As always, the fire spirit's words were scarce but Evan was able to get the general picture of the situation from them
While increasing their movement speed as they headed outside the dungeon, Evan asked Amy and Eliza a few more questions and was able to come to a conjecture.
After confirming with Amy and Eliza that their skills were currently stronger and more potent than normal, he and Pride instantly understood what was going on.
"Series Skill Resonance."
That was the phenomenon that both Eliza and Amy had been experiencing.
When two users of unique skills from the same series were together, their skills resonated and became more powerful than normal.
The more wielders of the series were present, the more powerful the resonance.,
This was part of the reason why the previous seven heroes fought together a lot. Their skills resonated with each other and became many times more powerful when they were together.
As for the feeling that Eliza described as 'finding a long-lost sibling' Evan had experienced it before so he was able to confirm that this was Amy and Eliza, sensing the nearby Breath Series Skill wielder.
He had felt something similar when he first met Laurene, however, he had just thought she was 'familiar' and didn't dwell too much about it. (Refer to Evan and Laurene's first meeting in Chapter 5)
As for Pride, she possessed a series skill herself, as with her siblings and the other members of the 'Seven Deadly Sins', as such she knew of series skill resonance.
It is just that the two had been around people with the same series skill as them for extended periods of time, as such, that feeling had become somewhat normal to them, hence they did not immediately think about skill resonance when they heard Eliza's words.
"Coupled with what Kayla just said, it seems that the person who's coming towards us is the user of the Breath of Lightning skill, hence the reason why Kayla identified them as a 'huge source of lightning'."
The moment Evan said that his feet slowed and he immediately came to a halt.
Pride and Eliza gave him questioning looks but Evan had already sunk into his thoughts by this time. The next moment a look of realization flashed in his eyes as he turned and asked Kayla.
"How close is this person?"
[Very close. They're faster than us and their speed increased when we started moving. I'm not sure but they're probably one or two floors below.]
Evan nodded upon hearing her words and spoke up.
"Well, there's a 90% chance that whoever is coming towards us might not be hostile."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Pride asked with a confused expression on her face. She did not understand how Evan managed to conclude that the person who was most likely following them was not hostile.
The space they were in was too narrow for all of them to go all out without friendly fire if it came to a fight, so Pride suggested they look for somewhere larger.
However, Evan stopped and began to say that so her confusion was only natural.
"Even if the person was hostile. The current us have less than a 10% chance of being able to get out alive.
Our chances of winning are even less."
The high demon frowned upon hearing Evan's words and was about to speak but there was a loud 'bang' coming from the distance.
[They're here.]
Kayla's words rang out at the same time as the ground heard the sound of thunder coming from down the corridor.
After the noise, they began to hear the screams of monsters as the hallway around them was suddenly lit up with a light brighter than that of the magic stones in the ceiling.
Right after that, the light died down as Pride and Eliza instantly took battle-ready positions while gazing down the corridor.
[The lightning stopped.]
At the same time Kayla spoke, they began hearing footsteps echoing in the now quiet hallway as Evan began speaking.
"If my guess is correct, then the person walking down that corridor is an S Rank adventurer."
Pride and Eliza's expressions morphed into ones of shock upon hearing Evan's words. They instantly understood why he said they had little to no chance of winning in a fight.
The person that was walking towards them was the one responsible for leaving the blade wraith that Eliza fought in the monster room nearly a month ago, Leviron, on the verge of death just by blitzing past it.
"In democratic terms, she'd be considered the Vice President. In aristocracy terms, she could be considered the empress or Prime minister.
Second in command of all the Armed forces in the city-state of Magic, Kasteblum. And one of the few existences I know of in the world who can give Chief court mage Jenson a run for his money when it comes to using lightning magic."
As he finished speaking, the figure of the person walking towards them came into view. It was a tall dark-skinned beauty.
She was about 6 feet two inches, and her messy waist-length hair that covered her ears was a glossy black colour with golden highlights.
Although she had thick eyebags under her dark eyes, it didn't seem to diminish her beauty in any way.
She had a beautifully sculpted face and a well-proportioned body, dressed in a simple body-fit black shirt that accentuated her curves with a pair of similarly coloured jeans and leather boots.
Hanging around her waist, was a utility belt with three small pouches that Evan guessed were magic pouches with space expansion and weight reduction magic applied to them.
Her long slender arms had two bracelets with different coloured gems on each one, with one of the gems reflecting light in the group's direction as she rose her arm and ran it through her hair.
Confirming her appearance to be the same as the one he saw in the game, Evan gave a polite bow as he greeted her.
"Nice to meet you. Vice-Chief Grand Magus, Joanna Ritz."
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