Chapter 38: Gains
As Noctis landed once again he focused on his senses.
By senses he didn’t mean the five normal senses that everyone had, they were rather useless in this void, rather he focused on manipulating the force inside him to pick up on the out of ordinary movement in energy present in the space.
As the energy flowing around the space coalesced in various places, it took a humanoid form and matter; occupying space.
Soon dozens of such bodies surrounded Noctis.
These were precisely the haunted things that the void wretched out of its abyssal pit to haunt him day after day.
In the beginning being unable to even perceive them left him so utterly helpless, he could only bear the relentless assault on his body as he was left black and blue; before the tide of void covered him, putting him under another subsequent spell of suffocation, a form of torture the fate seemed to have favoured the most when taking care of him.
A soundless sightless fist flew towards Noctis’ right rib, which he dodged, just as another kick approached his left leg.
Blocking the kick with his elbow he extended his legs in a back kick, forcing the creature back as another two approached his position.
Parrying one and dodging another, Noctis focused his attention looking for the tides rolling about in the void here and there.
As one such tide approached his position, Noctis maneuvered through the creatures, ducking a kick, catching an elbow in his hands as his other hands blocked the overhead kick.
Just as he jumped to another position, without a break another creature jumped towards him with some weapon in his hand, it too made of void, given uncanny form indistinguishable form from matter how was made of but with such properties, every strand of hair on his body tingled the moment it approached him.
Noctis dashed towards the creature before it could land as he held the swinging hands before it could make a swing at his head with a firm grip, but before he could neutralize it, another creature lunged at him from his sides, forcing him to block it with his forearm.