Dilise''s shout had Seth turning his head towards her, he had already easily deduced that E was someone of importance, but the thought that she could be a princess hadn''t crossed his mind, not like it changed anything though.


    "When I saide out, I meant to appear in front of me, not behind me," Seth said, and a secondter the ring danger his instinct had felt behind him disappeared, and a pool that could only be described as boiling shadows appeared in front of him.


    Seth called it boing because it released bubbles, but theck of heat said otherwise, and from this pool of darkness, a voice came out,


    "Release her and I promise we won''t bother you, we''ll leave here immediately," it said but Seth ignore the voice''s words and spoke.


    "When I saide out, I meant to bring yourplete self before me," Seth said.


    "And how do I know you won''t just kill me," the voice said, but Seth had no interest in ying the voices games as his left hand immediately moved up.


    Seth grabbed E''s right hand and began breaking her fingers twisting thempletely backward, the cringing sounds of their breaking bones sounding throughout the passageway.


    "Wait, I''lle out the voice said" but Seth didn''t pause his actions till the pool of shadow rose and turned into a naked ck-haired woman, her long hair the only thing keeping her modesty as it fell over her breast, and surprisingly reached down to her vagina.


    "What''s your name," Seth asked.


    "Minuha" the now appeared woman said, her voice smoothly flowing as she stared Seth in the eye, but before Seth could say anything more, she spoke,


    "Release the princess or else she dies, along with your dream of finding the soul fruit," Minuha said, a shadow appearing behind the vulnerable and surprised Irene, putting a ck de to her neck, the woman unable to do a thing.


    Hearing Minuha''s words, Seth''s hand went back to Ell''as left hand, but this time didn''t go for her fingers but instead her arm, firmly gripping it and then Turing it around, his actions breaking E''s arm and sending the unconscious woman trembling.


    After seeing this, Seth looked at Minuha and seeing her still hesitating, probably trying to make a decision, he began slowly bending E''s hand backward, threatening to snap it at the elbow, the squeaky sound of E''s bones trying to resist Seth action sounding out.


    The pain from Seth''s action had E begin trembling once more, but before Seth could go any further, Minuha epted her defeat.


    "I surrender, stop hurting her," she said, the shadow which had appeared behind Irene copsing and sinking back into the ground.


    With her hands in the air, Minuha who stood in front of Seth surrendered and Seth immediately gave his next orders.


    "Find the key from his body and release Irene''s cor," Seth said, the shadow woman nodding her head and immediately moving towards Gastrol''s corpse.


    A minuteter, Minuha was at Irene''s side releasing her cor, and when she was done, both women walked over to him.


    "Restrain her with the cor," Seth said to Irene, who immediately turned to Minuha, and after staring at her for some seconds, she spoke,


    "She isn''tplete".


    Irene''s words seemed to freeze up Minuha, but one look at Seth''s frowning face, and various patches of shadows began flowing from around them and moving into Minuha, this went on for up to a minute, and then when shadow came crawling, Irene checked Minuha once more.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    "I can''t be totally urate, but am sure this isn''t more than 80% of herplete self," Irene said.


    Just 80%, this meant that Minuha could still somehow channel about 20% of her strength to go against Seth at any time, but this fact didn''t bother Seth for long.


    "Can you restrain her?" Seth asked, and the words had just barely left his mouth when two ice knives appeared in Irene''s hands and she stabbed them into Minuha, Irene not stopping there as she stabbed several more, two knives for each limb.


    Irene''s using Ice told Seth of the possibility that all rabbit people were ice users, but he couldn''t help but look at Irene with a raised eyebrow when she was done stabbing Minuha.


    "She doesn''t wear clothes because they would interfere with her ability to seamlessly transform to and interact with shadows, my ice knives willpletely negate that ability, and my qi in them will also interfere with her ability to control her qi" Irene exined.


    "Couldn''t you have just used the cor" Seth inquired.


    "The cor could have worked, but that wouldn''t do anything to prevent her from freeing herself with the shadows she still has out there," Irene said, picking up the cor and cing it on Minuha''s neck.


    "There, that should hopefully keep her quiet," Irene said, looking at Minuha whose expression barely changed.


    "Hmm she doesn''t look worried, there is a chance that she still has a foolproof backup n, or perhaps she''s just bluffing," Irene said.


    "Perhaps," Seth said," how far will she go to protect E," he asked.


    "oh don''t mind her being all tough earlier, I have been with them long enough to know this woman is more than ready to die for the princess," Irene said with a chuckle.


    "Good then, tie her up," Seth said, and then turned to Dilise who had remained mum throughout, the woman, not knowing what to do, unable to influence either side.


    "Dilisee over here," Seth said," the woman slowlying over, her fear for Seth more than apparent".


    "I''m sure you have one of these" Seth said pointing to the cor on Minuha''s neck," take out one of them and ce it around your neck".


    Hearing Seth''s words, Dilise''s face went through several expressions before it settled on anger, anger at Seth''s mockingmand, she felt her pride being trampled upon, and at this moment wanted to defend it at all cost.


    Dilise firmed up her body and got down into a fighting stance, the woman fully focused on Seth ready to react to any of his attacks despite knowing it might be in vain, but almost a secondter, she fell forward,pliments of Irene knocking out the tunnel zoned woman from behind.


    "I''m guessing you didn''t want me killing her," Irene said as she carried the body over and dropped it beside the tied-up Minuha.


    "Yes, she''s a brave woman," Seth said looking at the unconscious Dilise before finally letting go of E.


    Seth turned and moved away from E, his hands moving to rub at his space ring, but not before he dropped an order for Irene,


    "Take off E''s clothes".