Apart from the man wearing the headscarf, there was a burly man with a long saber at his waist, a slender-waisted woman carrying a bow and arrows on her back, and a thin man with a scar on his face. Behind that thin man, there was also a small figure.
Seeing Nanoda, draped in her cloak, shake the magic potion in her hand twice, the expressions of those four adventurers changed.
"What is the matter?"
Accompanied by a clear female voice, a Demon girl with her limbs shackled in irons walked out from behind the thin man. The chains of the shackles were already broken, clanging against the ground as the Demon girl moved.
The Demon girl was also holding a human skull very conspicuously in her arms.
"Friend, we have run into some trouble. Two enemies have broken in here."
The thin man, who had originally looked shocked, put on a frightened expression like a mask-changing performer, wailing his plea to the shackled girl.
The Demon girl, "Jane," walked barefoot on the stone floor, making a crisp, pleasant sound. An old-fashioned white dress wrapped around her petite and exquisite, yet curvy body.
Her long white hair spread down like a bolt of silk, and her blood-red pupils refracted a bewitching light, as deep as a pool of red water.
On both sides of her head grew a pair of round horns resembling those of an Argali sheep, looking just like two massive curved blades.
Hearing the word "friend," Jane immediately cast her gaze toward the two who had broken in. Hostility flowed from her eyes. Tightening her arms around the skull, Jane's mana surged high, and killing intent overflowed.
"The book says one must help friends... Since you are my friend's enemies, then you are my enemies too!"
Jane did not see that when she said these words, a sinister smile flashed across the faces of all four adventurers.
"Really now. What kind of human makes friends with a Demon? What a bunch of insidious fellows."
Nanoda hadn't expected this group to be able to bewitch that Demon girl into opposing her and Himmel. Her tone carried a sense of helplessness.
Unaffected by Jane's killing intent, Himmel laughed heartily from the side.
"Don't I count?"
"This is cooperation during a special period."
Nanoda retorted, pursing her lips.
"Heavens, what two vicious fellows. They want to hurt us for the sake of the magic potion. Kill them quickly! We are friends, aren't we!"
The slender-waisted woman added fuel to the fire from the side.
A massive pillar of mana erupted from Jane's body. Amidst her fluttering white hair, six incisions appeared on Jane's back. Three pairs of wings composed of fresh blood extended from them, supporting Jane entirely in the air.
Seeing that Jane had entered a combat state, the four adventurers ran towards the stairs to the fourth floor. Standing on the steps, they looked down at the two intruders with great interest.
"What should we do?"
Himmel drew the Hero's Sword that had followed him for many years and asked Nanoda beside him.
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have probed. I should have just attacked directly and taken them all down."
Nanoda regretted it somewhat. She had originally wanted to try gathering intelligence on this magic potion through dialogue first, but she hadn't expected the other party to pull a stunt like this right away.
"As expected, we still have to fight."
"Let's suppress them first."
Nanoda and Himmel reached a consensus.
Through Mana Perception, it could be sensed that Jane was strong. This amount of mana could even rival the existence of the Seven Sages of Destruction.
"We still don't know what magic she uses. It would be wise to probe carefully,"
Himmel reminded Nanoda.
"No need for your reminders."
Nanoda also pulled her own broken horn from her leg pouch. Although the enemy before them possessed combat power not inferior to the Seven Sages of Destruction, she had the Hero on her side.
"I'll kill you!"
Accompanied by a tender shout from Jane.
Aside from the pair of wings supporting the girl in the air, the remaining two pairs of wings, one on the left and one on the right, slashed toward Nanoda and Himmel simultaneously like two pairs of steel blades.
Himmel swung the Hero's Sword in his hand, severing those two blood wings head-on. Beside him, Nanoda did not move an inch either; her Severance Magic sliced through the blood wings. Those severed blood wings turned into two puddles of blood and splashed down, the smell of gore instantly filling the air.
Seeing that the blood wings, whose hardness was comparable to diamonds under her mana reinforcement, were defended against, Jane's brows furrowed slightly. Blood surged out once more, growing back from the severed ends of the blood wings.
"Is this magic that manipulates blood?" Himmel shook the fresh blood off his sword.
"It's very strange. Maintaining those three pairs of wings requires a large amount of blood loss. This is simply too wasteful."
Compared to Lugner's refined blood control magic, this white-haired, red-eyed Demon girl before them seemed to regard her own blood as nothing, squandering it recklessly.
The thin man, watching the battle from a safe place on the side, looked worried.
"What's wrong?" The burly man was a bit puzzled by the thin man's concerned appearance.
"That is the Hero's Sword, isn't it... Don't you think he looks a lot like the Hero Himmel?"
The thin man pointed at Himmel. He had seen many replicas of the Hero's Sword in the past, and their appearance was similar to the one in Himmel's hand.
"Even if he is the real Hero Himmel, so what? After we've done these dirty deeds, will he let us go?!" the man with the headscarf said indignantly.
They had long since passed the point of no return. Although they only regarded Jane as a tool to be used, all four were currently praying for Jane's victory.
Judging solely by the combat power of those two against Jane, if Jane weren't blocking them, the four of them together wouldn't be their match.
The thin man had intended to use Jane to easily deal with these two, but he hadn't expected to bite into two hard bones. In the current situation, if they intervened, they would just be sending themselves to their deaths.
At this moment, the battle continued. Jane's wings were constantly regenerating and then constantly being severed by Nanoda and Himmel. Fresh blood was sprayed everywhere, and the entire white tower began to shake. However, even so, the mana on Jane's body did not weaken in the slightest.
"The speed of regeneration hasn't diminished at all."
Himmel dodged a surprise attack from a blood wing and swung his sword to sever it. However, as soon as the blood wing retracted, it squirmed with blood and restored itself to its original state, striking again wrapped in a gale.
"Himmel, create an opportunity for me. I'll try to attack her main body."
In this narrow floor, Jane's massive blood wings had a large attack range, briefly suppressing the movements of the two while maintaining ultra-fast regeneration speed.
Nanoda and Himmel, having devised a tactic, acted with great tacit understanding. The two of them guided the wings to a single convergence point.
Himmel swung the Hero's Sword in an arc, severing the four blood wings coming from the left and right simultaneously. At the same time, Nanoda stepped forward, closing in directly on Jane.
"Sorry."
Nanoda swung the broken horn in her hand down. Accompanied by the flying of severed hair, she slashed Jane's arm.
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