BXBX NOVEL Chapter 77 Sparring With Emma [Part 3]
Killing her didn't seem so bad anymore, even if she dies it wouldn't even be real.
It would be a fake death.
Knowing this he activated [Mind of an Assassin].
His red aura was coming off from both sides of the tree and was immediately seen by Emma.
This was quite an easy feat for her since she had trained from a young age to perceive clearly even from a long distance.
She needed to have this much talent if she wanted to be equal to Aiden.
'What is that energy coming off of him?' she thought not knowing what was happening.
Not knowing what to do, she drew another arrow which once again changed color to red.
'I have to be careful, this skill uses one point of mana and I have 25,' she thought knowing that she just couldn't continue to use those special arrows for a long time.
Then, the figure of Aiden enveloped in that red aura appeared on the right side of the tree.
But, Emma quickly noticed that he wasn't even trying to find where she was, he was looking in front of him not caring about anything else.
Noticing that he seemed distracted, she shot a normal arrow aiming directly at its head.
She didn't use the mana-boosted one as she wanted to keep some mana for other skills of hers that would demand more of it.
She saw the arrow coming closer and closer to his head as Aiden still didn't move.
It would only take less than a second before it would hit him.
'Is he alright? Why isn't he moving?' she thought finding it weird that he would suddenly not move for more than fifteen seconds.
Fifteen seconds might seem short but a lot can happen in that time.
For example, an arrow going directly into your head.
But when the arrow was about to hit its target, the body of Aiden simply took a step to the left evading the arrow with precise movement.
'How? How did he do such a thing, he didn't even look at it,' she complained to herself inside her mind as the movements he just pulled didn't make any sense.
After evading the arrow, Aiden slowly raised his head and seemed to have spotted the spot in which Emma was hiding.
He had found the tree and the branch on which she was.
'How can he be so fast?' she thought as Aiden started moving at a much faster pace than her own.
He was slowly getting closer and closer to her, he was only 70 meters or so behind her.
Having no other choice, she quickly accelerated using one of her skills which made her gain 75% of her current speed.
By using this skill she distanced herself from Aiden again as she turned again charging one of her arrows.
It turned red and she then released toward Aiden once again aiming for his head.
Aiden was still not looking at it, but he dodged it by simply moving his head to the right this time.
'Again, but how? Is it because of this aura around him?'
Her thoughts were quite normal as Aiden seemed to change ever since this red aura of his appeared around him as if he following the movements of someone else.
'I need to find a way to make that aura disappear,' she thought instantly trying to find a solution to this problem of hers.
She wanted his aura to disappear because if the fight continued like this, she would lose, and by a large margin at that.
But how could she stop that aura from enveloping him.
'The aura seems to come from inside is body, from within him,' she quickly analyzed looking at Aiden.
'Wait, within him? Yes, that's it,' she said to herself as she seemed to have found something to stop the strongest skill of Aiden.
After thinking that, the bow in her hand changed for an even bigger one with white and gold lines intertwined inside of it.
This bow seemed to be of much quality than the one she used before.
'Alright, just like you practiced,' she said, encouraging herself.
Then, a little blue ball seemed to come out of Emma's hand as it seemed to form some type of arrow.
It looked like she was trying to create an arrow purely out of mana.
The little blue balls seemed to start to form a shape of an arrow just like she wanted.
It seemed ready to be used as she grabbed it, once again looking at Aiden who was still quite far away from her.
Giving her the time to aim correctly at Aiden make sure not to miss this time.
Then, she released the arrow aiming straight toward Aiden who was still running at full speed toward who knew where.
'Please hit, please,' she kept thinking as she knew that he could dodge it at the last moment.
The arrow was getting closer and closer.
It was now one meter away from Aiden's face still moving really fast.
Aiden did not have even half a second left to dodge it.
As Emma was holding her breath scared of what was going to happen, the mana arrow seemed to enter the body of Aiden not damaging his exterior physique.
It seemed like the mana arrow only attacked his insides which was exactly what she wanted.
'What happened how did I get hit? My shadow didn't even move, did it not see what hit us?' Aiden thought confused that [Mind of an Assassin] had a flaw.
And this flaw cost him, as pain overwhelmed his body in its entirety.
It seemed like this attack based on mana had been completely missed by the [Mind of an Assassin] skill which resulted in him being hit.
'I shouldn't fully trust it next time I use it,' said Aiden to himself as the red aura that came off his body started to vanish a little.
Seeing this, Emma was obviously overjoyed as she had succeeded in making that aura of his disappear.