"Huh? Huh?" Mei Mei looked around in confusion. Both she and Shen Yue had no idea what was happening around them.
"Brother, what the hell is happening? Who is this angry snake lady? Did you do something weird to her?" She then realized that Shen Yue was near them and quickly changed her question.
"I meant did you take some item from her. Ha Ha."
Liam chuckled awkwardly, his gaze still fixed on the spot where the naga had been standing just a second ago.
He made a mental note not to use the other pearl he had in his possession using which he could summon her one more time.
"That's a long story. Leave it be. How did you both get here?"
"Ah. No idea, brother. We were-"
Liam abruptly interrupted her, thinking of something even more important. "Shen Yue, can you check if your quest is failed?"
Shen Yue could guess what quest he was talking about and quickly opened her system interface to take a look. "Umm. No," she replied, checking it a couple of times.
"Hmmm." Liam checked his own quest as well and didn't see any progress there. He immediately became more alert and stood up.
"This can't be right. The snake said she took care of the enchantress, didn't she?"
Puzzled by this development, he turned to look at the debris of the temple that had completely collapsed. "Was she still alive somehow?"
As if answering his question, some of the bigger chunks of walls started moving slightly and then more violently. From within two dark mages stood up, wobbling unsteadily.
They also looked heavily injured.
Liam instantly unsheathed his sword and dashed forward. "Send me a party invite now." Shen Yue was the leader of their party so she hurriedly sent him one.
Liam did not know what was happening but if by chance that witch was alive, he needed to kill her ASAP!
The two Level 50 dark mages crumbled under his attack as they already had very less health left. After that, Liam started haphazardly looking around for more survivors.
And before long, he came into contact with the feeble body of the enchantress. She was buried under a mountain of rocks, only barely alive.
Looking at her in that state, Liam felt a pang of sympathy in his heart.
He bent down and gently picked her up in his arms. Even that small action, made her wince. She looked like a flower wilted because of the rough winds.
Anyone's heart would ache at such a pitiful sight. It was moving to see someone so beautiful look so sad. Liam wanted to kiss her frowning lips and make all her worries go away.
He leaned closer to the mesmerizing woman in his arms and was only a breath away from closing her mouth with his when suddenly a dagger came flying, directly aimed at the beauty's throat.
Spurt.
Blood gushed out of the wound and Liam as well snapped out of his trance. He instantly dropped the witch in his arms down to the ground.
[Ding. Kingdom Quest Completed]
[Ding. You have received 100000 experience points]
[Ding. You have received 1000 gold coins]
[Ding. Your reputation in the Gresh Kingdom has increased.]
[Ding. Visit the King to obtain the rest of the rewards]
"Oh. It looks like she is finally dead." Liam looked up after observing all the details of the quest reward.
However, as soon as he did, he met a pair of angry simmering eyes that made him clear his throat awkwardly. Am I in trouble?
"Yes, she is dead." Shen Yue curtly replied, her dagger flying back to her.
"It has a return effect. Should be a good dagger?" Liam completely forgot about the angry gaze, now looking at the shiny new dagger.
"Yes, it is an Epic ranked dagger." Shen Yue again curtly answered.
"Wait. What? Did you just say epic-ranked?" Unable to believe her words, Liam once again looked at her, only to be faced with a pair of angry eyes again.
He cleared his throat awkwardly and did another attempt at changing the subject. "Your quest is now completed?"
Before Shen Yue could answer, Mei Mei, unfortunately, spoiled his plans. "Brother! Stop trying to change the topic!"
She also looked wronged for some reason. "What the hell, brother? What were you doing?!" Now Liam was facing two pairs of angry eyes threateningly staring at him.
"It's a mental attack. It's a mental attack." He tried to explain, but sighed and gave up. It looked like his image had been completely ruined.
These kinds of unique-type of attacks were too indeed powerful!
"Let's not talk about that. I have other things to do. Your quest also should be completed right? Let's get out of here."
He quickly looked away and whistled, as if he was searching for something in the sky.
A couple of seconds later, Talon came flying down and Luna as well came running out of some bush nearby.
The little fox saw that the two women had returned and she quickly jumped onto Liam, hiding behind him.
"Ok. Looks like everyone is here. So we can leave now. Technically, the two of you can first go to Yleka using Talon. I will join you later. Okay?"
"NO!" Both Shen Yue and Mei Mei replied in unison.
"Then how about I go first since I have a lot of things to do. Ha ha." This time the two did not even answer and only gave Liam a narrow look.
"Alright. Alright. We can walk and go. It's not too far." Liam gave up in the end.
He looked around to see if there was any loot but it didn't look like the witch had dropped anything.
Feeling the two eyes on him, he even kicked around her corpse a little rough.