It happened when Alex was fiddling with his status window.
The bright, full moon enveloping half the night sky splashed on the pitch-black ground with its illumination. The outlines of the leaves in the forest were visible, but suddenly, a series of animal howls broke out throughout the tranquil forest.
Countless, startled birds woke up from their slumber, flapped their wings, and soared into the sky fearfully to escape the close-approaching death, as well as the holder of the death aura. Running ahead was a woman with white hair tied in a ponytail, her clothes were torn here and there, showing her skin underneath. This person was none other than Cecilia, running for her life.
Initially, the situation wasn't this bad; she was lucky to be in the same group as Luna even after they entered the tower; it could be said that luck was really on her side as it was just the two of them. Cecilia recalled what orders she received; if the soft approach didn't work, she was authorized to use the hard one, simply put, she would kidnap Luna after knocking her down.
From the pieces of information gathered, they knew that Alex's fiancee, Luna was stronger; the path she took was different from a normal healer, a combat Saintess and a scary one as that. Still, the Holy Crux empire mustn't be underestimated as they came up with a solution in the form of Cecilia.
It was a shame to admit it, but Cecilia was better than Damien, stronger than him, and less impulsive; she had the bigger picture in mind and followed orders. With all of these things prepared, she was sent on a mission, her arrival just before the excursion into Exodus; everything was perfectly calculated. They knew she would be accepted, so they gave her an item to help her once Luna was secured.
Cecilia didn't act on the first day because she knew that the others were suspicious of her intentions of joining them after initially refusing to join them; although they tried not to show it, she could still see the distrust inside their eyes as they tried to cover it up with a smile.
Still, she was not disappointed, it was a good thing since she had anticipated this, it was just a question of timing, more importantly, who is good than the other, and Cecilia believed that she was good than them as she was better prepared.
Finally, after spending a few peaceful days with Luna, not trying anything except for trying to befriend her, Cecilia had decided that today was the day, as they stepped into this forest for a quest; Cecilia waited until she was sure that both had exhausted their mana and stamina, (Well, she was pretending), she chose to strike at that moment.
Unfortunately, she was not the only one who was prepared; Luna was also prepared; she killed her before she could do anything, she didn't even know how she died, before vanishing, she saw Luna leaving.
Cecilia opened her eyes again and found herself in the same dungeon she and Luna entered a few hours ago. It was unknown why this happened, but it happened; Cecilia's luck worsened from there onward, an unidentified monster attacked her, the result she was almost killed she could only run for her life.
''Ha! Ha! Huff! Huff!"
Finally, Cecilia, who had decided to catch her breath, leaned against a tree while panting; she was exhausted, most of the Mana recovery potion and Stamina potion had been used.
Because she was putting an act of wanting to gain Luna's trust, she gave her most of her potions, and now that Luna had disappeared after killing her, she was at her wit end; the thing that kept repeatedly attacking was still after her.
''Damn it. What was that thing?'' Cecilia swore as she tried to catch her breath while vigilantly looking around; she was constantly using the wind in the surroundings to detect any presence; the thing was that even though she saw the monster coming, she was not fast enough to dodge nor plan anything.
Cecilia decided to check her status quickly.
[Cecilia Adelia Crux]
Experience Value: 50000/199200
Gift: Holy Sword Crucifix
Skills: [Swordsmanship Level Max] [Wind Slash Level 3] [Wind tornado Level 4] [Gale Slash Level 2] [Flying Slash Level 1] [Presence Detection Level 9] [Dark Vision Level 7] [Wind Vortex Level 4] [Holy Barrier Level 8]
Special Abilities: [Blessing Level 5] [AOE]
Titles: [Saintess] [Slayer] [Swordmaster][Executioner]
''Why? Why? I'm this unlucky. Ah! Damn it.'' Cecilia lamented but knew that now wasn't time for idling; she must keep going even being exhausted.
Suddenly, Cecilia, who was about to resume run froze in place; she had a bad feeling. She felt a chill as if the hair on her back stood on end. She immediately raised a triangular wind shield around with the tip pointing forward.
A huge fireball came crashing against her Wind shield from the other side of the forest; Cecilia saw her stamina going down and bit her lips; she couldn't do anything; erecting this shield was the best she could do in this situation, and she knew it was not the end, more attacks were about to come.
A raging cold dominated after the bursting flames trampled down the surrounding trees; the area was densely covered with frost making Cecilia shudder. She summoned her Gift, a beautiful blue sword with golden patterns on it; she immediately thrust it behind her where she felt the danger coming from; unfortunately, she hit empty air.
Because she had anticipated this, Cecilia was not surprised she had already begun her next move; there was a breath light blinding the area.
At the same time, Wind burst under her feet to propel her into the sky; she planned to make her escape through the sky, she hoped, but soon this hope got crushed when she froze in the air and saw the world shifting, she saw her headless body, and she knew that her head had been removed. She died yet again.
''Fufufu! What a cute rabbit!"