*clank*


    Velnorah''s body shot backward, forced away by the strength behind the strike and she quickly twisted in mid-air, stabilizing herself before her sharp gaze flickered forward.


    Zhao Tian''s gaze narrowed as he glanced at the woman floating in the air ''Velnorah''s mother...''


    Velnorah gritted her teeth and looked at her mother.


    With a chuckle, Elvoria spoke "As I expected, you have really decided to betray your own kind.. heh."


    Twin blades made of blood condensed around her palms as she tilted her head "I had doubts on you since the day I heard you got a human as a Vryienne..."


    "That''s why we didn''t tell you about the time of the attack..."


    Her grin widened as she spoke "Till now, I cannot kill you because you have royal blood running through your veins."


    "But now that you have betrayed your kind... I got permission from the patriarch, Uncle himself to kill you..."


    "I will exterminate you, the sole disgrace in my life."


    *swoosh*


    She vanished in a blur of crimson light, reappearing right in front of Velnorah with terrifying speed.


    Her twin blood blades sliced downward in a cross-slash, their edges glowing with a red hue.


    CLANG!


    Velnorah barely managed to intercept the attack, raising her scythe in a diagonal block.


    The force behind Elvoria''s strike sent a shockwave rippling through the air, and the impact reverberated through Velnorah''s arms.


    Before Velnorah could retort, Elvoria''s twin blades dispersed into liquid blood, reforming instantly in a new position... this time, aiming straight for Velnorah''s ribs!


    SWOOSH!


    Velnorah twisted her body, her speed barely saving her from being skewered.


    The tip of one blade sliced through the air, grazing her side.


    A thin line of blood appeared on her waist, but she didn''t even flinch.


    Using the momentum of her dodge, Velnorah spun, her scythe carving through the air in a wide arc.


    The crescent-shaped blade, gleaming with crimson energy, aimed straight for Elvoria''s midsection.


    SHIIING!


    At the last moment, Elvoria flickered away... her body melting into a burst of blood mist, only to reform a few meters behind Velnorah.


    Velnorah launched herself forward, swinging her scythe in a deadly upward slash, aiming to cleave Elvoria in half.


    Elvoria reacted instantly.


    Her left blade moved to parry, intercepting the scythe''s deadly edge.


    The moment their weapons clashed, Elvoria used her right blade to strike a precise thrust aimed at Velnorah''s throat!


    But Velnorah had fought Elvoria before.


    She knew her mother''s tricks.


    Instead of retreating, Velnorah twisted her scythe mid-air, using the curved blade to hook Elvoria''s weapon and redirect the thrust away from her neck!


    SLASH!


    The red blade barely missed, slicing through strands of Velnorah''s hair instead of her flesh.


    Using this opening... Velnorah countered.


    Velnorah, seizing the moment, let out a sharp breath and twisted her body mid-air...


    Her heel arced forward in a brutal kick aimed at Elvoria''s ribs.


    *woosh* But a sudden explosion of blood energy erupted from Elvoria''s body, that disrupted the air and forced both Zhao Tian and Velnorah backward.


    Zhao Tian''s eyes narrowed "Tch... she''s slippery."


    Velnorah wiped a trickle of blood from her lip and clicked her tongue. "Tian, we''re packing her up."


    "Yeah..."


    A brief glance was exchanged between them...


    Then...


    Velnorah lunged first, spinning her scythe in a crimson blur and she disappeared in a flicker of blood mist, reappearing behind Elvoria in an instant.


    Zhao Tian, at the same time, vanished from his place.


    Elvoria''s eyes narrowed and she ducked, barely avoiding the bladed edge of Zhao Tian''s sword as it whistled past her neck.


    SLASH!


    Velnorah''s scythe tore through her shoulder, leaving a deep crimson gash that sprayed blood into the air.


    Elvoria snarled and the blood that had just spilled suddenly froze mid-air, then reversed...


    Flowing back into her wound like it had never left.


    She let out a low chuckle. "You really think you can kill me like this, Norah?"


    As she raised her hand, blood seeped and rose into the air, forming a storm of crimson blades around her.


    Velnorah and Zhao Tian barely had a second to react before...


    WHOOSH!


    The bloodstorm erupted.


    Countless razor-sharp lances of blood shot forward like a tidal wave, spiraling unpredictably toward both of them.


    Velnorah spun her scythe in a defensive arc.


    SHING! CLANG!


    She parried a dozen of them, but one slipped through, grazing her thigh and leaving a deep, stinging wound.


    "Urghh..."


    Zhao Tian moved like a blur, teleporting between the projectiles and deflecting as many as he could.


    But the attacks were relentless.


    "Tch... enough of this."


    Swirling flames and wind erupted from Zhao Tian''s body, crashing into an enormous firestorm as it spread across the air, devouring the blood blades instantly.


    Velnorah retracted her blade and let out a soft sigh, "Thank you, Tian..."


    Seeing this, Elvoria smirked "You do have some petty tricks up your sleeve..."


    Meanwhile, Selena who was floating high in the air, smiled seeing her little sister''s fight "Seems like she is having fun..."


    "How about we have some fun?"


    Hearing a voice, she turned her head...


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