Chapter 175 Cornered?

Chapter 175 Cornered?

Chapter 175

So what was she talking about?

'Given the compass in her hand, it seems that one of my possessions indeed has a connection to them. They must have a tracking rune embedded onto it that I might have missed.'

Oliver frowned and scanned through his belongings. The items he had received from the other clan heirs were mostly pills and potions, which he had already consumed, so it could not be that.

It was likely that the thing was still with him.

"What thing might you be referring to?" he asked in a low voice, contemplating something.

"Hmm?" The woman put a finger under her chin as she smiled. "Well, it's no use telling you about it. You will not know of its existence after all. I will just have to kill you and search your belongings, simple."

A cold sweat formed at the nape of his neck, trickling down his spine. Oliver felt a chill as he heard her casual words. It did not look like she was joking.

"If you can tell me what I have that belongs to you, then I can return it to you and we can settle this matter without bloodshed," he suggested.

"I am afraid that you would need to die since you already saw my face. After all, we can't leave any witnesses alive."

She shook her head.

"It seems negotiations have broken down." He sighed, and in the next moment, Evelyn lunged at the woman from behind, her katana glowing brightly. Visitt novelbin(.)co/m for the latest updates

The woman turned in an instant, blocking Evelyn's katana with a folding metal fan.

She exclaimed, "What a surprise! I got totally fooled!"

The corners of her lips curled into a sardonic grin, her eyes gleaming with malice. Her tone carried a hint of sarcasm as she remarked on their obvious strategy.

Evelyn, however, did not stop there. While the woman's metal fan was blocking her katana, a wave of bright light shot from her hand, directly colliding with the woman.

A loud hissing voice resounded in the quiet surroundings.

As the dust settled, the woman had a dark expression as she stared at Evelyn with a mix of shock and anger.

"A light element user? What luck I have? We, the loyal followers of demons, loathe the light element the most. We kill any person with a light attribute no matter what," she said in a deep voice.

Her skin that was hit by Evelyn's light had a small red burning wound.

The woman opened up her folding fan and moved towards Evelyn at a terrifying speed, appearing in front of the little girl in the blink of an eye.

Evelyn barely had time to defend herself before the woman's fan hit against her sword.

A chilling aura emanating from her body directed towards Oliver.

The very air around her seemed to darken, her anger palpable. Oliver was calm. He retrieved a longsword from his mind space that he had stored before coming to this place and leaped into the air, aiming for her head.

He grabbed the hilt of the sword and raised his right hand, flicking two fingers. A burst of espera condensed into a blue water sword shot out, instantly striking the woman and piercing through her body.

Just as he tried to move his sword down on her head, he found he could not lift the sword at all.

An invisible force had fixed his sword in place, causing his complexion to drastically change.

He leaped away fiercely, abandoning the sword there. Midair, his hands moved swiftly, preparing an elemental attack.

A rain of sharp water needles enveloped him and shot up into the sky. His right hand pointed towards the clouds, and the water needles followed the direction of his fingertips to quickly combine into a colossal water needle, twenty feet in length (about half the length of a telephone pole).

He used his palm to clutch the large water needle as if it were a sword, throwing it towards the woman in black robes.

The giant water needle crashed down like heavenly judgment, striking the woman in robes.

The mountain trembled as the water elemental espera spilled out in every direction, like wind blades rampaging across the landscapes, the tremendous pressure even uprooting some of the weaker trees.

Evelyn, who was watching all this from her place, narrowed her eyes when suddenly her pupils dilated as she saw Oliver's expression becoming pale.

The water needle that was supposed to hit the woman badly was now nothing but a puddle floating before her, unable to fall.

The woman in black robes slowly lifted her head, showing a ghostly expression on her chubby face. Her skin was as pale as a person close to death. It was eerie.

Suddenly, something appeared in her hands. It was a long red whip. She twisted her hand, and the whip started to tremble violently, wiggling from one side to another.

An intense killing intent leaked out from her body as Oliver felt a huge pressure descending upon his shoulders, almost trying to crush him to the ground.

He quickly retreated back, water elemental espera gathering around his body like a shield.

His speed increased three-fold as he rapidly disappeared to the other side of the mountain, while the woman in black robes floated up in the air, her eyes as still as dead water.

In the next moment, she too vanished from her spot.

Evelyn was left alone, her body aching badly in multiple places. It was clear she had broken bones and had sustained injuries internally.

'I have to hurry up... and help Oliver.' she could not help but think how he might have been against that heretic, a surge of inexplicable anger rose from the depths of her heart, she felt a strong hatred towards those demonic followers.

Everything was so peaceful and yet they ruined everything for her and her friends.

With great difficulty and pain, she reached out to her storage artifact, a small brooch, and retrieved a healing potion, starting to take small gulps of it.

Her body started to heal slowly. She knew it would take some time before she could move again and prayed that Oliver could keep up until then.