Evolution of the Ruined Heir - Chapter 272: Excitement

Chapter 272: Excitement
Seraza Von Sanguine. The fifth vein of the Sanguine clan.
He allowed himself to recall all he knew about her. She was Beatrix Von Sanguine’s only daughter. It was well known that Seraza was considered even crazier than her mother.
A battle maniac, one who often challenged those stronger than her and wouldn’t stop until her opponents were bloodied and broken. She was feared by many for both her insane mind and her combat ability.
Malakai’s demeanor turned serious as he clenched his scythe tightly. Her past didn’t matter now. What mattered was the present. What he had felt.
‘Seven nodes.’
Seraza was sixteen, turning seventeen soon, and she had already completed all seven nodes. She was in the process of breaking into the synergy stage.
A grin formed on Seraza’s face as she stared at Malakai. She was nearly as tall as him, both slender but brimming with explosive power. Her crimson eyes gleamed with amusement.
“You know…” she said, stepping forward, “I’ve always considered you a useless thing. Not worth anything. Who would’ve imagined you’d turn out like this? Damn, was I wrong…”
She shook her head, still grinning.
“I was sent here to kill you by my mother.”
Malakai’s eyes narrowed. Seraza had said it so casually, like she was talking about the weather. But he realized why.
“Don’t worry, I’m not stupid or anything.” Seraza took another step forward. “I’m telling you because I’m going to kill you, cousin.” Her tone was still light, the grin still stretched across her face.
“I came here thinking how unworthy you were of dying in my hands. But now, you’ve proven me wrong. You’re worthy. Now, I’ll kill you.”
Malakai sank deeper into his stance, his expression tightening as Seraza swept her broadsword to the side. Her eyes glinted.
She was about to blast forward when the sound of multiple footsteps echoed across the area.
Seraza frowned as the other members of her group arrived.
Each one donned in black cloaks and masks, fanning out across the ruined forest and surrounding them. Their eyes gleamed through the slits in their masks, locked onto Malakai with pure bloodlust.
They looked ready to attack, until Seraza’s cold voice rang out.
“No one should interfere.” Her gaze swept over them, cold and unforgiving.
The grin had vanished from her face, and killing intent poured from her like a flood, drenching the space in violence. She looked ready to cut them down herself if they so much as moved.
The assassins froze. The moment her killing intent washed over them, they each nodded in silence. None of them had any intention of standing in her way. Her madness was well known by all.
Seraza’s smile returned, and she turned back toward Malakai, excitement bubbling in her chest, only for her eyes to narrow into pinpricks.
Malakai had moved. But not toward her.
He shot to the side, closing the distance on one of the assassins. His scythe blade came down like judgment.
The man’s eyes widened in shock at the sudden attack. He reacted instinctively, bringing his weapon up to block, only for his heart to nearly explode as the pulsing blade tore straight through it.
His body was cleaved into two before he even understood what had happened.
The expressions of the other assassins changed violently as the reality sank in. Their hands shot for their weapons, auras flaring.
But Malakai vanished again before the corpse even hit the ground, reappearing in front of another.
He was about to strike when his spine tingled.
Without hesitation, he dove to the side, just in time to evade the massive broadsword that tore through the space he’d just occupied.
The assassin he had been targeting wasn’t so lucky.
Seraza’s broadsword cleaved clean through him, cutting him in half.
As Malakai landed and regained his footing, he turned, only to find Seraza staring at him with a gaze soaked in bloodlust.
“The battle is between the two of us!” she shouted, glaring at him like he’d personally offended her.
But Malakai wasn’t paying her any mind.
His gaze remained fixed on the body of the man he’d just killed. A chill surged through him, and he braced himself.
The next moment, a pillar of darkness exploded from the corpse, shooting into the sky.
The expressions of the remaining assassins darkened instantly.
A grade two darkness creature was about to be born.
Seraza clicked her tongue, turning to the forming creature, clearly irritated that her fight was about to be interrupted yet again.
But before anyone else could move, Malakai did.
Seraza’s eyes sharpened as she watched him ignore her again, his figure charging toward the forming darkness creature.
Her fury ignited, and she blasted after him. But she couldn’t catch him in time.
The creature finished forming just as he reached it.
Its eyes scanned the space, narrowing as it prepared to summon its minions, but a shadow fell over it.
Malakai’s scythe blade cleaved through its neck before it could even comprehend what was happening.
Its head dropped cleanly from its body in the next moment.
For a brief second, no one understood what was going on. They’d assumed Malakai was using the darkness creatures to sow chaos and buy time.
But… he killed it?
It was Seraza who first realized the truth. And when she did, her excitement surged to new heights.
He had killed the man to birth a darkness creature, only to immediately kill it for the vita.
Her eyes gleamed as she saw the wounds on his wrist begin to close, healed by the surge of vita drawn from the grade two’s death.
But Malakai didn’t stop.
He blasted off in a random direction, rolling across the dirt before picking up a black staff lying on the ground.
He dropped into a stance, now holding two identical scythes, both humming with lethal intent.
And in that moment, as Malakai’s cold eyes swept over the group, Seraza could have sworn she felt her heart skip a beat.
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