66 Confrontation (1/2)
One tendril rammed through the back of the soldier on the left and exited through his chest with a spray of red, he looked down in disbelief at the wriggling smoke-like tentacleprotruding from his chest.
The horse stood next to him again entered into panic mode and tried to flee but before it could move, it toofell victim to a black tentacle, it was run through from its rear end and the tendril exited the left side of its neck.
The horse neighed out loud as it was suspended like a suckling pig over a camp fire.
The creepy tendrils yanked back with force and a screaming ghost-likereplica of the impaled soldier started to be pulled from his shiny armor. The man's soul screamed out a horrific miserable sound which traveled through the region like a harsh wind.
The second soldier was shocked with his mouth hanging open looking at his squad mate's horrific ending, with desperate urgency, the man wrapped in glistening armor tried to flee with his own legs abandoning the panicked and unresponsive horse,the remaining four tendrils twisted like black snakes and made a beeline for the man and horse skewering them both in the blink of an eye.
The second soldier's screams were even more gut wrenching, he was impaled with multiple tentacles as his soul was harvested even more quickly than the first.
The screaming made Ryu Hang forget about all his pain, the wild beast pulling the carriage didn't need any instruction to get away from this place as fast as possible, they bolted forward rumbling through the mud with loud clopping sounds.
Qin Li had exited the carriage leavingZhi Ruo inside, he had seen this before but this time the unseen enemy seemed to be way stronger than the one they faced in the Cosmos region.
Hartley looked at him and said ”protect her”green lights danced around Qin LI's ankles as he flashed away, chasing after the carriage without saying a word.
A slim hunched-back figurewalked out from the tree line. The hooded man had no visible face only darkness, a darkness that weaved around him like a suit of armor bringing the stench of death with it.
His dark aura shimmered around him and his dark discolored hand beckoned towards Hartley as if he was inviting his grandson forward.
”You've killed my best two apprentices, now come and kneel before me ...Join me and we can conquer this mortal plain together or you can surrender your soul and die, make your choice now.”
Each word he uttered had echoes of painful screams as if someone was screaming the same time he was talking.
Hartley did not answer, his body language made it abundantly clear he didn't even intend to exchange words, he was ready for combat.
”So be it.” came the man's voice once more.
The floor again rippled and churned like boiling water, black smoke-like tentacles erupted from the ground and rose witheerie wails and moans, leaving horrible craters dotted on the ground. A dozen tentacles the width of a fist curled downward towards Hartley.
Boom! mud splashed everywhere as chunks were ripped out of the road, each time the black tentaclecrashed into Hartley it turned out to only be an after image. Hartley pushed his level 5 star feet movement technique to its maximum agility within the tight spaces of the tentacles which looked like trees in a forest rising around him.
”Submit!”