Chapter 16 - The Fury of a Mother (1/2)

With the blood coming to his head, obfuscating his judgment, Hei pounced toward Little Blade while emitting a wild scream. He wanted to tear apart every single piece of his enemy's body.

However, while he was running, Xing, from the position she was, threw one of her spiderwebs towards Hei's ankles. Although it wasn't strong enough to lock him in place, that move was enough to make Hei fall on the ground, letting him avoid the sword that otherwise would have cut his head in half.

Seeing this, Little Blade was surprised. He didn't expect the boy in front of him to remain alive in this attack. Or the spider to save his master that had lost his reason.

But that did nothing but postpone the inevitable. Little Blade wouldn't let Hei escape, not only because of the risk that he was part of a big sect but also because of his potential. A kid with a talent like that would be a dangerous enemy in the future if he grew up and learned how to use spirit power. He might as well uproot the roots in this way now that his fangs were yet to develop.

With slow steps, he approached Hei, who was still motionless on the ground. The fall had made him regain his reason. The adrenaline that was fueling his body until now was fading away. That created a moment of exhaustion in which it was difficult for Hei to move.

Little Blade looked into Hei's eyes and, how his brother did with his mother, he prepared to cut the throat of the son, finishing unknowingly the cycle that united their families.

But as the blade was about to fall, a sudden shiver ran down his back, paralyzing him. Unconsciously, he shifted his eyes where he felt the thing that was giving him such a thrill could be found. Looking up, what he saw was a creepy sight.

In the air, where Hei and Little Blade were, there was a large spider about 1 meter in size, with its eight eyes looking downwards. These were concentrated on three different points, and when they saw the conditions of Hei, Xing, and Ye, Lei Bai trembled slightly. Not because she was scared or anything but because she was in a rage.

Suddenly, it could be heard the sound of something cracking, no, it was the air that was forming friction sounds like it would crumble at moments. Then an immense pressure descended on the bandits in the square and outside the village. There became paralyzed on the spot.

The villagers who weren't directly victims of that pressure, were still on their knees trying to breathe slowly. For people without spirit power, it was dangerous to be subjected, even passively, to a mighty spirit power as the ripples of that could cause severe injuries on their bodies.

In Leaf City, various high-level martial artists lifted their heads at the same time. Unconsciously, although their perception didn't arrive that far, they could still feel that someone very powerful was about to unleash his power.

Seeing the big spider, Little Blade, as his brother 12 years ago, only managed to mumble some words, ”High-grade spirit beast, then it was true-”

But it was unable to say anything else because suddenly he felt something crawling near his feet. After looking down, his blood froze at the sight of what he saw: hundreds and hundreds of little spider were climbing his legs, going up on his body

Panicked, he began to take them off with his hands, but there were too many spiders. He tried a roll on the ground. However, this did nothing but facilitate the small animals that had reached the neck.

With resolution, Little Blade tried to use his spirit power to drive them away, but even that didn't work. In desperation, he also scratched his face and throat in an attempt to drive them away. Soon blood started coming out of his neck because of his nails that went deeper and deeper into the flesh, but he didn't seem to care much about it. His only concern at the moment was to kill these lousy spiders.

He wasn't the only one squirming on the ground in terror. Even the bandits in the square, as well as all the others outside the village, were in the same conditions. All of them went so far to self-harm themselves to get rid of those infernal creatures.

As they witnessed this, the villagers were both terrified and disoriented. The pressure on them had abruptly diminished, and they could now move if they wanted, but none of them did. They were all witnessing with horror at the sight in front of them. The bandits had suddenly slumped to the ground for some reason. After that, they began scratching themselves, even going so far as to pierce the flesh on the neck and face. They were overwhelmed by the shock, and they couldn't understand the reason for their actions.

It must be known that the spiders that suddenly appeared weren't real spiders. Everything the bandits thought was happening, was happening in their minds. This was, in fact, an illusion created by Bao Bei, who, in her anger, decided to make them pay hard for how they had beaten her children. For this reason, she chose this illusion: in this way, she would have caused despair in their hearts, causing them to commit suicide to end the nightmare they were experiencing.

Meanwhile, in an unknown time, Lei Bai had awakened from fainting. The kick was heavy, but he could still move, though with difficulty. Fortunately, the bandit leader hadn't attacked him intending to kill him, but he had thrown a kick casually.

In small steps, he approached Lei Lei to examine her conditions carefully. On her face, there was a large bruise due to the hit received, but she didn't seem to be seriously injured. Relieved that she was all right, he looked up at the big spider who had descended to Hei while carrying Xing and Ye on her legs.

This spider was carefully touching them with its legs, moving their bodies to examine their wounds. From the delicate way in which it was moving its legs, it didn't seem to be the ferocious creature of before. The one descended so suddenly into the middle of the night. Especially while considering that the bandits were still shaking on the ground while emitting inhuman rales because of self-harm.

The way it was behaving, more than a spirit beast, was like a mother examining anxiously if her children were all right.

'Mother? ... Mother?! Could-?!' Lei Bai, after seeing that scene, came up with an impossible hypothesis, but this impossibility was now being shown before his eyes.

The elusive mother he hadn't met even once during all these years.

The clothes made with that strange silk that couldn't be found anywhere nearby and Hei's peculiar behavior regarding human customs.