Amir walks towards Ariel, "How did you figure out that he can't use his Prodigy when he is taken by surprise and he can't absorb energy itself? You don't even know much about Prodigies?"
"When you kicked him in the face and then punched him, it took time but he was able to absorb your Prodigy so it was clear that he can't absorb instantaneously. So, the best way was, not giving him a chance to absorb." Ariel takes Aminta from the ground and throws it toward Amir,
"I get it, we beat him up faster than he can absorb." Amir jumps and kicks Aminta on the ground. "Increase his weight to maximum," Ariel says.
"I can't. I used up all my Djinn force, if I use more, I won't be able to even move." Amir falls to his knees and spits blood. "He won't be waking up from that beating for a while," Ariel rushes towards Amir to give him a shoulder.
Suddenly, they heard a voice coming from the forest again, this time it seemed like a whole army was approaching with extraordinary speed.
"What is it now?"
Amir says, but before any of them can see what is going on a whole squad of people comes there, they all had the same tattoo as Aminta and they were wearing the same cloaks as him. One of them steps up, "Aminta you got beaten by these kids, pathetic."
"Who are you guys?" Amir asks, but that guy doesn't answer instead he says "Kill them!" All 12 of those white-cloaked men started attacking Amir and Ariel, they both tried to defend themselves but the enemy was too strong and greater in number.
One of them makes some rods with his bones and stabs Amir in both hands and then his gut, others stand back and see him stab both of them, he stabs their hands and then both legs and when he hears Amir screaming he stops because Ariel wasn't crying or screaming, he wasn't even reacting to his pain. "Why the hell are you not screaming?"
"I am sorry but I have been bearing more pain than you just gave me, so that pain is still more, making my brain forget about this pain that you just gave me," Ariel answers calmly. That guy with a 3-foot-long rod of bone walks towards Ariel and sticks one bone rod in his shoulder, Ariel doesn't even flinch, "Scream or I'll kill you. Not that I will let you go if you--"
Before he could utter another word something passed by him with the speed of light, his head fell in an instant and his both hands fell after his head. "Making death threats is not a good thing to do." A man lands right in front of those 11 men, "You weaklings trying to gang up of bunch of kids." He smiles.
"Master Ihaan!" Ariel says, "Be careful they outnumber you." Ihaan gives a big smile and says, "Don't worry; I won't even have to use 1 percent of my power to beat this weakling."
One of them shouts "He is Master Ihaan. Run! We were ordered if we see him we are to run for our lives." He started running, and terror consumed all of them some tried running and others couldn't even move from their spot, "Running without a fight, pathetic."
Ihaan jumps and slaughters three of them in an instant. Others were making their escape, but they knew it was futile. Ihaan jumps and lands right in front of them, "Have mercy on us, we will tell you everything." One of them cries, "It's futile, he doesn't have mercy. He is called Ihaan The Soulless for a reason." The man next to him says.
"But he bleeds like us, that means he can die, we all join our Prodigies to attack we can win. All life force die."
Ihaan smiles, "I am beyond death. I am Ihaan The Soulless." Ihaan sheaths his sword and grabs one of them from his head and crushes it with his bare hand's grip. Others try to run in the opposite direction but he walks slowly behind them and crushes them like paper.
"You need at least one for interrogation, right? Leave me." That man shouts.
"I don't care about interrogation, but I'll let you go if you hit me with your Prodigy, I'll take the attack head on and if your Prodigy manages to move me an inch from this place, I'll let you go." Ihaan gives him a choice, well it wasn't a choice if you think about it, if he doesn't accept he will die, and if he accepts and loses he dies.
"My Prodigy is laser creation, I can't beat him but moving him just an inch away should be easy. If I channel all of my Nur force between my hands, I can throw a laser attack strong enough to kill another Aurian that should be enough to move this soulless monster. I, Harris son of Hassan, will live through this day." He thinks to himself.
"I accept," He fearfully says. He stands up and faces Ihaan, "I'll shoot your whole body at once."
"Do whatever you like?" Ihaan smirks. Harris takes a step back and creates a weird object; it is 2 feet long and looks like a missile launcher. Harris points it towards Ihaan, "I can do it, and this Prodigy enhancer should enhance my laser ten times." He thought to himself. The tip of that launcher started glowing and it was making a sound like something was about to come out of it.
"Laser Creation Prodigy: Super Blasting Laser." Harris shoots a green-looking laser, "Oh, you are calling your attack's name," it hits directly Ihaan. The magnitude of the attack was so big that it took off hundreds of trees with just one blast. Harris fell because of recoil. "That should do the trick; no ordinary Aurian can be standing in the same spot after getting hit by such a massive attack."
"Don't you know; I am not ordinary." Ihaan was standing in his place, ashes falling around him, burnt trees falling, Harris could see him standing, not sure whether he budged from his spot or not. "No way--" Harris cries. Ihaan was standing in the same spot.
He wasn't bleeding, even his clothes were intact. "Impossible, I know you are the strongest there is, but my blast should have at least grazed you. Just how strong are you?"
"It's not that I am strong, it's just that you are too weak to harm a man who is number one under the sun. No one has more power than me; none has ever lived or will come in the future that can defeat me." Ihaan laughs maniacally takes a step forward and crushes the tree trunk with his bare foot.
"You can't harm an Aurian if he has 10 times more Eldris force than you; come on you forgot what was the first and most important thing that your boss told you; 'Run if you even lay eyes on Ihaan.' And you seriously chose to attack me even though you knew I am a Devine being." Ihaan slowly approaches Harris, who is lying on the ground in fear, Ihaan sits on their feet and, says "I'll use a bit of my strength to kill you, it will be over before you know." Harris was paralyzed with fear, his body was shaking on its own.
Ihaan takes his sword out and gives Harris a tap with it on his head. Before he could comprehend what was happening his body blasted along with some of the ground and trees, it was much more destructive than Harris's Laser blast. "Weakness disgusts me, but to me, everyone is just so weak, so--" He smiles. "Rejoice, for you were killed by the strongest being in the universe." He laughs out again.
Ariel looked puzzled, he never had seen Ihaan laugh like that. But, now that he had seen Ihaan in action, he knew what those stories of Ihaan The Soulless meant. And how true they were…