Elara closely followed behind.
After arriving in person at the basement, the space below was even larger than what Elara had just seen through the floor tiles.
Countless attendants were transferring pregnant men and women who had been locked to the bedboards, obviously alarmed by the events above ground.
The Salvia Emperor squeezed his way through them in a crooked but familiar manner.
Elara followed him through the crowd and saw him push aside the people surrounding the pregnant ones. He then felt around on the wall at the deepest point for a while and suddenly opened a deep and narrow tunnel, crawling into it.
Elara followed closely and at the same time instructed the System in her mind to bring up the map information detected by the [Map Tracker]. She "saw" that the deepest part turned out to be a huge underground open space.
She frowned. Could it be that the Divine Mirror was placed there?
But after following the Salvia Emperor into the large underground space, Elara did not find anything related to the Divine Artifact inside.
She only saw the flustered and trembling Salvia Emperor stumbling into a recessed and hidden corner, squatting down and hugging his knees. He curled up in the corner, shaking and not moving.
Elara had the System and the [Map Tracker] scan the entire open area carefully again, but still found nothing.
Since there was nothing around, there was only one possibility left.
That Divine Mirror must have been carried on the Salvia Emperor's body the entire time!
Thinking this, Elara kept a panicked and frightened expression on her face as she approached the Salvia Emperor.
"Your Majesty, don't be afraid..."
Before she could finish saying the word "afraid," the moment Elara touched the Salvia Emperor, a dagger fell from her sleeve and stabbed toward the trembling man.
The quiet air suddenly rippled.
Elara stabbed at the Salvia Emperor precisely to trigger that ripple.
After all, the Divine Mirror hadn't been found, and the three Blood Robe Tower assassins hadn't all appeared. The Salvia Emperors, who inherited the Divine Mirror, had all been deliberately trained since childhood.
As long as they still felt they "had something to rely on," they would never use the Divine Mirror.
Sure enough, just as Elara's dagger was about to pierce the Salvia Emperor's neck, although he was so terrified that his whole body was limp, he still did not use the Divine Mirror.
Instead, it was the final Blood Robe Tower assassin in the air who was forced to reveal himself!
Elara thought to herself, "He's here," and her hand didn't stop. Just as the dagger was about to pierce the Salvia Emperor, it was blocked by a flying hidden weapon. At the same time, a terrifying and chilling murderous aura suddenly filled the whole open space.
She pulled back the dagger and suddenly leapt backward!
The next instant, a man holding a longsword was standing where she had just been.
The man wore a mask, and even though he was alone, the aura around him was stronger than the two assassins who had just been lured away by Uno combined!
This overwhelming inner force surging around him before even making a move... he must be the number one assassin on the Heaven List of Blood Robe Tower.
Elara sighed deeply in her heart. Fine. Although she had encountered the strongest opponent, at least he was alone.
Uno had to face the second and third at the same time.
As she was thinking about all this, the man's figure disappeared again, striking toward her like lightning.
In the blink of an eye, the two had exchanged over a hundred moves.
Because of their extreme speed, from the perspective of the Salvia Emperor, it looked like two black shadows entangled with each other.
Fortunately, Elara had undergone special training in the "Core Palace" and broken through to the seventh level of the Divine Spirit Mystic Technique, which greatly enhanced her overall strength. Her speed and power had multiplied several times over! Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to keep up with his speed at all, and just one exchange could have resulted in her being killed on the spot by his sword.
But even so, as the top assassin ranked first on the Heaven List of the Blood Garment Tower, a man who had killed since childhood, his experience and techniques were far superior to Elara, who had only learned martial arts for a few months.
Luckily, the Divine Spirit Mystic Technique was indeed a top-tier and powerful technique. Breaking through to the seventh level had allowed Elara to gain ultimate training in handling all kinds of weapons and techniques. This enabled her to use extremely simple moves to counter various cunning and deadly attacks with rich experience behind them.
No wonder it was the legendary golden technique the System had recommended to her! Elara once again felt the absolute quality of something produced by the System.
However, even with the boost from the Divine Spirit Mystic Technique, Elara's increased speed and strength could only barely keep up with him.
She could block all his moves, but she could only passively defend against them.
If they continued to fight like this, in another ten or twenty minutes, Elara would definitely lose.
But the Heaven-ranked assassin didn't seem to want to tangle with her even for one more second. He wanted to kill her as quickly as possible.
Even after noticing that Elara's speed and strength hadn't completely matched his, the assassin didn't want to waste time and energy.
He wanted to finish Elara off faster.
So, after a few hundred exchanges, the assassin suddenly withdrew during one clash and swiftly retreated to stand in front of the Salvia Emperor. He raised his hand, with his empty arm aimed straight at Elara.
There was clearly nothing on that arm, yet Elara once again felt a bone-chilling, deadly threat coming from it.
She instinctively activated her Windcloud Boots, which were disguised as regular shoes, and instantly pushed her speed to the limit, dashing to the left in a flash.
The next second,
a blinding light flared from the assassin's seemingly empty arm like an illusion.
A blinding, walnut-sized orb of light, as bright as a small sun, appeared from his arm. Just as Elara dashed away, it shot toward her like a photon cannon launched at lightning speed!
Right after Elara dodged, the "photon cannon" suddenly turned in mid-air as if it had a will of its own, rapidly chasing after her again!
Elara pushed the Windcloud Boots to their maximum once more! Her already incredible speed, combined with the boost from the boots, turned her into what seemed like a true "lightning bolt"!
But even so, the "photon cannon" behind her continued to chase her tightly! It kept accelerating and adjusted its direction to follow her turns, not letting her go!
After one more sharp turn, Elara suddenly came to her senses and slashed precisely at the "photon cannon" with her dagger!
The "photon cannon" shattered instantly, really struck by her attack!
However, after the cannon broke apart like a falling star, the scattered star-like fragments were somehow drawn back toward her, surging toward her again like streams of glowing light!
Damn it!
The Heaven-ranked assassin's divine bloodline gift was even more troublesome than that light purple scale armor!