Ace, Layla and Scarlett were currently in mid-air, looking at Darwin and Gracie. He was flying using his magic while Scarlett and Layla were being carried by his clones.

When they saw Darwin and Gracie coughing up blood and falling to the ground, they decided to descend from the sky.

"Gracie, we have been poisoned!" Darwin finally realized that they were poisoned.

"We are poisoned? But didn't we drink the antidote earlier?" Gracie thought it was Darwin's poison.

"This is not my poison." Darwin knew about his poison. "This poison is more deadly than mine."

"Then who poisoned us?" Gracie inquired.

"I don't know." Darwin responded.

"Cough..cough." Darwin and Gracie kept coughing up blood.

Their faces were pale, and their bodies were also frail.

'Damn it!'

They were furious.

They were enraged because everything was out of their control now.

Previously, they wanted to poison Ace, Layla and Scarlett, but they failed and got poisoned instead.

Not only that, but the ones they had just killed were also not the real Ace, Layla and Scarlett.

They were clones!historical

The real Ace, Layla and Scarlett were still alive!

In other words, their plan failed miserably!

They failed to kill Ace, Layla and Scarlett!

This was the reason why they could no longer control their anger, causing them to keep coughing up blood.

As Ace was slowly descending from the sky, he uttered, "How is my poison? Do you feel like someone is squeezing your heart hard?"

Darwin and Gracie turned their heads toward the source of the sound.

Their faces darkened, and they gritted their teeth hard. At this moment, they finally knew the one who poisoned them.

Ace!

Ace was the one who poisoned them!

"How? How did you poison us? Cough..cough.." Gracie coughed up blood again after throwing a question at Ace.

After landing on the ground elegantly, Ace responded, "I used the same method as yours. I poisoned you guys using the food."

"But how? You only came to my orphanage once, so how did you do it?" Gracie wanted to know how he could poison them because she was always with him since he arrived at her orphanage.

"If you want to know the answer, then you should ask her." After saying that, Ace turned his head to the left.

Gracie and Darwin looked in the direction Ace was looking at.

Gracie's face became ugly when she saw a mature lady coming out of her hiding place.

"Alina!!!" she shouted angrily because she did not expect Alina to help Ace and the others.

When Aline went to Crimson Sanctum Inn to tell Ace and the others about Gracie's plan, Ace gave her a deadly poison.

Of course, he got that poison from his system. The name of the poison was Duji poison. Duji poison was a very deadly poison.

It was colorless and tasteless poison. This was the reason why Gracie and Darwin did not notice anything earlier.

"Yes. I'm the one who put poison in the food." Alina spoke calmly. "Gracie, you are an evil woman. You don't deserve the position of head of the orphanage because all you care about is money."

She then continued, "You even beat us up. I can't tolerate it anymore. I don't want you to be in this place anymore. The orphanage will continue to be a hellish place if you are still the head of the orphanage. That was why I decided to poison you and Darwin."

"That's right." A voice rang out not far from Alina. "Gracie, you are sent by Goddess Teressa Temple to be our guardian, but instead of protecting us, you beat us up and use us to get money. You don't deserve the position of orphanage head."

Gracie's face became uglier when she found out the one who had just spoken.

"Eva! How? How come you are here?" she believed she imprisoned Eva in a dungeon, so she was shocked when she saw Eva standing next to Alina.

"Gracie, you are a devil!"

"You don't deserve to be called a human!"

"Yes. You don't deserve to be called a human."

"Gracie, do you know how long I've been waiting for moments like this? Do you know how happy I am right now?"

"Haha. Gracie, look at your expression! It's so ugly."

"Haha."

One by one, the caretakers came out of their hiding places.

They were delighted.

They were thrilled when they saw her in pain and coughing up blood.

All this time, they suppressed their anger because they were not her opponent, but now it was different.

The poison that Ace gave to Alina was a deadly one, so they knew it was only a matter of time before Gracie died.

"Bastards! So, you guys conspired with him to kill me? Do you realize what you have done? Cough..cough..cough.." Gracie coughed up blood after shouting angrily.

"With how you have been treating us until now, you should have guessed that something like this would happen. It's funny seeing you act like we betray you." Eva did not feel sorry for Gracie because Gracie was an evil woman.

"Cough..Cough..cough.." the poison in Gracie's body spread faster because she could not control her anger.

Like Gracie, Darwin also kept coughing up blood. "Cough..Cough..Cough.."

'I have to leave this place now.'

At this moment, he remembered his subordinates.

"Zion, come out now. Cough..Cough..Save me." Even though Darwin shouted as loudly as he could, but his screams were not loud because he was having trouble breathing.

'I will kill him after I recover.'

He believed he could leave that place because he had brought twenty subordinates earlier.

However, his hopes shattered into pieces when Zaria walked toward him with her armor filled with the blood of Darwin's subordinates.

Zaria stopped her footsteps in front of Darwin. "Sorry, your subordinates won't come to save you because I have killed them all."

"Zaria! Why did you help him?!" rage pulsed through Darwin's veins. "Have you forgotten that I saved your life in the past? Why did you kill my subordinates and help him?"

"I'm mister Ace's bodyguard now, so it's normal for me to help him." Of course, Zaria still remembered that he once saved her life, but she had returned the favor.

"You! You! Cough..cough.." his condition worsened when Darwin learned that the chances of him leaving that place were slim.

'Am I going to die today?'

He added in his head.

"No! I can't die. I can't die. I can't die." Gracie did not want to die because there were still many things that she wanted to do. "Darwin, give me your life!"

Her eyes suddenly turned red, and a satanic symbol suddenly appeared on her forehead.

'I can't die!'

She grabbed Darwin's head and absorbed his life essence and energy.

"Agghhhh.." Darwin cried out.

His energy and life essence came out of his mouth and entered Gracie's body through her mouth.

Everyone was stunned!

They were shocked.

But what surprised them most was that Darwin suddenly became so thin, to the point that everyone could almost see his bones.

[Host, stop her! She is absorbing his life essence and energy to increase her strength and suppress the poison in her body.]

Ace immediately retrieved his Phoenix sword from his space ring and rushed toward Gracie, trying to kill her in one move.

However, demonic energy suddenly burst out of her body, throwing Ace and the others a few meters.

"What's going on?"

"This is a demonic energy. Did she learn black magic?"

"Did she make a contract with evil being?"

Black magic was magic for evil and selfish purposes. Black magic was prohibited by awakener laws.

Someone, who learned dark magic, would become a wanted person. They would be hunted by all factions because they were the enemy of humans.

"Haha." Gracie laughed loudly as she absorbed Darwin's energy and life essence.

'More, more! I want more power.'

Even though she could not remove the poison in her body, but she could suppress it with her demonic energy.

Elite rank -> Master rank -> Grandmaster rank.

After absorbing Darwin's energy and life essence, she went from Elite rank to Grandmaster rank.

Ace, Layla, Scarlett and Zaria took out their weapons. They told the caretakers to hide far away because it was dangerous.

"Haha." Gracie laughed happily when her body was filled with power. "Good! Good!"

The caretakers felt dizzy, and their bodies became frail because the backyard was now filled with demonic energy.

"I have to kill her quickly." Ace mused.

'System, Analyze her power.'

He added in his head.

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Name: Gracie Rees

Race: Human

Age: 42

Class: Mage

Rank: Grandmaster

Talent: Grade D

Strength: Lvl. 71

Agility: Lvl. 72

Stamina: Lvl. 71

Mana Capacity: Lvl 75

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"Ice clone." like usual, Ace used his clone magic to support him in the fight.

Gracie uttered, "Magnet magic."

A black sphere as big as a basketball appeared above her.

Shortly after that, a powerful attraction force suddenly appeared, pulling Ace and the others towards the black sphere.

Ace and the others could not control their bodies because the force was too strong.

"Earth Spike." When Ace and the others were being pulled toward the black sphere, Gracie used Earth Spike magic to attack them.

The ground beneath them rose into spikes. Luckily, Ace's clones saved them before the spikes pierced their bodies.

Ace and the others rushed toward Gracie, trying to attack her again. However, a powerful force suddenly pushed them away from her.

If previously they were pulled towards the black sphere, now they were pushed away from the black ball.

At this moment, Ace noticed everything.

'I need to destroy that black sphere first.'

With that idea in mind, he changed his target from her to the black sphere above her.