Sabrina watched as Naledi gently stroked the dragon's face. She realised the look on her eyes.

It was love, she couldn't understand how a human and a beast could fall In love in a world where those two races were at each others throats.

But she couldn't deny something happening right Infront of her eyes. However none of it mattered.

She knew they had to get out of here. Naledi turned her head and looked at them. The gentleness in her eyes disappeared.

It was replaced by a dark coldness that drenched her heart in dread. Her cold aura pressed on them like a mountain.

She felt like an entire continent of ice was pressing on her shoulders, she started sweating without realising it.

She looked at Nic and his hands were shaking. He gripped his vessel tighter until his knuckles turned white.

The temperature dropped so low in only a few moments, ice started appearing on their skins.

Then she turned her eyes up, before they could react she disappeared. The next moment they heard a scream from above.

Sabrina knew things were bad, of all her peers, Naledi was the most terrifying being they had ever met.

Only those old monsters an entire rank above her were more terrifying than this woman.

She was even worse than that monster from the empire. The first time they met, her aura and soul signature were unclear.

However now unrestrained, Sabrina understood that even if the two of them were at full power, they would stand no chance against her.

They had to run before she comes back. Nic appeared next to her. She was about to teleport them away when Naledi appeared Infront of them like a shadow.

In her hand was a severed head, it had been less than a second and she had already killed a projection realm expert.

Not even a newly risen one like her. This was a peak projection realm expert with a sky grade vessel.

He was an expert assassin who excels at escaping yet he couldn't escape from her. " I remember you."

Naledi whispered as if she was talking to herself. Her sweet and beautiful voice sent shivers down her spine.

Nicholas stood Infront of her defensively. " Was it that Fred something guy who sent you after me?" She asked with a chillingly cold voice.

Before Sabrina could say anything Naledi disappeared. The next moment Nicholas flew past her like a blur.

The only thing he managed to do was raise his hand to block. When his vessel clashed with hers, it froze over alongside his entire left arm.

Had he not covered his shoulder with dense winds in time, she was afraid his entire body would've turned into an ice statue.

After attacking Nicholas, Naledi stood still and looked at her hand. " It seems I still haven't acclimated."

Sabrina knew what she was talking about. Naledi had been unconscious since the invasion of the orcs four years ago.

It was right after she had just broken through as far as they had gathered. Which meant this was probably her first battle after being able to use all of her powers.

She was yet to fully adjust to her true strength yet she was already giving the two of them so much pressure.

That's on top of both of them being two minor levels above her. Naledi turned her head towards her.

" Are you the one who did that to my Alex?" Before Sabrina could even answer Naledi attacked.

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Naledi POV

Naledi felt an overwhelming rage looking at this silver head woman. She could feel a unique type of energy inside her.

There was only one such elusive energy under the heavens, mystical energy and the way she's dressed suggest she is a witch.

When she touched Alex she felt this type of energy inside him and a will that seemed to block out all of his senses.

Even she couldn't get rid of it but was that mostly because she wasn't the target. She could feel Alex's will trying to resist the changes done to him.

However it didn't seem to be strong enough. She knew this was only an avatar of his even if it died, Alex would be fine but still, it pissed her off that they would even dare touch him.

" Are you the one who did that to my Alex?" She asked with a cold voice. She already knew the answer so she didn't even wait for the woman to answer and attacked.

She lunged, the world seemed to bend around her. She broke the lightning speed barrier and reached the woman faster than the eye can blink.

Her thin sword cut towards her neck, the temperature around them dropped so low, ice appeared on the woman's face and hair.

Just as the sword was about to cut off her neck, she disappeared. ' Teleportation.' " Mxm." Naledi clicked her tongue.

Her soul sense spread out covering tens of thousands of kilometres. As soon as she detected the woman appearing she lunged.

Essence coursed through her entire body, as a human she didn't have essence veins so essence moved directly from her soul, into her cells.

It was less efficient than essence veins but it was more forceful. She directed it to her feet and legs.

She felt power surge inside her, the ground below her feet cracked and the world blurred around her.

As soon as the woman appeared she was already there. The witch was taken by surprise.

Although not as fast as teleportation. The time it took for her speed that surpassed lightning to cover such a small distance was only a fraction of a second.

To the perception of people at their rank, it wasn't much different from the instantaneous of teleportation.

Perhaps to the old monsters who had comprehended laws, that time was long enough to make a difference.

Without wasting a second she attacked again. Before her sword reached the woman, the man behind her block it.

He used his already frozen arm, the force of her attack shattered the arm into ice fragments.

Unfortunately even she couldn't easily break a rank 5 vessel so the sword survived. He grabbed the woman and retreated tens of kilometres in a split second.

His reaction seemed much faster than the witches which made sense, he was a warrior, a high reaction speed was a must.

However Naledi was tired of playing with them. She raised her vessel to the sky. The clouds way above the first layer churned.

They looked up with panic in their eyes. The witch grabbed her staff with both hands. The circlet on her head shone with soft blue light.

Then she started chanting. From the churning clouds came out a massive ice hand.

The hand was over 40 kilometres large dropping from thousands of kilometres up. The hand picked up speed generating winds so powerful they shook the sky.

In a split moment it had surpassed the speed of natural lightning. Just as it was about to crush them, a purple bubble spread out of the witch encompassing them both.

Then they disappeared before she could act. They had left the range of her soul sense. She clicked her tongue and swore she would get them next time.

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Note: There are three known speed barriers in this world. The sound barrier which can be broken through easily.

The lightning barrier which requires one to have intent, only projection realm and above can achieve this speed.

The light speed barrier which requires one to have comprehended a law, only law comprehension and above realms can achieve this speed.

Also the lightning speed here is the speed of the return stroke.

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