Chapter 72 - Sneak Attack

"I guess that should cease my thirst for a while," Tina thought and she headed towards PUK DOWNTOWN.

Earlier when she killed the boy inside the guild, she could smell a familiar scent coming off from someone's body, she tried to pinpoint where the scent was coming from but she was unable to detect it for some unknown reason. However, when she was called into the assistant manager's office and passed through the midst of the guild staff. She detected where the scent was coming from, it was coming from Ralia.

"So this is the new bitch that Kelan is paying attention to huh? The scent is even fresh on her body.

I must kill her before she fully becomes his woman"  Tina thought and grinned before she left the guild.

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When Tina arrived at Puk Downtown, she hung around to buy time till Ralia would eventually come out of the guild. Unfortunately for Tina, Ralia stayed inside the guild working her ass out. Tina was frustrated with the way things were not going according to her plan, she had a plan to kill Ralia in one swoop as soon as she steps out of the guild to buy something or do any other things. However, due to her chronic blood lust, she decided to wait till Ralia eventually left the guild. 

She entered a house adjacent to the guild that seems to be abandoned,  entering the crusty house, she was stunned to see an elven woman breastfeeding her child inside the building. When the child saw Tina, he began to cry profusely making his mother look at Tina weirdly.

Tina wanted to kill the woman and her baby for staring at her, but she ignored them because killing them was akin to killing an insect that wouldn't cease her bloodlust.

After waiting for several hours, it was finally dusk. However, Ralia had yet to show up, which made Tina frustrated, the elven woman had long left after receiving a death stare from Tina because of her baby's cries.

When Tina couldn't take the uncertainty anymore, she concluded that Ralia was probably living inside the Guild. However, as she was about to take her to leave she saw a figure exiting the guild, her eyes broadened when she discovered that it was Ralia. Then she began following Ralia without making it look suspicious. Unexpectedly,  Ralia began walking through a  narrow and secluded street.

"This is the perfect time to finish her, without raising any suspicions! What a perfect lamb," Tina thought and she summoned her dagger which was 20 cm long with some runic engravings and symbols on it, the hilt was also equipped with a hand-guard, making the wielder have a better grip on it when slicing their victim with the adamite blade.

Ralia also noticed that someone was trailing her after she entered the narrow way, she got scared and hastened her foot's steps to outrun the assailant. Tina, who noticed Ralia's nervousness, took it as the perfect time to execute her.

Tina stomped her feet on the floor, causing web cracks to appear on the ground as she leaped in the air. Ralia sensed the incoming danger and ducked her head to the side.

Swoosh! 

A handful of Ralia's hair was sliced off as Tina held the dagger In a reverse grip while trying to slit off her neck. Tina staggered backward a bit as she didn't expect Ralia to dodge her swift attack despite her speed.

Unbeknownst to Tina, Ralia had the foresight ability, albeit it was a weak C-rank one. Ralia was able to see 1.5 seconds into the future which enabled her to evade Tina's attack successfully but she could feel her energy draining at an alarming rate which made the ability one of the most useless because of its consumption. That was why people were greedy to obtain the black foresight sword that Kelan borrowed from Francisco's secret stash as it could see three seconds into the future and had a longer usage time and short cooldown duration.

Ralia's eyes glowed white as she exchanged blows with Tina. 

While Tina was finding it hard to believe that her attacks and slashes were evaded effortlessly.

After exchanging a few blows, that seemed to look like a blur to normal people.

Tina suddenly moved back away from Ralia. Ralia who saw her assailant retreating became confused and she decided to run for her life as she had used up 70 percent of her energy within a minute. However, what Tina suddenly did surprised her to the core. Tina had kept the dagger inside her space ring and she was currently wearing a weird metal on her right hand.

"I know that those glowing eyes of yours were the reason that you could evade my slashes but I doubt you can evade it this time," Tina said aloud as she wore her brass knuckles and activated her body hardening ability.

Dashing towards Ralia, she used her mother's fancy footwork which made Ralia unable to predict her movements. Ralia activated her foresight ability to the max, making her eyes glow like a lantern. However, 1.5 seconds was too small to save the poor Ralia from evading Tina's blows when using her Brass knuckles.

GHAAAHHH!!!!!

Ralia shouted as a powerful blow landed on her stomach, it was as if she was hit by a mountain.

Blood spurted from her mouth as she was sent crashing into the lawn near them.

"What did I do to deserve this?" Ralia cried out as she never anticipated that she would offend someone without acknowledging it.

"You've decided to taste what isn't yours so you have to face the consequences" Tina yelled while she retracted the spikes on her brass knuckles to kill Ralia in one blow.

Launching her fist towards Ralia, she suddenly felt her hands stop halfway.

"Runaway!" Kelan said to Ralia who was lying on the floor, ready to accept the unruly attack and die.

She didn't bother to even find out about the person who saved her or thank him before she picked up her bag and sprinted far away from the scene.

Kelan, who was currently wearing a mask, crushed it with his left hand while he pinned Tina to the wall with his right hand while his eyes glowed crimson due to anger.

"Tina why!?"