The followers of Kongieus were prettified by what happened, the beautiful girl just killed one of them without breaking a sweat.
The blank smile on her face as she looked at her blood-filled hand, gave them creeps and forced them to silently conclude.
The man with a bald shiny head stepped forward, his face full of fury as he took a stance. Fire-attributed spiritual energy swirled around him slowly as he closed his eyes and put all of his focus on the move he was about to make.
He ran forward with vigor and made a horizontal spin toward Zoe, his head shiny head clad in flames as he spun towards Zoe like a spear.
"This is Kongieus' secret technique of perversion called Force penetration!"He shouted as he speared over to Zoe, with his head clad in the fire.
Zoe stomped her foot on the ground, making a huge load of rock and soil hurdle together to rise from the ground. She hardened the chunk into a fine, solid body of rock with a hard clench of her fist, before hurling it towards the man that was drilling his way headfirst towards her like an arrow with a spin kick.
The rock hit the man's shiny bald head and a booming sound of metal clashing against another was heard. The collision stirred up clouds of dust that veiled the result.
"What happens when metal clashes against metal?"The less burly man asked the tanned burly one.
"One bends under the strength of the other."
"I reckon she'd be in blood and tatters by now, the sheer imagination is making my blood boil."The less burly man laughed perversely.
"Sadly, she still belongs to the high priest, or I would have been happy to ravage her here and now."The tanned man said, his face expressing how truly sad he was.
The dust cleared and they were both stunned by what was revealed to them.
The man with a bald head was crawling and groaning on the ground in pain. His shiny head was bloodied and visible cracks could be seen on his bald scalp, gushing out blood.
Zoe was there, her feet on the head of the bald man, she dusted her clothes and stomped on his chest, with a sadistic smile on her face.
The ribs of the man cracked and he spat out blood. Zoe loved the red of the blood and felt an urge for more, but she refrained from going down that path and retained her sanity and mentality.
Wisps of earth-attributed spiritual energy enveloped her hands and took shape, turning into long stone spikes.
Her years of training and experimenting on her powers hadn't gone to waste even if she was in a mortal form and her control over the element hadn't waned either.
It just took more time than in her immortal form and more focus, yet, weaker.
With vexation, she stabbed the two eyes of the bald man, impaling him to the ground in a savage manner.
The squishy tune of the pierce resounded in her mind and his last scream sang a melodic attunement to it.
"Out of all of them, you were the most daring, touching me with your filthy hands. I felt like a maggot crept onto my flawless skin. Even He hadn't touched me!"She said to the bald man but got no response, however, "Oh, he's dead."
She looked at the remaining two and saw them wearily sneaking up on her.
"See, if you want me to show you mercy, I won't, because one, you touched this glorious immortal, which should be regarded as a goddess by you filthy mortals. And two, you condescend and disrespect women, whom you should appreciate and that's why I'll always choose Him over everybody else."Zoe said, her tone was condemning and her face was neutral.
"Obliteration over mercy!"The less burly man said as he held a rapier towards her.
"All women are ours, they're to be used not appreciated."The tanned man's hoarse voice boomed as he held a club, which had glowing dark bluish patterns on it.
"You see? That's why you don't have to live, if I could access my higher form, I'd have decimated your whole sect by now, I'll hunt every one of you down and feed your corpses to the monsters of Everdale."She said with a deadpan face and added "Sadly, Conan won't let me."
The burly two looked at one another and nodded, coming to a mutual agreement. They let out a cry and charged at Zoe together.
They see her as a threat now, so they plan to capture her, either injured or dead... Yes, they were still condescending her, as the doctrine of Kongieus feeds his disciples with the mindset of men being supreme over women.
"Hahaha... That's the spirit!"Zoe finally laughed maniacally, it just came out on its own as her spirit stirred and her bloodlust unleashed "I won't even use my cane on you weaklings!"
The less burly man reached her first, he coated his rapier with dark blue spiritual energy—he was borrowing the spiritual energy of Kongieus— and thrust the sword toward her stomach.
Zoe backed away with a flip, even though her clothes won't get easily penetrated as it was enhanced, she had gotten tired of being touched already.
The tanned man with a club came over and swung the club towards her face "The club of paralysis, get bonked girl!" He laughed as he swung the club, drowning in the hallucination of his victory.
Zoe nonchalantly ducked and the club passed overhead. She thrust a jab into the guts of the tanned man, but he didn't get pushed away, instead, the force shattered his insides, and his stomach bloated with his shredded innards.
The less burly man interjected with a sharp thrust of his rapier, his savage expression revealed his intent to kill, vividly.
Zoe sidestepped and bent his wrist, using his hand to stab the rapier to the ground, then struck a part of his arm with two fingers.
His hand went numb and his grip inevitably left the rapier. He stumbled backward as Zoe fiddled with his rapier. "Just a normal sword," she commented.
"W-what technique, d-did you use?"He asked, his face full of terror as he held his arm, the nerves had probably been damaged, judging from the swell.
"He teaches us not to use techniques used by everyone else, but to create ours because we are all special," Zoe said with a cruel smile, it was like she was finally gaining the ability to express herself.
It was interesting seeing the one who claims domination over women trembling in terror before one. It was satisfying.
"W-who?"The man asked as he sat his back against a tree.
"The father of your ancestors, who raised this great mother of yours."She replied and hurled the rapier towards him, stabbing and pinning him against the bark of a tree. Left to die, impaled on his rapier.
"Who are you!"The tanned man coughed blood, hunched over, he rested his hand on a tree. He glared at Zoe with defiance.
Zoe squinted her eyes on seeing this "I never thought you'd survive that punch. I was able to punch that way after many years of smashing rocks with my bare fists. But obviously, I held back."
She walked around him in the hope to see something interesting, till she reached his back, with his buttocks facing her.
She gave a kick so hard to his groin that he stumbled forward and fell on his knees with his cheeks kissing the soil.
The tanned man weakly reached into his pants and rummaged a bit before bringing out two orbs, one small and white, without any extraordinary attributes, while the other was dark, with impure wisps oozing out from it.
Zoe squinted and was about to pick the dark orb up out of curiosity, but...
"Ooh?"A soft gasp came from somewhere, followed by claps "What a show!"
A girlish voice sounded in the forest, the voice seemed to be amplified as it reverberated around the forest with a visible flow of spiritual energy that carried the sound all around.
Zoe turned to the source with a glare "What are you doing here?"
High on a tree branch was kitty, holding a paper bag and throwing sweets into her mouth, nonchalantly "It doesn't seem like it's your first time doing this, is it?"
"Doing what?"Zoe glared even more, her anger rising in huge proportions on seeing the provoking smile on Kitty's cute face.
"Killing..."She jumped off the tree and landed near Zoe "Ol' papa asked me to come to find you."
Zoe decisively ignored her and went to check the bodies of the dead followers of Kongi "I thought he had asked you not to call him that when we got here?"
"Well, no one's here to hear us."Kitty shrugged and nonchalantly ate a sweet.
Zoe pulled out a pouch from the dead body of the tanned man and opened it, realizing that it has a pocket space. She dipped her hand in it and brought out a thick wad of golden-coated notes.
"What's this?"Zoe asked, showing kitty the wad of notes.
"Oh, that's money, Golden Mornts, quite a catch I must say, "Kitty replied enthusiastically on seeing the money, she had the urge to check the other corpses but she was a bit repulsed.
Zoe won't let her do so anyway...
"Oh.."Zoe muttered, a smile inevitably forming as she muttered "... turned out I was right to come here."
She remembered asking Conan for money before coming here but now that she had the money, the only thing left is to buy what she wants—clothes, a lot of them. Lots of new designs and fabrics.
"Looks like you and Liam made money already. Something tells me Loki is making money. It remains just me and papa."Kitty said, a hint of jealousy reflecting on her flawless face.
Her pride won't let her ask for a share of the money, not even when Liam got rich by exchanging spirit crystals. She also had spirit crystals with her, but Tianah said it would be suspicious if they both sold such huge amounts of spirit crystals, which was a scarcity in the kingdom.
The so-called spirit crystals were like normal stones, back at the citadel, much more abundant than spirit stones. Although useful for the young ones, it wasn't for an immortal.
Zoe ignored her and searched the pouches on the corpses, scavenging wads of money but also finding disgusting torture tools which she could only guess their use.
"Are all mortals this filthy?"Kitty wondered.
"Not all..."Zoe replied as she continued scavenging for money and other things from the corpses.
Kitty nodded before spotting something red on the whites of Zoe's hair "Hey, fool. There's blood on your hair."
Zoe looked at her blankly before muttering "Oh no..." She didn't want Conan to know.