Chapter 260 Joining The Fray (2)

Basil and Iliana were now already a kilometer away from the area around Arthan Library.

They could see the chaos inside Randalvine, which no one had ever thought would happen, but Iliana's mind was still occupied with the Mages and Knights Basil had killed.

She couldn't believe even until now that Basil didn't even hesitate when he killed them. He had done it so smoothly, she wondered if it was something he had always done.

Although she felt no emotional attachment to the people he had killed, she could put herself in their shoes. She didn't empathize with them, but she could imagine herself being one of them.

They were just doing their job of protecting the people—they did nothing wrong. If she were one of them, she would definitely be pissed so badly after knowing the cause of her death, hell wouldn't even accept her.

It all happened just because they encountered Basil. Talking about a cruel fate, unconsciously standing in someone's way and getting killed because of it was one of it.

"Doesn't killing them leave enough proof that you have been here?"

"Are you referring to the Qi Signature I left behind?"

Iliana nodded lightly. "Yes. Even though you used Qi, the Kingdom has many ways to figure that it belongs to you."

"Luckily, the thing is, they won't. These Monsters have dense enough Mana to cover the already faint trace of my Qi."

Iliana lowly hummed to herself at Basil's question, then decided to stop talking about it. She knew no matter how many times she asked Basil, she wouldn't understand his way of seeing other people.

Deciding to look around her, she clicked her tongue bitterly as she looked what the vibrant, elegant, and joyful city had turned into.

Some of the buildings were completely pulverized, some were burned down, and some were cut in half. The scene was chaotic enough to make one cry over it after seeing it just once.

Her mood turned sour as she thought about how much worse the situation in Woster County that had been under the invasion of the Demons for three days. She worried about her friend's well-being.

"AAAAHHH! NO! NO! DON'T EAT ME! AAACKK!"

"Mother, no! Don't leave me behind!"

"Father, wake up, Father!"

"I am sorry, Sophia. I'm sorry. I just want to live!"

"DARN IT! BURN IN HELL, MAGGOTS!"

Iliana could see many happenings even though she had just passed a certain part of Randalvine that didn't even make up a tenth of its whole area: mothers leaving behind their kids and vice versa, friends saving friends, and friends sacrificing friends.

She was really bothered at the scene she witnessed with her very own eyes, but Basil didn't even glance at it once. His eyes remained planted on the way ahead of him as if he was seeing into a far away place.

Basil was actually monitoring the situation at Woster County, just like what he had been doing for the past two days, but Iliana had no way of knowing it. In her eyes, Basil was just turning a blind eye on the things people were forced to do due to the circumstance.

Roar!

Iliana's eyes immediately lit upon seeing an 8 meters tall Minotaur Warrior was running their way. It was chasing a mother and daughter, and she was glad she now had a reason to save the two as the Demon was standing in their way.

"Don't engage in battle. Let's find an alternative way."

"Tsk! I will do what I want!"

"Fine with me."

Much to her surprise, when Basil was about to change his course and she refused to follow him, he didn't force her to do so. He left her to do what she wanted to do as he took another way to pass the Minotaur Warrior.

She was slightly dumbfounded at how unwilling Basil was in helping people out, but she was glad Basil didn't stop her. Exhaling softly to herself, she took Sinister Piercer out, then dashed towards the Minotaur Warrior.

"Take cover!"

"T-Thank you, o benevolent Mage!"

She didn't like the way she was being thanked to, but she could pay no mind to it in the slightest. The Minotaur Warrior in front of her felt different than any Minotaur Warrior she had encountered, and she was slightly alarmed because of it.

Boom!

Manifesting four of her Magic Circles, the surrounding air was immediately overwhelmed with the Mana her Grand Circles attracted. Infusing her Mana to her spear, she activated one of her favorite Arts.

"[Boulder Piercer]!"

Although its name was not as scary as her other Arts', the destruction her Art brought wasn't something one should scoff at. This Art of hers had even inspired Basil in his past life to create an Art of his own: [Boulder Cleaver].

As Mana coated around her spear, Iliana jumped at the Minotaur Warrior like a flash. She reappeared right in front of its head in the next moment, and was really close to piercer its head with her spear.

Clank!

It was much to her bafflement that the Demon managed to redirect her spear with its giant sword. The power the sword held was also astonishing; she was thrown away to the back.

She skidded on the ground, and only stopped after she was 10 meters away from the Demon. Her hands were already trembling at this point, and she couldn't understand what had just happened.

"How... How can the Minotaur be that strong?"

'It wasn't supposed to be like this,' is what she wanted to say. Unlike Basil who was aware that all of the Demons that came out from the Obelisk during the Outbreak were on a whole different level than the usual ones, she didn't know about it.

She had been fighting the losing Demons that looked similar to the winning Demons in her whole life, so encountering the latter was a shock to her. She didn't expect there would be such an apparent gap between the former and the latter.

Boom!

Of course, she didn't plan to back down here. As she materialized her last Magic Circle, she determined herself to kill the strong Minotaur Warrior in front of her.

Five Magic Circles were now floating behind her back and they were shining intensely as they gathered Mana from the surrounding air. Infusing her Mana into her spear, she dashed again towards the Demon.

The Minotaur Warrior was still looking at Iliana unimpressed even though she was now exuding a whole different level of pressure, but she didn't let it bother her. Jumping to the air until she was higher than the Demon's head, she slammed her spear down.

"[Mountain Splitter]!"

Her spear arced due to the power she put into it as it cut through the air. Iliana was intending to cut the 8 meters tall Demon in two as it had managed to irk her by acting all high.

Fully believing in its ability to survive, the Demon merely put its sword above its head to protect its head from being hit by the blade of Iliana's spear. Unfortunately for the Demon, this attack of hers really did something to it.

Slash!

Boom!

Iliana landed on ground with an explosion of Mana as her Art didn't only cut the Demon in two, but also carved a deep and long trench on the ground. The Demon's also great sword split in two not long after, but its body was still doing its best to remain intact.

Thud!

The Demon fell on its knees as it tried to reconnect its body with the absurd regeneration speed it had. Blood was ceaselessly pouring out of the open wound, but Iliana could see it was rapidly healing

"How do you like that, bastard? It must be uncomfortable—"

"Don't waste your time talking to your enemy, and just kill it."

"How?!"

Swish!

Basil cut the Minotaur Warrior to pieces just with his Qi Blades. Iliana didn't manage to question how he had suddenly appeared beside her as the thing happening in front of her astonished her as much as it annoyed her.

She was amazed that he had already possessed such power, but she was annoyed he had just pulled a kill steal on her. Nonetheless, she still dropped the matter as she looked at the urgency on Basil's face.

"Let's leave this place immediately. Deacon is already waiting for us just a few hundreds meters from here."

"Why did you come here? I thought you were going to leave me be."

"I come here because you didn't return after more than two minutes. I will let you do whatever you want to do, but I will never let you go meet your doom."

"It's not like I am going to die." Iliana frowned in dissatisfaction.

"An abomination that both of us can't handle is heading our way. We shouldn't waste our life here."

Iliana's expression darkened upon hearing Basil's words. Hearing such a word from someone who was confident in his power like him didn't bring any good news.

If someone like Basil deemed whatever was coming their way an abomination, that means, it was enough to flatten the entire Randalvine by itself. She tried to think of what it was, and something immediately popped up in her mind.

"Is it one of the humanoid High Grade Monsters?"

"Yes."

To be exact, one of Goap's Six Generals was heading their way, but Basil didn't need to tell her that, so he merely nodded his head. He scooped her up afterwards, and was about to run when she stopped her.

"Wait! Let's take the mother and daughter with us."

"I can only carry one princess."

"Wow. That was smooth, but I'm not in the mood to flirt—I have just saved two civilians!"

"Don't worry." Uncaring towards Iliana's request to stop, Basil dashed towards the place Deacon was waiting for them. "They won't suffer anymore, for the Monsters have ended their pain eternally."

Iliana wasn't even looking at Basil at this point since the moment Basil dashed like a flash, she immediately looked for the mother and daughter with her eyes. It didn't take her long to find them being munched by three Demons.

"That's what happens when you just save people—you waste your energy. I hope you can learn to let people be, and protect those you need to protect."

This time, Iliana couldn't say anything back.