Chapter 4

Nirvana had used the transportation magic , it was a powerful spell that had no limits in its distance, meaning she could teleport across all the world. The only limitation was that she had to have been in the place at least once for the teleportation to work.

Before the group of knights, between them and the girl, a portal appeared. Darker than the very own darkness, it incited fear in them.

The knights were perplexed by the sight before their eyes.

“What the hell is that!?” Shouted one of them in disbelief.

Evlis, who was about to finish the princess, lowered his sword.

“What the -”

Their voices were interrupted, and they all fell silent as the figure of a woman started to come out of the darkness.

Soon, the most beautiful woman they had ever seen was standing before them. Her white hair swayed in the wind and her green eyes had a cold gaze that immediately sent a chill to Evlis.

Extending her left arm, the knights heard some words coming out from the woman’s mouth.

“[All Grasping Hand].”

Nirvana closed her hand as if she was crushing something and just beside Evlis, a knight fell silently to the ground. He didn’t say a word, only the sound of metal colliding with the ground was heard, he had died before he even realized it.

She had used a 9th-tier spell that allowed one to interact with the internal organs of someone and crush them all. And so was with the knight, he had all of his organs instantly crushed.

Nirvana possessed multiple spells and among them all, her favorite ones were the instant death ones, like the one she had just used. For her, it was cool to end the battle in a single movement.

She had also already carefully planned her escape route if her magic had not worked on the knight. She would grab the girl and go away using again.

She didn’t know how strong they were and what they were capable of, so it was only natural she would take precautions. Now, she had seen that they were not that strong, as one of them easily died with a single attack.

“Hmm… making a quick analysis I would say they are around level 15? Maybe just a little higher…” She thought while looking at one of them from head to toe with her magical eyes.

The remaining knights were in shock at what had just happened before their eyes. Some were shaking in fear and gulping.

“I guess this is the natural reaction when you see one of your comrades suddenly die?” Nirvana said chuckling a bit. “Aren’t you all fearless knights? Or are you only like that when chasing defenseless girls? Don’t you have the courage to defend yourselves against someone who can fight back?”

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When she said that, two knights clenched their fists and advanced in her direction raising their swords while giving what seemed to be a war cry. One of them made a frontal assault, while the other attacked from the side. Judging from their angriness, they probably had their pride wounded by what Nirvana had said.

But it wasn’t the case with Evlis, he could only think of getting away from there, so he took the opportunity to start giving some steps back. For him, it was better to be an alive coward than a dead hero.

With his sword raised, the knight that came from Nirvana’s front was about to strike her. He was aiming for her head, a clean strike, able to easily slice through a building.

But before it could reach her, she easily stopped the sword using only two fingers and applied so much force on it that the blade broke.

The knight could only look at the sword in disbelief.

Using only one hand, Nirvana grabbed him by the neck and raised him from the ground.

The knight was being choked to death. He was fiercely trying to free himself and using all his strength, but the hand of the woman wouldn’t even flinch.

While Nirvana was holding the knight, the second one, coming from her side, started to violently attack her with his sword. He tried to pierce, slash, stab, and even tried to punch her, but all of it was stopped before it could reach her.

It didn’t make sense to him. Why weren’t his attacks reaching her? Why wasn’t she getting damaged?

Taking some steps back to breathe, the knight shouted to the others.

“HEY, SHE HAS COMPLETE RESISTANCE TO PHYSICAL ATTACKS! WE NEED MAGIC CASTERS!”

Nirvana chuckled while looking at him.

“Wrong! It’s merely that stabs, strikes, and blows from weaklings like you aren’t enough to even scratch me.”

Taking one of her daggers out, which was on her waist, she stabbed the knight in the heart before he could even react to it.

The knight that she was holding also met death, having his neck crushed by the sheer physical force from Nirvana.

She then turned to the other knights.

They were now completely dominated by fear, already knowing their fates.

Nirvana started the massacre, decapitation, stabbing, crushing, for her it didn’t matter, they were enemies so she would kill them all. The smile she had while doing all this incited, even more, fear and despair in the knights.

“SHE IS TOO FAST! I CAN’T SEE - GWAAA!”

“RUN! WE NEED TO RUN!”

“You won’t run.” Said Nirvana while finishing him off.

The place which moments later had a lot of sounds, had fallen silent, all the knights were dead. It was a brutal scene, there was blood everywhere.

Nirvana stood in the middle of the corpses. She was cleaning her dagger when she sensed a presence in the forest, it was a single human running away from where she was.

“It seems I let one of the knights escape.” She thought thinking about what to do. “It would be better to kill him, I can’t let loose ends, information about me can’t leak.”

The man running in the forest was Evlis, he had taken the opportunity of the massacre to run away alone. He abandoned his comrades, but it was the only option that would give him at least a chance to survive.

After running a lot, he stopped and sat down on a fallen tree.

“I need to locate myself so I can get back home. That woman was more powerful than anyone I have ever seen… It’s of utmost importance that I take this information to my country.”

While he was contemplating and trying to find a way home, he heard a voice coming from his back.

“Hey, need any help?”

Evlis tripped and fell with his back to the ground, that woman who had just massacred every single one of his comrades was standing there.

“Did you come here to kill me?” He asked her.

“You understand things fast.”

The man kneeled while crying in despair. “Please… Please… don’t kill me, I have a family wanting me. Please…”

“I am very sorry, but I can’t just let you go. If I let you live, you would take valuable information with you.”

“I won’t say anything about you I promise!”

“You and I know that you will say. If you were in my position and I was in yours, would you let me live and risk leaking information?”

“N- N-.” The man was stumbling on his words, it was difficult to say that. “N-… No, I wouldn’t let you live.”

“See, you do understand what I am talking about.”

While saying those words, with a single movement, Nirvana slashed his throat open. Evlis fell to the ground bleeding a lot. Moments later, he passed away.