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.

will forever sleep because they

was nothing you could

There was no control.

world, all the power in the

nothing you could

You are helpless.

how Shang had felt in his last

It was terrifying.

of his

of all his

looked forward to would never reappear

Light and joy, taken.

A life, ended.

Clink!

felt something metallic touch his

you alright?" Sword's voice appeared in Shang's

a deep breath and slowly sat

looked at

His arm was back.

Shang's anxiety left him, and he left

fine," he said as

sure?"

while,

feel this feeling again," he

so bad?" Sword

"Yes," Shang answered.

you describe it to

Sword for a bit and looked away

the epitome of

the

is the opposite of

Shang's eyes narrowed.

to feel this helpless again!" he said

two wheels appeared in

voice said. "You have earned eight points in the

ready for the warrior

at the

time, there were no

weapons, while

pretty sure that the colors represented different

was surprised that there were so

probably

with all the Mixed Affinities, Shang

world is far bigger than

the wheel

ones were red, brown, green, and blue, which obviously

biggest ones were light-blue, silver, and grey, which

different pictures with

recognized some of

on one side and black on the other. There was a slight

blue on the other. In the middle was

more of

two pure

White and black.

obviously represented the

that still

very difficult for Shang to see it, but he could swear there were even smaller colors, which meant that there were

Light and Darkness were not the rarest Affinities in

colors were so tiny that Shang could not even truly

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