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The young agents sent by the Shadow Alliance to assist the younger generation of the Leon Tribe were currently hiding the shadowy part of the battlefield. They were instructed not to interfere on the battle if their presence was unneeded.

This might be unnecessary but the Shadow Alliance sent three of their promising young agents to assist this battle. It was because their higher-ups were aware of how cunning the Dragon King of the Soaring Continent was.

But after watching from the sidelines for quite some time, these talented young agents started to feel a little disappointed.

"Tch! This is why I am against this from the very start? Is it really unnecessary for the four of us to be here? Don't tell me, we really need to gang up on a single woman?" said by one of the young agents who was lazily lying on a branch of a tree.

Below that tree stood a duo of young agents, a female and another male. The girl nodded her heads the moment they heard the guy above the tree. Meanwhile, the other guy who was standing in front of the girl, had no reaction to his words and just stood on his spot silently while watching the ongoing battle.

Seeing that, the other guy up on the tree branch clicked his tongue before saying. "Hey, Captain. Are we really just going to stand here? Can we just get over this already? That way, we can go back way early."

The guy who was addressed as captain still didn't respond to that question. But after a few more moments of observing the ongoing battle, he suddenly frowned his eyebrows before saying. "Kylie, go tell the boys to start moving."

"Oh! Are we going to join the fun now? If that is the case, then let me take over the fight against that girl from Springfield Family! I am quite curious to see if she is really strong as the rumors say," said the girl standing behind him.

But her captain immediately shattered her excitement. "The three of us are still not going to join the battle."

"Huh~?" The girl named Kylie suddenly became disappointed the moment she heard that. But she still didn't question her captain's decision.

But while she was feeling dejected, the captain guy suddenly added. "Don't be too hasty. Boss has his own reasons to send the three of us here instead of overseeing the party. And before we start making our moves, I just wanted to make sure of something."

Hearing that, the interest of the other two was suddenly piqued and immediately looked at their captain and waited for him to continue.

Feeling their gazes, the captain guy didn't satisfy their interest and just instructed. "Just tell the boys to start assisting the people of the Leon Tribe already."

Hearing that, the other two immediately became disappointed.

Kaylie was about to give the signal to start attacking when she suddenly realized something. "Wait! Just assisting the other members of the Leon Tribe and not helping that 'Junior Lion King' guy?"

"Just do as I said," replied the captain guy almost instantly.

Hearing that, Kylie felt even more dejected before raising her right hand in the air while making some signals with it. And when the other agents saw that, they immediately passed the others to other agents hiding in the distance before simultaneously making their moves.

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Meanwhile, Shiella just felt the movements coming from the darker side of the battlefield. She focused her senses to clearly feel their movements before raising her eyebrows a little.

Naturally, Alexander saw that and immediately smirked at her. "Heh! What now? Already feeling the pressure of losing your subordinates? They are all going to die in this place with you being too powerless to save them."

But that smug look that Alexander had was immediately wiped away from his face on the very next moment.

"Oi! You are starting to really annoy me right now," said Shiella while deflecting Alexander punches. And at the very same moment, the latter felt that time seemed to slow down a little while he was looking at Shiella's movements.

From Alexander's point of view, he saw Shiella moved her hands very slowly while they were leaving a couple of afterimages behind. But those slow movements successfully deflected the consecutive punches that he had thrown with both of his hands despite them moving with a very fast speed and having a powerful momentum.

Moreover, he also felt that his arms suddenly became heavy as he couldn't pull his arms back after throwing those punches – it was as if his entire body was suddenly frozen in place.

'What!?' Alexander was still too confused at what was happening when he saw Shiella leaned her body towards her left while pulling her right hand backwards.

Unconsciously, Alexander's eyes were suddenly attracted by Shiella's right hand as she suddenly stuck the middle joint of her thumb.

Then she quickly swung her right arm forward and hammered the pointed joint of her thumb at the lower part of Alexander's throat.

"Ugh!"

At the point of impact, Alexander felt that his entire body suddenly shivered as if he was hit by lighting. Alongside it, he also felt a strange energy that travelled through his meridians and created a huge mess on the flowing Internal Qi inside his body.

Bang!

And that was only when he was sent flying by Shiella strike.

Alexander collided against multiple trees before he was able to finally stop himself from flying backwards. And once he managed to do that, his entire body finally felt the drawbacks of Shiella's previous attack. He was forced to kneel on the ground while coughing some blood.

When he was still confused about what had happened, Shiella suddenly walked towards him slowly while saying. "Have you already forgotten why you are leveled right below our ranks?"

Then Alexander finally remembered something about Shiella. This monster right in front of him didn't become one of the 'Junior Monsters' of the Soaring Continent because of her bloodline.

Unlike him who suddenly rose in the ranks of 'Junior Monsters' because of his very powerful bloodline, Shiella got her rank because of her martial-art talent. It just most of the people forgot about that because she rarely fought after she started taking fancy of her family businesses.

Regardless, Alexander suddenly started laughing before slowly standing from the ground. And when he was back on his feet, he suddenly looked at Shiella with a smirking look while saying. "But it also seems that you too forgot why I got my title. If you wanted to defeat me, you need to kill me in one strike."

Hearing him, Shiella suddenly smirked and said. "Heh! It seems you really misunderstand something. Do you really think I can't do that? If not because of those annoying guys watching us from the dark, then you are already a dead person lying on the ground."

"Then, let's say it is one of the perks of having some powerful teammates," said Alexander shamelessly before releasing his Natural Force once again.

From the looks of it, he seemed to already recover from the injuries that he got earlier. What's more, the current Natural Force that his body was emitting seemed to be a league higher than the one he had at the start of the fight.

Then his lips suddenly curved into a huge grin while saying. "So what if you can analyze all of my weaknesses due to that 'Prudent Ace' talent of yours? Can you even overwhelm the 'Ever-growing Bloodline' that I have? As long as you can't kill me, I will continue to grow stronger."

After that, he paused for a moment to look at the other side of the battle field and saw that Shiella's subordinates were starting to lose because they were being besieged by his clan members and the agents of the Shadow Alliance.

He then turned his head back to Shiella while saying. "Looks like it is the end of the line for your subordinates."

But right after said those words, he suddenly discovered that Shiella was actually grinning widely at him and seemingly mocking him.

And while Alexander was still confused about the meaning of that look, Shiella suddenly said. "I already told you. You are misunderstanding everything here. On this operation, you are not the big fish that we are targeting. Instead, it is those guys who are actually helping you from the sidelines."

Then she paused for a moment and pointed her right thumb behind her while saying. "As for those guys? I don't actually have to worry about them."

Alongside it, Shiella suddenly grinned mysteriously as she added to her words. "It is because they had their own 'babysitter' in the first place."

BOOM!

And right after those words left her mouth, a raging flame suddenly enfolded the battlefield behind her and devoured everyone in that place.

But there was something strange with that flame – it was because that flame was only hurting all of the agents of the Shadow Alliance and the members of the Leon Tribe. On the other hand, the people from the military were seemingly being healed by that strange flame instead.

At the same time, Shiella suddenly looked at Alexander mockingly while saying. "Maybe I should kill you now that your friends force us to show our cards."

After that, her face suddenly became solemn while releasing an even more powerful Natural Force from her body. At the same time, she was saying with a tone that carried an immense killing intent. "And this time, I am being serious about killing you."

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