Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 173 Darkness Falls I : Spirits

(You do know those are spirits right?) Nezha's voice came from within the depths of his mind.

"I do but what kind of spirits are they?" Alex asked as he tracked them, following the spirits as they went through building after buildings, moving in the direction of the academy grounds.

(Based on the fact that the girl is chasing after the man, I would say she's a vengeful spirit, and the man is a revenant ghost. He probably died with a lot of regrets, but the girl on the other hand might be following him for one of three reasons. Either he's responsible for her death, or he knows who or what is responsible for it, or he's someone the vengeful spirit knew back when she was alive, so she's formed a sort of attachment to him after death. Either way, you have to take care of them fast, because the longer they're walking all-over this place the more dangerous it will become for everything else.

And it's not just them coming in contact with the living, but the their deathly aura would attract more ghostly beings to this Academy, and as it stands, not a single one of them can defend themselves against an invasion of spirits with the ability to leave marks on your soul. So fix it! Fast!"

The sense of urgency within Nezha's voice was all the motivation Alex needed to make sure he got this done, he really didn't know much about this spirits business, but that girl did not look like a harmless five year old, and what ever the case may be, he had to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible. With no other choice Alex kept following them, he couldn't exactly barge into the towers of other people and tell them he was chasing ghosts, unless he had no choice, there was no way in h.e.l.l he was going to be making a fool out of himself.

Eventually they left the academy market, and we're moving through a district that had the more popular and powerful organizations, their prestige was shown for the single fact that they lived closer to the academy than any other tower, with the closer you are to it, showing just how prestigious and powerful your tower is. Alex wanted to keep himself inconspicuous, after he really wasn't focused on the people around him, but rather to the spirits moving through wall and last people.

 it was quite surprising for Alex, but the spirits actively avoided touching people, even Nezha did not have an explanation for such a weird character display. Their movements weren't as random or as effective as he imagined either, sure they moved weirdly, but they obviously had a destination. If they were somewhat aimless they'll probably be moving around, but they kept a straight line and made sure to avoid touching any living thing, even going so far as avoiding mosquitoes and flies.

By this point in time it was already way past sunset and the bright glow of the full moon seemed to mix in with the brightly lit main Street of the academy.

Alex followed the spirits, keeping his focus and trying no to seem to out of place, until finally Alex found himself moving past the gates of the Academy itself. The guards let him pa.s.s, as at that moment there were students coming and going out, the Spirits went north east, moving out past teaching halls and cla.s.srooms, until they finally came to a stop right in the middle of an extensively large battling platform, but they weren't alone.

There was a boy on the platform, he was practicing and didn't seem to be any older than 6 or 7, he was showing a focus and determination Alex had never seen or expected to the see in the face of one so young. But all he could say was that the boy was now the primary focus of both spirits, as the bloodied male spirit seemed to just stare in melancholy at the boy, while the girl showed immense anger and began to make a move. Alex had no idea what to do, neither was he sure what was about to happen, but the girl placed her hands on the shoulders of the boy and almost immediately, the boy fell to the ground, clutching his chest as he was a.s.saulted by indescribable pain.

Alex rushed forwards, moving towards the spirit, but as he got close the noticed that the spirit was crying, and the male ghost was also on his knees, seemingly pleading. But as Alex got within four feet of the infant spirit, she turned and faced the incoming Alex, a rather ugly look on her face as she opened her mouth and roared, releasing a piercing shriek that sent the young man flying backwards until his back smashed against a statue of a phoenix.

Alex had the resist the urge to cough up blood as his ears started ringing and his vision seemed a little bit blurry, he couldn't focus, and the words Nezha and Xeron were yelling to him weren't helping matters at all as he couldn't hear a single thing. He shakily got to his feet, and then fell down again, the entire world spinning and shaking as he looked up to noticed the spirit coming close to him, but somehow dragging the six year old boy that she had suspended in the air and was dragging behind her. As for the middle aged revenant, he kept on following, still begging for whatever it is he wanted to get for.

The spirit stood over him, her face twisted into such an evil and grotesque snarl that Alex couldn't help but feel a s.h.i.+ver go up and down his spine. There was nothing innocent or cute about this five year old girl standing in front of him, the only thing that mattered to her was death, suffering and blood, and she seemed all too willing to get it. And as for those who would dare to stand in her way, Alex was pretty sure he was about to find out what happens to them.

But it still didn't make any sense to him, how could she be so powerful, how could just a scream from her, almost tear apart the mind of a spirit king in the spirit commander realm. It was unexplainable, but Alex would leave to. Find out the answers to that story some other day.

Khan and Devonte suddenly showed up in front of Alex, glowing a bright greenish good and blackish red, their appearance was enough to deter the spirit as she quickly turned around and vanished into the night nothing but the sounds of night creatures chirping good night to. Each other, or croaking a hearty morning. But all those sounds didn't lean much to Alex as slowly but surely his vision went dark, and before the lights faded, all he could see was they eyes of the six year old, staring right back at him, and he recognized the look held within those deep green orbs, he was afraid, very afraid.

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Kill them and make it painful, but as if that wasn't enough his employers wanted him to hang the bodies in front of their tower in a grotesque manner. He has been in this line of work for the better part of 200 years. He was bringer and carrier of death, but never in all his 3756 kills has he ever had to display the corpses of his target like it was some sort of circus! Above anything Molock believed it wasn't a good thing to disrespect the dead, you take their lives and afford them the honor they deserve, after all a life was an extremely precious thing.

But even more so in this moment, the targets he had were just children barely out of diapers, he has lived for so long, but nothing ever gave him satisfaction than watching the future live life. And now here he was about to take it away, to snuff it out before it had a proper chance to s.h.i.+ne.

This wasn't really him, but this was all he needed to keep himself set for life, a proper retirement from the a.s.sa.s.sination line of work. He could open a store that sold pet beasts, he could finally get married and have a few kids running about, it was just the perfect life. And he could do it, all he had to do was kill three kids, three students of the academy.

It was probably going to get him a lot of enemies, but he's lasted this long in this business because it's almost impossible to catch him. But he wasn't scared of the academy, neither was he scared of the power behind those kids.

He had a future to fight for, if that means taking away the future of a trio of innocent children then he'll do so, even if these kids were members of the younger generation of the Zhang clan. It didn't matter, because tonight screams and blood would fill the forest.