Although generating much curiosity in her heart, Seraphine wasn't a girl who didn't know propriety. Especially now Faen was talking to her, but his peripheral vision was locked deadly on The Solitary. This made Seraphine realize Faen was in combat state now.
Although a support in the game, the actual Seraphine didn't have any combat experience. So she carefully restrained the thoughts in her heart, turning to run towards Zeri and others.
As Seraphine left here, Faen turned unhurriedly and looked at The Solitary.
Wind and rain ceased; moonlight passed through the broken cloud layer. Faen opened his palm. Flowing water danced under Faen's control as if possessing life, finally turning into several thin water blades in the gentle breeze. Shuttling back and forth in the wind flow, dancing, displaying amazing agility, and finally floating behind Faen slowly like a blooming blade lotus.
"To be honest, after I came to Zaun, I haven't fought through skills for a long time." Faen chuckled and said: "After all, most enemies I met here don't need me to use skills; just violent crushing can solve all problems."
"Who are you? You are looking for me? What is your purpose?" Staring deadly at Faen, watching Faen control flowing water freely, The Solitary's heart was also filled with vigilance.
Able to control the composition of the material realm and attach one's own essence to it... this was a unique symbol of great demons, or powerful spirit realm lives. This symbol represented not the strength of power, but being able to lodge one's essence in a part of the material realm to form an anchor, thereby making it no longer affected by the veil, thus releasing the power of the spirit realm better in the material realm.
Facing The Solitary's questioning, Faen didn't care.
Blades of flowing water suspended behind him, edges thin as cicada wings humming in the wind, as if responding to the rhythm flowing in Faen's body.
"Why say so much? Demons devouring each other, you should know better than me!"
While speaking, the blade lotus behind Faen bloomed in an instant. More than ten flying water blades broke through the air, forming several azure arcs under the bright moonlight after the storm stopped. Hearing Faen's words, The Solitary's heart sank to the bottom. But even so, The Solitary didn't sit still waiting for death.
The original human body turned into black mist exploding. When the mist condensed again, The Solitary revealed the true form of a demon.
Still the shape of a human female, the exquisite body skin showed a dim pink-purple, while key parts were filled with mottled dark purple spirit realm substance between bone and gel. In terms of figure and appearance, she looked very similar to Evelynn. But although her figure was graceful, she couldn't make people capricious like Evelynn, or even unable to generate any superfluous thoughts.
No other reason. Accompanied by the revelation of the true form, The Solitary's head presented a completely non-human posture. The whole was wrapped in dark purple substance similar to crustacean creatures. One side of the face had a single horn, while the other side grinned with two crimson-purple cracks at the eye position. Compared to the distortion of the face, more importantly, her essence as a spirit realm life couldn't be finely controlled.
Almost the moment the true form was revealed, Caitlyn and others in the distance generated strong resistance psychology. No wonder she had to specially practice disguise magic to turn into a human for deception.
"I serve the Demon of Agony Evelynn!! This is my hunting ground! Get lost quickly if you know what's good for you!!"
Saying this verbally, The Solitary didn't have any idea of confronting Faen head-on. Even quite the opposite, after sensing the power on Faen, she immediately flashed backwards repeatedly trying to widen the distance.
Unfortunately, Faen didn't intend to let The Solitary go.
Turning his palm, blades of flowing water danced accordingly. Slightly raising his hand, azure arcs burst out a hum under the moonlight, then split into several scattered streamers chasing The Solitary at several times the previous speed.
Feeling the rapidly approaching sharpness, a look of solemnity appeared in The Solitary's eyes. Then she also opened her palm. Fingernails at fingertips began to grow constantly at an alarming speed, turning into sharp daggers in just an instant. But just at the moment The Solitary waved her palm trying to smash the flowing water blade, a sturdy figure arrived before the blade edge.
In The Solitary's disbelief, with a face full of coldness, Faen's figure emerged from the howling storm. His tall body lowered the center of gravity downwards, left foot pushing the ground to exert force. With waist and kidney as the central axis, the dragon of the spine twisted violently. Hundreds of muscles twisted all strength into a bundle under the spine's mobilization, and submerged all into the right arm at the moment of waving—Boom!!!
One punch out, accompanied by a deafening sonic boom, The Solitary's upper body was almost instantly blasted into a cloud of flying blood mist.
He didn't stop the movement in his hand because of this. Immediately after this, the shuttling water blade streamers flew from behind Faen, rotating to nail The Solitary's lower limbs to the ground. On the blade, flowing water and swirling wind peeled off the energy in The Solitary's body at an alarming speed, extracting it into Faen's body—if in a game, this should be stealing the opponent's max HP.
But even so, The Solitary still didn't die—spirit realm lives wouldn't die because of damage to the material realm body. As a concept, they would only be assimilated by another concept. Even so-called death was just consciousness dissipating. As long as similar thoughts still existed in the world, new consciousness could be born.
And now, the remaining lower body forcibly broke free from the water blade nailed into the ground, not even trying to retrieve the part of essence cut off by the water blade, retreating backward at an alarming speed. In a breath, The Solitary's body reassembled. But different from before. Before, even if feeling panic and uneasiness, The Solitary still didn't produce emotions like despair.
As the kin of the great demon Evelynn, The Solitary's power was upper-middle even among many demons. But now, personally feeling the terrifying power erupted by Faen, and the strange essence hidden in that power that The Solitary dared not even try to determine.
Not even having the thought of talking tough, The Solitary turned immediately turning into an afterimage running away with full force.
Expected early, Faen raised his leg and stomped the ground. Water blades submerged in the ground were shaken back into the air turning into water masses of different sizes, shooting out in a fan shape with the right leg sweep.
Feeling a chill behind, The Solitary instinctively misted her body. Although utilizing the veil allowed The Solitary to avoid being nailed directly to the ground, the high-speed water bullets passing through the body still 'scraped' away a large amount of essence. Feeling the power in her body reduced again, The Solitary also realized Faen's purpose—just as Faen said just now, he wanted to eat her!
Eyes full of despair, but The Solitary didn't give up struggling because of this. Dodging back to avoid the cold light piercing the throat, but accompanied by the essence being cut multiple times, although the much weakened The Solitary dodged the first hit, the subsequent rotating handle smashed viciously into the ribs of her material body—unable to mist, The Solitary could feel the veil here was strengthened; she could no longer dodge by blurring like before.
Amidst the cracking bone sound, Faen flashing over also emerged from the blade curtain. A knee strike hit the demon's jaw. Accompanied by a dull sound, her horny helmet was directly smashed into a large number of fragments and cracks.
Showing despair, but immediately followed by a flash of crazy viciousness in The Solitary's eyes. Ignoring injuries, crimson nails tore the mist thrusting towards Faen's throat. Unfortunately, before touching Faen's body, three severed fingers were thrown into the air with azure arcs.
Left hand controlling spirit blades to strangle the demon, Faen's right hand grabbed The Solitary's ankle and slammed it violently towards the ground. Accompanied by tooth-aching bone cracks, the demon's body was forcibly embedded into the floor tiles under Faen's amazing violence. Bones shattered, spirit realm energy churning on the broken body. Emitting a roar, The Solitary intending to get up hadn't looked up yet when four sharp blades broke through the air down simultaneously piercing limbs, nailing into rock and soil.
"Hiss ah!!!"
Emitting a painful and sharp roar, black mist constantly exploded on The Solitary's body, trying to escape to the other side of the veil turning into black mist to break free. Unfortunately, having strengthened the intensity of the veil, no matter how the current The Solitary struggled, her body was still constantly fading. Especially at fingertips and toes, changing from demon's cyan-purple to human skin.
Similar demons descending to the material realm often parasitized their concepts on some material realm lives. Humans, beasts, Vastaya, all included. And now The Solitary's body began to fade, also indicating her energy as spirit realm began to dissipate.
"Spare me... I am willing to be your kin!" Nailed to the ground, knowing she was powerless to struggle, The Solitary said simply:
"The person who enslaved me before was Evelynn! I can feel you are nobler, greater than Evelynn, but you are very weak now. You need a servant to find more food for you!"
"I can help you! I can seduce other demons over to become your food!!"
To this, Faen just shook his head indifferently, not taking The Solitary's proposal to heart. Instead, he mobilized spirit realm energy directly, suppressing The Solitary while contacting Janna in his heart.
"Target caught, prepare for the next ritual."