The Last Ruler: The Return of the Goddess
Unexpected attack

After Lumine manifested himself in front of Ninia and her team, the fight between them became even tighter. Ninia was completely devoured by anger and continued to strike blindly at Remilia.

However Remilia who was used to such a thing calmed down more and she managed to take over the situation. On the other hand, Reya who had previously faced off against Aksa was now being held back by Lumine. And Aksa himself tried to hold back Lica.

" Damn it! Damnit damnit! Damnit damnit! Why are you always blocking my way..!!"

" Stop nagging, you know..?? That's annoying."

" It's because of you! It's because of that girl! It's because of Derrick!"

" Well, this woman is not sane.."

Remilia was convinced by that after hearing all her chatter there, she blamed others for no reason. It's all just because... Derrick rejected his feelings.

Remilia also found out about this a while ago, when she asked Derrick...

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That time, when they noticed Altair who was lying with Mira at the Guild training ground.

" Um... Anu, Derrick. I wonder, what is your relationship with that woman named Ninia??" at that time Remilia only asked, she had no hope that Derrick would answer her.

But Derrick who heard the question from him seemed to think about it, and then he said.

" I have nothing to do with him" he said with a still-loyal expression... " ...But a while ago she said she liked me." she continued.

Remilia was flabbergasted by that, "What?? So what did you tell him??" besides, he was curious.

" I refused it."

But upon hearing Derrick's so serious reply, Remilia's expectations were instantly shattered.

" What..? Why?"

" Hm... That sounds like a personal matter to me."

Remilia was speechless about it, Derrick was completely sure of what he was saying and he could not interfere in his personal affairs either. But he finally knew something...

" ha... Now I know why she behaved that way."

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Well, this all happened starting from the problems of the two of them. Ninia is heartbroken, and Derrick who doesn't understand romance then Altair who wants to have fun takes advantage of this situation.

" Well, there's no normal people around me."

Remilia did not know what to do in this situation right now, she could not even respond properly.

When Remilia saw something there, a ball rolled towards them. Something tells him it's dangerous...

" Oh no..!" Remilia now knows what it is, " ..Aksa, cover!!" and he immediately shouted at him.

" Huh??"

Pattcs...

But a ray of light came out faster than the ball, and a moment later....

Duarr...

A huge explosion occurred in their place, blasting the place and those inside.

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the center of the labyrinth.

Moments after the beam appeared and then disappeared without a trace, Altair re-opened his eyes and looked around to be sure. There were no traps, no test no conditions as well, as if this thing had been stored for him from the beginning. The altar there is also lost, there are only stone walls that are nothing.

Altair then turned his attention to the necklace that was now in his grasp. At first glance it looks like a necklace that his birth mother left to Altair.

" What is this?? I don't know why I seem to know, but I can't remember." muttered Altair while watching him closely.

There was nothing special about the necklace either, it just looked like a transparent crystal. What that thing might have...

Duarr...!!

Altair gasped in surprise with that, he immediately turned his head to look at the origin of the voice. It was really a huge sounding explosion.

" What are these people really doing??"

Altair was not even given time to think because of the worry with Remilia and Aksa, he immediately opened the portal to the place where the Lumine energy was located.

It didn't take long because the portal instantly opened to it, when Altair exited the portal, the first thing he found was Lumine lying helplessly on the ground with wounds on his body.

" Milk!." Altair hurriedly approached her and hugged her in her hand, "Lumine, I'm sorry. Now that's okay, go back and treat yourself." then Lumine starts fading and goes back inside.

It's not just Lumine who is like that. But Remilia, Aksa, even the Ninia team were the same. They were all helpless, probably because of the explosion. Remilia who is near Aksa right now might be trying to protect her.

And if all else were to come without exception, then this was not the work of Ninia. So who?

" ah! Forget it, they're more important."

Altair brushed it off for now, and immediately ran towards Remilia and Aksa. Hour...

Something was shot at him..

Altair heard that well, and immediately walked up to him. It's a bunch of needles that look like they're poisonous.

Psyuth.. Psyutth..

It wasn't just once, the shots happened many times. Although it was fortunate that Altair could avoid everything, even so, this was troublesome.

Altair couldn't avoid it forever, then he turned his attention towards the cliff wall, five meters away from her, there was someone hiding himself there.

" Don't just hide, come down and face me if you dare!!" Altair who realized that immediately jumped up and threw himself in the direction he meant.

Altair clenched his hands and hit the wall until it collapsed, at the same time, the mastermind of all this fell along with the stones. He landed on the ground with Altair.

Looking from his now-brightened appearance, Altair was able to see the person. He was a man about 30 years old, with a height of 83 cm and he gave off a bad scent.

" My nails..." The man laughed at him. " You're great because you found me" he told Altair later.

But the upset Altair just frowned at him, "Close your mouth, what is your purpose in doing this? You have nothing to do with it." Altair later said.

" Haha... I'm running errands from my clients, he told me to kill everyone who goes into the labyrinth. And it just so happened that I also needed a poison plant growing here, so I accepted."

" So you had something to do with the people who incited this stupid woman?"

" Hm, I don't know. What say?."

Altair did not answer that anymore, he just pulled out his sword and lunged towards the man.

Fighting again there, Altair attacked him again and again, but with normal speed Altair could not hit him. This person before him was quite nimble, and he used a lot of long-range weapons with a wide scope.

Altair couldn't let that happen because his friends were right behind him.

" Tsk. Just shut up for a second and let me hit you once!" Altair was annoyed by that.

" Haha... You lack focus."

" Silence.!"

Altair jumped up and raised his sword high, and when he swung it...

Srakkk..!!

The sword instantly cut through the ground and left a fairly long trail.

" You're not very good at swinging a sword" when the man then appears behind him.

Altair who knew it instantly twisted his body and swung the sword back, but what he cut there was empty air.

" What..??"

" You're still unconscious?"

The man kept talking to her, and Altair kept cutting her off. But none of the slashes worked.

" Look, right here.."

" Yeah..!"

That guy's too fast... No. gabe. Altair's eyesight was getting worse, his breathing was also panting. He had never been like this even after doing a long sparing, Altair knew something was wrong with him now.

" What's.. What's going on..."

Altair felt very tired, the thin sword in his hand even began to feel heavy. His eyes blurred, and his body trembled. It's getting weird, this is for sure...

" Is this poison..??"

" You're finally conscious, too." The man again appeared, this time right in front of him.

Altair looked at him sharply, as then he tried to raise his sword with great difficulty.

" hm.. You've got a strong determination, baby it's useless." the man said so, as he then lifted something in his hand, a thread. " ..Look what good things I got from one of the girls there" he said.

He then pulled it, at the same time...

Syutt's... Jamb...

" Ackk!!."

An arrow shot through the air and pierced through Altair's back. Altair felt a stabbing pain on his back, as he lost his balance and fell on the ground.

Bruck...

Altair could feel his blood seeping out, and something from the arrow felt as if it was burning him.

At the same time, the man approached and stopped right in front of him.

" It's also a poisoned arrow. Honey for killing you when you were young and had a lot of potential, but my client said kill everything. So if you're angry, don't be mad at me." he said, then walked past Altair.

" Bye-bye, little girl." and a moment later she disappeared from there.

While Altair was left there, just silent in his place.