That Minuha needed to be complete for him to truly kill her was something Seth had known right since when he interacted with her at the dungeon.
This was the reason why Seth hadn't even entertained the thought of killing her when she was incomplete and had the strength of a level 9 mortal.
After comprehending the basics of darkness, Seth had come to understand that Minuha was a completely different being, one far removed from humans and other common species.
Though he had comprehended darkness, Seth had no idea how to replicate Minuha's abilities with her shadows.
He could understand the basis on which her shadow ability worked, how it used darkness as a fuel, but he could never understand the essence on which she tuned to and from a shadow.
Taking Minuha as a great mystery, Seth decided to push aside her uniqueness and go about killing the woman, confident in being able to end her if he cut off the fuel for her unique movements.
Well, Seth's plan had gone without a hitch, but how was he to know that after scanning the area for miles with his soulsense and watching Minuha become an invincible cultivator that the woman still wasn't complete.
"Is she perhaps at a higher level of cultivation" Seth wondered as he lay on the floor.
Minuha had been correct when she mentioned him being paralyzed.
Just as he had put his hand through her, Seth's soul had received a huge shake-up of pain, one which nearly paralyzed his soul but succeeded in almost rendering most of his body unmovable.
Though everything below Seth's neck was paralyzed, it wasn't something permanent, yet the little time he was out of commission was enough.
With Minuha having turned into a shadow and escaped him, Seth was expecting death anytime soon but it didn't come as an eerie silence instead prevailing.
"Where is Minuha" Seth thought, his answer chiming a second later as his right hand which had pieced Minuha and was still stretched out was sliced from the elbow.
Seth watched his arm fall off, his eye blinking at the scene but he didn't linger on this unfortunate event as his left hand suddenly went into motion, slamming against the ground to send him standing.
Just as Seth had expected, the pain-induced paralysis was only temporary, and Minuha's action of slicing his hand had helped to speed up the process of rebooting his body.
Now able to move again, Seth's goal was to kick up and speed away, yet as fast as he was, he wasn't faster than the shadows that immediately rose from the ground and pierced into him.
"Arrogant, just plain arrogant, did you think I would let you escape me, who knows what new plans you have," Minuha said her form rapidly rising from a black pool on the ground and standing in front of Seth.
"Ahhhh this sucks" Seth mumbled, ignoring Minuha and looking down at his chest which had four black poles sticking out of them.
"You missed my heart" Seth pointed out, but before Minuha could reply, she froze and looked into the sky, horror dawning on her face, and then without a word she bolted.
Along with Minuha's departure, the black poles which had pierced Seth and lifted him till his feet were off the ground dissolved into black ashes, leaving Seth to fall to the ground.
"What did she see, that scared her so much" Seth wondered.
Minuha had looked up to the sky and well now Seth was doing the same, but he still couldn't see exactly what had scared her so much.
"Did she suddenly have a mental breakdown?" Seth thought to himself in amusement and then proceeded to let out a groan.
"Luckily she didn't go for my heart immediately, I can imagine she wanted to return the favor of torture"
Seth laughed and chuckled as he thought of the events he had just been through not forgetting to pump his body with qi and accelerate his healing
With a smile on his face, Seth was staring at his amputated arm, wondering how long it would take him to regrow it when Alexia's voice raged in his head,
"What are you doing?"
"Ehh hello Alexia perhaps you didn't notice but we almost died a few minutes ago, why would you miss out on something so important? Don't worry though, we're safe now"
"Idiot" Alexia screamed her very angry figure popping above Seth.
"Minuha just fled from here, why aren't you doing the same, can't you feel the danger."
"Ehhhh" Seth drawled moving his head around.
"There is no danger Alexia, all is well, I feel safe, in fact, this is the safest I've ever felt in my life, why should I run" Seth questioned.
Alexia's expression tightened with each of Seth's words, and then she replied.
"You feel safe! Do you think that is normal?"
Seth's face scrunched at Alexis' words, and then worry began settling in his eyes as he quickly looked around, and the next instant was on his feet.
"Any idea what is happening."
"All around I feel impending death, yet you don't, you're being all relaxed, " Alexia said implicatively.
One minute Seth was stumped by Alexia's words, the next, his figure was speeding through the air.
If Alexia hadn't mentioned it, Seth would never have questioned why he felt so chummy and relaxed after just escaping death at the hand of Minuha.
It scared him how he didn't even bother to question why the woman who now hated him had simply upped and left.
Seth didn't need anyone to tell him that the peace and safety he had felt was an impossibility.
...
Five minutes passed since Seth took off, but to his worry, he found out his feelings hadn't changed.
"Alexia, I'm still feeling relaxed, I feel like I'm in a quiet meadow, what about you."
"I'm scared," Alexia whispered.
Alexia's curt words were all Seth needed to know he was still in trouble.
Seth zoomed past trees and hills, everything a blur to him but his feelings never changed, they only intensified, and then out of nowhere, the heavy sound of thunder reverberated in the sky.
The sound shook the sky actually sending Seth falling out of the air and landing on the ground, and when he looked up, his eyes were welcomed to the sight of a darkening sky.
Right before Seth's eyes, clouds rapidly gathered, the clouds blackening as they accumulated, and then within them, lightening began flashing while the clouds slowly rotated.
"Are we being attacked" Seth muttered not expecting an answer for this phenomenon but he got one from Minuha.
"Yes."
"By who"
"The heavens. This is heavenly tribulation." Alexia said in a melancholic tone.
"This time we're really dead."
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