Seth looked up at the not very friendly looking clouds rotating in the sky and without a word once again shot off.
Faced with such strange and ominous clouds, anyone should be wary, yet even as Seth ran, he still felt nothing but peace, his mind actually wanting to stand in place and bask in the serenity of the thundering sky.
As he ran Seth looked behind him but quickly discovered he was looking in the wrong direction, as right above him, the dark cloud stood, churning and screaming, rotating and occasionally lighting up with lightning while keeping perfect pace with him.
Seth ran for a few more meters and then stopped, observing the dark clouds stop at exactly the same time he did.
"I can't shake it"
"Of course, you can't," Alexia said, hugging Seth's back, the woman resting her head on his shoulder in defeat.
"What do you mean I can't? Do you know why this happening, how do I beat this heavenly thing?"
"What happens when an illegal citizen steps on the rights of a legal citizen" Alexia muttered.
It took Seth some seconds but in the end, he finally understood, remembering that Alexia had likened Minuha to a legal citizen and him to an illegal one just being tolerated.
It only made sense that after he used his enlightenment sphere to study Minuha's existence and find a back door to infringe on her supposed rights or privileges there would be repercussions.
"But still, I didn't know the world had a law enforcer, does it also have soldiers?" Seth wondered.
"Why didn't you tell me about such a consequence" Seth unhappily asked looking at the sky.
"Do you think if I knew I would have let you go on with your plans, hell I didn't even know you had a plan till you executed it," Alexia screamed the hurt in her tone bringing Seth's attention to her and reminding him that other than the entity whose till on shaky grounds, she was the person most invested in his survival.
"No, I wasn't…." Seth tried but was cut off.
"How could you possibly think I would let you put yourself in a position that would lead to your death, do you…" Alexia trailed off.
"No, you're right, it's my fault, I want to protect you, yet I wasn't able to fulfill this simple task"
Like this, Alexia went from raging at Seth to blaming herself.
"Darling I'm sorry, I was so useless" Alexia began weeping.
"Alexia it's not..." Seth was about starting but Alexia's figure faded away.
"Alexia"
"Alexia"
"Alexia" Seth called multiple times but received no answer.
Seth was just about to run go into his soul space when he thankfully got a hold of himself.
With his feeling of peace and safety, he had nearly forgotten that he was actualizing in a perilous situation where even his greatest ally and supporter had declared assured death.
Seth flicked his tongue in annoyance at his inability to console Alexi but he knew he had bigger fish to fry at the moment.
"I won't let us die Alexia" Seth roared inwardly, and even though his mind was filled with uncertainties, he looked up into the sky and charged up.
With shadow flight, Seth became a dark blur running into the sky and charging at the dark clouds
Running out of options and with frustration settling within him, Seth was prepared to try all means, and one of them involved him going above the clouds, but to his frustration, he realized that the dark clouds actually always kept him in their center, directly below them.
He moved close to the cloud, approaching its center but then stopped a few meters away.
Seth felt like going into the clouds, his mind jubilating at the thought, and did Seth not know the clouds were a punishment brewing, he would have flown to his death.
With the option of going above or beside the huge mass of clouds out of the window, Seth fell back to the common way of dealing with enemies, directly attacking.
First creating sufficient distance between himself and the clouds, Seth flexed his one remaining arm and then raised his hands, pointing all his fingers at the dark clouds, and then began firing beams.
Several beams sailed through the air and hit the dark clouds, but nothing happened, the beams sailed into the clouds and disappeared, yet this did not dissuade Seth as he pulled back all his fingers and left only the index pointing at the sky.
Seconds passed and then a red light began appearing at the tip of Seth's fingers, his brows straining, as the light at the tip of his fingers quickly got brighter.
"Finger cannon" Seth inwardly thought, and with a groan watched as a 1-meter thick beam burst out the red light and shot into the dark clouds and just like with the beams there was no reaction seconds later.
With his soulsense, a lot of new ways for Seth to attack had been opened to him, and now rather than destroying his finger or hands to accumulate qi, Seth used his soulsense to hold and compress the qi outside the body.
"Tchh" Seth flicked his tongue at the ineffectiveness of his attacks and without delay, was suddenly shrouded in black lightning.
Without hesitation, Seth began bombarding the dark clouds with lightning bolts, not hesitating to bring out his sword and using his left hand pumped it with qi and swung at the dark clouds.
Minutes later and Seth was letting out heavy breaths watching as a dark cloud stood impervious in the sky, churning and flashing with more lightning within, not reacting to Seth's efforts.
"Sorry that I ran out on you" a soft apologetic voice suddenly sounded close to Seth's ear and Alexia's figure once more appeared and hugged him on the back.
"It's alright," Seth said.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes. So any ideas Seth asked with a bit of hope."
"Sorry, not this time. "Alexia whispered.
Realizing that he might have sent her down the path of self-blame again, Seth asked another question.
"So exactly how does this thing plan to destroy me?"
"It will send down powerful bolts of lightning which will destroy you, leaving no remnants of your body.
"Oh, it sure is taking its time though," Seth said with a laugh but then he suddenly went silent and fell from the sky, landing on the ground with a growl.
Seth immediately looked to the sky and then roared, a red torrent of flames which rapidly expanded leaving his mouth and rising to the now lightning filled sky.
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