Yoruichi was stunned.
In just a few minutes the Ravagers had lay waste to her new life. They had struck them out of nowhere and had done massive damage without even breaking a sweat. She had watched as the beings gathered the bodies of her friends and sped off somewhere.
She decided to follow them thinking she could catch up but in mere seconds, they were gone. She was in the forest. Even though she couldn't follow the beings directly anymore, she could follow their trail. The bloody flesh left a trail of blood behind and the four limbed creature had caused a lot of things to disappear in a straight line so it was an easy trail to follow.
She had started using a skill she hadn't had the chance to use in a while. She loved this skill dearly as it granted a type of freedom that others could only dream of. Smoke had covered her from the waist down as she begun to fly. In order to save more essence and make the flight effecient she decided to fly within the straight line that the four limbed creature left behind. She was very confident in her ability to cause confusion and was going to do exactly that when she caught up to the beings to save her friends.
The journey wasn't as simple as she thought however since the forest was still dangerous no matter how one thought of it. As she flew she made sure to dive into the forest itself every once in a while so she could avoid some spires on the way which could potentially slow her down. The beings were so fast and so far that at this point the trail looked like it had no end in sight but she still persisted. She was not going to loose hope just yet. The flight was a little scary for her. She knew this world was dangerous but she had enough experience to survive. She had survived in this world for almost a year and had only fan into seven people so far, three of which were currently being taken by unknown beings.
Since she had not been awake during the entire battle with the dragon apparition she wasn't considering those guys even though she was told about them by both Jason and Alsvid. She had met four unknown people at different times and all of them wanted her dead which was the cause of her earlier hostility. As for what happened to those four people, it explained why she had an above average essence pool.
As she kept flying through the forest she saw a large congregation of red clouds off in the distance. Knowing this skill belonged to Jason, something that she learned in one of their conversations, she sped up her flight and threw all caution to the wind hoping to get there in time to help out this time. She still felt a little useless after the first battle with the Ravagers. She was going to try her best to help out this time.
She flew as fast as she could. Just when she thought she was getting closer, her lack of caution caught up to her. A pointed head the size of a basketball slammed into her back and caused her to hit the ground. She recovered quickly as the head appeared again. Upon closer inspection it seemed to be attached to a very long orange neck. She dodged it but the head swirled around her and wrapped her in its neck before dragging her into the forest.
The area was covered in black smoke. Suddenly a girl flew out of the smoke with a head chasing after her. She flew between a few trees and their branches trying to lock the creature's neck but it would just retract and come from a different angle. She flew around for a while before directing a large cluster of smoke to attach itself to a specific location in the forest. A head popped up with a large enough force to part the smoke as we caught a glimpse of the creature.
It was an all orange creature with very long legs. Its head returned to its body before the smoke fully covered it. It had a very risky way of attacking which involved it stretching its neck and attacking with its head. It had a very elastic neck and was a very easy to kill low grade spire but Yoruichi had never been good at killing spires.
A few minutes later she emerged from the forest back into the straight line created by Nyxarios only to realize the clouds were gone. She killed the creature by forcing her smoke down it's throat through its nose and mouth.
She continued down the path at the speed she was flying before she saw the clouds. She was still fast but was not as focused on one thing as before. She even left the origin core behind although that might have been that she didn't know of its existence.
As she flew she eventually came to a point in the path where blood droplets could be seen in an unnatural quantity. She kept flying while taking in the scene. The blood droplets slowly started lessening and rather, holes in the ground started appearing. The droplets completely disappeared and were replaced with the holes in the ground which contained small pools of blood each. Then she got to a part of the path where it was no longer a clear path. It looked like a storm had gone by recently as there were trees scattered everywhere and all of them had a tinge of red on them. She didn't know Jason could cause so much damage with a skill.
"No wonder he was always so good. Look at all this." She said to herself as she kept flying forward.
It was at this point that she came in contact with something absolutely mind blowing that destroyed her hope of finding her friends.