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When she began to look back at everything that had happened during this time, she could no longer distinguish whether Ansel\'s kindness was to tame her or truly care for her, whether Ansel\'s cruelty was to make her submit or to retaliate for her betrayal.

...Yes, Ansel also said that I was a traitor in his eyes. If, if that\'s true, am I—

"Got you, bastard!"

The excited and high-pitched roar shattered Ravenna\'s thoughts.

Her unfocused eyes slowly regained focus, there was no joy of surviving a disaster, the complex and chaotic thoughts made Ravenna unable to calm down, so she only realized now... the one who saved her, was not the person she thought.

—He didn\'t even show up.

The wolf, having shattered the ceiling and descended from the heavens, twisted its neck to gaze upon the large iron lump before it, licking her rosy lips.

"That was a close call. I almost couldn\'t report back to Ansel."

"... Seraphina Marlowe," came Conrad\'s voice from within the steel golem, "why are you here?"

"Idiot, of course, I\'m here waiting for you."

Seraphina crossed her arms, her face expressing confusion, "Or did you think I was here for a lecture?"

"So, it was Lord Ansel who... instructed you?"

The steel golem fell silent for a moment, then let out a desolate and neurotic laugh.

"Hehehe... hahaha! You\'re really lucky, Ziegler!"

"You\'re insane... I\'m not here to listen to your ravings."

Seraphina looked at the steel puppet with a look reserved for the mentally challenged, her fiery gaze not hidden, "Ansel told me I could have a good fight today. Although that formidable-looking guy ran away, you, hmm... you\'re not bad."

She twisted her neck, her fists collided, and a wild smile appeared on her pretty face: "Come!"

The wolf, still a long way from becoming a king, took a step forward. The spreading violent aura and the tremor from that step increased the fear in everyone\'s hearts.

In Seraphina\'s eyes, the greedy flame of hunger for food burned fiercely:

"So you better... let me have a feast!"

Bang!

The sharp and piercing explosion echoed in the hall. The girl, who had been standing still, suddenly burst into supersonic speed. The power accumulated by the extreme speed was like an unstoppable tidal wave.

In the blink of an eye, her tall and fit figure had already appeared in front of the steel golem, her long and full thigh had already swept up, even through the black leather pants, one could see the suddenly bulging, clearly defined muscles on her thigh!

Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom...

The steel golem, which was four or five meters tall and looked extremely solid and heavy, was actually kicked and sent flying by Seraphina. Its huge body plowed a trench in the ground, raising a cloud of dust, and finally was "embedded" in the wall at the other end of the hall.

On the other side, Seraphina glanced at her leg, which was almost bent at a ninety-degree angle, broken in a terrifying way, and almost only held together by muscles. She reached out and grabbed the lower end of her broken leg, roughly pushed it back into place, hissed in pain, then rubbed her neck and muttered, "It\'s pretty hard, not easy to deal with, but..."

Only four or five seconds had passed, and she had already stepped on the broken leg, casually pushed it, and hopped on the spot a couple of times.

Under the double blessing of her already terrifying physical talent and the power of the first, this horrifying injury seemed to have almost healed in just a few seconds.

"Break it a few more times, and it won\'t matter!"

The wolf laughed wildly and sprinted forward, the sound of her foot hitting the ground was like a thunderclap, and in an instant, she was almost at the steel golem that she had kicked tens of meters away.

At almost the same time, a blazing and dazzling beam of light shot towards her. The aura read by the head of wind made Seraphina show a contemptuous smile. Even though she was in a sprint, she seemed to predict the future and deftly turned her body to avoid the beam of light, not even her clothes were hit.

The monster that grew by devouring pure violence had once again come to this golem, and the iron fist that had been gathering strength crashed down!

The sound of bones breaking was drowned out by the loud noise of steel colliding. Seraphina\'s expression changed slightly. The hardness of this puppet far exceeded her expectations. When she punched it, the thick armor only dented a few centimeters, and the hand that punched it had basically shattered the entire palm and wrist.

Before she could throw a second punch, the golem\'s body burst into a dazzling white light. The extremely dangerous intuition made Seraphina kick the golem and leap back tens of meters.

The dazzling light radiated from the puppet, making Seraphina unable to open her eyes, but the perception of the head of wind would not be affected by this light. Seraphina almost instantly realized that this guy... was trying to attack Ravenna directly.

"Dream on, bastard!" Seraphina roared in anger:

"Stay and fight me!"

Seraphina\'s speed far surpassed that of the light cannon\'s coalescence, orchestrated by Conrad. Without a moment\'s hesitation, her unscathed fist directly hammered onto the steel armor\'s head, causing a resounding echo of metal collision throughout the hall. The light cannon, due to Seraphina\'s powerful punch, deviated its trajectory towards the ceiling.

"Move!!"

Without turning her head, Seraphina yelled, "What are you still doing here? Get out, don\'t hinder me!"

After uttering these words, she raised her hand and landed another punch on the steel armor, which was gradually deforming under her blows. Her expression was ferocious as she said, "Either you defeat me before you kill her, or you die by my hand now... there\'s no third option—"

Her fists clenched into a hammer shape, raised above her head. Her muscles tensed, channeling an immense force along her spine to her arms. The hammer fist, carrying an explosive force, crashed down amidst Seraphina\'s roar!

"—possible!"

Tsk!

The anticipated booming sound did not come. Instead, Seraphina\'s forearm and fists were directly shaved off a layer of flesh by the instant light cannon, causing the lethality of this strike to plummet.

"It seems, I have been used as a whetstone by Lord Ansel for Miss Seraphina."

Conrad suddenly spoke, "In that case, I will no longer struggle. Let\'s have a fair duel, shall we?"

Seraphina, whose hands were nearly carbonized, was stunned for two seconds, then nodded vigorously with great joy, "You\'re quite cooperative! Let\'s do it!"

She leaped back a dozen meters, first opened her palms, relaxed her muscles, then suddenly clenched her fists. The sudden burst of muscle directly shattered the carbonized matter on her arm, exposing the bloody flesh and even the bones. Meanwhile, her muscle fibers were visibly repairing her arm at an astonishing speed.

"A fair duel, oh... and this thing!"

Seraphina walked to where the steel armor was kicked away by her, picked up the metal long sword that should have been used as a casting medium, and forcefully threw it to Conrad in the distance.

By the time she completed this action, her arms were almost fully recovered.

"Now that\'s more like it... come on!"

Seraphina, excited to the extreme, watched Conrad raise the long sword, preparing to fight her like a true warrior, "Continue!"

This was the battle she yearned for, the fight she craved, the valuable... hunt!

In the ruins, Ravenna watched Seraphina in the distance. The latter was fighting an enemy of a higher stage, and despite the intensity, she was not at a disadvantage, even somewhat dominating.

Just by looking at that side profile, Ravenna Ziegler could feel the spirited enthusiasm.

She once had it too, that spirited enthusiasm.

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