Tanya's ntal realm was a ss and just being within had linda attacked from all angles with conflictions mostly between her wish to rule and uphold her family as well as her jealousy for what she felt she was giving up by going against Hal...
Faced with it all, linda was not shaken and just pushed forward in her search for what she ca here for; The connection that Tanya had ford with the Monunt gem and hence forged with the Monunt of Ordinances.
The conflictions she moved past were re distractions that linda did not put past Tanya to have placed here to deliberately distract from her goal.
"Have you no sympathy?"
linda had not completely moved past the distractions that she heard Tanya's voice and when she turned to face the ntal apparition of the Crown Princess, linda had to say it only now struck her how much Tanya had changed in regards to looks ever since her in-depth use of the gem.
Tanya's ntal apparition looked as she had looked before she decked her forehead with the Monunt gem and she lacked all the crack lines currently marring her skin.
Tanya had a sweet smile on her face but even if her heart was softening while faced with that smile, linda retained a frown.
"Sympathy for what?" linda asked.
"As you can see, I am extrely flawed. As focused as I appear to be, my every action is hampered by conflictions. I am not as sure of myself as I wish to be... And yet you wish to ignore all that just to accomplish a singular goal?" Tanya asked and imdiately after, linda responded,
"Yes,"
"That's cold," Tanya said.
"It's necessary," linda retorted.
"Still cold,"
"If you say so. However, I find it pathetic that your strategy is to seek rcy much less when you had so many chances to choose right," linda said and turned away from Tanya's ntal apparition to continue her search for the connection she had co for.
"Don't turn away from !" Tanya's ntal apparition said.
"I have nothing more to say to you," linda said and made to move when her eyes widened and her senses were perked.
Slowly, she turned around to co to face with the smile of the apparition who was glowing with a significance that linda understood even before Tanya's apparition said,
"I ant to say, don't turn away from for I am what you seek. I am the connection to the gem... The connection to the Monunt of Ordinances... I am Tanya's ntal stability."
linda stretched her hand and summoned an apparition of her Life-sundering sword but Tanya just chuckled,
"Your confidence amuses . You seem to not have understood that, here, as the infiltrator, you are weaker while I am the embodint of all of Tanya's incredible ntal abilities.
Her Astral sense is mine to wield and this entire region is mine to manipulate."
As the apparition spoke, the 'ground' linda had been standing on vanished, and her ability to fly appeared to have been seized as she began to fall indefinitely without the ability to stop herself.
While she fell, she was t with clashes against ntal platforms, and every contact got rid of a good bit of her ntal essence.
Within Tanya's mind, the concept of cosmic energy was absent. Every attack was made with ntal energy and every repercussion was the loss of ntal energy with the ultimate defeat being a complete collapse of the mind.
In here, they both could summon apparitions of abilities they had in the physical world but the impact would all be ntal.
However, Tanya had an edge that went beyond the fact that this was her mind and that was that she had access to Astral energy which in itself was ntal energy able to take physical shape or form and every attack that Tanya made was thick with Astral energy and this had more repercussions for linda than simply the loss of ntal energy.
You see, to enter into Tanya's mind, linda had needed to forge a connection between both of their minds but only the mind of soone who possessed Astral sense could withstand getting touched by astral energy...
... And so every astral energy strike against linda's Astral sense-lacking mind was poisoning her ntally. It would therefore take Tanya less effort to break linda's mind as compared to linda.
Tanya was aware of this and it was why, as linda fell continuously seemingly with an inability to take flight or stop her fall, the apparition of the crown Princess arrived with two weapons of Astral energy to complete the job her platforms of Astral energy had already begun.
However, Tanya had underestimated how strong linda was ntally.
It was true that the White-eyed beauty lacked Astral sense but that was not a prerequisite for a strong mind and the best example of this was Harlyn Haron, the Empress of the Haron Empire who had tutored linda.
*BAM!* *BAM!*
linda knocked the weapons to the side and stabbed her sword into Tanya's chest.
Tanya had not reacted fast enough to avoid getting stabbed but she did manage to reduce how deep the sword got into her as well as how much ntal energy she lost.
She pushed away from linda who was suddenly making use of two golden foot holds which she pushed off of to stab her sword at Tanya yet again.
Tanya manipulated the terrain and a massive wall stretched between them but before she could relax or truly take advantage of the reprieve, linda stabbed her in the back.
"Ack!" Tanya groaned and with a snap of her fingers, she created a massive platform of Astral energy that she slamd against linda.
*BAM!*
The hit was successful but linda brushed it aside to showcase incredible movent that the Crown princess could not follow and did not expect an outsider to have within her mind.
*BANG!*
"Ahh!" Tanya yelled after getting hit and she had only let out the sound that she was stabbed in the jaw and kicked into a golden platform that linda had made appear.
As she smacked into the golden platform and lost even more ntal energy, Tanya realized three things;
One, linda was not actually moving fast... Not exactly. The white-eyed beauty had simply created multiple golden platforms that she could push herself off. The more she pushed off the platforms in quick succession, the faster she was.
Being stuck to one of the said platforms, Tanya was able to map out where linda had planted many more of them and she could not help but be impressed by how linda had used them to evade and attack her.
The second thing Tanya noticed was that the golden platforms held enough hints of divinity to be completely out of the level she had any hope to manipulate.
The third thing she noticed was that all of linda's attacks had been precise and a systematic cut-off of the connection she had co for.
As linda approached, Tanya manipulated the ntal space and increased the distance between them to give herself ti to get free.
She succeeded and wretched herself from the platform holding her but as she fell downward, she was smacked by a golden ankh that put her back in the trajectory to be stabbed in the sternum by linda's sword and pushed back into the platform.
Tanya created a dagger of Astral energy and stabbed it into the side of linda's head before making the blade longer and wider so that it burst right out.
Poisoned by Astral energy and after all of the punishnt she had previously received, linda's ntal health was hanging by a thread... And should she lose within this ntal space, there was no way her Life-locking spell would still be active in the real world.
The gravity of the situation was not lost on linda and Tanya but that did not stop linda from grinning or stop Tanya from grimacing because linda's sword stab had been to the very last link to the Monunt gem that she needed to cut.
linda pulled out her sword and imdiately pulled her ntal perception into her own mind where it could begin to recover all the ntal energy lost.
While she healed though, linda kept her hold on the Monunt gem and pulled it out of the Princess' head to which Tanya's eyes opened wide and she let out a scream that was heard all over the Dane Duchy Capital,
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
The scream, which was reminiscent of her brother's when he lost the gem, announced her loss but so did the wave of multicolored energy that the gem let out as it was wrenched away from yet another host.
The wave of energy had no effect on linda who now has the gem in her palm and stared at it with an almost tempted expression on her face.
The gem had enough sentience to promise power but linda had a stronger backing that encouraged her to shake off the temptation and scoff at the asly amount, it even dared to offer her.
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