Chapter 1050
Normally Velvet would have found Durff the easiest to blame for disrupting their stealth, but it could have been any one of them revealing a slight trace, even Velvet herself releasing her killing intent. They’d approached close enough either way, and Velvet sprang into action. Even if she hadn’t been fully revealed, she and Runa would still wish to try to take out Zorka as swiftly as possible.
The woman who was an Augmentation cultivator from the Disciples of the Beyond reacted not by readying a weapon, but by taking her storage bag and upending it. However, in the time it would take for anything to begin to fall Velvet and Runa were there in front of her.
Velvet’s twin blades- sadly missing any voidsteel- cut into the woman’s left side while Runa struck her neck, stabbing upward. She hadn’t locked onto their energies in particular, and barely moved to avoid the blows. Shifting her energy to block Velvet’s incoming attacks was not enough to save her, as Runa’s blade cut into her flesh.
There was a pulse of energy from the surrounding formation the moment before Chidi cut into it, a single slash dividing it into useless parts.
Velvet and Runa made certain of their kill, Runa’s blade stabbing into the woman’s dantian to disrupt any energy flow she might have in the last moments of semi-consciousness.
Even as the bag continued to fall, Velvet turned to catch it, sealing it closed. But the pulse of energy from the formation continued outward carrying with it something.
Having secured their objective they should have felt accomplished- even with hundreds of enemy disciples turning on them for an immediate assault, Velvet felt that something unfortunate had happened. Perhaps not as much as might have been, but it was still concerning.
Enemies flooded towards them, and were quickly cut down. Or smashed into each other. Or set ablaze. Everyone had different fighting styles. The twins Misi and Juli seemed to swap weapons with alarming frequency. Velvet had first seen them fight with small hammers, but they seemed to use anything particularly agile… while also carrying weird trinkets.
Specifically, the two had pulled out what Velvet was pretty sure were some of the teeth of the great worm that had almost killed them in subspace. Or rather, the very tips of the teeth since they stretched up to hundreds of meters. Furthermore, to carry them it had to be ground down to a narrower profile so that it could even fit in their hand.