Voyage Of The Villainess

Lanzelot glanced down at the cloaked people who all belong to the cult. Then his gaze shifted towards Charrio who was standing beside the crown prince… 'Charrio, so this is what you become now.'

Charrio also bore his gaze to him. 'Lanzelot.'

Lanzelot raised his right hand in the air. "Begin," he struck down his hand and thousands of black knights appeared in the sky. Multiple spears emerged from their hands and started throwing them towards the group of Oliver below.

"I will not easily let you overtake us." The witch raised both her hands, and a massive dark lifa emerged. A huge dark barrier started to cover Oliver and the rest of his group.

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"No wonder, you easily stopped my revolution back then," Iris muttered beside Malaya. "You know too well how to manipulate the stronger and scary people against each other. And the enemy is always at a huge disadvantage. Now, I'm really curious, just what kind of life you live in your past life to be like this."

{'Carolle, I'm afraid. I thought they are going to take care of us.''} A distant memory from her past life emerged from Malaya's mind. 

"I live a pretty normal and boring life," Malaya responded with a smile in response to Iris' remark. "I only need to do what I need to do." They continued to watch the unfolding scene in front of them. And at the same time, Oliver's gaze was just fixed to her as well. 

'Those calm gazes, how frightening.' Malaya smirked as she held her left wrist that was still throbbing with pain.'I wonder how you will handle everything next.' 

*Bam!*

*Bam! Bam!*

All the spears that rained down were deflected by the barrier that was created by the witch. 

'No matter how strong you are, if you are just working alone, you'll never be able to win. Unless you are really incredibly strong.' Malaya brought a talisman out of her bag.

"Get the young lord out of here!" The witch screamed. 

"Get out?" Callan glanced around to see that they were completely surrounded now. If that barrier broke out, their complete annihilation would be just a matter of time. There was only one person that could bring Oliver out of this mess.

"Milord, I will lead you to safety." Charrio shadows started to envelop him and towards Oliver. But before his shadows could get near Oliver.

"Milord!" Charrio pushed Oliver away. And a small explosion occurred at the place they were standing a while ago.

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Callan glanced up towards a certain woman with fluttering dark ocean blue hair. And confident light aquamarine eyes that completely looked down on them.

'So this is the kind of new friend, you found Nesha.' A bitter smile escaped Callan's face.

Malaya brought out another talisman for the explosion. When she saw a small crack already on the barrier created by the spear, she used the chance to shoot a rapid explosion talisman, to widen the crack. 'You will not leave these places easily. Oliver, I will bring you down here, This is the only chance I could get.

The witch gritted her teeth as she tried to revert back the barrier. 

'For the first time, I saw an expression of frustration out of you. I'm sure if Kayden also sees this…' Malaya's eyes widened with her sudden thoughts. 'Seriously…'

"Let's end all of this now," Malaya said, which made both Iris and even Elred who was behind her now, look at her. 

"End? I thought there are other acts in your plan?" Iris said, a bit surprised.

"It's pretty obvious Iris, thanks to your two main leads,  we manage to have time to acquire a wild card on our side, now."

"True." Iris smiled helplessly. A sudden memory flashed to her mind, back at the revolution she thought, she would already win. But the eight tribes got her and Baru died. Before she lost her consciousness, she caught sight of someone. There was someone who was just watching her defeat at that time. At the corner of some alley in front of her, before she lost consciousness, Iris now knew. 'So this is how I look like back then when the eight tribes got me. No, when I fell to a certain villainess scheme.'

Iris glanced down at the Genelthus cult and the witch who was now near her limit. The witch was supposed to be a powerhouse on Oliver's side. It was just a matter of time before they got completely defeated. 'At this rate, I felt like we are on the villain's side, with this one-sidedly battle.'

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*Crack!*

*Crack! *Crack!*

Like snow that fell from the sky, with the last batch of the black knight's spears, the witch's barrier crumbled into something like a shard of glass.

A spear hit the witch's thigh. "Ahhh!!!" Her ear-piercing scream echoed through the chaotic place. It was like the signal of the first scream of victory at Malaya's side.

"My Queen!!!" Charrio dashed to aid the witch.

Malaya narrowed her eyes. The first time this witch appear in front of her eyes, it was the time she and those people closed to her was got killed. She felt very pathetic back then for being able to do nothing when all of her friends got killed. But now, seeing the witch-like this...

"It's over," Iris said. "I don't even know what we are even doing here," she laughed wryly.

'Yes, It's over.' Malaya glanced down towards Oliver who never made a single move nor speak anything since they arrived. 

Oliver after looking at the witch's condition glanced up towards Malaya. For the first time, since they arrived here, Oliver gave her a smile, a cold and sinister one.

Malaya's left wrist throbbed with pain. A sudden burst of bad feeling rose inside her. 'What? Why are you still smiling even when you are being cornered like this?' 

That's when Malaya realized that there was someone missing in Oliver's people. But it was too late to react when a sudden burst of dark lifa was released.

Lanzelot who was going to command his people to kill everyone aside from Oliver became extremely wary.

"Milord," the witch's body limped down as her head rolled down. Her eyes trailed towards Oliver, who was walking towards her. It was as if everything around her stopped moving and the only thing she could hear was Oliver's footsteps.

"You have done enough, former Queen of Zolas, Leasandra Gladeliz."

Oliver knelt down in front of her, with one knee bent. "I will carry your revenge to the Empire of Hacien as the New Demon Lord."

The witch smiled one last time before her whole body became dust. Behind her was Theo. He was the one who decapitated the witch's head.

'I thought that explosion got him.' Malaya then realized when seeing their location; Oliver, the witch who died just now, and the other cultists. They were all standing in the magic circle that should be supposed to be used for sacrifice.

The sacrificial magic circle started to gleam with bright red light. More energy of dark lifa was emerging out from it and now going towards Oliver. The remaining cultists ran towards the magic circle and kneeled down in front of Oliver.

"For the revival of the demon king!!!" They all chanted as they started burning away. All of their lifa were also going towards Oliver.

"Oi, oi, oi, that doesn't look any good," Iris exclaimed.

"Stop them!!!" Lanzelot commanded with a booming and authoritative voice.

However, before they could get near to Oliver, a burst of strong wind surrounded them deflecting anyone who would try to get near them. Callan created a wind barrier. "I will protect you, Milord!"

"These people have gone crazy. To think that they will sacrifice themselves to awaken the demon king's power. Malaya, what should we do…" Iris' eyes widened with fright when she saw Malaya on the ground, holding her wrists.

She was writhing in pain. There were visible sweats dripping in her head.

"Malaya!" Iris said in a panic. "What's happening to you?" She tried to shake her off, but she was not answering.

"She said before that she sealed Oliver's power. But we never got to ask what method she used." Elred arrived at their location.

Malaya raised her head. A pained and wry smile emerged on her lips. "Hah. The-the seal will be broken soon. I-I apologize, Iris, I'm the one who lacks the most resolve than all of us.  In the end, I thought I can save him. I can save Hyun Jae from the pain of having someone betray her and fix all of this…"

"Malaya, why are talking like you are going to die?" Iris' eyes were now conflicted with fear.

"You ask what was my past life, like? it was almost close to hell as well." On the left wrist of Malaya, aside from the silver bracelet, she was wearing, another red bracelet appeared. Its design had the body of a red headless dragon. 

Elred felt something was wrong, out of his instinct, he dragged Iris away from Malaya.

At the exact moment, waves of red flames emerged from the red bracelet and it surrounded completely Malaya.

'In the Fate of the Stars, in that one piece of paper that Iris wrote, Malaya died.' 

These came to Iris' mind. 'No this-this can't be..' The fear she long dreaded to happen. "Malaya!!!"