Saintess? Not Anymore! I'd Rather be a Destroyer-Chapter 385 - 322: Opal

Aurianna touched the puppet’s chest and the puppet jerked to life with a twitching shudder. Its hollow eyes glowed faintly as it stepped toward Elena, the wood creaking with every movement, before it finally became fluent.

"Don’t kill her. Just help her train," Aurianna instructed.

The puppet tilted its head, and inside its skull, a small red-and-blue striped spider shifted. It was connected to threads of mana-laced silk running through the puppet’s limbs, controlling the structure like a nervous system. Its eight eyes flicked toward Aurianna.

"Don’t worry. I’ll supply you with mana." Aurianna met the spider’s gaze without flinching. The puppet gave a stiff nod.

"Now, go to the training yard. It’ll spar with you."

"Thank you, Aurianna! You’re the best!" Elena threw her arms around her, grinning.

Aurianna stiffened at the sudden hug, her face twisting in mild annoyance before softening. A small smile tugged at the corner of her lips before she pushed Elena away.

"Let go. I need sleep. I have class later."

"Fineee," Elena groaned dramatically but didn’t resist. She waved and left with the puppet trailing behind.

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Elsewhere, under another Planet, Eva’s breath came ragged as she stood before five Regals. Behind them, a landscape was in ruins, and the alien people who had once lived in this world, their corpses were on the ground. Smoke curled upward painting the sky black.

"Big brother, I’m already bored. Let’s just kill her. My pet’s waiting for me at home," grumbled a young man. He had no face, only smooth flesh where his face should’ve been, and six massive arms sprouting from his torso. His rainbow-colored skin shined like broken gemstones.

Eva’s fingers twitched over the jagged stump of her other arm, torn clean off in the last attack of one of the Regals. ’Damn it. To think I’d meet bastards like them here...’ Eva thought biting her lips.

had been traveling around hoping to find some information about her wings and clock, following the information given. She finally found a lead here, and with it, a starship capable of ultralight travel. From here, she had planned to return to Dimension 127. But she hadn’t expected an ambush by Regals. Apparently they weren’t after her. She just helped to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Even the so-called strongest in this world who are considered gods here could do nothing against them and were brutally killed.

Three Rank 5 Regals and two Rank 2s. The worst combination possible. In only two hours, they had wiped the entire planet clean and since she was the only one who managed to survive they obviously came towards her.

Eva glanced as the Regal woman with ten eyes floating around her blinking wings covering her face. Her scales are shiny. That was the one Eva feared. One strike from her had already taken Eva’s arm.

Eva prepared to teleport away, but before she could finish the spell, the air warped. They were already there, surrounding her.

Her teeth ground together. ’Damn it!’ She snapped her fingers, and a colossal magic circle appeared across the sky, the size of nearly a third of the planet. Mana surged violently, shaking the ground. The circle flared, and a blast ripped through everything. Buildings crumbled, the land disintegrated, and fire swallowed that area entirely. Eva had already covered her entire body in a shield, sweat dripping down her brow, but she didn’t waste this opportunity.

She turned, focusing on her teleportation again, only to feel a hand clamp on her shoulder and her teleportation didn’t work. She couldn’t activate her power!

Her eyes widened. "Dammit....!" 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Realizing that Eva floated away as fast and she could and summoned several more of those same magic circles. "Dammit everyone’s dead anyway! So I might as well destroy you all along with that planet!" Eva yelled covering the entire planet in one massive magic circle causing the entire planet to explode shattering into pieces which caused a nebula.

’I have to keep running. I can’t go to another planet. For all I know they’ve probably destroyed the other planets,’ Before she could finish thinking, a flash appeared behind her and the person asked a kick to her side and she was hurled across the air, slamming into another planet’s surface which shattered her insides. But she was quickly healing.

Above, a Regal woman with four rainbow-colored wings spread her feathers wide, her eyes sharp as an eagle. Her legs bent into talons, she resembled a bird.

"We weren’t told a mini-god that strong would be here," she said coldly.

"Doesn’t matter." The six-armed Regal laughed.

Eva coughed blood, forcing herself to stand up. Her circuits sparked inside her broken arm. ’Shit, shit, shit. Just how strong did these bastards get while I was locked away?’ Eva thought, staring at her arm repairing slower than usual. That woman was definitely stronger than how normal Rank 5 Regals were in the past. Their power now would have rivaled a rank 2 regal from the past but she is rank 5.

’They’ve evolved,’ Eva realised.

She looked up. The five of them were descending again. Her teleportation was sealed, her strongest attack barely scratched them.

Before the Regals could close in, space itself rippled beside Eva. A tall figure stepped out of the distortion.

A young woman stood there, towering at nearly ten feet, similar to height with Eva. Her pale white gem-like skin gleamed, her loose white garments fluttering. Long gray and white strands of hair streamed down her back, and from her waist were enormous butterfly-like wings.

She turned her piercing gaze on Eva. "So you’re the new White Gemaris Jewel, huh?"

Eva froze, but she maintained her stoic face. She had done so well in hiding her Jewel aura. Not even the Regals had sensed it. Yet this stranger had noticed it just at a glance.

"I... don’t know what you’re talking about," Eva replied calmly, but the tightness in her heart betrayed her unease.

The woman only smirked. "No use hiding it. I’m a gem too afterall. I was part of the former generation. My name’s Opal, don’t worry they can’t hear what I’m saying," Her voice sounded like a country girl accent. She raised her head and stared at the Regals who were floating in the sky staring at her warily.