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"Don't tell me, the ingredient for that is human's blood?"

Anna descended to the ground. Leoz looked at her bothered expression and asked, "What happens?"

"No, I just realize something stupid. Why I never realized until now. The red pill is the so-called blood pill. The reason for that is because they are literally made from human blood."

"Isn't that obvious?" Leoz was confused.

"This is why you are a muscle brain. Why did the Zhou Kingdom split their soldiers and conquer the cities in their way? No, I shouldn't say conquer, but massacre!"

"!!!" After hearing that, even a Muscle Brain like Leoz immediately understood. The reason why the Zhou Kingdom split their soldiers was to massacre the cities in their way. They wanted to use them to make blood pills to increase their power.

"We are going back to Alex immediately!" Anna shouted.

"Yeah." Leoz nodded, and both of them disappeared.

...

On Alex's side, he continuously used his arrays to trap the soldiers. Kyle and Sherry tried to kill as much as possible in this period. To his surprise, when he killed around fifty soldiers, Leoz and Anna appeared as well as killed the enemy soldiers.

But the most surprising thing was a pair of butterfly wings on Anna's back. On Alex's eyes, Anna looked like a night butterfly that accompanied him through the night's darkness.

"Alex..." Even though she was ready for this, when she met him again, she couldn't help but cower.

"Anna..." Alex came to her. Anna tried to look away, ashamed to show him this appearance. But Alex said something that startled her.

"You are really beautiful."

"Alex... I am a Dark Butterfly Spirit, and this appearance is my true appearance. I am sorry to hide this from you this entire time, I-"

Alex kissed her on the mouth. It was his answer. He shouldn't explain his reasoning in this situation. He should explain with his mouth... literally. This kiss soothed Anna's heart.

Leoz didn't bother them, and he made sure that there were no soldiers that would disturb them.

Not long after, Alex released her mouth. Anna had calmed down. She looked at Alex seriously, she decided to tell him. "This is our True Spirit Body. We can only use this once every week. I am afraid that you will hate this appearance, So I didn't dare to use it until now."

She became downcast.

Alex patted her head. He smiled and asked, "Is everyone like that too?"

"No, only high ranking spirits can have this... I mean, only UR spirits can have this."

"So, Leoz and the others too?"

"En." Anna nodded. "According to Leoz, Jeanne seems to use it too. As for Fabio and Vera, one of them should use this too. But I don't know who uses it. We didn't use it until now because there is no need to do so. But, in this battle, especially my form, as it is not effective on Monsters."

"Well, I hope you can explain it to me after this."

"En."

Not long after, Leoz came back, following him was Fabio and Vera. Fabio's body was covered by flame, while Vera didn't have any changes. A few seconds later, Jeanne and Greg came back.

Alex looked at them and said, "We can talk later. For now, we shou-!"

Before he finished his words, he heard a shout from his right. Many soldiers were approaching them.

Alex could see two Martial Lords in their ranks. But when he wanted to say something, Anna grabbed his hands. She smiled at him, "Alex, let us fight this on your behalf. Please watch how we fight."

Alex wanted to join, but his heart stopped him from doing so. His heart was telling him to watch them so he could prepare for the next.

"I will hold the two Martial Lords, Leoz and Fabio will destroy their formation. Jeanne should kill as many as possible. Vera and Greg will be our support."

"Wait, Anna. It is better for me and Fabio to hold the Martial Lords. Your power is more suited to fight many enemies." Leoz rejected her idea.

"Are you sure? They should have the blood pills too, you know."

"They won't be able to eat those pills in our watch. And Fabio was in his True Spirit Form too. It should be fine," Leoz said.

"..." Anna looked at them for a while before nodding her head. "Alright."

When they became closer, they finally realized Anna's wings.

"Look at her, she... she is not a human. What are those wings? Butterfly?"

"So, our opponent is not the Southern Kingdom but a monster in this forest."

"Humanoid Monster? If I'm not wrong, a humanoid monster is a high ranking monster. But, look at her, she is just a 4-Star Martial Lord. We can capture her with this number!"

"Yeah, Just look at the beauty, I am fine with it even though she is a monster!"

"You can't say that. Look at that blue haired beauty. I want to do her."

"Just look at the yellow haired girl, I like that type."

Unfortunately, because Anna stood out the most, they considered the other spirits as nothing. They only looked at the beauties to boot who had the lowest cultivation. They completely underestimated them.

Suddenly a swarm of butterflies came out of nowhere. The butterflies then stick to the soldiers' hands, shoulders, anywhere as long as the spot was exposed.

"Butterfly?" The soldiers were confused by the sudden appearance of butterflies.

But, one of the Martial Lords suddenly realized, "Not good. Kill the butterflies!"

"Dark Butterfly, First Order. Marionettes!" Sadly, they were too late as Anna had launched her attack.

The butterflies exploded. To their surprise, the pain that they expected didn't come.

"Haha, there is no pain!"

"This must be an illusion."

"Haha..."

"She can't kill us. Att-!" Just when they overjoyed because Anna didn't do any damage to them. The soldiers that got the butterfly on them suddenly felt something wrong. "I-I can't control my hand!"

"I am too. I ca- Argh!"

The soldiers' hands suddenly lost control of their hands. Their hands then used their weapon to pierce their heart or neck one by one. In just an instant, Anna had killed more than a hundred soldiers.

"What!"

Many soldiers got startled when many of their comrades suddenly killed themself. The Martial Lords immediately recovered from their shock and looked at Anna.

"She must be the one who did this. Attack her first!"

"Soldiers att-!"

"!!!"

Leoz and Fabio suddenly appeared in front of them. Leoz took the 4-Star Martial Lord as his opponent while Fabio took the 3-Star Martial Lord. Both of them blew their opponent away so they could fight one on one.

The Martial Lords were startled to see another two Martial Lords. They only focused on the beauties before and didn't care about the guys.

They had underestimated them by not looking at the guys.

The soldiers were startled after seeing both of their generals were blown away by them. But in that moment of confusion, Anna used that chance to send another wave of butterflies.

It killed dozens of soldiers again. Leoz and Fabio then went to their respective opponents.

"Attack! Attack her. Our generals will win. So, we need to focus on our job." One of the peak Martial Grandmasters shouted after regaining his composure.

The fight was going hard. Jeanne charged to the front, moving from one spot to another with breakneck speed. She killed the soldiers one by one as Greg will immediately raise his shield in case she couldn't dodge the enemies' attack.

Vera became a support to make their situation under control. She tried to restrict the soldiers' movement as Anna used her skills continuously.

After around an hour, they finally managed to kill their enemy completely. Leoz and Fabio also came back after killing their respective opponents. They prevented their opponent from taking the blood pill. Alex thought they were going to have a hard fight. It turned out he underestimated his spirits as well.

He thought about joining the battles, but after seeing the situation where they obliterated their enemies pretty easily. He decided to watch the fight.

Anna came back to him as soon as she finished. Alex couldn't help but say, "It seems I have underestimated all of you."

"We can only do this because of our True Spirit Body."

"True Spirit Body..." Alex looked down. He seemed weighing something on his mind. "I want to know the details, but we still have one last fight, so I will refrain myself from asking that question for the time being."

The last battle in his mouth was the battle with the last group that was on their base camp.

"Master, I feel that you should capture their leaders. We can get some information that way. Those Martial Lords seem enough." Jeanne said as she came back with the others.

Alex pondered for a moment before nodding his head. He thought he could use illusion array to torture them first before interogating them. He misunderstood Jeanne's intention, though.

"We are going," Alex said to his spirits.

The spirits nodded and followed him to the enemy base.

As expected, the battle finished in an instant. Anna used her butterflies to open the battle. Fabio and Leoz then took care of the Martial Lords.

The battle strategy was the same as before, but with the addition of Alex. With the help of Sherry and Kyle, Alex dominated the battlefield.

Not long after they finished the battle, Leoz and Fabio also came back with the Martial Lords. Judging from their expression, Leoz and Fabio had crippled them.

"You... You monsters!"

"We are not monsters, we are spirits." Anna snorted as her True Spirit Body became undone. Jeanne and Fabio also did the same.

Alex didn't say anything. He only approached them.

"You. What do you want to do!"

"I'm just giving you a chance to tell me all the information you have. I can let you die swiftly if you do that," Alex said coldly.

"Ptui. Over my dead body." He said after spatting on Alex.

Of course, Alex dodged it. He put his hand on the Martial Lord's head and made a Silk Dream Array on his forehead.

It was his rank 3 illusion array.

"Argh!"

"Gah!"

"Kuoh!"

The Martial Lord screamed out of his mind. In the illusion, he enjoyed many ways to die, even the dumbest one to destroy his spirit. But surprisingly, his mouth started fuming foam, and he died.

Alex was startled. He thought since he was a Martial Lord, he should be able to withstand that. But, not long after entering the illusion array, he died. Alex couldn't understand. He was far weaker than he expected, or at least in his mind.

"Tch tch tch. Master, that is not a good way to get the information, you know. Let me do the other one. I will surely give you the information you need." Jeanne suddenly came to him and asked him.

He remembered when Anna said that even Nelson requested Jeanne's help to interrogate someone.

"Alright."

Jeanne then grabbed the other one and dragged him to a tent.

The other Martial Lord was afraid of Alex when he saw his friend died just like that. He didn't understand why his friend died. When Jeanne dragged him, he didn't falter. He kept his strong front, saying, "You are not going to get any information from me" and the like.

But not long after he got into the tent, he started screaming like crazy. Alex didn't know what Jeanne did.

"Alex, it is better not to see it. It is... anyway, it's not even safe for adults." Anna came to him and whispered.

He became even more curious when he heard that. When he turned around, he saw Leoz, Fabio, Vera, and Greg looked away. He thought maybe he shouldn't be curious about it.

"Leoz, are you going back after this? I think we are not going to fight tomorrow as the enemy might think we have killed the soldiers here. If they become desperate, we won't know what they do." He changed the topic.