Entering the tent, the first thing Seth's eyes landed on was the most important thing to him at the moment, the prone body of Zuroc.
Just having the man in his sight, brought about a certain relief to Seth but that did not mean that he let his guard down, on the contrary, his vigilance deepened as his eyes carefully moved a little from Zuroc's motionless body and surveyed the red of the tent.
With Zuroc lying to the side, what occupied the rest of the tenet was a large circular seal, one that looked similar to the one Seth had seen in the red tent area earlier, but it was much larger and a bit more complex.
At the moment, the seal was lit up in an almost dark red hue, and to Seth's shock, lying within the seal at the moment was the body of the woman who had combo him with Seung during the first seconds of his fight with Zuroc, and next to her surprisingly lay the body of Salap.
Seth could already see the bones on Salap's arms, the man has already lost most of the flesh on his limbs and left chest and was now unconscious, but it was the state of the woman that left him shocked.
While Salap lay prone on the floor, the woman who had also been lying on the floor, seeming to also be unconscious, gradually opened her eyes and turned towards, Seth, and then to his shock she pushed her body up till she was standing on all fours or threes to be exact.
With one of her hands, already turned to bones, the other arm trembled as it struggled to keep her body up, but the woman had no care for the state of her body as she instead spent her time, throwing Seth the most venomous gaze he had seen in his relatively short life.
"Ple..a..se le..ave" the woman groaned before her trembling form collapsed back to the ground.
With calm eyes, Seth stared at her prone form, an ounce of sympathy flashing in his eyes before disappearing like it had never been there.
"What loyal subordinates, so they sacrificed themselves to heal you," Seth said, his words more of a statement than a question as he turned to Zuroc's prone form.
The man stayed silent for a few seconds his eyes closed, and then just when Seth thought the man was truly unconscious, his hoarse voice sounded.
"What can I do for you to spare me," he asked.
"Won't you ask me why I attacked you in the first place?" Seth asked, his eyes focused and scrutinizing Zuroc and noticing his wounds slowly healing.
"Would you have told me "Zuroc replied, his eyes slowly opening, and when he saw Seth's figure, shock flashed in them and he kept them staring at Seth.
"Well at this point, I don't see much of a reason to keep my reason for killing you a secret," Seth said, but then he noticed that Zuroc wasn't listening to his words, as his eyes were instead sharply stared at him.
"Is there something on me" Seth audibly muttered, deciding not to look down at his body on the off chance Zuroc was laying a trap.
"Your burns, what happened to your injuries" Zuroc's hoarse and tired voice struggled to roar as he lifted his hands and pointed at Seth.
"My injuries got healed just like yours," Seth confusingly said, pointing at the Zuroc's empty side which was slowly getting filled up.
"So fast" Zuroc wheezed out" Are you also a blood cultivator," he asked.
"I don't know what that is, "Seth said lifting his hand and then pointing his index finger at the man.
To his side, Seth heard the groans of the woman who was in the seal as she tried to speak but couldn't let out a word and gradually grew quiet.
"Is there really nothing I can do to save my life today?" Zuroc asked, looking up at Seth with a gaze as firm as he could muster.
"Do you know what happen to the people outside, how did they die?"
"Oh that, if I tell you will you spare me?"
"No" Seth flatly said.
"Shame, the people outside were killed when one of the beast committee suicide by self-destructing itself and its poison sack, a really sad way for an army to die" Zuroc muttered, his eyes filled with regret
"Which beast was that? How was it able to kill all those people?" Seth quickly asked, hoping to get an answer before the man went unconscious but a second after he asked his question, he felt a huge chaotic spike come from Zuroc's body.
Such a sharp chaotic spike of qi was usually found in explosive technique, and the fact that such a feeling was coming off Zuroc's body, someone who had blown off his arm not long ago, all but alluded to an incoming self-destruction.
Were it a different time and under different conditions, Seth might decide to flee the tent, but he needed Zuroc's body as evidence, and so without delay, he tuned the setting of his finger beam and fired it off just before Zuroc's body went boom.
One second there was a feeling of impending doom, the next minute everything was back to normal.
Rather than fire a destructive beam, Seth had decided to fire one that brought about qi poisoning, this qi also having the effect of suppressing Zuroc qi and ending the chaotic reaction which he had tried to initiate.
With a sigh, Seth quickly walked over to Zuroc's body, and then without hesitation, bent down and shoved his hand through the man's heart.
With the man now dead, Seth watched as the man's wound which had once been slowly healing stopped closing up, and taking a look behind, Seth's eyes were greeted to the glowing light in the seal behind him slowly dying off.
The temptation to sit bedside Zuroc and take a rest hit Seth, but he resisted it and stood to his feet.
Though he had killed the man, who knew if there was still some trap in the tent just waiting to activate.
Not wanting to take any unnecessary risks, Seth grabbed Zuroc by his one good arm, and seeing that everything was still alright, he pulled the man as he walked out of the tent.
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