"The more you struggle, the more it pleases . So please don't stop. Let watch you struggle like an insect! Let 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 mont, 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 sothing about this trap that she didn't want him to see.
Unfortunately, the poison didn't give him much ti 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 ca 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 exclaid, her tone filled with more mockery.
"Are you concerned about ?" Lucifer asked as he again killed another Warrior who attacked him.
He had noticed sothing 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 ant sothing about him continuously killing her people was starting to bother her. It made him quite curious as well.
If they were truly sothing 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 movents sluggish, but he refused to give in to despair. He wanted to uncover the truth behind this twisted ga Talia had set up.
Unfortunately, his body's condition didn't make him confident about being able to achieve that goal unless he changed sothing.
His eyes looked at the surroundings, finding the exact position of all the Warriors. He kept an eye on each of their movents. As he took his ti to observe, he noticed sothing 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 tis, 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 sothing else. There was another source.
As he thought to this point, his attention shifted to Talia's ring. Out of all, only her ring appeared like a real object and not sothing 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 ant 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 reinforcents. 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 assumption was correct, but he was more prone 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 tis you can bring them back to life!"
Lightning Bolts fell from the sky, all targeting Talia's warriors. One even fell on Talia. While so 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 movents as multiple dark spikes ca 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 ti it was his turn to play with Talia.
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