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“Where do you… think you’re going?”

Cornelia stood at the top of the staircase. Her white hair fluttered though it was windless. There was endless suppressed anger in her eyes. Color drained from Lesiah’s face as her hands and feet immediately turned cold.

How? Why was she here? Was she not worried that they would successfully escape had they chosen to go down the stairs?

“Ohoho, it seems like you have made the worst choice, princess.”

Shiloah finally caught up to them from behind, effectively cutting off their escape route.

“How pitiful. Your idea of going against expectations is brilliant, princess. It is what smart people would do. Unfortunately… You are mistaken about the current circumstances…”
“Current circumstances? Is it not because the presence of outsiders like us are causing this world to be rapidly destroyed and that is why all of you are trying to eliminate us as soon as possible?”
“Ohoho, that is what it seems like on the surface. But in actuality, Lady Cornelia wants to…”
“Shiloah!”

Cornelia interrupted him with an icy glare. “You talk too much.”

“A-Apologies, Lady Cornelia…” Bowing respectfully, Shiloah retreated to the other end of the staircase, doing his best to block off Lesiah’s escape route.

“This cat-and-mouse game is over.”

Cornelia walked down the stairs. Lesiah could feel the weight of her every step on her heart, pushing her into the abyss of despair. In the face of such adversity, she found herself helpless.

She freed up one of her hands and threw a few green-colored pills which she used to stall Shiloah earlier. However before these pills could transform into green falcons, they were crushed into powder by an invisible force.

“How boring…” Cornelia waved her hand, fanning the powder floating in the air.

“So? That was the last desperate fight you could put up as a cornered animal? Where’s that strange ability of yours? Why don’t you use that? Perhaps you might have a one in a million chance of escaping with that,” she commented disdainfully.

Bitterness welled up in Lesiah’s heart. That strange ability wasn’t even hers. How could she even use what wasn’t hers? She had been calling out to Lady Sae countless times in her mind, hoping to borrow that strange power of hers to tide over the difficulty she was facing right now.

Yet, her pleas fell on deaf ears. She could only smile bitterly as she watched Cornelia approaching her. “Why don’t you give me ten more minutes? Maybe I might be able to use it again.”

“Hehe. Don’t even think about stalling for time. Time is too precious for me now and I’m not stupid enough to sit around waiting for that dragon on your back to wake up either.”

Her opponent obviously had no intention of wasting time with her. Cornelia stretched her hand out and grasped the air. As soon as she did that, Lesiah felt herself being strangled by an invisible iron grip.

“UGH…!”

Her hands involuntarily let go of Lilith to scratch whatever that was around her throat. However, there was nothing there. All she could do was whimper helplessly.

As Cornelia slowly raised her arm, Lesiah’s feet were gradually lifted off the ground. Without a foothold, she was left dangling in mid-air powerlessly.

“How pitifully weak you are. Seeing you is no different than seeing my past self. And I abhor my past self.”

The madness in Cornelia’s eyes intensified, along with the strength in her grip. The finger marks on Lesiah’s neck grew more visible as her pretty face slowly turned purple.

It hurts.

Due to the lack of oxygen in her brain, she didn’t even have the capacity to think about anything other than how her brain would explode like a balloon at any moment.

The ringing in her ears caused by the lack of oxygen drowned out Cornelia’s voice. Even in this situation, she managed to hear the words whispered in her ears clearly.

“You’ll be fine. Leave the rest to me.”

The expression on Cornelia’s face contorted as she tightened her grip more, trying to finish off one of her enemies first. However, Lilith grabbed the invisible hand that Lesiah couldn’t even touch and crushed it with brute force.

Lesiah fell, but Lilith managed to catch her. She sat on the ground, clutching her neck, and started coughing while gasping for air.

“Take a break first.” After calming Lesiah down, Lilith raised her head. Her burning golden dragon eyes exuded the dignity of a monarch… And fury.

Lilith got up slowly while staring straight at Cornelia, who had an unpleasant look on her face right now.

“Who gave you the permission… to lay a finger on her…?” Every word rolled off her tongue threateningly.

In that instant, Cornelia thought she saw the return of a massive creature from ancient times. Its wings could cover the sky, its claws could tear the land up and its eyes could behold all living creatures on the land. It roared at her with its huge mouth that could swallow everything. Its fangs were like the sharpest weapon in the world. Its putrid breath could erode everything in sight.

This was a dragon. A real dragon. The creature whose reputation was renowned throughout the world. The most feared race.

Cornelia took a deep breath, calming the lingering pain in her head. Something flashed from within her sleeve.

Lilith’s bones cracked noisily. Not only did her badly damaged skin completely healed, it even glowed. Furthermore, the aura that she had been exuding also intensified. It felt almost as if she went through a huge transformation after her three minutes nap.

Lilith stomped on the ground. The ground immediately cracked under her foot. In the next moment, her figure vanished. Cornelia’s eyes widened in shock.

Although she could tell that Lilith had powered up from the aura she was exuding, she didn’t expect the blonde to be this powerful after she last saw her ten minutes ago.

Without the time to think deeper, Cornelia clasped her hands together and created a ripple in space. However, that ripple in space was torn apart by Lilith in just an instant! Ripped apart, like it was nothing more than a piece of paper!

Cornelia was stunned. She didn’t even expect her strongest defense would be broken this quickly. But she very quickly composed herself and moved, successfully evading Lilith’s fist.

BOOM!

A big hole was made in the staircase. Dust was flying everywhere and Lilith disappeared. She seemed to have directly gone downstairs through the hole she just created.

Cornelia rubbed her arm, soothing the pain caused by the powerful gust from Lilith’s fist. She scanned her surroundings vigilantly, anticipating an ambush from Lilith. After all, her petite body wouldn’t be able to take even a punch from Lilith. If Lilith’s tiny fist connected with her body, she would definitely be blown into pieces.

Anger bubbled up as she gritted her teeth. She knew how ridiculously powerful dragons were, but why couldn’t they be more reasonably powerful? Putting aside their absurd innate talents, how could they power up this fast? They could have easily exterminated all other races in this world!

Moreover, it was said that dragons were the most terrifying when they were in their true form. Just the fact that they were covered in impenetrable scales was enough to discourage most of their enemies.

She couldn’t help but wonder why that dragon girl named Lilith hadn’t shown her true form. Could it be that she was actually the mouse in this game of cat and mouse instead of the other way round?!