The alchemy golem Furiel was about to attack turned around at that moment, its cold, glinting blade hacking toward her.
Seeing this, Elias flashed a triumphant smile.
In the emergency, Furiel raised both claws, catching the blade barehanded.
However, the alchemy golem possessed immense strength and pressed down hard. The golem behind her, which had been blocked by her dragon tail, also reacted, thrusting its single blade toward her back.
Furiel gritted her teeth; this strike would certainly be enough to give her a hard time.
At that critical moment, Jonavili opened her mouth slightly.
"Chrono Lock."
With her as the center, an ice-blue clock face rapidly expanded, and everything nearby was hit with a pause button.
Feeling the magic power within her being rapidly consumed, Jonavili did not delay. She rushed to Furiel's side and seized the alchemy golem's head with both claws.
With a flick of her dragon claws, she tossed it toward Elias, who was not far away.
With a thought, the time stop ended. The smile still lingered on Elias's face, but the two alchemy golems charging toward him were expanding infinitely in his eyes.
'What's going on?'
Just as the thought arose, Elias lost consciousness.
Seeing herself suddenly out of trouble, Furiel looked at Jonavili in anger.
"What are you doing?! This was my prey!"
Facing the instantly hostile Furiel, Jonavili was not surprised.
"Get real, Furiel. If it weren't for me, you'd be dead meat~"
As she spoke, Jonavili tilted her head and stuck out her big pink tongue, pretending to be dead.
Jonavili was telling the truth; given the attack power of the alchemy golems, Furiel's dragon scales definitely wouldn't have held up.
"You! ...You..."
Though Furiel was angry, she knew very well that Jonavili was right.
"Even if I were killed, it would have been my fate!"
"Don't be so hot-headed."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jonavili snapped her fingers. Ice-blue magic circles appeared beneath the two golems that were standing up, freezing them on the spot.
But this was only temporary. With their strength, it wouldn't take long for them to break free.
Seeing this, Furiel's dragon eyes narrowed.
'This Jonavili has grown stronger again!'
Though she was surprised in her heart, she gave a cold snort on the surface and flicked her dragon tail, flying off toward White Crystal City.
Looking at the back of the sulking girl, Jonavili shook her head.
"Looks like I'll have to deal with this trouble for a while longer."
Then, she turned to look at the fractured ice crystals and, with a flap of her dragon wings, landed in front of them.
Her white dragon claws reached out, piercing into the core hub of one alchemy golem.
The magic barrier resisted Jonavili's dragon fingers, emitting bursts of white light.
Seeing this, Jonavili pulled back her dragon lips into a grin.
"Somewhat interesting, but... not very."
The muscles on her arm bulged. As Jonavili exerted force, her sharp claws pierced in ruthlessly. The magic circuits on the alchemy golem's body flared with white light, and the layers of ice crystals shattered.
Her crystal-blue pupils suddenly widened.
"This is..."
Her massive dragon wings shielded Jonavili. The next second...
Boom!
A massive explosion erupted from the alchemy golem. When the dust finally settled, a large black crater remained.
Her pristine white dragon wings had turned pitch black, and cracks appeared on her smooth dragon scales.
Jonavili's gaze sharpened.
"I didn't expect a self-destruct to be set up. I was too careless.
But these things really don't hold up well under dismantling."
Afterward, Jonavili opened her claws. Lying there was the unconscious human, along with the alchemy golem that had been shielded by her dragon wings.
Jonavili was in no hurry to kill Elias; after all, she still had things to ask him. As for the alchemy golem...
Jonavili extended her claws and began to destroy the magic circuits carved into it.
A moment later, the alchemy golem lost its ability to move.
Having done this, Jonavili gathered the remaining relatively intact fragments of the alchemy golems, bundled them all up, and flew toward White Crystal City.
...
After five hours of flight, Jonavili returned to the massive city-state, where the kin inside were cleaning up the damage caused by the battle.
Seeing Jonavili's return, Xiao Shunzi, Erlingzi, Medusa, and the other servants rushed out of the city to greet her.
"Greetings, Great Master."
Jonavili piled the alchemy golems on the ground, transformed into her human form, and sat on the palm of one of them.
"Xiao Shunzi, report. How did the battle go this time?"
"By your will.
The counter-ambush plan was a massive success. Before the humans could act, we followed your orders and had all the White Crystal knights return to their original forms and feign sleep in the city.
The low-level residents in the city were arranged to leave in advance, so there weren't many monster casualties.
On the other hand, most of the humans chose to surrender."
Hearing Xiao Shunzi's report, Jonavili gave a slight nod.
"Not bad. Bring those surrendered humans forward."
"As you command, Great Master."
Xiao Shunzi stood up and flew into the city.
It was then that Jonavili noticed Erpiezi was staring intently at something.
Curiosity rising, she followed Erpiezi's gaze and found him staring fixedly at the alchemy golems.
"Erpiezi."
There was no answer. Jonavili frowned slightly and raised her volume.
"Erpiezi."
Still no response. Beside him, Medusa quickly whipped her tail, slapping the back of the white-scaled goblin.
Erpiezi stumbled forward from the blow and finally snapped out of it.
"Here, my Lord! Please forgive me, my Lord!"
Jonavili wasn't angry. Originally, she just wanted to ask if he had seen Furiel, but now she had a bigger question.
"Are you interested in these?"
Hearing Jonavili's words, Erpiezi froze for a moment, then nodded hesitantly.
"In response to Master, for some reason, I have a faint sense of familiarity with these... these things.
But I can't say exactly why it's familiar. It's like... like..."
"Like what?"
"Like it's being blocked by some kind of power. I can't say it, I can't describe it. I only have a slight feeling."
Jonavili looked at him, then at the alchemical creations beneath her feet.
"Do you know what these are?"
"This subordinate does not know."
Jonavili wore a thoughtful expression.
"The name of this thing is... an alchemy golem."
As soon as these words were spoken, Erpiezi's pupils shrank into tiny dots that trembled incessantly.
Suddenly, he reached out with both hands and clutched his head. He felt like he was about to remember something, but it was always being locked away by a mysterious power.
This caused him a splitting headache, as if his brains were being stirred by someone.
Seeing this, Jonavili had a general guess. It concerned a record of a certain race within her inheritance memory, but she wasn't certain.
Looking at Erpiezi rolling on the ground, Jonavili turned to Medusa and the other personal maids.
"Go prepare some food for me."
"As you command, Great Master."
Not long after Medusa left, Xiao Shunzi and a group of White Crystal knights escorted the surrendered humans out of the city gate and arrived before Jonavili.
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