" Brother, now that it is confirmed he is not a Voidheart, should we just kill him?" Vijay asked, a frown showing his worries.
" Let's first see what he can do." Sujay spoke.
Sharv looked at the knights as if they were already dead. " Last Chance." He spoke in a deep voice, rumbling the air and space, " Flee now or die."
" Attack." The knight with the shield commanded without talking to him. As the knights moved forward, Sharv moved too. But none of them could see him. Sharv slashed a knight who parried with his mace. But Kràntàk ( literally means cutter), true to its name, first cut the mace then the knight in half. As Sharv moved it, Kràntàk seemed to cut the air itself leaving a black streak behind in its path. It seemed to sing a lullaby to the knights by the way it hummed when swung by Sharv.
" If you dare, fight us, leave the rest." The shield knight shouted, accompanied by his two partners, after seeing the havoc Sharv had caused
.
" GLADLY." Sharv muttered. But before the knight could completely register his words, Sharv was already in front of him. His right hand lifted straight in the air, Kràntàk adorning it.
The knight raised his shield in desperation, reinforcing it with all his PRĀNÀ. But when Sharv brought his sword down it didn't matter. Kràntàk divided the shield in two along with the knight wielding it. His corpse fell face first, split cleanly down the spine.
The knight with the longsword hacked at Sharv's shoulder, who didn't care to move. The bend after hitting him, leaving just a scratch behind.
" Bring out your bow, Vijay." Sujay said with a grin on his face, " We will incapacitate him."
" Incapacitate him?" Vijay was surprised.
" Yes, his soul is too powerful. We will sacrifice him and other alive knights to increase our power." Sujay answered, his eyes turning completely pitch black.
" It's a great chance, indeed." Vijay followed, his eyes also turning pitch black. He brought out a bow from his spatial pocket. It was a normal bow with two horns on each end. But as he poured his PRĀNÀ into it, it turned ominous, emitting shadowy smoke. He brought an arrow from the spatial bag, emitting the same smoke.
" HELL ARROW : HUNDRED DROPS OF FIRE"
Vijay enchanted as he knocked the arrow on the bow.
Yellowish red flames engulfed both the bow and arrow. Hundred flames filled the sky around him as his upper abdomen glowed yellow. Then his pelvis glowed red and black arrows came out of these flames.
" CURSED TECHNIQUE : UNDEFINED VESSEL"
Sujay enchanted as he touched Vijay's right shoulder. Now black smoke came out from all the hundred arrows. The scene looked ominous, with black arrows on fire, alongside black smoke.
All this happened in less than two seconds, and Sharv had already finished the two knights in front of him.
He now noticed the danger looming above his head. But before he could act, Vijay loosed the arrow.
' They were the Voidhearts present here,' was the last thought in his mind before all hell was let loose.
The seemingly normal arrows hit the ground like thunderbolts, each arrow as powerful as a hundred lightning strikes. Thunderous explosions trembled the land. Tremors, one after another, were felt by the whole forest. . Black smoke and dust clouds rose from the ground.
The harmony of the forest was disrupted. The trees under the radius of a hundred meters from the epicenter were uprooted, under fifty meters they were burnt and charred. A cacophony of cries erupted from the forest, caused by animals and birds, from lions to elephants, from peacocks to eaglest.
" Do you think we went a little overboard?" Vijay asked.
" No, I think he might still be able to fight." Sujay answered without moving his eyes away from where Sharv was.
As the dust settled, it first revealed the broken shield Kant was inside of. An arrow had gone through it and landed a few meters away, leaving a few feets deep crater. Kant's left hand and leg were slightly scorched from the explosion.
Then an area of twenty meter radius was revealed which was the center of the explosion. It was filled with charred corpses and small craters. A big crater was at the center, deeper and more charred than any other part of the circle.
Sharv stood in the middle of it, more than ten arrows piercing his upper body and some, his legs.
" Encircle him." Sujay's voice echoed. Twenty five more knights came out of the forest and encircled the crater.
' This is how a real battle is. Nothing like the training.' Sharv thought, his neck hung loose, all Chakras disabled but his hands still held the sword.
' Oh, so they had used the cursed technique.' He noticed after trying to heal himself.
' Let's see… How my breathing technique works.'
Sharv inhaled deeply.
" PRĀNÀ ÈKÀTVÀ"
( ONENESS OF PRÁNÀ)
His voice stirred the air around him. Energy itself seemed to move towards him, which in this case was the PRĀNÀ of the world. His hair flowed gently and upwards with air. With another breath, all Chàkràs activated one after another, from Earth to Space. A silver hue covered his body, creating almost a transparent shell of one cm thickness around him. This shell was made of pure PRĀNÀ.
" He can still fight?" Sujay muttered.
" How can he use Chàkrà after we used the cursed technique?" Vijay echoed him.
Sharv gently started floating and then moved upwards in the air. Hovering above the ground, he looked back at Kant.
' He seems pretty much alright.' He thought, ' But this technique is too far from being perfect.'
" PRĀNÀ SPÀNDÀN"
( PRÁNÀ PULSE)
The shell around him vibrated. This time an energy wave emanated from Sharv and washed over everyone present there. But the real effect was on his wounds. Apparently his body started healing from inside to out. The arrows slowly ejected themselves leaving behind no mark. If one would focus then he would notice PRĀNÀ moving into his body from the shell and the world PRĀNÀ recreating the shell by moving towards it, endlessly in a loop.
Dread consumed all the knights surrounding him. They looked like they had seen death itself. But there were two people, more anxious than them.
" WHAT IS THAT?" Vijay was perplexed. " How can he heal like that?"
' It took more than half of my PRĀNÀ.' Sharv thought, ' Good thing it is replenished by the world PRĀNÀ. But the technique is far from perfect.'
He then gripped his sword with both hands and raised it straight above his head.
"Kràntàk, let's show them what my name means. "
" So he is the son of that Shyam we hunted."
Murmured a cloaked figure, stood atop a tree about a half kilometre tall, with amusement. He was witnessing this ridiculous battle through a binocular matching his black attire.
' And he is somehow with a kid from that group.'