Chapter 82 - #81 Putolu Tombs 4 (2/2)

”Wha?!” He widened his eyes, however, he had no time to dodge the attack with his wings due to his too high speed, he was split into 2 halves from the bottom.

My slash also damaged the ceiling but thankfully, the walls and floors were so thick that it didn't go through the entire ceiling. I just had to get rid of a few debris that has fallen down with my flames.

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[+40 XP for killing your enemy]

[+5 XP for using technique related to your class]

Class: Blade Master (Lv. 6; +11 Str, +11 Agi, +5 Const) 153/320 XP

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”If you are the second strongest person here then all those traps got my hopes too high!” I said in a disappointed tone while looking at his dead split body with his eyes wide open.

Well, if he had some kind of weapon, it could be somehow interesting fight due to his extremely high speed but he had to fight bȧrėhanded...

”Heh” Poney only chuckled after seeing the result.

”Don't do that...Learn from this, this is what happens when you fight bȧrėhanded against someone who has a weapon.” I said with a cold tone while pointing at his sorry state corpse with my sword.

”I know...ha-ha you are even stricter than the chief. You are really a dark upgraded version of Najasho.” She replied with an amused smile while closing her eyes.

...That's not really a compliment. Shouldn't you be more grateful to me for saving you?

”Agh!” She immediately opened her eyes when she felt the pain coming from her forehead. She looked at me with confused expression while holding her forehead.

”You aren't going to sleep, we still have a job to do. If you want, you can go back but I won't let you sleep here.” I said while crouching next to her and looking at her with an indifferent gaze.

I put my hand on her bruised abdomen and she immediately winced in pain while closing one of her eyes.

”Endure it, I will heal you so you can at least walk around without any problems.” I said and focused on healing her.

[Energy: 950/1365]

This time, it took a lot of time and also a lot of energy just to heal her a bit but considering that this guy was the second strongest...I don't need to save that much energy, not to mention my regeneration...

”...Thank you. Although I don't understand how is it possible for you to heal me so quickly, I won't ask for now...” Poney said with a grateful expression when she was finally able to get up on her own legs.

The bruises were still slightly visible but she could finally move around without wincing in pain each step she would take.

”No need, everyone would blame me if you died since we are a team.” I said with a calm tone while looking around where we should go next.

”Gah! That's why you saved me?!” Poney dropped to her knees with a defeated expression.

”You are quite energetic considering that you almost died a few minutes ago. Tell me, from where did he come from? Maybe we will be able to arrive at their treasure room or we might be able to find more prisoners.” I asked with a small smile.

I took the bag he was carrying with him and waited for Poney's response.

”He came from that direction if I remember right...Wait! More prisoners? So you found prisoners behind those doors? What happened anyway?” Poney pointed at one of the many hallways so we slowly started to walk towards it.

”...I found more than 10 prisoners so I quickly treated them and freed them, however, I killed 3 of them. I also described the way out for them so they could leave on their own.” I said a short version of the story and she immediately widened her eyes.

”What?! Wait, wait! Why did you kill them?!” She hopped in front of me to stop me from walking and asked me with a confused and slightly angered expression.

”...They were girls, all of them. Do you follow?” I asked with furrowed brows.

”...” Her expression told me that she was unsure but she definitely had an idea in her head.

”I happened to hear you shout at him that you aren't interested or something so I pretty sure know what he wanted from you...Now let's imagine that others wouldn't even ask or kill you if you refused...Do you understand now?” I explained with a serious expression and horrified expression immediately appeared on her face.

”Y-You mean to say that...those girls-” She was unable to follow with how much she was shocked.

”Yes, that Umber girl really meant it when she said that they need to procreate. They treated those girls from the Empire's ȧssassin units as breeding cattle.” I said with narrowed eyes and put my hand on her shoulder to gently shove her aside.

”This...!!!” I stopped walking and turned at her to see her looking down with disgusted expression and eyes full of hate while gritting her teeth and clenching her fist.

”I took care of them so they won't have to...bear anyone's child. But even then 3 of them didn't want to live anymore so I just sympathized with them and quickly killed them. That was the best thing I could do for them at that time. Let's move forward and get this mission finally done.” I said and started moving once again.

”...Yes!” Poney shouted with a resolute tone while catching up to me.

When I took a peek at her expression, I saw a new expression. She was fully focused and all serious.