Primordial Soul's Rebirth

"Alex..."

Ann mutters groggily as she tugs the corner of Alex's shirt, stopping him from moving.

"Yes?" Alex stopped and looked at Ann who was looking at him with her eyes still half closed.

"Thank you..." Ann spoke lightly as she looked into Alex's eyes.

Alex, on the other hand, frowned his brows in confusion.

"Thank you for what?" He asked Ann who looked at him for a while before she smiled.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to say that," Ann spoke, and without waiting for Alex to say something she closed her eyes.

Alex looked at Ann who had her eyes closed but was still awake, he knew that she wasn't going to reply so he just patted her head and moved out of the room.

Ann opened her eyes as she heard the door of her room close.

She touched her head where Alex patted, she smiled before she snuggled into the blanket that Alex covered her with.

She had many things to say when Alex asked, 'Thank you for what?'.

'Thank you for making me stronger.'

'Thank you for saving my life.' (In the special S-rank gate)

'Thank you for being so nice to me.'

'Thank you for trusting me.'

There were many other thank yous, but the one that was most important was….

'Thank you for coming into my life, Alex.'

Ann drifted into her dreams as she thought about those things.

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(Back to the gate break)

Ann smiled as she recalled those moments before she slashed her blade on the Dardfire in front of her.

'Hoh…' But the beast dodged it, making Ann a bit surprised.

Although she didn't use all of her power, it was still not something an S-ranked beast should be able to do.

But that was all, she was just a bit surprised, so when the beast shot its beak at her she just sidestepped and held its long neck.

The beast was a bit shorter than its leader, and the leader was 2 meters high, which made the beast have a height of around 1.7 meters.

It was easy for Ann to catch the beast's neck.

"What will you do now?" Ann asked with a raised brow as she saw the beast struggling.

The beast was, after all, an S-rank beast, and Ann, who was an SSS-ranked raider wouldn't even need 20% of her power to defeat the beast.

Looking at the beast moving its head from side to side, flapped its wings with all its might, trying to free itself, but it couldn't free itself, it was struggling to even get a breath.

"I wanted to skin all of you alive for destroying our date, but I can't do that, after all, there are lives at risk here," Ann spoke with a low voice before she sliced the neck of the Darfire she was holding.

The body of the bird/ beast fell on the ground while the neck Ann was holding stayed in her hand.

'One down,' Ann counted as she threw the head of the bird she was holding to the next bird close to her with full force, killing it on the spot.

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(Alice's fight)

*Woosh*

Alice shot the arrow she conjured towards a Darkfire that ran toward her after it saw her preparing an attack.

"SREECHH!!"

The Darkfire screeched as if was being burned alive, but it was being burned slowly.

It could feel its feathers burning, it could feel its skin burning, it could feel everything, every part of its body burning, it screeched in pain as the flames felt so hot that its innate fire resistance was not helping it at all.

"Screech!!"

The bird screeched for a last time before it fell to the ground lifelessly with a thump.

"Hmph," Alice just snorted before she turned to the next Darkfire that trembled as it saw Alice's angry and frustrated eyes.

She had realized that she had been holding Alex's hand for a long time when Alex let go of her, and she was embarrassed about it, but she was happy as well and it felt good when she stayed close to Alex.

'But you guys destroyed the moment,' Alice spoke inwardly as she stared daggers at the Darkfire.

The Darkfire that was being stared at wanted to run away, but it couldn't move as Alice had unconsciously locked her mana pressure on the poor Darkfire that was going to face the fury of Alice.

Alice waved her hand upward and a fire pillar shot from below the beast...

"SCREEEC-"

The beast screeched in pain but was cut short as it was lucky that it was turned into ash in a second and it didn't have to suffer like its friend before.

Alice's fire was too strong after some of her potential was unlocked, and it could burn her enemies instantly.

It would be a problem if she used it against weaker beasts inside of the gate as she would lose the monster's drop, but she didn't have to worry about that right now.

'Opss….' Alice scratched her head as she realized that she had just turned an S-ranked beast into ash in a fit of anger, but she just shrugged after a second.

'Well, not like they were going to drop anything anyway," Alice thought as she shot another flame arrow toward the next Darkfire that was about to use a breath attack on the people running away from it.

Just like Alice said, the monsters that came out of the gate after the gate break don't drop anything.

Nothing means literally nothing, even their bodies disappear like it happens inside the gate.

If the gates were an opportunity along with danger, then the gate breaks were like punishments for failing to complete the task in the given time, and there is nothing you can ever gain from a punishment, you always lose something when punished.

The arrow shot by Alice directly pierced the head of the Darkfire that was about to release a breath attack on the public.

"Like I would let you do that," Alice muttered before she turned to the beast that was running toward her at a breakneck speed.

The bird/ beast directly slashed its claw at Alice which she dodged with expert agility which was almost impossible for mages to do.

"Oh, you thought that it would be easy to defeat me in a close-ranged battle just because I am a mage?" Alice sneered as she saw the Darkfire widen its eyes.

The Darkfire was an S-ranked one, and it could think and strategize, so it thought that being a mage Alice must be weak in close combat.

But how could it have known that all Alex taught Alice was close-range combat and better control over her fire?

The beast quickly realized that it was in danger so it used the trump card that every Darkfire would use in a dire situation.

The Darkfire hurriedly breathed black fire, but instead of Alice, it aimed the fire at the ground.

The fire spread and covered the area of 10 meters radius, in just a second.

"SCREECH!!"

Alice was also within 10 meters so the Darkfire, so the Darkfire screeched, showing that it had won.

"You think your fire's the strongest, don't you?"

But then it heard a taunting sneer, which made its heart sink, but before it could think of something, it was enveloped by an orange, yellow, and golden mixed flame.

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