The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 247: Escape(3)

”Hey, wait! What are you going to do, you promised me that...!”

”Art of Radiance, Third Stance: Sanctified Piercer”

”AAAAAAAHHH!”

Without giving Kiel time to complain about the way she grabbed or threw him, Seraphina threw him towards the city. Immediately after, she dodged another annoying arrow.

She looked at Eryk he was still shooting annoying arrows as he slowly approached, but now, with both hands free, Seraphina had more leeway to act.

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’I leave it in your hands, number two.’

’Right.’

In the middle of the city, the doppelgänger paying attention to events didn’t even need a signal. It had only been a little over a minute since it had all started.

But the situation was already in chaos and she had to interfere.

First, she had to get Kiel to safety and then go back to help her main self in case se she could no longer run away. Without wasting a second, she jumped out of the shadows and caught him in mid-air.

”AAAHHHH!!”

”Okay, I got you.”

”Uh!??... what happened, weren’t you... what’s wrong?”

Kiel didn’t seem to understand the situation, but that didn’t matter. She had to end this quickly, and began to act, The disadvantage of the doppelgänger was that they couldn’t handle more than one Skill at a time.

Besides, this body only had the strength from when it was created, in the fourth metamorphosis. However, it just needed to escape.

Quickly, Seraphina cut a hole in her chest and placed a demonic core. It was something she had also gotten after making a deal with the Nero Company.

It was curious how she negotiated not to keep looking for trouble, or revenge and not to drag the matter out with herself.

The core was only six metamorphoses, but it was perfect for this weaker body, which could not resonate with the twins.

In an instant, she transformed into a demon and increased her speed by 40 percent. As she moved from rooftop to rooftop of the now empty city.

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As she moved from building to building, she finally exited the more populated areas of the city.

Just when she thought she was close to her target, she felt a shiver run down the back of her neck, her instincts were also working on her Doppelganger and immediately, she understood the situation.

”Fuck... I’m they target.”

Until that moment, she wasn’t paying attention to the situation of her main self, and was only concentrating on running as fast as possible, but as soon as she paid attention she noticed, but the shadows coming with Eryk didn’t go after her main self.

They passed her by, she was the target from the beginning. All those figures were faster than her and were closing the distance quickly.

Her main self had taken care of the strongest ones, but still three managed to escape and follow her.

She had already drunk many potions with all sorts of enhancements and boosting spells; along with demonization, she was in her best possible state.

Still, she needed to be faster or those assassins would catch up with her sooner.

”Kiel, hold on tight.”

She hugged Kiel against her chest, for what she would do would be dangerous.

”Art of Radiance, Fourth Stance: Refraction Nodes; Art of Lust, Fifth Stance: Tempting Torsrent.”

She took a chance. While practicing and using more than two arts at the same time was feasible, employing them one after the other and so abruptly could cause the body to suffer repercussions from the sudden change in mana flow and elemental nature.

The good thing was that the Art of Lust was very flexible and did not affect her as much, as it flow was adaptable and not limited to one element like the rest of the arts.

”Ughhhh!!!”

Still, she felt several things inside her break once she did both postures in a row.

She used a platform of the Radiance Art as a foothold.

An instant later, she activated the Art of Lust, which she only used to gain speed.

Bang!!!

The initial momentum was enormous, propelling her faster than both arts would have allowed her separately. In an instant, she covered a great distance.

Her legs began to swell and blood gushed from them. But she continued without stopping or faltering for a moment, She could not afford to stop for a second. She put everything she had into getting there.

Although she did not have the Eyes of Lust, she could feel that the distance between her and her pursuers was holding steady. She was only ten seconds away from reaching her target.

fwuosh!

”Gguhhh!!!!”

At that moment, she spat blood as she ran. The reason: the assassins had started throwing daggers at her . They were fast, accurate and, what’s more, concealed. He didn’t even notice when they came.

She didn’t know if they had an art related to that nature, like Elena, or if the daggers were simply imbued with concealment spells, but she didn’t have time to analyze it in depth.

Even when a dagger pierced hrr heart from behind, she didn’t stop. After all, she was a doppelgänger.

Another thing to consider was that the daggers were poisoned. Counting what happened to number one, it was the second experience of being poisoned, and honestly, she had to admit that Aeloria’s blessing was very useful, even if it was of no use in combat at all.

She felt the poison invade her organs, melting them. The pain was unbearable, like hell. She didn’t have a moment to maneuver to cast some pain obfuscation spell, and more daggers kept impacting with her back and causing the poisoning to spread faster.

She just gritted her teeth and concentrated on creating platforms as she ran with the momentum of the fifth stance.

But even the adrenaline was replicated in this body. At that moment, she was at her highest tension, driven only by her determination to accomplish her goal.

”Come on, fuck!!..., I won’t give up just.... because of this pain.”

Seraphina never gave up. Her alternate self was an example to follow, someone who always found a way to keep going no matter the difficulties.

If her alternate self could overcome so much, even if she didn’t have what she has now, then she can too, her will cannot be weaker than her alternate self was, and more so when she now has so many more things to protect.

He imagined that the one she held in her arms was one of her girl, like Selene, she refused to abandon her and give up.

Not even over her dead body would she allow this.

Using that mentality to push herself forward, she gritted her teeth as blood gushed from her mouth, but even that didn’t stop her and with all her will she pressed forward, even if her body was beginning to fail.

Kiel, whom Seraphina carried like a princess, felt some of the blood Seraphina was spitting on his face. He looked at Seraphina blankly.

He didn’t know what situation he had gotten himself into, what kind of person she was, nor what motivated her, nor why she would risk her life for him like that, why she seemed so determined not to let him go and just give up.

But there was no time to think anymore at that moment.

Because Seraphina, finally without giving up and with a will, monstrous, that only being a doopelganger could not explain, finally reached the objective.

Bang!

they crashed into the abandoned house that served as her lair, opening a hole in it, and without a second to breathe, she acted. Now, at last, she could use the spatial objects with freedoom.

She quickly made Kiel, who was looking at her strangely, touch the dimensional stone, making him enter it, freeing her at last from the burden of protecting him, besides that she took out a Ruby gem from her storage.

From the beginning she (number two) had the gem she used to communicate, through resonance, with the sisters.

That gem, along with the one she had left with the girls, served as a window that allowed the two spaces to be connected.

For resonance, the twins were not half a world away, but only a few meters.

And even though Seraphina had left her with number two, the connection still worked smoothly, as the resonance operated well within the distance of a city.

Now that she could use the spatial objects without restriction, she activated another and final function of the gem.

Through her original self she transmitted her intent and emotions to the other side, and immediately, two spells crossed and came out of the gem.

The girls were already in maximum tension; and immediately a powerful concealment spell, set by Elena, reached through the gem and covered the entire house.

Its effectiveness was so overwhelming that it would not last more than a few minutes, but it was enough.

The assassins following close behind watched in bewilderment. From their perspective, the house had simply disappeared.

Confused, they attacked where the house was, although their intention was to attack the empty space, the only thing they were really attacking was the house next door.

Such was the capacity of the spell, that it affected even their perception to the point of deceiving the senses of the people, and concealed them perfectly.

Not long after, a plant element healing spell enveloped her, helping to heal her wounds. Before she forgot, she dispelled the demonization and expelled the core.

Then, she copied his blessing and, immediately, the poison was expelled from her system. Once this was done, she switched her skill to the newly acquired regeneration, which her main self had obtained not long ago on her last night with Akihara.

Feeling Alice’s healing taking effect and supporting the new regeneration, within seconds she was feeling better, she was far from being at her peak, but as long as the dopelganger was working properly, she was fine.

”Minuo Dolorem”

Now, learning from what had just happened, she immediately cast Pain suppression spell, normally inadvisable as it could be dangerous not to feel pain, but now that would be heradvantage.

”Alright, let’s get on with it.”

The spells were the most powerful the girls could cast at the moment. She looked at the gem and saw small cracks in it.

She knew it was one use away from breaking; if she used it one more time, it would run out of resonance, so she had to be careful.

’Number one?’

’I’m here.’

With number one in position, and Kiel out of danger she felt she was regaining control of the situation. Now her main self had to be brought out of that stalemate she was in.

Quickly, she removed the belt with the dimensional stone and its storage pouch, as well as the ruby gem and set them on the ground.

They were no longer needed, at least not for her, and now that the lair was covered with Elena’s blessing, it would be hard to find.

”Huaa~ Let’s get down to business.”

Soon after, she demonized again using the core that still had energy, increasing her stats by forty percent.

This time, she ran out of the hidden house, again at her top speed to lend support to her main self, who was getting into more and more trouble.