Chapter 188: Caught Up (2/2)

”Calm down calm down, it's fine, besides they're already dead so don't worry about it. We need to focus on Liz right now.”

While Tyler was a tad pleased someone was worried about him, they didn't have the time to worry about such things right now. Rain seem to calm down after hearing Tyler's words so she realized the gravity of the situation with Liz and force herself to focus on one thing at time.

She then narrated the entirety of their encounters and although the end was a bit unclear as she had been infected and on the verge of collapse. Tyler had still pieced together the pieces to the puzzle quite easily.

The young girl that ambushed them with the aid of a barrier had left soon after the mountain golems had appeared but she probably hadn't retreated and had set up another ambush as she could predict Liz would recklessly head back to the castle because her friend was dieing.

However, how they were able to capture Liz who was currently Sbow was still a puzzling thought in his mind. He remembered the feeling he felt when he had first met her and the only reason he had been able to survive that encounter was because of her lack of resistance to negative type spells at the time.

And even though he was currently stronger than her, he didn't think it was by much judging by the sturdiness of the barrier that had be set up around Rain. He had a feeling it would be harder to break out of the prism than break in.

The only possible way he could think of for them to capture Snow was for the young girl to have ambushed the second time with the help of another individual with strength of similar or higher level than hers. Even then it would've been a brawl of it wasn't for the unconscious Rain she had needed to protect.

He frown slightly as he was questioning why they would need to capture her. From what Rain said, it didn't seem to be members of her family that came, so it was one of the other Great Five.

There was also a few reasons he could think off on why she was captured and tye first was they had judged her to be from another Great Five and wanted to use her as a tool against whatever family she was from or maybes, they were trying to get to him through her.

The last and worst of all was they wanted to study and experiment on her to gain the innate ability of another Great, pushing them one step closer to taking over the continent as the new demon king.

Tyler hadn't seen any of the other families innate abilities aside for when he had caught a glimpse of Liz or rather Snow, the time she had used it to easily defeat a near demigod monster with ease. He could only conclude that if they were all as broken as that, then a single family with two of such ability will not only be a threat to the world but himself as the one residing in the demons king castle.

He absolutely could not let that happen. Moreover, Liz had already been subjected to enough experiments as a child and thus, this could become very traumatizing for her. It could even break her, sending her into a vegetative state.

That single thought had sparked a volcano of rage inside of Tyler as he could no longer just stand here and do nothing.

He turned to Rain who was still sitted on the snow as it seemed she was having a hard time standing up.

”Rain, I'll need you to head back to the castle on your own for now.”

”Huh... no I'm fine, I need to go find Liz. Who knows what hell they'll put her through.” She said that as she tried her hardest to stand but failed repeatedly.

Tyler saw her genuine worry and anguish on her friend's behalf and could only smile gently as he spoke: ”Don't worry about it. I'll handle the rest so just leave it to me.”

”That's... I can't trouble you when your arm is like that, besides, I want to help, I can still fight.”

Even with his barrier protecting her, the strange aura had done a lot more damage than Tyler had thought as he could not simply take away that effect with a simple healing spell.

”Its fine don't worry about it. You're not in any state to fight at the moment so you'll just get in my way. Or do you not truth me to handle this?”

Those words were like multiple daggers to the already demoralized Rain who had let her friend down yet again by getting herself hurt even though she was supposed to be her bodyguard. Moreover, she had also wanted to be useful to her beloved and yet, she had put her self in a state that would only serve to hinder him and she couldn't even argue about that.

Not to mention he hadn't even given her any opportunity to for her to speak out as he had asked a question she could not answer. He had already saved her life once and now he had done it again. If he said he would recue Liz there was no doubt in her mind that he couldn't do it.

After all, this was the man that had defeated her with ease. The man she had fallen madly in love with and thus could not see herself refuting him. She whole heartedly trust him but her commitment to Liz made her hesitate on answering as she had wanted to be the one to personally save her friend.

”As I said, leave everything to me and return. I'll get Liz back in an instant. After all, you're both my precious subordinates. Whatever family had dared to hurt you has not only insulted me but have incurred my wrath and are now considered my enemies. Their fates have already been written.”