"BOSS, SAVE M—!"
*Woosh*
*Pierce—*
Karina heard the arrow whistling through the air, piercing past number 3's head, causing her to turn around, only to see Dipti's panicked and horrified expression before...
*—Splatter*
Dipti's head splattered into blood and gore, causing so of it to get splashed on Karina's body.
Karina's gaze quivered as she realized that the arrow had yet to stop.
"Poison Shield," she called out in a hurry and the next second...
*Sssssss*
A wet green miasmic gas ca out of her body, covering her in less than a second, even before the arrow could co close to Karina, and the mont the arrow touched the barrier, it started to lt.
*Hisss*
It couldn't pass through it, as its tal head was turned into liquid while the wooden part was completely gone.
Karina's eyes finally moved toward the other end of the cave, and the mont she caught sight of the handso yet deadly figure of the red-haired and golden-eyed guy, her body trembled.
'Alex Matthew.'
Her gaze turned hard as she didn't expect to et the only guy she didn't want to et.
She did say that ranking didn't matter, as anyone with the higher amount of coins could be up on the ranking, but this was the only guy who gave her a really bad feeling; it was as if her senses were telling her to not ss with this guy.
[The Fla of Sacrifice is telling you to run away.]
The notification of the system flashed in front of her eyes, causing her gaze to turn grim, as she rushed toward the exit.
Her god wasn't a normal god, and she knew it as she had so knowledge of mythology, enough to let her know about the renowned gods.
The god that she had ford a contract with was the god of fire, Agni Deva.
He was the ruler of all fires, and if soone as strong as him was telling her to run away, then she wouldn't think twice before doing it.
Alex, however, just followed behind her with unhurried steps, knowing full well that no matter how hard she tried, she wouldn't be able to escape his speed.
'Judgnt of Truth.'
Alex muttered, finally stepping out of the path, stepping into the forest that the path led him to.
The AI comnted after it noted Alex's answer; it was, just like Alex, a bit worried about the shield-ability as it could estimate that it was strong enough to stop any of Alex's attacks.
But just as Alex stepped out...
*Woosh*
An arrow whistled toward him at a very fast speed; for Alex, however, it was slow.
He could clearly see an arrow, made of green liquid, moving toward his head, and he just tilted his head a bit.
*Chisssss*
The arrow shot past him, embedding itself in the outer wall of that cave, lting down whatever ca into its way, going deeper and deeper into the wall.
Alex, however, just glanced at the arrow for a mont before he turned back to look at the forest in front of him.
'Mapping.'
'Temporal internal projection.'
He activated both of his abilities that let him track his enemies, and in just a second, he found out where Karina was hiding, causing his eyes to squint.
'What do I do now?'
Then, as he moved forward, he questioned the AI, wanting to know what he had to do.
The AI's reply was instantaneous, as if it were waiting for Alex to ask that question.
'... you want to lie to her?'
Alex questioned, knowing full well that it was the only thing the AI's words ant, and the AI, who had answered instantly for the last question, chose to remain silent this ti.
Passive abilities are a kind of ability that activates automatically; so don't need their user to expend mana, while so need it partially.
Alex's beastly instinct was the partial one; it wouldn't need mana for minor danger, but the mont Alex was in a major danger, it would burn mana to warn Alex about it—it was a danger sense of a sort.
Karina's ability was sothing like that as well.
If it was just lie detection, then it wouldn't need mana, but if it were illusion breaking, then it would need mana; sothing created by mana couldn't be just broken without the use of mana.
Now, there were two ways of activating her ability: the first one was to trap her in an illusion, which would activate her ability automatically.
So would think that this was the best way, but Alex didn't have any illusion skill active right now; his illusion of death was still locked.
What about killing intent? Didn't it give the Kobolds the illusion of a bloodthirsty beast staring at them?
Yes, it did, but that illusion wasn't sothing optical; it was a ntal illusion, or more like, it wasn't even an illusion, just a way of their mind seeing Alex as the scariest thing they could.
So, it wasn't sothing Karina could be able to break with her illusion-breaking skill.
Leaving Alex with the second option, which is to lie to her, as the mont one lied to her would be the mont her ability tells her that he lies to her.
His gaze turned back toward the forest, staring at one tree in particular before he spoke.
"I don't know where you are."
His words reached exactly where they needed to be as the mont he said that...
*Rustle*
He could hear the sound of soone moving through the bushes.
His words were lies, of course, and Karina, who heard them, frowned for a bit before she started rushing deeper into the forest.
But as she did, she heard Alex's voice again.
"I'm not going to kill you."
Those words sent shivers down her spine as she could tell just how much truth those words held—0%.
'I didn't know that this guy was a liar as well...'
She muttered inwardly, as she never thought that the first-ranked guy in the whole northern region of India was a liar, but as she looked around, realizing what the world had turned into, she just sighed, her face turning solemn before she increased her speed.
"I am not following you."
Only to hear Alex's voice just so ters away from herself, causing her eyes to widen in shock, realizing that her position wasn't hidden from Alex.
She wasn't going to stop and attack Alex when she rushed out of the cave, but her instincts—her damned instincts—told her that she would live longer if she did that, so she did what she did.
If not for that, then by the ti Alex ca out, she would've been way ahead of him, but now she realizes why her instincts told her that she would live longer if she were to do it.
Alex would've caught up to her even if she didn't stop, so in a way, she did live longer, even if it was for so seconds.
'This shitty ability of mine!'
She growled inwardly, increasing her speed.
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