“You’re looking down on me!” Rita roared.“What? No!” Fred shook his head. “I’m just saying it as it is.”Fred walked over to the side, where he lit another cigarette before taking a long drag. Rita felt the urge to stomp over and argue, but she quickly gave up on that notion. She returned to the starting line and began running. She had run about four laps by now.Rita would record her time for each lap, but she still didn't achieve the result she wanted. After more than a dozen laps, she started feeling her energy drain. Even so, her time showed no changes. She felt like giving up when suddenly, she heard Fred’s voice ring out.“Quiet your breathing and focus. Let your heart, soul, and mind meld into one.” Despite not being loud, she could hear his voice echo in her mind and thunder in her heart.“What…?”Rita was exhausted when she heard Fred’s voice, and it stunned her. Before she could ask him what he meant, though, the man interrupted in a calm tone, “I’ll only say i

“Not feeling well, huh?” Fred narrowed his eyes and jumped, then disappeared with a gust of wind.In an opening in the outskirts of Sea City, the sky above was pitch-black, save for the bright moon hanging above. Rita was the only person visible in the place, and she walked lifelessly with her luggage in her hand. Her beautiful eyes were staring off into the distance in front as if she was waiting for someone.Yet, if one were to look into them, one would see not excited anticipation but rather despair. It was like she was waiting for death to take her life.After walking quite a distance, a black figure finally appeared before her.Rita shuddered when she saw the man.“What’s this? Scared of me?” The black-robed man sneered at Rita’s frightful expression. “You can run, just like you did before. And I’ll finally have a reason to go back and have some fun with your family, hmm? I’m sure they’ll love me and the games we’ll play, wouldn’t you agree?”“No!” Rita shouted. “I’m here,

“H-How are you so full of yourself?! You're risking your own life here!” Rita trembled with frustration.The black-robed man laughed aloud. “Hahaha! What an arrogant and ignorant idiot! And yet, I can’t say I’m surprised! You wanna die? Sure! How could I possibly say no to that?"The black-robed man reached out both his hands and started to shake his fingers.　Then, 10 different kinds of poison slowly slithered out of his fingernails and came together. It formed a colorful mist that headed toward Fred at an incredible speed.　“Run, Fred!” Rita could not help but exclaim.Yet, the man in question merely smiled. He did not move at all, almost as if he was unaware of the fatal poison coming his way.“Fuck!” Rita fell backward to the ground with a thud, her complexion pale with horror and despair.She could already imagine what would happen to Fred. He would get devoured by the Ten-Colored Illusion Enchantment and dissolve into a pile of blood and deconstructed flesh.Suddenly, Fre

Rita’s head immediately snapped over at those words. She proceeded to see a figure dressed almost identically to the man in black. Unlike him, the newly arrived individual was dressed in a white robe."Hehe, well said! I’m a poison master from the Whitevine clan! I happened to be passing by when I saw the poison master from the Blackvine clan actually having the gall to harm people so recklessly and unscrupulously here. How could I not intervene?"After saying this, the man in the white then immediately glanced at Fred with a smile. "Young man, please stand behind me. This person from the Blackvine clan won't be able to harm you with me here!"Before Fred could even react to that, Rita immediately ran to his side and said, "Fred, the Whitevine clan has always had a good reputation in South Carlos. With the Whitevine’s poison master here, we’re saved!"Rita then expressed her gratitude to the man in white robe who responded with a meaningful smile."What? You’re still not going to

He wanted to take down Fred immediately and then break both his hands and feet so that he would understand what true terror and hell meant. He wanted to make Fred realize the kind of existence that he had provoked. He was so furious that he could not wait for a moment longer!"This is the Black Witch’s Bloody Claw!"The black-robed man was lying on the ground and heavily injured. He was instantly filled with shock when he witnessed the move executed by the man in the white robe. He knew very well that this was one of the Whitevine clan’s crueler attacks that caused a victim to suffer the torment of having countless venomous insects devour their body. The victim might not die immediately, but they would experience unbearable agony until death finally claimed them. Due to this, the man felt fear course through him even though Fred was the target of the attack.When Rita felt the force of the white-robed man's palm, she was so gripped with terror that she wanted to scream. Yet, no so