Tear A Path 147 Prayer

Walking in, she stopped where the bones were still quite wet, the flesh had just been taken off of it. It wasn't like she couldn't, she didn't dare to move forward. Stepping back she threw a rock in which flew about a 3 meters before something swiped it from the air.

"It's Thirteen, dinner's here!" She shouted.

It didn't take long before a silhouette emerged from the darkness, a dirty person covered in a layer of Black like dried glue showed up, picking the food from Thirteen's hands before eating ravenously.

Thirteen always kept a distance and only moved forward once she was sure her name was announced, if she stepped in the area without warning she was sure she'd end up on the ground within seconds regardless of her skills.

"Zhao Wei, you should stop staying here, at the very least, you need a bath, Panda and Myra have been waiting at the entrance since you awoke." She said, it wasn't that they didn't want to, it was that to them the smell of the blood of such a powerful beast was enough to draw out the fear of it within their own blood,.

The person in question continued eating to Thirteen's dismay before standing up and walking back in. A few seconds later as she decided that she should get out a very inconspicuous voice resounded near her ear, causing her to smile. "Just a few more miles it said." and that was enough considering that no one had heard a single word from him at all.

Walking in, he did nothing except break through Jormugandr flesh which was way tougher than it seemed. Each muscle fiber was thigh thick and tough as steel, every meter he cleaned would be a meter which he had to cut through several hundreds of thousands of these from top to bottom.

It would be every persons nightmare to stay here and yet it was a great solace to him, the work kept his mind away, at some point he even started generating tantra into the shackles to push himself farther.

It was better this way, every time it became too easy his mind would wonder off and he couldn't deal with what was inside. He knew it well enough, the first 2 days since he woke up, he didn't even feel like doing anything, but the ghosts kept haunting him, his ghosts.

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2 weeks ago.

Just as Zhao Wei died Kitsi leaned over his body. The other's didn't even know what to say in such a moment. Most of them had known death before, intimately even. They had watched as those they loved and cared for move on before them, and in those moments they had wished it was them.

But it was never like this. Those they lost were casualties of the world, they could always tell themselves that it was the way it worked, even if they didn't understand it. But this one wasn't a casualty of the world, he wasn't supposed to be here and really he could have done well enough without them.

Eyisha moved forward first, "I am truly sorry Zhaow Wei..." she bowed.

Kitsi seeing this stood up and moved towards the princess, her hand raised quickly ready to give her a slap. Eyisha closed her eyes tightly ready to receive it, she felt the wind form the swing coming close, but it never landed.

As she opened her eyes, she saw the hands just inches from her face. But it was gripped hard by Kitsi's other hand, the fingers pressing into it while the nails drew blood, her tears streaming down even more. "G.o.d da#$n you..."

"W..why?" Eyisha couldn't help but ask.

This time, Kitsi moved forward and gave Eyisha a strong punch in the gut, knocking the air and a little vomit out of her. "Because he wouldn't have wanted me to do it! But if even until now you don't understand that much, after all that he's let slide, you deserve to at least get this much..." He still owed her two anyway, she thought to herself.

"That was me talking to you as a person," Kitsi wiped her eyes, "This! this is me talking to you as your aid, you are a horrible leader and even worse ruler, at first I decided that I would follow you because I thought your heart was in the right place, but these few months you've lost even that... That and I can no longer serve you as an aid."

"W..what do you.."Eyisha stared at her as she tried to get her words out through her gasps, they were both silver cla.s.s but Kitsi had been honing her body for a long time, her fists were like sledge hammers that knocked the wind right out.

Eyisha had realized what she was going to do and wanted to stop her, looking at Guru pleadingly. At first Guru agreed to move forward but Kitsi said in a clear tone, "You didn't stop him, so don't you dare stop me."

She wrapped her arms around him, brushing his hair back to take a look at what was left of him, "You were always too kind..."

Before anyone could talk her out of it, she sank her fangs into his neck. A light swirled around them both, whatever Zhao Wei was missing began to fill back up, on the other hand, Kitsi's body became increasingly pale and had cracks all over, some parts breaking down into silver particles

"Please don't tell him..." She said before finally dropping and vanishing in a cloud of glowing particles

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When Zhao Wei awoke, the others did try to keep it from him. Even now, they wouldn't tell him the truth, telling him Kitsi was gone on some extremely important mission. Unfortunately, as he checked his system, under the pa.s.sive skill section, another line came out, [Prayer of the departed].