Chapter 09 – Jacob Stain

The location in which Raahi and Jacob were supposed to be was on the northwest side of the Snake Temple. They had to take a long turn, avoiding the temple and going around it. Ida would have already placed his magical straw doll as bait to lure Target B and their job was to eliminate her. But just when they were halfway through, Raahi sensed something and gestured Jacob, who was following behind him to stop.

"Wh-what happened?"

"Something is not right. I'm getting bad feelings about this"

Jacob raised his short sword in the air and took an amateur position. His hands were trembling and due to sweat, his holding onto that sword was weak. Raahi observed him and sighed. He took the opposite direction of him and covered his back. There were in an open space, surrounded by trees and if someone was hiding behind them, it could be next to no chance to notice if they didn't move. But all his worries were in vain as in the next few seconds, he heard footsteps of someone approaching their location behind him.

"My, my. Did you seriously think that I, a divine being would fall for a pitiful trap like that? Not even in seven hells!"

Like a predator lurking in the bushes and with glowing golden eyes, Kalpa walked towards them. With each step, the pressure in the gravity seemed to increase for both of them. She stopped a little far away from Jacob, making it easy for her to attack and far enough distance from them to attack.

Raahi also turned and looked at her cold eyes. For him to have a happy life with his family, then he must have to kill her here at any cost. He positioned himself behind him and readied his Talwar to strike at any moment.

But…

Jacob who was trembling straightened all of a sudden. His previous weak hands were holding the sword now with newfound power. Raahi also noticed this adjustment behind him. Before, his back looked like that of a trembling kid, but now, it was wide enough to consider him a warrior. He thought that Jacob was going to attack and he have to give him his support. But Jacob only walked a few strops forward from Raahi and turned. With a face full of seriousness, he raised his shining short sword against Raahi.

Inside Jacob's mind, he was having a very hard time. It was probably the hardest time in his life. Just like Raahi, he also came from a rich well-off family. He got everything he desired, toys when he was a kid, electricals when he was a boy and women when he was a teen. Due to his high ranking in studies, good looks and rich background, he would get any girl to bed him. His parents only cared about the result of his success and raised him to be the sole heir of their company and later he inherited everything. And now, in front of his eyes, there was a beauty that just two eyes of his wouldn't be enough to see her.

'Oh, for how long I've waited to enjoy someone like her, an epitome of all of my desire. A beauty that I wouldn't find all this time. Those look in her eyes, those breasts, those curves, Ohh it's making me mad for her. I came here when they told me that they are man-hunting, but what do I find here? Don't tell me we are hunting her, the angle of my dreams!!'

In front of Raahi, he spoke with a heavy voice,

"I can't allow you to kill her. Not until am satisfied with her"

Raahi looked at him without changing his unreadable expression. There was nothing he could do now when he starts acting like this. He thought that after receiving power, he would be more cautious about his obsession, but who knew that it had already gone above his head? Before anyone would do anything, Raahi heard a sneer and just like that, Jacob fell to the ground on his face. His back was filled with blood coming from the large claw mark that cut through all the clothes he wore.

"HA! Didn't your parents told you to never show your back to your enemies? What a foolish man to go down in battle so easily."

Raahi looked at the sneering beauty with wide eyes. He hadn't expected this outcome to happen so soon. Well, now he knows that she is also powerful and can attack silently. It was at that time that Ida made his report.

Kalpa waited until he finished talking and once he stopped, she kicked Jacob out of the way.

"Don't worry human. I didn't kill him, not until I made him suffer. You can also join him later when I finish dealing with you too. But tell me..."

Her sneering face turned darker, and the air around him also felt heavy, like it was responding to her feelings. With a sinister smile, she started to talk again.

"Are you the leader?"

Raahi felt goosebumps all over his body when he heard what she told. His face also started to change a little as there was drops of sweat started to roll over from his forehead. He wanted to deny it but before he would speak what was on his mind, she replied like she had already expected what he would say.

"Don't even try to lie in front of me. You are their leader, aren't you? Who dares you to give permission to interrupt our meaning and how can you use magic? I heard you humans from Bhu-loka don't even last a hundred years, yet they are still arrogant and act like they own the world, what are…"

Her voice felt ethereal to his ears. There was no doubt about it. But, more than that, he's getting the feeling of something way more darkness in her voice, making him only think about her voice, her beauty, her face, her scent …

He listened, he listened again and he listened again, and then, she started to ask simple questions and he listened to them also and after a few seconds, he started to answer them.

"… so tell me who sent you?"

Like before, he tried to speak of the person who sent him here. Just the name 'Barwa Sapera' but that isn't coming out. He tried to speak again, but those words form in his mouth but never leaves his lips. Also, the ring he wore that was causing him pain before now was doubled.

"What happened? You don't know his name? Ok, but tell me how are you using magic? I sensed it from the explosion and from that human before. There was mana circulating in your veins and you humans seemed to be stable, how?"

The pain was increasing and it was making him hard to hear what she was saying. Second, by the second, the pain was becoming so intense that he dropped his sword and started to stand on his knees.

"What happened, human?"

With a face filled with worried, she came near him. The ring that caused all this pain for him, was destroyed after a few seconds. That was enough for him.

Kalpa came near him and squatted a little so that she can touch his shoulder, but just before her hand reached his shoulder, he suddenly took out a small pouch that was filled to the brim with magical dust and threw it at her face on a point-blank range. Due to his sudden moments, she wouldn't do anything other than cover her face with her hands at incredible speed. But his goal had met when that pouch burst and its contents started to fill the air making it very hard for anyone to see or breathe. But that was only for,

"I didn't think I would be under a mind spell that easily. You deceived me well, I couldn't even tell when you started but that was all. This powder is infused with magic so that any other from us, especially a weak being like you will suffer from losing most of your senses"

As soon as the powder started to spread, Raahi got up from his position with his sword and disappeared into the dust. Kalpa would only cough and hold her breath as she was submerged in that dust without being able to do anything. Even the ring that brought her to this realm wouldn't help her as it had already ran out of power. Water and poison were her specialities, and to come out from that cloud of dust without using mana, natural wind control of Garudas was required but they were the natural enemies of Nagas.

He got her good, no matter how much she ran, she was still stuck inside the fog. Probably running in circles. The magic that was used in these powders is also powerful. She bit her lip in humiliation as she didn't want to use her powers here. But there was no chance that he will wait until the dust settled. Time was also moving faster for her to understand anything.

"YOU FILTHY HUMANN!!!! Just wait. I'll torture you so much that not even a single thought of self will remain inside your body"

Meanwhile, Raahi picked up Jacob and placed him under a tree. Even though with that much blood has been lost, he is still miraculously alive and unconscious. His breathing also seemed stable and rhythmic. He then took all of his weapons and magical accessories for himself and equipped them. It had already been midnight and he have to acquire nagmani hurriedly before anything happened to Saara, who had already started to experience the pain of childbirth.