Chapter 474 Flaring Tempers
In a land painted black for several kilometers and being surrounded by brown air and ash-filled dust, this being the result of a battle between three high-tier cultivators, a female could be seen prancing about while her male companion stared at her with a bit of envy and tiredness.
After her short conversation with Seth, Alice had passed on Seth's message to Basco, and then when the man had calmly accepted it, she had gone on to berate him for accepting Seth's bullshit without complaint. While Alice had gone with her ramblings, Basco, who was still recovering, was unfortunately forced to sit down and listen to her plights about both him and Seth.
"It seems like she exchanged her maturity for her strength," Basco thought when Alice finally got tired of complaining and let him be.
In comparison to the years when Alice was still president and had to be responsible for millions of citizens, these days, the woman acted like an energy-filled teen who had finally left home after having been locked in for all of her life.
"Well, in a way, she has been locked in for most of her life," Basco thought as he saw Alice who had been walking about, suddenly turn and begin heading toward the black shiny sphere that had remained unchanged and unmoving from where it was.
Perhaps she was truly pissed or just testing her mettle against Seth's strength, but this was not the first time that Alice was going to attack the sphere.
Her aura spiking, Alice approached the sphere with her great sword in hand, and then, giving no warning, struck at it and then, not minding the explosion that ensued, she followed up with another strike and then another.
Watching Alice outputting attack after the other without stopping, Basco sighed as he looked down at his still fatigued and injured body.
Unlike Alice, who only had to use her dragon fire, burdened with the heavy cost of using Brim twice, Basco had then gone on to use his dragon flames and as exhilarating as it was to breathe fiery flames from his mouth, the pains he was currently feeling at the moment was a total downer.
"Well, she sure doesn't look very happy," a voice suddenly said, and despite his already injured state, Basco would have jumped to his feet and prepared for battle had his soul sense not quickly told him it was Seth.
"You think I'll have to beat some calmness into her?" Seth asked, ignoring Basco's surprise, but when he got no answer after a few seconds, he was forced to look at the man and see what was grabbing his attention.
Feeling Seth's attention on him, Basco asked, "Seth, what is she doing here? Shouldn't she be dead?"
"Not exactly, due to certain developments, she got immunity," Seth explained, nodding his head like he was also trying to convince himself of his words.
"Bullshit, you are sparing her because she let you screw her." Alice, who had been battering the black sphere, said after suddenly stopping, but before Seth could reply and explain, Jin, who had silently been by his side, decided to get active.
"Watch your mouth, Alice. Don't go talking about things you have no idea about."
"Oh, yeah," Alice said with a smirk, flexing her aura while clenching and unclenching the handle of her greatsword.
"Can you truthfully tell me you and Seth haven't been sexually involved, eh, whore?"
Hearing the next of Alice's words and seeing her rest her sword on her shoulder, Seth groaned within as he realized that unlike Basco, who might be truly unhappy with the fact that he had put his life on the line for nothing, all Alice was interested in was riling up Jin so she could get a fight.
Proving him right, a grin appeared on Alice's face when Jin's face twisted into a frown, and the woman's aura raged.
"No fighting," Seth casually spoke as he began moving towards the black sphere, his words freezing the two women who had been ready to charge at each other in their tracks.
One would think the two women had stopped their annihilation, but the looks of struggle on their faces showed that no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't actually move.
"Seth, since we're done here, I'll be heading back home," Basco said, pushing himself to his feet and staring at Seth's moving figure.
"No can do, Basco. Some people are coming, and if I leave you on your own, the only thing that's going to be returning to Dorian is your dead body."
While answering Basco, Seth continued with his movements, and then a few seconds later, he was standing in front of the sphere.
Without words, the black sphere, which Alice had been battering for several minutes, trying to destroy, collapsed and faded away, revealing the body within it.
"Well, you don't look happy," Seth commented, his words being an understatement, considering the nasty growl on Maggy's face.
While Basco and Alice felt cheated of their kill, with Alice trying to bypass Seth's interference and kill the enemy, Maggy, who was locked in the black sphere, had a somewhat different perspective on things.
While the woman felt that she had indeed been saved by the impending attack that had been aimed at her and was about to take her life, after being locked in the indestructible sphere, she had been quick to conclude that it was because a much worse fate had been prepared for her.
Just like Alice, biting through the pain of her injury, Maggy had also been releasing the best of her attacks, wanting to escape her confinement, and now that it had gone down, she was made to come face to face with the last person she wanted to see.
Despite feeling Maggy's Qi surge within her, Seth ignored it and smiled at her. "Are you aware that if not for my interference, you would be dead by now?"
"What do you want?" Maggy asked, being sensible not to go refusing the obvious fact and instead moving on to the main issue.
"Your earlier technique with roots, it interests me. You'll be teaching it to me. Now, go to sleep."
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