The hawk moved its right wing to the side.

SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!

Shang's body was pierced by seven long needles, his body now being pinned to the ground.

Blood flew out of Shang's mouth as several of his organs had been destroyed.

'That was so fast! I would have maybe been able to evade two of them.'

'But it shot seven!'

This was an insurmountable difference in power.

Even if Shang had tried his best, five of the huge needles would have still nailed him to the ground.

Shang's body tried to heal with Mana, but some kind of destructive force in the needles was preventing every form of healing.

Clink!

The hawk had landed on one of the needles and was looking into Shang's eyes.

There were no emotions in the hawk's eyes.

Shang was prey.

Predators didn't feel a connection to their prey.

Prey was only food.

Shang looked into the hawk's eyes.

The last thing Shang saw was the hawk's beak rapidly becoming bigger and bigger in his vision.

And then, it was over.

The hawk had pecked a hole through Shang's head.

This wasn't anything special.

This was simply a beast killing something.

Silence.

Suddenly, Shang's eyes shot open, and he took a deep breath.

Shang didn't think or say anything while simply looking at the sky.

The last moment before his death continuously replayed in his head.

This feeling…

It was indescribable.

It was a mixture of terror, shock, denial, and finality.

If put into words, this feeling would only be a loud shout of "No, please-".

It was a deeply seated fear in every living being.

This feeling wasn't like when someone decided to end their life. When someone decided to end their life, they were still in control, and they were the ones trying to end it.

This was a feeling of someone else having the ultimate power over you.

sleep because they

nothing you could

There was no control.

the power in the

nothing you

You are helpless.

had

It was terrifying.

of his

of all his

to would never

Light and joy, taken.

A life, ended.

Clink!

metallic touch

voice appeared

a deep breath

at

His arm was back.

Shang's anxiety left him, and he

he said as he stood

you sure?"

a while,

never want to feel this feeling

it so bad?"

"Yes," Shang answered.

you describe it

at Sword for a bit and looked away

the epitome of

is the opposite of

the opposite of

Shang's eyes narrowed.

want to feel this

two wheels appeared in

the mechanical female voice said. "You have earned eight points in the

for the

at

were no funny pictures on

showed different weapons,

pretty sure that the

there were so many

probably

the Mixed Affinities, Shang barely knew

bigger than anyone in this place realizes,'

the

ones were red, brown, green, and blue, which obviously represented fire, earth,

were light-blue, silver, and grey, which represented ice,

that came several different pictures with

recognized some of

black on the other. There was

the other. In the middle was

more of these

came two

White and black.

the Darkness and

that still wasn't the

he could swear there were even smaller colors, which meant that there were

Light and Darkness were not the rarest Affinities in the

these colors were so tiny that Shang could not even truly see

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