BACK IN THE FORREST:

‘Hey, I’ve said it before but please drop dead.’ Tor said in a serious tone as his aura shot up. ‘The situation has changed I don’t have the time to play with you monkey!’ He got in a running stance, his mana kept building up but the blood ape was not just standing there, the spikes which had come out of the ape’s body suddenly bust out with a sonic boom and their speed was beyond what eyes could follow although they were not small. At first it looked like the spikes were expelled randomly and as soon as the one shot in Tor’s direction was about to hit him, his barrier looked like it was about to absorb the spike, it burst through and at that point, Tor deflected it with his bare hand. This was just the first of many to come as all of the spikes locked on Tor following him rather than the trajectory to which they were shot out from its body.

After deflecting all the spikes even in low visibility, Tor gave a condescending smirk and gestured for the ape to come at him. The ape roared and all those spikes that had been deflected by Tor began spinning in the air and attacking at random. Tor kept on deflecting the spikes even though visibility was low but his eyes were closed and it was as though he was wrapped in the mana around that area, a second later he vanished and appeared on the left side of the ape who was so engrossed in roaring that it hardly noticed his approach. ‘I told you you’re noisy.’ Tor repeated his earlier statement as the little distance between him and the ape constricted as he went for a gut punch, the ape stopped its roaring to look down at Tor, but by that time contact had been made and a very large shockwave went through the ape with a large burst of spatial lights illuminating the whole area like dawn. The large ape was sent flying as it roared and landed some meters away.

The senior Elder finally came back and he even looked more pissed than before. He expelled enough bloodlust to drown an army. ‘Mumu boy, you said the reason I was sent here was to die? I’m sure the reason was so I can kill you who is the kin of that bastard.’ He screamed in anger whilst rushing towards Tor at the sound of speed, everything within his path becoming stone cold ice. ‘I don’t have the time to play with you anymore.’ Tor responded in his usual calm manner which pissed the elder off even more (if that was possible). He reached the spot where Tor was using martial arts he attacked Tor, but each one of his attacks were deflected, although they did leave some coat of ice on Tor’s hands. ‘I’ll teach you some manners you stupid child! Frozen Heart!’ The senior elder screamed as all the bloodlust which he had been expelling turned into his mana now all his moves had freezing power. Tor dodged each and every attack and ended up in the spot where he had stolen the sword from the senior elder.

The elder not wishing to waste the opportunity he had built burst forth in a dash as he cut the distance between him and Tor his hand aiming for Tor’s heart, and the ape which was sent flying came jumping in the air with a loud growl. In the next moment, a sonic boom rang out and dust rose but even the dust quickly got frozen into Ice and the whole area in front of the city was also frozen. There was only the frozen sculptures of the elder, the ape and the sword ‘Frostbite.’ Which the elder had gone mental over. What happened in that split second was, the ape landed behind Tor as the elder was going to make contact with Tor and in that split second Tor vanished this made the elder hit the ape with frozen heart, as soon as that happened the ape began to freeze and the ape could no longer move and before the elder could decide what to do, ‘Frostbite’ impaled him from the top of his head and because of the speed it was falling at, the sonic boom rang out, the Freezing of the entire area commenced from there. The ape had growled for a few seconds before getting totally frozen.

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Tor happened to use the seconds to take the ape’s core since it was an ancestor core and was useful in many different ways such as; being sold, or being used to create mana pills that help people increase their mana capacity, although this method even with technology van only draw out 30% of the mana. Its use when coupled with the devourer technique would build a new core for Jin to contain the mana she ‘ate.’ ‘Even though I said I had somewhere to go, they ended up wasting my time. If they make Jin a mass murderer I’m definitely coming for their clan.’ Tor said in an angry voice as he jumped in the direction of the village and vanished.

In the forest, an area that was not touched by the fight but very close to where the three had fought, there was a girl in a mask with long hair, although her features were not very visible it was clear that she was a beauty and very young too. She was accompanied by a girl carrying a valkary spear and gave off wisps of lightning. ‘Ah this is quite bad, those people are going to use this to pick a fight, I bet they’re watching right now on those things they call satellite.’ The younger girl said looking in the direction of the city as if she could clearly see everything going on in the village. ‘That doesn’t matter, they were the ones who picked a fight and if it wasn’t this it would have been something else. It doesn’t matter how they try though, we’ll always beat their asses back because that’s what it means to be a part of the sacred clan.’ The girl who was older and giving off lightning responded looking up into the skies.

‘you cuss too much and your head is only filled with violence.’ The younger girl responded still staring at the city. ‘And I have never met a more violent woman than you. Maybe that’s why we’ve stayed friends for so long.’ The older girl retorted in a joking manner. ‘yeah maybe.’ She responded smiling a bit. ‘you’re still not going to meet them?’ The older girl asked getting serious. ‘No not now, I have to make sure they’re safe first.’ She replied as she turned away and a gate of light opened. ‘you just keep lying to yourself.’ The older one said under her breath in frustration.