After exiting the pile of rubble caused from his crashing into a wall, one of the figures was already in front of him ready to deliver another blow to his head, but Horo had already sensed the approaching attacker and performed a dance like move as he pivot on one foot and swept with his leg as he spun and landed an attack that crushed the opponents left leg, and continued his spin with with a dagger in hand that lopped off the enemy's head before another attack could reach him. The other attacker that originally tried to cleave his head off was standing next to two other figures but Horo could still feel the other five dangerous presences near by.
Horo immediately went on the offense and begin clashing with the three visible enemies. Even though the enemies were a major realm above him he was able to fight the three opponents on equal grounds due to his hidden prowess and special body. Things changed when the enemies in hiding begin to launch sneak attacks with their traits and projectiles. Horo began obtaining slight wounds that couldn't affect him to much because his natural healing ability. When he was exchanging a blow in close proximity with one of the opponents the enemy mistakenly looked into his eyes and horo suddenly activated an advance version of the soul subjugation spell which was now merged with his lightless eyes. The enemy lost the light in his eyes , went limp, and fell as his soul was stripped from his being and trapped in the realm of the dark ones. Another enemy, who was directly behind the opponent horo had just dealt with, trying to perform a follow up sneak attack was met with a blow that turned his head akin to something like a smashed pumpkin.
Horo rushed to engage with the last visible enemy, but before he reached the person he suddenly changed directions and released the chains of damnation in different directions, he intended to catch the other five hidden enemies off guard but he was only able to piece two of them and trap one. The two that were pierced were powerful enough to resist being pulled to him, but they were being corroded and decomposed by the chained while the one wrapped up was dragged to him and was dealt with a blow that ended him thoroughly. He then slashed the heads off of the weakened two that were pierced by the chains. The other two hidden enemies showed themselves at this point. He felt extreme danger previously from the nine hidden enemies but when face to face with these two he felt his heart skip a beat just from looking at them.
After noticing he couldn't gage their strength he realized he was in a perilous situation ,as that indicated they were more than one major realm above him. Knowing he would be facing two ascended powerhouses he immediately used a spell he hadn't used previously when fighting the load of enemies, illusory hand , to dispatch the last awakened realm enemy who was caught off guard and didn't know what killed him. There was still a lot of silence members present but they were scared shitless while in hiding and refused to come out, or incapacitated.
Horo waited for them to launch the first attack as this would raised his chances of survival while facing the two ascended because tit was related to a trump card of him.
Being as powerful and experienced as they are, they knew something was amiss as they were locking eyes with Horo and he had yet to even attempt to use his ocular abilities on them. Horo decided to fake a retreat by slowing taking steps back, they just kept locked eyes with him as he move over 15 meters back and attempted to jump up to head out of the mountain side, but the moment he entered the air he was hit with a devastating blow to his chest that shattered his armor completely and blasted him out of the mountain. He didn't even see the enemy approached or which had attacked, but he knew he had to immediately do something because he was in the air flying down the mountain while defenseless, he immediately pulled himself to the ground using his chains of the damned. He was coughing up chunks of blood but that didn't stop him from summoning his armor again, as he surrounded himself in a bubble made out of extremely thick and pure negative energy while using decomposition on the ground. A second later the bubble of negative energy was smashed to shards, but Horo had already escaped through a makeshift tunnel he made in the ground using decomposition, he tried to sneak attack the one who just broke the bubble of negative energy, but he felt danger tickling his neck and immediately did a high flip into the air and threw his chained dagger at the spot he just elevated from, the dagger was caught and he was pulled towards the second enemy who just attempted to crush him. Luckily he used illusory hand in time to smash the opponent into the ground but it hardly did any damage and was dispersed, while being surprised his spell didn't do much in the way of helping hold down one enemy, he was met with a blow from the other enemy immediately and had his armor crushed again. He continued to resist as much as he can but he was already grievously injured as it wasn't much he could do with two opponents that surpassed him by two major realms, his only saving grace were they was not trying to kill him due to the head masters orders. Luckily he received a notification from his soul module at the perfect time.
Your Trait ability "Karmic Tie" has been established, you can now used the tie of karma to strike your opponents.
He received this notification as he was smashed into the side of the mountain again, and after he stood up he didn't exit the pile of rubble he just sat in a squat and unleashed the most powerful blow he could muster into the space in front of him. What happened next stunned one of the ascended powerhouses as he noticed his partner hold his chest and attempt to scream but nothing except blood exited his mouth. As the wounded enemy lay balled up on the ground like a baby in the womb , Horo stomped the ground so hard his lower leg entered the ground, and this resulted in the head of the ascended powerhouse being destroyed. Before the other powerhouse could notice what was going on Horo used all the strength in his horribly wounded body to strike powerful blows into the air and kill the another ascended powerhouse.