Alex was quite literally flabbergasted at Mira's unexpected move!
Not even he could do sothing like lock down a small region of space yet, and he was a C tier who had recently assimilated with the Space elent!
Mira was still only a D rank, he knew that from observing her aura.
The fact that she could wield this ability while at her rank only spoke volus of her talent for the Space elent!
anwhile, Nicholas was really sweating now.
'Why the fuck can't I leave the Primordial Expanse!?'
The mont he tried to open up a portal, he expected everything to go his way, like most things in life for a spoiled brat like him.
But it seed the system had other plans.
[Failed to exit the Primordial Expanse.]
That was all it said to him.
But it was enough to stun him to the core, leaving him with absolutely no clue about what to do next. Read exclusive chapters at mvl
His entire plan hinged on being able to leave, and now even that avenue was blocked.
'Perhaps I could beg…? No! That is too low for soone of the Stein family like !'
While his thoughts were going haywire, Alex had his own ideas on what to do with this situation.
"Haha, it seems your little plan has failed!"
He mocked Nicholas as soon as the chance ca up.
Not only that, but he slowly enveloped Virtue's Edge in Phoenix Flas, signifying he wasn't done with Nicholas yet.
He wanted to drill in Nicholas's mind just how pathetic he was for soone who claid to be from a 'superior bloodline'.
But regardless of what he wanted, his and Mira's needs took precedence.
"I'm afraid this is where this little skirmish ends. I don't even know your na, nor do I wish to. Goodbye."
Alex went in for a dash, so fast that Nicholas could barely react.
They were both C tiers, but Alex was incomparably stronger.
"No! Wa-"
Nicholas's previous reservations about begging all folded in the instant he saw Alex move.
But he was too slow to speak.
Virtue's Edge was already pierced through his chest.
It wasn't like much would have changed if he could have gotten a few words out anyway.
Alex was dead set on killing him after what he tried to do to Mira.
He had only arrived after Mira had already escaped from her bonds, but he had seen enough to warrant his rage.
"Puh!"
Nicholas spat out a puddle of blood as he looked down at the sword impaling his chest.
Specifically, his heart.
He was delusional, which was clear from the way he cared so much about how Alex had sohow humiliated him.
But in this mont it was like clarity ca back to him all at once.
Along with dread and fear.
'I… I don't want to die!'
"Please… please save …"
He could barely whisper out a few words, this ti aiming for Mira's sympathy rather than Alex's.
Begging Alex was clearly already a lost cause.
But if there was even a slightest bit of a chance that he could tug on the strings of Mira's emotions, he knew she would sway Alex into letting him live.
"You reap what you sow."
However, Mira just looked at him deadpan, with as cold a look as it gets.
'Does he really think I'll show sympathy or rcy to soone who tried to kill , probably even do worse to my body? Ha! What a joke.'
Mira wasn't like her previous over emotional self.
She had learned to accept reality for what it was.
Death had long beco sothing she had accepted and was used to, after seeing and witnessing so much death and destruction during her tis in the Primordial Expanse, but especially with the ongoing war with the Red Demons.
"Finish him off. I hate the sorry look he's giving ."
Mira asked, which caused a subtle smile to form on Alex's face.
'I like this new Mira…'
But his subtle smile vanished just as quickly when he turned back to face Nicholas.
He tightened his grip on Virtue's Edge, feeling the flas still surging into Nicholas's heart.
'For soone so arrogant and delusional, he does live up to so of his boasts.'
Alex was actually surprised that he wasn't dead yet with Phoenix Flas still rampaging inside of his chest, assaulting his heart.
But he was a prodigy after all.
Nicholas, on his knees and pinned to the stone slab, since Virtue's Edge had gone straight through and stuck in the rock behind, looked up at Alex with a mix of terror and despair.
Tears and snot were streaming down his face.
But that wouldn't make Alex feel any pity.
His arrogant deanour had crumbled entirely, leaving behind a broken shell of a man.
'A typical tyrant. Arrogant and unbearable when dealing with soone weaker or more vulnerable, but a coward when faced with soone stronger.'
Blood pooled around the wound in his chest.
Realistically, Alex didn't even need to deal another blow to finish him off, as he was clearly on the verge of dying already.
"Please… I'll do anything… Just… spare …"
Nicholas's voice was barely audible, each word a struggle as he desperately clung to the last threads of life.
But Alex was unmoved.
The images of seeing Mira bound and helpless flashed across his mind.
There was no mistaking that Nicholas deserved what he was getting.
His plea fell on deaf ears.
The man before Alex was a coward, a bully who had sought to exploit and harm the one person Alex cared about more than anything else in the world.
"You made your choice the mont you decided to hurt Mira."
With those final words, Alex twisted Virtue's Edge inside Nicholas's chest, his Phoenix Flas flaring up violently.
Nicholas's eyes widened in shock and pain, a choked gasp exiting his lips as the flas consud him from the inside out.
The fire spread quickly, burning through his veins, turning his flesh to ash, and erasing his existence in a blaze of fury.
Nicholas was gone in seconds.
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