Chapter 515 Sacrifice Needed

"Maybe we have a chance to stop the worst from happening. I've been studying new methods to do that..." Elisabeth shouted while she already had the defenses of her house activated. "You should at least let me try, Chris!"

The Duke heard this and was not convinced. "Elisabeth, you have told me this several times in the past, and you have never shown proof that you can help this girl!"

"Now that the situation has reached this point and you can no longer fulfill our agreement, it's time to give up."

"Give up? You're really too cold! This is a life we're talking about!" She said indignantly.

"No, we're talking about thousands of lives." The Duke said, making an ugly expression on his face.

He did not like the situation either since he had nothing against Rebecca. He even thought that having someone from his province with such a powerful Physique might help him somehow.

If Rebecca could control her powers, the day might come when she would become a great expert in the empire.

As much as this would be very good only for her at first, specialists almost always generated benefits for their homelands.

Whether it was the protection they later guaranteed or the resources they sent to residents of such areas.

An expert might not care about the city they were born in. Still, if he sent resources to his relatives residing in that place, it would undeniably benefit the place. After all, people consumed, and by receiving valuable resources, they could also become local experts.

Not everyone was talented enough to take advantage of the opportunity and travel further into the fantastic world. Some would use resources and only achieve enough strength to lead forces from their homelands.

And so, territories and people like Chris would benefit when some local prodigy like Rebecca appeared in their areas of dominance.

Hence, he would prefer to her living and become a contributing citizen to local development.

Unfortunately, the Ancient Poison Body was complicated to control, and between the risk of having a calamity in his city and the small chance of her developing, he preferred to avoid the worst.

"Elisabeth, you couldn't keep your promises. Now it's time to back off and give up." He said as local experts began to arrive at that place. "I know it's a great misfortune to lose a disciple, but we must cut off the hand, so we don't lose the whole body!"

"Regret all you want, but make the right decision, or this day could worsen for everyone involved!"

At that moment, several local patriarchs were already there, among them Elke's father, Aiken, and his wife, Mabel, the patriarch Baier and the leader of House Vogel. In addition, several experts at the final part of the 2nd stage were there, but also the Morning Star Academy principal.

"We must break into this woman's house and do what we must before the worst happens." Alric Baier's father loudly said while he had weapons in his hands.

"Yes. The whole city is at risk if we don't do something in time..." A person from another local noble family said this. "Look at that. That girl's poisonous mist has already reached the entire block we're on."

Mabel looked at her husband and said. "There are no alternatives here. This girl is only at the 2nd Revolution, and her poison 'blast' is already so powerful..."

She and everyone there could feel that even level 13 cultivators could be severely poisoned if they came into contact with that mist.

That was rather impressive, considering that she had just reached level 13.

So if she kept getting stronger, without a method to control that process, one day she would even threaten Transcendents.

When that happened, a city like Peters City would be entirely annihilated without her even making an effort!

That was unacceptable!

"If we don't stop this, the damage will be irreparable and unstoppable in the future!" Viktoria and Annaliese's mother said thoughtfully, not liking having to deal with Rebecca's sacrifice but sure of what had to be done.

"Sigh..."

As Aiken sighed, Luis had similar thoughts to the other Transcendents in the area. 'Poor girl... If she had been born in another state, she might have had some means of survival. But in Leopoldine, where the profession of poison masters is somewhat underdeveloped, there aren't many possibilities for her here.'

Some professions could be better developed in areas with great affinities to them. For example, the poison art could be developed more easily in a forest with a significant presence of poisonous vegetation.

There was not much of this in Leopoldine, only poisonous plants that grew far apart from each other.

In other Concordia states, however, there were those areas that had forests the size of Linn Province, full of organisms with poisonous powers.

In these places, the profession of poison masters could be developed to the limit.

However, this place was far away from any of such places on this continent, so Rebecca had little hope.

Hence, someone shouted when more than 50 locally powerful cultivators were already surrounding Elisabeth's house. "Elisabeth, we will give you 2 minutes to leave or deal with your student. After that period, we will invade your house and deal with even you!"

"Humph!"

"For I want to see who of you dares to endure my poisons!" She shouted.

Patriarch Vogel, the leader of Elisabeth's family of origin, then said. "I will take care of this woman's poison. The rest of you can focus on immobilizing her and killing that girl."

Hearing that, Elisabeth felt hatred for that person as she looked at the girl in her arms, beginning to lose hope.

The seconds began to tick by quickly as she tried to think of something.

When there were only 10 seconds left until her time was up, something came to her mind, and she shouted. "Wait a moment. Just listen to this before you attack!"

"Oh? What is it?" Patriarch Baier asked, sensing that such a woman was about to give up.

She then said. "Rebecca is very good friends with Lothur Ritter. Are you really going to kill his friend without giving him a chance to come here? I propose that someone goes in search of him and brings him here. If he agrees to sacrifice her, I will no longer object!"

'Lothur?" Several people there thought of the figure of the silver-haired young man and felt goosebumps in their bodies, remembering that now Lothur was even capable of defeating Transcendents.

Considering that alone, even the Duke of the province had to think carefully before acting against Rebecca since he might provoke someone capable of killing him!

'Damn it!'

'She's friends with that bastard?' Patriarch Baier thought about it as he felt hatred for that fellow.

Meanwhile, Lothur's allies in the Ritter Motor Company looked at each other, knowing that they had to consider his opinion before doing something against a friend.

Lothur was not easy to deal with and could create as much chaos as Rebecca's venomous 'explosion' in this city!

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