Alpha found herself unable to move.
Though she had reached the peak of the Greater Devil stage using the rewards bestowed by the ancient inheritance, the gap between her and an actual Archdevil remained massive.
Even the weakest Archdevil was powerful enough to kill her countless times over. She'd never be able to offer any resistance.
This was the situation that Alpha was currently in.
Faced with the descending palm of the Fire Elemental, she could only watch silently as it grew closer.
Neither her body nor her mind could move, as if time itself had paused for her.
Her time of death seemed near, while the lava looked ready to incinerate her very being.
Yet, just as Alpha felt ready to resign herself to such a fate, a streak of red light flashed in the distance.
One moment, it was a crimson dot far into the horizon, but the next, it had descended upon Cobblestone City.
Or rather, it had appeared in the empty space between Alpha and the Fire Elemental.
It was a human figure.
