Chapter 131: Eliminate.
It all happened too fast. She was distracted for a moment, and in the next her master was blasted away with a beam of light. There was no reacting to that, but even then, Lara still blamed herself.
In the panic that followed she allowed her opponent to place more bindings. With each one she severed he added two more, further limiting her movements and gradually pushing her down a pit she couldn’t escape from.
The world was then swallowed by a brilliant light and Lara recognized its source.
A chance.
She dismissed her spear with a thought and did the same with her halo. At the same time she brought her hands behind her back and dug the nails on the right on into her left wrist.
Crimson blood spilled out from the wound and flowed toward the floor only to stop shy from reaching it. With her eyes closed, the maid followed the uneven shape of the stream which had gone still and, with a thought, she willed it to change form, becoming a razor sharp blade held by a thin thread.
There was no need to put too much focus onto its appearance. The crimson blade had one purpose and nothing beside sharpness was required. It whipped around while the world had yet to regain its colors, severing the purple bindings a few at a time.
Blood Manipulation. A racial Ability belonging to the vampiric vessel. With no time to master its use Lara opted to ignore it and continued relying on her own arsenal. Lunar Arts wasn’t something that can be used on one’s self, however.
Controlling the shape and movements of a liquid required a great deal of focus. Lara struck herself more than one time, though nothing got through the black and white uniform. She was free before long and so she summoned her halo and spear once more preparing to deal with the enemy who had put her in the earlier predicament.