Limits Chapter 148

With my practice of Natural Path skill done in the afternoon, I ate my lunch and prepared for the archery practice. Before I could start the practice, I heard so noises coming from the forest. I looked into the distance and noticed Laly running away from sothing.

I shouted "What is going on?" to which she shouted back "Run!". I had no clue what was happening but I wasn't going to sit there waiting to find out. I chose to run in the opposite direction of the cave, then sprinted through the forest. I tried to utilise my Natural Path skill as much as I could. As I was running, noises of fighting revibrated behind . I looked back and noticed Laly shooting from her bow like crazy at sothing.

I turned my head forwards and ran at my full speed, disregarding the amount of stamina I had. I shouted back at the top of my lungs "WHAT KIND OF DISASTER DID YOU BRING UPON ?!", Laly responded with silence. 'I guess she is too focused on fighting right now' I thought. After a while of running, I turned back again. I saw Laly shooting and trying to hide her presence but then I caught a glips of that mysterious sothing chasing us. "It's a human!" I exclaid loudly. I asked by shouting again "What the fuck did you do to her, that she is so pissed!?".

This ti Laly responded and shouted back "Nothing! She figured out that I'm Eterian! She wants to kill !". 'Oh for fuck sake!' I thought and stopped running. I could either try to stop the fight, Or try to kill either of them. From the looks of it, both were too strong for to tackle by myself. I could choose a side but if I chose wrong, the consequences could be grave. I knew that if I sided with Laly, she wouldn't kill after the fight, of course provided we won. The problem was winning. Laly was weaker than her opponent, this much was apparent. She was backing away all the ti.

When Laly noticed that I stopped, she shouted "What are you doing?! RUN!". I responded "Run, I will try to talk with her!". She had disbelief written on her face but didn't try to dissuade from my decision. As Laly ran past , I started running as well and shouted "Whoever you are, let's talk! Why are you chasing her like that?! She did nothing to you! Let's talk peacefully!" but instead of so kind of argunt, I saw a flash of what seed to be a sword.

'Shit!' I thought as I jumped forwards with all my strength. "Bam!" the attack hit the ground. In the place I've been just a second ago, was a large sword mark carved deep into the ground. I shouted again "Whoa! Wait a minute, I did nothing to you either. I'm as human as you are! Let's talk!" but the response was the sa. I started running again and thought 'I didn't think that finding soone more crazy than Laly was possible. I guess I was wrong'. The attacks were now focused on , which was not ideal but who could I complain to?

I shouted towards Laly "She is crazy! She is now attacking as well! Shoot, while I try to distract her!". Laly nodded her head and I prepared to throw so stuff at her. I was low on daggers and I didn't want to waste them so I started by throwing the arrows I had. I opted for throwing because shooting them from a bow would take too long and my Art of Hidden Weapons was much more advanced than my archery.

I threw dozens of arrows at the woman but she evaded most of them. Those she didn't evade, were sliced apart by her sword. When the woman saw my skills, she paused for a second and then continued. While attacking and avoiding all the attacks from both and Laly, she said "You should've not show those skills. That way, I would let you live. Provided that you stopped interfering of course. Now, you will die as well".

'Bollocks! She would've killed anyway! Who the hell did that Laly offend, for her to be so strong?' I thought and ran. I asked Laly "Don't you have sothing we can use against her? I'm no match for her! Besides, all her attacks are now concentrated on . How can you still not kill her!?". Laly was displeased as well and said "Shut up, I'm doing what I can!" then shot more arrows.

As I was escaping, I tried to figure out how to either kill that woman or get away from her. 'Going north is one option but north is too far away. With my strength, I will not be able to reach that far. What can we do….' the thoughts ran through my mind but nothing seed to work. 'If I had poison on , I could at least try that but damn, all my equipnt used for making dicine and poison was lost. I have no way of creating one anyway' I thought.

The attacks were getting more savage. I received so minor wounds from the woman's sword, even though I basically evaded her attacks. I shouted towards Laly "Seriously, we will die here! If this continues, she will kill first then go after you anyway! I have nothing… NOTHING! If I had poison, I could at least try that!".

Laly seed to pause for a second then continued. 'Hmmm? Did she figure sothing out?'. I ran at my full speed and Laly was a bit further in front of but I was catching up to her. 'She is slowing down for so reason'. I soon caught up to Laly and she whispered to "I have a poison that may work but". I asked in whisper as well "but what?". She said "The poison is a close proximity type. That ans it will affect both the target and the one who uses it".

I already knew where this was going so I said "Why don't you use it yourself? I will die together with her while you get to keep your life. That is a rubbish deal, I must say". Laly responded "I have the antidote but it has to be given at a specific tifra, otherwise it will not work". I responded "Bullshit! Then tell when I should give you the antidote and I will do so. Why are you pushing this onto ? I want to live as well or at least die for my own sake, not saving you alone!".

She said sothing that sounded ridiculous next "If you don't do it then both of us die". I said "If I do it then I die anyway! How should I know that you will actually give the antidote or that you even have it!". She went silent for a while then said "I can't do it. If I use this poison, I'm dead even if the antidote is given to . This has lesser effects on humans but it's strong either way. You will survive and I will die even if I'm given the antidote. I'm 100% sure of that".

I asked "Then why do you even have it? And an antidote as well? Sothing is fishy about this. I don't believe you!". She snorted and said "Then suit yourself" and shot at . "You bastard!" I exclaid. I wasn't prepared for her to attack all of a sudden. She shot two arrows into my leg, this made slow down a lot. The sword woman chasing us caught up quickly and slashed her sword at .

I evaded that attack sohow but still got another cut on my arm. 'Why am I so unlucky?' I thought as I tried to run as fast as I could. The woman behind snorted and said "That is why I wanted to kill her in the first place. These things can't be trusted. You worked together and yet she betrayed you. I wonder how that must feel?".

I was angry of course but what good would shouting or crying do now? I focused as much as I could and ran. The woman behind beca even more talkative. "You will die anyway but I'm wondering, why did you associate yourself with Eterian? Did you fall in love? Or maybe she promised you sothing in exchange for your help?" she said.

I responded while running "What is it to you? You are going to kill anyway. Answering your question has no purpose. Stop your attacks and I can answer your question". I didn't know whenever she expected that answer or not but after a long silence she said "I suppose I'm not that interested then. Now die". I could feel sothing getting closer from behind. I jumped to the left but so sort of blast of wind pushed even further. I flew through the air and then rolled for a while on the ground when I finally landed. When I finally managed to pick myself up from the fall, I looked at what just missed .

What I saw, was too shocking. 'Just what the hell was that?' I thought. The area I was in before jumping, contained a large crevice. Not just any powerful slash that carved the ground, no. An actual crevice that extended for dozen of tres with the width of at least a tre. I didn't linger any longer and started running again. This type of strength was beyond my comprehension.