Lailah gave Eratos and her father three seconds to leave the place unharmed. Surprisingly, none of them took a step backward as they weren't going to leave the mountain. When Lailah counted to three in her mind, Nerita shouted suddenly.

"Teacher, behind!"

Lailah's instincts screamed at her as she leaped away from where she stood. A silver arrow with jade green veins coiled around hit the ground. Lailah landed comfortably on the ground and looked up at the mountain above the cave entrance to see a black-robed finger hanging on the mountain with a bow and arrow. When Lailah thought Nobert couldn't stoop any lower, he surprised her. The assassin fired another arrow and another one at a rapid speed. Lailah immediately raised her hand, casting a spell.

"Feathers of Angel!" As soon as Lailah cast the spell, pure white feathery wings materialized behind her and protected her from the arrows. Lailah's speed caught Eratos off guard. In a blink of an eye, Lailah ascended to the ground. In mid-air, a long veena appeared in her hand. When she struck a string, a powerful energy wave shot out from the veena, knocking down the assassin from the mountain.

Before the assassin could hit the ground, Lailah struck another chord which turned into a crescent moon-shaped blade and cut the Core Formation assassin in half. His body was cut into two halves as the assassin's entrails rained down through his hips along with blood. Nobert felt a chill running down his spine when he saw how easily Lailah dealt with the assassin. Lailah was completely pissed off by the ambush. Unfortunately, her anger blinded her mind and prevented her from realizing the assassin was just a distraction.

When Lailah landed on her feet, she couldn't find Eratos anymore. He just vanished into thin air until she felt a violent surge in energy around her. The mountain trembled as the Arch energy surged to the sky and gathered above a golden glow.

"Get inside!" Lailah shouted at her disciples. She was too late to realize Eratos had finished casting a Legendary spell. Although Eratos was a stage below Lailah in terms of cultivation, a Legendary spell would close the power gap between them. It was too late for her to stop the spell. The only thing she could do was move away from the spell's range.

Meanwhile, Nobert and the guards behind him flew behind Eratos and watched Lailah with arrogant looks on their faces. They deemed Lailah deserved to be taught a lesson. Besides, Nobert had to resort to violence because of her. His world would turn into hell if he couldn't get Lailah to marry Eratos. Before Nobert came to the rainbow islands, Nobert gambled with Eratos and lost the game in which he bet his daughter. He would have used Edith as a bet against Eratos, but the latter showed no interest in marrying a little girl. Eratos's love for Lailah had turned into an obsession long before. So Eratos didn't suddenly snap as he always planned to take Lailah by force if he couldn't get her to agree to marry her.

Once Nobert finished casting the spell, a giant ethereal head of a dragon appeared behind Eratos. The dragon's head glowed in icy blue, and its roar shook the entire island. Lailah thought of flying away, only to see the dragon's gaze fall on the cave entrance where her disciples stood there like statues in shock. Not that the three girls wanted to stay still and watch, but their bodies refused to move. The coldness permeating from the dragon petrified them due to their weak minds and bodies.

Lailah dashed at her disciples to shield them from the dragon. However, the moment she took a step toward the girls, the dragon opened its mouth, firing hundreds of ice spikes in a steady stream. Having no other choice, Lailah summoned Angel's veena. As soon as she summoned the veena, everything around her stopped as though someone had pressed a pause button on the world. Slowly with an otherworldly vibration, a pure white veena with feathery wings attached to it appeared in the air before Lailah. Each string glistened and whispered inside Lailah's head to play them all. This was the true form of Angel's veena. A sentient being that turned into a veena by the gods and remained dormant until Lailah touched it. Ever since she bonded with the veena, it stayed with her, giving her supernatural abilities. Even after years of being with the veena, Lailah barely scratched the surface of its true powers.

Once the veena appeared before Lailah, she gently struck a string, imagining a shield powerful enough to block the ice spikes. When she struck the string, the string cut her finger and absorbed the blood. The strings glowed in red for a moment as Lailah felt extremely tired. In its true form, the angel's veena consumed the user's life essence AKA the soul energy to work. Hence, overusing the veena would eventually lead the user to his or her death. It took great mental fortitude to resist using the veena, and that was the main reason why Lailah always stayed meditating inside her cave and seldom used the veena in battles.

Ding!

The moment the string vibrated, a glowing dome appeared around Lailah and the little girls. After the vibrating sound faded away, the veena faded away. As a result, everything started to move once again. All the spikes shot out from the dragon's mouth and hit the dome, creating countless ripples in the dome, but none of them could pierce through it.

The dragon roared louder and louder as the number of ice spikes increased rapidly, except the result remained the same. After a brief moment, the dragon finally vanished into thin air, leaving everyone speechless, especially Eratos. He couldn't believe his all-mighty Legendary spell couldn't even scratch Lailah, let alone knock her out. Once the dragon and the dome disappeared, Lailah felt the immense toll the veena took on her body and soul. She could barely stand still.

"Teacher," Lailah heard Johana's voice as she turned around.

"Megan," Lailah's heart skipped a beat, seeing Megan's robes slowly turning red around her chest. The little girl had a hole in her chest. Megan's body froze from head to toe before her eyes, and Lailah couldn't do anything. Unfortunately, the dragon's spike penetrated Megan just a second before the dome appeared around them. Considering Megan was just at the Body Refining stage, the spike went through her chest, leaving the dragon's ice essence. It completely froze Megan from the inside out.

"Nonono" Lailah shivered as she immediately took out a healing potion to heal Megan. Her eyes teared up as Lailah tried to pour the potion into Megan's mouth. However, the little girl had already turned into an ice statue, and when the potion hit her mouth, Megan's body shattered into pieces. Everything around Lailah froze. Lailah's mind went completely blank as she stared at the icy shards slowly melting on the ground.

As much as Nobert wanted the street urchin dead, he couldn't feel any joy. Instead, he realized they screwed up big time. Fear quickly clenched everyone's heart, and Eratos felt a chill running down his spine when he saw the vengeful eyes of Lailah, which had no sentience but pure murderous lust. Without giving any time for Eratos to react, Lailah summoned the Angel's veena yet again. She knew using it twice in a day would put her cultivation speed several years behind yet she couldn't care less. At that moment, she wanted Eratos dead more than anything in the world.

This time, the veena appeared without passing everything around it. Hence, everyone could clearly see the mass destructive weapon. Lailah struck the string, imagining Eratos dead. Just like before, her hands bled as she finally couldn't stand still anymore. After the veena absorbed the blood, a powerful sonic wave shot straight toward Eratos. His instincts kicked in, making him quickly raise his hands to defend himself. But the invisible sonic wave broke his right hand to pieces. Eratos roared in agony as Nobert saw the young's body shrivel with blood oozing out of his shoulder where his hand was a moment ago. The young man's stunning handsome face lost all its glow and shine and turned into something hideous. All his hair crumbled down from his head as his body shrunk to the point he looked like he hadn't eaten for a year. However, the sound of his screams still reverberated through the islands with full of vigor. Nobert trembled hearing the scream.

"Kill me!" Eratos roared, wishing for a quick death. As much as he wanted the pain to stop and embrace sweet death, the shark head medallion on his chest prevented death from taking Eratos's life. In her fury, Lailah didn't notice the glowing medallion. Hence, when she saw Eratps fall down from the sky, she thought he had lost his life. After Eratos dropped from the air, she turned her gaze at Nobert and his guards.

"You and I are done," Lailah's murderous gaze swept across Nobert.

"Go away before I break my promise to my mother," Lailah growled. Nobert didn't dare to stay any longer as he could tell the murderous intent in her eyes was no joke.

Nobert left the island without turning back. While flying away from the island, he heaved a sigh of relief and smiled. Since he thought Lailah killed him, he thought the bet he had with Eratos was no longer valid. Unfortunately, Nobert found out the hard way that Eratos was rescued by the Sea Folks, and Eratos's family retaliated on the Aldens, slaughtering the strongest warriors in their house. Lailah had to step in and save the rest with the empress's help. After reducing them, Lailah sent Edith and her mother to Thusia, where Edith befriended Victoria Barnes. Although Lailah saved Edith and her mother, Edith blamed Lailah for what had happened to Nobert and the Aldens.

On that day, when Megan died in her arms, Lailah thought she had avenged her by killing Eratos. Lailah never thought she would meet Eratos almost after eighteen years in the Fire Realm.