The villainess shall be mine

"Master, I can sense another presence that is completely different from a monster," Cristal reported.

Finally! Adam was a little bit relieved that they could move forward. "This must be the guy! Let's deal with him quickly!"

Adam's power was unavoidable as long as the target is within his range, and as long as the target didn't possess an ability stronger than his.

"Cristal, lead the way, don't let him escape!" Adam instructed.

After Adam said these words, Zax dashed forward and Adam followed her.

The only reason why they didn't lose sight of each other until that point was because Adam used his power at regular intervals.

Still, they had already wasted precious time.

'I hope we are not too late. Please hang in there, Miss Liu.' Zax prayed.

With Cristal leading the way, Adam and Zax managed to move at a quicker pace.

They dived through stone walls and huge boulders and jumped from the top of cliffs, but it turned out that all of these were illusions.

These were just tricks established by the enemy to prevent them from moving forward.

However, the enemy seemed to fear Adam's ability and never revealed themself.

They were patient and observed Adam and Zax from the shadow, waiting for them to exhaust their strength by leading them toward stronger monsters.

This was certainly one of the most dangerous ability users that Adam ever faced.

Fortunately, Adam improved in a lot of ways and managed to survive even without Cristal, his biggest trump card.

Still, he was also lucky, because if someone else apart from Zax came with him, then they wouldn't have thought to use the gravitum tubes.

'I am glad that this pink wild hamster came with me.' Adam thought to himself.

However, when they got closer to the enemy's location, someone spoke.

"Hahaha, I am out of here. I didn't expect someone to be able to break through my illusion." A voice said.

The enemy's domain was related to the manipulation of reflection.

He could create a kind of huge mirror room that didn't only reflect images but also sounds.

"I bet the commander will find this interesting." He added.

The enemy finally appeared in front of Adam. He also wore ragged black armor.

It was just for a few minutes and when Adam was about to leap forward and finish him, he broke a black stone with his hand and then entered a portal.

"Tch! Did he run away?" Adam asked, and it was more of a rhetorical question than a real one.

"It seems so," Cristal answered anyway.

This type of enemy was the most annoying of all.

They messed with their target and then run away when things turned bad.

However, from a neutral point of view, this was a smart move. They got to analyze their target's weakness and develop another tactic.

After the enemy left, everything returned to normal, but the changes were not that apparent.

"Bastard!" Adam cursed. "Let's go, we can't waste any more time."

Zax looked like she was also frustrated."I agree."

They wasted precious time because of an enemy who just ran away without a fight when they were about to finish him.

It left a sour taste in their mouth and an unsatisfied feeling in their chest.

Adam and Zax thought the same thing. 'I want to punch that guy in the face.'

*****

Boom!

Crash!

"Just die already, you damned vampire!" Louis shouted.

The showdown between Louis and the vampire woman continued without a proper outcome in sight.

Outbursts of power filled the entire area and small to extremely big explosions occurred almost every second.

At first, Louis attacked the vampire woman with a simultaneous attack without giving her respite.

Louis's destructive lightning bolts targeted her from every possible direction. "I will turn you into a pile of ash so that you wouldn't be able to use your undead ability again!"

Louis's destructive power was on a different level.

Maira's house turned into ash, and only a huge crater was left on the ground.

A few of the giant trees fell and destroyed a part of the city of Mistolteos.

Crash!

As the trees fell, there was an earthquake and shockwaves that left everything within the vicinity of hundreds of meters of the impact in a sorry state.

Fortunately, some of the trees didn't fall on the ground completely and the other trees absorbed the impact.

Otherwise, Mistolteos city would be no more.

Even in with his current ability, Adam would have a hard time fighting against Louis.

In front of this menace, the vampire woman also unleashed her power.

She was indeed a vampire.

A mythological creature depicted as creatures of the night, blood-sucking monsters, higher-level undead.

In many universes, like the one where Adam came from, these creatures were just legends.

However, they existed.

And each one of them was more powerful than any creature below level 9.

There was one aspect that made vampires extremely powerful. It was their blood.

Vampire's blood inherited some of the aspects of the primordial authority, thus it could disintegrate almost anything.

Some ancient vampires could even disintegrate space itself.

This was the reason why they didn't die but just weakened when they traveled between universes.

Their blood disintegrated the unstable primordial particles inside their body.

Consequently, even though Louis's attack was very destructive, the vampire woman's blood disintegrated the condensed energy before it could hit her.

Louis clicked his tongue. "Tch! Why did she get so powerful all of sudden?"

He didn't know that vampires recuperate quickly when the neutral primordial particles in the environment were abundant.

This forest was a very primitive place, so the odds were against Louis.

Unexpectedly, the woman finally spoke to Louis. "Why do you seek to obtain these fragments?"

Louis was a little bit taken aback by this sudden question.

"Hmmph! That doesn't matter." He retorted.

Louis was brought back to the gate of death to make his Lord's wish come true.

They would take back everything they lost at any cost.

*****

Louis was not about to start a conversation with the vampire woman.

His Lord and his companions already knew that there was no turning back.

The faint memory of the past that they began to forget as time passed was the only thing that kept their tiny bit of sanity.

A world where people smiled.

A world where beautiful sceneries existed.

A beautiful world where love, family, and a home waited.

A world that was now long lost...

But who was to blame for that tragedy?

Monsters?

However, did these monsters even know what they were doing?

Would the fact of killing these monsters bring these smiles?

In front of the answer to these questions, another hero, the savior of his world, fell to despair.

After all, who needed a hero when the people who needed a hero were long gone.

Chaos engulfed the whole universe and corruption reigned.

The hero was another victim of a cruel fate reserved for the strong.

He couldn't die even if he wanted to.

All of his companions had already perished.

And when he hit the bottom, someone reached out to him...

What choice did he have?

*****

Pant!

Pant!

Heavy breathing echoed inside a spacious room.

The room was made of dark marbles and dark stones.

The atmosphere was gloomy and unwelcoming.

And at one end of the room, there was a throne made of black crystal and a man sat on it, looking down at the person in front of him.

He was the being that Louis and the others called Lord.

The person he was looking at wore an azure blue outfit and had a baby in her arms. It was none other than Liu.

She bled all over her body and her azure blue dress was tainted with crimson red color.

This was because the chain that was wrapped around her body peeled some of her skin when she broke free.

"You are brave, little woman. I will give you the choice. I may look like this, but I am not completely heartless."

An overbearing deep voice filled the room, and the speaker addressed Liu.

After Liu was abducted by the commander, she was brought inside this room.

The Lord didn't care about Liu unlike what everyone thought. His interest was focused solely on Verte.

But Liu didn't hand Verte over without a fight.

As soon as she recovered her consciousness she activated her domain.

The room became an ice cave and Liu could manipulate the ice inside of the room from anywhere.

However, Liu couldn't even make the Lord stand from his seat.

She exhausted all of her strength but nothing happened and the room returned to its normal state.

"Leave that thing here, and I will open a portal for you to return where you came from. With a little bit of chance, you may not witness the end of the world in this lifetime." The Lord added.

Then he slammed on his throne two times, and a subordinate appeared.

He instructed him to open a portal.

"Hand it over to him, and go. Don't waste your life while you still have one."