Yoruichi was stunned. This time by a completely different reason.
What she was seeing in front of her was something straight out of a nightmare. She had pinched herself so much she was almost starting to bruise but no matter how much she tried she couldn't make sense of the situation in front of her. There was absolutely nothing in front of her. That wasn't really accurate, there was something in front of her it just didn't seem real.
What was in front of her was a deadzone. It was the end of concepts. What lay in front of her was a desolate wasteland of a forest. Where the trees were supposed to be alive there were dead trees. It was confusing.
The area was desolate. It lacked everything. The area lacked color, life and even shadows despite it being midday. The sun was directly above the dead trees yet against all odds there wasn't a single shadow. This wasn't an isolated incident either as it seemed to be spreading at a comfortable rate. From where Yoruichi was standing she could see half dead trees that were still losing their life energy. She had been floating stunned for a few minutes now. She didn't even know what to think.
Eventually she snapped out of it and flew into the land of no concept. She searched the large area from one side to the other in a straight line and didn't find any clues. She then flew back to the center and Rose higher to get a better view and it was as she thought. She could see absolutely nothing.
For reference she was expecting to see large residual blood from Jason's skill but not even that remained.
As she stayed afloat in the sky a scenario formed in her head. She attributed everything that happened to everything she had seen and it all fit perfectly.
According to her scenario. Jason had recovered when they were a few miles from this place and had activated his ultimate skill. The skill being designed to kill anyone and anything inside woke up the other two since they would be dying with the Ravagers. When Alsvid woke up he activated his secret ultimate skill that he had kept hidden due to safety reasons. The skill which Alsvid activated caused the colour in the area to disappear while doing a lot of damage to the Ravagers. Seeing that the skill was very dangerous for them the four limbed creature used a skill that countered Alsvid's skill. Since she had seen that creature cause physical objects to disappear she attributed the lack of objects to it. It was during this power clash that Kage woke up. With him came shadow control which explains the lack of shadows and when he started his shadow control in such a large forest his power increased a lot. This was when the floating cloak which she hadn't seen do anything ground breaking so far started to battle Kage and had somehow caused all life in the area to disappear so kage wouldn't get as many shadows since she saw the cloak cause kage to lose shadows. The cloak then accidentally drained the life out of Jason and Alsvid since they were weaker and Kage managed to ran away. She figured since Kage hadn't returned that he was being chased by the Ravagers. As for the lack of bodies. The four limbed creature caused their bodies to disappear.
She then broke down crying for almost an entire hour because of the story she fabricated from everything that she could and couldn't see. As she was crying she suddenly dropped from the sky. She managed to save herself from heavy injuries by grabbing a dead branch during her fall and saving herself. Now with nowhere else to go she decided to just stay on the dead trees and think. She had been low on essence since her fight with the Gerrafe like creature.
The day ended. She was still on the tree and had even gotten bored with nothing else to do that replenish her essence. She finished an hour ago but at that point it was already nigh time. The moonlight complimented the lack of colour and life in this place perfectly. It was like placing the perfect background on a perfect painting. It was beautiful.
Yoruichi was about to try and sleep on the tree when something caught her eye. She moved her head trying to get a better look and that was what saved her life as a red blob blasted a hole into the tree and kept flying. When she looked down she saw multiple red blobs of blood just charging up ready to fire off at her. She quickly took to the sky and tried to fly away as the blobs all flew at high speeds towards her. She was doing an excellent job dodging those blobs as more kept coming from the forest in all directions, charging and flinging themselves at her at high speeds. It was getting harder to dodge the blobs as more kept coming until a red sea formed under her and a tide of the blobs formed on top of her and slammed her into the sea below her as she was swallowed.
Her eyes opened in shock as she woke up in cold sweat in the middle of the night. Turns out she hadn't been able to catch herself when she fell and had knocked herself out. Everything from the tree to the blob to the sea was all fake. She had been lying in the desolate land for an entire half a day and had a nightmare about the red blobs due to what she went through recently. She slowly got up and started walking in a random direction hoping she would bump into Kage but wherever he went could be anyone's guess.