67 Chaos in the astral roots (2/2)

Crack.

The other leader had made to defend, but felt his hand bones crack. His eyes rounded out in shock. What kind of physical strength was this? Grinding his teeth, he bore the weight of Ku Nam's fist. He used the momentum of the fist to escape back, then made to blink away.

”When it comes to the blink imitation, you are still far from being my equal.” Ku Name muttered, then blinked behind him. The leader felt Ku Nam's heavy fist crash into his back, before his body could blink away. He could swear his spine cracked. He spat a mouthful of blood as he crashed into the stone paved walkway, a long way away from his unconscious companions.

”They let you learn the blood shield; you must be important.” Ku Nam said, appearing above the leader and descending on his exposed neck.

Crack.

The leader stopped moving.

Ku Nam looked towards his companions almost reaching the platform, and blinked thrice to reach it. They arrived to meet him standing before the elevated platform. There was nothing on the plater, but Ku Nam still raised his hand and reached for the empty space. He felt his hand grab unto a slim slightly curved object and pulled it out. A lone bow made of polished white wood was exposed.

”We should leave before more people arrive.” Autumn bloom said.

”Yes.” the other agreed. Hey turned to where the other two companions were and saw them struggling to get on their feet.

”Can they still move like this?” Autumn Bloom asked Ku Nam. He glanced at her for second, before pulling out a bottle of pills from his space and threw it at her.

”Feed it to them.” he said and she nodded and ran in their direction. They may be useless to him, but they made good distractions. To get out of this astral roots with this white bow, he needed such distractions.

Just then, a screech ran through the air, almost tearing through his skull. The bow in his hand seemed to hum in response. Something about it's hum, made Ku Nam feel it was scared. The bow glowed bright white and the light sipped into his pores and hit his blood. This only made the pain increase. A bone tattoo appeared on the wrist of his dominant hand, hot as coal. It felt as though someone had taken a red hot stylus and carved the tattoo into his wrist. As they tattoo sealed, he could feel the bow much clearly. It was a though he could tell what it felt. As the bow's feelings rushed into his mind, he cursed out loud and tumbled to the ground. The bow had physically disappeared, but he could feel it hiding inside him.

This stupid bow was afraid of the screeching that it forced a life contract unto him and hid inside his body. His companions all heard the screeching, but only Ku Nam fell, writhing in pain.

”Brother Nam!” the companion closest to him reached for his falling form in panic. Autumn Bloom paused as she heard the panicked shout and looked back to see Ku Nam fall. The companion tried to touch him, but hot lightening repelled him, flinging him to the other side of the room.

As Ku Nam felt his consciousness start to slip into the ethers, a seal unlocked in his body and thick lightening surrounded him.