As Liang came out of the ancient ruin, the skeletons retired back into their graves like obedient puppies, crawling back into their coffins after a night out. Peace returned to the ruins once again.
Then.
"Chaos… chaos.... chaos…"
"Shut the hell up already?! " Liang snapped, charging into the open, outside the ruin. "You're like a drunk pigeon on huangjiu with an anxiety issue."
Xu Wen, ever the unhinged voice in his head, whispered to him "Do you smell that? That's the scent of incoming drama and danger."
Before Liang could reply with something witty(or burst into sobs), there appeared a group of black-clad individuals, like they'd been waiting in the shadows. And at the forefront was she.
Oh dear.
Her hips swayed and bosom boinged with each step she took.The air around became stiff, a dark aura emanated from within her. Two sharp red shining light could be sighted from her dark hoodie
She marched forward as if she owned the entire continent, her whip dragging behind her like a red carpet. She was stacked — in every sense that made Liang's eye go haywire and almost restart his entire nervous system. Tall, curvy, authoritative, and dressed up like a sexy death goddess.
"Oh Wow." Liang growled, involuntarily looking over her. His accursed eye flared and betrayed him for an instant — revealing everything underneath her clothing. Red lace lingerie covered her voluptuous body. Then he saw weapons and yet another, and another, giving him a chill down his spine. A dagger buckled into her thigh strap. Hidden throwing needles in her bra. More blades in her boots than a chef's drawer.
Xu Wen let out a low whistle. "Daaaaamn. She built like a sexy war machine. And you? You're the poor bastard about to get interrogated by her."
Lady Sha stopped a foot away, dropped her hoodie and cocked a perfectly arched eyebrow, and gave him the kind of look that undressed and insulted him at the same time.
"So you're the new demon eye vessel now? Didn't that scummy old hermit tell you the details?, you were only to retrieve the item and get rewarded not steal it for yourself." she said, voice silky and deadly.
'That old hermit? Does she mean that old man... Damn him'
"Well....I was expecting someone...less Virgin and masculine. How did you manage to survive the chaos in the ruins and get to the eye?"
Liang coughed. "I-I'm not a virgin."
"Uh-huh." She walked around him in a slow, deliberate circle. "Tell that to your shaking knees and that awkward boner you got."
Xu Wen was now laughing hysterically. "SHE GOT YOU HARD! Mortal, you'll be dying with a stiffy."
Liang instinctively covered himself. "This is a violation of at least three human rights."
Lady Sha leaned over, closer, her breath hot against his ear. "You're a lost puppy, and I love puppies. Especially when they squeal. It's like a symphony of submission in my ears."
Liang pulled back, his eyes wide. "I don't squeal, I roar!!" He snapped, trying to regain some semblance of composure.
Lady Sha's smile widened, but it was cold now, calculating. "Oh, do you?" She stood tall, her whip flicking ominously through the air. "Let's see if you can roar your way out of this. See if you can even summon the courage to use the demon eye. If not… well, I do enjoy breaking toys."
Her tone shifted, a dark, almost predatory gleam in her eyes. "If you survive this, maybe I'll let you see how much more of me you can handle. But I wouldn't count on it."
Xu Wen whispered, "She's gonna peg you little vessel."
"SHUT UP, XU WEN!"
Xu Wen wheezed like a demon on discounted meds, "Run, brawl or simp mortal. There is no in-between."
But Liang froze. Not with fear — okay, maybe a bit of fear — but mainly because Lady Sha simply leaned down to lace her boot, and his accursed eye zoomed in on its own like a camera lens.
"Xu Wen, for gods' sake—make it stop!"
"You're welcome," Xu Wen snickered. "I'm just trying to give you a well deserved sensory experience."
Lady Sha stood up and slashed her whip in the air with a snap, the sound ringing through the air. "You're distracted. That won't do."
"I'm not distracted!" Liang protested, his voice a little too high. "I'm just surveying the battlefield. Strategically. With honor."
She laughed — a husky, dangerous laugh. "You? Honor? Oh Please spare me that. You've been undressing me with that demon eye since I stepped into your view."
Lady Sha moved closer, and the air around her literally sparked. Her henchmen waited patiently, gambling quietly whether she'd murder him or wed him. Maybe both.
"You know," she said, tracing a finger down Liang's chest, "if you weren't so handsome, I'd have killed you a while ago but this face of yours is certainly too charming"
"Thanks? I guess" he said.
"And if you weren't carrying that soul bomb in your eye, I'd have let you take me to dinner first, what a waste. "
Liang blinked. "Wait, is this flirting or a threat?"
"Yes" she said as a matter-of-fact.
That's when Xu Wen laughed again. "Liang. Listen. She's crazy. You're crazy. This could be beautiful. Like a hot car crash."
"I don't go out with psychopaths!" Liang grumbled under his breath
"Why's your heart beating like a teenage boy in a brothel then?" Xu Wen's voice sounded annoying in his head.
Lady Sha turned and waved her hand. "Boys, time to break stuff, retrieve the demon eye for master. Let's see if he's as cute in a fight as he is when he's scared."
Her henchmen cracked their knuckles, flashing their blades and cackling as they stare at their target.
Liang breathed out. "Of course. Can't just flirt like normal people. Gotta throw knives. damn bitch"
Xu Wen raged in his mind. "Let's gooo! Blood, chaos, and a dominatrix with no sense of boundaries — I LOVE THIS ARC!"
"Before you love the arc will you please tell me how to beat the enemies. We can die here you know that" Liang panicked
"First time I'm getting a mortal this ignorant and dumb, these henchmen are a cakewalk, they will not take you a minute to kill. Just transfer my energy into your hands and body"
"Got it!. That won't be hard"
He tried to transfer the energy into his hands but instead the energy came out the back of his bum like a dragon breathing out fire
The minions looked at him in confusion, one of them burst out laughing. Lady Sha watched, amused at what he did. 'pathetic. Definitely just a virgin pretty boy after all'.
"what are you doing?. Idiot" Xu Wen scolded him with disgust and anger.
"Sorry I thought it'd be easy peasy. Let me try it again "
He tried his best to concentrate this time but instead he sneezed cursed energy out of his nose at one of the henchmen, his upper half disintegrated leaving some skeleton remnant
The other henchmen could care less as they were laughing extremely hard now at the comedy displaying before them "he's stupid boss". "Hilarious". "Can't we keep him?"
"Oh My **** you shame me mortal" Xu Wen snarled with displeasure
"wait, chill I'm a fast learner I'll surely get it right this time"
Liang breathed in deeply and slowly, he relaxed his tensed muscles and let the eye pulse — scarlet energy coursed around his hand.
"You wanna get rough?" he snarled, looking at Lady Sha and back at her henchmen. "Let's dance, you whip-slashing lunatic."
She licked her lips. "That's more like it, pretty boy."