31 Trapped (1/2)

”What did you say!” Koren asked in a thundering voice.

”My…My commanding officer, Commander…commander Uther, is…is at the border…” Andre replied stutteringly.

Koren didn't know how to react, on one hand he was excited at the possibility of his mother being alive, and on the other, the imminent doom of the sand ship with Enri and Haruki.

”Don't worry Koren, if we do a sustained flight with ultrasonic speed, we can reach them in minutes.” Hope said hastily. ”We need this fellow alive to find your family, cripple his core, and inject him with nanites, they will keep him under control after we leave.”

”I understand sis.” Koren muttered as he raised the other arm and a needle punched out, he then stabbed Andre with it in the gut.

”Ahhh, no, what is happening, my strength. What did you do to me.” Andre screamed as tears and snot drooped down onto his cheeks.

”Ahhhh.” The nanites slithered across Andre's body, damaging his bone structure in specific zones and preventing him from healing.

Koren pulled his hand back, and the needle disappeared. He then put his hand on Andre's head, and tried to find his spiritual core.

Deep in his mind he found it, a small glowing orb, with a green shard in the middle, slowly melting into the walls of the core.

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”It looks like this guy was on the verge of a breakthrough.” Hope said inquisitively. ”That seems to be his incarnation shard, as it slowly fuses with the core, his level increases. If it fuses with his core completely, he would jump to the next cultivation realm. The secrets of the spiritual path are very interesting, I wonder what the next level is called.”

”All that is interesting sis, but we are on the clock, now how do I break this thing.” Koren asked swiftly, maintaining a lock on someone else's core was very difficult. More so in this case as Andre's cultivation level was far higher than his own. If it weren't for the nanites constantly tormenting Andre, he would never be able to visualize it.

”Easy, just let me take care of it.” Hope replied, with an evil grin plastered across her face.

Andre, who was already in tremendous pain, suddenly felt a jolt of pure agony ripple through his psyche.

Andre concentrated on his mind to visualize his spiritual core, and he saw it, he saw 'her'. In front of his core stood a woman. It was a human woman, but she gave him a feeling even the princess failed to give him. A feeling of supremacy, a feeling of pure control. She made him feel so very helpless.

”Wha… what are you…” the pain kept coming in waves, he couldn't even talk properly.

What he didn't notice was the grin she carried on her face as she sent wave after wave of electrical energy surging towards his core. And before he could, it was already too late. His core cracked like an egg, and the shard simply floated towards the woman.

Outside, Andre coughed up blood and simply fainted. Hope's image appeared in front of Koren. ”It's done, and I also managed to snag a souvenir.” Hope said waving a green shard in her hands. ”Don't worry, I will send it directly to the upgrade matrix. You don't need to worry about it, now dump this guy and lets head to the border.”

Koren nodded and flew down towards Ipnak and the rest. He threw Andre towards their feet and said ” The matriarch is at the oasis, take him and meet up with them”

The metallic moths had already healed Ipnak completely, he too had started to lose his cultivation. The moths gathered around Koren and melted into his Armor.

”Big sis, teacher's cultivation, what is happening.” Koren asked as he looked at Ipnak's state.

”I don't know, but now's not the time, we will deal with this after we save the others.” Hope also appeared to be looking at Ipnak and Ranbu curiously. ”Don't worry, with me by your side, we will figure something out.”

Ipnak, who was still in his sand badger state, was looking at Koren confusedly. Ranbu, Yoji and the warriors all had the same look on their faces.

”Who are you, and why…” Ipnak was the first to speak, but was quickly cut short by Koren.

”No time, please go to the Oasis and stay put, the draconian's have an ambush setup at the border, I have to go.” Koren said hurriedly, then he pointed at the unmoving body of Andre laid out around their feet and continued. ”Keep him alive, he has important information. I have immobilized him, he won't be a threat to anyone.”

Koren didn't wait for any more questions, the helmet came back on and the repulsors fired, blasting him off the ground.

Koren looked towards his destination and spoke ”Let's go sis!”

The Plasma jets ejected, and fired out a brilliant blue flame, the space surrounding Koren rippled and he disappeared.

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Sappa was standing next to the keel stone, he could feel the wind pick up, which was good as it would mean he would need less spiritual power.

He had met up with the other two ships from Guar and Yaris village. Only Guar had a Spiritualist on board, around the same age as Haruki. However this fellow was only level 4, so he couldn't help him sail the ship. To use the Keel stone one needs a minimum level of 8, even Haruki had barely reached level 7. They abandoned the other two ships and decided to proceed on one ship, as it would be faster, and safer.

However, something had been bothering him for a while now, he couldn't put a finger on it, but it was telling him to stop and go the other way. He had always been somewhat sensitive to danger, but then again it could mean Haruki would play another prank on him.

The ship had been sailing for two days now, the food and water was almost all gone. They couldn't bring enough because they need other goods like pelts and spirit shards and spirit bones, these would be traded with the raavi to gain passage and residency.

Sappa had been to the border once with a trader when he was around the same age as Haruki, back then he was appalled by the extravagant prices of the Raavi, but he was also extremely glad. Glad that the Raavi wanted something from them, otherwise they wouldn't have anyone to trade with, and get important medicine and tools.

Sappa looked ahead and could see a massive sand dune, it's shadow giving the ship some much needed shade.

Sappa sighed.

This was the final hurdle, beyond this, he would be able to see the walled city of Kafir.

However, not everything goes according to plan. Just as he was about to input more spiritual power into the keel stone to pick up the speed, he felt the ship shudder, and then come to a complete stop.

”What!” Sappa was shocked, this should not have happened.

However the ship would not move, no matter how much spiritual power he pumped in the keel stone.

...Dhum…

He felt the ship shake, and could tell that the rudder had been damaged.