Chapter 1858: Amon’s Guillotine Cave (8)
Damba grinned, his expression turning twisted. "No hard feelings, Inaya, but as you can see, she is a threat to the two of us, and as such, she has to die. I never meant for you to get entangled in all of this, but your presence is what we needed most to flush her out."
He turned and looked at Ruby, who stood there calmly, her expression still soft and relaxed, almost as if, despite being a Pseudo-Primordial, she wasn’t bothered that two Primordials had surrounded her.
"You already know that this domain cannot have a third Primordial. It is simply impossible. We are already short on resources, so having you here will hurt business.
This is why you must die, since you refuse to submit to either of us."
Damba’s words were followed by the Ash Maiden, whose voice was as ashen as her appearance. "The green-faced bastard is right. The other six who refused have already been put down. You, however, had to prove your stubbornness by still refusing to bend the knee.
𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Now that we have finally managed to flush you out, you can say we will finally be rid of you. Then we can go back to fighting each other," she laughed, her voice spreading throughout the Blood Variant Pool.
Ruby looked at the two Primordials and smirked. "So that’s how it is, huh? Three eras ago, you two tried to kill me but failed, so what makes you think you can succeed now?"
Damba smirked. "Three eras ago, she wasn’t here. And from what you revealed back then, it is clear that you are obsessed with her. So tell me, now that she is in danger, are you going to run or fight? If you run, she dies. If you fight, you die."
"Both of you die," the Ash Maiden corrected Damba, making the latter smirk before nodding.
Inaya gripped her sword tightly, regret washing over her face. Her expression was filled with deep hatred and anger, so intense that one could almost see it manifest around her.
"So all this while, the bitch hasn’t been hunting me because I offended her. She has been hunting me because I was the only person who could flush Ruby out of hiding."
"Bingo," Damba said, snapping his fingers.
Inaya narrowed her eyes and pointed her sword forward. "I already warned you, Damba. Crossing me will result in your death. Clearly, you didn’t take my threat seriously."
Damba laughed in reply, spreading all four arms wide. "Look around you, Inaya. This is Amon’s Guillotine Cave, and right now you are inside my domain. No matter what kind of trump card you possess, as long as I am here, nobody can touch me."
Inaya smiled and turned to Baldy and Mak. "Get behind me and make sure you maintain physical contact."
They obeyed immediately. Baldy jumped onto Mak’s shoulder while Mak placed his hand on Inaya’s shoulder.
Inaya then turned toward Ruby and asked, "Are you really a subordinate of the Nine Underworld Flame Blacksmith?"
Ruby nodded. "I sure am. I fought side by side with him during the Flame Wars."
"Very well. Then do the same as them, and whatever happens, don’t let go."
Ruby didn’t object to her command. She teleported behind Inaya and placed her hand on Inaya’s other shoulder.
Turning back toward Damba, Inaya spoke, her tone colder than ice.
"I am grateful for your care back when I had nowhere else to go, Damba. You took me in and gave me some peace of mind. But by helping you get here today, you can consider that debt repaid.
Now, as for whether you survive what is about to happen or die, you have no one to blame but yourself."
Inaya let go of her sword, then clapped her hands together and invoked the words Kent had taught her.
"Standing on the authority granted by my beloved, I, Inaya, the Ten Emotions Sword Supreme, invoke the wrath of the Primordial Chaos Dragon... Kill my foe and wash away my shame."
RUMBLE!
The sky split open, and terror descended, shaking the entire Amon’s Guillotine Cave. Suddenly, all light was drained from the sky, and darkness engulfed everything.
Inaya stood tall, her figure bathed in absolute power.
Mak, Baldy, and Ruby, still holding onto her, felt their bodies tense. However, compared to Damba and the Ash Maiden, who were now on the ground, barely having the strength to stand, they were in a much better state.
But the worst was yet to come.
From the crack in the sky, a massive crimson dragon eye snapped open, causing the already terrifying pressure to intensify.
Thirty kilometers away, Safira looked at the crimson eye, and a cold sweat instantly broke out across her back. However, before she could gather the courage to run, a rune lit up on her forehead, and at once, her body was pulled forward.
In an instant, she appeared in the air above Damba and the Ash Maiden.
Then, from the eye in the sky, a crimson rune descended and merged with the rune on her forehead.
BOOOOM!
A terrifying pressure exploded from her body, causing the space beneath her to cave in. Then, as if she had been possessed, she extended her hand, and the sword lying beside Inaya flew into her firm grip.
Turning toward the Ash Maiden, her fury erupted.
"DIE!"
She lunged forward, and in an instant, her sword pierced the Ash Maiden’s shoulder. She didn’t stop there. Instead, she severed both of her arms, then both of her legs, before moving to her face and slicing off her ears, nose, and lips.
Then she unleashed countless more slashes across her body. Within ten seconds, the Ash Maiden was barely clinging to life.
But instead of killing her, Safira shifted her attention to Damba.
He had four arms, and Safira took her time severing every one of them before moving on to his legs and the rest of his body.
It took only thirty seconds, but by the time she was done, even a god could have killed the two Primordial, now reduced to bugs.
She didn’t kill them, though. Instead, she landed silently on the ground.
Then the eye in the sky slowly closed, and Safira lost consciousness.
Before she could hit the ground, however, Inaya rushed forward and caught her. Then she turned to Baldy, Mak, and Ruby and said,
"Time to leave."