There was a silence before Lucifer suddenly burst into laughter.
''Hahahahahahaha! How courageous, you are indeed interesting. I was testing you to see if you'd cower, but on the contrary, you even have the gut to say in front of me that you don't like me. Some might say you're reckless, but to me, you're courageous; however, I wonder what gave you so much confidence?"
At the end of his word Lucifer released a bit of his power, space began to twist, Alex and Sakuya felt as if a huge load had been put on them, their bodies began to shake, Sakuya coughed blood and kneeled while Alex ground his teeth and glared at Lucifer.
''Don't look at me like that; I'm just defending my home; some rats sneak in, so as the owner, I have to clean up, don't you agree?"
Faced with Lucifer's venomous tongue, Alex chose to stay silent; his mind was thinking about dealing with the current situation. Since the moment they appeared here after being thrown out of the dungeon, he knew that trouble would come; however, he had thought that he would escape before Lucifer came, he thought he still had a little bit of time; however, this assumption was wrong, and Lucifer came.
Alex, who discreetly tried to activate the ultimate last trump card he had prepared, froze at Lucifer's following words.
''And by the way, if you are thinking of escaping through teleportation scroll, I advise you to give up on this though because you see I came prepared.''
〖Master, he isn't it bluffing.〗Silveria confirmed Alex's worse fear forcing him to curse inwardly.
'Damn it.'
Taking a deep breath, Alex's mind never stopped searching for a solution; while helping Sakuya to get up on her feet, he asked.
''What do you want?"
''Hehehehe! Nothing, just.'' Lucifer concealed his power smiled like a saint before declaring.
''I want you dead; I'll torture you slowly before killing you.''
The smile had disappeared from his face by then; contrary to Lucifer's expectation, Alex did not panic at this sudden change, he chuckled and declared.
''I doubt it; if it's your goal, you'd have done that since the beginning. Well, those behind you don't want me dead, at least not yet, so I wonder if you have the power to go against them?"
For the first time since his apparition, Lucifer frowned, his handsome face creased as if he had chewed a bug; he was truly furious. However, he wouldn't fall for this little brat scheme, but it was still necessary to teach this human his place.
''You know when courage exceeds some limit, it's called stupidity, you're stupid, and I will teach you a lesson before that bitch come out,'' Lucifer said before flicking his fingers; suddenly, dozen of men appeared around Lucifer. The weakest was Rank 12.
Outwardly Alex showed a shocked expression while inwardly, he was grinning. His provocation worked; among those men was holding the jamming device that stopped him from using the teleportation scroll. This device wasn't on Lucifer Alex had checked, and Silveria had made sure that his conclusion was correct.
Alex pushed Sakuya doing while secretly pushing something inside her hand. This sudden action made Lucifer and his men crease their brows, and this momentary action enabled Alex to find what he was after finally.
Immediately, Alex launched an attack.
Lucifer looked at Alex with disappointment as, among all people he could attack, he chose to attack him; he thought he was smart, he should know the difference between them, yet he still decided to court his death? For what reason? Or does he think because the Lord wanted him, he couldn't be killed? How foolish. Lucifer sighed; he couldn't be bothered with him; he was disappointed.
One of Lucifer subordinates standing behind him, a Rank 13 Bull demon, stepped forward and sent a punch toward the incoming Alex; he didn't stop, suddenly under everyone astonished eyes, Alex summoned two silver guns he pointed one of them, the original behind him and the second in a certain direction then.
Bang Bang!
A crimson bullet accurately landed on Sakuya feet and exploded; the exploded momentarily blocked their sights before her body was propelled high into the sky; Sakuya immediately unleashed her strongest attack toward Lucifer.
''What?''
The bull demon exclaimed before changing the trajectory of his fist to block Sakuya attack; his hand was almost sliced off.
During this time, Alex and Lucifer stared at each other; time seemed to have stopped, Lucifer saw Alex grin, and he knew that he had fallen into Alex's trap, he roared.
''Stop him.''
One of his men tried to go where the device was; however, he sensed a bullet coming towards its head, his snorted, then his body blurred and Alex took his place and appeared before a small looking demon, even though strong was shocked by the sudden event before he could make any move, the bracelet on his wrist broke.
Kacha!
Everything happened in a matter of seconds, a thin thread appeared and got wrapped around Alex's waist, and he was dragged into the sky; Sakuya immediately poured the bit of mana she had left into the old looking parchment, the teleportation scroll, Alex had put it this in her hand before launched that attack.
The teleportation scroll burst into light, a golden light that swirled to form a small portal; Sakuya glanced down; Alex had almost arrived, he fired two crimson bullets at the enemy to distract them.
Lucifer calmly looked at the crimson flame surrounding him and his men; none of them acted, no they had tried however he stopped them, they could feel how furious the emperor was, to be played like this made him furious.
''Good, good. You've succeeded in enraging me, and I'll show you what true despair is.''
Then he stretched his hand; it transformed into a huge palm that rushed toward Alex and Sakuya; this palm was incomparably fast; Lucifer observed as the hand got closer to them, he could see Sakuya showing extreme panic while Alex smirked.
''What?"