Let's rewind time a few minutes back before The sudden lightning bolt struck Alex.
After taking Maria from Alex, Eri immediately began running; she ran for one kilometer before stopping; she wondered why Maria was in this state. After feeding her a recovery potion, Maria's complexion regained some rosiness.
''So who the queen ended up in this state?" Eri asked, trying to sound sarcastic but failing to achieve it.
''Cough, Cough! I don't remember; I was fighting with my teammates, all of them died, then my head became white, and when I woke up, I found myself in that city where they said I was the perfect vessel. I ran away, but because, as you can see, I can't use my skill, I'm slightly stronger than a regular human, but in the end, I got caught, and you guys came. I'm grateful for your help. Thank you.''
Eri had nothing to say, she was too shocked to say anything, the Maria inside her memories was lofty, a queen among queens, she could not probably thank someone, but Maria inside her arms just did that. It was too much that Eri's mind went blank for a short time.
It was exactly what Maria wanted when she said those words; she purposely thanked her, she who always think of her as a rival, someone arrogant. The reason Maria did this was because she didn't want to talk too much about her current situation; although she forgot most of what happened when she went into the Ice Empress Mode, she still had some memories of when she was in that state, and she knew the reason she was in this state was because for the second time she had used that forbidden mode.
Although it was powerful, not being able to control it was a huge downside in having such a powerful card. She did not wish to share this with Eri, who was her rival; who knows what she might do to make her enter this mode and patiently wait until the aftereffect kicked in to take care of her? So better be prudent. She had no idea that Alex had already made Eri his subordinate; she couldn't harm those close to him; this was one of the clauses.
Before the two knew it, they had already been surrounded. It happened too abruptly giving them no time to prepare.
''Shit!" Eri swore.
''Hand over the vessel.'' One of the men surrounding them shouted and what he got in response was a fireball crashing on his face. It was too fast that he couldn't dodge before the fireball swallowed him.
As if it was some of signal, Eri went on a rampage, she put Maria inside a flame cocoon as she fought the men outside, she brilliantly wielded her sword while unleashing magic, but all of this stopped when she heard the sound of a bell.
Kin!
Somehow all magic vanished, she felt dizzy, and before she knew it Maria had been caught, and she was being dragged, she shouted for help as she was desperate. Fortunately, Alex appeared like a knight with shining armor, however, even the dream knight was blasted away before he could unleash his powerful skills.
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Back to the present.
'''Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Alex roared, his roared.
''I will kill you all.'' Alex declared before kicking the ground and disappearing; his location was Z-city; he was sure that by now he would become a wanted man, but even if he had to go against the entire city for his girl, he would gladly do it, she means a lot for him, he would risk his life to save her and save Eri.
Upon reaching the vicinity of the city's wall, Alex didn't see too many guards, but as he guessed, there was a poster of him everywhere. The black prince chuckled, but he didn't immediately try to enter the city as it was a trap; they purposely let this gate unguarded to lure him in.
Just as Alex was about to turn around and check the other area, he saw that good priest Clayton coming out from one of the tents erected near the city gate; he was holding a woman waist, his hand wantonly roaming on the woman's butt, he was feeling them and judged by the huge grin on his face he liked what he was feeling, his eyes were so lustful that even a child could tell at a glance.
Alex grinned when he saw this.
Night fell, most of the guards began to doze off because of the detection traps installed; they believed it could detect any intruder. Unfortunately for them, Alex was not one of them; he easily passed through those detection traps; he knew as he approached the city gate the traps there would be more advanced, not that he planned to go there in the first place, at least not yet.
After searching for Clayton's tent because he searched to another tent when night arrived, Alex immediately entered the tent through the void, from here he could see Clayton having sex, he was like an animal, Alex couldn't bear to watch anymore as what he was doing could not be called sex, there are all types of sex but what he was doing right now was not one of them.
Clayton's body stiffened when he felt a presence behind him; before he could act, Alex had already knocked the girl unconscious. Finally, Clayton was able to see who was the intruder that dared to stop his fun; he was gobsmacked.
''You- You- you.'' He couldn't form a coherent sentence as he was too shocked to do that.
''Yeah, I know how you feel, but my name is not you.''
''Let me borrow your face for a while.'' Alex declared with a smile; Clayton could not even open his mouth before he was frozen; Alex walked toward him, his finger touched the priest's head, and he read his memories; they seemed to be some sort of lock over most of his memories not that Alex was concerned about that, he got what he was after. After he was done, he buried Clayton somewhere where he couldn't die, at least not tonight, before using the God mask to change into Clayton.. Everything was ready; time to infiltrate the city.