Book 4: Chapter 91: Commence Battle

Book 4: Chapter 91: Commence Battle

“Why is it you?!”

Lesiah’s eyes widened like saucers as she stared at Lilith blankly. The shock even made her forget about being slapped across the face. She was in slight... no, great denial that the person before her turned out to be Lilith.

Her long-awaited ideal lover turned out to be the person she hated the most.

This disappointment felt no different than asking out a cute, petite and legal loli so she could walk away without any responsibilities after having fun, only to see a nasty five-foot-tall dude turning up and demanding two hundred bucks for one round of service.

“Why can’t it be me?” Lilith smoothly retracted the hand that she had been slapping Lesiah with, and tilted her head to the side.

“Who did you think it was?”

“I thought...”

Lesiah stopped mid-sentence and her cheeks suddenly burned even more, but it was perfectly concealed by the red handprints on her face for now.

“Huh?”

The princess had a strange look on her face, so Lilith squinted her eyes and moved her face closer...

Something seemed fishy.

She only slapped Lesiah’s face, but why did her neck turn red too?

It wasn’t like her handprints could metastasize like cancer cells.

Guilt had Lesiah backing away. She avoided Lilith’s keen gaze and quickly made up some excuses.

“I thought... I thought it was Coleman. Yes, I thought it was Coleman who came to my rescue. So I was disappointed to see that it turned out to be you!”

“Really?”

“Of course!”

The princess nodded fervently. There was no way she would admit something as embarrassing as mistaking Lilith the lover of her dreams! That would undoubtedly be great blackmail material for that Golden Demon to coerce her into doing more terrible things!

“Fine, I’ll believe you for now...”

Of course, her instinct was telling her that Lesiah was definitely lying. Even so, this was hardly the time to harp on matters like that.

There were various ways to force the truth out of the princess later but for now, she had a more pressing matter to deal with.

“You’re still very weak. Take a breather first and leave the rest to me.”

Lilith stood in front of Lesiah and faced Shiloah.

For some reason, Lilith’s petite silhouette brought her tremendous relief. It almost overlapped the silhouette from her fantasy and left her in a daze.

“Okay...”

“Otherwise... Even you... Will die miserably...”

“Oh well...” Lilith took the initiative to charge toward him. “Thank you for the reminder.”

Naturally, after having a taste of Lilith’s full-powered attack earlier, Shiloah had no desire to get another taste of it. However, the speed at which Lilith was moving was so terrifying that even he didn’t have the confidence to perfectly evade her attack.

Fortunately, he was created to be a strange creature. Hence, his body structure differed completely from ordinary creatures.

He quickly arched his body in a weird posture, forming a huge letter ‘C’, with his head nearly touching the ground. An action that not even Lilith could perform was effortless to him. After all, he could twist his spine as he willed like a snake.

With this, he was able to dodge Lilith’s fist.

Even so, the wind from her fist that grazed him still hurt. But still, it could be considered that he was successful in neutralizing Lilith’s attack since he got away unscathed.

He was glad that he found out early on that Lilith couldn’t use any martial techniques. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even try avoiding that attack in such a risky way.

Shiloah promptly responded to Lilith by violently swinging his claws at Lilith, like they were knives.

SCREEEEEECH—!

A sharp piercing noise akin to knife scratching against glass was heard. Five slits were made in the space around Lilith, revealing the terrifying dark void inside it. But the slits were almost instantly closed up again by the world’s self-restorative power.

Of course, Lilith’s natural response was to dodge.

Shiloah didn’t seem to have battle qi or magical power in him. It was a strange and unprecedented power. It put her into a trance before he even got close to her. By the time she came back to her senses, she realized that his long claws were just right in front of her and she wouldn’t be able to dodge them in time.

“Ohoho... die!”

“You wish!”

Looking at the claws that were just inches away from her face, Lilith gritted her teeth.

If she couldn’t dodge it, then she would have to take it head-on!

Lilith didn’t cower from the claws that could rip open space. The luster of jade shone brilliantly on her right hand as it welcomed Shiloah’s sharp weapon!

THUD!

A muffled sound was heard.

It sounded nothing like flesh and metal meeting.

More metal and stone!

The moment they clashed, invisible ripples spread out from the point of contact as though a rock had been cast into a still lake.

A drop of golden blood oozed out from where Lilith’s fist came into contact with Shiloah’s claw. It then flowed along her arm and to her elbow before dripping onto the ground. The surrounding was so silent that everyone could clearly hear the blood drip.

“Seems like you’re losing...”