Chapter 342 Our Mayhem [Part 2]
"What do you mean?" Northern inquired, eyes darting around the darkness.
"This darkness, doesn't it feel familiar to you?"
Northern was silent for a short second, then a dark grimace creased his brows.
She was right.
'The tunnel...'
The darkness in the tunnel which he needed to help Raven pass felt alive. They felt thicker than usual darkness.
This one too, everything was totally obstructed, which made it impossible for anyone to see the way forward. It was like sight was taken away.
Not Northern though, it was a bit stressful and his sight distance was short but he still could see.
He decided to shift his point of view and enter into the sight specialty of Chaos Eyes.
Peering into the ligatures of the darkness.
Unlike Northern expected, there were no ligatures. Everything was pitch black.
Northern stayed in his head thinking for a while.
'No ligatures? What could it be? What could it be?'
Only one answer came to mind.
The fact that the darkness had no ligatures meant it wasn't real. Because even real darkness and light have ligatures.
So most likely... this darkness and the one in the cave...
"It's an illusion..." he announced grimly.
Raven's voice found him immediately.
"How are you so sure about that?"
"Well, my eyes are special enough to tell."
Northern crouched and jumped off the stone pillar he was on, landing on another.
"We need to leave here before it shows up. Whatever this your mayhem is..."
Northern suddenly felt a strong force crash on him from behind.
Of course, the attack did not reach him, but it carried so much power that it caused him to lose balance.
Northern faltered his steps with Raven in his hand and tripped down.
However, he clawed one hand into the wall of the pillar, causing his fingers to tear and hand to peel with blood.
He was able to stop himself from falling with a heavy weight like Raven holding onto him.
Northern frowned slightly and looked up.
He didn't get what it was, he didn't even see the attack coming and his Limitless Void force had acted belatedly.
Still, such belated action was enough to make the attack not reach him.
Things were getting quite hectic now.
"Hang onto my neck tightly," he said to Raven.
One of his hands was clasped around her holding her entire weight to himself but now he needed his second hand to climb back up.
Raven responded and held her hands around his neck tightly.
At that moment, Northern felt her breast press against him, he shook his head and warded off the thought of infidelity.
Then he clawed his second hand into the stone pillar and began to climb up.
Each time, clawing his hand into the stone which made his fingertips peel and bleed, some of his nails seemed to have fallen off.
Not to talk of the sharp, stinging pain he had to endure along with Raven's weight.
At last, he climbed back to the surface of the rock. He looked around.
Because of the limit of how far Chaos Eyes could see, he wasn't able to pinpoint what direction the attack was coming from.
Whatever had attacked them was hiding deep within the embrace of the darkness.
Northern grimaced as he scanned his surroundings.
"What is it?" Raven asked.
"Nothing... I'm just trying to be careful," responded Northern.
Chaos Thread was of course sewing his hands back together even a new nail.
He embraced Raven, slowly took a last glance around before he leaped off and landed on another rock.
Without a waste of time, Northern leaped off again and landed on another rock again.
As he landed—this time his eyes widened and saw it coming, causing him to swing his eyes back—the attack stopped right in front of his eyes.
Obstructed by the force of Limitless Void.
Northern glared right in front of the pointy edge that was forcing its way through but with no breakthrough.
"A twig?"
That was what it looked like at first but Northern looked again and was finally able to make out its shape.
It was a branch. Majority of its farther bodies had blended with the darkness so it was hard to see them, they also had stretched from a very far place.
Northern extended one finger and muttered:
"Chaos Flames."
Either Chaos Flames, or Black Flames, the black ominous fire knew to respond anytime he called upon it.
From the point edge of the branch, the black flame surged forth like a river of plague, running along the trail of branches and enveloping everything in vicious plumes of flames.
Immediately, a loud, sky-shattering scream pierced the heavens, causing tremors to run even through the floating pillars.
They all seemed to stagger down for a moment, as if the force that kept them floating had completely disappeared.
But it was only for a single second. In that second however, Northern, using Shunpo, had appeared at the farthest stone his eyes could see.
Now, the mountain at the end came into view and only two pillars of stones were in their way.
Northern instantaneously disappeared, and as he appeared right on the mountain, another force much stronger than the last, hit him.
Of course the attack did not get through. But the shockwave was enough to send him and Raven careening through the air.
They crashed into a tree and slumped to the ground. Northern tried to stand but coughed up blood.
His hand trembled a little.
He looked at Raven, who seemed quite fine. She also slowly stood up.
The weird darkness had gone or to be accurate, it did not reach this side.
She helped Northern up and also looked up with a slight frown on her face.
The darkness was like a wall above, blocking that side from this side.
Northern heaved a sigh and also looked up.
He didn't know what that was...
'If ordinarily the force of its attack was able to make the force of my Limitless Void shake, just how crazy would getting hit by its attack be?'
Northern couldn't fathom.
Death was certain if one got struck by those branches.
"I'm glad we were able to escape it. Raven, we should go."
But Raven did not respond, she kept staring up, her eyes slowly narrowing.
"Raven, what is it?" Northern inquired.
She took a moment before she responded with a heavy tone.
"The darkness... It's spreading."