After catching and analyzing the arrow for a quick second, Koku decided to test his Genesis Eyes. He activated them, allowing him to see all the details about the arrow and what things might be added, including the density, everything up to the atomic level, and passed it.
"Poison…" Koku muttered as he kept his guard up, making sure he, Yoru, and Kurai were safe. When Koku saw the next arrow come flying through the mist, he tried to warn Yoru, but she beat him to it by dodging and reacting very well, all while keeping her guard up too. "Don't worry about me, just focus on Kurai!" she yelled at Koku, who had a clear understanding of what she was going to do.
Yoru looked into the mist and rushed right in after the next arrow was shot towards them. For a few seconds, Koku could hear the noises of more than one thing screeching as they were being slaughtered. When Yoru came out of the mist, both Koku and Kurai could see that parts of her were covered in blood.
"Something's strange," Yoru told Koku as she had just fought more than 10 Miststalkers. Hearing it from Yoru, and knowing she, just like Kurai, had amazing senses due to their race, Koku came to the conclusion that they were being hunted down. For that reason, they, as a group, decided to start hunting them before they could all gather up or something similar.
"Depending on what happens with the Miststalkers, we might have Swifthorns (Fiends) attention on us," Koku told the girls as they just started running up in the direction of the Mist Orcs' territory. After what could've been 5 minutes of running, it came to an end when 5 Miststalkers lunged at them with small daggers through the cover of the mist. While they were mid-lunge, Yoru grabbed the arm of a Miststalker, taking the dagger away while she broke the arm of the Miststalker with her pure grip and strength alone. After breaking its arm, Yoru stabbed it in the head. With this, she dodged a few arrows coming from behind them and faced that direction with a zoned-in gaze.
Kurai, however, did something entirely different. Before two of the Miststalkers could finish the lunge attack, Kurai had summoned a skeleton knight which sliced them up quite quickly due to the instant summoning and the Miststalkers' forward lunge (basically using the speed of the Miststalkers).
Now seeing Yoru's attention behind them, Kurai summoned three skeleton knights and many basic skeletons. All this while Koku had instantly killed the Miststalkers faster than both Yoru and Kurai could together. "All it took was a single slash from my aura sword," Koku muttered, seeing how every time he increases the power of the Void space, his aura and anything Void-related increases in power.
Unlike the girls who turned around to face the enemies behind themselves, Koku stared right ahead as he could see a few Miststalkers' eyes peering at him through the mist, and in the distance, two Swifthorns slowly approached. "Figures… these monsters aren't the types to team up like this, at least not the Swifthorns…" Right as Koku stared at the Swifthorns, he could hear one of the Swifthorns attempt to speak, "Ded voekien," is what Koku had heard from the Swifthorns. "Sounds like they want me dead… for vengeance or not, it really doesn't matter," muttered Koku as he stared right into the eyes of the Swifthorn that spoke those words.
Looking at the Swifthorn which was about to rush at him, Koku muttered, "Void enhancements…", making his physical strength reach 200%, added onto his normal strength, which was just 100% (Adding up to 300% physical strength).
When Koku muttered Void enhancements, he had used Lightning Hound as a distractor, which somehow managed to hit the Swifthorn adjacent to the one which spoke. Upon its ally being hit, it began running at Koku while the Miststalkers behind the Swifthorns had begun to shoot at Koku, making his movements limited. Anyone in this situation would think it was a tricky situation if they weren't strong enough to beat them down quickly, but it actually wasn't tricky to Koku as his eyes of time could pick up on the arrows and attacks a second before. Pair this up with the eyes of Genesis, and you could see not only a second into the future repeatedly but also see the formula which makes up the arrows, attacks. It counts other factors such as air drag, gravity, trajectory, and speed plus time it'll take to land, the probability to dodge, etc.
Koku activated both eyes and rushed forward to the Swifthorn which was paralyzed due to the Lightning Hound with no problems. Upon getting to it, Koku positioned the aura sword over its head and with a motion brought it down into the Swifthorn, killing it instantly.
Seeing a few arrows headed his way, Koku dodged them by tilting his head to the side, serving two purposes: first, to avoid the arrows, and second, to redirect them towards the Swifthorn behind him, which was charging straight at him. As he tilted his head, the arrows found their mark on the last Swifthorn, injuring its arm. Capitalizing on this, Koku executed a swift rotation and mid-rotation kick, propelling the Swifthorn in another direction. Following through, he rushed at the airborne Swifthorn. However, upon noticing it opening its mouth, Koku urgently shouted at the girls to cover their ears, mimicking the action himself.
This abrupt move disrupted Koku's attack, preventing him from striking the Swifthorn just as it used its signature sound attack. The resulting in the sound blast leaving the Miststalkers disoriented and incapacitated, their eardrums had blown up and a persistent ringing echoing in their heads. "Now!" Koku instructed the girls aloud, resuming his advance toward the fully mobile Swifthorn at full speed. He recreated the aura sword, preparing to split the creature in half seconds later.
And just as Koku had gotten to the Swifthorn in a skillful and swift motion he slid the sword upwards slicing clean through the Swifthorns body. After doing this Koku rushed into the mist where the Miststalkers had been in hiding still yet unable to move due to the sound attack and right there he killed them quickly with one thing on his mind as the girls finished on their parts.
"Just who's behind this? monsters and fiends working together alone is unheard of…", Koku pondered as he was really troubled by this thought. "We should get going before-", just before he could finish speaking he heard a roar… when the group heard this they all looked towards the monster and could see 4 Swifthorns closing in from all sides. "Koku looked at the girls and then looked at the Swifthorns located in the North and East sides; leaving the girls to take care of the other 2 Swifthorns and instead of using the aura sword, Koku pulled Voidpulse from out of his soul flexing it's power.
"I'll just blitze you both…", Koku uttered as the air around him became cold... his breath heavy on the air… the mist gradually becoming very thin grains of ice that stayed afloat, Koku muttered underneath his breath… "Anemo world", when using this unlike Lightning domain, where it increases the power and use of Lightning attacks belonging to Lightning Void path. Anemo world increases the power of wind attacks from the Void Aeromancy path by 300% and the mastery over the wind by 10%, it also every minute allows the user to create an anemo wind slice cutting through the air with a special effect (tempest) which cuts at the victim all over for a minute if the wind slice hits them, all this while hyper decreasing the temperatures inside the skills range.
So when Koku used Anemo world the temperature began to decrease while the first charge of wind slice was ready due to it being the pre-strike. The slice was big enough to reach both of the Swifthorns while their movements alongside Koku's were being slowed and interrupted by the freezing mist; so as the 2 swift horns died, Koku called off Anemo world. When doing this, the mist seemed to recover instantly and Koku watched as the girls fought the Swifthorns.
On one end, one of the sisters was overwhelming the Swifthorn with pure numbers of skeletons which, taking a second look, he could see Miststalkers were now a part of her necromancy army. "Her potential is amazing, even more based off of what she kills…", Koku thought to himself as he then looked at the other sister who was on the other end beating the Swifthorn with pure strength and a mysterious skill which he's seeing for the first time. Then as he watched Yoru's fight, the lost codex began to alert him so he pulled it out and began to read what it had to say.
"Erebus's blessing of darkness: those who become the primordial god, Erebus's student obtains his blessing which activates whenever fighting something that shows hostility towards you. One of the three skills obtainable from Erebus's blessing is Dark enhancements (Applies darkness to your whole body and all skills, weapons etc), another is Dark ambassador which increases understanding/control of darkness by 5% and increases by 1% every 5 minutes of constant combat. The third and final skill obtainable from Erebus's blessing is~", the Lost codex seemed to end there as if someone had intervened. So Koku didn't think too much of it as it was more for her than it was for himself, so for the moment he didn't need to know what it was and he could always ask Yoru herself if she knew.
Seeing Yoru wrap up the fight with shadow enhancements covering her body and forming shadow claws at her hands, Koku was pretty amazed, though after she killed it, Koku looked at Kurai who had killed the Swifthorn as well, and he began to wonder why her presence seemed to change slightly, "Did she absorb the demonic energy?", he pondered as he then thought to ask if the Swifthorn was in her arsenal as well.
For Kurai to confirm this she actually tried summoning it, and to her own surprise, it was there, and hers no less. But something was off, when she, Koku and Yoru looked at her skeletons, they seemed to be emitting a slight demonic presence, and the skeleton knights seemed to have very dimly lit red eyes. This was interesting to Koku because they didn't have that before, "They evolve based off of the diversity in her arsenal…", Koku thought to himself as he and the girls began making their way back on track to the mission. Keeping in mind that they are being hunted down.