With everything that had happened so far, though Seth's action of almost killing Minuha had made her snap, she was still hesitant about killing him, finding it difficult to end such a legendary specie.
With Seth thoroughly pinned down, she had let herself get carried away by her internal debate on what to do with him, and as such, she believed she had lost track of her surroundings, failing to catch when Seth moved behind her, but didn't mean she was slow to react to being sneaked upon.
No, as a woman who had made it this far in the cultivation journey, having a perfect instinctual reaction was a must for her, but in the end why was she still standing in place allowing Seth to feel her.
While Seth's lack of killing intent did help damper her instincts, the thing that held her back was the fact that Seth, or rather the Seth she had pinned down wasn't the one who had somehow escaped and moved behind her.
Before her eyes lay Seth, or who she thought to be Seth as the person beneath her gradually broke apart and faded into the air, leaving her only able to turn her head and stare at the man who was actually paying her no attention but actually looking at her ass.
"Don't mind me, I just want to have a satisfying feel of them before I kill you."
"Why can't I turn into a shadow? Why couldn't I sense the real you?"
"Oh don't be too surprised, you actually did catch the real me, it's just that I was too fast for your eyes to track. "
"So that was just an afterimage,"
"Yes," Seth said and at his words, Minuha couldn't help but swallow her saliva at how real Seth's afterimage had looked, even now that he told it to her, she still couldn't draw out any clue on the body which had broken apart and faded away.
"A..and my body, why can't I transform," Minuha asked unable to hide the quake in her voice.
"You know the answer," Seth said still not moving his eye to the woman's.
With her eyes trembling, Minuha watched Seth be fully focused on her rump, and were she not sure that the man would ruthlessly kill her even if she bent over for him, she would have done so.
"That's impossible" Minuha screamed in denial.
"Why," Seth said finally looking at Minuha," you said I can't defeat you because we weren't on the same level of existence, so I decided to also get to your level and taadaa."
In the course of his speech, Seth got carried away, enjoying the look on Minuha's face, and when he lifted his hand to exclaim the woman didn't waste a second to bolt off.
"Oops," Seth said with a laugh, jogging after the large ass cheeks that had suddenly gone into a sprint.
At first, fear clouded Minuha's eyes, but then determination quickly took over as the woman sped forward with all her might.
Seth's hands on her ass had been the thing keeping Minuha in place, his hands negating any attempt of her to use her shadows, and since she didn't fancy ripping out her butt in an attempt to escape she had stayed in place.
Luckily for her, Seth had gotten caught up in praising himself and let her go, and she had no plans to waste this opportunity.
Usually, Minuha moved in her shadow form, but with Seth now on the same level of existence as her, an Immortal if she was to be precise, then doing so was just suicide.
Using any method to get away from Seth was her priority at the moment and though it wasn't her thing, Minuha wasted no time in leaving the ground and shooting into the air, and streaking across the sky in an attempt to escape.
It had just been a few seconds since Minuha took to the sky when a black blur appeared in the air moving in parallel with her.
"You shouldn't have done that, you just took away my reason to keep following behind you.
You also just moved to a territory where I surpass you, well not like there is a territory where you surpass me," the black blur finished with a snicker, and just as Minuha moved to change direction and move away from the black figure which could only be Seth, something slammed on her back and the next thing she knew she was falling to the ground.
"Hmm, she'll survive" Seth muttered retrieving his tightened fist which had just pounded down Minuha.
Satisfied with his hand work, Seth quickly descended from the sky and landed beside the still debris-filled crater that housed Minuha's form.
"Don't tell me your dead" Seth said.
"As long as you're the one doing the killing. I won't die" the voice of Minuha rang out as her battered figure walked out of the crater and stood before Seth with a straight back
"Huh, where did such cockiness come from, weren't you running for your life a second ago, I never pegged you as being stupidly brave."
"Hmm brave, funny of you to say that considering how much of a coward you are."
"Huh"
"Please, if I wasn't because of my shadow nature will you be able to do anything to me, the only reason you can suppress me, is because you can neutralize my very nature. You know what would happen if we had a fair all-out fight."
"Yes I do, and so do you, this" Seth said and the next instance he waved his hands, a huge black blade appearing in the sky, and falling towards Minuha.
Minuha stared up at the blade and then without the least worry ignored it and looked by at Seth a smile gracing her lips.
"Well I did fool you didn't I" she chuckled, and just then the black blade fell on her, a loud thud sounded, and without action from either of the two, the huge blade shattered into several dark pieces and faded away.