her to fight us.

“Stop breathing.”

The Galmon’s eyes widened in terror.

Meanwhile a smirk crept on Minerva's face.

This monster.

Not only was she completely unfazed by our intrusion, she immediately deduced that this was a rescue mission and did the only proper course to shot us down.

“Don't stop!” Beatrice screamed from behind us. “Keep attacking!”

Or rather, it would have under normal circumstances.

“You can’t actually die from holding your breath”, the witch told us during our strategy meeting earlier. “So if she attempts that, don’t get taken in like idiots.”

Right. It might be horrifying for Valkyrie but if we hesitate now all would be lost. There was nothing else to be done then push forward.

Well, Femto never stopped attacking in the first place but Sylphid and I immediately got the hint. If we let Minerva take Valkyrie hostage we have already lost.

For us, there was only one proper course of action as well.

Minerva's smile quickly turned sour. Certainly, only Femto was able to hurt her, but she couldn't ignore the rest of us either, as we impeded her movement. Beatrice in particular proved to be a nuisance. Her shield magic not only protected us, but also boxed her in.

Then there was Sylphid who coordinated her attacks with Femto to a frightening degree.

When it became evident that her hostage was useless Minerva changed her tune. “Breathe and kill them!”, she commanded.

Right away the strongest Galmon ripped the hooks out of her body and came after us. She had to obey but she still had some leeway. As such, her target was Sylphid, who very quickly proceeded to lure the Galmon out of the room.

“Clever”, Minerva started to grin again. Valkyrie might have made the worst play but three against one was still quite a bit more manageable for the Dark Lord.

And worse, her attacks started to become faster.

“A little girl like Cass is one thing”, explained Femto to us earlier. “But at most I will be able to slow a Dark Lord down by 50% And this number will go down as the fight progresses.”

50% may sound like a lot, but all it did was **** Minerva to go on the defensive. And that safety net was now slowly cut to pieces.

“You sure have a lot of nerve”, Minerva said, an eerie calm in her voice as she calmly deflected Femto’s attacks. “None of you will survive this.”

It certainly wasn’t an idle threat. Minerva’s attacks had the intend to kill. All we could do was keep her at bay.

Perhaps sensing that I was the weakest link, I became Minerva’s prime target. She probably would have killed me a dozen times already, if it wasn’t for Beatrice’s barrier protecting me.

“Mari, go out there and help subdue Valkyrie!”, Beatrice shouted.

“W-what?”

“In case you haven’t noticed, YOU ARE COMPLETELY USELESS HERE! GET THE HELL OUT!”

A part of me wanted to protest, but I also knew that she was right. Leaving Minerva to them, I dashed outside.

...

“Haaaaa!”

In the living quarters, Sylphid was blanketing Valkyrie with blows while Cassandra provided cover fire from the rear with her bow.

“Fuck!”, the huntress cursed. “Stop avoiding my attacks!”

Thankfully, Valkyrie was heavily injured and she focused all of her attacks on Sylphid.

But it looks this was the extent to which she was able to influence her obedience order. Neither Sylphid nor Cassandra seemed able to land a hit.

Valkyrie opted to repeatedly use her genocide punch, which would kill on impact. Even in her injured state it was frighteningly fast but still Sylphid managed to weave out of the way every single time.

I joined the fray. I would like to say that I made a difference but at most I managed to mildly divert Valkyries attention.

I believe we could whittle Valkyrie down like this, given enough time. But we only had thirty minutes. We couldn’t afford a stalemate.

“Sylphid”, Valkyrie suddenly began speaking. “You do not have the luxury to go easy on me. Use your bloodlust.”

“I might kill you.”

“Don’t flatter yourself.”

Sylphid smirked. “Cass, Handsome. Don’t get in our way, alright?”

“I will put my all in this next punch, Sylphid. I will be unable to avoid your attack.”

“Nice”, Sylphid grinned. “Me neither then.”

“A-are you crazy! You can’t survive that!”, I shouted.

But the strongest Galmon smiled. “Come, Sylphid!”

It was impossible for either Cassandra or myself to intervene. The strongest Galmon and the Speed Demon both threw their punches back and attacked each other without restraint.

Both fists exploded at exactly the same time.

Sylphid was the first to react, the punch send her flying against the nearest wall, where she crumbled to the ground and vomited out a squall of blood.

“Sylphid!.” I rushed towards her.

“It’s ok, Handsome. Valk was going easy on me.” Sylphid smiled shakily and looked to her stomach were the punch had landed. It was still intact, but that was about the only good thing I could say. This must have pulverized her entire rib-cage.

“Nonsense”, replied Valkyrie. She was still standing, but oddly enough not attacking us. “I was merely injured and as such couldn’t bring my full **** to blow. Still...well done...Sylph…so this is...bloodlust...”

Then the strongest Galmon collapsed.

While Valkyrie targeted Sylphid’s stomach, Sylphid was aiming for the head and landed a clean hit on her temple.

“She’s not...dead, right?” Cassandra asked, staring at the unmoving body.

“Nah, this is Valk we are talking about. She will be out for five minutes at most”, Sylphid explained. “As for me…” she winced and grunted in pain “Sorry, Handsome. Not gonna do much more today. Please end this before Valk murders us all.”

“No, fucking pressure.” Cassandra cursed and glanced towards the playroom. “Is the cunt **** yet?”

“BLACK DESTRUCTION BEAM!”

Evidently not.