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The door of the suppression room inside the tomb closed once again. The Goddess of Nature was again suppressed and everyone had left the Tomb, including Lira.
"And here I thought I would need to personally get involved to stop them..." Out of nowhere, a calm voice echoed. "It's good that she wasn't freed."
A figure could be seen standing outside the room, standing with the support of the wall. The man had two earrings, one in each of his ears. His cross shaped earrings looked quite similar to the earring of strengthening that Gabriel was wearing to strengthen his physique.
"I thought you were being overly cautious when strengthening the defences of this place while making it. Looks like I was wrong." The man's voice echoed in the lonely hallway of the tomb before he disappeared.
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Outside the Tomb, Gabriel was standing before the cloaked person who had just come out. Initially, he hadn't thought too much about the person, but now he couldn't ignore that person.
"Take off your cloak," he told the woman before him.
Even after his command, there was no response from the person in the front.
He didn't realize that even though the woman's face was hidden thanks to the cloak, but that woman was currently biting her lower lip in anger.
It was as if her bad luck was so bad that even after so long, Gabriel was still before the tomb entrance!
'Old man, if you don't help me this time, I might really be dead! If he sees my face and decides to kill me, just think about what might happen to you!'
...
There was no response from the woman even after Gabriel asked her to reveal herself. He was already suspicious of the woman's identity but seeing her silence, he was even more sure that something was wrong about her!
Since so much was at stake with the tomb, he couldn't take any risk.
A voice floated in Lira's head.
At the same time, the woman's necklace turned into a speck of black light.
The black light took the shape of a pitch black book which stunned even Gabriel. It had been such a long time since he last saw that book.
"It's you!" He exclaimed, taken aback. "Lira!"
Lira took off the cloak, revealing her pale face. "You've already taken my Ancestral Staff. You want to take my life as well?!"
"Aren't you the one who wanted to take my life? I still haven't forgotten all the pain that you made my soul go through!"
Gabriel had always wondered where Lira was after that day. There were so many things in his mind that he just didn't have time to find her. Who knew that she was going to appear before him abruptly.
What was even worse was that this woman went inside the Tomb? Lira was strong and she stayed inside the tomb for so long. He couldn't help but worry if she freed the Goddess of Nature to get revenge on him!
'No! If she was free: with how much she seemed to hate me, she would've already been out of the Tomb to kill me! She couldn't have been freed!'
Gabriel didn't know what the woman did, but he couldn't let her escape now that he finally had her!
His Grimoire of Necromancy also came out on its own, floating before him.
Thud~
"Huh?" Gabriel called out his Grimoire but before he could even attack Lira, the young woman dropped to her knees.
Her dark Grimoire floated before her, but Lira didn't attack.
Instead, she abruptly exclaimed, "I surrender!"
Her response came as a surprise to Gabriel who was expecting her to fight. She had called out her Grimoire after all. Despite that, for some reason she surrendered?
He didn't understand what the woman was planning but he didn't lower his guard. He still had to find out from her what she did inside the tomb. He didn't lower his guard.
It was the first time he was regretting using the bracelet of sealing on Lambard's maid. If he could've used that on Lira, he didn't have to worry about it being a trick of hers.
"Recall your Grimoire!" Gabriel told the woman while a dark mist came out of the ground, turning into shackles which entrapped Lira in her place, making it impossible for her to move.
No matter what she was planning, Gabriel didn't want to leave any room for a mistake.
"You've really gotten stronger after all this time. You can even use my spells with close to perfection. No wonder you broke our promise and stole my Ancestral Staff after all I did for you!" Lira exclaimed. She didn't resist even a little.
It was unclear what the voice in her head said when she had asked for help, but it was as if she had no intent to fight.
"Broke our promise?" Gabriel asked. "Our promise was that I was going to give you the Ancestral Staff of Darkness. I intended to keep that promise but it was you, who came to kill me!"
He had already been betrayed a few times. He didn't want to give others a chance to betray him. That was why he tried to take the Ancestral Staff first before giving it to Lira.
The taming of the Ancestral Staff by him didn't affect the strength of Ancestral Staff for Lira at all. There was no loss to her, other than the fact that she couldn't have used it to attack him! He never expected her to try to kill him just for that!
Not only did she try to kill him, but she did so while tormenting his soul.
"If I wasn't lucky, I would've been killed by you already. The day you tried to kill me, our deal became invalid!" He exclaimed. "However, that doesn't make us equal, does it? Shouldn't it be a life for a life?"
After the dark chains shackled her, a pitch black spear floated before Lira. The tip of the spike was already touching Lira's neck. A little push and Lira could've been killed. Despite all that, there was not much fear on her face.
"Don't you think so?" Gabriel asked.
"You're right. And you're definitely capable of killing me. At the moment, I can't even resist," Lira replied, sitting still on her knees.
Not only did she not resist, but she also recalled the Grimoire of Darkness.
The Grimoire returned to be a necklace around Lira's neck.
Lira's actions were as bizarre as they were surprising. It was as if she didn't care for her life at all. Gabriel didn't know why, but he felt like something was really wrong! That feeling was only getting stronger.
Thrust~
The pitch black spear rushed ahead!
