I stretched my hand forward, and a thin, hair-like string appeared on my wrist while the other end of the thread went to Emi’s wrist. It quickly wrapped her wrist and vanished.

"What was that?" She looked at me in confusion.

"Well, I didn’t know how to deal with this creature here, nor could I break these runes. So, I am sharing my power with you temporarily. Now, focus on your eyes, try to see the world through a different vision.

I had attached her with the strings of love, because I had the feeling that the overlord-grade monster was a big deal. I might not be able to handle it, since I appeared, I hadn’t even seen him, but he almost got to see all my powers. Let alone the demoness I burned, even she was more than enough to get me killed if not for Emi’s unexpected help.

Now, all I wanted was to leave with Emi.

"What are these Love Strings?" She was staring at me with a confused look.

Fuck, how could I forget that she could also read my Mind? When we are attached through these strings.

"Hey, stop asking things, just focus on your eyes. Try to feel the uniqueness, and focus on it."

Try to imitate me. I grabbed her shoulder and activated the Void Eyes. The next instant, I was unable to touch her. As the world turned dark, everything got wrapped within these silver strings.

I was expecting her to feel this through the Love string and use the Void Eyes. I was sure we were close enough that she could access my top-ranked talents.

She did prove me right, as I was her shadowy figure becoming colourful within my sight, she activated the Void Eyes.

"We can share each other’s skills..." Emi was silent when I could hear her thoughts, clearly.

’I can hear his thoughts, and could read mine... no... I couldn’t let him... No... he should also be ready these...’

"Hey, stop thinking about these things, let’s make a deal, once we get out of here. We would never mention whatever we got to know by peeking into each other’s thoughts. We will cut this string once we get out of here." I stated clearly.

Though I myself wasn’t sure about how much we can forget. She nodded in agreement, and I pulled her with me. We stepped out of the rune and went where Mink was trapped. I thought for a bit and tried to send him back to hell plane, which obviously didn’t work out because of the rune.

"I guess there is no other way."

"Maybe I can try to break the rune," Emi said, her words catching me off guard.

"Oh..." I didn’t stop her, as I had also gotten access to her talent, which she got from that golden orb.

[Talent: Light]

[Description: Light of Hope.]

The description was small, just like my Sky Heart, and I felt that these small descriptions meant talents are way better, and couldn’t be described in words.

At first, she was only able to wake me up with her talent and an almost negligible mana pool. Now, she can use my massive mana pool; it should be possible to break this spell.

She raised her hands and closed them together, and a golden halo began to appear beneath her feet. It was overlapping the crimson rune on the ground.

I watched her body bathing under the golden light, as the halo began to expand. Its expansion began to reach the limit of the rune. It finally clashed with the rune, and both of them exploded together, getting us out of the rune’s imprisonment. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

I watched the entire thing play out in awe. She was literally proving herself to be worthy of being my young sister, though she was using my mana pool to cast this spell. I am generous.

The golden light coming from her illuminated the entire mountain top for a few seconds, removing all the darkness from the surroundings.

In that moment, I finally saw the real culprit hiding within the darkness. A strange shadow was hiding within the darkness, as the light appeared everywhere, it couldn’t remain hidden anymore. Finally showing its true self.

"Huh..." Alongside the shadow, appearance, Emi’s light also woke up Ron, who had been sitting on the ground like a dead dog since we came here. If my guess wasn’t wrong, this was because of that demoness spell, unlike me, who got Emi; he should have been rather helpless even with his knowledge and brute force.

"Yo, where is Adrine?" I waved him, after throwing the hellfire at the shadow. I was really interested in knowing about Adrine. I was expecting them to have some kind of plan where Adrine might pull up at the right moment to save them all.

Of course, the possibility of his being dead couldn’t be ignored, but who knows?

"Stop thinking so much, I can’t focus," Emi said gravely, as her light began to dim.

"... Why are you wasting my mana? Focus on that shadow, and let the hellfire do the work." The shadow literary crawling under her golden light, appearing like a slow snail, instead of some mastermind demon who had been working in the darkness.

"He left with his elder; the Hale family made a deal with a demon to let him ascend with worry," Ron said, looking at the sky above the Wong Zhi mountain, which had become hollow, and a strange kind of crimson pattern had formed there. It was huge, almost covering the entire Wong Zhi Mountain.

"Oh, aren’t you two brothers?"

When I asked that question, I got a side glance from Emi.

"Did I ever say that?" Ron replied without even looking at me.

"Hm... well, Adrine did," I replied casually. I didn’t mean to mock him or anything, I just wanted to see if they would be any chance that help would be coming in from outside or not.