"So, what's your name, girl? I want to know the name of the one I'm going to kill."
"Oh, how sweet. Don't try in vain, you can't beat me. But I'll tell you my name. I'm Naomi, code name: Cygnus."
"Hmm, I think I've seen that name somewhere before. Where was that?... Wait a minute, you're the top ranker in this continent?"
"Oh, you know me? Great, that makes things a lot easier. Are you going to admit defeat now?"
"Ha, no way. You underestimate me a little too much."
Although Aeryn appeared calm on the outside, she was wide awake. The moment she heard who she was, she knew this fight would be tough and she might lose.
But still, she charged at her without hesitation.
With her two swords she tried to hit Naomi, but she was too fast for her. With her current speed, she couldn't hit her at all.
Naomi on the other hand simply dodged Aeryn's blows as if they were nothing. She could clearly see Aeryn's movements.
Aeryn, became annoyed that she couldn't land a single hit, decided to force open one of her seals.
When she did, a tremendous amount of energy began to gather in Aeryn's body. She felt that her power was twice as strong as before. And she'd only opened one more seal, how strong would she be if all her seals were lifted?
Naomi began to understand why Yashito had asked her for help and not someone else. She already knew that one of the reasons was that he wanted to see her, yes, that should be the reason. But seeing Aeryn like this, she immediately understood that it wasn't the only reason.
Aeryn merged her two swords into one and rushed towards Naomi.
Her speed was now as high as Naomi's, if not higher.
To dodge her attack, she now had to open a black hole in front of her, hoping that Aeryn's sword would be sucked into it.
But she'd not thought of the possibility that Aeryn's sword wasn't so simple.
Aeryn simply sliced the small black hole in half, slightly injuring Naomi, who was able to dodge just in time.
"What happened? Where did your confidence go?" Aeryn said, laughing.
"Tch."
Naomi took two daggers from one of her black holes and immediately lunged at Aeryn.
But no matter how hard Naomi tried, she couldn't leave a scratch on Aeryn's body, who'd built a Qi shield around herself and didn't even bother to block the attacks.
But even though she protected herself from Naomi's weapons, she couldn't do anything against her black holes. The only thing she could use against them was her sword.
The intense battle continued without either of them gaining the upper hand.
"What happened? Is your title of best ranker just for show?"
"Tch, Yashito, are you sure I can't kill her?"
"...No... Please don't do it." Yashito replied.
In reality, Naomi could easily win against Aeryn because of her ability, but she wasn't supposed to kill her, which made things much harder for her. In order not to hurt her permanently, she'd to strongly restrain her power.
Aeryn, on the other hand, believed that she was capable of killing Naomi, since from her point of view she was superior to Naomi.
But even though Aeryn had this belief, she became increasingly irritated because she couldn't kill Naomi.
After pushing Naomi away to put some distance between them, she raised her sword in the air.
When Alpha saw this, a chill ran down her spine as she saw Aeryn getting ready to unleash a move that she knew exactly what she was intended for.
"NO! Don't do it!" Alpha yelled and rushed towards Aeryn.
She just smiled and said, "It's too late now."
Suddenly clouds appeared out of nowhere and covered the whole sky. A sudden breeze came up and the atmosphere became dark.
A feeling of unease came over the others.
The sword began to attract thunder from the clouds. But its colour wasn't blue, but red.
No one dared to approach it, because the power of thunder was frightening. Suddenly, a huge thunder landed on Aeryn and raised dust around her.
In this dust, Naomi could see something glowing in front of her.
As the dust began to dissipate, it became clear that they were in for a tough fight.
Aeryn was floating in the air, several feet above the ground. Her clothes had changed and she was now wearing a purple dress that glowed with a purple light in some places, in her head she'd what looked like feathers on her left and right sides that were also glowing.
Her appearance looked majestic under the red moon of the dungeon and the darkened atmosphere.
"Now, now,are you ready for a second round?"
"Yashito, I think we need to call another one to suppress her." Naomi said with a worried look.
"But I know you can handle her alone, why do you need another person?" Yashito said.
"Because I don't want to hurt her. If I use all my power, you know what'll happen." Naomi replied.
"Eeh, fine, do what you want."
Hearing this, Aeryn became even more irritated by their behaviour toward her and immediately lunged at Naomi.
She managed to dodge her sword, but she didn't expect the wind caused by the sword's movement to hurt her.
"Damn, she's annoying as hell."
But Aeryn didn't even care about her words this time and carefully planned her next attack.
Meanwhile, Naomi, seeing Aeryn being dull, as she was, thinking of what to do she launched an attack at her.
She threw one of her daggers into a black hole and was about to attack Aeryn with the other.
Aeryn blocked her dagger with ease, but then, as they faced each other, Naomi made a black hole appear over Aeryn, and the dagger she'd previously kept in it began to fall on Aeryn.
To avoid it, she pushed Naomi back, but she immediately lunged at Aeryn, catching her dagger in midair and hitting Aeryn with both of them.
Her Qi shield shattered and she took a few steps back.
"I see you managed to break through my shield, not bad for a human."
"Not bad for a human? Why, aren't you human?"
"Hah, girl, if I was human, I'd have been dead a long time ago."
"What're you talking about?"
"You'll find out soon enough."
But hearing Aeryn talk like that, Alpha began to sweat with fear. She'd heard those words again, she knew something dangerous had been released, something too dangerous to walk on this planet.
"Naomi, get out of here!" Alpha yelled as loud as she could.
She turned her head to Alpha, and when she saw her face, she realised she'd to run as fast as she could. But it was already too late.
Aeryn put on a smile and charged toward Naomi with a speed that made Alpha's speed seem slow in comparison. Naomi managed to dodge the deadly attack, but she was badly injured. Aeryn had severed her right hand.
"Aww, I guess I'm getting old. I didn't manage to go for the head."
Naomi couldn't believe her eyes. Her whole body was shaking with shock and because it was screaming at her to get out of here immediately.
She could feel an unimaginable bloodlust coming from Aeryn as she slowly walked toward her. It was as if she'd committed a homicide, no, it was as if she'd killed an entire planet.
Aeryn moved slowly toward Naomi, but Naomi's body didn't listen to her. She couldn't move at all in the face of Aeryn's presence. The only thing she could do was wait for her to die and hope that the one she'd called over would be able to save the other two.
But Alpha had other plans. While holding her right arm to stop the bleeding, she moved behind Aeryn and called out, "Long time no see, Dawn."
Aeryn stopped suddenly and looked at Alpha.
"I didn't think I would hear that name again, Apostle."