Killed Me? Now I Have Your Power
Chapter 100 - 99: See you…next time.

Chapter 100: Chapter 99: See you...next time.

Chapter 99 – See you...next time.

Meris found herself in a completely different environment.

There was nothing around her except a huge canopy of snow and a fog made of ice in front of her, hiding everything.

Everywhere she looked, it was just that... fog.

"You are just in front of the entrance of the Forbidden Zone, Miss Meris," Ravin said as he appeared and stood beside her, on her right, while Lari stood silently to her left.

Meris, without turning her head toward Ravin, spoke,

"Where is the entrance? I’m only seeing icky fog," she said.

"That’s the entrance. The moment you take a single step forward, you’ll be transported to a whole different space, in the outer zone of the Forbidden Zone."

"So there’s a chance we might be separated, so I suggest we hold hands so we stay together and avoid unnecessary complications," Ravin finished as he smiled softly and extended his hand toward her.

Meris looked at his hand, and for a brief moment, her calm and polite expression vanished, replaced by a face filled with emptiness, cold, and the clear intent to kill.

But it disappeared just as fast, as Lari appeared and took Ravin’s hand instead, offering her other hand to Meris.

"My lady..." Lari said, her eyes locking with Meris knowingly.

Meris just smiled. She put her calm mask back on and took Lari’s hand without even glancing at Ravin again.

"Do you mean like this, Ravin?" she asked.

Ravin nodded with a strained smile, his mind already cursing Lari a million times over for intervening.

’Fucking bitch. Can’t you just act like the filthy maid you are and mind your own damn business?’ Ravin thought darkly, already thinking about when and how he’d kill her later.

Those thoughts flashed fast in his mind, and he believed he’d managed to keep his expression neutral...and he had.

But in front of Lari, who had learned since childhood how to read the smallest flicker of hostility toward her lady, the quick flash of cold rage in his eyes did not go unnoticed.

Still, she said nothing. She trusted Meris.

Then, without waiting any longer, they stepped forward, and space twisted around them — in an unnatural, almost sickening way — like it was folding in on itself before swallowing the trio whole.

...

Thud.

They landed inside a realm of...

"Wow... wonderful," Meris said instinctively, the words escaping before she could think.

Because this looked like something pulled from fairytales whispered by dying gods.

They were surrounded by deep and towering trees, but unlike any normal forest, these trees were crystallized like ice, their bark transparent enough to reveal glowing blue roots pulsing inside.

The leaves resembled delicate snowflakes, each one unique, frozen and floating as if suspended in time.

She kept looking, slowly turning her head, and saw that almost everything here was silver...the grass, the rocks, even the air shimmered with a faint, unmistakable silver presence drifting like lazy dust, glowing softly in every direction.

Above them hung a half-silver moon, glowing with a quiet, mystical, and celestial energy, providing just enough light to see but not enough to comfort.

A moon that clearly did not belong to the Empire.

Meris and Lari took their time, letting their eyes drink it in, looking around with the kind of wonder only children know, the kind born from awe, not logic.

Meanwhile, Ravin wasn’t looking at the trees or the moon or the realm.

He was planning. He was thinking about the different ways he could finally get Meris under him — and then, just like that, a memory came. A place.

The most beautiful and the most relaxing spot in the outer zone.

"Miss Meris, let me guide you... I have a beautiful place in mind I’m sure you’ll love," Ravin said, interrupting the moment between Meris and Lari.

She didn’t look at him, but the word beautiful caught her attention, and that was enough.

She accepted simply.

And so they moved.

Along the way, they met small, delicate ice beasts that looked far too cute to be a threat, and a few blue wolves that Ravin killed easily, putting on a little show.

The deeper they went, the more the danger rose, and Meris realized quickly that this outer zone was not going to be easy, not without effort, not without violence.

Eventually, they arrived.

A small river made of ice and water stretched before them, and even Meris had to pause.

The blue water flowed gently over a smooth, frozen surface, and a cascade of ice poured down from the tip of an elegant structure that looked like,

A beast?

A statue?

An overgrown cat?

That was the only thing that came to mind when she looked at it. She didn’t know why.

But her interest wasn’t in the shape, it was in the phenomenon.

The way the ice from above became water just one second before touching the river below...how smooth, how perfect, how impossible the transition was.

She watched it, trying to understand, already wondering what technique could replicate something so fluid.

Then, of course, came the interruption.

"This is my favorite spot. Do you like it?" Ravin asked, softer now.

Meris nodded.

"I do," she said, voice flat.

"But there’s something else I need too," she added, turning her head, her eyes now locked onto his.

"I need a good training partner for what I’m going to do here..."

She smiled.

That strange kind of smile.

"...care to be my training partner?"

The words echoed inside Ravin’s skull, and he felt something stir between his legs.

He smirked.

"I’ll train you well, Miss Meris," he said, and the lust in his voice, even if slight, made it very clear what he meant.

And that lust...

’Well... it’s confirmed. He will die,’ Lari thought coldly.

...

Back in the Forest of Asterion,

Kaden was locked in a beautiful battle against the shadow panther.

He took a sudden step forward, twisting his body unnaturally to the right, avoiding the beast’s sharp claws by an inch.

Without moving from his spot, he raised his hand, Reditha materialized instantly in his grip, and he slashed directly at the panther’s claws.

Tink—!

The sound rang out like two steel weapons clashing.

Kaden stepped back calmly as the panther disappeared again into the shadows, vanishing completely, before appearing elsewhere like a phantom.

He looked at it quietly.

They had been fighting for a dozen minutes now. Only about fifteen remained.

But no matter how many blows were exchanged, Kaden couldn’t kill the thing.

It was too fast. Too evasive. Too slippery.

He could sense it, and he could deflect its strikes, but the moment he tried to counter, the beast would melt into the shadows again.

’I need a way to hurt the shadow,’ Kaden thought.

Soulbrand would help but not enough. Not here. Not against a Master-rank beast. The trait wasn’t strong enough yet.

He kept thinking, calculating, redirecting attacks, enduring wounds. Not every strike was blocked as some of them broke through.

It went on for five more minutes before Kaden finally decided his next action.

And then,

The shadow panther pierced Kaden’s heart with its claws.

Blood gushed violently from his mouth, bright and thick.

But he was smiling.

"See you... next time."

[You are dead.]

—End of Chapter 99—