One glance is all it takes for Gistella to recognize the two figures coming out of the black portal, the familiar scents coming from them were also an addition that made her realize quicker. Turning her head to the side, she saw the portal close swiftly.
Anything beyond the black portal is blurry, she can't quite grasp the situation due to that.
"Eurgh..." Evelyn groaned feeling the gasping sensation in her stomach.
Flunra's arm wraps around her waist as both of them fall to the ground. Judging from the way they fall alone, it seems Flunra forced her to go through the black portal as for some reason Evelyn doesn't want to.
"What happened... tell me right now," Adhara said while holding her nonexistent left arm.
Knowing that something must've had to happen during their journey to bring Evelyn back, Adhara's expression soured. She just finished fighting the Cursed Bee, but another problem has already made its way here.
Snapping out of her daze, Evelyn springs up and shrugs Flunra's arm away.
"Kyran!"
Immediately after sitting back up on the rough ground, Evelyn ignores the curious gazes of the others and searches for the black portal. But it has already disappeared, the black portal disappeared a couple of seconds after they arrived here.
Evelyn stands up before she looks around in panic, still trying to find the black portal.
Realizing that Kyran is not here with them as he should've been, Adhara and Gistella look at each other with meaningful looks. Both of them understand what their looks are saying, and their surprised expressions turn grim in the next second.
A moment later, inside the castle.
With the crowd of cursed creatures finally taken down, the Dark Elves went back to their home.
Uncle Isniu wanted to enter the castle in hope that he can check if Adhara sustained any unseen injuries from the Cursed Bee, but she quickly denied knowing that Flunra is probably able to do that if not do better than Uncle Isniu.
Promising that she would tell the Alpha about their help, Uncle Isniu also heads back to his home.
Leaving the corpses of cursed creatures outside of the walls since they have an important matter to discuss, Adhara only brought in the Cursed Bee's corpse. She was reluctant to leave it outside, the corpse has sentimental value to her.
It was an achievement of her protecting the castle, keeping the trust Rex gave to her.
Knowing that there's trouble at the other side of the door where the others are already sitting, Adhara takes a deep breath before deactivating the Berserker's Curse skill. Soon her body lets out steaming sounds, and the symbol on her forehead then slowly fades away.
But looking down at her injuries, she mutters inwardly, "As expected..."
Despite the Berserker's Curse skill that blocks her regeneration ability having been deactivated, Adhara finds that her injuries are healing rather slowly. Her left arm and the hole on her chest, in particular, are slower compared to the others.
Adhara can only sigh dejectedly at her appearance and push open the door.
Upon entering the room she was instantly waved by the tension coming from Evelyn that is glaring at Flunra, she seems to be in a bad term with him. "Where's Rex? We need to address this right now, the longer we stay here the worse the situation will get!" Evelyn exclaimed impatiently.
"Rex is occupied, he's inside the red portal at the great hall you just saw earlier" Adhara replied.
Going to sit on her own seat, Evelyn just now realized the condition she was in right now. Gashes and scratches can be seen everywhere around her body, and she's also missing an arm showing that she has just gone through a tremendous battle.
Not wanting to talk about the fight earlier, Adhara then looks at Evelyn questioningly.
"Okay, talk... What happened to Kyran?"
Evelyn instantly hovers her sharp eyes towards Flunra who doesn't seem to be reacting to her glare, he nonchalantly sits on his seat despite having a slight concern in his expression, probably because of Kyran.
Seeing that Flunra doesn't want to explain, Evelyn gritted her teeth before she finally sighs.
"As you know, Kyran and Flunra are searching for me. But they were reckless and decided to infiltrate into human territory..."
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"Kyran stop! Don't be rash or we'll be in trouble!", Flunra shouted from the back when he saw Kyran roaring and dashing forward in berserk, not being careful of his surroundings. "Damn it"
Without any other choice, Flunra follows after him.
Just a couple of seconds ago they both saw Evelyn sprinting toward them, but then an eighth-rank realm figure that should be an Awakened tackled her from the side. Due to the innate emotion, they have towards Evelyn who is the Luna, the spark of anger quickly escalates into a raging one.
Flunra also has this burning anger, but he can control it thanks to his experience.
One of the most infuriating things that an entity can do to a Werewolf is hurting the Luna of its pack, which would give him an immediate ticket of being hunted by the Werewolf and also the other pack members.
Luna is delicate, the fated lover of the Alpha. Nobody is allowed to hurt the Luna.
Roar!
Absolutely immersed in the erupting anger from seeing Evelyn being tackled, Kyran lets out a thunderous roar as he headed straight at the figure that just stood back up after tackling Evelyn to the ground.
Using his sharp claws that can tear powerful Supernaturals easily, he swiped them at the figure.
Clang!!
Sparks of clashing energies exploded in the surroundings as the figure managed to parry Kyran's attack with her flaming sword, the both of them were stuck in a power struggle with Kyran's four eyes staring murderously at the figure in front of him.
Now that they're inches away from each other, the figure is a woman with golden hair.
Kyran can already gauge that the woman is at the very least in the early eighth-rank realm, he stares directly into the woman's stark red eyes that almost made her look like a Vampire. But inside those ruby eyes, she seems to also be shocked by Kyran's appearance.
"Don't touch the Luna!", Kyran said with a warning tone.
But the woman exposes a slight smile as her golden hair swayed by their clash, "Make me!"
Roar!
Upon hearing the taunt from the woman that doesn't seem to know that he's one of the pack members of the Werewolf that did the catastrophe in Ratmawati City, Kyran puts more power into his arms and pushes the woman back.
Screeching back quite far, the woman held her ground and swings her flaming sword beautifully.
Just like the swordmaster that dwells in the art of the flaming sword, her movement is smooth but deadly at the same time as she gets into her battle stance with the sword gripped in front of her with both hands.
Responding to this, Kyran's dark blue eyes sizzle. His body slowly emits a dark blue aura.
Not long after they did the staredown Flunra landed right beside him as he also carefully watches the woman in front of him. But then out of nowhere, four figures landed beside the woman and all of them are powerful Awakened judging from the auras they emitted.
"Kyran, don't be swallowed by the anger. Keep thinking as you fight" Flunra whispered.
Kyran heard this and nodded his head, he might've become too riled up earlier and jumped into the fight, he didn't even realize that there are four more figures near them despite his unmatched senses.
Looking to the side, Evelyn seems to be safe. She's crawling back without trying to draw attention.
With the dark blue aura Kyran emitted spreading to the surrounding, the four figures with the exception of the woman frowned. Due to the dark blue aura, they feel the temperature of their bodies rises accordingly.
Even standing on the opposite side makes them slowly run out of breath.
Now that Kyran regain back his clear mind and also realizes that the four Awakened are influenced greatly by his dark blue aura alone, he intends to bargain with them. Thinking clearly, they are now inside the human territory.
If this escalates, then they would be surrounded.
Almost as if the woman knows what he was trying to do, the woman that clashed with him earlier dashes forward intending to continue the fight with her flaming sword blazing majestically. From the looks of it, the woman seems to seek a fight.
Swoosh!
Fire trails were left behind her as she dashes quickly toward Kyran.
Not wanting to back down from the overbearing woman that wanted a piece of him, Kyran also dashes towards her before both of the clashes once again. But now, they created an even stronger shockwave from their clash.
While letting Kyran takes care of the woman, Flunra needs to secure Evelyn.
Glancing to the side he can see Evelyn is quite a distance away from him on the left, he then steals a glance at the Awakened behind the woman before he immediately dashes quickly towards Evelyn. Their objective is to retrieve, not fight and he knows that.
Upon seeing this, three Awakened heads over to him with the intention of intercepting.
Meanwhile, the clash between Kyran and the woman becomes fiercer. Each one of them is on par in terms of strength, but in terms of technique, they are vastly apart. The woman triumphed over Kyran in terms of fighting style, and she managed to land a couple of successful strikes.
In the midst of the clash, Kyran frowned finding the woman's mana is different.
Although she clearly conjures fire mana to create a mantle of flame surrounding her body to block his dark blue aura, the fire mana she uses is stronger and denser. With his keen senses, he can tell the difference instantly.
Pulling back her sword, Kyran saw the tip of her sword is gathering fire mana quickly.
With his eyes slowly widening by the second, he saw that the woman's control over her mana is impeccable as it only need a fraction of a second to gather every inch of mana around her body to the tip of her flaming sword.
Not only that but there's also a thin yellow layer above her skin that looks oddly familiar.
Swoosh!
Flashing her eyes fiercely, the woman trusts her flaming sword powerfully. Her beat of thrust is devastatingly fast, her arms moved like a shotgun that sprung forward reaching insurmountable speed for zero speed in that fraction of a second.
Crossing his arms in front of him, Kyran blocks the thrust with his claws and got sent flying.
Landing dozens of meters back due to the force brought by the woman, he raises his gaze and finds the woman is already dashing right at him again. 'Her mana feels similar to Sebrof and Giana's mana, and she also comprehended yellow force just like Rex...'
Instinctively, Kyran stabs his claws into the ground in response.
The woman sensed something from below and she quickly activate the red pendant at the flaming sword's base. A red glow sparkled from the pendant, the flame then becomes stronger as she slashed down at the ground.
Simultaneously, a huge dark blue ice burst the shape of two hands connected by the wrist burst from the ground.
Even though she already harnessed most of her mana to slash down at the dark blue ice, she only managed to crack it a little as she was sent flying to the sky. Spinning in the sky while hugging her knees, the flame around her body gathers to her back.
Swoosh!
Out of nowhere, two flaming wings sprouted from her back as she looks down from the sky.
Kyran looks at her before he looks down at his chest, there's a nasty gash there from the thrust she did earlier. Although he managed to block it, the residual energy slipped through and reach his chest.
'She's strong...'
Ramming down the ego inside of him, Kyran has to acknowledge the woman's fighting skills.
But as they were back to an intense staredown, Kyran saw the muscles on her body tense which made him raise his hands in response. Just as the fight was going to continue, a familiar voice intervenes.
"Jasira, stop!"
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