Note: Two Chapters; I had forgotten to post the Chapter in the draft yesterday, and ended up posting the Chapter today, leaving the one from yesterday in the draft.
Since I can not delete it or rearrange the order, I posted two at once. Mad is the first Chapter, and Blood Strings is the second.
Mad
Finally, I reached close enough that I could see the battle, and it didn’t make feel good.
I saw Pri Wolfden facing off against a blond, horned man who appeared to be in his early thirties, with thin lines of blood-red surrounding him.
It is sucking off the blood off the Pri Wolfden and forming a new strings.
The man is holding a sabre and attacking Pri Wolfden hard.
He had already had tens of cuts on his body, and from them, drops of blood were coming out and rging with the strings, forming more strings.
Akar Haklin.
It was the na of the man, and all the information about him appeared before .
Hearing that, my expression turned back.
He is one of the oldest, like the Pri Wolfden, and until two hundred years ago, he used to live in the village, until he snapped.
It had beco too much for him, and he crossed the forbidden line to get more power.
So, he could get out of this realm.
He is one of the few who have comprehended the two laws. Both of them are rare laws, and those strings are his art, through which he is siphoning the blood.
He isn’t fighting the battle, but practicing the art. Forbidden Art, to be exact.
Not all arts are good; so are bad and terrible. The one he practices is bad or neutral. I don’t know the na of it. So, I can’t really say it.
There are so good arts that use blood, but they can also be used for bad purposes. So have safeguards against it, while so don’t.
"Akar, you have really gone mad; you are not the person that I used to call my friend," said Pri Wolfden. To which, the man shook, his head while smiling gently.
"I am the sa man as before. The only thing that changed is my understanding."
"I have co to realise that we can not leave this place unless we beco powerful. Pri is not enough, Silver Pri is necessary."
"My art will help beco a true Silver Pri, and then getting out of this place would not be a problem," he replied, maintaining the sa gentle smile, before attacking once more.
"You are willing to kill your friends for that?" asked Pri Wolfden as he defended against the attack.
"Yes," he replied calmly.
The man’s eyes are calm, but madness is filled within them.
"You are mad," said Pri Wolfden, recognising it. To that, the other man smiled. "Call whatever you want, old friend, but I will not stop,"
"You should be grateful instead and not resist, as when I got out. Your essence will get out of this realm with ," he replied and launched another attack.
I have seen mad people, but he is worse than all of them. He believes every word he is saying.
That he is doing nothing wrong.
It really shook ; the ti in the realm had made him mad, and the thing is, he isn’t the only one here. There are many across the realm and a few in the village.
Though those people are taking the treatnt to control their madness, while these have beco unhinged.
A mont later, I got control over my emotions and looked at the battle rationally.
Pri Wolfden is in trouble; the drops coming out of it aren’t simple blood. It contains his essence, which ans every drop of it is weakening him.
The only reason he is fighting is because of his law, but the extraction of essence will also affect that.
If this continued, he wouldn’t be able to last for long.
I shouldn’t interfere; the man is stronger than I am. Most importantly, I can not let him have even a drop of my blood. Given his law and art, he won’t have a problem understanding its value.
Once he knows, he will want it at any cost. Even if I am able to survive, it won’t be long before I am in trouble.
I understand very well how quickly such news spreads. Once it did, everyone would be after , the Pri of the village, and the beasts of the forest.
Still, the very next mont, my body moved, and he sensed it imdiately, since I turned my stealth off.
He stopped mid-attack and turned to .
There was a surprise in his eyes, but a mont later, a smile appeared on his face.
"You must be a new friend. I haven’t heard about you," he said, before casting a glance at the runes floating around as I looked at the blood strings.
"Yes, I am. Arrived just a few months ago," I replied as I stopped beside Pri Wolfden.
"You shouldn’t have co, Pri Arys," said Priem Wolfden. "Leave now, I will keep him occupied," he added, appearing in front of .
"Unfortunately, that’s not an option anymore. Since you have co, you will stay," said Haklin.
"Relax, Pri Wolfden; he isn’t strong enough to do anything to ," I replied and turned to the man.
"Pri Haklin, I would be grateful. If you let us leave," I said, but the man shook his head.
"That’s not an option, Pri Arys. Especially now, when I am sensing, desire from my art for your blood," he replied, and I sighed.
"Well, that’s your choice," I replied, before placing my hand against Pri Wolfden’s shoulder.
The next mont, runes ca out. Ancient runes began to spread across his body. He didn’t resist, while a frown appeared on Haklin’s face, and he moved to attack.
"Pri Arys!" Pri Wolfden said in alarm and was about to move to defend, but I stopped him.
"No need," I said, and looked at the blade coming toward us.
CLANNNG!
It reached us instantly and was about to strike, when a beautiful round shield appeared in front of us, and the attack clashed against it.
It was a powerful clash that sent a crushing shockwave out, but to the shock of the man, only a ripple moved across the shield.
Not even crack.
...
Blood Strings
Saying he was shocked would be an understatent.
He isn’t the only one; even the Pri Wolfden looked shocked.
It took him a few seconds to co to himself before turning to . Gone is the smile on his face. Now, there is only anger, and the madness remains in them.
"You have a nice defence, Pri Arys," he praised. "Thank you, Pri Haklin," I replied, before turning to Pri Wolfden.
The runes finished spreading over him, and I looked at them once over before activating the formation.
Buzz!
The formation was activated.
As it did, Pri Haklin, who was coming to attack, suddenly stopped and vomited blood.
"Bastard!" he cursed, leaving all the politeness. I grinned at that before two bottles with green and purple liquid appeared in my hand.
"These won’t heal you fully, but it will stop the loss and begin the process of recovery," I said to him and handed him the bottle.
The man had lost the essence; it’s not easy to recover it.
"Thank you," he said before gulping them down, while I turned to the formation.
The formation is complex and powerful, but its function is simple. It is an isolation formation, and its function is to isolate it from the thod.
The art is powerful, and the formation isn’t enough to break the hold of the powerful thod, which is connected to him by blood and law.
The formation has another use, I contain his soul sense and other senses.
So, the mont I activated. The invisible string sphere appeared around us. It is what isolated the thod and has caused the backlash.
"I will kill you!" said Halkin as he recovered and ca at with another attack.
This one had law power swirling around his saber, and I watched with interest. It is not every day that one cos across such amazing laws he has.
The law of blood is one of the best laws out there and bears so similarities to killing.
I need to understand this law as thoroughly as possible. Blood is one of the things that could reveal my identity. Understanding the law of blood could help trendously in avoiding that.
I am interested in the law of absorption for entirely different reasons.
It is a law nearly similar to swallowing; so people have advanced the Law of Absorption into the Law of Swallowing.
It would help a lot with comprehension if I were able to understand the deeper aspects of it.
Bam!
The attack clash and it didn’t make the defeating sound or create a massive shockwave, but it’s without a doubt, an attack more powerful than the last one.
It is working differently than the previous offensive attack.
This one is more sophisticated. He is employing the law of absorption to dismantle the structure of the shield; once that is done, the second layer of the attack destroys it.
It is quite good, amazing even.
It might have worked if it were against soone who hadn’t comprehended the Law of Swallowing and used that understanding in designing the shield.
The attack didn’t even create a ripple, like the last one did.
Much less cracks and explosions than he had been expecting. That made the man quite angry.
"You will have to do much better than that, to break my shield, Pri Haklin," I taunted.
"I will, Pri Arys," said the man through gritted teeth, and the next mont, he appeared behind and launched the blazing attack.
I saw his saber, burning with bloody fla, coming toward us.
Wolfden looked at worriedly, while I had a carefree smile on my face.
He’s saber reached close and was about to move closer, when the shield suddenly appeared in front of it and stopped the attack.
CLANNNG!
It clashed hard, with energy, with laws entering inside my shield, but moved through the formation and got crushed by it.
The man got angrier and appeared above us and attacked again, but my shield defended once more.
My shields could move very fast; I had designed them in such a way, but they could move even faster in a sphere.
"You are more powerful than I had thought, Pri Arys," said Pri Wolfden.
To that, I smiled and shook my head. "I am not, Pri Wolfden. It’s just that my defence is extrely good," I replied.
I could see the man has questions, but he kept them to themselves and looked at Pri Haklin, who is attacking us like crazy.
Soon, a minute passed, and his attack had intensified instead of lessening.
"Pri Haklin, give you. You are not powerful enough to break through my shield," I said to the man.
To my surprise, he stopped and looked at . The madness in his eyes receded with rationality taking its place, but it didn’t make good at all.
Instead, it raised all the hair on my body. The man is about to do sothing dangerous.
Sothing that could kill . Seeing that, the runes lit.
"You have exceptional defence, I will give you that, but you are wrong about not being able to break it," he replied, and blood strings revolving around it, turned to .
"I will break it and then I will have your blood," added the man, and his strings ca at .
"Pri," said Pri Wolfden, scared and worried, but I smiled with my eyes not moving away from the strings.
The strings didn’t co from one direction, but from all of them, and they are very fast.
So, they arrived instantly.
BAMMMM BAMMMM BAMMMM!
The deafening sound rang out as the strings clashed and the sphere beca visible.
I wanted to keep it invisible till I couldn’t, but things didn’t happen as one wishes.
The strings clashed hard against the sphere, with such force. That sent huge ripples across it. It was powerful enough that it would have killed soone like Pri Wolfden in an instant.
Hell, it would have broken through my shield if they had only been 10% stronger.
This is an art, one of the weakest I had seen, but still an art, and makes it an extrely dangerous thing.
The attack is two-layered, and the first layer is weakest. The second is the strongest.
The strings lted into the energy and spread into the sphere. Imdiately overwhelming the defences of the sphere.
It made scared, but I worked with my clone while keeping a smile on my face.
The energy is pure essence filled with the power of art and laws.
Making it extrely dangerous and if not for dealing with powerful energies before, they would leaked through it already.
Things aren’t safe right now.
I am fighting with my clones right now to keep the energy contained, whittle it down, but it’s not easy. This is sothing that is very strong.
Though they have t my shields today.
I have encountered many powerful things, and today, I will tackle them and add them to my data collection, which I will use to improve my shields further.
The data would be precious, but I need to be alive to study it.
So, I gave everything I had to deal with it. Improved the formations in a corner of sphere, tested it against the energy. If it worked, then bringing changes into the rest of the formation.
It is happening extrely fast, and I am thankful for the ti dilation; without it, it wouldn’t have been possible.
Ti passed by, and finally, I had reached equilibrium with the deadly blood energy.
This made take a sigh of relief. I haven’t dealt with energy yet, but I have improved my defence enough that it won’t be able to harm .
That is enough to make feel relieved.
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