Even Silica herself had never expected those words to come from her mouth.
Had she practiced saying them? Of course she had, but she had never been this fluent before.
When she practiced alone, she had been too shy to get the words out. Yet when she faced Feng Chen himself, she had been able to speak without hesitation.
"I... I didn't mean what I just said! D-don't take it seriously! It was just a joke, only a joke!"
(Come on, say you don't think it was a joke and hug me already!)
That was what Silica was really thinking.
"A joke? Then forget it. Let's keep moving. Everyone else is working on the strategy, while we're the only ones slacking off here. We'd be letting them down."
Feng Chen turned and headed deeper into the Labyrinth Area, leaving Silica behind.
(What is this guy even thinking?!)
Silica stamped her foot, but that didn't seem enough to express her anger, so she began ambushing the monsters around them nonstop to vent her fury.
Short blades had a relatively high attack speed and were assassination-type weapons, just like daggers. Silica's ambushes were fast and helped her vent her anger, but her body couldn't withstand the strain.
"Huff... huff..."
Sure enough, she was already gasping for breath.
"Don't waste your stamina here. There's still a big fight ahead."
No sooner had he said it than a Flying Sword flashed toward Silica's eyes.
"Star Platinum The World!"
As it happened, Feng Chen's skill slots also contained a Flying Sword skill of the same type. What was more, he had a Time Fracture skill that perfectly countered Flying Sword.
There was poison on the Flying Sword. It seemed the other side had put considerable effort into this.
Strictly speaking, it wasn't yet time in