Meanwhile, at the same time as I did that, the Ant Queen began to struggle, her power started to go down at the same time as Brunhild reached her limit and Lucifer was too exhausted to fight intensively any longer.
"GRUOOHH…! W-What the… T-This is…! T-The core!"
The Ant Queen cried desperately, suddenly, and furiously roaring, unleashing her last amount of strength and rushing towards the weakened Brunhild, who was gasping for air. It seemed that her age did indeed affect her, as she couldn't simply unleash all her power like she could do before.
The Ant Queen desperately pounced at Brunhild, now completely left without a source of large quantities of Mana, it could barely hold into its own monstrous body, and required nourishment, eating a dragon might do the trick for her.
However, the shadow covering Lucifer, me, summoned a large group of people, who were already charging a super attack just in case this damn Ant Queen couldn't give up even after her major source of power was out of the picture!
Emeraldine, Partner, Takeshi, and Laura combined their power, unleashing the same attack that Emeraldine did back then when we destroyed that Ant Nest! Merging their power together and fueling the ridiculous amount of power needed with my own Mana, Emeraldine pointed her bow at the Ant Queen while Takeshi, Laura, and Partner all imbued into her their stats and skills, merging them with her arrows!
"Holy Water Dragon Arrow!"
Her single arrow took into the properties of Takeshi's Fishing Rod as it was technically a long stick, but also into his Water Magic, turning into the enormous water dragon-like shape it took back then, but even more furious and glowing bright gold by taking the holy light element from Emeraldine as well!
Not only that, but Laura and Partner helped too. Partner's enhanced Emeraldine's power and precision by using her Blood Magic Spell [Body Enhancement] and [Blood Flow Enhancement] all while using her Cursed Eyes to decrease the stats of the Ant Queen. And Laura had already touched that arrow!
The furious dragon made of holy water attacked the Ant Queen, coiling around her entire body and mauling her entire torso!
The Ant Queen struggled, but the dragon quickly began glowing brighter and brighter with each passing second, until…!
An enormous explosion made a large quantity of water erupt from the ground all the way up, piercing through the entire body of the Ant Queen and making her pieces fall like a rain from the sky. Her blood, innards, exoskeleton, and more began falling one after the other, as she completely died in the spot!
Welp, and that was that!
"W-We did it…" Lucifer sighed over the floor.
"Where is… Maria?" Asked Brunhild.
"I'm here!" I said, waving my hand as I emerged right over Lucifer's shoulder. "I was always with you guys."
"Eh? T-Then how…?" Brunhild asked.
"I can divide my body a lot as a ghost, so I left half of my body to deal with the Dungeon Core, detonating it so I could deal enough damage to take over it. Now that Dungeon's Core as good as mine!" I laughed.
"T-That's… certainly relieving… Haahh…" Brunhild sighed, quickly turning into her humanoid form, which seemed to not use as much energy as her enormous Ancient Dragon form.
Suddenly, a beautiful girl with gray hair and a pair of broken black horns over her forehead, with golden eyes and a few red and orange scales, which were losing their color around her chest, arms, and legs, alongside a cute tail and two wings emerged, covered only by a gray cloak.
"Hahh… I am so tired… I have not fought like that in years…" She sighed in relief.
"S-Sister Brunhild… that form…" Lucifer muttered, suddenly feeling surprised.
He had not realized much until now, but he quickly realized how worn down she looked, as if she was slowly falling apart piece by piece, even in her humanoid form, her claws were broken and looked rugged, and her body was also covered on scars and cracks, as if she were made of wood.
"I've… grown older." She sighed. "It has been a long time since the last time I saw you, Lucifer…"
"Brunhild!" Lucifer quickly transformed into his humanoid form, running towards her, and hugging her tightly. He immediately broke into tears.
"I'm so happy you're alive! After so long, you're still alive and kicking… I was so worried, and so scared… I really thought there wouldn't be anybody left…!" Lucifer quickly let out all his sadness and sorrow. I wanted to go hug him, but I knew he also needed the hug of his big sister.
Brunhild smiled sweetly, as she hugged him with her arms.
"I am also happy you're somehow alive, although I was sure you were dead, I felt your own life force disappear back then… Are you back thanks to the miracle of this ghost woman?" Wondered Brunhild.
"T-That's right… I guess you've figured enough, I was originally risen as a Dragon Zombie, but with her powers, I slowly evolved into this form, I am neither dead nor alive, but something in between…" Said Lucifer, feeling slightly sorrowful.
"I had my doubts at first, I really thought she was using you as an undead and controlling you, but I can tell you and her have a completely different relationship, don't you?" Brunhild smiled.
"A-Ah, yeah… Ahem! Well… That can be explained later." Lucifer quickly turned serious, as he didn't wanted to directly adress what was happening between the two of us, mostly due to embarrassment.
But I wasn't going to let him do that!
"Yeah he's my husband." I said.
"Eh? M-Maria!" Lucifer said.
"Husband, huh?" Brunhild said, her sharp draconic eyes sharply glanced into my soul, but at the end, she smiled.
"I see. You two are a really odd pair, aren't you?" She giggled. "But I can tell you're happy with her, I guess that's more than enough… I guess you've already moved over."