Chapter 1961: The Italian Side Job -Part 6
As the group went into the fray, it was not exactly the most pleasant feeling. The Void Being"s parallel universe seemed like it was an inverted version of their world as they saw the world reflected right above them.
It was an exact replica of the world, just that everything from the human world had been inverted and it made Jin ponder whether the Void Beings knew whatever things that the humans had been doing for the longest possible ever.
These Void Beings had been observers of the entirety of human lives and did nothing to aid nor support the humans at all. Is that why Farasha said that the Void Beings would not have the urge to disturb the humans mainly due to the possibility that they were considered part of their daily lives when they gaze above the skies?
Or was it in their nature to observe and have their minds wander as they see those humans struggle, survive, commit atrocities, and be understanding showing both sides of love and hate to the people they have connections to or not. Do they really just sit and stay in their parallel world and not have any opinions?
The Void World.
Even though it is a parallel world of Jin"s everything does feel void of something. Of colour, of shape, of substance, of chi, and of magic. Even the ground that they were standing on looked and felt like it could break any minute. He was right to choose the Foxes for this fight into the Void World.
It might seem overkill in the first place but ever since the first encounter with Farasha, Jin knew that the longer they dragged the fight, the harder it might be to kill and the faster his minions would fail.
Of course, he was not going to forget the trick that Farasha had allowed him to learn and with connection to the Void directly into the Void World, he might be able to have some tricks of his own. The enemy could be invincible on his own turf but Spartakus had no idea that the group of humans who had invaded into his territory had some inkling of how to deal with Void Beings.
The towering giant who had decided to show himself thought that these humans were throwing themselves to the guillotine of his and while he was not wrong on that aspect, the majority of the group all grinned widely towards him had given him a type of emotion he had never felt for the longest time ever since his existence of a Void Being.
The tingling sensation when the prey saw its predator. The heart palpitations never stopped and sweat started to form. Spartakus could not believe it as he roared to remove all of those distractions of this new emotion and looked at them with menace.
As for the group, all they saw was a shadowy giant who was standing right in front of them with a huge s.h.i.+eld and a spear. But upon closer look, the pair of s.h.i.+eld and spear seemed carved from human parts all mish mashed and concentrated into the equipment.
"Wow, this guy has such terrible taste," Ixa said as she folded her arms to have a good look at the Void Being who seemed to be phasing in and out of the darkness.
"You should see his cloak at his back," Itori commented as she conjured dozens of light spheres and sent them flying towards the Void Being to see if it was agitated by something so harmless. That was where they could see if this guy was able to live up to the lores of human history or if he was reactive to every single thing that was being thrown at him.
Eventually, the lights did not stop moving, and neither did they faze the towering giant even though the sphere of energy was supposed to be as bright as five thousand nits, the glow dimmed the further it traveled away from Itori. Yet, it was sufficient to show the group what she was implying before the light was fully consumed by the Void.
"Ew. The cloak made out of human skin?" Ixa commented but Itori felt disappointed that this was what Ixa could glimpse.
"Really? All you see is just human skin? Can you not see the intricacies of the cloak? It had been designed with a shape in mind. There"s a skull motif using various ethnicities and of different ages too." Itori exclaimed as she had never seen someone so elaborate in the craftsman in terms of using human skins.
"Those human skins that you are so engrossed with are the humans that I had encountered and defeated in my historical days of battle. Was it only a few thousand years ago? I do not exactly remember." Spartakus said in his booming voice as he did not take any chances and slammed his "human" s.h.i.+eld down and had his spear pointing downwards to Jin"s group.
And instead of being prepared to be taken down by the Void Being, the two girls who were discussing his attire continued to argue among themselves.
"Well, good for you that you can see through all the darkness to see that skull motif. But do you think everyone has the same ability as you? How can I even see the back of his cloak when I am standing in front of him!" Ixa said and Itori shook her head.
"That is why I am explaining it to you in detail, am I not?"
"Ladies, I think he is p.i.s.sed that we are not giving a f.u.c.k to him," Jin said as he finally turned with his System Rider Belt and summoned the Zither Mistress Ke Mi as his accompanying minion. Bam and Boo turned into a semi circular zither where the strings were also contoured along with the semicircle.
While he placed his fingers onto the zither, Jin told Ke Mi what he wished to do upon summoning her and she immediately understood her task before taking full control of the System Rider Zither.
And with her first few plucks of the zither, everyone seemed to be energised by it and was raring to go for the fight. The only difference was that the subsequent sounds that emerged from Ke Mi zither were something more …empty.
The entire group of Foxes knew how talented Ke Mi was but for her to make such an empty feeling tune was unlike her. It was as if she was being manipulated by the void or the void had taken the beautiful sounds of this uniquely customised Zither just for the System Rider. But only upon hearing the tune, the Foxes realised that they were being transmitted with some kind of energy into them.
"Oh…So this is the Void Energy that the System had been talking about." Kraft stated and already began mixing it with his chi. Even as Spartakus was appalled by their lack of action, he was not going to let these intruders stay here any second longer and started to pierce his huge human spear into their direction.
He believed that he was in an overwhelming position as no matter how strong their chi or magic powers were, everything would be absorbed into the void. Whatever chi energy had been dished out, it was like the spheres of light, it would disappear after the void absorbs it with time.
Maybe even time had been dispersed into the void as well but they could not know that for sure unless they returned to their own world to know the amount of time that pa.s.sed…a.s.suming they could return based on Spartakus" confidence.
And as a warrior, Spartakus was not going to give any quarters to his enemies and put his all into the fight. The spear that had been thrust into the group was emanating void energy so that even if they were able to dodge it, the void energy would disperse as void missile projectiles and move to find their target.
Or that was what Spartakus was planning and hoped to achieve until he realised there was a force stopping his spear thrust and when he peeked over his huge s.h.i.+eld, he saw a human in a long coat holding the tip of the spear, not allowing him to finish the piercing action.
That was where Spartakus believed it was time for his backup to do the trick, enabling tens of magic missiles shaped in shadowy arrows to come toward Kraft. Yet at that same time, the magical missiles with clearer and transparent shapes stepped in to deflect all the attacks.
Spartakus could not believe that they were able to handle and defend themselves against projectiles filled with void energy but regardless, the outcome had been laid bare and so Spartakus attempted to send his spear flying once more by retracting it.
The only difference now was that it was not just one human holding on to the tip of the spear but two of them. "I see why those pieces of music sounded empty. It is to attune us into this world." Rex said as he held the tip of the spear with Kraft. They were going to finish this as soon as possible and have a meeting with Jin about the fate of Pandapolis.