*Boom*

Melinda had just dodged a Cosmic attack that damaged the ground next to her.

Her eyes were burning gold and her Armament was a blur in her hand as she deflected all the pelting of cosmic attacks that were being tossed in her direction.

By her sides were Rita whose eyes were burning violet while wielding her Cosmic Armament and Karmen whose eyes were fiendishly red and had her Red Broadsword Cosmic Armament out to deflect cosmic attacks as well.

Attacks that came from the Six ladies facing them.

The ladies were the best of those from Pleasure inn;

Camilla, Irina, Navaeh, Kyla, Nina and Opal.

While Camilla and Irina had always been the strongest of the ladies, the other four were rising stars and had all advanced to the Cosmic Armament Realm and were now at the Mid-stage.

Camilla and Irina were at the Late stage.

As for their opponents;

Melinda was already at the Peak and ready to attempt advancing to the Cosmic Phenomenon Realm.

Rita only just advanced to the Peak stage of the Cosmic Armament Realm and was far from ready to attempt another advancement.

Karmen was the weakest of the three with her cultivation at the Mid-stage but it was no secret that the Blood Knights' whole cultivation pattern was for battle and no one ever underestimated her.

So far, both sides had kept to long-distance attacks only and they had the spectating of a few of the other ladies including Marla and Amelia who was now spending a lot of time at the Mansion.

The spar might have been meant to be good natured but the ladies could not help but feel the need and urge to knock Melinda off whatever pedestal Hal had placed her on.

It was not because of any vendetta against her, it was just jealousy.

Plain and simple.

Jealousy that it did not matter how much time Hal spent with them and how much pleasure he felt with them, Melinda was the one he always ended the day with.

She was his home.

Melinda smirked lightly as she could tell what it was they had on their mind but felt it would have the opposite effect to pacify them.

Instead, she might as well show them why she deserved that position and why she wished to keep it.

*Swoosh*

The sound was light but by the time they blinked, Melinda was already dashing towards them with her sword raised high.

Camilla's eyes widened and she leaped back but even then, Melinda caught her with a hard rap on her arm.

The other ladies managed to escape her path however, it was only to meet Rita and Karmen who were quite ready to make their presence felt.

Karmen especially was feeling quite good.

Ever since the war, she had been riding on a high and she did not wish it to end anytime soon.

*Swoosh* *Swoosh*

The sounds of blades slicing through the air were unanimous as Navaeh, Kyla and Nina had leaped back just in time to avoid the ladies' strikes while Opal had leaped upward right on time to strike down at the Two with lust flames.

Rita smirked and slashed her hand right through the Flames and put them out just as Opal landed and staggered many steps backward.

The ladies shared a quick look and seemed to come to an agreement quickly as they were soon engaging the two ladies.

Just like that, Karmen and Rita had to fend off two opponents each.

The close combat made Karmen's smile, if possible, even wider as she simply relished it.

"Haha. Now, this is how to fight. Not that sissy long-distance stuff" she yelled in joy as she parried Navaeh's blade and twisted to avoid Nina's while striking the lady with the flat side of her Broadsword.

*Bang!*

So heavy was the strike that it propelled Nina all the way to the other side of the courtyard.

She lifted her head and her brown hair formed a curtain in front of her face but she brushed it aside to look at the battle between Navaeh and Karmen.

Despite the welt that formed from the strike, Nina smiled.

She quite enjoyed the spar.

Besides, it beat fighting wars any day.

Not to mention that it took her mind away from how horny she was at the moment which was Hal's fault as he had not visited any of them in the last three days.

He had been spending all of his time with that Green eyed bitch (her words not mine).

Nina sighed and returned to her feet.

Ready to rejoin the fray.

Rita's attackers were quite adamant about infiltrating her body with lust flames.

It was probably their perfect idea for torture.

They probably expected that since Hal had not been with her in a while, the flames might finally break the dam of her sexual frustrations.

She had to say that she quite liked their attention to detail to even attempt to make use of that to tweak things in their favor but it did not change the fact that they were way out of their league.

She was stronger cultivation-wise and Bloodline-wise so this does was only still going on because she wanted it to go on and use it as an avenue to instruct them.

That said, it seemed it was right about time to end it.

That was enough for today.

Rita dispersed her Armament but before either of the two could attempt to take advantage, she was already rotating and blasting the both of them back with a mini-explosion of lust flames.

*Bam* *Bam*

The two landed on the courtyard ground and called out...

"I give up"

...in unison.

The battle between Melinda and the Camilla-Irina duo ended in an almost similar fashion, except that the two went as far as to join their lust flames and create a ball of the stuff.

The energy coming off of the flaming ball was more than enough to tick off her Bloodline and her eyes flashed and with it came a torrent of Light gold flames that canceled out the lust flames easily.

The explosion of it blasted both ladies back while Melinda remained as solid as a rock.

Once the explosion cleared up, Melinda walked to where they lay, looking delirious and chuckled,

"You're getting better. Keep it up and you could unseat me"

Karmen's battle ended as well but she was far from satisfied,

"Get up, you weak bunch. Do you really call that a fight?" She roared at the two who were gaping at her.

She had not pulled any of her punches and they were aching all over and yet she was still berating them with her words.

"Fine, I'll give you ten free strikes. Come on" she urged.

The truth was that they were quite sure they could defeat her with those free ten strikes and Karmen must have known that as well, but yet she still wished to give those free strikes just to lengthen the spar.

This was a classic case of having too much energy and not having anywhere to spend it.

Nina and Navaeh looked at each other and agreed,

"She needs to get laid."

Karmen sighed as she heard them mention her sore spot.

At that time Marla and Amelia were already walking up to Melinda and Rita who stood close together,

"So are we going to put that bitch in her place or what? She's hogging Hal's attention"

Melinda was about to speak when...

*Bang!*

...a loud explosive sound came from inside the Mansion.

Melinda sighed,

"Speak of the Devil..."