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"The more you struggle, the more it pleases me. So please don"t stop. Let me watch you struggle like an insect! Let me watch the despair on your face when you realize how futile all your actions have been!"
Talia was unlike the girl Lucifer knew as the Empress of the Star Alliance. At the moment, she was completely like an arrogant demoness who was looking down on him.
But underneath all the bravado, Lucifer could sense a flicker of vulnerability in Talia"s eyes. He knew that underneath all her confidence, there was a strange sense of fear. Although she appeared confident, she was cautious.
He didn"t know if she was truly confident about his abilities or there was something about this trap that she didn"t want him to see.
Unfortunately, the poison didn"t give him much time to think about this. All he knew was that she wasn"t the biggest threat to him. There was her family, about whom he had no information at all.
"To think that you came with such preparation for a single person. Should I feel proud?" Lucifer asked, looking at Talia in the distance as he slayed another warrior, increasing the poison within his body.
"Don"t you see? It"s useless! No matter how many you kill, it won"t change a single thing. In the end, it"ll only bring you to your end sooner!" Talia exclaimed, her tone filled with more mockery.
"Are you concerned about me?" Lucifer asked as he again killed another Warrior who attacked him.
He had noticed something very peculiar. Talia should"ve been happy if he was killing the warriors as it weakened her. So why was she trying to dissuade him by telling him how useless it was?
He could"ve buried this concern under the thought that Talia was being arrogant, but he realized that things weren"t that simple. For Talia, the end goal was more important than her arrogance.
That only meant something about him continuously killing her people was starting to bother her. It made him quite curious as well.
If they were truly something that could be brought back to life again and again, then why worry about their lives?
Lucifer fought off wave after wave of Talia"s Clansman. The poison coursing through his veins made his movements sluggish, but he refused to give in to despair. He wanted to uncover the truth behind this twisted game Talia had set up.
Unfortunately, his body"s condition didn"t make him confident about being able to achieve that goal unless he changed something.
His eyes looked at the surroundings, finding the exact position of all the Warriors. He kept an eye on each of their movements. As he took his time to observe, he noticed something really interesting that he previously missed.
All of them had a ring on their finger that was similar to Talia"s ring. However he was certain that those rings had turned into poison and entered his body when he killed them. He himself saw those rings disappear. So how did they have the ring again?
It was as if their ring wasn"t actually a real thing. As he focused on the rings, he noticed the rings flickering at times, akin to being made from pure aura. But it was impossible for it to be made by the Warriors by their aura.
If they had the aura that could nullify his abilities, then why would they need rings? It was clear that the aura was from something else. There was another source.
As he thought to this point, his attention s.h.i.+fted to Talia"s ring. Out of all, only her ring appeared like a real object and not something that was made from aura.
Seeing it, he thought of a possibility. The rings on these warriors were linked to Talia"s ring. But it was impossible for the ring to have an infinite amount of aura. That meant the main ring was constantly being exhausted the more it reinforced others.
He finally understood what that subtle concern in Talia was about. Although she should be happy that he was killing them and taking all the poison, the more he did that, the more she had to exhaust her ring.
Moreover, the exhaustion was more than just reinforcements. He was sure that the Warriors coming back to life also had to do with that ring.
In essence, Talia was exhausting more of that poisonous aura in bringing them back to life than Lucifer was consuming by killing them. She was worried that once everything in her ring was used and if Lucifer was still standing, then things could get complicated.
Lucifer didn"t know if his a.s.sumption was correct, but he was more p.r.o.ne to believing his theory.
With a clue about this trap, he was now more confident. The trap wasn"t invincible and neither was Talia, contrary to how she portrayed herself.
Instead of a battle of strength, it was a battle to see how long Lucifer could last while the poison ran free inside him.
Despite the poison coursing through his veins, Lucifer was now more confident. Once he got rid of her ring, she couldn"t bring them back to life and she couldn"t hide anywhere.
With a clear understanding, Lucifer didn"t chase after Talia. Instead, he focused on the Warriors.
"Let"s see how many times you can bring them back to life!"
Lightning Bolts fell from the sky, all targeting Talia"s warriors. One even fell on Talia. While some of the warriors dodged the bolts, many were hit and died right there.
Talia had also managed to avoid the bolt, going even farther.
Many Warriors had barely avoided the lightning bolt. Unfortunately, it was as if Lucifer had predicted their movements as multiple dark spikes came out of the group, impaling their bodies.
Once again Talia avoided the attack, but even she wasn"t untouched as one of the spikes managed to graze through her robe, barely missing her skin.
Talia looked at Lucifer in shock as she once again brought the dead warriors back to life, only for Lucifer to kill them again. One after another, Lucifer kept killing them, as if he was embracing the poison.
This time it was his turn to play with Talia.