"Stop looking down on us! We are the core sect Disciple of the Great Aerox Sect! We will show you just how powerful the Aerox Sect is, you fucking bitch!" Damien yelled out angrily as, with his insane regeneration abilities, he healed his broken arm in an instant. But Yuki wasn't fazed by this in the slightest; instead, she simply held his head extremely gently, but to the horror of everyone, his entire head exploded. If not for his extreme regeneration ability, he would have died already.
"Damm… You're really something, I guess you're the healer and the bruiser at the same time for your team. You actually survived having your brain blasted into smithereens, though. How does it feel to die?" Yuki asked as she simply shook her hand off the blood that stained it after using her skill, Grand Demolition, on his head.
"Come on, all of your charge at me again. Are all of you so weak that you just let Damian, Anya, and Arthur fight me?" Yuki taunted as she looked at the rest of them, not even batting an eye at Damian, whose head is still regenerating, Anya, who is still pinned by the Scythe, and Arthur, who is still trapped in her Ice Chains.
Yuki's taunting worked against the two who are still in fairly good shape; all of them had veins bulging in their heads as the taunting of Yuki made their blood boil in anger. But instead of mindlessly charging towards her, they were still rather calm about it, which really shocked Yuki because she thought that these two would be as stupid as the first four who went for her.
But instead, they circled around her and began bombarding her with their impressive sword Skills, not letting Yuki catch her breathe as everytime she dodges something, another attack will come flying at her from every direction as not only they were fighting well with their Sword, but they're using incredible Magic Skills as well even though there was just two of them. Their Blood Manipulation was impressive to say the least, and Yuki could confidently say that they are far greater than her.
"Fuck… I'm actually losing…" Yuki said with a grunt as she removed a vine that was drilling at her body at an alarming rate before looking at them coldly, but instead of feeling fear of dying, she felt more bloodlust than ever at the thought of losing because ever since she killed her adopted Father, she has never tasted defeat and she's not going to take one now.
"You should stop now, Lady Yuki, while we're still being nice. If you thought the other three were weak from us, that is because we are different from them. If you simply apologize to us now, we will stop and let you live as well with your family, whom we have currently taken hostage as we speak. The call that you had on your special device earlier, that should have been from your maid, that should have already been clear to you, but alas, you have fallen into our trap since the very beginning. As everything started when you tested yourself at the Adventurer Guild." Leona said with a light smile as she showed Yuki the ranker's list and clearly showing Yuki being number one.
"If you're thinking who is managing the Aerox Sect, I'll be kind enough to tell you because I know that you're fate is sealed already. It's the majestic and rightful Emperor, Prince Azen Melvis. Under his orders, we will subdue you because of a wonderful intel that we got that you have a secret relationship with the Youngest Princess… That's right, we know it, Princess Kurokami is your lover, right?" Leona taunted as she knew that those words would put her in despair, knowing that she had been trapped by them.
But everything from the start was rigged; everyone who was at the Adventurer Guild when Yuki was doing her test was all people of the Aerox Sect, or rather, the subordinates of Prince Azen, just as Leona had explained to her. Now it was clearer to her why she was called by Asuka, who, out of the blue, blurted out something very important and hidden for her so that she could go home as fast as she could.
"Now please surrender quietly and hand over Princess Kurokami to us as soon as we get out, maybe we will even put a word so that her corpse will be intact after she has been a good use to Prince Azen as a puppet for his plan. Hand over the Phoenix as well because we know that you have it in your captivity." Leona said coldly as she began negotiating with Yuki, and at her words, Yuki began shaking.
"You're shaking… Is that out of fear or anger, I wonder?" Artemis, who is the other one, stopped when she suddenly heard Yuki laughing, which is the real reason why she was shaking in the first place.
"Laughing in despair or anger? That is childish… Did you really think that I didn't know about your guys' ploy from the beginning? Your Prince Azen, who wishes to dethrone his Brother, the current Emperor, by having a coup by means of using my wife, Kurokami? You think I don't know that already? How naive of all of you if you think that I'm like your stupid Emperor or Skadi. I'm born different." Yuki laughed as with a snap of her fingers, Leona and Artemis, who were acting arrogant, were now surrounded by the same people who just fought Yuki.
"How are all of you still moving? Wait, did you betray the Aerox Sect for this woman!?" Leona yelled in anger at all of them, who were all supposed to be full of injuries, now looked like they didn't even suffer a single thing from the beginning. Which made everyone around them confused, even Chisato, who was now being held carefully by Anya, who handed her back to Yuki.
"I already knew the schemes of Prince Azen from the beginning because the moment that I walked through the Adventurer Guild, I knew that something was wrong to begin with. So… with a simple tactic called torture, I simply took out every single infor from that person… That started a chain of events as I hired some people to dig into you people, which didn't disappoint me at all. From that, I simply bribed everyone to act accordingly to your so-called plan, and they have been doing a wonderful job of feeding you the information." Yuki stated calmly as she took out a set of tables and chairs, as well as tea for Chisato to brew.
"Money runs this world, and you think that you really have honest people on your side when I offer to pay them 1000x more than what you pay them? Of course not, because a single glance from my raining purple gold coins made them kneel in front of me. That's why I even deliberately used my phone in front of all the people so they could report that to you, and the call that you just saw me take was simply a ploy." Yuki calmly sipped a freshly brewed tea while she watched the blood from Leona and Artemis's faces disappear.
She has planned everything from the start because she noticed that something was different the moment that she arrived at the Adventurer Guild, because everyone in the Guild was too busy watching her perform, which was a strike already, also the fact that some of them were taking pictures of her using a magical stone was another.
But the thing that gave it away the most is her using the Machines so easily there because she knows for a fact that a Heaven that is considered a High-Tier should be using some second-rate machines to test their people. That is when she knew it was rigged, so she deliberately destroyed them and said that she's going to pay for it to lure them out.
Though the thing that confirmed her suspicion the most was when she came back to the Guild to get her registration, as with her photographic memory, she didn't see a single person who was there before when she was taking her test. And everyone she saw was new, also the fact that Vanessa, the current Guild Head, didn't even question her about her test was weird.
"The call that I had just now was simply a trick to further lure you in, as my family is already safe because Skadi is there, isn't that right, Skadi?" Yuki asked as she placed the phone on the table, which was on speaker.
Though the part of Asuka telling her about the Nox isn't something she had expected, it was appreciated because she showed a better reaction because of it.
"Oh, yes. They are perfectly fine, and I have even captured the perpetrators for you to question when you get back, wherever you are right now." Skadi answered with a sly smile on the other end.
"You're plan was almost fool-proof, but you should have taken into account that I can memorize everything that I saw. Maybe using the Guild Members from your Kingdom was a mistake." Yuki chuckled as she dropped the call.