The dangerous aura coming from Alice made those monsters flinch. As Shin got a chance, he immediately activated Electro both and shot at them.

"Devourer's touch." Shin activated his skill and got some health back as he absorbed the monster's blood. His bleeding stopped and his hand started recovering, but the recovery was still too slow.

Seeing him recover again, monsters were in a bad mood and about to attack him again. But they stopped in their tracks when they heard a deep voice full of abnormal killing intent from behind.

"Don't you dare move!!"

Alice's voice made those monsters alert as they felt whatever transformation Alice was going through would be bad for them. They shifted their attention to attack Alice and stop her. Even the monsters who were attacking Simon and Elena left them and went to attack Alice, leaving an unconscious pair of siblings.

"Oh no, you don't." In that little time, he got. Shin managed to recover some of his wounds with the devourer's touch, it was enough to fight them.

"Electro bolt." Shin didn't hold back and many bolts of lightning formed around him as he shot them at those monsters. He didn't sit still. He used extreme speed and Shadow Veil to reach Alice. She was already surrounded by more than 50 monsters.

Shin sensed an attack coming from behind as he ducked at the last moment. A burst of water sharp enough to destroy huge boulders with a single touch passed by him.

He dodged it by the hair's breadth. Shin was flabbergasted.

'How are they able to perceive me? Aren't I using Shadow Veil?'

Shin was confused. He thought maybe it was a coincidence. But he didn't want to take any risks now he needs to protect Alice. He has to dodge the attacks. At that moment, 2 monsters shot the bursts of water at him. Now he was certain they were able to see him.

Shin kept on using Electro Both to kill them. It was working, but he was only able to kill one monster with a single bolt. He kept on shooting those electric attacks.

He reached close to Alice. As he faced a tide of shark-like monsters. This was the first time he felt this desperate. When he was surrounded by monsters and this feeling of protecting someone who was very important to him.

Shin kept up the attacks, but there were still more than 600 monsters. He had already killed two hundred of them. He wanted nothing more but to save her. At that moment, a strange symbol appeared on his left chest and started burning.

(A.N - All of this happened in a matter of seconds. So there was no time to activate skills or increase stats.)

By then, Alice's transformation was complete. A black and white aura surrounded her. Her hair started to grow under the intense aura until it reached her waist. Her eyes turned black. As if they were abyss themselves. Her black-red hair turned silvery white, her body which was 168cm before starting to grow until it reached 178cm. Her small body was now a mature one with an ample body and a perfect physique.

The energy around her then took the form of a beautiful dress. A black crown sat on top of her head, amplifying her beauty.

Though she was beautiful, the coldness in her eyes made her all the more terrifying. She walked in front of Shin, who had been killing monsters non-stop.

"Alice?" Seeing Alice near him, Shin was shocked. Although she looked different, that didn't matter now. He just wanted to know if she was fine.historical

Alice glanced at him as he looked at his condition. Although his bleeding had stopped and he had recovered at least, but that's not enough. He needs some more time and rest.

Alice coldly looked at those monsters as her dark eyes made them feel death approaching them. After Alice's transformation, they didn't dare move.

Alice raised her hand and said.

"Come forth, my servants, from the depth of hell. I, the Queen have summoned you. Brandish the evil from here and show them your Queen's Wraith."

With every word from her mouth, the deathly aura around her intensified.

"ARISE!"

The whole area turned extremely cold and chilly. The eerie feeling was intensifying by the second.

Suddenly, more than hundreds of black shadowed figures stood up and started killing the monsters.

Alice stood there emotionlessly as those monsters died at the hands of her servants. Those servants were also of Soldier rank. But their power was a lot stronger than the ones she uses normally.

Shin used that time to recover and increase his vitality stat by 60.

He also used his 'Devourer's touch' to recover as his missing arm started to grow slowly. The recovery was too slow. He needed a lot of blood.

"Bring those bodies here." Alice gave her order to her servants to readily brought the monster bodies to their queen and placed it near Shin. 'Anything for the queen.'

Shin looked at Alice with many emotions inside him. But first, he started recovering with their blood. Soon Shin managed to recover his wounds and now he just needed to take a rest.

Alice continued looking at those monsters coldly under Shin's gaze. Soon her servants butchered all those monsters.

<strong>[You have killed 142 Merkins.]</strong>

<strong>[You have leveled up.]</strong>

<strong>[You have leveled up.]</strong>

<strong>[You have leveled up.]</strong>

<strong>[+30 Bonus stats for leveling up.]</strong>

<strong>[Plunder Activated]</strong>

<strong>[You have absorbed 30 stat points.]</strong>

<strong>[You have absorbed a new skill 'Water Canon (C) X142.]</strong>

Shin also got many notifications, but he dismissed them as he rushed toward the unconscious Simon and Elena.

He checked their breathing and injuries. They had some injuries on them but nothing life-threatening.

"I am glad they are alive," Shin said with a sigh.

Suddenly, a green golden light fell on their bodies as they started healing. Shin turned back to look at Alice, who summoned her mother to help.

'Alice saved us all.' Shin thought with a smile on his face which soon turned sad.

'All of this happened because of my carelessness. If only I was a little cautious.' Shin was blaming himself for all this.

As he saw, Elena and Simin were healed. He turned back to Alice.

"Alice what happe-"

*Thud*

Shin stopped at his words as he saw Alice's body fall unconscious and had returned to normal.

"ALICE!"

He hurriedly went forward and held her gently before she could fall to the ground. Shin used his appraisal and found out she was just unconscious.

"Let's go home."