"Ahh speak of a lovely devil and she will appear"
Seth didn't know whether to be glad that he was getting saved or to be embarrassed that the woman he was trying to court was saving him again.
He felt his downward acceleration decrease as he approached the ground and then a few meters above it, he was dropped.
"Arggggh", Seth groaned out in pain.
"Couldn't she have just laid me down gently?"
He opened his eyes and stared at the woman he was going to conquer, but she paid no attention to him as he watched her float in front of Slowly and gently lay him down, she then floated over to his head and then carefully stroked it.
He watched as she placed a glowing hand on Slowly's head while the other hand stroked her feathery head.
After some time he could hear Slowly's little whimpering turn to grunts and then she moved around a little and began making purring sounds.
"Yes, Rose had saved them but after dropping him, she showed no further care for him and instead went about petting and healing Slowly.
Don't get him wrong, Seth was glad to see Slowly get healed, but Rose ignoring him and giving her attention to a beast she had just met made him a little jealous.
Sick of watching her petting Slowly and disregarding his existence, he began shaking himself in a bid to awaken his traumatized nerves, before long he could feel most of his body, and with great effort and a lot of embarrassing stumbles he stood up.
"What do you think you were doing, you put her life, her mother's, and the life of any unfortunate human in this area in extreme danger?" Rose calmly said just as Seth steadied himself on his feet.
"Feel free to babysit me wherever I go, I sincerely beg you to consider this offer," Seth said with a smile, completely ignoring her question and neutral expression.
"Now what are you doing all the way out here, Are you so tempted by my awesomeness that you've been stalking me"
Seth shamelessly said as walked over to her with some stumbles in his step,
"Nice legs, wonder what your panty looks like", Seth said as he increased his pace.
Since Rose was wearing a loose gown that stopped just below her knees and was currently floating some distance away from him, all Seth had to do was walk a little further and he would be underneath her, and then he would have a good view of her undies.
Before Rose could do anything in reply to his words, Seth saw a huge feathery white wall appear in front of him and slam him.
Seth, unable to quickly move or even protect his face due to his still malfunctioning nerves, could only watch as the wall hit him and sent him into the air and smashing through several trees before finally losing momentum.
"Ahhh damn beast" Seth complained out loud, the attack had hit him evenly all over his body and it had been a weak swing, so his body's natural defense had been able to handle it, though his body did nothing to dampen the pain from the hit.
One good thing from the hit was that it seemed to have kicked the rest of his sleeping nerves awake, and with a groan, Seth easily stood back up and stared at the perpetrator of the attack, Slowly.
Other than some little burns and ruffled feathers, Slowly looked okay and she was currently screeching at him, moving around him like a predator watching its prey.
"Guess her injuries were internal, and now she's been healed by Rose"
Back in Lukta forest, Slowly had been able to resist the urge to run away from Seth, and now with it almost crashing to its death and Rose's qi still moving within it, it had broken out of his control and was now rearing up to kill him, probably to avenge it's mother death, because Seth could swear that he had been a very considerate rider.
Seth looked away from the screaming Slowly and looked at Rose with annoyance, but once again she wasn't paying him any attention and was instead looking in the direction where the thunderstorm had crashed.
Deciding to also ignore her, Seth was about to turn back and face Slowly when he felt a qi pulse and he immediately snapped his head toward the thunderstorm crash site.
Them fleeing from the thunderstorm combined with the shock waves from the explosion, put them quite a long distance from the crash site, but like a huge mountain approaching, he could see mama Slowly burst out of the burning flames and lightning strikes of the crash site and immediately begin running towards him.
If that wasn't bad enough, he found himself somehow looking the beast in the eyes as it approached with thundering steps, a powerful aura pressing down on him, and this time with the proximity between them, he found moving any part of his body a tedious chore.
Just as he was considering how to get himself out of this crisis, he heard the words of a sweet voice in his ears.
"Hide behind me"
Seth's ears felt soothed by the voice, but on interpreting the meaning of the words it uttered, he turned towards its owner who still didn't deign him worthy of her gaze, and began laughing.
Seth felt anger creep up within him, but he expressed it by laughing to the point of tears came out of his eyes.
Rose knew how arrogant he was, and for some reason, it seemed she wanted to humble him.
She could have flown forward and easily protected him, she even had the option of using more respectful words, but she chose to bluntly tell him to hide behind her.
He was shameless sometimes, but where would he find the pride and self-esteem needed to genuinely act shameless toward her if he scurried behind her.
He knew that wise option was to swallow up this little pride and just hide behind her, but for some reason, he just wanted to go against her.
"This is a really bad idea," Seth thought
As he laughed, he went into the deep recesses of his mind, to what was left of the sphere after his lightening summons, and found out he had used almost all of the enlightenments he had, and now all he had left was a ball-sized sphere.
These little traces were definitely not enough for what he wanted to do, but he knew that they were his only hope to escape Rose's plan to teach him humility.
With a roar to the sky, he linked up with the sphere for the second time today, he was going to access Eleusis, but this time he wasn't using free qi, he was using his own qi.
If using free qi to access Eleusis was like using the proper wrench to unscrew a tight nut, then using one's own qi could be likened to using one's oily hand to unscrew a tight nut.
One needed validation from Eleusis to access it, but now Seth was going against all sense and trying to access it with his own qi.
As he roared out to the sky, he felt his mind being stretched to the limits, all sorts of pain assaulted him, but he didn't dare try to make sense of them, he couldn't afford to lose.
Blood spilled out of his eyes and nose, with veins popping out all over him and some rupturing and coating his body with blood.
Seth had no idea about the current state of his body, but even if he knew, it wouldn't have changed his mind, seconds later, he found himself back in the lightning sea, but this time he knew what to do.
Without wasting a second he reached out for a particular qi signature that he had in mind and the next second he found himself back in the real world with purple lightning surrounding him, while the faint image of 10 meters purple wolf could be seen hovering over him.
Immediately Seth's roar died down he snapped his head toward the approaching beast and shot off at it, the image of the wolf running in sync with him as he went.