Chapter 39 - Hunting Season (1/2)

Chapter 39: Hunting Season

Stepping past the boundary between light and dark felt very liberating to the dragon playing with her newest toy Just earlier today she discovered her Wars Flame, she still didn’t fully understand all of its powers, and yet she already gained another power

The darkness coiling around her like a living being, not like shadows at all Urged by the runes dancing on her skin, Nisha brought a sht into the day, it flared around her, the obsidian shard shi+fting forms to fit her desires

Giving birth to a ghastly shadow dragon, the twilight gained sharp claws and scalesback and forth like it couldn’t hold a complete form

Hidden beneath the eventide, the awoken huntress rushed towards her enemies, the soldiers screaly stepped out of a portal to the netherworld to haunt them

Like son’s red lips perked up into a playful sht in front of her played to her vicious nature, this hunt was neither about gaining food or clai a territory

Nisha’s faer theone

I tried being round and he tried to kill me in return

Don’t expect anyGrandpa was hard on ain

Responding to her renewed resolve, the dies of her trusty [Taurith Short Swords] dispersed in little specks of dying fire as a new fierce, yet royal criloole beacons of light breaking through eternal night

Similar to how she was connected to her flame, the darkness revealed their secrets to her, their true form the runes that flittered about her otherwise spotless skin akin to pure

Tie spell was fairly bound by her own limits, but to Nisha, this did not present a problem

“Midnight, the darkest hour of the night Lend your eye to the hunter, seeking her prey”

The incantation was fairly si in anticipation as the dragon rushed towards her targets, lending her their powers

I guess this isn’t a fight anymore The hunt is on!

Not unlike the first ti in the shadows and wielding her flahtness, two pieces of a puzzle that fit perfectly together

Merging into the dusk to the point where she herself didn’t knohere her skin ended and the shadows started, the dragon sped towards the sroup of soldiers in a small staccato of steps

Blood rushed through her veins, pure life force propelling her forwards andpure joy to the huntress

An expression of terror was plastered on a soldier’s face, his co since dropped his handkerchief and run away, soiling hiht and face the de for thelowing bloody orbs

He died where he stood, a red seae where a sword had sliced through hi tricks on him, doomed to never knohat killed him

Ecstatic to feast on the essence of the ed s sure to not even leave a tiny drop behind, before transforain

Nisha didn’t even pay attention to her brand new Midnight playing around, focusing on reaching the re two soldiers before they were able to spread the news of the dead unit, ensuring the safety of her sisters

The rush even e of her blades; her bluish [Taurith] swords shone with a new luster when the contrast of the criht even more spectacular However, all that appeared in her line of sight was the back of the officer that disrespected the kill she made earlier today, and the readied blade of his subordinate who demonstrated true honor when he chose to face the darkness that threatened to s hi away like his leader

Even after the dark cloud passed his fraleamed in his eyes, a scream forever trapped in his throat as a vermilion rose bloo even the last bit of light in hiht passed by

Tn, one to go But he won’t get away as easily as the other two, he earned much worse

Enraged by the disrespectful behavior of the officer, Nisha wanted him to suffer as much as he had tarnished the honor of the fallen soldier he spat on She herself had never disrespected an honorable enemy that she had slain in battle, each and every one of these battles was for a rightful kill or so its flesh for a meal

I still don’t like taking them from their loved ones, just like they took Grandpa Eldrin from me Nevertheless, we allfor my family Everyone has to be resolved to risk at least that much, or they are not fit to be on a battlefield

I think one of these philosophers said so lessons, as it? “Those who live by the sword, die by the sword”

A fitting quote

The difference between her current situation and the fight she was in earlier was quite astounding to Nisha, she barely had had any ti swords with the soldier, decisions and insecurities demandedmen down like monsters or animals, just like she used to do in the Wilderness, a play she was intihts and contemplate philosophy

During the fight, she had to block every blow and concentrate all of her attention on her ene blows she struck wereelse

Presently she had no issues at all with seeing exactly where she needed to strike the aze of an expert hunter guiding the s Truthfully, shethe s down his face whenever he threw a panicked glance towards thehis followers and now opened its bloody maw to s him whole too No one would be completely unaffected by a rush of power and excitement like this

To her defense, she didn’t coinal objective and stayed in control of her powers, reining in the greed of the runes and the flarant the a bloody end to the hateful officer

Contrary to that, the dragon asserted her do the theoverned these ters, and calling upon the entire extent of abilities ay beyond her current li up the currentevery bit of mana and aura she had anyway

Taking on the appearance of a jet black cloak and the already familiar crimson bracelets on her wrists, she hid the [Taurith Short Swords] that lost their glowing edge inside thefroain

Alar out of existence, the terrified leader collapsed against a building’s wall, panting and throwing his head left and right, his soiled pants testifying to the lethal fear that gripped his soul

“Are you afraid? You didn’t seem that scared when you spat on that soldier’s face earlier Did you know him? Why did you do that?”

Hiding herself in the darkness of another building, the sun giving her plenty of spaces to hide round only sao glowing rings of liquid gold flowing in the air, a pair of eyes that seeht into his soul

“Please – please, don’t kill me I don’t know him at all, I just … I don’t know! Please, please, don’t killyou …”