Making Her Move

Fran glanced at everyone's reactions. Heather looked incredulous, while Rachel next to Heather also looked shocked.

Only Tristan, on the other side, showed only a slight look of surprise, as if he had expected all of this.

Fran knew that if her guess was correct, then Tristan was a close associate of the Alliance, and it was possible that he was the one who told Ophelia Fran that she would appear in the trial.

However, Fran's face was grim, and she had no interest in probing for more information, because she had a very important thing to do—to kill.

Now that Ophelia is gone, she only needs to find one more opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the remaining three Proxy to eliminate all the obstacles in the Trial.

Now, all she needs is an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

She glanced at the two who seemed somewhat shocked by Ophelia's direct return to the Material Realm, and decided that she still had to start with them.

Heather was at a loss for words!

When she first met Fran, she was excited, but that wasn't the worst of it. However, Ophelia, who had walked alongside her, seemed to have just come over to say hello and then left.

This puzzled her. "Isn't our mission as Proxy to prevent others from passing this Trial? Why did you just leave?"

She had previously thought that while finding Fran was the other party's top priority, there was another important matter, but this one was simply given precedence.

However, Ophelia simply said goodbye and withdrew from the Trial, making Ophelia doubt whether she had seen things correctly.

"Why did she just leave?" Heather voiced her doubts directly.

No one responded to her statement, because no one knew what to say.

After calming herself down a bit, Fran coughed twice.

"Let her go, let's continue with our mission."

Upon hearing this, the others stopped paying attention to this area and continued their stroll on the reddish-brown earth.

After walking a few steps, Fran suddenly nudged Heather's shoulder.

Heather was still lost in thought about what had just happened and hadn't come to her senses. When she turned around and saw that it was Fran who had touched her, she said somewhat irritably:

"What? I didn't notice you earlier, I didn't expect you to follow me."

Fran raised an eyebrow and then said:

"Don't act like I'm some kind of enemy. We are all Proxy of the Deity, and we are on the same side in this Trial."

"Hmph!" Heather snorted, turning her head away and ignoring Fran's attempt to get closer.

Fran blinked, sighed, and then said:

"I remember the last time we met, you wanted that purple Short Sword, didn't you?"

Upon hearing this, Heather immediately became interested and hurriedly said:

"Oh... you want to return that weapon to me?"

Fran drew the Purple Shortsword from beneath her robe and said:

"Of course, let's use this weapon as proof of our reconciliation."

Heather stopped and said in surprise:

"Are you really going to give me this weapon?"

"Of course, it's definitely true."

Fran reached out and placed the Purple Shortsword within Heather's reach.

Heather was somewhat surprised that Fran actually handed over the item, but since Fran had already done so...

Unbeknownst to Heather, behind Fran, out of sight of others, Fran's other hand was Channeling Spell.

Heather's attention was completely focused on the Short Sword Fran handed her, and she was completely unaware of the little tricks Fran was playing behind her back.

Heather slowly placed her hand on the hilt of the sword, then suddenly snatched the Short Sword away. The instant she held it, Heather knew that this was the Short Sword she was looking for.

She looked at the amethyst on the Short Sword; it was the same one she had seen in the exhibit section before.

"Then let's just drop this matter, shall we?" Fran asked with a smile.

Heather didn't answer immediately, but nodded, her feelings complicated, before subconsciously saying:

"Yes..."

Heather turned her gaze to the Short Sword. Although she had given up on finding Short Sword after that day, she was only somewhat concerned about Short Sword.

What she remembers most vividly is the frustration of Fran taking the things she wanted to buy and being unable to beat her.

But now that Fran has returned the Short Sword to him, the matter can be considered half over.

Heather ran her hand over the blade of the Short Sword; the proportions were the same as the ones she had seen in the exhibit, but...

Where did that rune go?

After examining the Short Sword, Heather realized something was wrong: the rune was missing from the Short Sword.

It's important to understand that most of the value of this Short Sword comes from that ' Ancient Rune '; without that rune, the value of this Short Sword would be greatly reduced.

Moreover, Heather originally wanted this weapon because she was interested in the rune on it.

Fran was somewhat surprised that Heather would ask about this; she had actually already changed the rune on it.

Furthermore, it's not a good idea to show Heather the rune on it now. After all, if she saw that the current rune is the rune of the Goddess of Ocean Currents, she would go crazy.

Before handing it to Heather, she used a special method to hide the rune, and only then did she feel safe handing over the Short Sword.

After examining it thoroughly, Heather couldn't find any runes. Getting anxious, she immediately channeled her Mental Power into it.

The instant she infused it, a faint glow symbolizing a rune appeared on the Short Sword.

"Could it be that this Ancient Rune has been unused for so long that it has hidden itself?" Heather herself was making excuses for why the rune hadn't appeared yet.

But when she looked at the runes on the Short Sword, she only saw a familiar pattern.

Before she could continue looking, everything in front of her suddenly went dark; all the light vanished in that instant.

Before she could even recover from examining the runes, she felt as if her body was being bound by something, and she could feel tiny particles squeezing her bare skin.

That's when she realized she had been attacked.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Heather reacted immediately. She struggled desperately with her hands, but the feeling of being bound prevented her from moving.

Before she could even struggle for long, a beam of red light shot out from below her, and then Heather felt herself lose sensation in her chest, her consciousness beginning to sink.

"This is Sunflame Arts." Heather suddenly realized that the Trial participant who wanted to pass the Trial had ambushed her.

"But this Sunflame Arts... I think I saw her use it the last time I met her." At the same time, she also felt a sense of familiarity after sensing the red light.

After hearing the description in the record Valerie found, Heather felt that the description of this Sunflame Arts was very similar to the red light Arts that Fran used when they last Fran.

Now, Heather is quite certain that Fran used Sunflame Arts back then.

Whatever thoughts Heather had in her mind was useless, because her body immediately became ethereal, and she could do nothing.

After Fran plunged the club into Heather's chest, she immediately turned and pulled it out, then looked back at another spot surrounded by yellow sand.

One advantage of this team is that the three Proxy are positioned relatively close together, unlike the three-person team Fran encountered before.

Since the attack on the flying target failed, she could only use [Heart of Quicksand] to envelop the opponent and prevent them from moving, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to hit a flying target at all.

Once she got to this point, things became much simpler. Since the three people were positioned very close together, she simply surrounded them and immediately used Sunflame Aegis to finish them off.

Almost the instant she killed Heather, she swung her club and slashed it hard at the sand dune closer to Fran.

The red light swept across Tristan's entire waist, splitting him in two. From the moment he realized he was trapped to the moment he was ambushed and killed, he was unable to make any move.

"Why did my divination lead me here to my death?"

Tristan was very puzzled. Wasn't he supposed to be divining the best option here? Why did it end up like this?

Then Fran looked at the last pile of yellow sand, and she was somewhat surprised to see that the pile of yellow sand began to tremble.

So far, this is the first Proxy has been able to struggle under her [Heart of Quicksand] bindings, until she saw Rachel's power fluctuations and realized the truth.

"So it's the Proxy of the Elephant of Mountains; no wonder it was able to struggle inside."

Even if the other party struggles here, it's pointless, because it would take them at least a minute to break free.

Normally, one minute is enough, since even a Second Order Profession User cannot guarantee that they can break through an Proxy's defenses within one minute.

However, Fran not only possesses this skill to bind opponents, but also the powerful Sunflame.

Fran didn't step forward; instead, she threw the baseball bat directly. A red light suddenly shone on the bat, and then the red light shot through the sand dune like an arrow.

The sand particles that flew up from the sand dunes landed steadily on the now calm, pyramid-shaped sand piles.

This last Proxy was thus killed by Fran.

"It's finally over." Fran breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the largest red sphere in the sky.

"The rest is just some wasted time."

Without these Proxy, although there are still some Trial Trial brought in by the Spirit Realm, Fran dares to say that no one can stop her from obtaining the Sunflame Knight Profession now!