Chausiku screamed her companion's name while fleeing for her life, under such circumstances if it were someone else they would have broken down and accepted their fate, but not her, she was a woman of strong will and resolve, even though she had been blinded by greed and attacked Oliphant she had come to witness the terror with her own eyes.
Without wasting time she shouted to the top of her lungs.
"I SACRIFICE MY MY ARM TO THE TALISMAN OF LIFE FOR PROTECTION!!!"
Her left hand formed a hand chop strike that seemed to be carved of shining black diamond and cut right through her right arm at the shoulder. She ground her teeth through the pain and quickly caught her falling arm mid air and placed it on the pendant on her chest. The the blood, flesh and bones from her arm got absorbed into it like water seeping into soil.
Even though this may sound long she did it swiftly and fluidly in a matter of seconds.
At that instant her body started liquefying into a puddle of black water, it was a no brainer to anyone watching that if her whole body was fully turned into that black ooze she would escape from this place.
A detached voice rang in her ears.
"Don't think you can come and go as you please, stay so that I can tell you about the spell you so very much wanted to know about."
The suction force from earlier manifested once again, everything in the vicinity was drawn into Oliphant, including the corpse and the mask shards of the man named Bwana. After this process the suction force became even stronger some of the puddle of black water that Chausiku had turned into also had some of its water drawn into Oliphant's body.
A pained scream could be heard coming from the puddle, at the next moment the puddle sipped into the soil and vanished from sight.
"Mhm she escaped huh, it would have been better to have absorbed the both of them, that way my power would have increased even more but none the less I am now in control of my body." Zakia thought out loud as he closed his eyes and breathed in deeply.
"I wanted to rest a little more to heal my wounds and store enough power to extinguish you but count yourself lucky that those impulsive brats attacked you in the moment they did, otherwise..."
Oliphant could hear and see everything but could not control the body, he did not panic but asked a question.
" So you deceived everyone, me included? "
" Yes, mind you this is not my first rerun but your presence is a first."
" What do you mean by that? "
"Shh, quiet now, the village is no longer a safe place anymore, since that female disciple has already escaped the Shadow Corp and the others will be here soon to investigate I should clean up this mess and leave, and you, you'll know soon enough." original Zakia said to the voice in his head.
One might ask themselves what is going on here, it turns out the boy Zakia the original owner of the body didn't actually have his soul dissipate due to his spell but it was just in slumber to heal, he had planned that after he healed he would devour this invader who had taken over his body but this can no longer happen as he was awoken prematurely and had to dispatch enemies that had put his physical body in danger.
Unbeknownst to Oliphant the soul of the 'deceased' Zakia is that of a regressor from this world and Oliphant transmigrated to occupying the same body as the regressor Zakia but now the original body's owner had taken the reigns and the first thing he did was to almost kill his own disciple sister and had already rid himself of his disciple brother. Oliphant could be said to be in the most danger right now since his arrival in this world.
Seed Nurturing Academy.
Talisman and Enchantment Corp.
In a sanctum in the Academy with tens of talismans of different designs, some plain, some intricate, some with gems embedded on them, along with many others were hung up by strings in a circle around an alter in the middle in a spacious hall.
Standing by the alter full of different weapons, opened scrolls that had drawings that resembled blueprints and metal carving materials, was a man in yellow clothing. It seemed he was occupied carving some writings on the weapons.
In this peaceful hall one of the talismans suddenly broke into pieces and tuned into a pile of ash, this was a talisman belonging to the Shadow Corp disciple named Bwana while the other formed cracks all over it which was of course Chausiku's.
Black water slowly seeped out of the cracked talisman and dripped on the grey tiled floor. After a while the water that seeped out turned into the mangled body of Chausiku who escaped by a hairs breath on the floor not far from the guardian.
The guardian stationed in the sanctum noticed this and his expression changed.
"Mhm! , someone got attacked, seems like two shadow corp disciples, one died and another is in a bad state, what happened out there?! But if this one here can get a healer she can tell me everything."
The Shadow Corp specializes in tailings, gathering of clues and most importantly concealment, death and injury of disciples from their Corp is very unlikely. Now for two of them to come back in such states one dead and another barely alive truly surprised him.
The Sanctum guardian snapped his fingers and the cracked Talisman floated to his hand.
"By the inscriptions on it this Talisman belongs to the middle ranks of the people from the Shadow Corp, these people can be said to hold significant power on their own and can survive outside the academy."
He then shouted "Go and request for a healer in the Healing Corp and go to the Shadow Corp and report that one of their disciples life saving talisman has shattered while another is heavily injured!!"
Two of the guards who were right outside the entrance of the sanctum heard this shout and immediately followed orders and headed to the Healing Corp headquarters while the other headed to the Shadow Corp to convey orders.
" In the meantime let me stabilize her." the Sanctum guardian spoke as a shield of yellow light covered Chausiku stopping her bleeding, this was all he could do after all repairing a body was not his forte
After a few minutes four people made their way into the sanctum, two of them remained by the door back to their posts, while two of them went through the door to meet the Sanctum guardian.
A middle aged man with brown skin and dreadlocks adorned with beads of all kinds of shades of green walked at the front barefoot. He was wearing what looked like a green gym vest but of a different material, covering his lower body was a cloth sewen with different kinds of plants on it. One would not be able to see the full patterns well because of the beast skin bag he had hanging on his side.
Behind him was another male whose features could not be seen due to his attire of wearing all black and to top it off covered his head in a hood, if Oliphant was here the first thing that would come to mind would be 'This man must be a ninja.'
"It is rare for the Talisman and Enchantment Corp to request for any kind of medical help since you specialize in defense and of course, 'running away' what kind of mishap could have happened for you to request for help from us? I couldn't help but come myself when I heard it was you." the man with the dreadlocks asked in a way that was clearly looking down on the man from the Talisman and Enchantment Corp.
" Well I'll have you know this has nothing to do with my Corp, instead of yapping on you should do your duty and quickly save the girl she's in critical condition, we need to know what happened out there." the man from the talisman corp said flatly as he snapped his fingers and deactivated the yellow shield around Chausiku.
"Oh, well then I better get to work and do what I do best." the man with dreadlocks said with a bit of pride in his voice.
The man from the Shadow Corp just stood there quietly and observed as the man with dreadlocks opened his beast skin bag and took out a bottle with a white powder like substance and started sprinkling it on the mangled body of the girl, as soon as the powder touched her body the remaining three limbs started to twist back to their original form like blowing air into on of those twisty balloons.
Squelching sounds could be heard as bleeding cuts became bruises and scars but no one there seemed to be bothered by it.
"Mhm, why isn't her other arm regenerating?" the dreadlocked man asked in a low voice.
"Ha! I always knew the so called healing powders and concoctions from your Corp were impotent." the sanctum guardian said in a tone of ridicule.
The Shadow Corp representative spoke for the first time and said. "It is not that his powder is impotent, this disciple here used her own arm as sacrifice to escape, so it cannot be recovered no matter what healing portion you use, so let's listen to what she has to say, and quit with your bickering."
"You're right let's hear what she has to say." the dreaded man said as he looked at the sanctum guardian with a look that said 'yes stop being childish and take the matter at hand seriously'.
At this point everyone stopped talking and waited for the girl to regain consciousness.
Chausiku's eye lids trembled a little as she opened her eyes and started looking around only to see three men standing before her, black, green and yellow.
"What happened?" the hooded man questioned.
Chausiku felt like a bucket of water of cold water had been poured on her head as she started shivering, thinking about how she had escaped death. She then said a name with difficulty.
"Zakia...."
The expression of the three men changed immediately.
"What about him? Speak now girl!" the dreaded man asked in a tone of unease.
" Don't rush her the girl is in shock can't you tell?" the sanctum guardian said as he looked at the dreaded man with disdain.
"We were monitoring Zakia as usual and suddenly...He... he killed Bwana and caused me to sacrifice my arm while escaping for my life." Chausiku explained in sobbing voice.
"How could that be possible the boy is a cripple, the High Elder of our Corp was in charge of his situation and deemed him incapable of harnessing any sort of essence, its even impossible for him to join your shadow corp." the dreaded man gave his opinion.
"Clearly the High Elder of your Corp is incompetent why would the girl lie for no reason." the sanctum guardian interjected.
"What did you say?!" the dreaded men looked at the sanctum guardian with anger.
"Stop it you two, this is really not the time for this." the hooded man said as he shifted his gaze from the two men to the girl.
"Tell us everything, what was the situation when you used the life saving talisman, is he still down at the village?" the hooded man asked
"He was out fishing when he suddenly appeared right before us and...and absorbed Bwana into his own body, I.. I.. had no time to look he was just...too strong." Chausiku reported as tears filled her face.
The three men said in unison.
"What do you mean by absorbed him into his own body?"