As if remembering something, the girl stared straight at her eyes exposed from her veil and spoke sincerely, "My name is Sucere."
The sweet smile was infectious, making Zemirah smile back despite almost brushing with death. Zemirah knew that trusting others easily was a trait that was not conducive to the world of cultivation. Yet she also knew in her heart who she can give her trust, it was just unknown if this trust would last long in the care of the other person.
"Zemirah, you can call me Mirah."
For Zemirah, she was not afraid of being betrayed but fear of missing other people due to distrust.
"Boom!"
"Swish-"
"AHH!"
As if an activation button was pressed, everyone killed and looted as they dreaded the arrival of the Evil Deity that descended in a patched body of a monster wolf.
Zemirah's eyes did not close despite the splashing blood from the enemy, her once white veil was now dripping with red from the blood of her enemy. She look behind her and saw the girl whose name is Sucere, throwing a dagger straight to an evil cultivator's heart.
The evil cultivator surprisingly did not dodge, his eyes staring straight ahead in a daze, seemingly had his mind captured by unknown.
Zemirah guessed that it was one of Sucere's skills.
The dagger smoothly sank on the skin, to the flesh and the heart. The enemy did not even utter a scream until he died in a daze.
She barely stopped before turning her attention to another enemy, her heart did not beat frantically at the sight of blood nor her hand trembled when feeling her weapon hurt another person.
Just this mental fortitude was admirable, making Zemirah sigh at herself for being inferior to a little girl. However, this did not deter her, instead, she increased her efforts, not wanting to be seen as a burden by her newly found little friend.
Zemirah raised her hand holding a thin beautiful sword and slashed on the unprotected stomach of the enemy, then bombarded another enemy with a talisman, icy arrows and flaming balls descending with ferocity.
Her pink robe danced with killing passion and her veil hid her murderous intent. Along with her is another murderous beauty in fiery red robe with her hair tied high with a red ribbon.
The enemies injured by Zemirah was harvested by Sucere with clean stab to the heart or sliced on the fragile necks.
When all enemy on their side was gone, their breath hurried and heartbeat exhalirated. Both women looked at each other and saw genuine appreciation for the other person.
It was a new experience for both person to find such a comrade through such coincidences.
Zemirah had fought with Roch before, but the man was in a higher realm than her. Her helped to him was limited to her higher grade talismans while her swordsmanship was merely a side dish.
She was not satisfied with their battles together.
Yet this girl perfectly complemented her sword with her dagger.
Zemirah immediately put Sucere in her list of friends that was to be treated with sincerity devoid of other intentions such as the system rewards. Though she won't stop gifting and receive rewards from Sia…
She smiled at Sucere before gesturing to other ongoing battles.
"Fight again?" Her voice barely hid her expectations.
Sucere was also happy to fight with this newly found comrade and nodded, "Yeah, let's go!" And with that, she ran to a nearby struggling group using her footwork technique.
Zemirah did not fall behind as she used her [Blink Star Footwork], a yellow-rank outstanding quality technique. In this process, she noticed that compare with Suceres technique, hers was noticeably inferior.
This made Zemirah vow to teach the footwork to her disciple after all this and get a better one.
The thoughts in her mind was set aside after she joined a new battle.
The two women quickly gained popularity in the field as they joined and helped many. Though both was also injured to varying degrees, their gains from the battles was not neglible.
"You good?" Zemirah asked concernedly to Sucere as she handed a new pill bottle for healing injuries when she noticed her emptying her healing pill bottle.
She heard Sia' notification together with Sucere's answer, "It's alright, thank you!"
"Let me count our spoils!" Seeing her volunteer, Zemirah nodded with a smile, not guarded that the girl would deceive her on the spoils. She noticed long ago that the girl was not some casual cultivator lacking in resources.
"You hold them for me first,' She said at the busy girl.
The combat experience, together with the spoils from the kills that were not yet distributed were all gains from this cruel battle. Though Zemirah was curious about the spoils, she did not forget the biggest enemy watching while nearing them.
Taking a deep breath, she decided to take out a trump card. An array disc she got by giving an array to her disciple.
It was one of the best rewards from Sia. A set of [Thunder God Killing Array] celestial-quality late-stage grade 2 array disc. This set of array has a main array disc together with 7 side disc to help the main user bear the brunt of the absorbed energy and to help controlling the powerful array.
If the user was a Foundation Building Realm cultivator, then that person can use the array set by himself with the abundant spiritual energy and the use of divine consciousness.
Zemirah only thought of using it now seeing that the conditions of use are met. Powerful enemy together with the required number of teammates to hold the array discs. Of course, she will hold the main array while distributing the side array discs.
"Sia, will they see the quality of the array?" She asked in her consciousness.
"As long as the celestial quality item have recognized their owner, they can be shown or hidden depending on the owner's will. Of course, people who have come in contact with celestial quality items can find some clues."
That was enough assurance for Zemirah.
Surely the number of people who have seen celestial quality items are few, right? She won't be so unlucky to meet one...