"We are so little," Gaya's voice echoed through the cave. The soldier who went to check on her came flying. He left a trail of blood on his way. Davarius saw blood splatter on the muddle walls and the iron bars. The soldier didn't even scream. He looked closer at the body to see a hole in his chest. Following the soldier's body, something else came flying. The youngster reacted, quickly catching the object. But when he saw the thing in his heart, his face lost its color. A bloody heartbeat in his hand. It took the heart a minute to finally stop beating.

"She is going to kill you all, and it won't be pretty," Davarius laughed. The soldiers around the young man panicked. Her shadow grew closer and closer to them. The youngster lost interest in the old man. He threw him away.

"How did she get in here?" the soldiers mumbled.

"Who is she?" asked another soldier.

They prepared themselves for a fight. Finally, Davarius saw Aelia stepping out of the darkness into the light. Blood trickled down from her fist. She crackled her neck.

"Nice place for a prison," Gaya said, looking around.

"Go kill her," the young man pushed a soldier in her direction. The poor soldier panicked. Still, he obeyed his order. None of them could tell how strong she was. However, Gaya soon answered their question by grabbing the soldier by his neck and snapping it without breaking a sweat.

She tossed the soldier's body aside like trash. Seeing her kill the soldier so effortlessly, the soldier freaked out. Although they had numbers, none thought they could take on the girl.

"Who the fuck are you?" Gaya asked the youngster.

She slowly stepped toward him through the muddy floor. But when she was just a couple of meters away from the young man, a cage dropped from above out of nowhere, enclosing her within. Davarius's bright grin froze on his face. Even Gaya was surprised. The iron bars glowed as countless intricate runes radiated faint red light.

"Gotcha bitch," The young man exclaimed. The soldiers around him were bewildered. Gaya stood within the cage without moving an inch. She tried to grab the bar, but the moment she touched the glowing bars, they burned her hands. The golden-haired young man stepped forward with a bright smile. He walked around the cage for a few moments. He enjoyed seeing Gaya trapped within the cage. Gaya looked above at the ceiling to see several runes glistening. Bright beams of light shot from each rune, forming the cage around her. For some reason, she quickly thought of Edith when she saw the runes.

A bolt of energy shot her in the chest when she tried to cast a spell.

"Don't bother," the young man said. He was extremely proud of his achievement here. His glimmered with arrogance and pride. Despite his Core Strengthening stage cultivation, he was able to trap a Fusion stage cultivator. He couldn't wait to show this gift to his uncle.

Seeing Gaya trapped in the cage, Davarius was speechless. The light of hope in his heart slowly faded away.

"You didn't expect this, did you?" asked the young man.

"We were expecting you. But thank you for bringing us the prince. He's a cherry on top of a delicious cake like you," the youngster licked his lips.

"Why are you being silent? I won't hurt you, atleast not yet. After the shit you pulled in the Golden Port, could you blame us for wanting to rip you to shreds?" The young man said while walking around the cage. Gaya remained calm despite her situation.

"Who are you bastard?!" Davarius shouted. He thought distracting the young man might give Aelia a chance to break out of the cage. Instead, the young man signaled his lackey, wordlessly telling him to shut Davarius up. The young man was no longer interested in Davarius. He caught a bigger fish.

"Are you wondering the same?" asked the young man.

"I don't give a fuck who you are. You're gonna die anyways,"

After seeing Gaya getting trapped inside the cage, the soldiers gained courage and valor. They all had a smirk on their faces. Davarius saw a soldier walking toward him, cracking his knuckles. The moment the soldier arrived in front of Davarius, the soldier punched Davarius in the face.

"You punch like a little girl," Davarius spat the blood out.

The soldier punched Davarius again with more force behind his fist.

"The woman in my kingdom punches harder than you," Davarius ridiculed the soldier. The soldier trembled in a fury. He started to punch Davarius left and right without giving him time to say a word. Blood and saliva spattered out of Davarius's face. The soldier did not stop until Davarius's face almost doubled up in size. His face was swollen and became unrecognizable. The soldier massaged his fists.

"I hope he didn't kill him," the young man pouted.

"You see that," he pointed his finger at Davarius.

"That's just the tip of the iceberg compared to what's going to happen to you. Since you're a nice-looking girl, we might not rough you up like him,"

To the young man's surprise, Gaya laughed.

"What's so funny?" asked the young man.

"Almost everyone who speaks like you dies in the end. Don't you get it asshole? You're just a cog in the machine I am going to crush. If you have any desire to live, I'd suggest you drop everything and run away from here as fast as you can," said Gaya.

Noone replied to Gaya for a moment. Once again, silence haunted the place until the young man chuckled.

"You are indeed a crazy bitch. Open your eyes. You're the one inside the cage. Or do you think we are inside a cage because of the iron bars between us?"

The soldiers laughed at his joke, which made the young man laugh louder.

"My uncle is going to love this bitch," the young man told his soldiers.

Gaya frowned. Seeing the frown on her face, the young man tilted his head.

"Oh, where are my manners? I am Kevin Kemper. Nephew of the one and only Booth Kemper, the duke of Valeria, and the General of the Thusian army," the young man puffed his chest and introduced himself with immense pride.

Gaya simply couldn't believe his words. She thought the cage surprised her before she heard the young man.

"Jackpot," Gaya smiled with excitement.

The smile on Gaya's face confused Kevin.

"Why are you smiling again?" asked Kevin.

"You knocked him out and revealed your identity. That's so..." Gaya couldn't finish her sentence as she burst into laughter.

"You so unlucky and stupid," Gaya barely finished off her sentence.

But suddenly, her laughter stopped. Instead, her face turned cold. The temperature in the room dropped by several degrees. To Kevin's surprise, her eyes glistened. The round pupils turned vertically slit in a blink of an eye. The snake-like eyes freaked out the soldiers.

"My lord, look," one soldier whispered to Kevin. He looked at Gaya's hands as violet scales appeared on her skin. Kevin immediately took a step back when she hissed at him.

Gaya grabbed the iron bars. Just like before, the runes burned her hands. However, Gaya did not let go of the bars. She roared, splitting the iron bars apart. The runes in the bars flickered, radiating faint rumbling noise.

"Stop her," Kevin ordered his men. The haughtiness in his tone completely disappeared. Instead, he trembled in fear. The soldiers were no different than Kevin. They all inhaled the fear toxin released by Gaya.

"ARRGHHH!" Gaya roared, bending the iron bars with her raw strength despite the runes burning her hand. In a few moments, she bent the iron bars enough for her to slide through. Kevin saw a giant cobra sliding through the iron bars for a second. But that image of the cobra in his mind disappeared as fast as it appeared.

"What are you?" Kevon questioned Gaya. The soldiers behind him took a step backward.

They no longer had the courage to face Gaya anymore. Gaya did not answer Kevin. Instead, she grabbed him by his neck and lifted him off his feet. Gaya kept Kevin in the air without uttering a word. Meanwhile, the fear toxin took full effect on the soldiers. Since the soldiers weren't even at the Core Strengthening stage, their bodies and minds couldn't withstand the effects of the fear toxin. They soon began to hallucinate and cry. Finally, they collapsed to the ground and crawled back in fear.

Their screams echoed through the silent underground. Even Kevin's body began to shiver as white form leaked out of his mouth.

"Does your uncle love you?" Gaya asked Kevin.

"How much he loves you?"

"He will hunt you down if something happens to me," Kevin managed to utter these words.

"Good. Saves us the trouble of finding him," Gaya snicked. Kevin's face slowly turned purple due to the lack of oxygen in his head. Some of the villagers who witnessed the soldiers scratching the walls to escape the place looked bewildered. They wondered who the girl was and how did she come here.

Gaya didn't bother to think about the villagers. All of her focus was on Kevin. From a few meters away from Gaya, Davarius slowly opened his eyes. His head ached because of the beating he had taken a few minutes ago. Thanks to the beating he took, his vision was still blurry. However, he could vaguely see Aelia out of the cage. To his shock, the youngster was struggling in her hand.

"No,"

"Please don't hurt me,"

"Let us go..."

"NOOOOOO!"

The soldiers cried and screamed. Fear had completely taken over their minds. Davarius could hear their cries but didn't feel a bit of pity for them.

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While Gaya was dealing with Kevin, a youngster was flying in the sky as fast as a bolt of lightning. His white robes, along with his raven black hair, fluttered in the wind. His calm eyes glistened like bright stars in pitch black sky. But behind those calm eyes, there was concern and unease. Around him was an endless ocean. Then, after flying for an unknown amount of time, finally, an island appeared on the horizon.

"That's the rainbow island," said the young man in white robes.

"And that's where I sensed this weird energy," another voice sounded in the air.