"Argh!" Even after the soul erosion formation had been destroyed, the damage it had done could not be reversed.
Hemes looked down at the pile of mist before him and frowned. 'What did he do to them?'
Stella and Saksha were still writing on the ground. Their consciousness had faded, but their bodies were still convulsing from the lingering pain.
Hemes crouched down and picked the two girls and hoisted them on his massive shoulders. Then he glanced towards the unconscious bodies of the three disciples of Du Feng he had just dropped on the ground upon arrival and picked them back up in his hands.
After a last sweep around the area, he took off into the skies and flew away at a speed that even blasted the clouds away behind him.
The silence returned to the area, but this time it was deafening. No chirping of birds or whistling of wind, only cold stillness.
