Asher manages to dodge an attack at point-blank range due to his being weaker. He retreats, and the thoughts of his siblings losing their fights are starting to frighten him. Asher is very scared to lose anyone else that's important to him.
Asher takes a deep breath but gets interrupted by a surprise attack by ten enemy soldiers. They are all unarmed; they are just going to fight him with only their bodies. Asher starts to dodge the attacks, positioning his body in unnatural positions.
What should I do?! My body is reaching its limit. The power I currently have isn't strong enough! Why are the other forty just looking? They aren't dumb? Are they clones? Are they weaker or stronger? Asher decides to leave the radius of the enemies deciding to attack; it's a now-or-never situation.
Asher starts to go towards the enemy. Seeing their movements for a while, he can map clearly how they fight; finding an opening is crucial for his victory.
Asher decides to first throw one of his knives into one of the people resting.
Poof
I knew they were clones. Asher now starts to fight. Predicting their movements, Asher manages to stab three of the fighters in their necks, leaving them to die.
Poof, poof, poof
Ten clones disappear from the outside. Asher, with heightened confidence, ran out of knives; his punches are all that he needs; his only worry is his constant loss of strength.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Asher manages to land one uppercut, one left hook, and a roundhouse kick in an action sequence. The only thing worrying Asher is how they managed to break some of his bones. His aura is healing him, but the loss of it is making it harder.
Boom!
Asher gets a jab straight on his face; taking the broken nose, he finds a perfect opportunity to land a right hook, rendering the enemy unable to fight.
"Congratulations! I didn't expect you to understand so fast. Now the rest won't be as easy. Especially the next one." The pale man appears again, clapping at Asher.
Asher is only looking at him with a serious face.
"Hey, you do have a time limit. Your siblings are… The pale man takes a device that can show videos of what is happening at any spot they have visited.
"What about my siblings?!!" Asher tries to grab the pale man only to remember that he is a hologram.
"They are losing. Wow! I have never seen so much blood." The man laughing cunningly sees how Asher's expression changes from seriousness to scared.
"Take me to the other level now!!!" Asher is trying his best to remain composed.
The pale man disappears. The theater-like room disappears. A set of stairs appears; a row of dimly lit lights marks the pathway of the stairs.
Tap, tap, tap
Asher hears a man tapping something.
Asher arrives at the end of the lights only to see a safe like a door. Extending his hand to touch it, the door opens.
Woosh
Asher is greeted by a man similar-looking to him, pointing a knife directly at his neck. The velocity of the attack surprised Asher; his good vision had never seen a man this close in the minuscule time he opened the door.
Slash
Asher falls to the ground, his throat bleeding; seeing his vision turned red, he can only see the man disappearing in the dark room.
Asher starts to fade away, his strength dying. He passes out in a pile of his blood.
…
"HAHAHAHA! He got you! Wait, didn't I already say that? Well, it doesn't matter. I will cut to the chase if you want power. I want you to be alive." A mysterious figure starts to speak to a barely conscious Asher.
"O—Oh, it's you, K.?" Asher recognizes the voice. His body is still on the ground, unable to move.
…
Asher is in a room. A room covered in light gray colors. The sky, the floor, the walls, and the air are all gray. Asher is confused, only seeing a young man eating with his family. Asher can move, but nothing can do nothing.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In the next scene, Asher is shown how the young man is being tortured with the torture of his entire family. Unable to close his eyes due to his cut eyelids.
The young man is strapped to a chair, his arms strapped down, his mouth covered to not produce a sound, the walls dark. A light illuminates the center of the room.
The scene of one by one each of his family members starting to die in front of his eyes.
The first scene Asher is tormented in is when the young man's father gets each of his limbs cut. His screams of pain and cries all torment the young man. A puddle of dark red blood started to accumulate at the feet of the young man. The young man can only muffle a scream, his eyes unable to cry; the young man can only move his body, trying his best to free himself.
The young man's father stopped fighting for his liberty; he took his last breath. Asher can only look in surprise, deeply saddened.
The people cutting the father's hand, their bodies covered in a dark-colored robe, start to wave the dead man's limbs, playing hot potato with it.
Asher is transported into another scene. The scene is now about the mother of the young man. When the mother arrives, she starts screaming like a maniac, falling on her knees and grabbing the remaining parts of her husband. Seeing the love of her life dead in front of her destroyed her.
She looks up only to be hit with an axe, cutting her head in a swing. The young man can only see this happening, seeing how everything is destroying him. His entire mind is in shock seeing the two people he cared the most about dead in a day, killing the young man inside.
The people started laughing maniacally; seeing the mother's decapitated body, they began to have an urge to perform necrophilia.
Asher can only scream; now he is in the body of the young man experiencing the emotions of the broken Asher inside just as the man starts to undress his dead mother, Asher and the young man disappear.
…
"Tell me about it." K. talks now in the same forest he has always been in.
"AHHHH!!! STOP!!!" Asher traumatizes screams.
"Asher, you are truly blessed that you have me and not the other one." K. stands up from his chair to squat in the fire and throws a stick to increase the fire.
"What are you talking about?!! You don't have an idea of what I experienced!!! How is it possible that I am blessed!!!" Asher screams at K..
"Ha, you truly are lucky. Also, I could make your experience worse. You know that you and I are one, K., in his calm way, responds to Asher.
"What are you trying to say!!" Asher not taking an answer.
"Do you truly want to know?" K. stands up and looks directly into Asher's eyes.
"Yes, you fucker, what else do you think I want?" Asher is still angry.
"You truly are lucky." K. sits down in his rocking chair.