Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

"Looks like you won't be able to get something from this guy…" kicking the draconic prince one last time in an attempt to wake him up, Su Xiaotian clicked his tongue in disappointment as he found Noveus completely unconscious, causing him to shake his head as he looks at Liliana who is also helplessly looking at him.

"You might've, no, you really hit him too hard" she said with a wry smile on her face as she approaching the immortal-like young man, a question in her mind as she takes a look at the non-grievous, yet nevertheless painful hits that Su Xiaotian left on the dragon prince's body.

"Curious about why I hit him that hard huh?" he said as he shifts his attention from the unconscious dragon to the young vampire earl standing beside him, his question earning a nod of agreement from her causing him to smile as he continues.

"You'll get your answer later, for now, let's send these visitors off, looks like they already accomplished the goal of this visit after all" he said as he take a good, long moment to look at the rest of the Great Ones now not even daring to meet his gaze, their figures, frozen and unmoving from their spots as his gaze roams around them, akin to a flock of sheep trembling for their lives as feral gaze roams around wanting to take a bite of their flesh.

"T-that's right, l-let's return, Ladies, please help us with Prince Noveus' body" one of the braver ones among the group, spoke as he stood up from his spot, hopeful gaze on the remaining conscious front row seats of their group as they all expect these ladies to help the draconic prince, especially given the circumstances between them.

"He did this all to himself, right? Why should we even help him then? Are we servants to that guy?" with impatience oozing from her powerful voice, the beastkin, Orvus, asked with an annoyed tone to her, her fists clenched as if she wants to pummel everyone looking at her with expectant, and hopeful eyes.

"But…" refusing to back down as he was thrown off, not expecting one of these front row seats to act like that, the young man who spoke first intends to retort, only for his words to be stopped as Orvus spoke once again, this time, in a voice laced with murderous intent that forces the young man to take a step back.

"But what?" she asked with a feral smile on her beautiful face, the crimson pupils growing in a crazed light as if she's waiting, or rather, looking forward to the situation escalating more than it currently is.

"I-is this a threat?" the young man asked as he regains some semblance of bearing, gritting his teeth as he clenched his fist, enduring the look from the lady as he felt like it will be worth risking his all so long as this action of his will be recognized by the dragon prince he believe he is currently helping.

"Are you that dumb? Why ask when it's already so obvious?" Orvus replies as she starts cracking her fists, her body, although used to swinging her weapon at this point, refuses to reach for the massive sword on the ground as she already gave it to someone else.

"Th-this will reach Prince Noveus, no, the Dragon Emperor's ears…" in disbelief hearing this kind of argument from the beastkin, the member of the Great Ones current arguing with Orvus couldn't help but take another step back, reeling in the fear of the violent tendency this lady is infamous with inside or even outside of their group.

"Are you the dog of that bastard lying on the ground? Why act like this and annoy the hell out of me?" the beastkin continues as she starts walking faster, approaching closer and closer making the young man take steps backwards faster as well, even forgetting to bring with him the body of the unconscious Noveus, his action going to show how scared he is right now.

"Y-you…" unable to even form a coherent sentence in his head, he was stuck with repeating the same word again and again as he points his index finger on the tall figure closing the distance between the two of them, gone from his eyes is the beauty of this figure, said beauty all replaced by the terror of being subjected under her strength.

"You know what, forget about it, tell on the Dragon Emperor for all I care, if you can that is" with violent light flashing from her eyes, this lady said as she balls her palm into a solid fist, her fangs peaking through her lips as she reveals a maniacal smile as she stands in front of the young man she is talking to, looking down as she stands significantly taller than him.

"Wh-what do you mean?"

"Playing dumb again? Do I need to spell it out for you to understand? Dead men tell no tales!" hearing his question, she couldn't help but laugh as she shouts the last parts of her words, her deranged laughter, combined with the oozing killing intent from her making the young man tremble in fear as his body immediately attempts to create a distance between the two of them.

"Y-You!!" while he might've moved just in time for him to keep his life, he wasn't fast enough to keep his body intact, his hand, previously still attached to himself, now just a stump drenched and squirting with blood, his severed hand nowhere to be found as if it was completely crushed into nothingness by the lady's attack.

"Hoh, interesting…" seeing Orvus' attack, even Su Xiaotian attention was piqued as he himself is way too familiar with the nature of her attack, his attention, not caught by that as it wasn't anything particularly impressive for its nature, but by the fact that it is even possible to execute such attack using mana.

'She definitely used spatial rules… looks like these beastkin really has so much more than meets the eye…'

He added in his mind as he becomes more and more interested with Orvus' origin, first, the property of the materials used in the sword she hands to Liliana, and now, the ability to use spatial rule, something that even qi cultivation masters find hard to utilize to such degree in combat, even harder when using mana, which is only supposed to influence the five elements and their extensions based on what he had observed so far.

Deciding to save these thoughts for later though, he takes a step and disappears from his spot, arriving right in front of the beastkin beauty, reaching his hand out to stop her attack from reaching her opponent's heart.

"Enough playing around… Spilling blood on Liliana's territory will only make trouble come for her" he stated in a serious voice as he spares a sharp glance at the lady currently wearing a ferocious expression on her face.

This action from him made both the elven priestess and the dream demon princess panic as they know Orvus way too well, and usually, doing such thing while she is starting to enjoy her hunt will only make her all the more aggressive, perhaps even to the point that she won't mind fighting with that mysterious vampire as well.

Today however, seems to be a particularly odd day as instead of acting according to her usual behavior, instead of acting faithful and true to her beastly instinct, she seems to take a step back instead as her ferocious expression gradually calmed down in front of the mysterious vampire's gaze, prompting her to take a deep breath as she replies with a rather feminine tone.

"A-alright then, just let go of my hands"