The mysterious woman narrowed her white eyes while she carefully observed the actions of the red devil.
She was slightly shocked when the devil was able to use the alchemical space of the old man earlier and it was even able to pull an alchemical bottle out of it.
The woman did not know what potion the devil had pulled as she saw that it instantly swallowed the whole bottle without even opening the bottle's lid.
The white wasps that her white lotus had created almost filled the entire room and they all flooded like tide towards the red devil by the time it swallowed the unknown potion.
Her created wasps had a bit of her mental will attached to each of them and that bit of mental will would be injected into the target the moment the wasp hit or landed on them.
She would then use that injected will to shake the minds of their targets thus interrupting them from their focused thinking.
And right now, she felt that her wasps had hit nothing and she frowned as she suddenly felt a bad feeling from this thus she immediately dispelled the wasps that covered her line of sight.
The hooded woman was shocked as she discovered that the red devil had suddenly disappeared amidst the flurry of her wasps.
She used the remaining wasps to carefully feel around the room but they did not bring any result thus she could only recall the wasps back to replenish her will.
After fully absorbing the summoned wasps, she closed her eyes and was about to perform a large-scale carpet skill when her ears twitched from the sudden sound of tearing just beside her.
She leaned her head back and in front of her eyes, she saw that the air was being torn by something sharp.
Her expression turned grim as she knew that it was the devil's doing but she didn't panic even though she couldn't see its traces right now.
She used her right hand and swiftly did a few strange hand seals for five seconds before stopping.
Then a small-scale barrier was slowly erecting around them, it just covered the woman and the baby perfectly but this barrier wouldn't be able to do much as she knew that it would immediately collapse after suffering a single attack from the devil.
She deduced that that time should be enough for her to perform a carpet skill on this entire basement room, or at least half the room thus after the barrier had fully enclosed them, she immediately performed another series of hand seals using only her right hand.
She held a baby in her left hand while her right hand had already turned into a blur due to the swift speed that it was making hand seals.
The devil wasn't patient enough to wait for her to finish another skill thus it did not take too long for its sharp claw attack to descend on the barrier.
The barrier broke almost instantly after its claw hit it but the claw of the devil was bounced by the impact as a result of their impact.
Then it skillfully raised its left foot to kick at the woman's abdomen viciously while the woman was busily making psychedelic hand seals. ( Author's Note: Basically strange and confusing hand seals. )
The devil wore a mocking smile while it silently thought to itself.
'Ha! Foolish woman, let me see how you would deal with this attack of mine!'
The kick descended on the abdomen of the woman but it did not produce the sound of flesh impact or the breaking of bones.
The devil felt like it had hit an extremely durable rock due to the numbing sensation that it felt on its left foot, the impact between them produced a resounding boom that sent the woman and the baby flying to a wall.
The devil was shocked by the woman's durability and it frowned while thinking.
'I didn't expect for this woman to be this wealthy... for her to be able to wear such a high-quality armor must mean that she's an important figure in this world.'
Nevertheless, the devil just shrugged this thought aside and instead focused on the miserable state of the woman.
It was quite surprised to see the woman still standing, but judging from the wounds on her must mean that she was critically injured by its feet.
The devil was pleased by this then it gave a look at the unharmed baby, its black-red eyes suddenly widened as it thought.
'What?! Why is that kid unharmed by my attack?! That's strange... Wait...'
It silently mused to itself while its eyes were occasionally glancing back and forth between the baby and the woman, its eyes flickered with brilliant light and then it suddenly smiled malevolently.
It was obvious from the devil's expression that it had come up with a malicious and devious scheme to deal with the injured woman.
The devil went out of its invisible state opening its mouth it said in a mockingly horrible voice.
"My. Oh my. Is this little kid your child? How cute!"
The devil could feel the harsh gaze of the woman beneath her hooded robe but it wasn't affected by it at all and instead went on to say.
"How about... I take care of that child in your stead?!"
The devil abruptly flew towards them its speed extremely fast and it was already a few inches away from the woman and the baby when the devil suddenly felt danger emitting from the woman.
It frowned and hesitated for a brief moment before it sighed and retreated in resignation, the devil looked at the woman carefully wondering what was the thing that could threaten it.
Wave of Pleasurable Emotions!
The devil saw a transparent wave dancing around the woman that rapidly spread towards the whole room and even though it was already prepared by this, it was still affected by the sheer magnitude of the terrifying psychic skill that the woman casted.
The transparent wave slightly washed over its body and in that instant, it felt the various suppressed emotions inside it ravaging throughout its whole body.
The devil felt weak, its legs softened and wobbled due to the intense pleasure that it felt, its black-red eyes turned a bit clouded, its breath grew increasingly rapid.
Its last rationality weakly held on and the devil hatefully glared at the hooded woman it opened its mouth and said in a gritted teeth.
"Despicable! Utterly Despicable! Good! You humans only know how to use disgustingly despicable methods back then but I didn't expect for you humans to be still as shameless as ever!"
The devil solemnly thought to itself with bated breathing.
'I didn't expect for this woman to have a 5-star spell in her arsenal... I have greatly underestimated her. This is fine as well, I'll just have to use one of my trump cards.'
It knew the rank based on the effects that the spell had bought into its body and the level that the spell she casted had crossed the threshold of what a 4-star spell could get, thus it assumed that it should be at the very least a 5-star or a pseudo-5-star spell.
The devil gave the hooded woman an icy glare but then it gritted its teeth and its black-red eyes flashed a trace of hesitation as if it was about to do something out of its will.
The woman saw this and frowned as well, she could see the actions that the devil had displayed clearly and it was quite obvious that it was hesitant on using something possibly a trump card that was dangerous even for the devil itself.
She unhesitatingly extended her right hand and willed her mind to take something out of her spatial inventory.
A long golden exquisite cloth appeared on her palm not long later, the cloth had a pattern of a six-clawed golden dragon and a golden-red phoenix.
The dragon and the phoenix patterns were perfectly intertwined by a thin red thread, the cloth appears especially romantic and majestic with both of the supreme ruling species being depicted on it.
She used the golden cloth to meticulously wrap it around her and the baby prophet, she did this with great care afraid that she might wake the sleeping child up.
After the baby was tied to her, she rotated the cloth so that the baby was firmly placed on her slim back, she then sighed in relief after doing this and thought to herself.
'This is good... I won't have to worry about my slowed casting speed now... but this devil is a problem.'
She then directed her cold gaze towards the silently standing devil and she could feel that it was rapidly breaking out of her spell for some unknown reasons.
The hooded woman could even see plumes of red smoke being released from its pores, the smoke silently drifted around the whole basement room not dissipating in the slightest.
The room now reeked of fishy and bloody smell that made the woman involuntarily frown and pinch her nose.
'This won't do. I don't know what will happen if I let it act this way.'
She could not afford to be careless right now thus she raised her pale and slender hands and did various strange yet gracefully drawn hand gestures.
This time, one could see that the speed that her hands were forming hand seals had dramatically increased it was as if her hands were high in serotonin.
They were unprecedentedly fast that one would only be left in a daze watching her actions.
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Author's Note: Clarifications regarding the identity of the Red Devil
- I've repeatedly addressed the devil as 'it' because of its original identity of being a female devil then suddenly becoming a male devil after its revival.
- This kind of addressing would remain as such and I had no plans on changing it at the moment. I hope you guys would understand this. Thank You.