Chapter 55: Manug(4)
Holding the seams of the white robe in the same hand that was still covered in his once intricately designed, beautiful crystal gauntlet that now looked ghostly pale, chipped and was worth almost as little as a crude ujo as the mana had left it after its circuit was restlessly annihilated he bend his knee and got closer to the unconscious face of the archer that had attacked him without any reasons.
The face was almost uncanny, from up close it was fairly obvious to Cades, or at least he hoped that it was obvious to him, but the archer was indeed male, just as his intuition had been telling him at first, that, however was not what was so uncanny and eerie about it.
Interestingly enough the archers face was perfect, it hat the smoothest skin that Cades had ever seen, smoother than he would've ever expected skin to be, so perfect that he touched it to make sure that it wasn't just a intricate mask put on so that his enemies wouldn't know who he was.
Perfeclty designed, every nook of the face, long, golden hair that seemed to sometimes shift colours and reached down to their waist, perfect constitution, relatively pale skin but still very much of a natural colour and if that wasn't already insulting enough to Cades who must've looked as if he hadn't slept in half a dozen years, not even the thin lips of the man were cracked.
Overall the body was insultingly perfect, too perfect even.
Maybe it was illusion magic, maybe it was something else, but Cades had the feeling as if he was being entranced while looking at the unconscious males face.
As such he got closer to the face, moved his hand down, pulled the hood of the robe up and covered the face of whatever this archer might claim to be when he woke up.
After that he moved away from the entrancing body of the archer and sat down just a few feet away, facing the archer with an unwavering look that must've seemed as if he was intent on killing him and eating his corpse.
And with the fact that Cades hadn't eaten anything since entering this hellscape, with the facthe hadn't even encountered any monsters except for those restlessly swimming in the endless void, those he didn't want to even interact with, he was starving.
So much so that Cades did have that very thought in the back of his mind, only a small, small part of his mind, the darkest corner, right next to the corner telling him to give up, to just die in the endless light below.
But Cades didn't care, he was assessing the situation.
Cades artifacts were damaged because of the battle, and even before that many of them had been destroyed, and now, finally, he was going to look at everything that he had lost.