The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

"I feel so miserable-"

The same sound echoed again. Another elder from the Maximus family fell victim -his heart ripped out on the spot with no resistance from him whatsoever.

This time, due to the different angle, Felix and Dickson both saw the terrifying figure. It was a woman dressed in a filthy, tattered white dress. Her hair was a wild mess, and her face barely visible.

"Let's go!"

The remaining four members of the Maximus family hesitated for a moment but immediately chose to flee.

This was simply too bizarre. The mysterious woman appeared all of a sudden and had already killed two of their elders with no visible techniques or essence.

Their morale was utterly crushed.

"I feel so miserable-"

The four words were like a death sentence. As the Maximus family members fled in fear, even Felix and Dickson quickly turned around, readying their defenses.

But behind them was no trace of the strange woman. Instead, a scream echoed from a distance-another Maximus elder had his heart ripped out and died on the spot.

The woman didn't vanish. Instead, her body stiffly turned, and she peered at them through her long hair.

A light breeze lifted a few messy strands of her hair, allowing Felix a glimpse of one of her eyes.

In the next moment, she disappeared, and with it, the haunting words ceased. That seemed to signal the end of the strange occurrence.

"Has she left?" Dickson swallowed hard. He, a seasoned fighter, had just clashed with two elders of the same realm from the Maximus family.

While he would have ultimately lost, holding his ground against them for a few minutes was a testament to his strength. Yet, he seemed shaken to the core after the encounter with the woman.

"She should have," Felix responded distractedly, his mind in turmoil.

The moment their eyes met, Felix recognized her-the elusive woman was none other than Zara, Silas' disciple who had gone missing some time ago.

Zara had left when the Twinshade Body was activated, and now, she had mysteriously appeared in Martial City, exhibiting signs of severe mental disarray.

Could this strange state be the result of her battle against the Twinshade Body?

The sight of the three dead Maximus elders, all of whom had attacked Felix earlier and wounded him, further confirmed Zara's identity.

"Zara, what has happened to you?" Felix wondered with a sigh.

Felix couldn't find the words to describe the situation. Everything that had happened today was anticipated, except for Zara's sudden appearance.

"This place is no longer safe. Who knows when that freakish woman will return? Let's go," Dickson said.

The two of them took some pills, made a few leaps, and vanished into the forest, leaving behind the three deadMaximus elders with their still-beating hearts.

However, Felix didn't know that there were others in the forest-one of them being

Delilah, who had been secretly refining pills in seclusion.noveldrama

She was surrounded by six people, each with an imposing presence.

"Who is that woman?" Delilah asked in shock, but no one could answer. None of

them had experienced anything this bizarre before.

That mysterious woman was a

terrifying force, as she had Instantly killed the middle-stage

Transcendent Realm martial artists without using a technique or

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After a long silence, someone's voice broke through.

"I might know something."