The second fight Elizabeth fought was much easier than her first.

The reason, her breakthrough destiny was just that unstoppable at her level. Her second challenger could not even fight back, he was an archer, and being of the wind essence variant, the fight was over before it even began as none of his attacks could even land. This was a much more one-sided stomp and if it were her first fight maybe the sentiment on her would have been a tad better. She looked like she knew what she was doing even to a trained eye even though the only difference was that her power completely shut off the poor wind-based bastard unlike the first.

The thing she did of note was that she had her ability active at a much higher degree than before so that it could function more effectively even without her input which completely nullified her opponent.

Every mythic breakthrough destiny had a sort of pseudo-sentience in that it could perform certain actions to the benefit of itself(which inadvertently benefited the user). Even Samuel's World-Seed did so by transforming Elizabeth into a more pliable host to fit his needs even without his consent in a very insidious and near impossible-to-detect fashion.

Sadly, because of her first fight many knew to see that she was using a very powerful benefit from her master to outright win the matches despite her lack of experience or skill. They did not know it was a mythic breakthrough destiny but that mattered little in face of their contempt. Instead of the things she did right, the higher-ups only saw the things she did wrong. It also did not help that some powerful people were pulling strings to show her in a bad light and by extension her master and she was unwittingly playing right into their hands. There was also the fact that before her initiation into Samuel's service, she had a bit of a reputation for being 'uncooperative' to the natural proceedings of the sect. The only people on her side were the mortals and her master at that moment.

After the easy victory, the mortal populace who were unaware of the inner machinations of the sect roared in thunderous applause to her victories. After all, to them, she was an upstart who was very easy on the eyes. With her full hourglass figure, flawless pale skin, radiant yellow hair, and mismatch of ruby red and sapphire blue eyes she was quite the looker even in the sect where anyone above the essence condensation stage was going to be attractive because of how cultivation purified one's body of very minor asymmetries and blemishes.

Feeling the high of her victory, she approached her opponent who had lost by conceding to initiate some sort of friendship that happened after fights. Like the ones, she had read in her books.

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All she got in exchange was a dismissive turnaround as the young man hopped off the stage mumbling something angrily as he hopped off the stage.

This brought her mood down which was tanked even further as the disciples in the waiting room were even colder than before. At first, it was just ignorance now it felt as though she was being talked about behind her back and not in a positive light.

Goosebumps permeated her body which was completely hairless outside the top of her head and around her eyes. She could not help but shiver as unwanted memories came unbidden and she felt dizzy and nauseous.

She took unsteady steps to her corner of the room as painful memories came about unbidden. The neglect, abuse, and lack of any form of positive human contact for close to two full years seemed to surface all at once.

"Master..."

Her fraying mind looked to the one steady rock that remained standing in the turbulent ocean that was her mind.

As if brought by prophecy her call was answered by the man she had given her everything to.

"Yes?"

Her mind was brought to a screeching halt as her eyes focused on the man in front of her. Eyes that were brimming with tears blinked causing the droplets to fall down her face. Just like before she barreled into the confused master and hugged him like a lover which Samuel would always allow. Even if he knew it kept hitting his status as a master every time it was done to him. Maybe if he realized that it also affected Elizabeth he would take a different course of action but as it stood he just let the disciple weep unsure of what was going on, especially after he stopped using soul sight to just peer into her deepest thoughts.

He did something that stopped even further fall of his lofty status, which was in the midst of her hugging him he had blinked back into their domicile. This move happening twice made a few in the waiting room think that perhaps he was so powerful that he did not care about decorum as few of the disciples in the outer sect actually knew of 'world step', a natural ability every cultivator at the origin spirit stage and above was privy to. Would they share this information? Absolutely not. In their eyes, Samuel had become a very attractive target to go under and they would not jeopardize it by adding more competition. Those not in the know just assumed it was some powerful ability, which if it was still meant he had access to space essence, one of the most powerful form essences that no pure human had access to naturally. But at the essence-refining level, which was everyone in the waiting room, they still did not know such nuances.

"Is something wrong?" Samuel asked, clearly worried. His reasoning for coming to a private spot was to make sure Elizabeth's standing did not fall.

"No... there is nothing wrong..." Squeezing him harder.