Lia took a deep breath and looked at the elf queen with squinted eyes. She continued to think of the ways she could use to defend herself while attacking at the same time. Her lips pressed into a thin line, but before she could do anything, the elf queen opened her mouth and started chanting a spell. Then, the thunderous power surrounding her sword intensified as she rushed toward Lia.

A trace of anxiety flashed in the dhampir princess's eyes. It seemed like Odina still had enough energy to deal with her! Just how did she become a monster like this?

All of a sudden, an idea flashed in her mind that relaxed her shoulders reflexively. She shook her sword as determination shone in her eyes. Now she would see how Odina would handle the situation.

From Zion's side, all he could see was how the dhampir princess was panicking while facing Odina like this. It almost seemed as if the elf queen had caught her off guard. His eyes narrowed at the scene.

Then he saw the dhampir princess using several hand-signs and formed another set of protective layers around herself before she stood in a defending stance. Then she used another set of hand signs that made the sword shine brightly. After that, energy balls emerged from the sword just like before, but this time, their number was more than normal.

It almost seemed like Lia was giving her all in his attack. Even the size of the energy balls was bigger than usual.

Zion's eyes squinted at that. Just what was his master thinking? She should have known from experience that the elf queen knew how to control the flow of time, so she shouldn't have used the same method as before. Then why was she still bent on attacking Odina like this with similar spells? Although he felt like the attack Lia had used earlier with knives made out of water was more powerful as compared to the energy balls, it was still the same. He knew that the elf queen would use the same method of slowing down time.

But she didn't. Instead, she kept on dodging attacks as much as possible.

Then he observed the elf queen dodging many attacks, and when she couldn't, she used the same attack as Zion had expected.

After seeing that, he immediately understood what the dhampir princess wanted to do. She aspired to exhaust the elf queen.

But wouldn't the dhampir princess become tired all over again? His lips pursed at that as he continued watching the scene in front of him.

The scene before him repeated the same thing again and again until Odina's forehead was covered with sweat.

Just as Zion thought Odina would end up facing a desperate situation, she took a step back, closed her eyes, and when she opened them, she was calm as before. Then she used the time flow spell the second time while gritted her teeth. It seemed like the elf queen wasn't cornered and forced into using the spell to slow down the time. Then did it mean this particular spell used up a lot of energy?

If yes, then what the dhampir princess was doing was already effective.

But why did Odina seem so calm?

Zion's eyes narrowed at her beautiful face, but he wasn't attracted this time around. It wasn't that the spell didn't work, but his mind developed a defensive mechanism automatically that helped him cope with that emotion in a desperate situation. He shook his head and continued watching the elf queen.

For some reason, her calm aura sent chills down his spine. If possible, he would want to stay as far away from this queen as possible. It wasn't that she had adopted the way Lia was thinking, but he had a bad feeling in his heart. For some reason, he strongly felt as if something bad was going to happen in a few minutes, and he couldn't shake off this emotion.

His lips pursed as he glanced at Lia, who was glaring at the elf queen.

How was this fight going to end? Zion didn't know that yet, but he intended to wait for Lia and find out, so he scooted to the darkest corner of the garbage box, and stared at the fight that was happening ahead of him.

At this time, Lia and Odina had exchanged dozens of blows, and the former used the energy balls on the elf queen multiple times to stop the elf queen from using the spell to slow down the time, but just as she felt that she had finally overpowered the elf queen, the girl stopped after dodging another set of energy balls and stared coldly at Lia for a while before chanting another spell under her breath.

It seemed that the spell wasn't very long this time, so Odina finished it quickly as her eyes shone brighter than the sun. Just as Lia blinked, and her vision cleared, the surroundings around her started to brighten up, as if someone had switched on the light. Every living being standing in the alley started emitting light as if they were bulbs, and soon, she stopped seeing anything that was around her.

Lia cursed the elf queen under her breath. This damned evil queen knew too many spells!

But she didn't get anxious. She knew how to fight even without a vision. She could kill anyone with her eyes closed! She quickly shut her eyes and focused all her energy on listening. Her aura increased her sense of hearing as she quickly started to hear even the smallest sounds as clearly as day.

By this time, she could even hear the sound of a leaf falling on the ground because a gust of wind blew across the tree and broke it off from the branch. Then, her focus went toward a certain queen who was standing in front of her. Although Lia couldn't see anything, she could hear everything well.

So, after this, she used several hand-signs and continued to create multiple energy balls. The unique thing about this attack was that it didn't take up much of her power, and at the same time, she was able to exhaust the opponent beyond their endurance!

But just as she thought she would succeed this time around in an attempt to make Odina tired enough, she felt a cold, sharp thing against her neck in such a way that made it seem as if the person holding the sword was standing right behind her!

Lia's body froze as a trace of panic appeared in her mind.

What just happened? Wasn't Odina in front of her just now? How did that elf queen end up appearing right behind her while putting the sword around her neck?!