Chapter 59: Ghost Gale Steps
The air crackled with tension as Kaal and the Founder’s clone locked eyes. Blood dripped from Arthur’s lips, his smirk never fading, even as his arm hung slightly limp. Kaal, on the other hand, stood firm, his crimson gaze unyielding.
"You’re learning," Arthur mused, rolling his shoulders. "But let’s see if you can keep up."
Then, he blurred.
This time, Kaal’s Mind Eye flared brighter, his perception sharpening to an almost painful clarity. He saw it the way Arthur’s footwork bent Shadow, the way he flickered between positions like a glitch in reality.
Not teleportation. Not pure speed. A system-based movement, this movement is based on the opponent’s eyesight, distracting his qi sense, creating an illusion that the person has disappeared and reappears in an unexpected direction.
The moment Kaal’s Mind Eye caught the Founder’s movement, a flicker of shadow from the left, he reacted. And he vanished in front of the founder clone’s eyes.
Not with the flawless silence of the Founder’s technique, but close. His own version, raw and unrefined,
"Shadow Step."
For a heartbeat, it worked. The air rippled as Kaal reappeared, his body shifting through space like a phantom. But then—
Tssk!
A single, almost imperceptible sound. The faintest scrape of his foot against stone was the result of incomplete shadow steps because a real shadow step is silent as a soul ripper; it does not produce sound like that.