The Elf Saint is a NEET, so I Forced Her to Work in Another World

Fighting Retreat (Part 1)

***The throne room of the Saint's Tree palace...***

"You...you haven't learned your lesson, haven't you?" the Seductress commented when she saw the silhouette of her nemesis coming from the doors on the other end of the hallway. "Why do you have to keep on coming back, only to be defeated again?"

"I guess you have forgotten that I have a personal grudge against you," the Black God answered, his sword drawn and ready.

"Why?"

"You destroyed my world. You killed my people," the warrior deity stopped halfway. "And you murdered my loved ones."

The Seductress fell silent, and her face had a surprised expression on it. However, her lips slowly drew a smirk, and she began to laugh...first, softly and then, it grew louder until her voice drowned the throne room. "Oooh, now I remember," she quipped, "Your world! Your people! They all died crying for help! But you, their god...the one they praise, the one they give their offerings to! You only ran away, trying to escape the inevitable!"

The Black God then drew the first blood by attacking first, aiming for the Seductress' head. However, he was hit by one of her miasma tentacles that suddenly shot out of the floor. The deity reeled back, though he felt no pain as his anger transcended any other feelings he had at the moment.

"You made me remember that time..." the creature from the Void reminisced; her voice spoke so sweetly, as if she's fond of those memories. "Your loved ones...they were all scared, confused. They placed their trust in you. Yet, as I shut my mouth feeding on them, they could only curse you in their hearts! You abandoned them! Their god and the man they loved abandoned them!"

"Shuuuuuuut up!" the Black God's rage reached its limit and he resumed his attacks. Contrary to his first meeting with her in this timeline, the warrior deity headed straight to his enemy, even as he was skewered by her miasma tentacles. He just ignored the pain she inflicted, cutting off her miasmas with his sword, and healing his injuries on his way to the throne.

When the Seductress noticed that her foe wasn't affected by her attacks, she panicked. The creature from the Void brought out even more tentacles and lashed out at the Black God, not giving a care if she destroyed the throne room. The warrior deity, though he tried standing his ground, was eventually swept away by her thrashing.

"Stay away from me!" she cried out. "Why do you have to kill me? I just want to eat!"

"A creature like you shouldn't be allowed to live!" he charged at her again. "If I can't kill you, then someone else will!"

"Like I will allow that!"

"!!!"

The Seductress finally stood from her throne and brought the fight to the Black God himself. As he parried her attacks, she sent him flying to the ceiling of the throne room. Not wishing a repeat of their first meeting, the warrior deity cast a spell that sent him crashing down to the floor, directly hitting the Seductress with his sword.

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**Kuro**

When our counterfire ceased and the smoke of battlefield settled, the port village was littered with leaves and branches, as well as the wights that fell from the tree palace's canopy. Those creatures were quickly immobilized and destroyed by our soldiers, with many of the poor corpses mutilated and mangled in their anger. At the tree palace gates, images of broken and dead trees, deep craters and thick black smoke reminiscent of Western Front landscape during World War I was clear. Nevertheless, our forces survived the onslaught of raining shells and arrows through the shields put up by our magicians.