1102 Go hunt.
"Khawwkk!"
Astaria coughed out blood as she fell on her knees.
Her eyes widened in shock, unable to believe that a sword passed through her defenses this easily and pierced her heart.
"H-How...?"
She spoke in a hoarse voice and the next moment, when her brain completely
registered what happened, an unknown fear crept up her body.
Fear of death.
Her heart was pierced through.
She was dying.
The moment Astaria realized that her entire body started trembling in fear.
'No...'
She didn't want to die.
As a warrior who has spent most of her life training and aiming to become the strongest, she was never a woman who was scared of death.
Or at least that's what Astaria thought and for the previous Astaria, it was true, the Dowager of the Skyfall Kingdom, Astaria Skyfall, never feared death.
Astaria Leander, however, was different.
Astaria Leander had Nux. She was a woman who looked forward to countless future years she would be spending with her spending.
She didn't want to die...
But to think her heart was pierced through like this...
Astaria was in despair.
Soon, however, her inner warrior roared, 'No, not like this!'
She collected herself.
Her body which was trembling continuously stopped.
She moved her Mana and quickly activated [Husband's Beacon] to get away from here, however, to her horror, the ability couldn't activate.
There was an enemy sword pierced
through her heart, not to mention the Mana inside her body was currently a mess, there was no way the ability would activate in this situation.
The fear that Astaria had barely suppressed crept up again, she gulped.
'Nux...'
She called out.
However, there was no reply.
'NUX!'
Astaria shouted in panic, but then, Twist
The sword that had pierced through her heart was twisted, it was as if the unknown enemy was trying to crush her heart, taking away any hopes of recovery.
Astaria coughed out blood again.
Her throat felt sore and soon, she started losing her strength.
She called out, but again, there was no reply.
Her eyes felt heavy, she tried to keep them open, but, it was pointless.
In the end, Astaria's bloodied hands that were holding the sword fell down, she lost all her strength, her eyes closed down. She could feel it, her life force rushing out of her body.
A weak smile appeared on her face.
She called out one last time, using all the energy she had, and finally, Astaria's senses dulled out.
"H-Huh? W-What's happening?"
Suddenly, Astaria heard a confused voice.
Her eyes opened up in an instant, feeling unnatural strength in her body, she quickly turned around, trying to see the bastard who attacked her from behind, however, seeing that no one was there, she frowned in confusion.
"What are you doing?"
Astaria then heard Amaya's confused voice.
She looked around and glanced at Amaya and seeing the confusion on her face, Astaria was now even more confused, "How are you still fine?" She questioned.
"Huh? Are you cursing me now?" Amaya questioned back with a cold look on her face.
"Huh?" Astaria blinked in confusion.
Seeing that this wasn't going anywhere, the responsible Skyla decided to step forward, "Sister Astaria, why are you kneeling?"
"Because I was atta-"
Astaria was about to reply but the moment she lowered her head, she realized there was no sword coming out of her chest.
She was completely fine.
"Sister Allura, Sister Melia, Sister Thyra, are you all okay? Should I call Nux here?" Skyla turned towards her three other sisters and questioned.
Astaria glanced at her sisters who just like her were kneeling on the ground and seeing the confusion on their faces as well, she understood that they had gone through the same experience she went through.
Astaria's hands automatically moved toward her chest, she still wasn't sure what was happening, however, just as she was about to call Nux,
"If the result is decided, shall we start what we came here for?
Even though we have 50 years, I don't think we should be spending it on something as pointless as this."
Suddenly, Astaria heard another voice.
A beautiful, purple-haired, purple-horned woman walked out, she glanced at Astaria with her purple eyes, then with a mysterious smile on her face, she questioned,
"What do you think?"
Astaria and all the other women finally understood.
"It was an illusion..."
Allura muttered as she glanced at Aisha.
"Did I go too far?" Aisha acted playfully as she scratched the back of her head.
"An Illusion..." Melia muttered to herself.
She couldn't believe she as a Vampire was trapped in an illusion. This was especially shocking since she was trained by her mother and had much higher resistance to illusions than any normal person.
"..."
Thyra didn't say anything but she was glaring at Aisha as well.
Astaria was the same.
"Hey hey, don't act like this. I went easy on you all.
You can ask Allura if you don't believe me."
Aisha shrugged.
"If your hearts were pierced through in the illusion just like mine... then yes... She went easy on us..."
Allura agreed, however, the expression on her face wasn't friendly.
Aisha shrugged, "Don't forget, I spent 1000 years in the Trial. I may not know much about being a Complete Cultivator, the Law of Self, or whatever Nux and Lady Vyriana were talking about,
However, I still lived as a Saint Stage Primordial Succubus.
I can take all of you alone and I still wouldn't lose."
The Primordial Succubus declared and none of the women could retort her words.
Nux himself had admitted the difference between his Primordial Blood and all other Bloodlines was simply absurd.
Right now, other than Nux, none of them had the strength to go against Aisha, even if they all worked together to go after her.
"Alright now, stand up.
Astaria, share the plan you were talking about, you will be taking the lead from now on. We will be listening to your arrangements because you are the closest to Lady Vyriana and should know what she expects from us all."
Aisha spoke, giving the position of leader to Astaria.
Of course, Astaria wasn't happy, however, since the strongest out of them had ordered her to, she would listen to her.
'I will surpass you eventually.'
Astaria swore in her heart.
The title of the strongest wife, she would take it away very soon.
Thinking about it, she stood up, then, she turned towards her sisters and, "For the next 40 years, you will be working on your own skills, as mentioned before, start with close combat and keep on upgrading from there.
The last 10 years would be spent on teamwork and fighting a stronger enemy.
Now get to it,
Go hunt."
Astaria spoke before she rushed away.
She had no time to waste
