Mom! Why do you keep hitting brother?

"Brother!" Ares ran to Noah's side after he got hit by Valentina's elbow and was thrown for about 10 meters.

Valentina didn't bother with her son's condition and looked at the purple lightning lizard that was about to disappear and assimilate into mana in the air.

*SLASH!*

She slashed her Scythe towards the Criline that was flying in mid-air approaching the almost disappearing lizard.

A greyish ray with yellow stripes flowing across intercepted the Criline and hit it cutting its body in half vertically.

*Sizzle~*

It was already heavily weakened, so as soon as it was cut in half by Valentina, both the sliced parts slowly started turning to ashes.

In the meantime, one more Criline was destroyed by the combined efforts of the Imperial guards.

Noah coughed up a mouthful of blood, he wasn't hurt in the slightest but he had to act a little.

"MOM! WHY DO KEEP HITTING BROTHER?" asked Ares in rage.

Although she doesn't say anything to her mother most of the time, it still hurts her heart when her beloved is beaten repeatedly.

If it was someone else other than their mother hitting her beloved brother, she would have already given them a death sentence.

Valentina glanced at Ares who was helping Noah to get up from the ground.

"Oh my sweet child, your brother is a wolf in sheep's clothing~" Valentina replied nonchalantly.

Gina who approached them just now heard this and flinched.

'Oh, my Goddess! How does she know?' Gina thought as she started remembering their intimate moments together. Noah is so natural and perfect that it seems like he has trained for thousands of years in the art of pleasuring women!

"What are you talking about mom! This still doesn't explain you beating up brother for no reason!" Ares retorted in anger.

Noah on the other hand smiled wryly and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"No reason? Oh, my sweet child, you are too naive. I will break all your legs next time, Noah" Valentina shook her head slightly but didn't say anything else.

Only confusion could be seen on Ares's face but Gina just flinched again 'All the legs? Oh Goddess why am I thinking everything has double meanings? Have I fallen so deep in the pleasures of the flesh?'

Suddenly, the remaining three Crilines ran towards each other, and instantly their bodies melted into each other.

Noah raised his brows slightly in astonishment, 'How interesting! Herd mentality. They can also communicate with each other and combine their strengths to fight a stronger opponent.'

Soon their bodies combined to form a greyish figure which morphed into an exact replica of the gigantic lightning lizard that Noah formed earlier but it was slightly bigger about 3.5 meters compared to Noah's which was 3 meters tall in height.

'Woah, they learn from their enemies? How amusing and entertaining!' Noah's eyes sparkled in wonder.

Gina and Ares had seriousness in their eyes when they saw the slimy monster copying Noah's attack.

Imperial guards were already at their wit's end. Seeing the monster turning into an even bigger monster, they could only shiver in fear. A deathly silence filled the forest.

"Hehehehehehe" Valentina giggled in delight. Only the mad laughter of a beautiful woman with pink hair and blue eyes, wearing a neon blue battle-suit could be heard echoing in the entire forest.

"..." Everyone except the greyish lizard, Noah, and Ares felt a chill passing down their spines.

The evolved Criline was a mindless creature that only acted on its instincts, and according to it, it has become several times stronger and its speed could now be compared to an S-rank.

It lunged towards the laughing woman, but before it could hit her, she sidestepped and swung her scythe towards its huge body.

*Sizzle~*

A deep cut formed on its body, but it didn't care about it as it was thoroughly enraged due to this woman.

It opened its large maw to rip her head but then...

Gina raised one of her palms high in the air and muttered "[Cragir]" as she clenched her palm into a fist instantly.

*Whooosh!*

The ground below the evolved Criline turned soft and muddy, as its feet sunk deep into the ground.

It tried to resist by moving even more frantically but it only increased the trap in which he has fallen, as the more it moved the more it drowned in the muddy swamp.

"Now!" signaled Gina while Noah and Ares nodded.

Ares and Noah approached the evolved monster while treading carefully and watching out for the muddy areas.

*SLASH!* *SLASH!* *SLASH!*

Both of them chopped the monster into countless pieces and ran back to Gina and Valentina's side.

Gina's spell lost its effect and the ground below the greyish lizard became normal again as it regenerated but this time it was considerably smaller than before, only about 3 meters.

At this time,

One of the Imperial guards threw a python made up of fire towards the evolved Criline as several other guards combined their spells to restrict its movements.

A few of them engaged it in close combat and again chopped it then retreated almost immediately.

As soon as the evolved Criline regenerated with a height of 2.8 meters, it opened its huge maw to roar but strangely no sound came out of it...

But-

A greyish mass of slime was shot from its mouth towards one of the guards.

In the meantime, Valentina focused and sliced her Scythe towards one of its hindlegs as she signaled Noah, Ares, and Gina to approach and attack it again.

The guard tried its best to defend against this greyish slime by throwing a fireball towards it, but nothing happened because of its high magic resistance and soon the greyish mass of slime was on its body.

The greyish mass of slime morphed into a python and wrapped itself around its neck instantly choking and snapping its neck like a twig.

The other guards sucked in a cold breath as their backs were drenched with sweat in fear and horror.

On the other hand, Valentina's attack did a large amount of damage to one of its legs but it regenerated quickly, but at this moment Gina arrived slamming her Warhammer at the same area where Valentina struck.

The evolved Criline's leg turned at an unnatural angle as most of its slimy flesh turned into a pulp of greyish flesh.

Ares and Noah reached and attacked its leg simultaneously reducing its legs to several pieces.

*Plop!*

The evolved Criline was thrown off balance and plopped on the ground as it tried to call back the fallen pieces of its leg.

But-

Valentina arrived at the site where one of its legs was turned into a greyish mass and snapped her fingers.

"[Kryosis]" she mumbled to herself as thick strands of [Anti-Energy] covered all the greyish mass.

It was the same technique that made everyone in the Empire fear this woman.

Just by snapping her fingers, she can make anything disappear into oblivion.

In the past few days, Valentina has improved this technique by a large margin as its efficiency and quality increased several times!

*SWOOSH!*

The mass of flesh vanished into thin air.

In the meantime, the guards finally heaved a sigh of relief after continuously attacking the greyish python as it finally turned into a pile of ash.

"Mother is as beautiful~ as talented" Noah exclaimed with a bright smile.

Valentina flinched and raised her eyebrows slightly, she could hear the subtle flirtatious tone in which he said it.

"Of course, Mom is the only woman I respect! Other's are just WHOR- *cough* *cough* useless" Ares also chimed in.

Gina also heard the slight flirtatious tone in which Noah said it, but she quickly shook her head thinking with a heavy sigh,

'Sigh~ I have been truly corrupted and my immorality has reached the peak that I am constantly hearing double meanings in everything related to Noah'.

Meanwhile, the monster was on its last straw.

It did everything, yet it was losing... It was feeling despair, pain, and anguish.

In its desperation, a last-ditch effort, it morphed into several pythons rushing towards every being in its sight.

A few guards were caught off guard and lost their lives while the small pythons rushing toward Valentina, Ares, Noah, and Gina vanished into thin air with the snap of Valentina's fingers and a few were attacked by Noah, Ares, and Gina repeatedly until they got small enough to be burned to ashes with simple spells.

"Whew~, that was interesting! right brother?" Ares asked as her eyes were brimming with determination to get even stronger and fight much stronger enemies.

Noah displayed a small smile and nodded after all the Crilines were destroyed.

"Tsk, I was expecting something more from it" Valentina clicked her tongue but still kissed Ares on her forehead to show her affection as she said, "You did great Ares" then she looked towards Noah who was already leaning forward for a kiss with a smirk but-

"Ouch!"

Valentina flicked his forehead with her finger and said:

"You too were amazing. I have never seen anything like Saber Intent and every time I see it, it still blows my mind!" Valentina genuinely praised Noah with a small smile.

Then she looked towards Gina and said:

"I didn't expect anything from you but you helped a lot as well, and by the way, it is 'Prince Noah', 'His Highness' not 'Noah'" Valentina whispered the last part in her ears as she squinted her eyes in suspicion.

Gina immediately got flustered and she tried to avoid Valentina's gaze as she realized her blunder.

But-

Who was Gina? Director of the top brand 'FashionX' where she has to deal with many people and change her attitude and personality depending on the person she talks to.

She maintained a neutral expression and replied while whispering in Valentina's ears:

"I am sorry about that Lady Valentina, but Prince Noah and I have been working together for so long as business partners that he himself asked me to address him by his name when we are alone and I truly forgot about that during the fight. Please forgive me for this small mistake of mine."

Valentina nodded in approval. She had many doubts but it quickly disappeared when she saw the confidence in which Gina spoke.

Although Ares could have heard everything with her enhanced senses of a C-rank practitioner, she was too busy checking up Noah's body for any injuries like a worried wife whose husband just returned from war.

"Let's go back!" Valentina ordered and without even bothering to look at the condition of the guards, she turned around to lead the way.

"Sigh~ Nothing happened to me, Ares. I am completely fine." Noah reassured Ares who insisted on checking each and every part of his body to make sure he was alright.

Gina was also worried about her lover and wanted to check up on him but she just bit her lips softly and followed behind Valentina.

Soon Ares and Noah also returned to their campsite and went back to their tents to rest.

'Dammit~... I was hoping to do something fun tonight but I guess she would be too tired for anything now' Noah thought while shaking his head a little in a disappointed manner as he cursed those useless monsters who ruined his night.

'Hmm...I will just check up on my prisoner tonight'. thought Noah as soon as he entered his tent.

Noah took a step forward brutally tearing apart space and appeared in a spherical shell with white walls where a woman with black hair and yellow eyes, wearing a tight-fitted black suit which displayed her gorgeous curves, cute cat ears, and a soft cat tail wiggling in the air was sitting on the ground leaning on the walls of the [Anti-Gravity] prison.