The chill of winter seemed to permeate the cave as Divyat rushed forwards, stretching his hand outwards as he grabbed a hold of the fox girl. His recovery was enough to shock almost all of them into a stupor, his obvious rage filled state on the other hand had the effect of breeding fear into them, it was as if Divyat had become the focus point of a primal and animalistic aura, in retrospect it was as if they were face to face with an apex predator.
He raised the fox girl and smashed her into the ground, doing it once, then twice, then three times, then completely ignoring the rest of them he did it again and again and again. His hand was coated with slick wet blood as a half caved skull hung from his hand, barely connected to the body it was only moments ago a part of, by a thin strip of flesh as her skull had been ripped from her spine. Divyat dropped it on the ground, ignoring the vacant look on her dead face as he turned towards the rest.
He jumped forwards, his form coming perpendicular to the ground as he used his hands and feet to push himself, literally bounding off the ground like some lion. He leapt into the air, straight in the arms of the Kapa, his jaws flashing as they took a massive bite out of the water demon's throat, bringing the blue wrinkled skinned creature to the ground, smashing the bone on its head in the process. There was an explosion of water as the kappa quickly evaporated, fully dead as Divyat got up and turned, twisting his body in a picture perfect spinning heel kick that smashed the skull of the satyr.
The kick brought the satyr to the ground, its skull bouncing off the ground along with the rest of its body. But it didn't matter as he was already dead before he got to the ground. Divyat got up and turned around with a wild snarl, but the others were gone, their footfalls echoing down different tunnels as they ran for their lives. It was annoying, but there were five targets left….Divyat took a deep breath, memorizing their scent, leaving his nose upturned in the air as he let out a wild growl. By this point he was relying mainly on his instincts, and even Divyat had to admit that by this point, his instincts were more beast than man.
His transformation regressed and he was back to his normal self, albeit a bit bloody, but Divyat didn't mind. Perhaps this would keep away any more potential assailants away from him… but then again who's to say this would keep him from them. If the entire world wanted to cause him pain, then invariably Divyat will cause them pain first, he was done being the victim. He picked a tunnel at random and ran down it, picking up speed as he moved, his breathing was even, right up to the point where he was running with all of his speed and strength.
He came up into an intersection, the path split left and right, but ahead of him was a shadowed alcove, almost as if there was a path forward, but the shadows and dim lightning covered it. He didn't trust it though, regardless of whatever bloody advice Cao Man might have given to him. He turned to the left, ignoring the shadows, before continuing on. Roughly after about an hour of running, he came up to another intersection, Divyat didn't think much about it and just went left again. And then after an hour he was in front of another one, and again he didn't think too much, after all he has been running for over an hour, there was no way he was just running around in circles, at the very least he would have come across the cave he had left heavily brutalized bodies in.
But as they say, the third time's the charm. After three very obvious one hour journey through a loop, Divyat came to realize that perhaps he has been going round in circles for the past three hours. It annoyed him, this was the path one of the people who attacked him had taken, yet after all this running he couldn't find the said person, even though their scent was all over the tunnels. Divyat shrugged, but with a wary look on his surroundings took the right tunnel. This time he only moved for about ten minutes before coming back up to the same intersection. This time he didn't have to overthink it, this was a dead end, or at the very least someone was fucking with his head. There was no backtracking to the cave that he had shown up in, and that was because regardless of which path it took, it brought him back up the tunnel that led from the cave, with absolutely no sign of the cave.
A normal person would probably crack their heads in confusion, but Divyat was a cultivator. The weird and confusing was what they lived and based their lives around. He took one wary step closer to the shadowed alcove he has been ignoring, stretching his hands outwards to get a feel for it. Then he remembered it had a similar look to the tunnel that led to this entire trial. He drew closer, feeling a suction force that was a bit weak, almost as if there was vacuum where the shadow was and it was drawing air and everything else into it.
Divyat took a step back to reassess his options, but suddenly the suction force grew infinitely greater and he found himself being dragged into the darkness. He tried to resist, not at all willing to put his life in the hands and fate of the unknown, but even with all of his new found strength there was scarcely anything that Divyat could do. He put up a good fight, but in the end he too was swallowed up by the darkness.