faes and liam were flying in the air above the mansion both ready to attack. liam had given faes a chance to attack him because of her low cultivation level. faes was trying to decide how she was going to attack and whether he have a shield or not when she sensed something and sighed in relief before smiling slightly.
liam caught her slight changes in expression but after sensing around he couldn't find anything so he became alert as he thought faes had some trick.
faes had sensed the royal family of altai coming into ten mile radius around her and was relieved that they came. now she didn't have to worry after all the king was now in elemental strengthening stage too so he can save her in case she were to die while she was sure the queen and both her brothers along with others would take care of the king establishment stage cultivators.
but that wasn't what made her smile, it was a familiar 'ding' of the system notification which told her that she got another quest.
faes had gotten a quest while she was still bond in that cell and Richard had told her about the item she would be interested in.
it was
[Quest: get the mysterious item for yourself and defeat richard
reward: the item, exp, money points, all of richards belongings, ?????
punishment: none]
while she was thinking of completing the quest she caught another quest that she just received now
[Quest: kill liam and take all his blood
rewards: exp, all belongings of liam, void space magic comprehension booklet, increased comprehension of space magic.
punishment: death]
faes smiled after reading the second quest. if the system gave the punishment as death then she didn't had any choice but to kill liam, as she had learnt that the quest from the system cant be rejected until there is an option for rejection.
"lets being then" faes murmured as she glared at liam still smiling. she took position with her sword and focused on liam, then she charged towards him. qi began to cover her sword and her void steps was used, though she was still not fast enough to vanish from liam's eyes. liam was and elemental strengthening stage cultivator while she was just noble establishment stage cultivator she cant outrun him yet.
"qi petal sword" faes said as the sky around them began to get filled with countless tiny qi petals. the petals seem to have suspended in the air and they were turning brighter as faes approached liam, liam was currently staring at the countless petals around him in shock. he didn't knew how he felt threatened by them but at the same time they gave a feeling of peace.
"qi sword slash!" faes gave a light cry as she slashed her sword towards liam. a qi slash flew towards liam and hit him in his momentary shocked state.
just as the slash hit him faes didn't waited and unleashed another move
"qi petals devour"
the petals hanging in the air around seem to have gained consciousness as they charged at liam and began attacking him slicing his skin open like blades. soon his whole body was covered in blood but he wasn't seriously injured. he was after all an elemental strengthening stage cultivator, he had used a shield grimoire just in time and only got a few surface injuries and nothing serious. but if he had not activated the shield he would have been gravely injured too if not dead.
at this time the cultivators below who were watching the two fight all had their mouths open and eyes wide staring at the two. they didn't thought that a noble establishment stage cultivator can unleash an attack like that and injure an elemental stage cultivator! if it were them being attacked them they would have been dead in an instant!
"what was that?" few miles away the royal army of kingdom reptiliance was searching the forest when the king sensed something. he glanced in a certain direction and ordered everyone to proceed there.
"haha! interesting, indeed worthy of being king aiden's disciple and adopted daughter." a laughter sounded inside the bunch of petals before the petals were swept away by a force and liam emerged covered in wounds which were healing rapidly.
"but that's not enough to kill or even defeat me" liam laughed and soon a portal opened behind him and he vanished.
"you have used your one chance to attack now its my turn" a voice sounded from the void echoing around as faes looked around trying to find the source of the voice but failed. the voice seem to have come out from nowhere before echoing around.
the cultivators below were looking at faes with slight pity and awe as she hovered in the air turning around. they haven't seen lord taking action himself for a long time but she had forced the lord to fight but her cultivation was truly weak at present.
they were sure that faes was going to die today.
the royal family of reptiliance came inside the illusionary barrier just as liam vanished so they didn't saw him but only saw faes hovering in the air looking solemn while all the cultivators below were watching her.
everyone including the royal family and their army were shocked to find about a thousand cultivators and about fifty king establishment stage cultivators watching faes hover in the air surrounded by golden petals suspended around her.
king ladon glanced at the cultivators before glancing at faes and frowned. was he too late and the fight has already ended? but why is faes glancing around as if trying to find something?
similar questions were appearing in all of the others that came with king ladon but they were not sure what to make of it. their princess was flowing in the air surrounded by qi petal which seem too strong for someone from noble establishment stage of cultivation and she didn't even glanced at them even once.
"we are under attack!" someone from the cultivators finally noticed the new arrivals and shouted alerting everyone. a thousand cultivators turned towards the royal army of reptiliance which consisted of all types of cultivators just like them
"charge!" ladon gave a shout and charged towards the cultivators with his army. along with ladon, nuri and adrian were present too while blake was in the capital doing what he had to do according to their plan.
"looks like your help is here" a voice came from the void echoing around before a red and black ball appeared from the void and made everyone's faces change. the ball was advancing towards ladon at a high speed and was giving a feeling of danger to everyone on the land.
"this is our fight they wont interfere with it remember what we discussed before, we fight and they don't get involved" faes replied as the petals around her moved and blocked the red and black ball of energy and used its momentum to change its direction towards a hill not far away. the ball hit the hill and exploded turning the hill into nothing but ruins.