"She lost, she really lost!"
Eileen, seemingly insane, pressed her hand behind her back against the door of the lounge, staring intently at Aldrich. After the mark she had left before leaving disappeared, the door, which had been tightly closed, was opened.
Immediately afterward, under Aldrich's gaze, Eileen took a step back and stood in the lounge. The next moment, countless black patterns rose from the ground, converging into an eerie power.
In the deathly silence, a creaking sound suddenly came, as if something had been started and began to turn little by little.
Black lines twisted in the air. Moreover, through the wide-open door, Aldrich could see at a glance that Nguyen Thanh An was lying unconscious on the bed inside the room.
Around her were also twisted black lines.
That eerie power gradually clung to Ruan Qing'an's body, binding her as if to envelop her from head to toe. The same was true for Eileen, with black lines twisting and coiling around her. And between the two—
They were connected by a black line.
Seeing this, Eileen couldn't help but burst into laughter: "It's finally started! Once it's started, it can't be stopped!"
"Dolores, you lost—"
"Soon, I'll have everything you have, Dolores. Even your so-called bet, and the Aldrich you trust, is nothing but a fool. It's completely useless!"
As Eileen spoke with near-hysterical excitement, she was lifted high into the air by a black force, suspended in mid-air.
The strange power was immense. If it hadn't been isolated by the magic array that Eileen and the Seventh Prince had set up in advance, the entire royal family would probably have been shaken. But precisely because all the power was confined to a small space, the impact was even greater.
The lounge was being destroyed bit by bit, with dust flying everywhere.
Under the increasingly powerful aura that coalesced, the black lines grew faster and faster, almost enveloping Ruan Qing'an's entire body, while Eileen enjoyed it more and more.
A strange, crimson liquid emanated from the black line connecting the two, gradually flowing from Ruan Qing'an's body.
What flowed into her body was none other than Eileen's!
Seeing this scene unfold so quickly that no one had time to react, Aldrich's face darkened. He ignored the nearly frantic Eileen and rushed into the lounge, intending to bring Ruan Qing'an out.
But Eileen formed hand seals, and a light elemental array gathered before her chest. She shouted sharply, pulled out a spear of light from it, and then—
He suddenly hurled it at Aldridge!
"Go to hell!"
But Aldridge didn't even look up: "Get lost."
He actually threw away his magnificent sword and charged straight at Eileen, catching the spear of light she threw at him with his bare hands.
Then, to Eileen's utter shock and disbelief, he shoved it back at her head.
It looked like they were about to stab her right through, which scared Eileen so much that she was suspended in mid-air, her victorious posture almost giving way. She quickly summoned black power to resist.
"Aldrich, stop struggling in vain!"
Seeing the spear of light disappear just a finger's width away from her, corroded and vanished by the black power, Eileen said with a sense of relief, "Once the magic circle starts, it won't stop."
"What's done is done, accept your fate!"
"Yeah?"
Aldrich remained unfazed, coldly watching the spear of light disappear. By then, he had already reached the door of the lounge, where twisted lines of black power seemed to be trying to block him from entering.
Just as Eileen was about to laugh, the black lines vanished as Aldrich rushed forward.
"What? How could you—"
Before Eileen could finish speaking, Aldrich's fist landed on her face with a loud thud.
She was slammed heavily to the ground from the air, and even the black forbidden magic power that enveloped her dissipated somewhat. The black thread connecting her and Ruan Qing'an was now teetering on the verge of breaking.
After discovering that the blood being transferred from Ruan Qingan was gradually decreasing, the previously arrogant Eileen panicked.
She collapsed to the ground, frantically clutching the black thread.
"How is this possible? How could this be..."
"What have you done, Aldridge?!"
But Aldrich had already rushed past her, heading straight for Nguyen Thanh An on the bed. In the instant he got close, he grabbed the black thread covering Nguyen Thanh An's body.
then--
With a tearing sound, the once indestructible force seemed to vanish as if it didn't exist, becoming as light as paper in Aldrich's hands.
Finally, as Eileen kept tugging at the thread, trying to repair it, the shaky thread, under Aldrich's final provocation, snapped and vanished...
Seeing this, Eileen completely broke down.
She couldn't help but scream, looking at Aldrich as if he were her mortal enemy who had ruined her bright future: "I'm going to kill you! I'll definitely kill you!!!"
Why, why was the forbidden technique forced to end?!
Everything she had dreamed of had vanished into thin air...
But Aldrich ignored her hysteria and instead focused on tearing off all the black lines from Nguyen Thanh An's body, finally stopping the flow of the replaced blood.
"Master, Master?"
Aldridge held her carefully in his arms, as if she were a fragile porcelain doll, calling out to her softly but firmly.
Finally, after all the black lines disappeared and the replaced blood returned, Ruan Qingan's face gradually regained its color, under Aldrich's eager gaze—
She had just opened her eyes, her leaden gray eyes still somewhat confused, but she wasn't surprised when she saw Aldridge.
"You really came."
"Owner……"
Hearing Aldridge's aggrieved voice, Ruan Qing'an couldn't help but chuckle, patted his fluffy head, then sat up and looked down at Eileen, who was sitting on the ground not far away.
She probably never imagined that she would fail at the last hurdle.
Eileen's eyes flickered. Only after the rain of resentment disappeared did she belatedly realize that the black power had vanished, and she had exhausted herself in the forbidden blood transfusion. Yet, Aldrich was unharmed, and Ruan Qing'an was a mage, so neither of them could defeat her.
Realizing this, her face turned even paler.
Eileen stared blankly as she looked up at Ruan Qing'an, who was leaning against the man's chest as if petting a large dog that was surrounding her, with a faint hint of mockery in his smile.
"Eileen, I told you."
"I'm determined to win this bet."
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