Chapter 58 - Our luck is the worst (2/2)

Her secondary abilities?

”Let us go.” She has a smile on her face. ”If you don't, you won't have a good end.”

She reminds me of the time when she was General Yu. It's not easy to live in this era. I can leave this place anytime, but I can't help shaking with fear when I surrounded by people who can kill me in less than a second. She is burned out and unable to travel in time, but she shows no fear or hesitation in her action.

”Drop the weapon.” A masked man comes forward. ”We don't want to hurt you. Our master is waiting for you.”

”Did the keepers send you?” She glances at their weapons. ”Do they hire ȧssassins now?”

I lean closer to her and whisper, ”They are Wu Yixing's men.”

”Tch!”

At that instant, the masked man attacks her with his bȧrė hands. She pushes me back and dodges the attack. I fall back on my arse. I yelp in pain. She throws the dagger at the man approaching me. It hits him right at his throat. I open my mouth in awe. She is amazing.

She doesn't pause for a second. Three masked men approach her with weapons this time. Two of them are moving toward me. I watch her vanish and appear as she slits the throats of two men. By the end, she is gasping for air. I realize that she can't use her secondary abilities for long. She is breathing fast. She has overused her abilities in her burned-out state. Her body is slowing down.

”Leave me.” She stands up with the dagger. ”Go. You can't fight with them.”

Leaving her here like this?

I reach for my bag and take out one of the vials from my bag and throw it on the man coming toward me. Black flames cover his body. I reach for another vial. The fifth shadow stops before me. He clutches my wrist hard. I hear the sound of my bone cracking. The vial drops and cracks. The purple smoke rises out of the broken vial. I don't think and run forward in time. The guard is not lucky.

***

The cracking sound of the vial is loud. The moment slows down. Yoori sees that her niece is no longer standing there. She tries to use the last of her energy to go away from the rising purple smoke. The purple smoke is slowing spreading around. The purple smoke melts away the bag.

Crack.

Crack.

Crack.

All the glass vials are broken one by one. The purple smoke gradually becomes white.

10 seconds are over. The time resumes its normal pace. The white smoke spreads like wildfire and eats away anything in its way. The fifth guard shrieks in pain as his skin begins to melt. The sixth guard is too slow to move away from the rapidly advancing smoke. It envelops his body in an instant.

Yoori slows down the time again. 10 seconds. She doesn't turn around to look. 1 moment could become the reason for her death. She keeps running with the last of her energy.

In 30 seconds, the entire area is wiped out, leaving a deep cavity. There is nothing left.