Sudden Change

"Okay."

The two of them spoke to each other as if they were even more sincere than they had been in their previous conversations, and continued to walk calmly towards the sunrise, stepping on the roses, smiling at each other and continuing the friendly dialogues that followed.

They were well away from the camp.

Teyat realized that Aaron had changed from his sullen and cold demeanor from the time they had been dealing with him to a friendly and sincere one, so his selfish and uncaring conscience leaked a little bit.

'Pf! Who asked you to see me as a friend. But yes, I don't care. It's his fault he got in my way. Anyway, I can foresee the inevitable outcome determined by fate for the one who acts on emotions. A bitter death.... Oh, shit! I'm really sorry, Aaron.'

Apart from his later regret, his inner text brought to his mind the reason for committing suicide, which made his face an embarrassed grimace.

'Even if I hadn't committed suicide there, the cops would have caught me. I'd rather die than stay in that rat hole and live as a slave in addition to a lifetime of torture... but now I'm a prisoner of something I don't know what the hell it is. Oh okay. I admit it. I'm a slave. But really, we're all slaves to fate. No matter how hard you try, you'll never be able to control fate. Except for the dream of controlling fate. Wait, what? Like I didn't mean that last sentence? In my head-?'

He was again pacing towards the end of a long internal conflict when he was suddenly interrupted by Aaron's speech.

"In my small, sparsely populated village, independent of all clans and temples, when I was eleven years old, my twin sister and I attended a small covered event that was organized in our village that year. It was one of the ordinary entertainment events organized among the villagers. Sometimes people with the Set curse, which belonged to our village, would do extraordinary things with their unimaginable powers for entertainment and entertain everyone in the village. Sometimes we would make offerings to the god we believed in through religious rituals at this feast. The afternoon was filled with happiness and the smiles of my friends, family and loved ones, including me. We would always look with admiration at those who were infected by the Set curse and wish that the curse would infect us. In short, we were happy, free. We were at peace. And the one who stole my freedom and made me his slave for life..."

His anger, which had only sparked at the beginning, was interrupted mid-sentence and reflected in eyes wide with anger and full of hatred.

But that was not the only difference. This difference suddenly appeared in Aaron, sending a sudden sense of dread through Teyat's body. Blood came out of all of Aaron's orifices, blood particles that floated in the air and vibrated incredibly, taking all kinds of shapes. The blood particles were literally vibrating in the air with hatred.

After Aaron's fast and furious change, Teyat quickly took a few steps backwards as fear descended on his body. Aaron suddenly collapsed to the ground. For some reason blood started coming out of his eyes, ears, nose and mouth. It was as if blood was literally ripping out of his body, coming out from under his clothes and floating in the air, vibrating with rage!

"He-that bastard, that vile, despicable, horrible bastard, he came towards us with a tremendous aura that impressed people with its incredible beauty..."

The roses, which he held in his hands and tore into shapeless pieces, were now stained with the blood flowing from his arms, including his body.

Teyat, now feeling the danger energy that Aaron was emitting, and knowing that the best time to kill him was when emotions took over, instead of running away from the danger, she silently jumped forward to destroy it.

'I see the result of acting on emotion - a bitter death.'

But there was a problem he did not realize. A big problem. There was no dark space around, no shadows that belonged to the darkness, that were not matter. Teyat's mind, which thinks and makes decisions quickly, somehow failed to recognize this problem. Maybe because he was short on time and it was the right time to kill and everything was happening so fast.

But thanks to his quick thinking, this problem didn't interfere with his small goal, which was to kill Aaron. And he used another technique that the legacy had given him.

'Aura of Darkness.'

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Teyat realized that there was no darkness or shadow-covered space close to him and Aaron and so he could not use his technique called 'Void Arrow'. He therefore tried the second path that was offered to him.

'Aura of Darkness'. The user of this technique, which belongs to his heritage, emits black smoke from his eyes, hands and feet. This technique increases the physical strength of its user. That is why Teyat resorted to the second way without stopping.

Suddenly, from the feet, hands and eyes of the spirit of darkness, black smoke, almost faint, suddenly appeared. And without waiting, he moved swiftly towards Aaron, who was slumped on the ground with hatred and frustration.

Teyat, putting all his strength into the moment, with the right foot of the two feet from which the faint black fumes emanated, felt the energy emitted by the change he was experiencing and therefore within seconds he looked at Teyat, who was on the ground with his face full of hatred and frustration, which he saw as a reflection of himself, and Aaron received a violent blow to his face from the foot from which the light and faint fumes emanated!

Teyat's physical strength was quite strong for a captured fool. After the blow, Aaron suddenly fell face first to the ground and the blood, pulsating with hatred in the air, spilled onto the ground. But it wasn't just the blood that floated in the air. The holes where the blood came out of Aaron's face, the holes like the nose, mouth and ears, were the places where more blood came out of Aaron's face, which was stuck to the ground by Teyat's kick!

Aaron, who was trying to recover from the blow with his foot, was quickly struck in the face by his right hand, from which a puff of black smoke was coming out!

But one punch was not enough to kill Aaron. He quickly grabbed Aaron's throat, not letting him recover from the shaking ground. Aaron's throat filled with dark smoke. Teyat put all his strength into the hands that held the throat of the man he considered himself to be a little friend. Aaron's face was red from the pressure on his throat. He tried to shout, to speak, but his voice was muffled by Teyat's black smoky hands.

He wanted to minimize the noise of the dangerous conflict that was now taking place. Because he didn't want the sound of the battle echoing through the forest, including the bandits sleeping in the tent. It would only cause him more trouble!

While Aaron was face down on the ground, Teyat continued to strangle Aaron with all his might.

But using all his strength had a negative consequence. The weakness that suddenly put him into a deep sleep.

Teyat was trying to finish the job as soon as possible, without adapting to his weakness, because he was using his strength to the maximum!

'Die! die! die! die!!!'

Aaron's voice was getting hoarser. His feet were beating pitifully because of Teyat, whom he saw as a lying friend who had betrayed him for his own benefit.

Teyat's goal was to take advantage of the emotional and sad atmosphere before the attack to ask questions and kill him in order to get the information he needed to find a way out of this forest. But due to the fast factors and the fact that the distances were quite long compared to the camp, he had to apply the concept of 'the faster the better!

But because of the fast pace of everything and the suddenness of his attack, he missed something again, something important.

Aaron also had his own characteristics. He had one of those powers that Teyat wanted to learn by experience and didn't know about.

Seriously... Teyat's ideology or view that 'we can only get the knowledge we want after experiencing it with our own eyes through reason and logic' was a big problem for him at the moment. He could have at least asked about Aaron's power or the basic things of this world. But don't worry, he is still behind this view because it is the most logical way to grasp the concept of knowledge!

But as far as the current situation is concerned... It doesn't make sense.

Because the right hand of Aaron, who was on the verge of death, suddenly went from the hands of his friend, who was clinging to his throat like a tick, trying to take his breath away, to the kidney part of his friend.

And from Aaron's kidney, a small, thin layer of blood came out and stuck into Teyat's kidney.

Teyat screamed in pain at the sudden and massive blow, but at a minimum volume so that his voice would not echo far away in his current situation. But his face was not like that. He wore an expression of pain.

The 'Aura of Darkness' technique was no longer characterized by the pain and the weakness that came over him.

What a long endurance!

But that didn't stop him.

After the blow he was still on top of Aaron, with a grimace of pain on his face, he was still squeezing Aaron's throat. He wasn't giving up. Because giving up was not for him. A goal, no matter how big or small. If he set a goal, he would do his best to fulfill it. Whether it takes a long time or a short time. Whether it hurts or not. He didn't care. Because these were his own ideals. ideals that he himself had created. If that goal was the one that would lead him to what he wanted, maybe even fate couldn't stop him from living this experience called life right now, in this world?

The thin, short object, made of blood, that was stuck in Teyat's kidney melted in a matter of seconds, as quickly as a piece of cheddar melts due to the heat it receives.

But he himself was slowly becoming exhausted and melting from physical exhaustion.

'Damn it, please die, please die!'