“Looks like this axe was the only treasure the Fme Tyrant was holding onto,” Ace said with a hint of disappoi as he casually lifted the Demi-God-level Divine Armament.

  “Only?” Amira rolled her eyes with a helpless shake of her head. “That’s a genuine Divine Armament! Not including us in the Pavilion, the number of people on our Yun ti who have Divine Armaments of their own be ted on two hands.”

  “Haha, that’s true,” Ace chuckled sheepishly before casually tossing it to Amira. “Here, you have it. You give it to your parents or one of the saints of your family’s Rohault Empire.”

  Most would stare wide-eyed at the casual way in which Ace treated the Divine Armament. As Amira said, on the ti, Divine Armaments were impossibly rare, with the only oo possess one being the various deities. For oo be so casually given away was mind-blowing, to say the least. But one had to remember that the discovery of cepts allowed Ace to have already created a Divine Armament of his owe him only being an expert at the seventh rank.

  It wasn’t just him and Amira either. All the senior members of the Pavilion now had one, as did Killian. As for the rest of their cssmates, it was only a matter of time. In their eyes, offensive Divine Armaments – especially o the Demi-God level – weren’t of much use or importance.

  Hearing that, Amira didn’t think much of it either. Like Ace, she didn’t see a Divine Armament as that impressive. Plus, uhe top powerhouses of the rising Gol Kingdom, those of her Rohault Empire weren’t talented enough to prehend ‘cepts’ yet. As such, a Divine Armament like the “Bloodlust Battle Axe” would mean a lot more to the experts of her Empire.

  “So what do you guys wanna do now?” Amira asked after st away the axe. “Find another Prime Saint to tiraining or head up to the floor?”

  “Let’s head up to the floor,” Aswered. “We already have the strength to protect ourselves in the face of any threat below the Deity level.”

  Like that, the trio headed straight to the tre of the sed floor, no longer making any pit stops to tiheir training.

  Every on a while, a group of Magma Demons would try and stop them, but with their current power, they were nothing more than a slight hindrance, easily dealt with or directly ignored, depending on their mood.

  Eventually, they made it to the tral region, and what they found when they arrived caught them by surprise.

  Directly in the tre was a magical door that seemed to lead nowhere whilst closed. But surrounding that was what could only be described as a giant war zohe ground, which should, by all is and purposes, be filled with luscious green grass and rge, sturdy, cloud-toug trees, was utterly baron ae.

  And scattered on the grouhe remains of a mixture of hundreds of Magma Demons and dozens of human saints, some of whom Ace even reised as members of the “New Yun Empire”. There were even the remains of nine Fme Tyrants.

  It had to be uood that even with their incredible rate of improvement, if Ad his group had e across so many Fme Tyrants at ohey would be forced to flee directly. After all, even without external treasures, each Fme Tyrahe power of a prime saint.

  Still, Ad the others weren’t focused on that. The moment they arrived, they hurriedly moved to make sure none of the deceased were the members of their group.

  They khat all of the members of their group had the ability to at least protect themselves on the sed floor – including Linley and Bebe. Still, in such a rge-scale battle like this, even experts like Kimika and Lazerim could end up falling, especially when surrounded by so many potential enemies.

  Thankfully, none of their group was among the deceased. But there was a surprising face among the fallen.

  “Isn’t this that “War Saint” fellow,” Ace asked as he studied the battered remains of Tulily curiously. “I didn’t expee of the prime saints to fall on the sed floor.”

  Tulily’s body was covered in burn marks, but the most grievous of the physical wounds were the blunt-force traumas that appeared to have deformed his body.

  They weren’t quite sure who or what did this, but they knew from their st major battle that it definitely wasn’t the Magma Demons or Fme Tyrants.

  “Me her,” Amira sighed. “But if I had to guess, I’d wager that these three Fme Tyrants were likely guarding a precious treasure, and after defeating them, all the experts broke out into a battle, trying to cim it for themselves.”

  “Makes sense,” Aodded, agreeing with Amira’s assessment before making his way to the exit. “Still, I’m just gd that it wasn’t any of our friends that died.”

  “I wonder what treasure could’ve caused the death of so many experts,” Amira wondered absentmindedly as she followed behind Ad Leona.

  “Who knows,” Ace shrugged, not too bothered one way or the other, as he held the door to the floor open for his partners. “I’m sure we’ll find out sooner or ter.”

  Amira was just about to respond, but after entering the floor, she suddenly found herself a little distracted.

  As expined by Tarosse, ohird floor, the purity of the elemental essence would see a rge increase, but Amira wasn’t expeg it to double directly. Still, although not by much, it was slightly inferior to that of the pocket dimension.

  Still, what distracted her wasn’t the elemental essen the surrounding area, but the experts scattered around, more specifically, one of the experts making their way to one of the ten doors leading to the fourth floor.

  Maria, the former Princess of Darkness, made it to the third floor a little over two months ago. Unfortunately, she, like many of the other tens of saints who had made it this far, was uo defeat the Deathgod Golem on the fourth floor, which had the power of a top-tier expert mid-ranked saint. As such, she had been forced to return back to the third floor to tinue her training.

  Thankfully, the elemental essence here on the fourth floor was so incredibly de had to be remembered that although she couldn’t pare to the likes of Ace, Amira, and Wukong, Maria was still a genius among geniuses who had broken through to the saint rank in her 30s – without the help of experts like those in the Pavilion.

  Siering the Necropolis, not only had she mao break through to the middle stages of the saint rank as a warrior, but she had also bee an early-stage saint as a mage, and just moments before Amira had ehe third floor, her prehension had just taken a step fivihe fideo have ano at the fourth floor.

  But what she hadn’t expected was that just as she reparing to head back up to the fourth floor, a chilling killing i had locked onto her.

  Subsciously turning around, she saw a familiar face, which caused her to hesitate oher to head back up or turn around and front the little princess of the Rohault Empire.

  After her ret series of breakthroughs, Maria was feeling particurly fident in herself. Still, her fidence faltered slightly as she thought back to their st frontation.

  Although Maria won vingly, it had to be remembered that not only was the Princess of Darkness over twice the age of her oppo and several realms above her. Plus, she hadn’t won anywhere near as vingly as she should have done, all things sidered.

  As much as she hated to admit it, she khat of the two of them, Amira was, without doubt, far more talented.

  Thinking to that point, Maria immediately uood that as much as she had improved over the st six months, Amira had likely improved signifitly more. At that point, it became a question of whether Amira’s improvements had allowed her to close the gap enough to surpass her or not.

  As a saint-level expert, Maria’s thought processing speed was impossibly fast. It had been a mere fra of a sed, but just as she was ing to a clusion of her own, the decision had been made for her.

  Maria’s eyes suddenly stricted as she saw the couple of figures ehe third floor.

  Without another moment of hesitation, her body moved like a shadowy blur, quickly opening aering the fourth floor.

  The door had barely closed when an enormous, 100-meter-plus crest-shaped sword-light smmed straight into the door.

  “Wasn’t that Maria?” Ace asked curiously as he saw one of the ten doors to the fourth floor sm shut.

  “Yeah,” Amira snorted, clearly displeased, as she gred at Ace. “Because of you, the little snake mao get away just in time!”

  “Me?” Ace asked, taken aback. “What did I do?”

  “You came up!” Amira argued bareasonably whilst pouting adorably. “If the “Son of Heaven” hadn’t made an appearance so soon, she wouldn’t have run so quickly!”

  Aew better than tue with Amira, especially whe like this. As such, he quickly raised his arms in surrender in an attempt to appease her.

  At the same time, the various saints were staring at the two newers in disbelief, more specifically at the caramel-skinned swordswoman.

  The power of that st strike was faintly approag that of a peak saint, and from the looks of it, it appeared to be nothing more than a st-minute casual attack.

  Had it e from Aone of those present would’ve so much as bat an eyelid; after all, everyone was very much clear about Ace’s heaven-defying ability, but for it to e from Amira… It looks like Amira’s progress had been nothing short of miraculous.

  Oher side of the door, Maria’s back ressed firmly against the door, her body drenched i as she panted heavily.

  Though it was a seemingly simple sequence of events, the stress of merely seeing Ace made her heart palpitate, but it was that seemingly casual ssh of Amira that caused Maria to feel the threat of death.

  “Amira…” Maria muttered in an unwilling daze. “She’s actually surpassed me.”

  Although Amira had improved drastically over the st six months, she would have to use her ultimate teique to barely resist that st strike from Amira.

  “I ’t afford to run iher of them,” Maria voiced as her body shuddered involuntarily before her eyes regaiheir cold focus as her eyes focused on the Deathgod Golem in the distance. “At least not until I meet up with my parents and the other members of my Cult of Darkness.

  At that point, it won’t matter how strong they’ve bee; I refuse to believe that they’d be able to defeat all of us together!”

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