DEATH… AND ME

eat cold.
The person was definitely inside his Spiritual Sense range, but he couldn ’t feel at all.
That could only mean one thing, that person ’s cultivation far surpassed his own.

Finally, he was able to see who it was.
It was a woman using a black robe, long black hair, and eyes.
She looked to be in her late twenties or so, but Lovak was sure that that appearance didn ’t represent her real age at all.

’Rumbling Core! ’

Lovak didn ’t even care about the side effects of reusing this skill so early again.
All he knew was that he would die if he didn ’t run straight away.
Unfortunately, the very moment he tried to give the first step forward, his body froze in place.

Lovak ’s expression showed horror.
That woman was holding him in place with the power of her Spiritual Energy alone!

”Na-Nascent Soul Realm! ”

The woman smiled after hearing that.

”Aren ’t you a smart kid? ”

Lovak felt like the pressure was crushing his bones, but he still did his best to squeeze a few words.

”Se-Senior, spare…
me! I ’ll do…
anything! ”

The woman showed some surprise on her face.

”Anything? ”

”Y-Yes! ”

She approached him before touching his heart with her finger.
It was nothing more than a light touch, but Lovak ’s expression showed despair at that moment.
His body began to freeze from that point onwards.
The woman then whispered in his ear.

”Then die for me. ”

Lovak ’s body completely froze up after that.
The woman then retreated her hand and snapped her fingers.

*Crack, crack…*

Lovak ’s frozen body cracked all over before crumbling down.
Right after, it began to turn into specs of frozen dust that drifted away with the wind.
It didn ’t take long for his body to completely disappear. 

Suddenly, another voice appeared in the surroundings.

”So scary…
As expected of one of the Core Elders of the Dalamu Sect. ”

A man then appeared on a nearby tree as he looked at the woman.

”Long time no see, Tiria. ”

Sure enough, that woman was the same one that Rean healed back then, Tiria Yinsan.
She didn ’t seem surprised seeing that man.
She just smiled back at him before saying.

”Long time indeed.
How have you been, Galios? ”

”Not too bad.
Still, I didn ’t expect the Dalamu Sect to sent someone like you to watch over those kids. ”

Tiria laughed a little before answering back in the same coin.

”Are you the one to talk? How come you are watching over a few kids? Is there someone special in your Lagan Sect ’s group? ”

Galios shrugged his shoulders.

”You could say that.
Well, I guess we both have our reasons to not let anything happen to our kids.
By the way, I heard you had been hit by elder Furen ’s Umbral Energy attack a while ago.
How come you are fine already? ”

Tiria ’s expression turned dark after hearing that name.

”Hmph! As if he could really do that with me. ”

Galios laughed after that.

”Alright, alright.
Let ’s leave that aside.
My sect doesn ’t want anyone to know that our little girl is going out to train.
After all, it would make things complicated if certain people were to know about it.
I believe that Dalamu also doesn ’t want anyone to look into those twins either.
How about we pretend that neither of us saw anything? ”

Tiria took a deep breath and nodded.

”That sounds good for me. ”

The two Nascent Soul experts seemed to have an agreement.
There was nothing else to be said after that, so they both left.

Tiria ’s eyes flashed with a cold light on her way back.
She reached her pocket and took off a small black token.
This token had nothing to do with her talk with Galios.
Instead, she found it on the body of a Middle Stage Core and Fusion Realm assassin that followed Rean and Roan after they left the sect.
She had killed that guy way before the twins met with Luina ’s group.

That token had a scythe picture being held by a shadow.
Other than that, there was only a number, nothing more.

’The Shadow Reapers…
Sect Master was right. ’

She then put the token away before disappearing into the night.