The Syanic Lords Return

While Enshiron and Elysia helped the Vulpi battle the Omaunukai demons in the musical realm, Ritom joined Magnus and Arius in confronting Suvenjior's assault from the Mexican Border. Nashura and Calice joined Saitori, Rahim, and Naphthien to combat Amitonyx and SANDRA's attack from the Pacific. Lastly, Mivangeline gathered Shien, Isrina, Phoenicia, and Kyrinna to face Fanghui's main force and the Kneapexio.

UICA Red Strix battalions, battle thrushes, and geococcoid runners were stationed on all three borders to intercept the Kneapexist invasion. Condor warships took to the skies with the cardinal fighters and owl drones. Everyone's eyes squinted from the blinding solar eclipse that signaled the beginning of the ultimate war.

"Naivern and Dorian said they're making finishing touches on the project," Calice told Saitori and the Murhavs.

"Good. Let's hope Psyinen delivers them in time," General Saitori stood on the beach frontlines with the battle thrushes and Red Strix.

Rahim used his specter goggles to scout the Pacific Ocean. "The droids are on the move!"

"The time has come. Battle stations!"

Fleets of chimaera battlecruisers floated in the air while the amphibious barracuda hovertanks skimmed across the waters. The sailing droid tanks bombarded the beach with their long-range warhead launchers. Chimaeras released hammerhead gunships and sailfish enforcer drones. Swarms of blurry stealth hounds swam beside the hovertanks and scampered about the beach as hammerhead gunships dropped off megachasmoids and brachyura terrortanks.

SANDRA and Amitonyx rode on the hovertank platforms with crusader droids and Reaper Squad commandos.

"Thy country shalt no longer be worthy of forgiveness!" The pastoral robed SANDRA landed on the beach and opened her war fans. "Arcane Cybernetics: Yamata Ritual!"

SANDRA summoned her steampunk Yamata no Orochi to join the battle, slithering on the beach to breathe dark lasers at the UICA. The Machine Queen slashed the Red Strix down with her Tessenjutsu war fans.

"I curse all of thee to the damned depths of hell! Thou shalt be punished! Arcane Cybernetics: Hexigol Maelstrom!"

The Machine Queen summoned swarms of thin spinning hexagons that brutally cut soldiers into pieces.

Calice zoomed at the Machine Queen and launched lightning at her.

"Arcane Cybernetics: Vector Lightning!" SANDRA folded her fingers and blasted 90-degree lightning against Calice.

"We'll take her down together!" Nashura drew her sabers as her parents surrounded SANDRA.

Naphthien slashed against the war fans with her claw whips while Rahim fired his shotgun and threw scythes at the Machine Queen. Calice covered the Murhavs with her lightning powers as Nashura sliced and diced against SANDRA's Tessenjutsu. Despite four versus one, SANDRA easily resisted any taken damage. Her palms constantly released metal nanoparticles that regenerated the Machine Queen's body and powered her sorcery. While Calice and the Murhavs held SANDRA off as planned, the Red Strix fired at Amitonyx.

"Tigris Ifrit: Hand of Tvashtr!" The Overseer of the Shin-Kaminari lifted a burning palm to shield himself.

He then pointed two fingers in each Red Strix commando, burning their eyes off. "Tigris Ifrit: Karmic Netram!"

"Lifen," The Shin-Kaminari Overseer called Saitori by her first name.

"Sapphiro," General Saitori stood against her ex-husband as the beach exploded in warfare.

"Long time no see. Y-you look good today," Amitonyx smiled. "Oh, I-I apologize for what Maika did to your eye."

"Save it," Saitori growled. "We're finishing this madness right now."

The Overseer sighed while a hammerhead gunship crash-landed beside the two from taking a hit from a talon rocket. "Lifen, I miss you. I wish we could spend time together like we used to before you left."

Saitori drew her laser-edged sword. "Sapphiro, I wish you could stop serving Fanghui!"

"I serve Fanghui because he housed and fed us while the world spat at us."

"We shouldn't hurt the world just because they hurt us! Just because Fanghui served us doesn't mean we should help him destroy everything!"

Amitonyx closed his eyes in sorrow.

"It's not too late to change, Sapphiro."

"I will not. Tigris Ifrit: Sword of Agni!" Amitonyx summoned a flaming sword of charred igneous rocks. "I'm very sorry, Lifen."

"Sapphiro, if you still insist on serving that psychotic man, I'll do what I must."

As Sapphiro barred his fiery fangs, he clashed his blade with Saitori's. They slashed against each other at lightning speed.

"Tigris Ifrit: Karmic Netram!" Amitonyx aimed two fingers at Saitori's eyes.

Saitori avoided direct contact with Amitonyx's incinerating fingers and elbowed him. The General lunged her blade at Amitonyx's heart, but he dodged and swung his igneous sword down on Saitori's head. Saitori quickly swiped her leg to trip him off balance and interrupt his attack.

"Tigris Ifrit: Aditya's Fury!" Amitonyx roared with fury as a burning scar appeared on his cheek with the Sanskrit word for fire.

He clenched a fist, summoning volcanic shards of igneous rocks to attack Saitori. The General evaded and blocked as many as she could while some pierced her cape and cut her clothes. Saitori and Amitonyx thrust their swords forward like a storm of needles, parrying and pricking each other at high speed.

Soon, a portal opened behind the UICA lines, and Psyinen delivered a special package from Mivangeline's project. A familiar titan with a cycloptic red eye made of pale, three-dimensional cubes rampaged out of the portal with a roar. Macrocube Dosigma pricked the crusader droids and megachasmoids with its giant antlers and breathed fire at the chimaeras. The level 200 Cubic boss of Syanic Earth swatted the barracuda hovertanks off the beach like flies, pounding its chest in front of SANDRA's Yamata no Orochi to challenge it.

"Yes! The boss is here!" Calice cheered until SANDRA shocked her with Vector Lightning.

"Now that Dosigma's here, we have all we need to beat the Machine Queen," Rahim threw a grenade at SANDRA to slow her down. "Remember the plan?"

Calice, Nashura, and Naphthien nodded.

"Good! Let's beat SANDRA!" Rahim roared.

***

UICA forces and Mivangeline's team battled Fanghui's main force on the Atlantic Border of the US. Shien, Mivangeline, and Kyrinna fought the White Death as Jin Feilong slashed her claws and swordtail against Phoenicia's jet-powered gauntlets. While the Kneapexio punched the condor frigates with its six arms, Hernamidos flew on his jet shoes and blasted his flamethrower at Isrina. Isrina rolled away as the Hernamidos, her husband's killer, stood before her.

"Ready to be my 40th Niang to die in my hands? Hahaha!" Hernamidos pressed a button on his wrist gear to launch an electric lasso wrapping around Isrina's legs, reeling her towards him. "Your husband misses you! Join him!"

"Ouroboros Fang: Draco Animus!" Isrina's arm morphed into a flesh dragon that chomped the lasso off. "Hernamidos! You took my husband from me! I'll destroy you!"

When the dragon fired demonic fire at Hernamidos, he blocked it with his cape. "Well! Red Birdie learned a bloody new trick! Come at me, Desert Cardinal!"

Shien, Mivangeline, and Kyrinna gasped when Fanghui jumped off the Kneapexio's shoulder.

"Herald's Hand: Glory of Valhalla!" Fanghui's back erupted with silver angel wings that blinded the entire battlefield.

He tore the Red Strix apart with his claws as the UICA forces fired everything at the Supreme Herald. Nothing could hurt Fanghui.

"Herald's Hand: Claw of Fenrir!" Fanghui swatted the projectiles, reflecting them into the UICA.

He stood against Shien, Mivangeline, and Kyrinna.

"Kyrinna!" Fanghui asked in Japanese. "What are you doing with these enemies?"

The Countess shuddered. "These are my friends,"

"They are people who lick the feet of fox devils! Did you forget what the Vulpi did to you?"

"I-I haven't, b-but I made friends with good Vulpi," Kyrinna shuddered from Fanghui's presence as Shien and Mivangeline stayed close to her. "Not all Vulpi are bad! These two taught me that!"

"Good Vulpi? You know what we call that? A total delusion!" Fanghui hissed and sobbed, remembering the Waxing Sickle killing and robbing his family. "I'm heartbroken that you've let that stupid Niang and Japanese idol poison you!"

"Fanghui! Please stop this fighting! I wish you could see that Vulpi can be good people too!" Mivangeline begged.

"We didn't poison Kyrinna!" Shien yelled. "We befriended her!"

"You with Jinhai's face! The sole blemish of my power!" Fanghui howled at Shien. "Herald's Hand: Gateway to Niflheim!"

Fanghui's hair flickered like fire as he stomped the ground. Mivangeline and Kyrinna jumped on Shien, moving him away from the six-angel-winged crater that boiled the Red Strix in white fire. Before they could land, the Kneapexio chain-punched them with its massive fists. The minotaur war machine grabbed Shien, Mivangeline, and Kyrinna, letting them scream as its grip tightened to crush their bones.

"It's over," Fanghui brushed his shoulder. "Finish them."

The mecha minotaur opened its mouth to charge a death beam to kill the trio until something fired lasers into the mouth. As the trio fell on the scorched sands, the Kneapexio choked on the explosion.

"What the heck happened?" Fanghui roared. "Who did that?"

Everyone looked at the portal that Psyinen opened. Empress Kuroyurei Saiba slithered out with arms crossed and her crab pincers blinking with eyeballs. The level 500 Dynastiotron boss with white nylon hair grinned its anglerfish fangs, unsheathing its long katana claws.

The Kneapexio's abdomen thruster boosted high to aim a kick in the Empress' face, but Kuroyurei turned invisible with its infamous cloaking device. Shien and the UICA sighed with relief as the elusive assassin sliced and diced the droid tanks and air force with its gruesome claws and Avian Form. The Kneapexio swatted its six limbs across the sand, struggling to find Kuroyurei until the boss slashed its abdomen thruster. Kuroyurei and the Kneapexio roared with a fist and palm in Bao Quan Li before chain-punching each other in a Kung-Fu battle of the giants.

"The bosses are here to help, just like we planned," Mivangeline pulled Shien and Kyrinna up. "We'll stop Fanghui together!"