“What message and from whom?” asked Ciel directly.
This kind of thing intrigued him more because it seemed to lead him into a wider conflict.
“From Lady Yelina who wants you to leave this place given that you have already obtained two very precious things,” Derrick replied in a loud voice, as if he wanted to make that clear to everyone.
“Princess of the Heaven Race?” Ciel was between surprised and not surprised when he heard that.
He was not surprised because a conflict had already begun between him and Zaden that would most likely involve many other members of the Heaven Race.
However, he could not help but be surprised when he heard that the woman of the race wanted him to leave here.
‘Don’t tell me that Zaden’s actions were because of her orders?’ he wondered.
While he was thinking, Derrick continued, “If you don’t leave, I will force you to leave.”
He pointed his small sword at Ciel.
Although it was without aura, Ciel felt a great threat as he stared at the tip of the sword.
Despite Derrick being younger, his strength was indeed something real.
“Interesting, boy, what’s the reason you’re doing this for her?” asked Ciel in response, he was more interested in the reason.
Plus, there was no way he was going just because someone wanted him to go, so there was no point in talking about it.
In fact, the audience was also more interested in that.
Is it a service to a beautiful woman because it is said that Yelina’s beauty can make any man go blind.
“That’s none of your business,” Derrick replied, “so are you going or not?”
“I’m afraid you don’t have the power to ask or force me to leave,” Ciel replied with a faint smile.
Surprisingly enough, after he said that, Derrick immediately took action.
He lunged towards him at an astonishing speed where his body was barely visible anymore.
Ciel could see him well only because he had the Eyes of Heaven.
Before he arrived, Ciel slashed his sword at him.
It just so happened that he also slashed his sword, so their swords met, producing a very loud clang sound. It even produced a shockwave that pushed away the sandstorms around so that an area without sandstorms within a radius of tens of kilometers was created.
Whether it was Ciel or Derrick was pushed back a few steps. The latter was quite surprised, astonished that Ciel could read his movements.
At the same time, Mu Yixue suddenly took a step, appearing beside Ciel, looking like she wanted to help him.
“Boy, go back and tell Yelina to come here herself,” she said to Derrick who then turned his gaze towards her.
“You’re not worthy of her time,” he replied coldly, further showing that there was indeed an obsession on his part towards the woman.
Ciel laughed as he guessed that, he said, “Yelina, really interesting, I want to meet her, I wonder if I can tame her. I heard that every woman of the Heaven Race is very arrogant.”
“You!” Hearing Ciel’s words, Derrick’s expression suddenly became very gloomy, as if his face had been stepped on.
Actually, Ciel’s words were not intended to provoke him, he was just speaking honestly based on what he was thinking.
However, that seemed to be something Derrick could not tolerate.
Whoosh!
He lunged towards Ciel again, even faster than before.
This time, Ciel didn’t do anything as a wall of ice appeared in front of him. 𝑶𝑽𝗅𝐞xt.𝗇𝓔t
BANG!
Derrick’s sword slammed into the ice wall, but it couldn’t even scratch it, Derrick was pushed back again.
In terms of creating defenses, Ciel was worried that there was no one better than Mu Yixue among Hegemons and probably no one who could destroy her defenses with just one attack.
The problem was that Derrick was relying on a small sword, something unsuitable for breaking through ice walls. He should have used big weapons like a giant hammer or axe.
“Even a dragon fled because of us. Boy, I don’t really want to make you cry, so you might as well go and ask Yelina to come herself,” Ciel told him with a mocking smile.
“Hmph!” He snorted coldly and moved again, seemingly not planning on giving up.
Ciel shook his head, then said to Mu Yixue, “let’s beat him up!”
“Mm!” Mu Yixue nodded.
Two vs. one? It might sound unfair, but in this place, only a fool would still care about justice.
The thing was Ciel knew that it was impossible to defeat the boy unless he used the power of the Eyes of Heaven, something he didn’t want to do right now because it would drain his energy. Plus, it was better that it was prepared for more troublesome enemies. If he used it now where there were many people watching, his abilities such as turning back time would be discovered.
After that, Ciel and Mu Yixue jumped up to confront Derrick.
Both of them slashed their swords at him.
Mu Yixue with her blue sword produced a mesmerizing combination with Ciel’s red sword.
BANG!
Their swords slammed into Derrick’s sword. This time, the boy was instantly knocked away.
“Hahahaha!!!” Ciel laughed.
At the same time, Mu Yixue created a cube of ice to enclose Derrick, leaving only one hole to pass through.
Ciel was in front of that hole.
He pointed his hand at the hole and then released his flame which instantly filled the cube.
This was the result of cooperation, Derrick was instantly rendered helpless.
The audience wondered how he would escape Ciel’s flames because it had to be admitted that it was extremely dangerous.
“Ahhhh, asshole!” Suddenly his scream echoed loudly, showing that he was completely helpless.
All he relied on seemed to be his sword attack skills plus his speed. He developed those two strengths so well that he was able to reach the unique category that the Elf Queen was referring to. Unfortunately, he was facing two unique enemies with abilities that made it very difficult for their opponents.
“Boy, you should use your brain next time,” Ciel shouted.
Now he was convinced that the boy was not so intelligent. His actions were due to blind obsession.
Ciel guessed Yelina was using him for this because she should have known that Derrick wouldn’t be able to force him to leave here.
“Mm…” Ciel looked to the side again only to find more desert monsters coming, consisting of lizards to bats.
The lizards were as big as mountains while the bats had unimaginable numbers.
Surprisingly they were all heading towards Ciel and Mu Yixue.
The latter observed them with narrowed eyes. Her intelligence made her suspect the same thing.
“Ciel, did you see something?” asked Mu Yixue.
At this point, Ciel’s eyes were the only ones to rely on.
Right now, Ciel was using his eye sight to the maximum so that he could see over a very long range. Perhaps his range of vision was now equivalent to peak Demigods. And he was better off because his vision could penetrate every object.
The sandstorm was as if it didn’t exist in his eyes.
Of course, the center of the continent itself was too vast. Even with such a range, he still couldn’t reach everything.
He saw many people, but strangely no one seemed suspicious.
“There really isn’t anything,” Ciel said.
BANG!
Suddenly a burst of energy resounded from inside the ice cube. It then shattered the ice cube and pushed away Ciel’s flames, revealing the figure of Derrick whose cloak was missing half while his body was full of burns.
He seemed to have used most of his strength to create that explosion just to escape from there.
And he actually looked like he could still fight it out.
“Ciel, I’ll take care of these monsters,” Mu Yixue said and flew straight towards the monsters.
She fought with them by creating ice monsters.
Of course, the Ice Palace disciples weren’t silent anymore. They joined her.
Ciel was still focused on Derrick.
“Do you still want to fight?” he asked him.
The question made him grit his teeth, looking like he was annoyed at himself for being powerless.
“I won’t stop until I die,” he replied, shaking his hands.
“Do you realize you’re being used?” Ciel asked again.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s for her sake.” Derrick finally became honest that he was doing this all out of obsession.
Ciel laughed at that.
“You won’t be able to win her heart when you’re being used and submitting to her,” Ciel said.
“Well, I’m more experienced when it comes to women. Such a woman can only be conquered by making her helpless in front of you. Of course, I don’t think you have the strength to do that. Only I can do that. Well, you’d better back off now so that in the future you can see how I subdued that woman.”
Audience, “…”
Derrick, “…”
“You, lowly creature, do you want to die?” Suddenly someone shouted, but it wasn’t Derrick. Only, the voice seemed to be coming from Derrick.
It was the voice of a man so full of majesty that Ciel guessed it was another obsessed man.
Ciel scanned Derrick’s body, and finally realized that the voice was from Communication Jade.
“Who are you?” asked Ciel.
“Come here if you really have the power, don’t just shout from far away.”
“Wait for me there, I’ll come,” replied the voice.
At the same time, some people from the Heaven Realm whispered, “that’s Lydan’s voice, I heard that he’s so protective of his sister that his temper will instantly go out of control if anyone insults her.”
“Isn’t that kind of attitude not suitable for a genius with great potential? One should be able to control emotions well?” asked someone from the Other Realm.
“This is indeed a problem. However, Lydan’s talent is not to be doubted.”
“…”