Chapter 833 It Never Will.
Mere seconds after wrestling with Hal's tongue and losing, the Dystopian Phoenix Queen cast a spell into Hal's chest and the spell had him rocketing away from her as she yelled,
"How dare you?!"
Hal refined every energy contained within that spell with a chuckle,
"Oh please, you obviously liked it!" he said.
There was no reply to his words but Alvira did close in on him and struck him with the force of every single one of her haloes and as Hal was sent flying back hidden amidst the cluster of cosmic explosions, Alvira warped space to converge on him, and then she clawed his chest with her talons.
Her talons raked across his chest and tore gashes in Hal's clothes but there was no actual injury to be seen and as the force sent him flying back with a few rotations, he punched Alvira in the chest.
The punch sent shockwaves all over the void with a force that Princess Aspasia did not doubt would level the entire Palace had the palace being its target. This blow of Hal's was the strongest he had delivered so far and he delivered it with a perverse smile.
Queen Alvira felt the reason for that smile soon enough when, despite her erected protection and sturdy body that reduced the impact of the blow on her, she felt a wave of pleasure radiate all over her chest with the epicenter being the point Hal's punch had hit.
The pleasure especially targeted the tips of her breasts so that her nipples achieved a pointy state of erection she would have never believed possible. They seemed very capable and even insistent on cutting through her clothes as they prominently poked out.
The pleasuring sensations were much more focused around her chest but they did trickle down to her nether region and generally all other erogenous zones that she had.
After letting herself indulge in a kiss from Hal, Alvira's guard was even more up and she quickly combatted the mostly unwanted pleasure with her purifying flames, and while she was unable to get rid of it completely (Something that surprised her a lot) she was able to gain better control of her motor skills to glare at Hal with a deep frown as she said,
"Cheap tricks"
"Tricks? Yes... Cheap? Absolutely not" Hal said with a particular devilish demeanor especially considering that he was in his Devil form at the moment with his horns and claws looking quite nefarious as well as sexually stimulating.
Alvira had avoided flying back due to Hal's blow by erecting a flaming feathered wall behind herself and Hal had just finished speaking that she was unleashing the full might of the instability of the space they were in on him. Aiming for them to target and crush him.
When Hal wrestled with control over the space from her, Alvira was not even surprised.
She was annoyed but she was not surprised.
With their battle so far, Alvira had learned that Hal possessed more Ordinant Abilities than she did and that was especially the case for Abstract Ordinance which was impossible.
However, she refused to believe he was the better of the two solely based on that.
When Hal closed in on her with his trident, she met him with a weapon she had formed from feathers that were more than strong enough to contend individually.
However, the moment her feathered weapon clashed with the Trident, Alvira felt a sudden spike in the pleasure she had been unable to get rid of completely.
Getting rid of that pleasure would require at least a bit of calmness and focused concentration which she did not have while fighting Hal.
The spike in the pleasure weakened Alvira and had her legs shaking with arousal which but she was still very capable of fighting against him and she showed that as they clashed weapons and shockwave-spreading attacks.
Strong as her garment was, Alvira could do nothing as many successful hits from Hal cut the cloth in many areas with every hit seeming to have been deliberate for lewd purposes.
To be fair, Alvira destroyed Hal's upper garment to the point where his upper body, which was Sapphirine Blue in his Devil form and was packed with rippling muscles as always was visible in all its mouthwatering glory.
Hal was very clear with his ogling of the Pheonix Queen but she in turn tried to act uninterested at the sight presented to her with little to no success, especially with the pleasure still coursing through her.
As they fought, Alvira could feel Hal's cultivation which he did not hide and it annoyed her that he was contending her Five haloes with just one.
And then, as though to insult her, Hal summoned his singular halo but only did so to throw it over her and bind her, making her vulnerable to his attack which was the blunt end of his trident against her head.
Alvira was unable to break out of the bind as fast as she would have wished but she did retaliate by binding him with three of her halos which all seared through his insides with their energy.
Hal took the pain in stride but afterward, he began to press Alvira with his Sovereignty. Alvira as an expert already had her Dao and her Dao heart was very strong but that didn't protect her from experiencing the Physical effects of Hal's Sovereign Might.
When she felt her ability to harness Cosmic energy begin to fluctuate, she appeared confused and when Hal added his Infinite command over Ordinance use which negated all her possible Ordinance uses, the confusion only got worse.
'What sort of command is this?' she asked herself. This was the first time in all her life that someone would be able to shut off two major sources of power that she had.
She still had her bloodline but even that was struggling to respond to her call and attempts to wield it.
'For how long could he do this?' Alvira asked herself.
If Hal could always do this, was there even a point to their battle so far if he could have ended it before it even started?
Were there nuances to this ability?
Were there limitations?
Even if it was a one-off ability, tacked on to an already wide arsenal of abilities he already appeared to have, how much danger was she in, now that she was at his mercy?
Alvira was ready to try all that she still had in her arsenal that did not involve what Hal had shut off but Hal just got closer to her to place a hand on her shoulder.
With his hand on her shoulder, Hal erased the pleasure he had inflicted on her but being rid of that pleasure was not exactly satisfying to Alvira with the reality of her loss.
"You fought well," Hal said with a smile and a lack of interest in fighting any longer.
His words might have sounded like the compliment of a humble victor but the smugness in his eyes told a different story and the story they told only served to increase Alvira's anger as her Phoenix pride shone brighter than it ever had since she met Hal or more accurately, since he invaded her residence.
The Phoenix Avatar behind Alvira reared its head and struck out at Hal with a force that sent him flying.
"Oof..." was the sound Hal made as the force drove him to the very end of the void.
With Hal away from her, Alvira recovered her control over her Ordinances as well as her Cosmic energy but before she could even try to strike out at Hal, he broke through the barrier of the void and landed back inside the room in her residence which they had all entered the void from.
So fast was Hal's movement to the end of the void that spectating Aspasia was unable to follow it with her eyes which was actually the case for many clashes between Hal and her mother.
The crack Hal broke through sealed off immediately but Alvira did not really pay attention to it as she pulled Aspasia towards herself without a word and exited the void after Hal.
She exited through the spatial rift she had kicked Hal into the void through in the first place and once back inside the room, she found Hal taking off his damaged clothes with his back partially turned to them.
Aspasia's eyes sparkled at the sight of Hal's naked and delectable body but her mother just frowned,
"Disrobing in my residence? Will your disrespect never end?" she asked as the rift closed behind her.
"It never will," Hal said and he turned his head to incline it towards her as he added, "And I think our recent battle has made it clear that there's nothing you can possibly do about it"
"I kicked you out of the void," Alvira said through gritted teeth,
"Because I let you. You think I can stop your cosmic energy and Ordinance use but I'm powerless against your bloodline?" Hal asked and turned around fully with a chuckle as he put on a loose robe and created another high-backed chair through warped reality.
As he sat in the chair, Hal waved his hand towards the sparkling-eyed Aspasia to pull her into his lap.
As Aspasia sat in his lap and smuggled into his neck, the high-backed chair morphed into a grand throne while Hal's eyes began to blaze with his Devilishly blue Phoenix flame as he tugged on a certain connection he had seen through Aspasia back in the Dragon clan.
A single flick on that connection was enough to drive his point home to Alvira the Dystopian Phoenix Queen who could already feel the draw of subservience.
She tried very hard to not let what she felt show on her face or control her actions but even as she did that and succeeded, she watched her daughter snuggle even harder against Hal whose hand was now between her legs, and wondered if it was even worth it to fight it.