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A few minutes before Arthur arrived at the battlefield, a giant salamander was in deep sleep beside a river.
The salamander had bright red scales and a blood-red orb was embedded on its forehead in between its horns that were spiral.
This was a Spirit Beast whose strength was in the later stages of the Martial King Realm. But if it is angered or pushed to a corner, its strength can reach the peak and even go beyond it, just below the Martial Emperor Realm.
This was the rare beast that is called, the Scarlet Flame Salamander. It was said that their species were descendants of the Flame Dragon, so because of that, they had a trace of a dragon's bloodline.
One can tell if they have a trace of the dragon's bloodline by the blood-red orb on their forehead.
But while it had its eyes closed as it rested in the serene environment, a young girl was standing not far from it.
What was bizarre was that the girl was within the Beast's field of vision but it could not sense the presence of the girl.
This was because the young girl had a cloaking ability that had been imbued into the bracelet on her right hand.
'I have to get that orb as smoothly as possible. There can be no mistakes,' the girl said in her heart.
She was extremely beautiful with silver hair tied to a bun with bangs flowing down at both sides of her countenance which exuded a calm and collected aura from her gold-colored eyes that appeared as though they cared for nothing.
She was the grandchild of the Supreme Guardian of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
'If not for that nasty seal, I wouldn't need to be so cautious, tsk!'
She complained in her heart, showing she may not be as uncaring as she looks.
Kira began to walk to the sleeping beast, step by step. Before now, she had done something that caused it to go to enter into a deep sleep, which also dulled its senses in the process.
She was going to collect the orb on the beast's head painlessly and leave without waking it up.
This is as long as there is no outside interference.
'Almost there...'
Soon, she arrived right in front of the salamander and raised her hand. On that, she wore a glove that was ingrained with complex runes.
"Now," she whispered and just as her hand almost touched the orb a palm came from nowhere and slapped her hand away.
*pat!*
"What the-?!"
"Sorry, beauty. This is mine for the keeps," a mischievous-sounding voice spoke.
And before Kira could react the orb on the head of the salamander was pulled out by a force and it entered into the hand which quickly disappeared into thin air.
"Who are you?! Give me the orb, you bastard!" She was incensed.
That orb meant a lot to her and some random guy just stole it. She could tell that the person was male from the sound of the voice.
The whole thing happened so fast that by the time Kira could recollect herself, she heard a roar filled with anger and pain.
"Roar!"
Seeing as her objective has been stolen, she swiftly withdrew to a few meters away from the angered creature.
"Roar!!"
The salamander roared at her and it appeared to Kira as though it could see her.
"That's impossible, my bracelet-?!"
She found to her confusion and dismay that her bracelet was no longer on her wrists.
When she saw her empty wrists, she stood there dumbfounded. For a second there she forgot about the angry beast that was charging at her.
'That was my mom's...' When she thought of this she clenched her fists and shouted at the height of her voice.
"No matter who you are, if you don't return that bracelet your will I will find you, and when I do-!..."
"No need for threats beauty. The name is Nester, don't forget it. And I am just borrowing this, I will return it... eventually. Hehe..." After that, the voice disappeared.
'Nester huh, I will remember...'
"Roar!"
A claw descended upon Kira but she was able to dodge it the instant that it almost touched her.
And she became locked in battle with the beast who had increased its strength to a level that can be termed as Half a Step into the Martial Emperor Realm.
'I can't defeat it without breaking the seal.' Kira knew that her best chance would be to run, but then again she would have to fight for the opportunity to do that safely because the energy attacks of this so spirit beast is no joke.
'Why did grandpa have to take away all the talismans? He didn't even let me keep one, along with the restriction on me, how am I supposed to handle this,' Kira lamented as she Evaded another attack.
*Bang!*
"Tsk! Filthy beast, I am not the one who stole your orb!"
The fight continued and Kira had found an opportunity that she could take advantage of to leave the battle, but just then a footstep was heard.
She turned and was surprised at the identity of the person.
'It's him!'
She was surprised to see Arthur here. The last time she saw him was during the Sword Tower event.
She had later heard how he became the number outer disciple
This was no place for an outer disciple or inner disciple.
"Roar!"
The spirit beast was not happy at Arthur's arrival and felt that Arthur had come to help the girl.
This caused it to fight more ferociously and it somehow managed to shift the battle to Arthur's direction and sent an energy attack at Arthur.
"Roar!"
A blast of flames was fired off from the mouth of the beast.
*Zoom!*
Shit, I was careless!' She widened her eyes and moved to save Arthur.
The energy attacks of this particular spirit beast were especially hard to dodge or counter due to their immense speed.
So she doubted Arthur could handle it.
She couldn't let Arthur die, and before she knew it, she had formed a hand sign.
"First Seal...Break!"
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