
The robed man thrashed around trying to take off his grip, all the means he used ended up in vain. ‘Then this continues I can ...’
The cloaked man felt unlucky to be able to meet such a terrifying opponent. Though he originally tailed Yuna for thinking that woman was a weak old-age human. Who would have thought that the tiger he had not noticed because of the fainting was this dangerous?
There was no other way left, in order to break free the cloaked man had to put aside his embarrassment by using all his strength.
“Graaargh!” He released a huge aura of great power with confidence to be freed before finally being surprised to see his full strength was unable to shift the tiger's hand an inch.
‘Ti-impossible!’
The Dark Side hardened the grip making the man vomit blood, the man's aura instantly shrinking.
“Khaagh!”
The Dark Side then pulled the limp-looking helpless man out of the dimensional space.
“You're done? Then I'll—”
“Tu-wait, Youl.”
Just as the Dark Side was intending to finish off the cloaked man, Yuna came to a stop.
“What's the problem?” The Dark Side glanced at Yuna who was interrupting her sharply.
“A-can you give him to me?” Yuna asked timidly.
The Dark Side was silent for a moment before realizing the reason Yuna stopped him. “Do you want to absorb his spirit?”
Yuna nodded slowly.
“This man is a hermit of the natural level, it's not wrong if you want him to. The problem is you haven't managed to open a single natural joint, are you sure?”
Although the cloaked man was already weakened, the Dark Side doubted Yuna could swallow hermit spirits easily.
“I will bear all the risks,” said Yuna seriously. “Honestly, after seeing your strength, I think it's better to rely on you instead of looking for an ancient tribe again to help our comrades. But on second thought I realized I shouldn't rely too much on anyone. This time let me protect you with my strength. Please, please give her to me, Youl.”
KRAAAK!
The Dark Side suddenly broke the neck of the robed man then threw it towards Yuna.
“I just made him dying so you could absorb it easier. Do it calmly without thinking about the Master. She's fine.”
“What? How did you know?”
“Trust me. Once you're done we'll be reunited with them.”
‘Do I have to trust him?’ Yuna sat down, ‘But what is she lying for? Even though I don't know how to figure out Lyan's condition, I'm sure she won't betray even if her nature changes. I have to trust him.’
Finished removing his doubts Yuna put her hand on the top of the cloaked man's head.
Yuna began to pull the spirit of the robed man out, not far from there was a group of unknown people hiding watching from the bushes. They were all men who were not wearing top clothes.
“Papu? What did he just do, papu?”
“Isn't what he ate it spirit, papu?”
“Silence, papu! Do you want to get this, papu?” Fat man threatens with fist.
The atmosphere was instantly silent, they were afraid of the threat of the fat man.
“Argh!” After swallowing the spirit of the cloaked man, Yuna let out a loud scream. His entire body felt like it wanted to explode.
A wave of fierce energy emanated from Yuna, sending the surrounding rocks flying. Yuna screamed again as she held her neck. The Dark Side watched quietly.
Not long after, a much more powerful surge of energy came back out from Yuna's body until it blew away some people hiding in the bushes.
“Phenomena like this .. are not wrong anymore. He will enter the reconstruction phase of the body, papu,’ the inner fat man who watched from the bushes.
The atmosphere calmed down as Yuna stopped screaming, she suddenly sat down cross-legged and closed her eyes. His entire body slowly suffered a crack.
“I thought you were about to enter the body reconstruction phase, Yuna.”
The Dark Side's sharpener looked satisfied but he realized it was too early to be happy.
“The success rate of someone who has opened four natural joints is 80%. For those of you who have not opened a single joint of nature .. the chance of success is less than 1%. I hope you can get through it.”
In general, body reconstruction is the final process that a person must pass to become a hermit. This stage will make a person throw away his old body, all the nerves of the body will work optimally to create a new body that will cross the limits that can be achieved by humans. If successful through this phase will not only get a strong new body, the person will also become ageless and get a long life span of thousands of years.
The biggest problem is that with all the nerves that have been centered creating a new body will make one's defenses disappear. Hermit-era humans usually choose to seclude themselves after opening the four joints of nature because it would be very dangerous if they found a disorder. Being hit by a single blow by an ordinary person would make the process fail and the body instantly crumbled into dust flakes.
The lucky Yuna was able to enter this phase without needing to bother thanks to the ascetic spirit she had obtained having a more difficult state. If the person who had opened the four natural joints would be destroyed from the blows of an ordinary person, Yuna who had not opened the natural joint would become a dust flake just due to the light touch of a person.
Realizing this risk made the Dark Side fortify Yuna with a transparent shield.
“Until when will you hide?”
The sound of the Dark Side echoing reached the entourage of people who were in the bushes. Since then the Dark Side had already realized their existence but chose to move after Yuna entered the body reconstruction process.
“Papu? He is aware of our presence, papu.”
“What should we do, papu?”
They all looked surprised, their gaze now fixed on the fat man.
The fat man began to appear, his entourage following from behind.
“We didn't mean bad, papu. We just ...”
The fat man had to stop his speech when his gaze found two people flying closer behind the Dark Side.
“I've been waiting for you.” The Dark Side said so without looking at the two people who had just landed behind him.
Those two people were none other than Zemus and Joe.
Zemus stroked his beard with a wide smile, not expecting the owner of the aura to be the tiger that had previously escaped with Yuna.
Zemus just wanted to talk but was silent when his gaze found the group of men in front there. Joe himself showed a surprised expression.
On the other hand the millions of spirits in Yuna's body suddenly rebelled, making the nerves in Yuna's body disturbed and unable to work optimally. Yuna's fractured body gradually shattered into fragments.