The girl dashed forward until she reached the forest. She stumbled down and some of the daggers and arrows lodged deeper in her back. She grimaced in pain. Thankfully, upon stumbling down, she immediately supported her body and sat down on the soft ground. Although there are a lot of sharp objects in her back, she made sure that she won't be hit in any of the fatal areas that may eventually lead to her death.
She controlled a thick root of the tree to act as a hand and remove all of the sharp objects in her unreachable back. She grits her teeth as she plucks out every dagger and broken arrows in her back using the thick root. Every daggers and arrow had some of her reddish flesh as blood keeps on bathing her clothes red. She keeps on enduring the pain while she writhes in pain.
When she plucked the last one in her back, she finally groaned and relaxed her body. The arrow that's in her left leg is the only thing that is left to be removed. However, her wound was already worse and infected as the blackness spreads 3 inches around the wound.
She closed her eyes, sighing heavily. She firmly held the long stem and breaks it. Now, there is only an arrowhead remained. The arrow firmly held its place in her legs as she didn't let it shift its position while breaking the stem. She puts some medicinal liquid with the leaves she carried and keeps on monitoring her condition while pulling the arrowhead in her legs carefully.
She tried to solve the problems of those veinss that were cut using a thin string of the leaf as she controlled its stitching. The girl retrieved some tree extract and poured it into her infected wound. This procedure made her gasped for air and she bathed with her own sweat.
"Hiss–!!" Some beads of sweat trickled down on her back and hissed at the pricking pain she's feeling.
After remedying her wounds with the help of the thick root she's controlling, she started to recover her energy.
Chang Xiuying's breathing became heavy as the torment she's feeling is oh so real. This is not the first time she felt this but this is clearly worse than what she remembered in her daily life for being a hostage for 2 months or the fact that a 50-man gang attacked her.
After 5 minutes, the girl stood up with bandages on her left leg. She touched one of the trees and made a complete replica of the boy earlier as she marked it with the boy's insignia. It's light but it's not breathing, it's like she's carrying a corpse in her arms. She used the previous string and tied it on her torso before continuing to walk.
The girl keeps on calculating in her mind that Chang Xiuying finally caught it.
The girl never makes everything complicated and just walk normally. Since the pursuers will eventually know her location whatever or whenever she might be. Because they have already marked her as their target and they knew that she won't be able to entrust the boy to anyone. They have already reached the border of the kingdom and is entering the Forbidden Land of the Kings. The pursuers would think that she would expend her energy dry before arriving at the border, carrying herself and the boy is really energy draining.
After a moment of thought, she sensed that the army is still 500 meters away from her. Their pace piqued her interest, her eyes widen and anxiously turned her head towards the border.
"This..." She became pale as she saw her very own family pointing cannons and weapons towards her. That family was the one who supported the main Imperial Family and yet at the very last moment of her life, they betrayed them?
She inhaled heavily as her sorrow overwhelmed her. She charged to her east side as she jumped from tree to tree. One of the Eagle-eyed force, which is also a part of the family, caught this and immediately fired the cannon towards her.
Bang!
"Hey, hey, hey! What are you firing for?!"
"Saw the target escaping."
"What? She still has the energy to escape? Did you injured her?"
"No. She dodged."
"*Sigh* Just... capture her. We just have to apologize after."
"Copy." The man who fired the cannon left his position and chased after the girl.
...
Chang Xiuying released a few low laughs as this body just redirected the trajectory of the cannonball with a graceful movement before continuing to escape. She noted this move in her mind and it may become useful in her future as a reference.
The girl got captured by a large trunk of the tree, she looked at her capturer and saw her beloved cousin. Her eyes glowed red, ripped the trunk and run with all her strength, but then she heard his call.
"Don't run! The faction will release you if you surrendered that child. We will apologize to you after."
The girl didn't stop on her tracks and shouted. "Apologize? Rubbish!"
"As usual, you can't get mad."
The girl rolled her eyes. She noticed the constant distance of her and her cousin and thought that something is wrong again. She looked back, "All of the directions here were locked by you all?"
"Oh? Sharp." The man is actually happy that the girl might consider and there would be no casualties. His face revealed shock when he saw the girl madly rush forward. "This cousin... don't tell me she's planning to break her way out through the weakest lockage!?"
The girl coughed, her regained energy keeps going down as if she's being poisoned to death. She thought that she would rather die to the pursuers than die to her own family. But then, a glint showed below her as she was vigorously dragged down.
Her cousin' face changed greatly once again as she was buried underground.
...
Chang Xiuying became so suffocated until she can barely breathe. She thought to herself, 'What the heck is going on?!'
The place revealed an underground ruin. She looked down and saw a temple with a large array of blood. A blood-like vine separated her and the wooden doll she made. She was thrown aside and hit her head on the hard stone wall. The wooden doll was placed gently on the temple, however, those people in black clothes noticed that the boy they're sacrificing is just a lifeless, wooden doll!
"You heretic!" They shouted in chorus as they released the blood-like vine towards the girl. They locked her every limb as one of the vines stabbed a hole in her stomach.
The girl coughed out a mouthful of blood. The unbearable pain as if there were a thousand needles kept on pricking her fresh wounds and putting salts into it. At the same time, her stomach is slowly becoming numb. She wanted to scream but one of the vines coursed through her neck and crushed her vocal chord. She can only cry in anguish.
Chang Xiuying keep on sending signals that the girl needed to use her powers that she previously used. But it was all in vain, the girl can't hear her!
The pain may be quite bearable to Chang Xiuying because of her mental constitution, but the girl is almost lifeless. The light from the fires can't enter her eyes as it turned dead. One of the people exclaimed, "This girl is more valuable than that kid you mentioned!"
"What are you saying? She only has that useless blood of her mother!"
"Fool! Her body constitution is on par with her energy constitution! She might be the Unrivaled Shekinah, the alias of the girl who walked her way through countless monster hordes!"
"What?! Such a thing is hidden! Those Imperial families hide it deep." One said as he gritted his teeth.
"Our Highness will be pleased! Get her blood! Her blood!" This echoed repeatedly in the entire underground ruin.
...
They hang her high and blood keeps on dripping down on the array.
She was now limbless, the wound on her stomach was healed as they thought that the girl might not last long. That's why they decided to cut all of her limbs. Some of the black-clothed people keep on having ecstasy from licking her blood. The others noticed this and tried to do the same thing.
"Ah ah ah ah. This is bliss!"
"Aaah. The sensation is making me... oooh."
"Hahaha! Don't make this too sexual! But damn, this blood is really good! It makes you full of vitality and vigor!"
"More! More! More!"
Chang Xiuying is now brimming with anger. The pain is now unbearable and they dared to vile her humanity in front of her! Although her limbs were still intact, she can feel that her limbs were gone.
Unacceptable!
She tried to collect her calm to prevent herself from rash decisions. But then, she noticed something stirred inside the girl. The bright silver radiance passed through her, making its way to the girl's head. She rubbed the part where the silver radiance punched a hole into, her heart.
The eyes of the girl turned black and cried tears of blood, her expression became full of grief. She growled and it shook the whole ruins that startled the people. The growl is soundless, however, it still shook all of their hearts.
"Restrain her! Quick!!"
The girl once again growled. Her tears flowed like waterfalls and her eyes were slowly becoming silver. Pieces of rocks were making its way towards her as it slowly formed her legs. The place rumbled vigorously that panicked the whole group, countless tree roots coursed towards the girl and formed her arms.
She ripped the blood-like vine as if it's paper, she jumped down and made a huge depression on the ground. Her silver hair flowed madly like there's wind underground, she looked towards the group with her tear-blooded eyes that keeps on flowing and spoke with an otherworldly, silvery voice.
"Perish, humans."