( Yuuki's POV )
When a floating crystal fortress appeared on the battlefield, I knew the Phrase had nothing else in store for them, which was both a good thing and a bad thing.
The good thing was this battle was near its end but a cornered enemy is always the most dangerous.
From that castle I saw six humanoid creatures fall, obviously those were phrases but in a humanoid form and of the most powerful kind, dominant class.
Ende said that they did not prefer to appear like that but they must have correctly deduced that appearing in a larger form would only make them an easy target.
Ende: [ Yuuki, could you leave the protection of the northeast pillar to me? ]
I was about to send some of my Sekireis to protect the pillars when a message from Ende arrived on my comms, Two dominant class Phrases were approaching the pillar that Ende wanted to protect, he was not someone thirsty for battle so that request came from another reason, and I decided to give him the OK, I had bigger concerns than finding out Ende's personal motives.
I assigned other Sekireis to protect the rest of the pillars and I set my sights on the floating fortress, I spread my wings and flew toward the floating fortress, and Astraea and Ikaros joined me mid-flight.
Yuuki: Oh, you're going to be my support this time.
Astraea: um we don't have that magic that the Phrases absorb.
A clever deduction, we continued flying towards the fortress and when some Phrases got in our way Ikaros shot them down with her laser turrets that appeared around her and with that we had a clear path to the fortress.
We landed safely but as soon as I set foot there I could feel my magic being sucked out of my body, I had different types of energy inside my body so that wasn't a major problem, It's good that the Angeloids came with me.
Yuuki: Astraea, come a little closer.
Astraea followed my request with some curiosity on her face and when she was in front of me I put my hands on her shoulders and gave her a kiss, When we separated, our wings of light were spread out, and Astraea had a big smile on her face and Ikaros stared at us when that happened.
Astraea: hehe I love you too, master~
Yuuki: So do I, but that was for the upcoming fight.
Astraea: Oh, that's right, I'm a Sekirei now.
When we entered the fortress I realized that this entire place was also a living Phrase because in addition to their last reinforcements that were blocking the way, The structure of the place transformed to attack us and multiple magic lasers were fired from all around us and since that was absorbing my magic it could keep attacking us and regenerating for three days straight, roughly I think.
We moved to the place where I could feel the biggest energy signal and I thought that would be the core of the fortress but when we arrived at the place we met a dominant class Phrase in human form, or close to a human form, It had two feet and two arms, but its face had no distinctive features, and something in the form of hair was covering the place where its eyes should have been and inside his body just below his neck was his core.
It was clear that this was the enemy leader so I wasted no time in attacking, I activated my dragon armor in its Asura form and Yasaka's haori took the form of a short cape that hung from my right shoulder with the fox and dragon logo still visible.
I threw a straight punch and a low energy Cero shot towards the Phrase, a wall of Phrasium was created in front of him but my attack was able to pass that.
The dominant Phrase canceled my attack with a wave of his hand and then I used an instant movement to get to his side, I threw another powerful punch and the Phrase mimicked my attack, more crystals grew from his arm and created a large gorilla arm to match my attack but when our attacks collided, the Phrase's arm broke into hundreds of pieces, Astraea flew to the other side of the Phrase but before she could reach it the fortress blocked her path with a wall of lasers But before she could retreat she swung her sword, extended with energy and she was able to cut off half of the Phrase's other arm.
The laser wall continued moving towards Astraea so she flew away and at the same time Ikaros aimed all her turrets at the Phrase leader and she opened fire but the Phrases used a living shield tactic again, many holes opened and a flood of Phrases entered the place, that blocked Ikaros's shots and they completely surrounded me, and using my tails I turned those Phrases into little pieces.
I was going to take another go at the dominant Phrase but before I could move the walls closed around me and I was locked in a separate room although of course I only needed a fist to escape that, but when I broke the wall the Dominant phrase was there completely regenerated, he transformed his arm into a blade and he took a swing at me.
I dodged the attack by leaning my body back and using his other free hand that stretched as if it were made of rubber, the Phrase pushed me against the ground and I was partially absorbed by the flying fortress.
When I pulled my body out the phrasium broke but it regenerated quickly, the dominant Phrase charges a big attack to finish me off but I put on a smile knowing that he was the one who was going to disappear soon.
Astraea who were constantly dodging the fortress's lasers made a beeline for the Phrase leader with her shield in front, The constant punishment of the fortress's attacks caused the shield to break but she continues flying straight.
Ikaros started shooting around me and I freed part of my body, then I cut my hand on one of the crystal fragments and fired a [Gran Rey Cero], the laser flew straight and when it hit the leader, his body was destroyed and only his core remained, At that moment the walls of the fortress lost their color as if all their energy was extinguished and was passed to the core of the Phrase leader who was shining with intensity but before it could reform its body Astraea flew through it and cut it in half with her sword.