Chapter 56: Tough log
As force started mounting on his foot being held by the mysterious thing, he instinctively slashed the sword down without even adding his qi onto it.
$Cling$
A sharp metallic sound echoed.
Noctis looked down finally to see a grey tube like object wrapped around his foot with a slash on it, cutting it half open as blue liquid, roughly the same colour as the sea, flowed out of it.
At the same time he heard a scream from his side.
Noctis looked towards Cora in alarm, only to see her missing, her scream still being heard from above his head.
Jerking his head upwards he saw Cora in the grip of the same grey rope-like thing, one end holding Cora and another going into the sea.
In a split second as he saw Cora in the air, the tube started shrinking back into water with speed, dragging her with it.
Noctis used his qi to finally free himself of the rope on his foot that hadn’t been cut fully. Even though he hadn’t used qi and wasn’t entirely ready, it still had enough force to crack open a skull.
Seeing as it had some durability, this time Noctis coated the sword with his qi, making the sword vibrate lightly and immediately sprinted towards Cora.
Just as she had reached closer to the surface Noctis slashed the rope cleanly as he caught Cora, rotating himself to cancel out her momentum.
Similar blue liquid splashed the surface of the water as the rope fully retreated, leaving the cut part on the surface.