Flying across, Aalish lands three meters away from Ovia.
At the moment he was hit, he could feel the purple lightning touch his back.
''Ovia, come on get up! I could use some of your help!''
His words come out naturally without any hesitation. With that, he slowly picks himself back up.
I still can tell what's up with her. She barely did anything since I found her in that valley. Did she see something?
Back on his two feet, he turns around to see the man waiting.
He's not worried if he grabs Ovia and starts to run it will have no effect, he will catch up to them in a minute.
With all that's to think about, I can only focus on this situation right now. What is that ''purple lightning''? How do they imitate it? Is it an imitation?
With my busted hand and roughed-up body, I'm as good as useless. I cant use Ignavia or Irae, that only leaves me to fight with my strength.
Aalish starts running toward the warrior, his steps are shaky and rather unbalanced. His left hand is holding Arna with all of the remains of his strength.
From the looks of it and from that hit earlier he's a speed type, the one from before had more strength was way slower and bigger. This guy is on the thinner side bud his body is still well built. I can't think of a way to stop him. What can I use against him? He could move through the whole field.
!
That's it, it's the field. But how do I use the field against him?
To destroy the field, I need to make him not move or be close to me. I can only do that when he wants to attack me.
Finally closing upon him I swing with my left hand. The attack is easily dodged, he broke no sweat in dodging that attack. But just like before he is again headed for my back.
With all my strength I force my body to turn around, and there he is. Blatantly staring back at me. I ignore the burning pain in my right arm and proceed to grab Arna with it as well.
In a moment both of my hands are above me enhanced, holding Arna with sheer will.
The warrior not being in the range of my blade doesn't matter.
Finally hitting the ground, I let all the Ectoplasma I can pull into it.
The ground breaks, just enough to make him lose his balance. The impact of the hit made my right hand's bone visible. My right-hand lets go making me continue with the left one.
With my left, I swing at his unbalanced legs.
With my final swing, I close my eyes to delay the disappointment that I'm expecting.
Until... A loud sound of metal breaking and scaping.
Aalish's eyes slowly open.
To his surprise, the legs, the hands and the body he thought were human flesh. All ended up being robotic.
''You, what are you?''
The warrior looks at him with disgust towards himself now without the mask revealing a human head. He looks at his broken legs and then at Aalish for a split second before biting his tongue off.
Aalish freezes in shock after seeing a man if you could call him that killing himself in front of him. He falls to his knees next to the dead warrior.
He shakes his body. The expression on Aalish's face is full of worry, fear, confusion. He shakes his head and hits it twice with a fist to get his mind straight. He rips off some of the clothing the man had, revealing more of his robotic body.
He rips it to the shoulder, and finally, it all makes sense. The shoulders are different than the rest of the body, they are see-through, made from a glass-like material but way stronger. Inside of them is a floating purple crystal.
Aalish takes the clothing he ripped and lessens the bleeding and creates support for his hand.
''What is this?'' He looks around to see Ovia still laying but showing signs of life by twitching a little.
He grabs Arna and breaks the really hard glass. The crystal is still shining and giving off little purple electricity.
He grabs the crystal with no problem and puts it in his pocket. Not getting sidetracked he gets up and walks toward Ovia.
Now next to Ovia with her laying hurt.
No backing off, no more jokes.
''Why didn't you move!? Why didn't you fight or even run!? Why!? I don't care if you don't want to fight but at least take your time and protect yourself or run what are you doing!? Please don't get beat up without even standing up for yourself! Why are you doing this? Why!?''
His tone of voice is angry, he turns Ovia around and grabs her by the shoulders, and shakes her.
''Ovia! Are you listening?''
But to his surprise, the eyes he sees are broken and hollow.
What do I do? Who do I take her to?
Something's wrong something is definitely wrong.
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The massive door opens and with it, one set of steps walk inside.
With each and every step, it gets quieter.
Until it stops and silence fills the brink of a moment.
''It's been a long time hasn't it Yota?''