While I was going to raise my eyes and take a good look at the source where the light came from, Mila shouted at me from behind,

"Ryuu, don't look into her eyes! if you look, your whole body will turn into stone!"

So when her bright eyes approached me swiftly approached me, I turned my head, and as Mila said, I tried to protect myself.

However, I unwittingly left my body vulnerable and was punched in the stomach along with turning my head. I had let her easily creep up on me and hit me hard, preventing me from seeing and cutting my connection from the ground.

And because of me not stopping stop her, I found myself in a column on the wall.

She had hit me so hard, that I smashed the entire column with my back in one go. Creating an irreversible pain in my back and making me hit my body widely on the column. While afterward flying inside of the column, I fell to the ground and she attacked me one more time without giving me time anytime to recover.

Because I saw her lift her left foot and noticed it early on, I could have predicted how the attack would end this time without looking at her head.

She had swung her leg heavily and was going to kick me from top to bottom. And I could also feel the air moving in the opposite direction of her body as she did that. So I looked to my right side, pressed my hands to the ground as we floated in the air, and ran off with a somersault to my right side. Meanwhile, I rose up and prepared to fight again. But I remembered at the last moment that I still couldn't look at her face. So I had to close my eyes even though I didn't want to and stayed there, leaving only my remaining senses.

I decided to use them and feel her presence.

I didn't know how I could do this against a strong person like her. However, this was exactly the same training that Ronk taught me to do before. So I tried to remember it and prepared myself accordingly.

I was so focused on fighting her, that I got very surprised after I heard a vibration sound near me.

It was Mila. Her voice sounded like a shock wave. It was very quiet, but high-pitched.

It was quite different, and it was like the power she had used her power before. Just in a sad tone and full of despair. She was quietly filling the interior of the room, while I looked at her from the corner of my eye, and the epic, who intended to destroy me, had not noticed this.

I was also completely distracted by her voice, but once again the epic drew my attention to herself, by making an attack that I didn't expect.

So leaving that aside, I continued focusing on my fight.

Seconds later, I felt something approaching from my right side towards my head, and when I heard the sound of footsteps, I turned my head to the right. But she had used this sound as a trap and kicked me hard from the left. My back had absorbed most of the pain of the blow because it hit me right under the neck, and I was still standing. But then she tried to punch me again, and this time she started talking to me, along with the fact that I responded and held her fist,

"You're strong. But since you aren't like him, you are nothing comparable!"

At that moment, after giving me a hard kick in the stomach, she pulled back and kicked me all the way to the head, starting with my ankle. And then when I tried to back off, she pulled my hair out and hit me in the face with a knee. I could feel all the blows she threw very intensely and could tell which part of her body she was attacking with. But it was getting more and more difficult for me to get away from it, and I couldn't focus on listening, while getting angry because of the damage I had received.

I was getting punched and kicked. There was blood coming out of my mouth nonstop and even when I shook a fist to get rid of it, she grabbed my fist and threw me against the wall by turning me over. Without letting go of my hand, she pressed my head with his other hand and drove my head against the walls.

I was causing a heavy change in the floor in front of me and it was like my head was officially inside the wall. And until we got to the other column, she kept driving my head against the wall and it was irritating both my skin and the harsh environment we were in. Until I broke part of the other column in my head, I just got controlled by her and got beaten up pretty badly.

She knocked me out half because I had an excessive wound, but then she decided to pull me to herself and swung another punch at my stomach. She then threw me towards the section where Mila was, and stood there.

I was covered in blood. My skin was extremely irritated under my jaw and I had taken damage until my bones were slightly cracked. I was so badly beaten up, even though I was out of her grip and was aware of my surrounding, I was able to feel the pain deeply but slowly hitting and my body shaking slowly but stronger over time.

She was very fast and very strong. It was impossible for me to beat her with my eyes closed.

All my thoughts and plans that I had set up for her were disappearing from my mind one by one as they became to appear on my way. So I was lying face down on the floor and I was trying to get up. But my hands and my whole body were shaking involuntarily.

And I didn't know why, but even though I had lost a lot of blood, the claw of brutality wasn't activating my strength.

It was like a time like Ronk told me. But it was nothing near to be happening at that moment and my normal body strength was even fading away.

I had suffered many wounds in such a short period of time, and this epic was unlike any enemy I had encountered before. It was the first time I had ever felt so close to death, and just closing my eyes was the closest and painless option available to me at the time.

I heard Mila get nervous and shout my name, but I wasn't able to look at her. I just close my eyes and lied there, and thought about something. Until it hit my head.

No.

I wasn't going to give up there.

I still couldn't give up.

Because I wasn't dead yet.

I heard Mila shout at me as I tried to get up,

"Ryuu! Stand up! She's gonna take your life! Get away from there!"

The Epic stopped for an second, and done something that would make her laugh.

At that moment, something must came to her mind, she again began approaching me with slow steps, and laughed slightly. It was as if an idea had occurred in her mind, and continued to look over my body as she did.

She was enjoying the situation as if she had come up with a worse and more diabolical plan at the last moment, and even slowed down her steps even more, just to enjoy the moment and see our suffering.

She began to sneak closer. Slowly, while making a lot of noises that I could sense and hear.

Even though I couldn't see, I could feel her coming towards me and getting ready to do something to me. And all of a sudden, she grabbed me by the hair and pointed my head towards Mila, while making me open my eyes slightly and see a vision of her.

She was grippling my hair strongly, laughing all the way until she enjoyed it and pulled harder as she began to speak.

"Aren't you going to cry in front of this boy who came to save you, Princess? After all, he's suffered a lot because of you, and he's in a very difficult situation right now. You don't want this to keep happening, do you?"

I was trying to speak and warn Mila. But my chin was was so badly hurt, it hurt so bad everytime I opened my mouth.

It was only a couple of words coming out of my mouth,

"Mi-la.... Don't...."

Then the Epic saw me like that and used that as an advantage too,

"Oh, don't you see? He became upset because of you. And he is also suffering."

She then looked at her and added,

"Come on now. You can only finish this with that one thing."

But Mila didn't talk. She just gazed at her furiously and didn't even thought about opening her mouth. She was determined and stubborn at the same time, just to help me stop her from getting the tears.

But it was effortless.

Seeing her do such a thing, The Epic finally got angry and talked harsher,

"Well. Then we can let go of this and see what happens. Can't we?"

Epic then started punching me on the floor. Punching me in the face and punching me until my eyes and mouth swelled up. She was very angry, but having fun at the same time. Maybe she wasn't able to get it from her the first time, but now she had to chance to see us suffer. And I was pretty sure she was going to punch harder until she got a result.

And even when I was getting beat up, it made me so nervous that I couldn't open my eyes, I couldn't think about what to do, and couldn't see anything. But the punches were coming down on my head like concrete and opened them once and then.

She kept punching me again and again. Until, we both heard the princess scream,

"Okay! I will give you what you want! Please stop!"

The Epic let go of my face, and got up. Leaving me relieved that I wasn't going to get punched the second after.

But what I saw was worse.

Because letting me go, she was going after, the princess.