Elijah ran inside the castle, trying to guess where Azekiel would have hidden the book. He was sure that there weren't many places where the book could be hidden. There was only one room on the floor, which was between the exit and the stairs.
Moreover, just as he expected, the door of the room was closed. He kicked the door open and barged inside, only to find it empty. There was no book here.
"You really thought I would hide the book there?" Azekiel asked, stopping before the door.
"You blocking the door won't achieve anything. In the end, you'll have to attempt to kill me, and I'll be teleported outside. Just accept it, you can't kill me the way you are, and I can't defeat you the way I am because of the bad luck, at least not before two hours are up and the effects of the bad luck are gone." Elijah sat on the ground as if he had gotten tired.
'It's no benefit. My bad luck will only get me hurt if I leave. I just need to distract him for twenty minutes. As soon as the time is up, I'll be free, and he won't have the support of luck. Moreover, as long as I'm sitting still, not even bad luck can't harm me.'
"How about we stop fighting and work together? We can explore the third floor together and go to that place. I wanted to do it alone, but since we're both in this situation, I'm willing to compromise. Instead of fighting which won't result in anyone's victory, we can work together."
"You have the books. I have the knowledge of how to use the books. We're both needed to get to that place," Elijah explained. "So how about it? Shall we team up? We can share the rewards equally when we get them on the third floor?!"
Raphael knew that Azekiel wasn't going to fall for this trick; still, he didn't forget to remind him. "Don't trust him. He says he has two hours, but I'm sure he's not stupid enough to tell you how much time you have. The time left for his bad luck should be much less. He's probably trying to delay for time."
"I know."
Azekiel stepped closer to the man on the ground as he thought of something. Elijah wasn't wrong that it was impossible to kill him with his passive skill. But he also couldn't let Elijah succeed in delaying for time.
"I don't know how much time you exactly have left, but what I can tell you is that neither do I need your help nor am I naive enough to think that you really will."
"Is that so? I suppose this back and forth will continue for an eternity because my Teleportation won't let me get hurt, even with the bad luck around. And as soon as the bad luck is gone, you'll regret not taking this offer," Elijah stood up, letting out a truly disappointed sigh.
He had expected Azekiel to fall for it, but at the same time, he was prepared for a refusal as well. He truly didn't believe that he could be killed. It was impossible to kill him with his passive skill, which gave him confidence.
"Oh, I do believe that your skill is pretty good, but I want to trust in my skill more than I trust your skill. I believe you'll die in the next one minute."
"Hahaha, your skill?" Elijah burst into laughter. "I told you I saw all your skills already. You can't use the Card of Judgement for the next twenty-four hours. As for your Gluttony of Knowledge and Soul Snatch, both of them won't work until you can kill me, and killing me is impossible! So what skill do you trust?"
"I trust my Card of Judgement. Even if you use that skill, that still remains my skill, and I would much rather believe in the bad luck it gave you than any of your skills. Time to test the theory."
"Let's see if the Card of Judgement can overpower your Protective Teleportation or not."
Azekiel's figure moved like lightning. He appeared right before Elijah and swung his right claw to the neck of Elijah.
At the same time, he used his left claw to fire energy bullets in three random directions.
[Warning: Danger Detected]
[Activating the passive skill]
Before the claw could even touch Elijah, his figure disappeared. He appeared in a different spot, only to hear the same notification again.
[Warning: Danger Detected]
[Activating the passive skill]
His figure once again disappeared and appeared in the third spot, again hearing the same notification.
Each time his skill teleported him to a place, it just happened to be the place where the energy bullets were about to pass through. Moreover, each time, the bullets were closer to his body.
[Warning: Danger Detected]
[Activating the passive skill]
The third teleportation occurred, and Elijah once again appeared straight before the bullets that Azekiel had shot toward the third direction.
[Warning: Danger Detected]
[Activating-]
Before the system could even Teleport him this time, the bullets penetrated Elijah's skill, leaving seven holes in his forehead.
The passive skill stopped as Elijah dropped to the ground.
"As expected, his bad luck was really bad," Azekiel muttered. Even he had only taken a chance. He didn't expect this trick to really work. He was really lucky, or rather, Elijah was really unlucky. Whenever he teleported, he appeared right before another attack and kept doing so until the last attack took his life.
Even as the bullets penetrated his skull, he couldn't believe how bad his luck was. There were thousands of places he could've been sent to by his teleportation inside the room, but each time he was sent before another attack.
He didn't even have the time to curse Azekiel with all his might as his eyes lost their shine.
Azekiel sighed a breath of relief. "As I said, I believe in my skill more than I believe yours. It seems to have worked. I just hope there isn't another Card of Bad luck left in the remaining four Cards of Judgement. If I select one, I don't even want to imagine what could happen..."
Even though he had won, he was still worrying. He could see his image in Elijah since that lousy luck was supposed to belong to him at least one time in the future battles.
"Your natural bad luck made you choose that card, and then the supernatural bad luck took effect. The irony... Today really wasn't his lucky day." Lia chuckled as she gazed at the dead body of the King of Greed.
