The girl's eyes widened briefly at Eren's words. He was audacious. He was flaunting his lover and insulting her in the same breath.
"I have nothing to prove," she replied, her voice as cold as ice. Eren's disappointment was evident as his trap had failed to provoke her. "Enjoy your ignorance together."
Despite her frustration with Eren's behavior, she chose not to engage. To Eren's surprise, she brushed past him without another word, her footsteps fading into silence.
Eren stood rooted to the spot, disbelief etched across his face.
Had he failed? This situation was undoubtedly complicated. The conditions of the option didn't offer him much room for maneuvering.
He thought he might provoke her into giving him an opportunity, but other than igniting slight jealousy, it wasn't much effective. It was far from reaching the threshold of regret.
Eren watched her walk away in silence, his expressions turning grim. Now that situation had reached this point, he had no choice but to take more drastic steps.
'When everything else fails, only a prince in shining armor comes to help.' Eren thought, looking at the girl whose figure was growing distant. 'Although it makes me feel like a villain, I can't be caught up in that.'
He sent a mental transmission to Yelen, issuing a command. Hearing his command, Yelen was visibly confused. She didn't understand why Eren was planning such a thing.
Still, she agreed with him. She appeared at the entrance of the Palace where the girl was about to reach. She gathered the Spiritual Essence, prepared to open a portal at a moment's notice.
She was about to kidnap the girl and take her to the mountain of loss, where Eren had saved the Sect Master of Demon Sect, Feng Yu. It was also the best place as it restricted all spatial influence within it.
"What a crazy girl. Anyway, I am glad that she left," Eren told Xiu Ying, as if he was actually glad that she was leaving.
Taking advantage of the situation, he further stated, "Oh right. I had to meet up with Uriel. I should be back in a few hours."
Xiu Ying was already pleased with the affection he had openly shown towards her in front of other women. She didn't doubt his words. She didn't think that he had any feelings for that new girl.
"Hmm?" Felona's expressions changed, feeling as if her barrier had broken.
She initially thought that Eren had arrived, right on time. However, her expressions darkened when she felt that it was an entirely different presence.
She saw a man appear in front of the portal. The man reached out his hand, holding the girl by her waist to stop her from flying straight inside the portal.
"That's why I told you to not go anywhere alone." The man told the young lady that was saved by him.
Eren had also arrived at the same time, his thoughts in a mess. He had planned to be a savior, but he didn't understand where this man arrived from.
Just like the girl, his Identification Skill didn't work on the man either. The only thing he could feel was that the man was dangerous.
He felt the same level of threat that he had felt from an Overlord, if not stronger.
The girl freed herself from the man's embrace, glaring at him. "You were following me secretly?"
The man didn't answer. He released the girl and looked in the direction of Felona. As Felona should have been invisible to anyone except Eren, she was surprised to see Eren looking straight at her.
"You shouldn't have attacked her." In the blink of an eye, the man appeared right in front of her. "Now I will have to destroy you."
Some unknown essence gathered around his fist.
"Are you trying to blow up this entire palace?" The girl in the distance asked in surprise, noticing the energy around the man's fist. However, she didn't look like she was planning to stop him, especially since she saw Eren in the distance.
The man didn't answer her either. He tossed his fist straight for Felona, who cast a spirit barrier. However, when her barrier touched the unknown energy around the man's fist, it was destroyed without even the slightest of resistance.
The fist came straight for Felona who couldn't react fast enough as the space around her was getting destroyed by that energy. She couldn't even teleport away.