Eilistraea was visibly flustered when she heard Anastasia's words about wanting to broadcast the entire scene across Utopia and her gaze turned venomous, glaring at Anastasia like a snake preparing to strike.
At this mont, Eilistraea genuinely wished she could borrow so of Akasha's abilities to poison the shaless shadow dragon to death.
Seeing that the scene was still playing and was about to reach the part where Anastasia's foot collided with her rear, Eilistraea took a deep breath and, with a wave of her hand, addressed Vivian and the others.
"All of you, leave," She commanded, her tone calm but imbued with a powerful force that no one could resist. A surge of energy enveloped the group, ejecting them from the courtyard.
Anastasia clicked her tongue in disappointnt at the abrupt dismissal. She deactivated the recording crystal, muttering under her breath about the wasted opportunity to share her "masterpiece" with an audience.
Eilistraea noticed the look of dissatisfaction on Anastasia's face, which only served to fuel her anger.
"Don't you feel any sha using such a low-level trick to attack ?" Eilistraea snapped, her voice sharp with irritation.
Anastasia nonchalantly put the recording crystal away and shrugged.
"Sha? Why would I feel ashad? I am weak in direct confrontation and excel in sneak attacks. Naturally, I use my strengths when dealing with soone as powerful as you."
Eilistraea sneered when she heard her words, her expression a mixture of disbelief and disdain.
"Good at sneak attacks?" She repeated mockingly. "A dragon claiming it doesn't have the strength to fight head-on? What a pathetic joke."
Anastasia opened her mouth to reply, but before she could, a flash of golden light filled her vision, and Eilistraea's fist hurtled toward her face.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The booming sound echoed through the courtyard as Eilistraea's fist made contact with Anastasia—or so it seed. Instead of striking flesh, her punch passed cleanly through Anastasia's form, which dissolved into a puff of black smoke.
Unfortunately, Anastasia had been leaning against the Tree of Life, and Eilistraea's punch hit the ancient tree instead. The resulting shockwave caused the tree to shake violently, and a deafening explosion reverberated across the capital.
The entire elf empire's capital trembled as if struck by hundreds of nuclear blasts.
Vivian, standing outside the courtyard grimaced and cursed under her breath. She quickly used her powers to stabilize the trembling city.
"I hope she doesn't lose control and destroy the entire capital," Vivian said, imdiately issuing orders to the guards to secure the area and prepare for potential disaster.
Back in the courtyard, a shadow slithered across the ground like a snake before condensing into Anastasia's figure, now a few hundred ters away from Eilistraea.
"Tsk, tsk..." Anastasia shook her head in mock disappointnt, her tone calm and teasing. "You are still the sa muscle-headed brute, thinking every problem can be solved with your fists."
Eilistraea didn't dignify the comnt with a response. Instead, she launched another attack. Yet no matter how many tis she tried, her efforts ended in failure as Anastasia's shadowy form evaded her every move.
After half an hour of relentless attempts, when the entire capital was already in complete chaos, Eilistraea finally stopped, glaring at Anastasia with mounting frustration.
"Coward!" She shouted. "Stop running around and fight if you have even an ounce of courage!"
Anastasia didn't care about Eilistraea's mocking words and shook her head with a bemused smile.
"Now that you know you can't catch , how about we have a little chat?" She suggested.
Eilistraea's expression darkened, and she turned her back on Anastasia with an air of dismissal.
"If you want to talk, go talk to Titian. She is the one managing the empire now," She said, settling back under the Tree of Life as if Anastasia no longer existed.
Anastasia was montarily speechless, resisting the urge to correct Eilistraea by pointing out that the current queen's na was Vivian, not Titian. However, she decided it wasn't worth the effort to argue.
"The business I am referring to can only be handled by you," Anastasia insisted, stepping closer and sitting beside Eilistraea.
Eilistraea glanced at Anastasia with irritation, her fists itching to strike. Yet she knew better than to waste her energy on soone she couldn't catch so she ignored her.
"You have really grown up over the past few thousand years," Anastasia remarked with sincerity when Eilistraea didn't attack her again. "Your IQ has gone from zero to 0.5."
Her tone was laced with amusent, and her expression resembled that of a proud mother watching her dim-witted child finally grasp sothing simple.
Black lines appeared on Eilistraea's forehead, and a suffocating aura engulfed the entire elf capital, sending waves of fear rippling through everyone present.
Sensing the rising anger, Anastasia wisely decided to stop teasing and returned to the matter at hand.
"There are two things I need you to do for ," She said.
Eilistraea took a deep breath, reigning in her emotions, and sneered.
"Do you really think I would do anything for you after what you just pulled?"
Anastasia waved a hand dismissively.
"Why so serious? It was just a warm greeting, a lovely way to reconnect with my chea*... dear friend after so long."
Eilistraea's eye twitched, her patience wearing dangerously thin.
'She was about to call her 'cheap friend,' wasn't she?' Eilistraea thought to herself, seething inwardly.
"Anyway," Anastasia continued, ignoring Eilistraea's growing anger, "let's focus on the present. What I am asking you to do is actually beneficial for you."
Eilistraea scoffed, her tone dripping with sarcasm.
"Beneficial to ? What could you, an ancient fossil, possibly offer soone at my level?"
Now it was Anastasia's turn to be speechless. The insult of being called Ancient Fossil stung, and for a brief mont, she considered giving Eilistraea another kick. However, rembering her purpose, she let the remark slide.
"What if I told you," Anastasia said casually, "That what I am offering could help you break through your current level and ascend to an entirely new realm?"
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