61 A Maid With Negative Karma ( Part II)

"No" said simply the violet beast cultivator, looking back a Darkscale with a surprised look. She could feel the killing intent in his voice and the light trembling of the silver armor of energy around his body.

She looked again at the red screen before her eyes, trying to understand why he was so mad about that. It looked like a common array barrier to her, in her life she saw plenty of them. This barrier didn't emanate any dangerous aura, meaning that it was probably very basic.

'Master Darkscale, she can't see the runes' revealed a gentle and calm voice, echoing inside the black snake's mind.

'???' Darkscale's eyes flickered, as his perception flew around the violet snake and tried to sense any sign that could reveal Daressa's real feeling. Surprise, concern, tension. She truly seemed to be completely unaware of the extreme complexity of the formation!

The violet snake perceived the energy probe around her body and immediately understood that she was being tested by Darkscale. Contrary to what the black snake imagined, she didn't seem upset at all by his action. She allowed him to probe her body, gathering information on herself but at the same time not allowing the energy probe to move inside the grey light that shrouded her.

Daressa was starting to believe that this was some elaborate act played to gain more favorable terms in their accord. She wasn't surprised by that. "Is there anything that you wa-"

"I can't open it" The cultivator was expecting long negotiation, not such a straight and depressive answer. She was shocked, her eyes widening and her mind spinning in a daze.

After a while, she recovered her senses. Why was he so sure about that even if he didn't try? Was he trying to trick her now that he knew of the location of the tomb? "It shouldn't be a very complex rune... friend can you try to see if i-"

Again, Dakscale interrupted her. "I can't open it" his words were simple, but the cold stone tone and his steeled gaze made his point very clear.

Suddenly a calm and gentle voice echoed all around the placid lake. "Maybe I can help".

Star Leaf gasped, her eyes widening with surprise as an elegant woman wrapped in a blue dress emerged from her simple iron ring.

Winter Leaf, on the contrary, looked at the figure with a furious gaze: she recognized that voice! That was the helper of the snake devil! That bitch looked at her countless times while she was being humiliated and tortured for no reason at all! She even gave him ideas on what to do with her!

Even Darkscale's eyes narrowed for a second. A flash of surprise passed through his violet irises. He wasn't surprised because it was a long time since he last saw the avatar of Carelia. The thing that almost had him lose his cool was that she was able to use the avatar even outside the ring.

After spending lots of time researching and working with runes, he knew a lot more about them than before: he found it very strange that someone would have put inside a Blue Cave runes to help the MAID appear outside the ring. What would be the purpose of such rune?