The dagger-wielding invader made the same move that his suicidal comrade had made a few seconds prior and had inevitably gotten him killed... But he was different from his suicidal teammate.

He wasn't as weak and had a higher chance of survivability... Plus he didn't have much of a choice at the moment.

He wasn't going to remain a sitting duck when there was a chance to fight for his life.

His mission was to come here and steal something, not to come and leave his life behind for the grim reaper that he acknowledged Davies Lake to be.

Completing his mission was now an impossibility, but he wished to avoid the worst-case scenario where he would die along with his teammates, and for that, he was going to fight...

So, he charged at Davies in the most guarded position he knew and kept his eyes peeled for anything Davies could throw at him, as from the few exchanges he had with Davids as well as what he has seen, he could determine that Davies was a master at making use of the environment to get the slightest advantage in a battle.

Davies simply conjured a few ice spears and shot them at the invader, wanting to quickly incapacitate him and move on to deal with the problems on the next floor.

The dagger-wielding bastard though, had other ideas. He wasn't planning on going down so easily, and he easily deflected the ice spears and continued advancing towards Davies, slowly, but surely.

He had no plans of going down today... But like him Davies had no plans of wasting any extra time with him as well, so once he noticed that using ice spears against him was wasting too much time, he immediately stopped and conjured an ice sword in his hand, intending to switch to a more physical fighting style. 

In reality, he could actually just conjure a lot more ice spears and simply overwhelm him with the sheer number of ice spears, but that was just a waste of mana and time.

Why would he use so much mana to deal with one enemy when they were a lot more enemies that he didn't know how strong they were, still waiting for him to fight?

It'd be better to just quickly finish off this guy and move on to the next set of problems, he had way too many things to deal with today than to waste time on an extra, Davies thought as he swung the ice sword hard at the invader who was also swinging his daggers at him. 

*CLANG* their weapons clashed against each other and their hands were thrown back by the recoil of their actions, but even then Davies cleverly used the recoil from the clash as a force to twist his body and sent a high sweeping kick at the chest of the invader.

The invader's body control was nothing to scoff at, while he wasn't anywhere as good as Davies, he was good enough to throw himself into a backflip and narrowly avoid the kick after he saw what Davies was trying to do.

"Oh...?" Davies was a bit surprised that this guy was able to see the sudden attack, unlike his other comrades.

He obviously wasn't as weak as them because he was at a higher stage than they were, but his battle instincts also greatly surpassed them as well...

But if this was all he could do, then it was too bad it wouldn't make more of a difference, Davies thought as he quickly conjured an ice dagger and threw it immediately his kicking leg reached the ground and he turned to face the invader.

Before the poor guy even came out of his backflip Davies's ice dagger already embedded itself into his left arm causing him to scream in pain and drop his knife while also losing his footing a bit and almost falling, but he managed to catch himself in time and did a few rolls backward to distance himself from Davies.

"Tch... He wasn't much either," Davies clicked his tongue while he kept his gaze firmly locked onto the invader.

The invader also kept his eyes firmly locked on Davies. There was more caution in his eyes than before, there was also a lot more fear in them. 

Davies was proving to be quite the impassible wall, and if he wasn't careful, he was fated to die... Or even worse, be captured and tortured.

'Am I going to die here?' the thought floated across his mind, his gaze unwavering from Davies's figure that just stood there waiting.

It felt like he was being looked down upon by him, but that couldn't bother him when his life was on the line, his mind was occupied with more important things like for example, how the fuck he was going to survive?

But as he started at Davies unblinkingly, something strange happened.

His previously brown eyes that had stared so hard and unblinkingly at Davies suddenly turned into a glowing purple color and the weak aura that he was giving off suddenly changed.

He stood up straight, no longer giving off the feeling of prey that was being hunted.

Even the way he looked at Davies changed and there was a strange surprise in his eyes as he looked at his surroundings as if it was his first time in this place, which was more than a little strange because he has been here for more than a little while.

Davies immediately noticed the change even before the invader stood up straight, his eyes giving off an eerie glow.

'Eh?'

'... That's a new one,' he thought as he hadn't seen this kind of reaction in battle before.

He hadn't exactly hit the guy's head so hard that the guy's personality has been reset, so what was with this sudden strange change in behavior and aura?

It was almost like he became a completely different person... 

Immediately that thought arose in his head, Davies didn't hold back and chose to attack immediately.

He dashed at the invader and swung his sword at him, but unlike before when the invader had to block all of Davies's frontal attacks, this time the black-clothed invader simply dodged the attack with a clever twist of his upper body and his legs cleverly moved a few steps away so that he was out of range of Davies's sword, should he intend to use it to attack unexpectedly again, but Davies didn't and instead conjured a few ice spears and sent them flying at him.

The invader skillfully dodged most of the ice spears and only used the only dagger that was in his hand to deflect the few that he wouldn't be able to dodge.

While he was dealing with the ice spears, Davies caused an ice spike to form behind the invader and stealthily shot it at his unsuspecting behind, but just before the invader was impaled, he threw himself upward into a spinning backflip, avoiding the ice spears that we're coming from his front and the ice spike that had come from behind.

Even with this Davies still didn't give up and quickly created three ice daggers that he threw along with the ice sword at the airborne invader.

Four clinging sounds and a thudding sound later, the invader had deflected all four weapons with his dagger and had landed smoothly in a crouching position before standing back up and staring off against Davies who no longer made any move to attack him.

"Who are you?"

"You are not that weak idiot from before, that's for sure..." Davies asked with a light tone, not seemingly bothered by this, and was simply asking out of curiosity and intrigue.

"Oh, you already noticed?" the now purple-eyed invader did not deny it, but his voice sounded too composed, quite womanly, and out of place when compared to the body of the invader.

"Oh, wow... Is that some sort of possession ability of yours or something?" Davies asked with interest, no animosity in his tone as he was genuinely interested in this new ability that he had never seen or even heard of someone having before.

"Yeah, it is one of my abilities... As for how it works-..." the possessed invader began speaking but was cut off by Davies,

"Don't bother... You obviously wouldn't be telling me the truth about it... No one would be stupid enough to do that, and I'm sure you're not an exception so spare me the lies," 

"What I would like for you to tell me though would be who you guys are?" Davies continued after cutting in.

"..." 

"I can't tell you that either..." The possessed invader said with a little chuckle. 

"Figures," Davies muttered under his breath.

"Seems the mission isn't going well," the possessed invader spoke again after his eerily glowing purple eyes swept around the room and saw that only the person being possessed was still alive on this floor.

"Well, what did you expect when you sent people as weak as they were after my things?"

"You guys must really not put me in your eyes at all," Davies laughed bitterly as he said because it was the truth. 

"... I am willing to admit that maybe we underestimated you a bit too much," the invader spoke again, his eyes reverting to Davies's figure.

"Well, maybe after I find you guys, your impressions of me would change by quite a bit," Davies replied laughingly, but the look in his eyes made it clear that nothing he had said was anything similar to a joke.