Eren wasn''t sure what happened, but the timer had gone down by a lot ever since he stepped out of the portal.


    Did he actually spend longer inside the portal than he had thought? He wasn''t certain. Only one thing was clear. There were only a few minutes left for him to select an option now.


    The Spirit Queenposed herself after the embarrassing ident involving Eren.


    She couldn''t me Eren entirely either. It was also partially her fault that she had lost herposure and was about to fall.


    She silently looked at her fingers, which were still ck with the poison. And it was when she hadn''t even touched the pendant.


    She created a spirit dagger in her left hand.


    Eren was distracted by the timer, thinking hard about the decision to make. However, he soon came out of his daze as he saw the scene unfold in the corner of his eyes.


    He saw the Spirit Queen swing her dagger. In its wake, the dagger left behind a broken space. Eren watched the attack, momentarily taken aback.


    It was an attack that even sliced through the space. Could he protect himself against this attack? He wondered.


    Fortunately, the attack wasn''t targeting him. Instead, the Spirit Queen sliced her own fingers before the poison could spread through her entire body.


    "You..." Eren didn''t know how to even respond. This woman sliced her own fingers without a change in her reaction.


    With her reaction, Eren was able to realize that the woman truly wasn''t as simple as she appeared. If she could hurt herself without hesitation, then what could she do to other people?


    Her sliced fingers fell on the ground and turned into specks of light which merged with the grass below, turning into nourishment.


    "Mother!" Estelina called out, only now realizing that her mother''s fingers had been poisoned.


    She red at Eren, who had harmed her mother.


    She brought him here so they could uncover his secrets that could affect the Spirits in the other world. But he harmed her mother? She couldn''t stay calm anymore.


    "You! How dare you harm my mother?!"


    Without a second thought, she attacked Eren.


    "Wait, I didn''t..." Eren quickly reacted, using the Sea Dragon''s bloodline. His body floated in the air, bing more agile and allowing him to dodge the attack.


    A powerful de of spirit essence came straight for him. Eren dodged the de, not letting it touch him.


    "What? How?"


    Eren was certain that he had cleanly dodged the attack. In fact, there was about a meter of width between him and the attack when he dodged it.


    There was no chance for the attack to even touch him. But to his surprise, it managed to hurt him! A de sound appeared on his shoulder, blood trickling down his arm.


    Even the robe that he received from the Great Demon Sect was torn from the corner.


    Eren wasn''t sure how he was even hurt in the first ce. Did his eyes y an illusion on him? Was the attack closer to him than it had appeared?


    [Time left for selection: 00:00:39]


    [00:00:38]


    With each passing second, the timer was drawing near an end. He had less than a minute left to make a selection, and the situation was far from ideal.


    He hadn''t even been able to analyze the Spirit Queen properly to make up his mind. But it was a woman who could hurt herself within flinching. Was it really possible to make that woman love him?


    "Die!" Estelina attacked again.


    "Urgh, fine! I select the first option!" Eren eximed as he made a choice.


    To survive, he had to fight. He might even kill Estelina if he couldn''t control the power of the pendant. It was impossible to make the mother fall in love with him after beating her daughter.


    At this moment, only one option made sense. If he was fighting in any case, he might as well put it to a good use.


    He had two attacks left from the Pendant of Poison.


    If he could instill fear in the hearts of these people with a single attack, then it was better than putting his life on the line. Though he knew as well that it was easier said than done.


    His pendant started rising in a bright green light which started filling his body. He felt the same he did when he was fighting the Sea Dragon Prince.


    He took a deep breath and prepared topletely spend one use of the pendant in his attack.


    "Huh?" Just as Eren was about to use the pendant to the fullest, he saw the Spirit Queen appear behind Estelina.


    She ced her hand on Estelina''s shoulder and pulled her back to the ground.


    "That''s enough. It wasn''t his fault. I tried to touch that thing without knowing better," Spirit Queen said, stopping her daughter from attacking.


    Eren remained silent in the sky, his lips twitching in frustration. He had selected the first option, thinking that they were going to fight. He thought there was no other better choice at that moment.


    Now that he was prepared, the fight just... stopped?


    ''Are they trolling me?'' he thought, finding himself at a loss of words. What was he supposed to do? Still attack them? How else could he conquer this ce now?


    The selection was made and all other options had disappeared. He couldn''t even try anything else. Once again, he found himself in an ufortable position.


    "Identify."


    He used his identification skill on the Spirit Queen.


    [Name: Felona]


    [Identity: Spirit Queen]


    [Bloodline: None]


    [Age: 961]


    [Contracted Human: None]


    [Additional Information: The Spirit Queen known to be the strongest in the history of Spirit Realm]


    "I would like to apologize for my daughter''s thoughtless behavior."


    As if Eren already wasn''t in disbelief, the Spirit Queen even apologized to him with grace. Eren felt like facepalming himself at this moment. How did he find himself in a situation like this?