"How could you? HOW COULD YOU!" Damien cried out as his eyes turned red with anger, directed towards the woman who had just revealed the truth about his mother's death.

"Huh? It's because of you," Ophelia's expression twisted as she observed the man, who had been behaving like an insect just a moment ago, now meeting her gaze.

In a split second, her hand gripped his hair and swung his head towards the ground, causing his face to collide with the floor.

"Kugh!" Damien's face hitting the floor caused blood to splatter from his nostrils and broken nose bone. The force, inflicted by Ophelia, was only as strong as that of a normal adult male. She knew that any more force could potentially kill him.

In the end, she was not here to kill the man today, but to confirm that after today's events, the shadow did not back down from his promise to show her the path to immortality.

"Tch, Just make him a Cauldron you wanted and give me what I want." Ophelia shook Damien's chin to the side before backing away, feeling irritated by being reminded of her past. Looking down on the man one last time, she kicked him in the head, saying, "It all happened because of you, fool."

"Kugh!..", With injuries already on his face, a heavy kick landed on his head, causing Damion's body to hit the floor once again. He could hardly lift his fingers.

"Heh, you are certainly a woman of words," the shadow said with a smirk as it moved towards Damien, reaching out to grab him by the hair once again.

"Help me"

"Huh?" Due to the sudden words coming from Damian's mouth, Shadow halted and tilted his head in confusion, as did others in the room. Ye Fan stepped forward and remarked, "Has this fool completely lost it? Pfft."

"I said, help me escape this place one last time," Damien called out, feeling his mind barely under control but still wanting to live just so he could take his revenge on the woman who killed his mother.

He does not want to stay alive just to seek revenge on a few women or men who used him as a stepping stone, as their influence in his life was not important enough for him to even think about seeking revenge.

In the end, one may have emotions like anger, revenge, and love towards those who hold value in one's life, but for Damien, they were not deserving of his attention, leading him to accept death.

However, he now wants to live and seek revenge on the woman who claimed to have killed his mother.

"Haaah....The promise of my boss ends here, young master—SWOOSH" Suddenly, all of the individuals in the room could see intense internal energy filling the space, causing their gazes to turn towards a woman who had been unconscious on the ground just moments before. Now, she was slowly standing up, her entire body turning red with burning flames covering her skin, as if she was slowly turning into ashes.

"This?!" Edward quickly backed away as he observed the intense amount of internal energy emanating from the woman.

"She is burning her life force." Ophelia's eyes turned cold the moment she saw the woman going so far as to sacrifice her own life force just to save an incompetent, weak, and unworthy man like Damien.

"I don't care at all," Ye Fan took a step back before enveloping his entire body in internal energy. He closed a 10-meter distance in a blink and arrived with his claws directly aimed at the burning woman.

"Only if you hadn't burned that beautiful skin of yours..." Ye Fan's fingers was just an inch away from the woman before it vanished.

His fingers, to be exact, turned into ashes the moment they made contact with the woman's skin.

"Arrrghh?!" Crying out, he swiftly tried to retreat, but the passage of time had already brought the woman closer to him. In that brief meeting moment, her eyes met his, and she landed a slap on his face.

Bam!

Previously, his fingers had turned into ashes due to the low density of internal energy. However, his face was more durable, causing only the skin above it to burn as his body fell towards the nearby wall.

"Khwaaackk!?—drip drip " Falling to the ground with purple eyes of Ye Fan turning white, he lost consciousness. As he lay there in a half-dead state with blood dripping from his wounds.

However, his artifact had begun to heal his body quickly.

"Kill her, Ophelia," Shadow said, his hands clasped behind his back as he looked towards the burning woman, a gesture of frustration at her inaction.

"Pity" With those words, Ophelia disappeared.

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After half an hour,

Far away from the building, a man appeared to be walking through the dimly lit street with a stumbling body, unable to control himself due to a broken prosthetic leg and a bloodied face. With a trembling hand, he took out a phone from his pocket.

'T-they killed her', Damien's fingers were barely able to control the wetness dripping through them, as evidenced by his phone screen not responding well to his touch. His hollow eyes flashed with memories of the woman who had died while trying to block the path of those four people.

No, to be exact, it was only three. That shadow appeared to treat everything as child's play, letting Damien escape like some prey.

"Bastards!—bam!" Damien cried out as he punched the nearby wall in frustration. The phone in his hand slid down, but he caught it again before his body fell to the ground. He propped his back against the nearby wall.

His body was pushed to the limit, but his determination to survive and retaliate against the woman who falsely claimed to be his sister fueled his desire to endure this immense suffering.

"Cowards!" Sitting there, he reminisced about the final moments of struggle, where he left the room with his stumbling body, using the burning woman as a meat shield.

The memory came down to the last image before the door closed, where he saw her body being pierced by several swords before turning into ashes.

An image, just like last time, when he escaped while sacrificing Vandiana Panthera as well.