Hearing the new voice, Irene's eyes which were already bulging widened, fear flashing in them, but Seth's reaction was different.
A smile slowly went across his face on hearing the voice, and without care, he loosed his gripe form around Irene's neck and turned around.
"What are you doing up there?" Seth said, a curious look on his face as he took a few steps forward all the while looking up.
"I got a bit excited thinking of my catch and felt a little bit of sun might be good for my skin." A soft sultry voice replied, her eloquent and revealing figure descending from its position some meters in the air, coming down to the ground.
"So what about the both of you? What's going on? I hope I'm not the cause" Minuha asked, a teasing smile on her face.
"Actually you are the cause, but you shouldn't worry about that, you should be more worried about what would happen to any unfinished business you have in this world."
"You see, I'm going to introduce you to a whole new world of pain," Seth said bursting into laughter, "but don't be too worried, your torture won't be forever because eventually you'll die."
In a span of seconds, Seth's character had flipped, his aura bubbling within him and a mad look settling in his eyes as he licked his lips while staring at Minuha, and this time it wasn't out of lust for her body, but out of lust for her blood.
Seth's aura had just begun raging when a set of footsteps sounded behind him and a hand held onto his right arm.
"Seth don't, you can't beat her, she's an immortal, please let's leave."
The minute Iren had held onto his arm, fury had begun bubbling within Seth but then he heard her words.
"Huh!" Seth couldn't help but say, stunned by Irene's words and turning to the weeping woman who was holding onto him.
Irene's lips moved to speak more, but Minuha beat her to the chase.
"Yes Seth, I'm an immortal" the woman flaunted," why else do you think she betrayed you."
Looking back to Irene, Seth's eyes blinked a few times and then narrowed, his soul sense sweeping over the dark-haired woman, and then after he spoke,
"No, you're not. A little bit stronger than the last time we met but definitely not an immortal.
Though Seth had never encountered an immortal, he had come across a multitude of level 9 mortals, and truth be told, Minuha's qi strength wasn't even close to that of Zuroc.
"Smart boy" Minuha praised with a smile.
"Your right that I'm not at the immortal stage, but don't worry, when you become a good boy, I'll be willing to show you myself as an Immortal."
With those words, Minuha's qi spiked, and though there was nothing particularly special about it, the pitch-black shadow that spread from her chilled the environment.
It widened as it spread from her feet, its speed increasing the closer it got to Seth, and when it was just some meters away, a huge human-like mouth filled with black teeth rose up from the pitch-black ground, its maws opened wide as it moved to swallow Seth and Irene in a go.
With fear in her eyes, Irene moved to flee, but then she realized that Seth wasn't moving.
Holding his arm, Irene tried to pull Seth along with her but he didn't budge, his figure standing firm and staring at the roaring incoming maw.
Like this, the huge black jaw ensnared the couple and then snapped, drowning the two cultivators in eternal darkness.
"Did he suddenly become an obedient boy?" Minuha wondered looking at the dark mouth before her, finding it hard to believe that Seth had simply surrendered like that, but then again she could clearly feel the pair deeply embedded in her shadows.
Several doubts were still going through Minuha's head when the black mouth suddenly dispersed, stunning her.
There was no explosion or flare of qi, just one minute she had her dark shadowy mouth in front of her, and then the next, the mouth broke apart like paper being burned, its texture dissolving and falling away to reveal the pair it had swallowed, the both of them safe and unharmed.
"She's quite cautious" Seth muttered, looking around with an amused look.
"Huh we're alright," Irene said, lifting her head from Seth's chest and looking around till her eyes finally landed back on Seth.
When this happened, Irene quickly pulled herself from Seth, releasing her hands which had been wrapped around him, and taking some steps away from him, her head bowed as she stood silently.
In the heat of the moment, when Seth had refused to move and the mouth was just about to close around them, Irene had quickly moved and wrapped herself around Seth, an action which Seth did not find amusing, and Irene now found embarrassing.
Seth stared at Irene's figure for a while and then moved, heading towards the forest that hung at the back.
"Take her along with you" Irene's cheerful; voice suddenly rang in Seth's head.
"Why," Seth asked with a frown.
"If you leave her here and Minuha decides to capture her and use her against you, how do you think that will end?"
"She can't be used against me." Seth immediately replied.
"Exactly, and how do you plan on dealing with the memory that you abandoned a woman that loved you and was apparently willing to die with you."
"I'll deal with it." Seth staunchly replied and continued with his walk, but then Irene's voice sounded."
"Where are you going?"
"To kill Minuha" Seth curtly replied.
"Right now Minuha isn't complete, but when she is, she becomes an immortal, Seth please let's go," Irene said fresh tears going down her eyes." I know you want to destroy her but now isn't the time, an immortal isn't someone you can handle."
To Irene's words, Seth gave no immediate reply but rather paused, and then after a few seconds he spoke.
"Come, I want you to watch me kill her," Seth said turning and looking at Irene.
Irene looked at Seth for a few seconds, her eyes blinking, and then without a word she quickly walked to Seth and took his hands.
Wordlessly, she let him pull her close then wrap his arm just beneath her butt and then lift her.
"Hold me," Seth said, Irene quietly acknowledging his words and wrapping her hand around his neck.
With Irene secure to him, Seth suddenly blurred, his figure turning black as he activated shadow step, and blurred away, and the next time he appeared, Seth was on a tree, Alexia secured on his right side, while his left hand shot towards Minuha's neck.
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