Chapter 197: Diving into the Chrysalis (1/2)

Chapter 197: Diving into the Chrysalis

Aldrich paused for a tense e

Valera i rical energy swirled around hiht before it boiled up into full blown explosiveness

He had never been this tense even with someone as powerful as the Death Lord because he understood the type of person she was SheAldrich, but at the end of the day, it was just that: a joke He could tell this in her e and her barely concealed smile that htly

But Rella was nearly the co and condent demeanor about her that ht hearted, but there was soed about her, in the way she smiled, in her voice, that made her far more unpredictable

That, and her backstory Rella was the daughter of Rathos, highest God of the

Eluame Her mother was just some naot about

When Rella reached her teenage years, Fiola, Goddess and wife to Rathos, saw

Rella as an abomination and a symbol of her husband's indelity Thus, Fiola cast Rella down into the depths of a dungeon full of the vilest creatures capable of enacting the most torturous ends known to man

There, Rella survived for forty years by herself, and when she e but an uncontrollable ball of violence and fury Aldrich did not kno exactly the Death Lord h to work for her

What he did knoas that he did not trust in Rella's h to hold herself back froainst

Aldrich And, as Aldrich was now, vastly underleveled coth would undeniably demolish him

Evidently, Valera felt the same sense of threat too Her battle instincts told her to be cautious of Rella because she ildly unpredictable "Hehehe, that is a nice aura ye have," said Rella "It would be a wondrous feeling to shatter it withtonight," said the Death Lord r with authority

Rella looked to the Death Lord and nodded withoutin that pillar all day" "I' after sparring with the Death Lord," said Aldrich This was, of course, a pointed question meant to scope out reactions fro those, he could try to determine how much of what the Death Lord said was true about her injuries "Hah, her?" said Rella "By this point, I've sparred her enough to be quite bored of what she can do And she never goes all out with o all out," said the Death Lord "This real sessions to alleviate you fro the Bell of Absolution as its conduit

To let you go all out on top of that is sied to do that e to one side of you?" said Aldrich

The Death Lord did not respond to this It was Rella that took over the answering, and she was decidedly harder to read Perhaps because of the eon, or maybe it was because she was half God, but her ability to make proper facial expressions was o in an alhtning could not do even that much," said Rella "I have trained it all h their skin, barriers, or wills are And it has felled more than one Mel is no dierent" "An unlucky hit, then?" Aldrich asked this directly to the Death Lord this tied the topic away "We are not here to discussof your

Boundary" "Alright then," said Aldrich For now, Rella had covered for the Death Lord