While Alex advanced after killing the big Rat, in other locations, people appeared; Sakuya appeared inside what seemed to be a forest; looking around, she mumbled.
''A forest, huh! To think that there would be something inside a castle. I wonder how dungeons were created. Well, better proceed forward to see where this place leads to.''
Immediately after Sakuya finished talking, there was a rumbling sound; her body tensed up. She thought it was a monster; however, soon, the thing that made the rumbling sound came out, and seeing what it was, Sakuya giggled like a child who had been given a new toy.
''Oh my, how unexpected to cross you here, Leonardo.''
Leonardo froze at the unexpected encounter before he clicked his tongue. She was the worst enemy one could hope to face; he didn't want to face her.
Leonardo shook his head as these thoughts were things from the past; the current him had far surpassed her, he could feel, and she knew it, yet she still had that smile, that annoying smile on her face that announced that she still had everything under control. Leonardo, lost in thoughts, felt a sudden chill that ran down his spine; unconsciously, he raised his sword using his right arm.
Sakuya, who was smiling one moment again, eyes full of ridicule and confidence even though she knew the difference in strength, suddenly went on attack mode; the shift was so fast that it he was caught off guard.
[Yami Maho Jigen Giri]
Leonardo's body turned tense even though he had not faced her. He learned how dangerous this move was. Hence, his body tried to come up with a solution, but halfway through the activation of that dangerous ability Sakuya switched to another skill, and a huge Wind tornado was sent instead.
Leonardo freaked out as there was no time for him to dodge; the Wind tornado rammed his body as he was sent flying into the sky; the last thing he saw was a smiling Sakuya who ran away automatically after sending him flying.
''Fuck! I swear to kill next time.'' Leonardo shouted while lightning surrounded his body and helped him control his body as he landed on the ground; Sakuya had disappeared from his sight. He could only sigh at the missed opportunity; this was why he didn't wish to fight her; not only was she crazy, she was at the same time unpredictable.
Normally, one should think that she wouldn't do this after the amount of confidence she showed; however, everything was to distract her enemy just for the sake of escaping, and she succeeded.
Eyes filled with intense killing intent, Leonardo searched for her; he must catch her to at least vent some of his pent-up frustrations.
Five kilometers away from Leonardo was Sakuya; she crouched down to catch her breath.
''Hah! Hah! Fuck I must have run out of luck to have encountered that fucker. Thankfully I succeeded in escaping. If not, I don't know if I would have come without losing two limbs or three if we fought.''
''Not again!" Sakuya spat out; her black eyes turned fierce; without looking at what was about to come out, she unleashed a deadly sword slash.
Then something rolled out and stopped right before her; it was the boar's head, somehow her attack was able to cut off the boar's head cleanly.
Sakuya cussed before disappearing as she could feel Leonardo closing in. She must have done something to the Goddess of Luck for her to curse her and give such an opponent. Usually, it should be Lilith that faced Leonardo, thinking about the demon's princess. Sakuya wondered where she was and more importantly, who was her enemy. Sakuya quickly shook her head.
She must think about her survival; anything else was irrelevant until she escaped. Greenlight surrounded her body, and she dashed toward the depth of the forest with Leonardo following her.
In another location, Lilith had just slain a monster, an Earth salamander; unlike normal Salamander, which mainly uses Fire element, this one could only use Earth-related skills.
Shaking the blood of her sword, Lilith stepped on the Earth salamander head to head deeper into the desert-like area; suddenly, there was a blinding light, and after the light died, Third, who had appeared after killing the guardian blocking his way, swore at the scene before him.
Never would he have imagined stumbling upon Lilith after successfully passing through the door. Third, he immediately tried to activate his ability and escape; his arm still hadn't completely healed; Lilith was an opponent he didn't wish to fight; however, how could Lilith allow him to escape?
Faster than him with the scythe held against Third's neck, she activated her strongest skill: the Silent World, the world turned dark with a bit of black mixed in, most importantly, silence permeated in this world, so Third who needed to chant his skill name for him to be effective failed miserably.
Lilith smirked before pointing her finger toward Third's head; the latter body turned cold, his instinct told him that he must not let Lilith complete; however, his body refused to listen to his command, he felt like he was moving in extremely muddy water, his body was too stiff as if frozen in thousand Ice coffin then he heard Lilith's words.
''Eternal Nightmare!"
Despair filled Third's heart, the reason for him to get chosen as Third among the Numbers wasn't that he was the strongest but because he possessed a particular ability, a mental ability, an extremely rare type, although he had other skills besides this, but the mental ability was his strongest forte, however, now he was facing someone who had stronger mental ability than he him.
'Maybe Lord Thanos knew about this; it's why he asked us to bring him the princess.'
That was Third last thought before a black light coming from Lilith's finger struck his forehead and went in; like a broken marionette, he stopped.