Leo's fingers twitched, but his body remained locked in place, an invisible force holding him prisoner. His breaths ca sharp and shallow, his chest burning with frustration.
He tried to push every single muscle in his body to move, to rush towards Fiona and save her from Lucian's hand but his body refused to listen to him.
He was also aware that he couldn't dare move as if he does, then Lucian will kill her. With that, he was left between a rock and a hard with no idea on what to do or how to go about it with his body fixed to a spot.
'Is this the true strength of an Exalted? Tatiana said that she's almost on the sa level as him, but there seem to be a difference between the two of them. Or maybe it's because she hasn't bothered to use her true due to our relationship,' Leo thought to himself.
He has fought Liliana, an Exalted, and this started to make him look down on Exalted, thinking of them as just another rank. But Lucian has actually made him understand what Tatiana ant by true strength starts at Exalted Rank.
Leo's eyes turned towards Fiona, and she whimpered, her small fra trembling in Lucian's iron grip.
He could see the panic in her blue eyes, the silent plea for help—and he could do nothing. Nothing.
And to make it worse, he could feel Fiona's emotions from their bond. He could feel her telling him not worry, that she will be fine. But how could he not worry when she's barely hanging on to her life in Lucian's hand?
Fiona had been with him since the beginning. Through the blood, the battles, the endless fights for survival—she had never left his side. And now, she was dangling helplessly, dying right in front of him. And he could do nothing."
His mind scread at him to move, to attack, to do sothing—but his limbs remained frozen, paralyzed under the weight of Lucian's re presence.
"Why are you doing this? What do you have against ?," Leo asked through gritted teeth, with his eyes burning with rage.
"Yes, I defeated your sister but it was just by dumb luck," he added.
The reason he said this is because Tatiana has told him not to boost about defeating Liliana to any Off-worlder, especially to Lucian as it might expose his identity.
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So, it was better to attribute his win to dumb luck, rather than saying sothing about him being strong enough to defeat her.
There's naturally no Off-worlder that would believe sothing like that. A native from a backwater world, who is still an Awakened, defeated a Vampire princess.
Indeed, it was enough to raise eyebrows and attract a lot of attention.
Lucian sighed, shaking his head in disappointnt at Leo's words.
"Was that really all there was to it?" he mused, tightening his grip on Fiona's throat.
The little wolf let out a strangled whimper, her paws weakly pushing against his hand, but he didn't loosen his hold. If anything, he squeezed harder.
His crimson eyes flicked back to Leo, who remained frozen, his face twisted in barely restrained rage.
"'Just dumb luck?' You know, I expected more than 'just dumb luck' from soone who humiliated my dear sister," Lucian continued, his tone almost bored.
"But look at you—pathetic. A caged beast, watching helplessly as I take away sothing precious from you."
He took a single step and the next mont, he was already in Leo's front, covering the distance between them instantaneously.
He leaned closer to Leo, his voice turning into a venomous whisper.
"But there's sothing you're gravely mistaken about. My sister can't be defeated by 'just dumb luck'. She might be weaker than the average Exalted of royal lineage, but not so much that an ant like you can defeat her. And not only that, you forced her to a corner, forcing her to accept defeat.
You can't tell that that is your definition of dumb luck. Can you? What are the odds that a native like you, who looks like he just achieved his initial evolution and chose his first class can defeat my sister?" Lucian said.
Imdiately, Leo felt the temperature drop drastically, and very cold chills creeping into his body, and causing him to breath out cold air.
It was like he was plunged into an ice cellar that has been working on overdrive for a very long ti.
Leo wanted to say sothing but he found that he was unable to open his mouth. It was like his lips were sealed shut and every single attempt of his to open it was futile.
Lucian looked at Leo struggling, and sighed again. He looked towards his n attacking the wolves and he saw that they had already taken care of all of them, and the wolves were all now lying dead on the floor.
Seeing this, he simply waved his hand and blood started draining from the wolves, and floating upward, and forming a ball of blood.
Fiona's lungs burned. Her paws weakly scratched at the iron grip around her throat, but it was useless.
The more she struggled, the tighter it beca, like an unbreakable vice crushing her windpipe.
She could barely hear anything past the ringing in her ears, past the pounding of her own heartbeat struggling to keep going.
Her vision swam, but she caught sight of Leo—his eyes wide with rage, with desperation. He was fighting against sothing, struggling to move, but he couldn't.
She wanted to tell him it was okay. That she wasn't afraid. That she still believed in him.
But no words ca. Because Lucian's grip kept tightening.
She was about to give up and stop struggling, but when she saw Lucian draining the blood from her dead pack, she flew into rage.
Leo was shocked when he heard what could be called a roar from Fiona and he felt a huge wave of anger, and bloodlust coming from their connection.
And the next mont, he saw her enlarge to more than three tis her size, escaping Lucian's grip.
Imdiately after Fiona escaped Lucian's grip, she faced him but a casual slap from Lucian sent her flying into residential building.
"Stupid dog. She thinks enlarging herself will suddenly make her stronger. Hmph. No matter how big or small an ant is, it will still be nothing more than an ant," Lucian said, with a cold voice, before turning to face Leo.
"And as for you, I'm curious. Are you the sa Leo on the leaderboard? Leo Astranox?" He asked, with a very sinister voice.
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