Book 7: Chapter 21 – Yunaia’s Appearance

  Without anymore wasting time, round two began with Linley and Bebe showing renewed vigour and fidence. Unfortunately, even with the assistance of his familiar, Liill found himself firmly on the back foot with the odds seemingly stacked impossibly against them.

  Despite their best efforts, Linley, battered and bruised, tio bear the brunt of Felicia's relentless assault. His azure dragon scales cracked and fractured from the sheer force of her light elemental magic. He fought valiantly, but every move was an agonising struggle.

  As for Bebe, try as he might, he remained uo even near Felicia as she whizzed around the battlefield like a fsh of light, only diverting part of her attention to deal with the nuisahat was Bebe – still that small part of her attention appeared to be enough.

  Bebe scurried through the air with a defiant roar that sounded more like the cries of a proud lion than a little rat. His fur, once glossy and sleek, was now matted with dirt and blood, but his determination remained unwavering. The Godeater Rat, an Apex Divi at the peak of the ninth rank, leapt into the fray, razor-sharp cws ah bared.

  Still, Felicia remained unyielding. Her golden blonde hair gleamed like a halo as she moved with unparalleled grace, weaving through the juerrain. Her white robe billowed behind her, a stark trast to the age unfolding around her.

  With a flick of her wrist, Felicia unleashed a barrage of light-based spells, each more devastating tha. Her attacks sliced through the air with incredible speed and precision, homing in oargets. Bebe, with his incredible speed and reflexes, mao evade some of the strikes, but Linley, due to his ever-worsening injuries, wasn't as fortunate.

  Felicia's magic left a trail of destru in its wake, causing the jungle foliage to burst into fmes and the earth to tremble. Linley and Bebe fought valiantly, their synergy as a warrie a partner evident in their coordirikes and defence, but they were still at the mercy of Felicia's overwhelming power.

  Linley's azure dragon scales, already weakened, tio crumble uhe relentless assault. Blood seeped from numerous wounds, and his movements grew sluggish. Bebe's fur, too, bore the scars of battle, a out an anguished cry as he attempted to shield his wounded partner.

  Felicia, uerred, summohe full force of her mage-force. A blinding sphere of pure light enveloped her, illuminating the juh an iy that rivalled the sun itself. With a graceful motion, she directed the sphere toward the bloodied Dragonblood Warrior, the light threatening to e him whole.

  “BOOSSSSSS!!” Bebe roared as he turned, making a beeliraight for Linley, hoping to help defend against the earth-shattering might of the forbidden spell [World Purifying Light]!

  Linley heard the worried and pain-filled cries of his beast partner; unfortunately, in his battered state, Linley could do little to defend against su onsught, let alone pacify Bebe’s worries. The light engulfed him, searing pain tearing through their bodies as they were overwhelmed by Felicia's overwhelming magic.

  ‘Is this it?’ Lihought to himself as his vision blurred, and his sciousness began to slip away as he fought against the releide of light that seemed to assault both his body and mind. ‘Is this really how it ends?’

  As unwilling as he was, Linley uood there was nothing he could do to escape this time – he had literally nothio give. He had gone above and beyond in this fight, but Felicia was simply too powerful.

  But, just when it appeared all hope was lost, a shadow moved through the skies, entering the range of the spell, appearing just in front of Linley’s barely scious body.

  Linley had long since reached the end of his rope; he barely mao catch sight of the slender but surprisingly powerful back of the newer before he finally lost sciousness. As such, he didn’t get to withe overwhelming might of the bckish-blue energy that casually dispersed Felicia’s spell.

  Upon breaking through to bee a prime saint, Felicia’s power saw a drastic improvement, but her soul didn’t, and because her line of sight was disturbed by the blinding light of her own spell, she didn’t notice the appearance of the newer until after her spell was easily dealt with.

  “You…” Felicia frowned subtly, ign the frantic, bloodied Godeater Rat hurrying to Linley’s side as she focused on the indifferent face of the enting warrior casually staring at her. “Why are you…”

  Before she could finish her sentence, Felicia’s eyes stricted into pinholes as her body flickered, appearing over 100 meters away, only barely managing to evade the bckish-blue sword light that seemed to embody the elements of water and darkness, threatening to cleave her in two.

  “Yunaia, was it?” Felicia said gently, clearly hesitant about making an enemy of this frightening young woman. “There is y between you and I – must you interfere in the private business of my Yun Empire?”

  Yunaia’s gaze was indifferent as always; she merely stared at the captivating figure of Felicia.

  “If you agree to leave now, I promise that my Master – the High Priest of the Yun Empire – will be most grateful,” Felicia added wheiced that Yunaia appeared to have no iion of responding.

  Yunaia gnced back lightly at Linley, who was lying unscious on the ground behind her, before calmly returning her focus to the woman before her. “You ’t touch him.”

  Yunaia’s words caused a frown to appear on Felicia’s face. She didn’t know much about this mysterious Qingya desdant, but from what she did know, Yunaia didn’t seem to know Arianna personally. As such, she should have nothing to do with Linley and his group, so her wanting to protect Linley now made little seo her.

  But what she did know was that despite still only being a mortal, this mysterious young woman wasn’t oo be uimated. Her mysterious ability to somehow fuse two separate ws gave her incredible power. The might of the sword ssh she used previously, despite only being peared to be a casual attack, was infinitely close to the power of a prime saint.

  Still, as impressive as that was, Felicia was fident in her ability to suppress her. No, what really made her cautious was the giant crow beh her feet.

  Oscar was only at the early stages of the saint realm, but it was clear from its aura that it too was a Divi no inferior to the likes of Bebe.

  Seeing as Bebe, relying on nothing but its innate gifts, was able to suppress most peak saints, in Felicia’s mind, it only stood to reason that Oscar could do the same to peak saints.

  Felicia khat, after starting to fuse two different mysteries, she was strohan prime saints on the level of Fain and Desri, but she didn’t have the fideo defeat a beast like Oscar, especially when it had the support of both Yunaia and Bebe.

  But at the same time, Felicia was unwilling to leave without first killing Lihe threat he posed to her Empire was too big.

  Even though he was much weaker than her now, she hadn’t bee deluded by her ret breakthroughs.

  Linley, despite only being a fra of her age, had strength that was rapidly approag hers. As an enemy, his talent was simply terrifying.

  Felicia’s hands tightened arouaff as she tio weigh her options.

  Still, Yunaia simply waited patiently, seemingly not bothered by whatever decision Felicia would choose to make. In fact, instead of keeping her eyes on her could-be oppo like one would expect, she turned her attention back towards Bebe, who was distraught by Linley’s body.

  “ you save my boss?” Bebe asked frantically, sensing her look over. “Please! I’ll do anything! Just please save him!”

  “Don’t worry,” Felicia replied slowly as she gnced over Linley’s now near-naked body. “He looks a lot worse than he is. He may be human, but he seems to have the vitality of a…”

  Before Felicia could finish her sentence, a devastating golden beam of light tore through the air, pierg the tre of her head.

  Bebe’s eyes stricted in fright, fearing that his and Linley’s ticket to freedom had just been killed, but before he could even begin to rearrange his thoughts, he watched as the bodies of Yunaia and her familiar flickered out of existence.

  It wasn’t just Bebe who was caught off guard by the sudden development; even Felicia’s eyes widened as her head spun over her shoulder.

  “Oscar,” Yunaia uttered lightly as she casually hopped off the back of her crow. “Kill her.”

  “I thought you’d never ask,” rinedly as his body shot forward at a speed that even Felicia struggled to follow.

  Without a moment’s hesitation, Felicia hurriedly flew off, realising she had still uimated the threat this Divi posed.

  Virtually all Divis are gifted with incredible bodies, but Apex Divis take it oep further in that, although they are physically superior to other beasts at the same level, they all tend to have an attribute where they truly excel. For Bebe, it’s his seemingly imperable defence; for Leona, it’s her raw power, but for Oscar, it’s his speed!

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