Chapter 27: Ch 27 - Time to Look ahead
After winning the battle with the two he had deemed as walls he needed to surpass, Kai had completely forgotten about the weakest variable.
The other scavenger of their team, who was stuck in the effects of the spell till the very end, struggling all the time in hopes of somehow retaining his consciousness.
However, at the end of the day, all of his struggles were in vain.
He too, had fallen for the charms of spell and had his consciousness devoured. And Kai could only come to know that once the silhouette of his shadow came into his sight.
To begin with, Kai wasn’t in any better shape either. Since the time that the mysterious voice had helped him, his body hadn’t miraculously been healed.
Rather, the process was slowed while his sense of pain had been partially numbed.
Once the mysterious glow left his body— his eyes, all the toll that had accumulated over his body due to sudden movements and brash attacks came down like a turbulent waterfall, putting him at the mercy of fate.
Kai was in an even more helpless state than before, moving even in the slightest caused pain that felt as though his whole body was getting crushed under thousands of tons of weight. Even his own vision was flickering dramatically, threatening to die out any second.
Sharp, guttural sounds of panting eerily echoed in the vicinity alongside the soft thuds of someone approaching Kai from behind.
’What a timing you have,’ Kai mustered up all his strength and pushed himself to turn around and fall to the ground with his right arm. As he turned around, he captured the vague sight of the silhouette that was coming towards him.
"Xavier." He muttered in a low, cracked voice.
In front of him, he saw Xavier walking towards him with his head tilted to his right— almost hanging. In his right hand, was the spear that he had been holding onto since the beginning while his other hand hung empty.