But to Lilith and Kerparos's surprise, the four skills fell in front of Natalia and vanished like stones sinking into the sea.
They only stirred up ripples in the space before her and did not hurt Natalia herself at all.
"Oh, pretty strong—no wonder you're an A-level familiar!" Natalia lifted her hand and easily pushed away the four skills, and her eyes quickly locked onto Kerparos and Lilith.
"A succubus and a Three-Headed Hell Wolf. Both are contracted to an Elite 1-star Master, yet you can show the peak power of Elite 5 star."
"At last, my Twilight City has a genius familiar tamer!"
As she said this, Natalia shifted her gaze to Logan.
But when she saw the dark-gold light on Logan's body, the excitement on her face froze, and she stood there stunned.
"He's opening a familiar space?"
"And it's dark gold?"
A gasp.
A doubt.
Natalia was completely dazed by what she saw. She stared at Logan, her lips trembling, not even sure what to say.
Seeing that Natalia was strong but not hostile, Kerparos and Lilith stopped their attacks and just watched her warily.
At last, Natalia let out a soft sigh and casually summoned her familiar, Hellweaver.
The three familiars, all from the dark dimension, faced each other with a trace of caution.
Kerparos was the tensest. The six eyes it turned on Hellweaver were full of disbelief."What kind of day is this? Running into you, you disgusting bug. What bad luck!"
Then Kerparos shifted its gaze to Natalia and spoke in a commanding tone:"Woman, you made a contract with the Black Church's Sacred Beast—Hellweaver. You must be a princess of the Black Church, right?"
"I can see your power rank isn't low. You have the peak power of Legend 5-star. Which city's bishop are you now?"
Hearing Kerparos speak, Natalia's lips curled up."I'm not with the Black Church. As for those 'princesses' you mentioned, I've killed quite a few."
With that, the Hellweaver behind her suddenly used a skill.
"Web Blood Cultivation Realm!"
A flood of spider silk gushed from its mouth and turned into clear energy, floating in the air all around.
In an instant, the whole underground space was sealed by the energy spider silk, completely cut off from the outside.
Then Natalia took a step and, in a blink, appeared at Logan's side."Logan, you really impressed your big sis."
"Since you can open a dark-gold familiar space, I'll give you another great chance."
With that, Natalia opened her own familiar space. From a deep blue spatial vortex, she summoned a big bundle of spatial fragments and threw them all into Logan's familiar space.
"You're crazy!" Seeing Natalia do this, Kerparos roared:"Over a thousand spatial fragments—are you trying to blow him up? I'll fight you!"
The moment she finished speaking, Kerparos charged at Natalia.
But Kerparos is still at the elite level, while Natalia is truly at the Legend stage.
There's a whole master-level stage between them. Natalia didn't even need Hellweaver to act, she easily dodged the attack.
By the time Kerparos attacked again, Natalia was already back at the entrance to the passage leading outside."When he wakes up, tell him to report to the City Lord's manor. Say the City Lord is waiting for his explanation."
"This web Blood Cultivation Realm will protect you from interruptions, but it also blocks outside energy, which isn't good for the formation of his familiar space."
"The energy from the bag of spatial fragments I just gave him should be enough to fully stabilize his dark-gold familiar space. It's a paid favor."
With that, Natalia's voice and figure vanished from the underground space.
Meanwhile, outside the underground area:
Kerparos had already absorbed most of the life energy, so this Blood Cultivation Realm was unstable to begin with.
Now Logan's opening of a familiar space has taken a large amount of its energy, and this Blood Cultivation Realm could collapse at any moment.
Nancy Priest, together with the Temple Knights' captain Raven, kept searching for Evelynna's trail.
At last, in the middle of an oasis turned to ruins, their group stopped.
The plants here had all been burned to charcoal, and the spring was dried up by the blazing sun and the Inferno.
Yet on this dead ground, the corpses of Twin-Headed Wolf monsters were scattered around.
Seeing the bodies were not decayed or damaged, Raven immediately ordered two knights to check.
"One..."
"Two..."
"Six..."
"Report, Captain! There are six Twin-Headed Wolf monster corpses here, all Elite 3 star."
"Captain! The fatal wounds on these wolf monsters were all caused by shock damage from Light Side energy!"
As more reports came in, Nancy Priest and Captain Raven exchanged a look and both showed clear joy in their eyes.
"Found it!" they said at the same time, then rushed into the deepest part of the oasis almost in unison.
In the center of the dried-up spring, they sensed a hidden holy light array.
The array copied the surroundings in a full 360 degrees with no blind spots, making it almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
"Hiding in a place like this—Evelynna, you're really bold!" NancyPriest said, reaching out to lift the barrier of the array.
Inside the barrier, Evelynna, Diana, and a slender, delicate, and elegant elf sat in a triangle, keeping watch.
Only after they recognized NancyPriest and Captain Raven did they finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Unlike Logan's smooth journey, Evelynna and Diana went through a lot of hardship.
Because all supplies were handed over to the 30 Temple Knight bodyguards to transport, when the Twin-Headed Wolf monsters attacked, their goods were burned right away.
For the past two days, the three girls were hunted nonstop, with no food or water.
When the Twin-Headed Wolves split up and only six were left, Evelynna used the oasis terrain to pull off a last-ditch counterattack, then hid until now.
Evelynna lifted her proud head and looked over the Twin-Headed Wolf bodies."Teacher, I killed all of them! It's just a pity there are at least hundreds of Twin-Headed Wolves outside. Otherwise we would've broken out long ago and gone to save the others."
"Thanks to the mist illusions from the elf Siel and the holy light protection from the angel Diana, we were able to mislead everyone outside and avoid the main Twin-Headed Wolf pack's pursuit. Sadly, I couldn't reach the high school team on the other side in time to rescue them."
As Evelynna spoke, she raised her hands in a prayer pose, closed her eyes, and began to chant a prayer.
As her teacher and coach, Nancy Priest and Captain Raven knew well how proud she was.
Sure, Evelynna was a genius.
But she always had her nose in the air.
Her words and actions just now were clearly showing off to Nancy and Raven—flaunting her strength and putting her"compassion" on display.
Since she was young, she's enjoyed the praise and attention that came with that pride.
Nancy and Raven knew this, and they would even often play along with her for publicity.
But with things this serious today, it really wasn't the time for Evelynna to show off.
Just as Nancy Priest and Captain Raven shared an awkward look, unsure how to explain the turn of events to her, bits of chatter from the rescue team drifted over.
"Was the Holy Girl just pretending and showing off? What does she even have to brag about?"
"She's an Elite 1-star who beat six Elite 3 stars. Isn't that worth bragging about?"
"But I just heard from the military rescue team that the exploration teams invited by the army and the City Lord's manor all survived—and they killed hundreds of Twin-Headed Wolves."
"Whoa... if that's true, that's scary. Compared to that, the Holy Girl's record makes her look like a clown."
"Of course it's true. I just saw the heiresses from Edo Castle and Storm Wind City outside the Blood Cultivation Realm. They not only got out safely, they also brought back a lot of monster parts from the Twin-Headed Wolves."
"They're high schoolers too—who knew the gap could be so big? Kids these days are so strong, especially that one named Logan. I heard the City Lord went into the Blood Cultivation Realm himself just to look for him."
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