Tome of Paladins : The DawnLight

10. We'll Help Them

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Tori then jumped forward, away from the hole that vibrated the whole second floor.

Then…

There are a few invisible hands that now flying toward Tori, trying to attack him with its sharp nails.

But he just swatted it sharply to the side, that put all of it vanish into the thin air.

"Kraaaak." The screeching sound shortly coming from the things in front of him.

It was a few spirits with bodies of female with nurse clothes that's sat themselves on the floor, with both of its hands supporting itself.

But what is appalling is its blackened head that look like a baby but with giant measure and grotesque shape that made it seems like a balloon, with its eyes that seems bloated out.

"Wweeee-eee-eeekkk"

After seeing its invisible hand* warded off easily, it then opened its huge mouth, retching out swamp of bleeding eyeballs* that fall to the floors. It then spreading approaching Tori with sounds of streams of waters that menacingly grunting, getting close to him.

*Sssshhh*

Just like the floods of water that rasping against its confines. And like the waves of the sea with its surging oscillation that erode the rocks, it then lifted high above the floor.

Curling into an arched form, it trying to drowned Tori inside of it.

The eyes glanced at its supposed enemies, for a moment there trying to separate Tori's mind coordination with his body, that ends up in a complete failure.

Tori just looked at all of it with pococurante attitude. With hearts that beaten steadily, he then stepping forward that seems managed to slowed the progress of the time.

Until…

After the sole of his feet landed on the floor, a shockwave of energy suddenly manifested with him as the centre. It burst out, pressuring the gales to spreading outward that growling like a cheetah.

*Fwoooshh*

Not only it managed to creating air turbulent, the flood of eyes that trying to sink him with its malformed streams also blasted aside away from him.

While Tori who stepped to the front then immediately gusting with flurry of steps until he is right in the front of the multitude of the nurse spirits.

He then put his palm out facing the spirits, then said, "Rajjo Oppulso" (Death Ward)*.

The two that hidden who already to stupefied to even speak because seeing the scenes, finally managed to utter few words with full of disbelief that shook them to the core.

"That's Impossible."

"Rune Conjuration. Ridiculous." Both of them so speechless that their shock couldn't be described by words only. Of how could it even be possible for a candidate without Soul Nucleus managed to using Rune Conjuration when he yet connected with Origin.

'Not only that. Its Third level Rune that even me needed quite a bit of time to create. Oh damn, they don't exaggerate it at all. It was the opposite instead.' He thought inside with sweat accumulated on his back, remembering those people words from Justice Enforcers. 'Now the problems are, how could I managed to make him fall asleep if he's already that strong.'

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Back to the scene, a symbol* then manifested above the spirits that now wiggled on the floor, approaching him with their hand dragging their lower half, trying to attack Tori and bite him with their deformed heads.

Then twinkle of light soon spreading from with the symbol as the center. While the spirits now writhing in pain because of the presence of the symbol.

Following shortly after, a blast of white light then spreading outward, shining covering Tori and the Spirits alike, coruscate the inside of the building.

What revealed after is Tori that now walking slowly, step by step to the direction of the man in the white coat that originally thrown from his kick.

He passing the spirits that now lay stiffly on the floor with smokes coming out from it, which made it seems like they almost exorcised.

Suddenly, the man in white coat with his now disheveled hair appear on Tori's side. He then trying to punch him in the face, that the latter again easily managed to dodge by lowering himself to the ground.

Tori then replied by unleashed a right punch to the supposed lower rib cage of the man's that put the latter groaning painfully because of the invisible white flame that coating on the former hands, created from Life Energy.

Following shortly with a left punch to the jaw that made the man's feet leaving the ground.

He then keeping up by punching again at his stomach while lifted his right knee till it reaching his chest, blocking the kick from the man's that managed to slipped an attack amidst his miserable punching bag state.

But unfortunately, it failed terribly against Tori that now in his condition.

The man's then thrown back again, blasted far till he crashed on the floor that now are so distressed by all damage happen to it.

*Bang*

But suddenly, Tori stopped all of his movement.

He could sensed few people fast approaching.

He could hear their heartbeats that beaten rhythmically.

And their feelings that seems anxious with no hostile intention against him. Few people that he subconsciously marked deep inside his mind and heart as an allies. Of course, disregarding the two people that hidden in the dark.

He then closing his glowing red eyes that hidden by the mask.

Slowly, he sat himself on the ground without a care of the situations he's in right now.

The two guy who looked at the fight then saw Tori slowly sat himself on the floor.

"What he's doing?"

"No idea."

The man awareness who chewing on the gums finally hit, by the existence of the few people that fast approaching.

He finally sighed in relief. "Finally, they're arrived."

'Yepp, there's no way i could handle that kid.'

While the other man that ready to join in the fight and rescue Tori, calmed down seeing the Enforcers* are finally arriving. "How about you? Aren't your shift end quite a long time. Just go, I can handle it myself."

"No… I can feel something amiss in this place. We'll both help Enforcers take care of this." He replied, this time with solemnity. He from the first time arriving in this place already had a bad vibe about this building.

Soon, a battle unfolded that giving quite problems to the Enforcers side, even with the help of the two Igniters that originally hidden.

Lucky...

The captain of the team from the two guy in black clothes arriving shortly, that put an end to the fights in almost an overwhelming manners.

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*The invisible hands called Malda's Hand. It will be explained shortly on the few next chapters.

*The swamp of eyeballs, noted on the Igniters Books of Spirits* called Peeper. It had many abilities that aren't in this chapter, because it just feel lame and unnecessary to be explained when it facing against Tori or Gavin in his state that are immune to all of it's Death Effect.

*Death Ward: A symbol etched, existing between corporeal and fatamorgana dimension. The magic itself connected with multiple power from the ... *Spoiler detected*. It had three functions that could be used and selected, defends on how the Igniters decided to use it. It could be used to warded, banished, or purged the Death Energy on the area it affecting. The range of it are also relied on the proficiency of the Igniters and how much Life Energy injected inside the Rune or used on Rune Conjuration. About the symbol, I'm using the Therianthropy Alkimia simbol.

*Enforcers is one of the Main Groups of the Justice Enforcers. All of them are Igniters who siding with the new Emperor, and aren't bound by the Igniters Rank.