Once she took off to the sky, Re'Kha sighed, speaking, "Why did I even take flight in the first place? It's too dark to see anything. And, I can just observe the peak of the hill using my Wind Qi perception."
Re'Kha slapped her forehead, almost screaming in shock when she noticed her Tikka jewellery was hot, almost burning up. Only now did she feel that her hands had been shivering all along, as if she had subconsciously been under the influence of fear.
And now that she had begun to notice the strange points, she felt it was strange the horse was trembling in fear when it had only been at the village's entrance. She hurriedly expanded her Wind Qi perception, outlining the entire area in her range.
She noticed that the villagers were already in their hos, having finished dinner and had gone to sleep. There were no signs of activity in the village after that, like it was a ghost town. Every single individual was already fast asleep.
There were no sounds that might arise in places with people. Re'Kha felt unnerved, after all, even the Settlents weren't this quiet in the night. There were at least a couple of shops that operated throughout the night too, a resting place for the guards that worked the night shifts in the Settlents and patrolled the streets.
They usually took a quick break in such shops, ate so snacks or food before resuming their patrol. So, whether it was a City or one of the Settlents under it, no place was completely silent during the night.
And now, seeing the absolute silence of the place caused an eerie feeling to creep up her spine. Even though Re'Kha assud it was her hallucination due to the silence, the sense of fear she felt was real. After all, her horse had been trembling like crazy.
Re'Kha closed her eye once to see that she was unable to see anything. It ant the village head was asleep. She judged that in such proximity, as long as she wished, she could maintain her eye ability on the village head. It was because he wasn't a Harmoniser.
But against a Harmoniser, at most, she would be able to maintain the connection for a day. And that might drain quite a lot of the Fear Qi reserves in her eyes.
'Right, my eyes contain Fear Qi. So, why haven't they absorbed the fear in my body yet?' She thought, frowning as she closed her eyes and ditated, all while the Rupak was stably maintaining balance in the air.
She then noticed that her eyes were indeed functioning as usual. They were absorbing the fear in her body and converting them into Fear Qi to be stored in her eyes. But, the reason she wasn't feeling anything different was due to the fact fear was being induced in her constantly, from external sources.
Imdiately through her Wind Qi perception, Re'Kha focused on sothing that she hadn't done before. There was indeed sothing at the top of the hill. Moreover, there was a secret path that trailed from the back of the village towards the hill's peak.
And, this path had been hidden behind an extended crevice that was blocked from view when seen from the village's entrance or the cave's entrance. And currently, two people were heading up the narrow path, both able-bodied n.
They seed in a trance, or drenched with fear, evidenced by their sluggish steps. But, when Re'Kha focused on their faces, she noticed that their eyes were closed. Moreover, it was nerve-wracking when she was able to barely make out the silhouette of the gems on their Tikka jewellery.
It shouldn't have been possible because even for commoners, the gem was a mixture of all four elents. So, while sensing with her Wind Qi perception, the gems of everyone would look like sharp blank spaces to her.
But now, she could see their outlines. It shouldn't have been possible, 'Unless…they have lost all power.'
She imdiately focused on her Tikka jewellery's gem, noticing that it was the usual grey. But, it seed there was sothing that was trying to eat into it. But, it was being blocked off by the waves of Wind Qi she was emitting.
Startled, Re'Kha finally focused on the place that she had been subconsciously glossing over for so reason—the peak of the hill. On the peak of the hill was a piece of rock twice her height, slated into the hill like a vertical slab.
And, there was an inscription on the rock. It outlined two figures, almost indistinguishable due to the lack of features. But, the clearest depiction was the third eye that was on their foreheads. And, sothing seed to be dripping from them.
And, the two figures seed to be engaging in a session of carnal desires, of wrestling each other even though they were part of the sa gender. But, the odd thing was that the receiver of the two in the ceremony of sorts, as depicted in the stone seed to have a slit on his mouth, evidenced by the wide-opened jaw that had clamped over the head of the other party.
His third eye almost seed to have been hollowed out. The stone pillar seed to be a mural of sorts, erected for reasons unknown. But, it definitely wasn't done by soone from their race. And, it was evidenced by the strange creature that was standing before the mural.
Whether it was standing or not couldn't be said as it was just a cluster of arms attached to one another. There were approximately around thirty to forty of them forming the cluster. And, the hands seed to be in joy as the two n walked towards it in a daze.
And, as if affected by sothing, they sat before the mural. Upon seeing their postures, Re'Kha could feel sothing as her entire being was filled with dread. She could feel her Tikka jewellery turn unbearably hot while sothing changed in the two people below, causing her to ntally scream, 'No, noo, noooo!'
Followed by a pause, on the Tikka jewellery of the two n, their gems trembled before shattering into dust.
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