"Ruinov, Don't be so stubborn. You know that she is out of our league, so we need to retreat," A serene voice tinged with panic sounded.
"Retreat? Run away just because our opponent is stronger than us?"
"Pyr, You want our organization to look bad," A deep voice, followed by a peal of laughter, echoed through the surroundings before an abrupt silence.
Saahira and Andrei stood together, bloodied and bruised, amidst the desolate expanse of the ice-covered jungle. A few meters away, a female figure draped in robes of regal purple and muted gray hovered in mid-air, her legs casually crossed as she gazed down upon them, defying gravity with apparent ease.
"No, we both know what she is capable of, and fighting against her will only end in our death, and after knowing all that and still engaging with her is idiotic," Saahira said, as her staff pulsed with life, manifesting white flames of renewal that engulfed both her and Andrei, closing their wounds.
"You are right, but death is better than running away," Andrei said, with his wings a blur, and so did his figure as he zoomed toward the female in the distance.
The clematises figure of Andrei, a blend of rhinoceros beetle, ants, and other deadly insects, cloaked in a dense shroud of poisonous mist that burned the very air, was halted inches away from the female who didn't move an inch.
Andrei's form came to a halt before he was pushed back, hit with an invisible impact, and sent zooming down into the frozen ground like a meteor.
Andrei stood back from the rubble and looked up his fresh heald figure showing minor injuries, and in the next instant, he firstly held his duel axes and bent his knees before launching his figure back at the lady who sat cross-legged, her icy gaze meeting his with unwavering intensity.
"You are strong, stronger than 99% of individuals participating in the event, but your struggle against me is pointless," The female spoke, her calm voice as sweet as a melody.
She raised her delicate hand up, manifesting small orbs of brilliant red energy that shot lasers at the figure of Andrei, who was pushing against an invisible barrier, his figure releasing waves upon waves of poisonous mist yet not getting even closer to the seated beauty.
"It is commendable that you are willing to go through so much pain to not give up on your comrade, but the only way you two are going to die is by telling me where I can find Ruler,"
"And it's not like you are throwing Ruler before the wolves to be slaughtered because surely you don't believe that any player could hope to threaten that monster,"
"If you really want to save your image, then give me his location and tell Ruler I am coming to meet him, but you are welcome to test my patience and experience the pain of a lifetime because I sure have little interest in performing well in the event,"
"I just want to meet the mysterious man who appeared out of thin air and now stands at the pinnacle of what the Ancient world has to offer to players," Evangeline said, a smile gracing her icy-cold face.
'We will have a single shot at doing this, and even if our plan works, it will not guarantee our victory, but besides trying our best, we have no other option,' Saahira said through the system voice chat.
'I told you that I do not want to be defeated again after the defeat against Killian, and I held those feelings not because I felt ashamed to lose but because I felt I lost without putting up much of a fight,'
'Killian told me as he beat the living daylight out of me how I was just a brute who was showered with resources and given a strong legacy,'
'I also believed it to be true, and it was the reason I was sad and wanted to prove to myself and others who believed the same wrong,' Googlᴇ search 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⁂𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱
'My brother saw through my worries and you know what he said to me?' Andrei questioned, his deep voice breaking at the end as if the mere recollection caused him to drift off in thought.
'What a great response,' Andrei said, following it with a hearty laugh out loud.
'He said that only people who don't lose are those who pick their opponents certain of their victory, and those people will never grow past a level,'
'He also told me that in certain situations, it is better to retreat than die a foolish death,'
'So while we will follow your plan, however, if she can maintain the barrier even after I destroy it or I fail to destroy it, in both cases, you will need to leave at the opportunity I will create,' Andrei said, his eyes never leaving the female figure seated in the sky.
'He sure took his time to arrive,' Alex thought, his pitch-dark eyes looking into the distance.
Alex shifted their eyes to the battlefield that had changed drastically in the last twenty minutes, with one of the mage towers being down in flames, a small section of the wall having been torn open, and two-tenths of the pulse canons disabled.
Chazaqian, one of the two lieutenants, and both of Alex's servants were busy dealing with the enemy captain and keeping him out of the fortress boundary, but as the strength difference was high, the captain was slipping out attacks every now and then.