Xia ignores the irritation in his eyes as he charges at the woman. As he arrives in front of her he swings his hammer at her side. With a quick step, she dodges the attack. She spins the dagger in her left hand as she cuts the area right above Xia right elbow.
As blood is spilled, Xia takes a step forward and hits the woman on the right side of her stomach with his shield. A large black and blue bruise formed on the area of impact. The woman clicks her tongue as she jumps backward, throwing a dagger in the process.
The dagger infuses with her Qi flies in a weird pattern. Making Xia's attempts of dodging it or blocking it useless. The dagger embeds itself once again on his right shoulder. Opening the wound even more. Rivers of red blood run down his river towards his hand.
The grip of his hammer gets lubricated by the iron-red blood.
"She is trying to damage your ability to move your arm. Protect that arm like your life depend on it. Because it does."
Xia nods his head to Kathako advice, causing the woman to be confused at his weird nod. Xia rushes the woman once again as he channels his Qi around his body. His skin slowly turned gray and hard as stone. His body heat concentrated on his stomach.
As he reaches the woman he kicks up a screen cloud of dust and dirt. With her vision block, she takes a step back, then another one. As she dodges the combo of hammer and shield attack from Xia. She throws another dagger at Xia, coating it with her Qi as she controls it.
The dagger as it flies becomes alive.
Thud!
The sound of the dagger getting stuck in the wood echoes through the forest.
"The same attack won't work twi-"
But his taunting got cut short as she takes out her last pair of daggers. She rushes toward him and aims her dagger under the exposed pit of his left arm. Color drains from Xia's face as the dagger pierces his stone skin and muscle. His skin can't truly become stone as that would stop any movement.
Because of that there are certain spots around his body that are not stone but look like stone. These spots are very important for movement and the pits happen to be one of those spots. A crack has appeared on his armor as he gathers more of his body heat in his stomach. Trying his best to keep his concentration!
The woman smiles as she infuses her Qi into the dagger. Moving her body heat into the tip of the dagger.
Boom!
A fireball exploded in Xia's left armpit. His stone skin broke apart into thousands of tiny pieces. A large mangle bleeding wound appeared on his left pit. Xia's faces turns deadly pale as he moves a couple of steps back. His back hits the rough trunk of a large tree. His back slides down the trunk as he sits on the ground.
His hand grabs some nearby plants as he puts them on his bleeding wound. Stopping the blood from escaping somewhat. The woman walks toward him and aims her dagger at his nose. Making a small cut on the tip of his nose.
"Just surrender already and give me your number."
Xia looks at her. The remnants of the willpower he hand slowly faded away. The woman takes this as a sign that he surrenders. She bends down somewhat to grab the number from his neck.
"Now!"
Xia stops concentrating on the ball of fire in his stomach. The ball of fire without Qi and guidance breaks apart. An immense heat wave came from Xia stomach. Catching the woman by surprise as her body started to heat up and sweat. The grip of her daggers becomes wet and loose.
Xia takes this opportunity to tighten the grip on his hammer and shield. He swings his hammer and hits the left knee of the crouching woman. Her knee gives out as she falls to her knees. Her face inches away from Xia. Xia twists his body and pulls his whole-body weight behind his right hand as he swings his shield at the woman.
The rim of the shield hits the right side of the woman's face. Her face twists in pain as her hair becomes a mess. Her teeth crack as one of them comes flying out of her mouth. A piece of skin and nerve stuck to the tree as it lands on the ground.
The woman's mind became blank for a few seconds as it tries to handle the pain. But before it can fully reboot another shield attack hit her face. This time enough to knock her out and other teeth out of their spot. The woman lay down on the dirty floor bleeding from her mouth.
"That ain't how you treat a woman."
"I got kicked in the dick; they can handle being hit in the face."
"That was a whole different person who kick you there. Taking your anger out on other people is not a useful coping mechanism."
"I don't get time for your life advice."
Xia said he flips the woman over, taking her number as he wraps it around his waist. His value going up to 5. The moment he put on the number; a figure appears behind the woman. The figure is wearing a black mask to cover his handsome face. His cold war-like brown eyes land on Xia for a few seconds.
Mors picks up the woman as he picks up the woman and speaks.
"Ready"
The next second he disappears like he was never there, to begin with.
"Ah so that's what that enchantment is for."
"What?"
"The numbers, they have an enchantment, and I was wondering what it did. Want to hear the long or short version?"
"Long version please.. I have time after all. I need to heal myself."
"Ok, so the number hav-"
Xia works on healing himself with the nearby Cow Evergreen. Applying it to his wounds as it seals them. This forest seems to have a large quantity of Cow Evergreens. Maybe planted a week before this test.
"-So that is the long version. We should try to apply that enchantment to one of the items we craft. I want to test its capabilities."
"Sure, thing old man"