81 Red Lady vs the Devil part 1 (1/2)

A minute ago.

While Astrid fought Olivia, Rose and Maggie continued to bombard Cornelius with their magic. It wasn't long before he couldn't resist anymore, and that was the end of the Magic Band's leader, buried and burned in a hole along with other mages.

Lucien sent a mental message to Rose to help Astrid while he headed towards the Red Lady.

He ran with his katana ready and a smile on his face as he felt the adrenaline through his body. Oya, equally excited, ran beside him to fight the mercenaries.

Red Lady was confident in her skills and her warriors, but she was instinctively afraid, which mean that she really was in danger.

\”Attack him!\” Red Lady didn't think twice before sending her mercenaries to face Lucien as she turned and started to run away. Not only did Lucien look strangely powerful, but there was also the earth mage, who killed Cornelius... There was no point in trying to fight a losing battle.

When she turned to flee, she also saw Olivia being attacked by Astrid and rocks flying towards Glen and other adventurers. \”At least he is also her enemy.\”

\”Heeeee?!\” Red Lady was quick, but nothing prepared her for what happened.

Lucien was about a hundred meters from Red Lady's squad. Still, as 13 mercenaries were protecting her, Lucien thought it wouldn't be so easy to prevent her from escaping, so he asked for Maggie's help as she approached the center of the battlefield with Rose.

Rose was firing rocks at Glen, Jeanne, and Mason, but Maggie was just running and managed to easily cast her fire magic, creating a flame wall in front of Red Lady.

The flame wall continued to grow and surrounded Olivia's squad, while Lucien and Oya reached them from the other side.

\”Shields up!\” Red Lady could not attempt to pass through the flame wall without knowing the intensity of the spell, so she ordered her mercenaries to prepare while wielding her great saber and gazing at Lucien.

Lucien stopped less than 20 meters from the mercenaries. He wanted to end the fight quickly by killing them all, but if he could make Red Lady surrender, it would be much easier.

\”Why are you attacking me? I never did any harm to you... I'm not like the stupid Black Hand.\” Red Lady saw Lucien stop and thought there could be some negotiation. After all, she didn't think it made sense for Lucien to attack her as she had no way of knowing about Cassidy or the fact that he wanted to be King.

The mercenaries stood around Red Lady, making a shield barrier preventing Lucien from seeing her. Everyone seemed too scared to attack him, making Lucien laugh as he mocked Red Lady.

\”Hahaha... I am not going to kill you. You can get out from behind the shields... Let's talk.\” Not only Red Lady but also the mercenaries were more tense when they heard to Lucien's sinister laugh.

The mercenaries saw how easily Lucien killed their teammates. Some of their blood was still on Oya's mouth as she surrounded the group on the other side.

Red Lady couldn't think of a good reason for Lucien to attack her, but he and his group had already killed everyone from the Magic Band on the battleground and some of her warriors. This was clearly declaring war on mercenaries.

She would not leave behind her warriors and face Lucien without knowing the limit of his power. \”I can hear you from here, so we can talk like that... What do you want from me?\”

Lucien thought about attacking quickly but made another attempt to make Red Lady surrender. \”Did you see how Cornelius died? Why do you think that is not happening to you?\”

Of course, Red Lady saw the mages buried and burned just as everyone on the battlefield did. She thought that Lucien's group could not do those spells again so quickly, but now hearing Lucien's confident voice, she could be wrong.

\”You know that if you kill me, you will only get the hate of all Portgreen's mercenaries. Why would you do that?\” The mercenaries couldn't believe they were hearing to the wild and powerful Red Lady trying to threaten someone not to kill her... Lucien was just one person, so why were they afraid? Oh yes, because he killed eight of them in less than 5 seconds.

Lucien could only laugh at Red Lady's threat. \”Look around you. All of your mercenaries are dying. How would anyone find out that I killed you if there's nobody left to tell?\”

\”Is that how you want to talk to me? You are insane!\” Red Lady didn't know what Lucien's goals were, but her hunch told her more and more that things were not going to end well.

Red Lady did not want to use her best trump card, but she had no options. She took a black pill from her storage ring, and when she was about to eat it, she heard Lucien's voice and can't help but be shocked.

\”If you do that, not only will it be useless, but I will have to beat you.\” Not only was Lucien's hearing and vision incredible, but his sense of smell was as well. He smelled the pill that the Light Empire captain used in the mine.

Gerard's power increased by about 30%. However, it was still useless against Lucien before, even though Red Lady was a powerful Diamond-rank mercenary, Lucien was still quite confident in his strength.

Red Lady thought for a second that she could be making a mistake, but she was not going to surrender, so she ate the pill. She felt a wave of energy and adrenaline rush through her body and prepared to attack Lucien with everything she had.

\”You made a mistake by making me your enemy... Now it will be your end!\” Red Lady ordered some of her mercenaries to attack Lucien and others to attack Oya, who was in the other direction.

13 Gold-rank mercenaries. Eight with blessed shields, three archers, and two with large maces.

Two mercenaries with shields went towards Oya along with a big man with a heavy mace. The archers began firing arrows at Lucien while the other mercenaries surrounded him. Red Lady stared at Lucien, waiting for the moment when he would have his guard down for her to do a fatal blow.