“Alright, the Eighth Stage Warrior will be here in 10 minutes, we need to leave.”
Kael spoke as he held Lavinia’s hand, preparing to leave.
“How are you doing… whatever it is that you are doing…?”
Lavinia, who was staring at the chaos in front of her with a horrified look on her face, questioned directly.
However, before Kael could answer her question,
“There she is! Get her!! Don’t let her escape!”
She heard a voice, she turned around and saw a man rushing towards her.
“!!!”
Her eyes widened in surprise, her body reacted, she gathered whatever Mana she had but before she could cast a spell,
“Stop.”
Kael spoke in a low voice as he tightened his hold around her arm.
“What do yo—”
“Trust me.”
Kael spoke, looking right into Lavinia’s eyes as their faces got dangerously close.
“…”
Lavinia stared into his eyes in silence, unable to say anything, her emotions were still a mess by everything she had seen, so she had little to no control over herself.
“What are you all doing!? Catch her! She is running away!”
Just then, she heard the same man shout again as he passed them, completely ignoring their existence as if he couldn’t see them.
“Why are you all running randomly!? She is right there!!”
The man shouted again, chasing who knows who.
It wasn’t just him, the rest of the guards were the same.
“There she is! Catch her!!”
“You bastard! She went right past you! Why didn’t you do anything!?”
“HAA! I caught her!! I knew I would catch her!! The reward’s mine now! Suck it Jason!”
“My behind is on Fire!!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!”
“Catch her! She is swimming away!! Wait—swimming!?”
“Nooo!!! She disappeared! Her body turned into a Mist! I didn’t catch her!!”
“Where is she!?”
“There she is!! Follow her!!”
Yes.
Every single guard was the same.
Chasing a different Lavinia in different condition, the entire building was such a chaotic mess that the Slaves, who were only seeing a few random people running around, tripping, jumping, even swimming, on the cold ground, had no clue what to say.
And of course, the one responsible for all this mess…
“Fufufu~”
She was sitting on top of Kael’s shoulder, laughing as adorably as always.
“Humans~ So fun~”
Lavinia stared at the Fox and blinked, with all the ridiculousness happening right in front of her, a talking Fox didn’t even look like that big of a deal.
Rather, her eyes were on a certain poor fellow who… seemed like he was drowning… on a stone floor.
“Ahhhh!! Save me! Save me!! A Shark tore my clothes!! She seems to have a thing for me!! Aaaahhhhh!!! I don’t want to be shark’s husband!!!”
The poor fellow shouted.
What’s even worse?
He was doing all this right in front of the Slaves he had captured and the caged Slaves had absolutely no clue what was happening but…
It was a show they… kind of enjoyed?
Some were even poking them with a light stick, the reacting that got out of him was quite amusing as well.
“Ahhhh!! She just poked me! She poked me!! She is definitely checking me out!!”
“Fufufu~”
“…”
Kael stared at his laughing daughter in silence. Seeing how her beautiful purple eyes were shining excitedly as she stared at everything happening around her was… chilling.
15 guards…
The Fox was showing different illusions to 15 different guards all at the same time and she was doing this as if it was the easiest thing in the world.
The little thing was a monster through and through, and Kael knew this because he knew how impossibly difficult it was because Vitaria had been teaching him do to this for 2 days now and till now, he hadn’t even figured out the basics of peeking into a human’s mind and showing him an illusion that would affect him the most, let alone show an entirely different illusion, to 15 separate people at the same time.
Vitaria alone had taken out most of the guards within a few seconds, that too, without them bringing out their Bonds simply because they didn’t feel the need to.
Of course, not all of this was Vitaria’s doing, the little Fox was strong but even she had her limits.
Her Illusion only worked on Fifth Stage Warriors and Mages, Tamers above that level had too strong of a mentality for the current her to affect them.
This was also the reason Imperia had come up with this plan.
The Ants chose the most trusted Spy, Famzal.
Vitaria showed him an illusion where he was made to believe that the King had arrived, he reported that to Zarak, the Eighth Stage Warrior and the strongest one here, who took a few of his subordinates and went to greet the King.
Zarak, of course, still left a few strong subordinates here—there were 2 Seventh Stage Warriors, 1 Seventh Circle Mage, and 5 Master Level (Sixth Stage) Tamers.
Kael had to personally take down 8 of them on his own, of course, since he himself had gotten quite strong, that wasn’t very difficult either.
His Stats were already comparable to a Seventh Stage Warrior, that, combined with his [Draconic Surge] and [Draconic Strike], taking them out without having to kill them couldn’t be easier.
Yes, Kael made sure he didn’t kill them because he didn’t wish for their Bonds to come out of the Sanctuary on their own, which, for a normal Tamer, was only possible when their very life is in danger.
Anyways, with the strongest Tamers down, the rest was simple.
Kael broke Lavinia’s chains, alerting all the guards, they rushed towards the underground hall, wanting to catch Lavinia, but before they could, Vitaria put them under illusion, showing them the vision of Lavinia running away as they then started chasing her, leaving both Kael and Lavinia alone.
‘Father.’
As Kael thought of all this, Imperia called him again, bringing him out of his reverie.
“Right.”
He nodded as he pulled Lavinia’s hand.
“Come with me.”
He spoke as the Hero and the Princess finally escaped.
Lavinia turned around and stared at the place she was confined in one last time,
“There she is!! Catch her! Catch her!!”
“I got her! I got her!!”
“Noo!! She disappeared again!!”
“I am… sniff
I AM MARRYING A SHARK!!”
And seeing the chaos, this time, a light, extremely beautiful smile appeared on her face.