After work, start to speedrun the other world-Chapter 62 - 36 Rain_2

"It’s clearly because you lack the ability to inherit the Iris Flower Kingdom," Fifine suddenly taunted, causing the atmosphere to freeze.

Although Ashliya wasn’t utterly incompetent, she couldn’t compare to Letixia. There was an obvious gap in their abilities.

"How boring, I’ll kill you all now!" Ashliya’s face turned icy in an instant, losing interest in talking.

However, Letixia and Fifine’s reactions were quicker, or rather, their combat experience was more extensive.

Letixia’s gaze was stern as she thrust her broken sword with a speed so fast that Ashliya almost didn’t react in time.

Fifine, on the other hand, crouched down, her palms pressed against the ground as she began to chant a spell, and the ground started to come alive instantly.

Seeing this, Ashliya took a step back reflexively, but the animated ground made her lose her footing, and the oncoming broken blade pierced through her throat.

Blood splattered, turning into raging flames.

Letixia drew out her broken sword and swiftly changed the direction of the thrust, aiming for Ashliya’s temple.

Decisive and fierce, without the slightest hesitation.

Normally, such a decisive and fierce strike would be enough to end the battle instantly, not to mention that Letixia would choose to strike again.

But the moment the broken blade entered Ashliya’s temple, the firelight suddenly erupted and spread indiscriminately in all directions.

From the outside, it looked as if the house had been hit by an incendiary bomb, suddenly bursting into fierce flames, accompanied by dreadful screams.

"Sister, you... you actually want to kill me!"

Ashliya staggered out of the house. She forcefully pulled out the broken sword that was stuck in her temple, and as lava-like blood flowed, the wound healed rapidly.

Her recovery ability, blessed by Sulter, was astonishingly strong, to the extent that even having her throat and brain pierced didn’t kill her.

However, a fatal blow followed quickly.

Somehow, Letixia emerged unscathed from the inferno. Before Ashliya could react, Letixia stabbed a dagger into Ashliya’s chest.

Her emerald eyes were ice-cold, reflecting the body of Ashliya burning in flames. Her movements were without hesitation, and she took out a bottle of poison she had prepared earlier. Just as Ashliya couldn’t help but cry out in pain, Letixia forcefully stuffed the bottle into Ashliya’s mouth.

Then, with a palm strike, she forcefully closed Ashliya’s mouth, making her swallow the deadly poison.

"Lightning, become the pursuing arrow and pierce the enemy!" The chant resounded urgently as a lightning-turned arrow pierced through Ashliya’s body.

Letixia also seized this opportunity, kicking Ashliya in the abdomen. Accompanied by a blast, the second princess who had usurped the throne flew back into the burning palace.

In terms of strength, there was no question that Ashliya, who had received the divine blessing, was stronger. The two sides were incomparable.

But that didn’t mean Ashliya’s combat ability was strong enough.

"Let’s go, she may not be dead yet," Fifine ran over, her hair still tinged with the electric light of the spell she had cast. She grabbed Letixia’s wrist, planning to escape the palace as quickly as possible.

Previously, piercing the brain didn’t kill Ashliya. Now it was just a matter of piercing the heart and being poisoned, which might not be enough to kill Ashliya completely.

Thus, a strategic retreat was the best choice.

"Sister, it hurts, it’s so uncomfortable!" Ashliya, in the midst of flames, clutched her abdomen, writhing in agony as her tears instantly turned to fire as they fell.

Upon hearing this, Letixia paused, looking back at her sister before running away with Fifine.

"Sister! Where are you going!" Ashliya’s pained wails seemed to stimulate the burning palace, which sent out more than a dozen large, stretching hands after the fleeing Letixia.

It was an unconscious plea for help.

But it was lethal enough; the fire of Sulter was sufficient to burn any life to ashes. Being caught meant... death.

"Why is she instinctively using power, and even stronger than before!" Fifine felt a sense of inescapability upon seeing the fiery hands coming at them.

The power that Ashliya was now displaying was freakishly strong.

"Fifine, those hands are after me!" Letixia pushed her friend away and ran in the opposite direction, aiming to draw the fiery hands away. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Just then, Xi Mu suddenly charged out, swinging his greatsword wrapped in black flames, cutting through the trajectory like a dark moon, severing the grasping hands of flame.

He glanced at the Second Princess Ashliya who was writhing in the sea of flames, clutching her stomach. Accompanying her cries of pain, the fire consuming the houses blazed even fiercer, and more flaming hands stretched out from the sea of fire towards Letixia.

In fact, right now, if he just charged in, coordinating with the power of the Witch of Death, he could kill the god-blessed Ashliya.

However, that would lead to a significant loss of experience points, and he actually liked Ashliya quite a bit. Not only was she doggedly persistent in summoning all sorts of minions, but she would occasionally call forth Elite Monsters, continuously delivering him packs of experience.

For a seasoned player, the character of Ashliya was really adorable—who would refuse a little boss who tried every day to offer up experience packs?

It was best to wait until the mid-to-late game when Ashliya’s abilities improved and she no longer sent minions to deliver experience—then, killing her with one strike would yield the greatest benefit.

For now, it was not urgent.

"Let’s go!" Xi Mu turned and pulled Letixia by the wrist, starting to run towards the outside of the palace. Meanwhile, Fifine at their side twitched the corner of her mouth, feeling somewhat irked by being ignored, but she wasn’t Ahtal’s lover after all.

So she didn’t say much and followed the two as they fled.

Behind them, the flaming hands continued their relentless pursuit, as if they would not rest until they caught Letixia.

It wasn’t until they had run for over a thousand meters that the hands of flame lost their strength and began to dissipate into the air.

...

...

The sky was beginning to lighten.

Outside the city.

In a ruined house.

Xi Mu sat on the stone steps outside the door, watching the first light of dawn on the horizon until footsteps sounded behind him. Fifine came to his side and sat down, smoothing her skirt.

"Hey, aren’t you going to comfort her?"

Xi Mu was silent for a moment before he replied, "I want to comfort her, but I don’t know how to comfort someone. I... I’m not good at soothing girls."

"Then how on earth did you manage to win over Letixia?" Fifine looked at the silent Knight in silver armor and couldn’t help but twitch her mouth.

This guy... once so cunning, now appeared as wooden as a block, not even knowing how to comfort a girl.

"Just go in and hug her, even if you don’t speak." She sighed, resigned, offering an idea, "Sometimes, just being there is the best comfort."

"Alright." Xi Mu gave a small nod and stood up to walk into the broken house, where he saw Letixia hugging her knees, her green eyes lifeless, looking extremely downcast.

She resembled a small cat drenched in a heavy rain, helpless and pitiful, nothing like her usual resolute and determined self.

He raised a hand and closed the door behind him.

"Fifine sent me to comfort you, but I’m not really good at comforting people. If you need it, I think... my shoulder is here for you."

The Knight approached the bedside, clumsily comforting the wounded princess, gently stroking her back, then pulling her into his arms and softly consoling her.

Outside the door.

"He’s quite good at it, isn’t he?" Fifine, hearing the crying sounds coming from inside the broken house, knew that Letixia had let out the emotions she had been suppressing in her heart.

She too had tried to comfort Letixia earlier inside the house, but Letixia hadn’t cried at all. It was as if she had locked her heart away, thanking Fifine instead and assuring her that she was fine.

But how could Fifine not see that Letixia was enduring, holding all the negative emotions within her.

Even if no one offered comfort, surely by tomorrow Letixia would pretend she had recovered, not wanting anyone to worry.

The sound of crying from inside the broken house grew louder, as if she were trying to cry out all the built-up negative emotions.

"It’s raining, huh." Fifine suddenly lifted her hand, as the light drizzle fell into her palm and in an instant turned into a torrential downpour.

As if it wished to cleanse the world anew.