Chapter 115: Our Lives Are Not Parallel Lines
The sword made of black fire not only looks scary, but also has a terrifying power.
Even before the black fire touches the ground, the rushing air has already created a deep pit several meters wide and tens of meters long on the ruins.
When the sword completely falls, all the debris on the ground is shaken up into the sky, and raindrops falling from the high sky evaporate one after another. The earth seems to tremble violently because of it.
Dust is flying, disturbing the view.
With a loud bang, it pierced through the long night and covered all other sounds.
Loria, who was watching this scene not far away, looked as pale as paper for a moment.
After eating a bunch of power-enhancing things, her endurance has exceeded a hundred. But even so, she has no confidence at all in being able to withstand this attack.
"Maybe she will be chopped into pieces!"
It's really terrifying.
Loria had no idea that the guildmaster had this trick up her sleeve.
No wonder the guildmaster always managed to survive until the end in the previous simulations.
With this sword strike, even ten stacked tree spirits would be shattered, right?
The threat posed to the guildmaster by mere waves of creatures is much smaller compared to her.
As the dust gradually cleared, Loria saw the Adventurers Management Guild completely "smashed" into the ground.
In the deep pit, about ten meters deep, two people were lying on their sides.
She immediately slid down from the edge of the pit.
"The guildmaster."
Loria stood beside the guildmaster, who was kneeling on one knee.
The big sister with golden hair now had her hair completely undone. Sweat soaked her body, causing her clothes and hair to stick to her skin.
Loria had sharp eyes and immediately noticed that the guildmaster's hand holding the sword was bleeding.
"I'm fine."
The guildmaster shook her head.
But her voice was weak, and she didn't seem okay at all.
Loria quickly took out a bottle of medicine, preparing to restore some strength to the guildmaster. However, the moment she was about to straighten the guildmaster's head, she suddenly froze.
"Eyes."
She clearly saw that the guildmaster's eyes had turned into the shape of weights, like a scale weighing objects, one on the left and one on the right, reflecting each other.
This reminded Loria of the changes that occurred in her own eyes when using the "Succubus Eye."
"Be careful!"
Just then, the guildmaster suddenly shouted.
Loria quickly turned around and, as she waved her right hand, a large sword appeared out of thin air.
Boom!
The flying boulder was smashed into pieces, with debris flying everywhere.
Loria didn't let her guard down. She took a step forward and swung her sword in a spinning motion, knocking the person who was following the boulder away.
"This person isn't dead?"
Loria quickly cast an Insightful Perception.
Seeing the large "C" displayed in the personal data feedback she received, she couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.
If the guildmaster hadn't struck this person with her sword, she would have faced certain death when suddenly confronted by him.
However, the situation has changed now.
Her wounds haven't fully healed, and this person's injuries are even more severe.
"Watch me beat down this coward!"
Just a moment ago, Loria was bullied mercilessly by Vita, but now she just wants the people from the Hidden Leader to taste her anger.
I, Loria, a brave female warrior powered by shame, not only excel at fighting in bed but also at stabbing people with my sword.
Loria rushed forward.
The person who got smashed into the ground by her was a trainer at the camp. He realized danger was coming, but Kitty's Oace's sudden speed made it impossible for him to react in time.
Bang!
Loria swung her sword down, and the instructor's head exploded like a watermelon.
But miraculously, even though his head was gone, his hands and feet could still move and launch an attack.
However, this level of attack was completely inadequate.
Loria stomped on him, completely crushing his hands and feet.
As long as it shattered into pieces, she would be satisfied.
Loria raised her sword, and suddenly something strange happened. The instructor's body transformed into a puddle of mud on its own.
"Hmm?"
Wide-eyed, she suddenly noticed the ground trembling beneath her feet.
Although she didn't know what was happening, she instinctively turned around and shouted, "Be careful!"
The guildmaster knelt down on one knee without changing her expression. She gently flipped her right hand, and Loria saw only the sword rising up, and in an instant, a dazzling white arc appeared in the air.
Boom!
At that moment, the ground suddenly cracked, and something like tentacles burst out of the opening, shattered into countless fragments by the white arc.
Because the arc appeared too quickly, it looked as if the tentacles had run to their own death.
"What kind of creature is this?"
Loria widened her eyes.
Through the feedback of Insightful Perception, she learned that the tentacles were the instructor she had just chopped into pieces.
But "newborn" abilities were supposed to have limits, right? Once the body was chopped up, it couldn't recover anymore.
However...
No.
Now is not the time to think about these things.
Loria took a quick glance at the guildmaster, who was still kneeling on one knee, and immediately ran towards the instructor.
The heavily injured instructor was no match for her. With a few strikes, she could easily cut the instructor into pieces, but the next second, the instructor would morph into tentacles and emerge from another spot on the ground.
"Impossible, this kind of power can't be unlimited, or else it would disrupt the balance."
Loria clenched her teeth, and soon she found out where the instructor's "energy" to regain its form came from.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A group of monsters surged onto the square next to the association, shouting and attacking the rushing crowd.
Just then, dozens of tentacles shot out from underground, entangling several monsters that couldn't dodge in time.
Gurulu gulu...
A loud swallowing sound echoed underground.
Loria swung her sword several times, but couldn't cut off all the tentacles. She could only watch helplessly as the intact tentacles twisted and deformed the once ferocious creatures, eventually swallowing them whole, skin, flesh, and bones.
The peaceful square suddenly turned into a sea of blood.
"Ah, ah, ah..."
The raging creatures all stopped and let out a scream that sounded eerily human.
Humans can feel fear, and so can monsters. Especially when they see an unknown creature harming their own kind. After a moment, all those monsters turned and ran towards Creek Town.
The fear overwhelmed their hatred for the adventurers.
"Damn it, this beast must have killed a lot of people before."
Loria rushed up again.
The instructor who absorbed some of the monster's power became stronger, but she still couldn't hold up against the full firepower.
With a few swift strikes, the newly grown tentacles were all chopped into pieces.
Regardless of what Loria did, she couldn't completely kill this instructor, which made her anxious.
After the guildmaster defeated the strongest enemy forces, this monster onslaught, which she had already made a mess of, was mostly contained.
But without completely getting rid of this instructor, she couldn't feel at ease.
This guy's ability is too special. If they don't kill him now, who can guarantee that he won't come back and take advantage of this special ability?
Moreover, if he doesn't die today, he will definitely seek revenge against her and the guildmaster in the future.
"He must be killed. Once he's dead, even if the Hidden Leader wants revenge, they won't solely focus on me and the guildmaster."
Since cutting doesn't work, let's use fire to burn.
To deal with the monsters, Loria purposely stored two buckets of oil in her inventory.
She slashed the tentacles that were trying to escape with her sword, then poured oil on them, lit them on fire, and the flames quickly spread.
Amidst the crackling sounds, Loria finally heard a few screams.
"Did it work?"
With a happy expression on her face, she prepared to pour all the remaining oil from the bucket.
Suddenly, an unusual gust of wind blew through the rain, hitting Loria's back.
Hiss...
She took a sharp breath, her body tensed up quickly, as if she had been pricked on her toe with a needle, her hair almost stood on end.
Someone.
Loria quickly turned around and saw a familiar figure passing by her side.
"Vita！"
She was shocked, didn't Vita faint from being choked by her?
"What are you doing?"
A roar echoed in her ears.
Loria quickly turned her head and saw Vita crouched on the ground, holding two sharp spikes deeply pierced into the ground.
Strangely, the solid stone slab was bleeding like human skin.
Vita pulled the spikes down, and immediately the screams became even louder.
"Ah ah ah, let go, quickly let go, Vita, are you planning to betray the organization?"
Vita was breathing heavily, but she was not scared. Instead, a slightly sinister smile appeared on her face, and she exerted even more force, driving the two spikes deeper.
"Instructor, I've heard others say that none of the instructors in the training camp have a good ending. Either they die on missions or they are killed by their own trained students. Now, let me give you a hand and make you fit in."
She pushed hard, and blood gushed out from the stone slab like a fountain.
"Ah, this..."
Loria looked at Vita, who suddenly appeared, and then at the stone slab gushing with blood. She didn't know what to do for a moment.
This turn of events shocked her just as much as seeing the guildmaster wielding a black flame sword.
"You crazy person, betraying the organization, you will die, and your soul will never find peace!"
"Stop, stop now, there is still a chance to turn back. I will speak up for you when the time comes and relieve you of your guilt."
Roaring sounds kept coming and going.
A smirk appeared at the corner of Vita's mouth, "Silly, once I kill you, no one will blame me, and I won't need anyone to help plead for me."
"You..."
"Shut up!" Vita's voice suddenly raised, "I know where your weakness lies, no matter how much you struggle, it's useless. You only have one path now - death!"
She said it and she did it.
Under her attacks, the instructor who had been fleeing and gaining strength by absorbing the energy of the monsters began screaming like a wild beast that had lost its footing.
She laughed even brighter, "Back in the training camp, you told me that I could only leave if I could ignore death. I followed your words. I killed those who greeted me, and I watched the timid Sylph being tormented into a monster by all of you. I nearly gave up everything just to finally escape from that hell. Do you know how I have lived these past few years?"
She lightly spun the spikes, accompanied by the sound of screams.
At that time, they were just in their early teens.
When other children from different families go to school and receive knight education, they float in the dyeing tank of desire.
"I thought you knew, but I was wrong. You don't understand at all. You can't even ignore death yourself, but you force us to ignore it!"
Vita's hand tightened more and more.
"You said I am an excellent student in the training camp, and that's true. I do have the qualifications to call myself an excellent student. But you are not an excellent instructor. Not only are you not excellent, but you are also a scum. Your existence is a stain on us, on the training camp!"
The instructor cried out in terror, "I was wrong, Vita, please spare me, you..."
Vita pulled forcefully on the thorn held in her left hand, then casually inserted it into another spot on the ground.
"Ah!"
In a cold tone, she said, "Trying to distract my attention and then attack? Put away your useless tricks."
As the thorns started stirring, the screams first became intense, and then grew weaker and weaker until they completely disappeared.
"Dead?"
Loria asked.
Vita nodded gently and pulled out the thorns, this time the ground no longer spurted blood.
Loria instinctively took a step back.
After killing the instructor, is she the next target?
But to her surprise, Vita stood up and instead of looking back, she walked step by step towards the dense ink-like darkness ahead.
"Where are you going?"
Loria quickly asked.
"The mission to find the magic puppet has failed, and even the leader of the mission is dead. As the executor of the mission, I must return to be punished."
Vita's voice sounded very faint, as if it could scatter at any moment.
Loria couldn't help but follow after her, "Why are you going back at this time?"
"You don't need to worry about me, go and check on Adeline instead, her situation is much worse than mine."
"Come with me."
"Don't follow me anymore, if other people see us, I'll have to pretend that something is wrong even if I'm initially fine."
"But..."
"The wave of monsters hasn't ended, you still have a lot to do."
Loria's footsteps gradually slowed down, until finally coming to a complete stop.
But under the cover of night, Vita continued to walk slowly, one step, two steps, becoming more and more vague, more and more distant.
Loria sighed and turned to walk towards where the guildmaster was.
She probably understood that Vita held back when fighting with her.
Sometimes, that's just how life is.
They started on different paths and no matter how much they adjusted, they couldn't merge together.
Holding Vita's hand at this moment was impossible. It wouldn't encourage Vita, but instead harm her.
Did she leave?
Vita's ears perked up.
Using the weaver's power consecutively, she was reaching her limits. She walked away so that Loria wouldn't see her falling.
She knew that if she really fell, Loria would definitely come to help her, but that wouldn't be a good outcome for both of them.
So, it’s better to keep walking further and further like this, after all, we were just passing by.
Vita is not afraid of death.
Just the thought of separating like this, Loria's heart filled with excitement, as she can finally live the life she has always dreamed of.
Just as she was about to step into the darkness completely, a familiar voice could be heard from a distant place behind her.
"Wait for me until I reach Level A, then I'll come find you!"
The rain was falling softly, Vita stopped.
Level A?
Level A is still not enough.
She turned around, wanting to stop Loria from risking her life, but Loria's figure had already disappeared.
Vita gently lifted her hand, and finally, she raised it higher to wipe away her tears.
Rainwater entered her eyes.
