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Chapter 58 Felicia
Felicia
"There's no end to them." Felicia said while exhaling and shook the blood off her Rapier. Her pink eye glowing in the darkness.
Around her, corpses of Voidwalkers were strewn around on the floor. They looked mostly untouched, but if one looked closer, they'd see small punctures where their vital spots were from which blood spilled. Each of them had been killed in a single, precise strike.
Her eyes had lost their faint playfulness and were now completely cold, her figure taught and ready to react to any sort of sneak attack. Not that one would be able to catch her anyway.
She started to move in a certain direction. Trusting her memory as where she was moving was where she had last seen her siblings.
Despite the situation though, Felicia was utterly calm and unperturbed.
'They should have started fighting by now.' She thought as she moved. And amazingly, she was referring to her brother Titus and Richard's battle.
Among her siblings, Felicia could be considered to be one of the most annoying to fight for a simple reason. Her eye.
Most people assumed that her eye allowed her to see things better and increased her perception and intuition, which was why no one doubted her when she said Christopher hadn't been lying when he had been questioned by her family. And in truth, they'd be correct as that was indeed an ability she possessed. But that was only part of it.
They had named the eye itself the Luminary Eye and its abilities went far beyond simply seeing through things.
One of its miraculous abilities was that Felicia could automatically gain information about anything she looked at. It wasn't omnipotent since it depended a lot on her own strength, but the fact was that she could understand how something work simply by looking at it. If she stared at a person, she'd know their name, intentions, race, and so on.
And it went even further than that as if she stared at say, a rock, she'd know how old the rock was as well as its atomic structure, it's exact size and weight and more.
Another ability granted by her eye was that she gained an incredible level of energy Perception. Her use of Mana was so precise that calling her the most adept in its use in the Empire was in no way an exaggeration as she could perceive even the smallest bits of Mana being used.
It was so good that even the Emperor himself had claimed that she had him beat in that department.
Because of this, Felicia's magic control was nothing short of astounding and even at her rank, the amount of people that could go toe to toe with her could be counted on one hand. Three of those slots were taken by Curtis, Han and her Father.
As she was moving, Felicia suddenly slowed down ever so slightly. It seemed so minute that most wouldn't have noticed it. But she had indeed slowed down a small bit, and when she did, about the fraction of a second later, something flashed past her front and sliced through the hall.
Then, Felicia's Rapier moved with such speed that it left several after images. And a moment later, several invisible threads were cut apart and fell harmlessly to the floor.
The without warning, her speed multiplied by several times and she flashed forward before returning to her previous pace, and a moment later, several dark cloaked figures appeared from thin air and fell to the ground, blood seeping through small yet lethal wounds on their bodies.
Felicia didn't spare them a second glance and continued to move. Despite everything, she had a bad feeling in her heart.
'If nothing else, these guys are incredibly cunning. They most likely know about my skill from Richard as well as Han's abilities. They know that there's a high chance that we'll reach them before they can take the Shard from Curtis. So there's a very high chance that they have something very insidious that's capable of dealing with all of us together. One that's capable of making them so confident.' She mused and turned another corner.
The instant she did, her footwork suddenly changed and she almost seemed to vanish and reappear like a phantom as several ranged attacks that were waiting for her were avoided.
The attackers that had been stationed To intercept her prepared to fight. But they didn't even get the chance as their bodies suddenly froze, and Felicia went past all of them, and a moment later, their bodies dropped, each of them dead.
'So what should I do? It's clearly a trap. Can we handle it? The fact that they must have incapacitated Curtis means they have means to take us out. However that's more vague since they must have relied on sneaky methods and not a direct method. With this knowledge, we'd know to be on guard against any sneak attacks. But they must know this as well. So whatever they have as a trap must be potent enough to make them confident in a direct confrontation. But what could be? An item? A summon?
'The former would be more likely since that's what they've been relying on so far. But the latter isn't so unlikely to put it out of the equation completely. Still having an idea on what the thing could be and being able to counter it are two completely different things. I want to say that three purple Ranked individuals would be more than enough, but they knew how strong we are and still attacked. It's hard to say.' She resisted the urge to click her tongue as she killed another group of Voidwalkers without slowing down.