Chapter 134: 134
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Zhi Rui looked at her eyes.
"I thought that after you did your job you'd go home for a rest." Zhi Rui said.
The mirth on Bianca' face increased.
"I thought you might be angry at your mother. So I came here to appease my little sugar." The moment she started spewing words, Zhi Rui saw a flesh of light pink on her eyes.
But from the moment Bianca had appeared Zhi Rui had already started to circulate her inner energy.
She could feel vividly as a very sparse pink energy tried to invade her mind through her ears and vision. A small amouth passed through the skin. and got inside. But in a second Zhi Rui's inner energy eradicated it.
"Oh~ So you did got something Different from that stele. It has to be something good otherwise I wouldn't have to use a fingernail's amount of energy to get inside of you~"
The interest in Bianca's eyes grew thicker. The door that she could probably pass through caught Zhi Rui's attention. its magic is ancient and Bianca probably wouldn't be able to pass through it.
As soon as the idea crossed her mind. She discarded it.
Even if she could run away now, Bianca is a monster that she couldn't avoid.
Zhi Rui watched as the beautiful red painted nail was about to touch her own forehead.
'if there's no way to run...' Her eye shone red, and her core went wild.
Bianca frowned feeling the inconstancies of energy and took her hand back. "Stop." She said sternly.
Seeing no more movements on her mother's part
Zhi Rui held her belly and gasped for breath while cold sweat dropped from her head.
"You'll just hold you're breath and threaten to kill yourself every time now?" Bianca's complained
"Haha." Zhi Rui laughed. her eyes were manic.
"I knew you needed me alive and cultivating. But I didn't know what exactly in me you wanted. My mind, body or both. But you told Loura; "I only need the body and core, whoever is inside doesn't matter." That was your mistake. Now I know you need this body, and hell, I prefer to let myself die than to let you have your way."
Seeing the crazed state Zhi Rui was in
Made mirth came back to Bianca' eyes and she smiled with love. She stepped forward and embraced Zhi Rui's waist lovingly, as she was a finger taller. she had to lean in to give Zhi Rui a quick peck on the cheek. their chests were pressed together.
"My dear thing~ mother loves you above all, How could I ever mean any evil for you? in fact." Bianca leaned in and touched foreheads. Their eyes stared deeply into each other. "Seeing you grow, reminds of myself, brash disdainful, young!"
Her arms tightened further around Zhi Rui. She leaned in again and gave another peck on her lips. Laid her head on Zhi Rui's neck and shoulder and took a deep breath of zhi Rui's perfume. Her eyes shone bright with pink and she whispered tenderly. "I would never hurt you."
She released the tense Zhi Rui. Looked deeply at her, sighed and disappeared with a sad smile.
"UGh!" Zhi Rui punched the wall, gasped and calmed herself. Nothing would come out of getting angry.
She closed her eyes and thought about their interaction.
'She wanted to know what exactly happened inside of me, but she couldn't see it. So she intimidated me?' Zhi Rui frowned.
'No, she's not so simple.' she thought about everything again and again, but nothing out of the norm registered in her mind. She even meditated and searched throughout her whole body, questioned Tianzy for any issues.
but nothing appeared.
"That woman.." Zhi Rui clenched her teeth. breathed in and out. he got up and entered the bedroom that no one has set a foot into since more than five centuries ago.
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"Your Highness."A man in purple robe bowed.
Bianca was walking through the desert looking at the star. Going directly to the forest where the man was standing.
Bianca stopped and looked at him. "My level five purple knight, Hugo. It's a fine night isn't it?"
His eyes twitched. "Your Highness wishes to name me Hugo?"
Bianca chuckled while looking at the moon. "Well, I don't remember the original one. So from now on, you're Hugo." She said and gave him the most warmth and bright smile.
His nervousness passed in a flesh. And he smiled back.
"Has your highness achieved success?" He asked.
Bianca strolled pass him, and he followed.
"My first plan didn't work, the people from envy found out about their boy' whereabouts. So I had to use another measure."
She looked back at him with light pink eyes.
"I planted the seed, now I wait for the time to harvest it."
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"Let's go, if we depart now, we can reach the lawless city, there, we can find means to disguise ourselves and depart to the empire." Sandworm said.
Blue-amethyst shook her head. "We should use the mortal route to enter the empire, this way nobody will suspect."
Sandworm looked at her holding her daughter and nodded a poor family running away was a common sight that wouldn't attract attention.
They both departed on foot. They walked a hundred meters away, it was in the middle of the night. the desert was cold and dark they barely saw the silhouette of a dead tree in the distance Blue-amethyst saw it better since she was a bow and arrow marksman.
"Do you really think we can scape Zhi Rui?" Blue-amethyst asked.
"If we do it right, maybe."
Blue-amethyst frowned but kept on walking.
As they neared the dead tree. Blue-amethyst stopped in place. Her face pale.
Sandworm looked at her. Seeing her eyes he sighed put his hands on the waist and looked down.
"Come near, I didn't come here to kill you." The voice came from ahead.
Distraught, they walked to the tree. Now closer Sandworm could see Hilda lying down on one of the thickest branch throwings and catching her dagger as if it were a toy.
"Were you two running away?" She asked.
Sandworm remained silent.
Blue-amethyst looked at her daughter then at Hilda, she opened her mouth and closed multiple time but chose to remain silent.
"You can go if you want," Hilda said. "I Hilda, swear on my blood, that for the period of one week I won't kill Blue-amethyst or Sandworm."
Sandworm looked at her sharply.
Hilda chuckled "Not happy? can't promise more time than that. If Zhi Rui ever orders me to kill you then I'll have to, but one week should be enough for you to slip into the crowds."
Her voice was calm and playful.
Blue-amethyst couldn't take it anymore. "Please, don't kill my girl, she's sweet and intelligent she can be of use."
Hilda chuckled "Don't worry I don't kill children wantonly."
Blue-amethyst heard it but instead of relief she embraced the girl tighter, her eye never leaving Hilda, She took a step back leaving Sandworm in front of her. She wouldn't hesitate to use him as a delaying tool.
"If you're not here to kill us, why come at all?" Sandworm asked. He was doing everything possible to calm his heartbeat while looking for means to scape. the idea of throwing the child to Hilda to make Blue-amethyst stay, birthed in his mind.
Hilda read deeply onto their despairing and nervous eyes. She was controlling herself but now in the middle of nowhere, she didn't need to hide it. Her expression became one of scorn.
"What happened to the beast people?" she asked
Ignored Sandworm frowned and helplessly replied.
"They were slowly dying out so a couple of years ago they chose to risk everything and tread the desert to find a hospitable place for them."
"So it finally came down to that," Hilda muttered under her breath.
She looked a the sky and the memories of her time in the barbarian lands kept surfacing vividly, from small and weak to an assassin mercenary, where she took pleasure on killing both her brethren. She despised both of them; the beastmen and the Barbarians.
She closed her eyes and put the thought to the back of her mind.
"Zhi Rui knows how the weak are forced to behave, she doesn't resent your treason. If you stay, she'll give you a light punishment and put you both to use and even reward you if you work well. But if you leave, then I'm sure, she'll make your life as deserters a living hell, you'll repeatedly wish to have died today."
After a few seconds, sandworm turned back and walked.
"What are you doing!?" Blue-amethyst said with wide eyes
"Have you ever seen Zhi Rui put anyone on her eyes? we're barely worth a good fuck, she needs people managing the people now. I doubt she'll care enough to keep any grudge about It. It's better to risk her punishment. then to run away and have a tormented life running from place to place."
Her eyes widened in disbelief. "I thought you changed, but you're still the same indecisive coward." She said
Her blood bubbled up and she considered leaving everything behind and leaving alone with her daughter. She's strong and can take care of herself.
She stepped forward when Hilda's yellow eyes shined in front of her. It dawned on her, that her day of departure and direction would be known, with Hilda's stealth abilities, there simply no way to run away should Zhi Rui wish for her death.
She looked at her daughter, sighed and followed Sandworm back.
Hilda's eyes went thin as they walked away. A small morbid pleasure blossomed in her chest. Something she used to feel often, exactly every time she cut off the head of a barbarian or a beastman in the name of a paid mission.
'It's true. Zhi Rui couldn't care less about you. If you had left, then your futures would depend completely on yourselves as Zhi Rui wouldn't bother to find you. But now that you stayed. You'll suffer Like me, like something less than me. Enslaved either by her slave-brand or by her numbing addictions. Tonight was your only chance of freedom.'
Hilda smiled
'And I took it from you.'
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Zhi Rui looked at her eyes.
"I thought that after you did your job you'd go home for a rest." Zhi Rui said.
The mirth on Bianca' face increased.
"I thought you might be angry at your mother. So I came here to appease my little sugar." The moment she started spewing words, Zhi Rui saw a flesh of light pink on her eyes.
But from the moment Bianca had appeared Zhi Rui had already started to circulate her inner energy.
She could feel vividly as a very sparse pink energy tried to invade her mind through her ears and vision. A small amouth passed through the skin. and got inside. But in a second Zhi Rui's inner energy eradicated it.
"Oh~ So you did got something Different from that stele. It has to be something good otherwise I wouldn't have to use a fingernail's amount of energy to get inside of you~"
The interest in Bianca's eyes grew thicker. The door that she could probably pass through caught Zhi Rui's attention. its magic is ancient and Bianca probably wouldn't be able to pass through it.
As soon as the idea crossed her mind. She discarded it.
Even if she could run away now, Bianca is a monster that she couldn't avoid.
Zhi Rui watched as the beautiful red painted nail was about to touch her own forehead.
'if there's no way to run...' Her eye shone red, and her core went wild.
Bianca frowned feeling the inconstancies of energy and took her hand back. "Stop." She said sternly.
Seeing no more movements on her mother's part
Zhi Rui held her belly and gasped for breath while cold sweat dropped from her head.
"You'll just hold you're breath and threaten to kill yourself every time now?" Bianca's complained
"Haha." Zhi Rui laughed. her eyes were manic.
"I knew you needed me alive and cultivating. But I didn't know what exactly in me you wanted. My mind, body or both. But you told Loura; "I only need the body and core, whoever is inside doesn't matter." That was your mistake. Now I know you need this body, and hell, I prefer to let myself die than to let you have your way."
Seeing the crazed state Zhi Rui was in
Made mirth came back to Bianca' eyes and she smiled with love. She stepped forward and embraced Zhi Rui's waist lovingly, as she was a finger taller. she had to lean in to give Zhi Rui a quick peck on the cheek. their chests were pressed together.
"My dear thing~ mother loves you above all, How could I ever mean any evil for you? in fact." Bianca leaned in and touched foreheads. Their eyes stared deeply into each other. "Seeing you grow, reminds of myself, brash disdainful, young!"
Her arms tightened further around Zhi Rui. She leaned in again and gave another peck on her lips. Laid her head on Zhi Rui's neck and shoulder and took a deep breath of zhi Rui's perfume. Her eyes shone bright with pink and she whispered tenderly. "I would never hurt you."
She released the tense Zhi Rui. Looked deeply at her, sighed and disappeared with a sad smile.
"UGh!" Zhi Rui punched the wall, gasped and calmed herself. Nothing would come out of getting angry.
She closed her eyes and thought about their interaction.
'She wanted to know what exactly happened inside of me, but she couldn't see it. So she intimidated me?' Zhi Rui frowned.
'No, she's not so simple.' she thought about everything again and again, but nothing out of the norm registered in her mind. She even meditated and searched throughout her whole body, questioned Tianzy for any issues.
but nothing appeared.
"That woman.." Zhi Rui clenched her teeth. breathed in and out. he got up and entered the bedroom that no one has set a foot into since more than five centuries ago.
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----
----
"Your Highness."A man in purple robe bowed.
Bianca was walking through the desert looking at the star. Going directly to the forest where the man was standing.
Bianca stopped and looked at him. "My level five purple knight, Hugo. It's a fine night isn't it?"
His eyes twitched. "Your Highness wishes to name me Hugo?"
Bianca chuckled while looking at the moon. "Well, I don't remember the original one. So from now on, you're Hugo." She said and gave him the most warmth and bright smile.
His nervousness passed in a flesh. And he smiled back.
"Has your highness achieved success?" He asked.
Bianca strolled pass him, and he followed.
"My first plan didn't work, the people from envy found out about their boy' whereabouts. So I had to use another measure."
She looked back at him with light pink eyes.
"I planted the seed, now I wait for the time to harvest it."
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----
----
"Let's go, if we depart now, we can reach the lawless city, there, we can find means to disguise ourselves and depart to the empire." Sandworm said.
Blue-amethyst shook her head. "We should use the mortal route to enter the empire, this way nobody will suspect."
Sandworm looked at her holding her daughter and nodded a poor family running away was a common sight that wouldn't attract attention.
They both departed on foot. They walked a hundred meters away, it was in the middle of the night. the desert was cold and dark they barely saw the silhouette of a dead tree in the distance Blue-amethyst saw it better since she was a bow and arrow marksman.
"Do you really think we can scape Zhi Rui?" Blue-amethyst asked.
"If we do it right, maybe."
Blue-amethyst frowned but kept on walking.
As they neared the dead tree. Blue-amethyst stopped in place. Her face pale.
Sandworm looked at her. Seeing her eyes he sighed put his hands on the waist and looked down.
"Come near, I didn't come here to kill you." The voice came from ahead.
Distraught, they walked to the tree. Now closer Sandworm could see Hilda lying down on one of the thickest branch throwings and catching her dagger as if it were a toy.
"Were you two running away?" She asked.
Sandworm remained silent.
Blue-amethyst looked at her daughter then at Hilda, she opened her mouth and closed multiple time but chose to remain silent.
"You can go if you want," Hilda said. "I Hilda, swear on my blood, that for the period of one week I won't kill Blue-amethyst or Sandworm."
Sandworm looked at her sharply.
Hilda chuckled "Not happy? can't promise more time than that. If Zhi Rui ever orders me to kill you then I'll have to, but one week should be enough for you to slip into the crowds."
Her voice was calm and playful.
Blue-amethyst couldn't take it anymore. "Please, don't kill my girl, she's sweet and intelligent she can be of use."
Hilda chuckled "Don't worry I don't kill children wantonly."
Blue-amethyst heard it but instead of relief she embraced the girl tighter, her eye never leaving Hilda, She took a step back leaving Sandworm in front of her. She wouldn't hesitate to use him as a delaying tool.
"If you're not here to kill us, why come at all?" Sandworm asked. He was doing everything possible to calm his heartbeat while looking for means to scape. the idea of throwing the child to Hilda to make Blue-amethyst stay, birthed in his mind.
Hilda read deeply onto their despairing and nervous eyes. She was controlling herself but now in the middle of nowhere, she didn't need to hide it. Her expression became one of scorn.
"What happened to the beast people?" she asked
Ignored Sandworm frowned and helplessly replied.
"They were slowly dying out so a couple of years ago they chose to risk everything and tread the desert to find a hospitable place for them."
"So it finally came down to that," Hilda muttered under her breath.
She looked a the sky and the memories of her time in the barbarian lands kept surfacing vividly, from small and weak to an assassin mercenary, where she took pleasure on killing both her brethren. She despised both of them; the beastmen and the Barbarians.
She closed her eyes and put the thought to the back of her mind.
"Zhi Rui knows how the weak are forced to behave, she doesn't resent your treason. If you stay, she'll give you a light punishment and put you both to use and even reward you if you work well. But if you leave, then I'm sure, she'll make your life as deserters a living hell, you'll repeatedly wish to have died today."
After a few seconds, sandworm turned back and walked.
"What are you doing!?" Blue-amethyst said with wide eyes
"Have you ever seen Zhi Rui put anyone on her eyes? we're barely worth a good fuck, she needs people managing the people now. I doubt she'll care enough to keep any grudge about It. It's better to risk her punishment. then to run away and have a tormented life running from place to place."
Her eyes widened in disbelief. "I thought you changed, but you're still the same indecisive coward." She said
Her blood bubbled up and she considered leaving everything behind and leaving alone with her daughter. She's strong and can take care of herself.
She stepped forward when Hilda's yellow eyes shined in front of her. It dawned on her, that her day of departure and direction would be known, with Hilda's stealth abilities, there simply no way to run away should Zhi Rui wish for her death.
She looked at her daughter, sighed and followed Sandworm back.
Hilda's eyes went thin as they walked away. A small morbid pleasure blossomed in her chest. Something she used to feel often, exactly every time she cut off the head of a barbarian or a beastman in the name of a paid mission.
'It's true. Zhi Rui couldn't care less about you. If you had left, then your futures would depend completely on yourselves as Zhi Rui wouldn't bother to find you. But now that you stayed. You'll suffer Like me, like something less than me. Enslaved either by her slave-brand or by her numbing addictions. Tonight was your only chance of freedom.'
Hilda smiled
'And I took it from you.'
Zhi Rui looked at her eyes."I thought that after you did your job you'd go home for a rest." Zhi Rui said.The mirth on Bianca' face increased."I thought you might be angry at your mother. So I came here to appease my little sugar." The moment she started spewing words, Zhi Rui saw a flesh of light pink on her eyes.But from the moment Bianca had appeared Zhi Rui had already started to circulate her inner energy.She could feel vividly as a very sparse pink energy tried to invade her mind through her ears and vision. A small amouth passed through the skin. and got inside. But in a second Zhi Rui's inner energy eradicated it."Oh~ So you did got something Different from that stele. It has to be something good otherwise I wouldn't have to use a fingernail's amount of energy to get inside of you~"The interest in Bianca's eyes grew thicker. The door that she could probably pass through caught Zhi Rui's attention. its magic is ancient and Bianca probably wouldn't be able to pass through it.As soon as the idea crossed her mind. She discarded it.Even if she could run away now, Bianca is a monster that she couldn't avoid.Zhi Rui watched as the beautiful red painted nail was about to touch her own forehead.'if there's no way to run...' Her eye shone red, and her core went wild.Bianca frowned feeling the inconstancies of energy and took her hand back. "Stop." She said sternly.Seeing no more movements on her mother's partZhi Rui held her belly and gasped for breath while cold sweat dropped from her head."You'll just hold you're breath and threaten to kill yourself every time now?" Bianca's complained"Haha." Zhi Rui laughed. her eyes were manic."I knew you needed me alive and cultivating. But I didn't know what exactly in me you wanted. My mind, body or both. But you told Loura; "I only need the body and core, whoever is inside doesn't matter." That was your mistake. Now I know you need this body, and hell, I prefer to let myself die than to let you have your way."Seeing the crazed state Zhi Rui was in Made mirth came back to Bianca' eyes and she smiled with love. She stepped forward and embraced Zhi Rui's waist lovingly, as she was a finger taller. she had to lean in to give Zhi Rui a quick peck on the cheek. their chests were pressed together."My dear thing~ mother loves you above all, How could I ever mean any evil for you? in fact." Bianca leaned in and touched foreheads. Their eyes stared deeply into each other. "Seeing you grow, reminds of myself, brash disdainful, young!"Her arms tightened further around Zhi Rui. She leaned in again and gave another peck on her lips. Laid her head on Zhi Rui's neck and shoulder and took a deep breath of zhi Rui's perfume. Her eyes shone bright with pink and she whispered tenderly. "I would never hurt you."She released the tense Zhi Rui. Looked deeply at her, sighed and disappeared with a sad smile."UGh!" Zhi Rui punched the wall, gasped and calmed herself. Nothing would come out of getting angry.She closed her eyes and thought about their interaction.'She wanted to know what exactly happened inside of me, but she couldn't see it. So she intimidated me?' Zhi Rui frowned.'No, she's not so simple.' she thought about everything again and again, but nothing out of the norm registered in her mind. She even meditated and searched throughout her whole body, questioned Tianzy for any issues.but nothing appeared."That woman.." Zhi Rui clenched her teeth. breathed in and out. he got up and entered the bedroom that no one has set a foot into since more than five centuries ago.------------"Your Highness."A man in purple robe bowed.Bianca was walking through the desert looking at the star. Going directly to the forest where the man was standing.Bianca stopped and looked at him. "My level five purple knight, Hugo. It's a fine night isn't it?"His eyes twitched. "Your Highness wishes to name me Hugo?"Bianca chuckled while looking at the moon. "Well, I don't remember the original one. So from now on, you're Hugo." She said and gave him the most warmth and bright smile.His nervousness passed in a flesh. And he smiled back."Has your highness achieved success?" He asked.Bianca strolled pass him, and he followed."My first plan didn't work, the people from envy found out about their boy' whereabouts. So I had to use another measure."She looked back at him with light pink eyes."I planted the seed, now I wait for the time to harvest it."------------"Let's go, if we depart now, we can reach the lawless city, there, we can find means to disguise ourselves and depart to the empire." Sandworm said.Blue-amethyst shook her head. "We should use the mortal route to enter the empire, this way nobody will suspect."Sandworm looked at her holding her daughter and nodded a poor family running away was a common sight that wouldn't attract attention.They both departed on foot. They walked a hundred meters away, it was in the middle of the night. the desert was cold and dark they barely saw the silhouette of a dead tree in the distance Blue-amethyst saw it better since she was a bow and arrow marksman."Do you really think we can scape Zhi Rui?" Blue-amethyst asked."If we do it right, maybe."Blue-amethyst frowned but kept on walking.As they neared the dead tree. Blue-amethyst stopped in place. Her face pale.Sandworm looked at her. Seeing her eyes he sighed put his hands on the waist and looked down."Come near, I didn't come here to kill you." The voice came from ahead.Distraught, they walked to the tree. Now closer Sandworm could see Hilda lying down on one of the thickest branch throwings and catching her dagger as if it were a toy."Were you two running away?" She asked.Sandworm remained silent.Blue-amethyst looked at her daughter then at Hilda, she opened her mouth and closed multiple time but chose to remain silent."You can go if you want," Hilda said. "I Hilda, swear on my blood, that for the period of one week I won't kill Blue-amethyst or Sandworm."Sandworm looked at her sharply. Hilda chuckled "Not happy? can't promise more time than that. If Zhi Rui ever orders me to kill you then I'll have to, but one week should be enough for you to slip into the crowds."Her voice was calm and playful.Blue-amethyst couldn't take it anymore. "Please, don't kill my girl, she's sweet and intelligent she can be of use."Hilda chuckled "Don't worry I don't kill children wantonly."Blue-amethyst heard it but instead of relief she embraced the girl tighter, her eye never leaving Hilda, She took a step back leaving Sandworm in front of her. She wouldn't hesitate to use him as a delaying tool."If you're not here to kill us, why come at all?" Sandworm asked. He was doing everything possible to calm his heartbeat while looking for means to scape. the idea of throwing the child to Hilda to make Blue-amethyst stay, birthed in his mind.Hilda read deeply onto their despairing and nervous eyes. She was controlling herself but now in the middle of nowhere, she didn't need to hide it. Her expression became one of scorn."What happened to the beast people?" she askedIgnored Sandworm frowned and helplessly replied."They were slowly dying out so a couple of years ago they chose to risk everything and tread the desert to find a hospitable place for them." "So it finally came down to that," Hilda muttered under her breath.She looked a the sky and the memories of her time in the barbarian lands kept surfacing vividly, from small and weak to an assassin mercenary, where she took pleasure on killing both her brethren. She despised both of them; the beastmen and the Barbarians.She closed her eyes and put the thought to the back of her mind."Zhi Rui knows how the weak are forced to behave, she doesn't resent your treason. If you stay, she'll give you a light punishment and put you both to use and even reward you if you work well. But if you leave, then I'm sure, she'll make your life as deserters a living hell, you'll repeatedly wish to have died today."After a few seconds, sandworm turned back and walked."What are you doing!?" Blue-amethyst said with wide eyes"Have you ever seen Zhi Rui put anyone on her eyes? we're barely worth a good fuck, she needs people managing the people now. I doubt she'll care enough to keep any grudge about It. It's better to risk her punishment. then to run away and have a tormented life running from place to place."Her eyes widened in disbelief. "I thought you changed, but you're still the same indecisive coward." She saidHer blood bubbled up and she considered leaving everything behind and leaving alone with her daughter. She's strong and can take care of herself.She stepped forward when Hilda's yellow eyes shined in front of her. It dawned on her, that her day of departure and direction would be known, with Hilda's stealth abilities, there simply no way to run away should Zhi Rui wish for her death.She looked at her daughter, sighed and followed Sandworm back.Hilda's eyes went thin as they walked away. A small morbid pleasure blossomed in her chest. Something she used to feel often, exactly every time she cut off the head of a barbarian or a beastman in the name of a paid mission.'It's true. Zhi Rui couldn't care less about you. If you had left, then your futures would depend completely on yourselves as Zhi Rui wouldn't bother to find you. But now that you stayed. You'll suffer Like me, like something less than me. Enslaved either by her slave-brand or by her numbing addictions. Tonight was your only chance of freedom.' Hilda smiled 'And I took it from you.'
