"Why was someone still deserting in the middle of a battle?"
"That wasn't very heroic."
Xu Zhi swept her gaze around again. She truly couldn't find any trace of Lust through [Eye of Secrets], so she had Xiao Zhen patrol the area once more, wary of the enemy doubling back. Only then did she lean against the wall and let out a breath.
Once she fully relaxed, Xu Zhi felt a dull headache and overwhelming exhaustion. Worse still was the hollow emptiness caused by her lack of extraordinary energy.
Only some of the messy wounds on her body had healed on their own. Blood still dripped continuously from the rest, making her face slightly pale.
For once, Xu Zhi didn't think about anything. She simply let her mind go blank.
About ten minutes later, she finally snapped out of that vacant daze. She took several Moth Attribute Cores from her storage and tossed them into her mouth to replenish her extraordinary energy. She also tried to put Sloth's body into her storage, only to find that she couldn't.
"Just as I thought. Even like this, this guy isn't completely dead."
Such powerful vitality truly befitted a second-rank Cup.
Ye Yan was completely dead, so he could be stored away. Xu Zhi intended to take him back as fertilizer for Little Aberration. After all, an Archbishop's corpse was practically a supreme tonic for a Cup Aberration.
The pain in her body probably wouldn't fade anytime soon. Though impossible to ignore, it remained entirely within Xu Zhi's tolerance. More troublesome was the mental exhaustion, which might take longer to recover from than her physical injuries. Even after replenishing her extraordinary energy, the fatigue couldn't be dispelled.
Xu Zhi thought back carefully. Counting it up, she had never truly fought such intense battles