Chapter 2711.1: Elysia (Part 1)

2711 Elysia (Part 1)

The female assassin jumped forward, unleashing several tier five spells at the same time and then performing a perfectly timed Spirit Blink to change her position under the cover of her own spells' mana.

Yet nothing worked. The spells remained frozen in place and her Blink never opened.

'What?' She landed in front of the Void Demon Dragon who had not bothered moving during her jump. 'How did he do that and why he is not attacking?'

The seven eyes were all fixed on her, reading with Life Vision the movements of her mana as soon as she conjured it and then neutralizing her spells with Domination.

Narant discovered the answer to her second question the moment she tried to feint at Verhen's head with one hand while the real attack aimed at his left lung. It would seal his breathing technique and open a wound close to the heart enough to make the poison on her blades lethal.

Lith extended his open hands in an attempt to grab the blades.

'Fuck no!'Narant had to stop herself so abruptly that her nimble maneuver turned into a clumsy tumble that sent her amid trash bins.

Lith's hand were ablaze as well and Winion's weapons were reduced to pools of molten metal that were slowly evaporating. As for the male assassin, he tried to use Invigoration to heal his wounds.

The problem was that the world energy burned the moment it entered his body. His flesh was burning and so was his blood. Everything was burning. Winion's whole body was now a blue torch that tossed around, screaming in endless agony.

"That's why he has yet to attack. Verhen wants to take me alive and Winion is a warning of what's going to happen to me if Verhen touches me.'Narant thought and she was right.

"I... hate... you." Lith extended his clawed hands as if he were trying to grab her.

His voice was strained, stuttering every word due to the strain that making sense inflicted upon him.

"He's trying to tell you that either talk or you you'll end up like your partner." Leegaain translated for her.

"If I tell Verhen what he wants, will he let me go?" Winion's wails were slowly dying out, making them even more horrifying.

"I don't know but I'm pretty sure that if you don't, he's going to make it really, really slow" Leegaain took his glasses off to clean them. "As you said earlier, my grandkid loves his mother and brother very much."

Narant hesitated until Lith snarled and took a step forward. Even from a distance, she could feel the heat of the blue flames hungering for her life. She tried a new volley of spells and when they failed her again she said:

"What do you want to know?"

"I...ha-"

"Try with everything. Starting with who sent you here, why, yada yada. Make it quick." Leegaain said as Lith advanced further.

"I'm here to avenge the slaughter of Verendi's Council!" Narant said with what little pride she had left. "Because of you, the entire continent has fallen into chaos! Without the Awakened putting a leash on those power-hungry morons, all countries are now at war.

"Because of you, those Abominations have invaded our territories, and our Guardian of Life, Ileza the Bastet, almost died at their hands!"

"They what?" Leegaain was flabbergasted at the news.

Sure, Tezka had proven to be powerful, but nothing compared to Salaark. Yet they had fought one on one whereas if the Master's hybrids attacked together, the fight might have ended differently.

"How is it possible and why didn't she call for help?" He asked.

"Ask Tyris, Dragon." Narant cursed the Great Mother's name. "When she came to slaughter us and Ileza stood up for us, Tyris beat her so hard that she couldn't stand. Her wounds refused to heal, making her easy prey.

"The Eldritches let Ileza live solely because she was a good punching bag and they wanted to study her bloodline abilities."

"I could argue that's your fault for putting a Guardian's patience to the test." Leegaain snorted. "Enough with your chatter. Who put a bounty on Kamila Verhen and her baby?"