53 Rumble In The Jungle (2/2)

”Kiddo! The death Qi is not decreasing!” Mei's warning came as Lineir frowned, his sixth sense seeming to feel danger.

Before his eyes, the shattered fragments of blackened rotting bone and meat shook, and then began to rejoin. The upper body quickly reformed as the hands, bound by faint hazy strands of death Qi crawled back to the body and reinserted themselves.

”Hmph, you think you can reform right in front of me!” Lineir's eyes turned cold. Like he would let a downed enemy recover without dealing the finishing blow. He leapt forward, just barely leaving the ground, but with such strength and speed that he covered the meters between them before landing, and as he passed over the skeleton, he slashed downwards with a bizzare spark of bluish-yellow lightning passing between his blade and the reforming undead.

”Reverse Lightning Slash!”

The undead body was shattered into bits by his darkness infused sword again, but this time, before the pieces were blown apart, small strands of lightning surged between them and criss-crossed like sown thread creating a web.

”Lightning Rebound!”

Chi Chi Chi

As Lineir landed past, he turned and watched as the strands of lightning snapped and the pieces exploded. The smell of burnt rot filled the air.

”If you want to come back to life, you had better come back as a ghost because there is no corpse for you now, undead!” Lineir smiled, that was the first time he had gotten to test his new move on something besides a golem. It was extremely effective against undead apparently, he was quite satisfied with the results.

”Nice work kiddo, the death Qi in the immediate vicinityhas dissipated, but the environment still has a whole lot more than it should. I doubt this is the only strange thing in this jungle, I'd suggest getting out of here before something else notices.” Lineir hopped into a nearby tree.

”Yea... no more traveling on the ground, that thing seemed to be able to follow where I've been, I think it would be safer to travel in the treetops.” Quickly, he began to jump from tree to tree.

Unbeknownst to Lineir, a few minutes after he left, behind him, another skeleton, carrying a mace, came upon the scene of his fight. Pausing over where the first skeleton had been destroyed, it sniffed, and then pointed a finger into the air through the dense tree coverage. Raising its head in a soundless growl, it ran forward... it was pointing directly at Lineir!