Anaak ran through the dark cave, looking around frantically in an attempt to find where the bull and Endorsi had ventured.
"That little jerk!" she yelled, using shinsu to strengthen her legs and sped up her search. Her figure rapidly blitzed through the cave, leaving a slight whistling sound as she passed. Hundreds of ters of distance was passed in the matter of a few dozen seconds.
Anaak huffed in annoyance.
I need to find the bull before she does... or she might have already found it... She clicked her teeth, jumping across different pillars, avoiding diving into the water.
I would use shinsu sensing, but the bull is likely travelling through the water, making it hard for to detect it.
Just as she jumped towards another pillar, a small light flashed by her eyes.
Shiiiiing!
Anaak turned her head on instinct, finding a lone light, like a will o wisp dancing in the air, surrounded by darkness. She smirked and summoned a hook from her reel inventory.
"Found you!" she yelled, throwing the hook towards the light.
Whooosh
The hook dashed through the air with frightening speed. However, it narrowly missed the small light that moved to avoid the attack. The light proceeded to jump across the pillars, getting further away from the attacker.
Anaak quickly followed.
"Damn it! Stop running away!" She exclaid.
After so ti of empty chase, the light eventually disappeared from her vision as she landed on a stone platform that extended further into the cave, no longer surrounded by water. Anaak looked around, using her shinsu sensing to look through the area. However, finding nothing, she shook her head.
Just as she was about to jump off again into the dark, a voice called out.
"What are you looking for? Ms. Anaak Jahad?" The voice called out. Anaak's eyes widened as she turned around. In the darkness, a dim light erged, and with it a guttural growl too. Sothing slithered around in the air, sothing large and shaped like a snake. Then, two dead, cold and unfeeling eyes gazed at her from above.
Siiiiiiii~
A strange sound was produced by this large creature. The creature was indeed like a large snake, the only clear difference being it's head which was like that of a crocodile. It's golden scales shimred in the dim lighting, making it appear all the more nacing.
Slowly, footsteps began to echo around it and a white object, shaped like a rectangular rice ball erged under the creature.
"You're?" Anaak's eyes widened just a tiny bit.
"Hehe. Surprised to see ?" The ranker chuckled. "Shinsu sense can pick up any entities and sense the environnt with ease. However, for a wave controller ranker, deceiving the senses through false shinsu input is a piece of cake. I can't imagine any regulars below B rank doing it though." The rice ball droned.
Anaak looked at him for a mont before shaking her head.
"Hmph! I thought you were the bull." She turned back, intending to jump off the platform and resu her search.
"W-wait!" The ranker yelled from the back. Anaak turned with a scowl on her face, her anger and annoyance visible through her expression.
"What? I'm busy! Get lost!"
Hearing her words, the rice ball shook it's head.
"A sha you're in a hurry. I felt that we could bond you know? You do resemble your
mother... when she died in front of my eyes... hehe." The rice ball said crookedly.
At that mont, Anaak's pupils shrunk into needles, an expression of disbelief and confusion marring her face. "...What?" She managed to squeeze out. "What... did you say?"
The rice ball chuckled in response.
"hehe. Now now, let's not get too far without proper introductions. I'll go first." The smirk on the rice ball seed to get all the more wider as it spoke. "I'm a mber of the Royal Enforcent Division, Unit No. 67. My na is Ren." The rice ball chuckled again at the end. Then, it's mouth opened up slightly to reveal a small pendant. It was a small sphere, erald in colour.
"One of... your enemies." Ren said. The pendant flew out of his mouth, sohow floating beside him without falling.
"Where..." Anaak said as her eyes remained riveted to the necklace he had just pulled out. "Did you get that necklace?" She asked.
"Hehe. Did you not hear ? It was ." Ren declared. "I was the one that killed your mother." The necklace flew back towards his mouth. A red tongue poked out and held the necklace, pulling it back inside.
"You want this don't you? Co and get it."
Anaak eyes held a crazed look. She summoned her ard inventory and pulled out the Green April through it, placing the other hook back inside.
"Give it back!" she yelled. The Green April imdiately extended as she slamd it right towards Ren. However, instead of impacting him, a low clank of tal rang out.
Anaak's eyes widened as a larger version of the rice ball, this one with a gigantic red eye at the place of it's smile ca out from the darkness. Besides it floated a claw like appendage,
orange in colour.
"This is my favourite pet. Though I enhanced him a bit too much so he's a bit dangerous." Anaak clicked her tongue as the claw beside the creature shot out with a large concentrated
baang of shinsu.
Booooom!
An explosion happened, and with it, the entire area behind Anaak was obliterated. Anaak who had dodged the attack at the last mont looked back and then towards the creature. Then,
she yelled.
"Green April! Ignition!"
Shaaaaaa!
The shinsu in the environnt surged with a strange power as the weapon in her hands roared out with strength. The weapon tore through the air and right towards the creature, hitting it
square in the face.
Boooom! Crash!
The attack uprooted the ground, throwing around the rocks and debris and kicking up dust.
"How's that?" she asked, a crazed smile on her face.
"Hmm... That was good but..." Ren droned. Just then, Anaak felt her hair stand on end.
Hurriedly she jumped forward, avoiding a claw attack from the creature that now stood
behind her.
Even an attack from the Green April's ignition is ineffective?!
Just then, sothing clicked.
Anaak looked down to find a needle sticking out of the left part of her chest.
She threw up so blood from her mouth as the needle pulled back. Another one of the sa creature, both connected by a chain floated in the air.
Ren ca forward and scooped up the Green April without a care in the world.
"Now... it wouldn't be fun to just kill you... so let's make this interesting!" Ren yelled, and from the darkness, a familiar figure erged. Anaak's eyes widened as she took in the image.
There it stood, the bull in all it's glory. Standing on it's hind legs it towered at a staggering 7 ters in height. In it's tail, it held a peculiar figure with short brown hair and an orange dress. It was Endorsi!
"Hehehehehe!" Ren's low chuckle echoed through the darkness.
Winston ran through the cave, jumping from one pillar to the other. As he did, the strange
feeling in his chest began to amplify, making him feel a bit breathless. The premonition of danger he got from his intuition was unlike anything he had experienced until now, making him realize the severity of the situation.
This can't be just the work of the bull... this is sothing else. He clicked his tongue, not liking the situation that had arose because of his negligence. He had already figured out the way to go using his needle and divination, however, the question remained. Should he continue? He jumped atop a pillar and stopped. His smile had already receded into a small smirk, no longer appearing as prominent. He scratched his head, his expression one of inner conflict. Why do I hesitate? He wondered. Heh. If it were the teenage , I wouldn't have hesitated to dive headfirst into danger, like a blockhead. He gave a deprecating sigh, chuckling as he did so. He looked towards the ceiling and sighed again, purposefully delaying making a decision. Shaking his head, he opened his reel inventory and took out what seed to be a collection of bells, sothing he had bought from the Evankhell store. As he held them with him; the bells suddenly began to ring with a soft chi. He jumped ahead towards another pillar. The chiming of the bells amplified, now sounding the slightest bit more urgent.
He again held the look of contemplation.
Eventually he sighed again, and took out a coin.
Ding!
The coin flipped up with a tallic click, spinning around in the air and landing right onto Winston's hand. He stared at the result of the divination for a mont, his eyes glazed over
just a tiny bit.
Shibisu ran through the darkness, his breathing rushed and forceful. He stopped for a
mont, supporting his body with his knees.
Huff! Huff! Huff!
He shook his head. "Those monsters! There's no way I can keep up!" He yelled, offering an
excuse to no one but himself.
He stared at the pocket and called out.
"Khun! What's the situation up there?!" He asked.
"The Dogs have already encountered the Thieves and the spear bearers have started their
assault. There was so trouble for a mont but that's all resolved! What about the Bull!?
Did you find it yet?!" Khun asked from the other side. Shibisu shook his head with an annoyed click of his tongue.
"No... They've really run off sowhere, they're even out of range for my observers. I can't
find them!" He huffed.
On the other side, he heard Khun sigh for a mont.
"...Alright then! Do this-" Just then, the connection was abruptly cut off.
Shibisu stared at his pocket for so ti, hoping for a continuation of his words.
"Khun? Hey, Khun?" He called out. No answer.
He held his head and sat down on the ground, feeling all the more annoyed. "Just what the hell is happening?!" He yelled out into the darkness. Just then, he trembled.
Quickly standing up, he adopted a combat stance, looking over into the darkness. His body
trembled incessantly, refusing to listen to his commands as his senses were pushed into
overdrive.
This pressure.... this absurd pressure... It feels as if my body is about to break apart! He yelled in his
mind. What is this..?
Just then, a sudden voice rang out.
"Hey, you fashion terrorist!" A feminine voice said. And with that, Shibisu's eyes t two
shining dots in the dark, gleaming with a baleful red light.
"I'm gonna have to ask you for directions..."
A/N: Throw so stones.
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