Quickly shaking off any external thoughts, Lexa didn't waste time as she charged forth towards the Beast-Eyed Killer, eyes cloudy with anger. With a quick chant, a silver metallic form coalesced around her grown-up body. With her upgrade into the Early Stage of Major Rank, 90% of the Ravager Armour was now made of pure metal, leaving only a measly sum left made up of the element of earth.

Her defence had seen an incredible improvement, but that wasn't all.

Unleashing a chant-less Celestial Claw spell, the four white lines of magic that extended from her swinging claw was noticeably denser and visibly longer.

The Beast-Eyed Killer was rather surprised by the cat's speed as in a matter of a few seconds, he was already being threatened by a rather impressive attack that exceeded the boundaries of her Stage.

But in the end, this was still an attacked that could not measure up to someone of his level.

Encasing the back of his left fist with a dense azure aura, the Beast-Eyed Killer struck the incoming claw attack with the back of his fist. On contact, the four white claw lines seemed to crack and dissipate rapidly. He had disarmed the spell through a simple show of brute force.

Lexa expected as much and when she was getting rather close to this foe of hers, went to strike with another attack of the same like. The Beast-Eyed Killer went to block this spell as well, only to find it was a faint as suddenly a spark of fire lit up right before his eyes, blinding him temporarily. While it would not blind him for long, it was good enough for Lexa's true mission which was getting to Andria. She could not feel safe until she had her partner by her side and out of the hands of these heinous villains!

'I'll have to thank Seph Farhawk for that blinding technique.' Lexa pondered internally.

But on her way towards Andria, Lexa's path was interrupted when pitch black spikes erupted from the earth, descending towards her. Thankfully, with nimble steps, Lexa outmaneuvered those spikes and lept back several feet to find that the source of this spell was the man she assumed to be only second to the big boss, the man they had called Savre.

"Hah, you ain't going nowhere!" Savre grinned maliciously before chanting a spell. Seconds later, he stretched out his two hands in front of himself and made it so that it looked like his fingers were gripping a long pole that wasn't there. Only, when his chant finished, a metallic dark material formed at the center of his two palms and stretched out to form a long, dark black spear with blades on each of its end.

'He seems to have some sort of insight into some sort of darkness element, maybe?' Lexa could only guess as she watched in frustration as Savre sauntered over until he was directly in her path, blocking her path to Andria.

"You want a try at her, Savre?" The Beast-Eyed Killer's voice sounded from behind her and she turned to find the man with an unperturbed expression. It would seem being duped had not angered him much, as the end result seemed inevitable to him anyway. There was no way that the cat could successfully escape, so why get so worked up about a small blunder?

"Leave it to me, she's pissing me off!" Savre growled at her and the Beast-Eyed Killer gave his agreement.

"Just don't mess with her too much. There are debts to be settled with her and me." The Beast-Eyed Killer chuckled before taking a step back.

Lexa looked away from him reluctantly, not truly trusting his words before turning to face her apparent opponent. But she was not interested in dueling it out. All she wanted was to get passed this b*stard and get to Andria!

Plus, she highly doubted she could defeat this man. Not only was he a whole Rank ahead of her, but he also used magic she was completely unfamiliar with. When She was at the Late Stage of Minor Rank, she had defeated the Steel-Shelled Turtle which was either a Mid Stage or Late Stage beast and had just barely beaten it. So she knew her natural talent in terms of her apprehension and ability was enough to defeat wild Magical Beast's of higher levels. But those were wild beast's which relied on their natural knowledge and abilities and didn't have the advantage of learning, inheriting and acquiring various goods like the opponent in front of her. Needless to say, her chances of succeeding were slim. What made everything worse, was that Lexa could feel something made of aura encapsulating the area, which was most likely some sort of a barrier that encapsulated the entire area. This really made things seem hopeless.

With a deep defeated sigh, Lexa's eyes flared open as she prepared to charge ahead. Even in the face of a seemingly hopeless situation, her stubbornness to prevail over any obstacle pushed her to fight. She still had so many things to do, and she wanted Andria right next to her as her partner when she achieved them!

Lexa let out a loud, bestial roar that would have echoed to great lengths if it weren't blocked by the barrier. But that didn't matter, as the target of this magically enforced roar was only the target in front of her, whose eager legs suddenly found themselves frozen under that fearsome roar.

This was the power all Magical Beast's gained at the Major Rank, an ability called 'Bestial Fury'!

Choosing this perfect moment, Lexa leaped forth!