202 Running Out of Time

The Seven Stars Cut killed the Grandmaster with its prestige. Alex looked hatefully on the lifeless body on the ground. Sherry came back to him. Alex thanked Sherry once before he went to the energy chunk.

He came to a very big room, from the size alone, it was close to a football field. There were many Array's Symbols inside the room. On the ground, on the wall, or even on the ceiling.

But, for the time being, his focus wasn't in here. He arrived at a small mountain of humans. Alex was bewildered. Although he had already used to something like this after killing many monsters. But the one in front of him was humans, or in other words, his kins. Even though he won't throw up at something like this, at least he will be in a bad mood for quite a while.

He saw a mountain of body. Judging from his Spirit Eyes. There were some people that still alive. But, they were only skin and bone. Their eyes didn't have any light. Alex remembered the words in his Master's book. They were the livestock of this evil cult. The best thing he can do was to relieve them from this pain. Alex searched all the people who were alive, and all of them had lost the light in their eyes. He gritted his teeth.

"You can hate me for this. But this is the best thing I can do for you. May you live in happiness in your next life." Alex gave them a quick death. Alex closed his eyes to calm his mind.

After confirming all of them had died. Alex burned all their corpses and stored their ash. He was planning to get them a gravestone after this. It was to give respect for the deceased and sowing good karma.

After he took care of them, he then moved to the giant array. There were too many symbols, and the room itself was too big. Alex frowned. He needs to search for a small symbol core to destroy this gigantic array. Now he was confused about how to do that. He was trying to come up with a suggestion. At first, he thought he could destroy this room. But it seems he can't. If he destroyed this room. The array might not be destroyed, and he will be buried alive in here.

Alex ordered Sherry to come out. He gave a drawing of the core to her. Alex was planning to search the core with the help of Sherry. Even so, he wasn't sure if he can do that in this giant room. But Alex can only think that plan at the moment.

He started searching for the core in this big room with Sherry. Of course, He kept thinking about the solution, trying to search for a new plan.

He kept searching for an hour and realized that his time was running low. But there was something he understood after looking at the giant array. Most of the symbols were fake. Their purposes were only to hide the core. It seems if Alex also blew this place to dust. He would be buried to death, and the array will still be able to activate. What a nasty planning.

Starting to get desperate, Alex raised his pace on searching it. His sweat started dropping to the ground. He used his full awareness and mental energy so he won't overlook any small detail.

He started thinking about retreating for the days and come back tomorrow. But that wasn't possible. After alarming this place, he was sure the other members of the cult would come to check them later. If they knew this place had been infiltrated, they might retreat to somewhere, and it will be hard to locate them. And there might be another mountain of body like the previous one. Just thinking about it made him clicked his tongue.

...

On the surface, one hour earlier.

Putri came back to the village. After searching for the clue in the woods. She didn't find any evidence regardless of how hard she searched.

When she came back to the village, Alex was nowhere to be seen. She thought since Alex only searched the clue inside the village, the danger level would be low. After all, they had searched the whole village together once and confirmed there wasn't any danger. She thought Alex might be searching in the nearby area. If she started searching for him while he was also searching for her. They might not be able to meet and just confused each other.

So she decided to take a rest and waited for him at the center of the village, where they promised to meet. But after waiting for an hour, Alex still hadn't come back. She started frowning and worried. Her duty was to keep Alex safe. But because of the mission started changing to unknown, she decided to take charge. But the sudden disappearance of Alex confused her.

'Has Alex come back to the town?' She thought. But Alex wasn't that kind of person. She had ascertained that back in the sect.

She started searching around the village for Alex. But she still can't find him. She had received a special mission from her Master. It was to ensure Alex's safety at all costs. She didn't understand why her Master asked her that, but she assured her she would keep Alex safe.

Now that Alex was nowhere to be seen, She started sweating. She had some principles in her life. One of them was to keep her promise. But for Alex, it wasn't only a promise. He was also her junior brother, and she already accepted it on her heart.

She thought about retreating since the dark started enveloping the from the north.

(AN: Don't say anything about the direction. It's another world. Thanks)

But thinking about Alex hadn't come back. She decided to stay. Suddenly, a bad picture came to her mind. Alex was captured by the evil cult. She tried to shake the picture off her mind, but it was clinging on her mind. She kept pictured about it again and again.

"Junior Brother, where are you? Let's go back, it's almost dark." She shouted. She can't go back without him, at least her principle held her back.

She was thinking, if her junior brother was captured or even killed by the evil cult. She was the one to blame, no matter what everyone says. It was her responsibility, after all. Her Master can rest assured after sending Alex in a hard mission like this, was because she was coming with him. But now, Alex hadn't come back, and the situation turned to bad.

If the picture on her mind came to reality, she would go rampage without thinking about the consequences. Her thought was extreme. But for her, it was normal.

Because of family circumstances, she would often practice alone. The only support in her family was her parents. She kept practicing so she can make her parents proud, but her parents didn't have much time to accompany her. That's why she felt lonely and hide her loneliness in her elegance.

Having Charya as her Master, she considered her like her mother. Even though Charya's attitude was easygoing and her actions were like that. Charya still took great care of them, trained them, and fostered them. Having Song Yu as her Senior Sister, she considered her like her sister. It was true Song Yu's childish personality didn't make others think she was a good elder sister. But if they knew her deep enough, they will know Song Yu was responsible and had an elder sister figure inside her small body. Even though her body was a bit small compared to ordinary cultivators, the responsibility in her was far more significant than that.

Alex had entered her life as her Junior Brother. Even though she only knew him for nine months, that was enough for her to accept him. She treated him as his younger brother, she sometimes thought if she had a little brother, it would be like him. She will protect him when he was weak. He will then protect her when he was stronger enough. At that time, she can be proud as he was her younger brother.

But now Alex had disappeared. She decided to kill those evil cult members thoroughly. She chose to stay in the village and confronted them head on. If she can't even protect her junior brother, what right she had to become his senior sister or his elder sister. It would just break the family in her mind apart.

She took out the spear from her space ring. She waited in the village as the darkness slowly invaded from the north.

One minute...

ten minutes...

half an hour...

one hour...

After one hour of waiting, numerous dark clothed people surrounded her. Her eyes turned to sharp as the killing intent started gushing out from her.

One person with a cultivation of 4-Star Martial Grandmaster approached her.

"Oh, I never thought a beauty would come here. Since you are here, that must mean you wanted to serve us" He said vulgarly. Lustful eyes, bald head, a scar running from his cheek to his left eyebrows. Wearing a long black robe, it made his appearance creepy.

"You are the leader of this evil cult?" She looked at him hatefully.

"Oh, you are scary. But yes, I'm the leader. Haha, let me introduce myself, so you will know who you will please later. I'm Gardon Tombosia. Nice to meet you, Beauty" He said as his eyes were planted on Putri's chest.

"Trash" Putri snorted. She looked at the bastard leader. "Where is my Junior Brother?"

"Your Junior Brother? Who?" He asked.

For him, he was truly didn't know who her junior brother was. But for Putri, in her current state, can only see that the bastard in front of her was playing ignorant. "You. I will kill you."

"Hey hey, beauty. I don't know who is your junior brother. Well, I have killed so many people. How can I remember some men? If it was about the female who was the best for the enjoyment. I can list their name, oh maybe I can't. Because all of their name might disappear since you have come."

Putri gritted her teeth. "How dare you kill a disciple of Heavenly Sword Sect. I will make sure to kill all of you, brutally."

"Oh, Heavenly Sword Sect. Even the Heavenly Sword Sect come here, they won't be able to do anything here. Since we have our own weapon to kill the people who stand in our way."

"If you are thinking about the Elemental Suppression Array. Then, you didn't need to think about it. It won't be able to stop a Martial Lord" Putri snorted.

"What? You...how do you know?"

"Hmph. Prepare to forfeit your life" Putri said as she took her spear and charged at him.

"Then, let see if you can break that Elemental whatever array."

Suddenly, a purple light came to light. It was like a demon light illuminate the darkness. Putri suddenly felt a very great suppression on her body. She fell to the ground, "Argh!"

She clenched her chest. Her heart was hurt at this moment. The wind element inside her body was suppressed by the purple light, and her body lost its power.

"Haha, I think since you know about it. You did anything about it. But it seems it was still functioning."

Putri only looked at him hatefully, but she can't do anything because her body had become powerless. She tried uttering the strength inside her body but to no avail. She bit her lips, why did she split up with her junior brother. Unbeknownst to her, in front of her death door. She didn't feel or think anything. She just regretted her decision. Now, Alex died, and she will also die.

"I'm the disciple of ninth elder. I'm sure my Master will avenge me." She looked at the person in front of her. She muttered, "Junior Brother, though I didn't know you so much, and even though we only knew each other for a few months. I have regarded you as my family. I will go with you right now. I'm sorry, Senior Sister. I'm sorry, Master."

She took out Charya's token and tried to activate it. But because of their distance, the leader managed to react. He kicked the token out of her hands before she managed to activate it. Putri was astounded and started to fall to despair.

"I almost screwed up. B*tch. I will make sure to enjoy your body thoroughly. And I will let my subordinates played you to death." The leader said hatefully as he tried to placed his hand on her chest.

"Boss, you are the best."

"Leader!"

Cheers erupted upon seeing they will also get a turn to play with such a beauty. They were drooling this whole time after seeing the beauty of Putri. Her beauty was top-notch, after all.