25 Etheric fruits 3 (1/2)
Ed was never one for words. He placed the bag in his spatial ring and removed a wooden sword from it. Holding the wooden sword, he stared the blankly.
”Come.” he said.
They all had a complicated look on their faces. What was this? This had never happened to them before. A spirit piking junior acting like this?
”It looks as if you have no fear.” the girl who had just killed the group said.
”You want to fight so badly, I will indulge you.” she said, pointing her sword at Ed. She saw that Ed did not flinch at her words, making her angrier. She appeared before him instantly. Ed recognised this skill. Blink? no. only those with at least soul awakening even of cultivation can use this skill. This was a much lower and mediocre martial skill, made to imitate the blink technique.
She arrived before him in seconds ad with a swing of her sword, a wave of water qi filled the air. A normal spirit picking junior would have felt as though he was drowning. Ed felt like he was splashed cold water. The wave formed a seal around him as though to suffocate him. With him inside the large ball of qi trying to suffocate him, she swung her sword right at the middle. The sharpness of that sword could be felt by her fellow disciples. They snorted as they thought it would cut right through with Ed in it.
Right at that moment, Ed tore his hand through the wave and grabbed her wrist.
”Crack!” they heard the sound of breaking bones, then came the yelp of their fellow disciple. What they did not know was that Ed could see right through the wave and could see all the key points of her qi. Not only did he break the wrist, he broke her connection to the wave of qi.
To Ed, his greatest asset was the energy inside him. He channelled an amount not smaller than a drop of water into her. his energy acted like deathqi, entering her and ageing her qi points till it reached her core. She looked as though she was burning from inside out as her eyes turned white and she fell like an empty sack.
What did he just do? The others wondered. The leader more so. All he saw was Ed hold her hand and break it. Why did she fall?
”Junior apprentice sister!” the other girl called. She could not feel her apprentice sister's life qi from where she stood. She rushed to grab her, but Ed was waiting. The flaw of his ability to use his energy was that people had to be close. He had to be capable of touching them. He wanted them to come to him. The closer they were, the greater his chances of killing them.
”You wish to die!” the girl growled but was held back by a frowning youth.
”There is something odd about this boy. We fight together.” one of them said. They now took Ed seriously. They considered the possibility that he was hiding his true cultivation and they could not really see through him.
Ed was not sure if he could take them all together. He did not know any fighting styles except basic swings. This wooden sword in his hand, he did not bring it out to look down on them, he just did not want to take out his Yhenxia sword. It was one of the few things that came with him to this world.