Chapter 160: It Really Matters

Chapter 160: It Really Matters

The missed light points did not stop. At the moment they missed, they all exploded, creating a mist-like burst that completely enveloped Dan Marina. Dan Marina, who had always worn an easy smile, finally showed a serious expression. She gave Loris an irritated glance, slightly opening her mouth as if to say something. The light points that had turned into mist gathered together completely in that instant.

Zheng Yichen heard a kind of teeth-grinding, crushing sound. Uh, did she die just like that? Zheng Yichen thought anxiously. This woman seemed quite troublesome. Would it be too fake if she were taken out so easily?

The dark red mist that had gathered and blocked his view faded away completely after unleashing its maximum power, revealing the shadowy figure inside. The rather ornate robe Dan Marina had been wearing was now torn into strips of cloth. If it weren’t for some tough threads still holding it together, the robe would have probably fallen apart into pieces on the ground.

This woman… Was she just wearing a robe over a set of underwear? How bold of her!

“Had enough?” A somewhat disheveled Dan Marina stared indignantly at Loris, who looked back coldly. “I really liked this robe!”

Zheng Yichen scratched his head to the side. Liked it? Hmm, it wasn’t just about beauty. That robe could still leave some shreds of cloth after an attack that made Zheng Yichen feel the space tremble slightly. Its quality was probably comparable to orange-tier equipment in a game, right?

At any rate, he felt that if he had faced that attack just now, he would have definitely been crushed. Even with his hand-grabbing ability, it would have been useless. The external force was too strong, and his grabbing speed was too slow.

“Not enough!” Loris said, taking off the black long gloves she wore on both hands. The surrounding ground immediately took on a layer of decayed, withered color. The plants on the ground withered instantly, and the soil hardened, turning severely sandy. The sandy area quickly expanded. Seeing this, Dan Marina shamelessly turned and ran behind Zheng Yichen!

“Hey, hey, hey! You’re a Witch! How can you chicken out?”

“There are differences among Witches. I’m not especially good at fighting,” Dan Marina said bluntly. “It’s troublesome to face an unreasonable opponent of the same level. I don’t have much fighting power right now.”

She wasn’t lying. The backlashing Power of Fate greatly affected her ability to perform. Dodging the first form of the dark red light points’ attack was still easy, but she couldn’t avoid the second form of covering strike. After all, her abilities weren’t of the flashy magic combat type. At her peak, dodging wouldn’t have been hard, but now… she could only take it head-on.

“So that means it’s a good chance to finish you off?”

“Heh! No one wants to finish me off, including her.” Dan Marina smiled with her lips pressed together, lightly tilting her chin to look at Loris. “At most, she’ll break my limbs and banish me somewhere, right?”

Hiding behind Zheng Yichen, Dan Marina shouted from a distance at Loris. Zheng Yichen opened his mouth in surprise. This woman seemed really asking for a beating… No, no, it should be said she was in an especially good mood right now, so her words came out a bit too excited.

Dan Marina’s shout made Loris’s face grow even colder. Zheng Yichen looked around. Huh? Did it get dark?

“Uh, wait!” Realizing she was being a bit too reckless, Dan Marina didn’t bother hiding behind Zheng Yichen anymore and quickly stepped forward. “I didn’t come here to pick a fight this time. Even if you’ve regained your power using the preparations from before, you’re not in great shape right now either, right? How about we sit down and have a proper talk? No one will disturb us for a while.”

Disturb? Not to mention that Archbishop and Saintess she tricked and trapped inside the Lockdown Zone, the Sanctuary Church headquarters was probably busy to the point of headache over the Contract dissolution right now. Did they really have extra strength to spare to look for them?

Her attitude toward that was just a scoff!

Mentioning that Contract made her angry. Back then, if she hadn’t been too young and reckless, she wouldn’t have ended up making something like that. To strengthen the binding control over her, having her skin stripped off to serve as the Contract base material was literally the worst nightmare of her life.

If she hadn’t wanted to avoid complications to increase the success rate of her plan, she really would have loved to give the Sanctuary Church a good hit when carrying out her plan—best if she could get rid of a few of the Sanctuary Church’s old-timers…

“We have nothing to talk about,” Loris said coldly.

“Don’t say that. We really have quite a bit to discuss. You know, right? I signed a Contract with Little Dragon~”

“…” I don’t know. Loris looked at Zheng Yichen without speaking, but her eyes conveyed exactly that meaning.

“Ahem, you left in too much of a hurry back then, so I didn’t have time to tell you.”

“The contents!”

Seeing the deeper darkness manifesting around Loris, Dan Marina completely stopped her antics and recited the contents of the Contract word for word. Zheng Yichen knew little of the inside story and didn’t understand the real meaning of the Contract back then. However, Loris knew some inside stories between Dan Marina and the Sanctuary Church. After hearing the contents of the Contract, she immediately understood some of Dan Marina’s schemes.

If she hadn’t encountered the loss of control over her power, even if Dan Marina found Zheng Yichen, she couldn’t have accomplished this. Even if she could have done it… under Loris’s attention, unless Dan Marina almost bankrupted herself, she wouldn’t have gotten past Loris. However, there weren’t so many what-ifs. Loris wasn’t there at that time, and no one told Zheng Yichen all these inside stories.

Using another, more powerful Contract to override the constraints and penalties of the original Contract—only Dan Marina could pull off something like that. Even if she herself tried, it would have been impossible!

“Whoa, just a gesture of goodwill can really persuade someone?” Zheng Yichen said with slight surprise, watching the darkness around Loris disperse. The ragged-clothed woman shot him a look.

“A gesture of goodwill? To put it more seriously, I almost tied myself to you!” She was free from the Sanctuary Church’s constraints and completely regained her freedom, but this goodwill she offered would develop over time. “How about in the future a Bard writes a love story about a Dragon and a Witch?”

“Get lost!” Zheng Yichen didn’t speak; Loris was the first to coldly spit out the word.

Chuckling softly, Dan Marina didn’t mind Loris’s cold words. The matter was cleared up. Anything else to discuss could be done later. Right now? It was time to properly enjoy not having a Contract threatening her at every moment. As for Zheng Yichen’s part, that was purely the Contract’s penalty, not really a constraint. Having goodwill toward a being was far better than being forced to serve an organization and earning hatred.

“Don’t be so cold. We’re going to be together for a long time from now on.” Taking out another robe and draping it over herself, Dan Marina said with a smile, “Next, I think we should discuss Little Dragon’s problem~”