Chapter 20 - Shadow of the Wanderer

Feeling my body lose strength as I lie down clutching my chest for air. Blood splattered towards the ground as I writhe. I feel my heart beat slowly as I seem to have manage to avoid my heart from being completely piece by struggling quickly during the exchange of blows. My body felt cold as I breath even harder for some air.

As my vision tunnels, I then saw the clashes of the people around me. Not being able to look back at Ava. I then stared as the guard reinforcements I have contact with struggled against the 12 bandit's who seems to possess their own blessings too. Captain Gaius was exchanging blows with the Bandit Krauss as they weave their swords swiftly.

Not being able to gather strength, I then use my shivering hands to grab the morphine in my backpack as I directly stabbed it towards my arm without further due. Then slowly the pain resides, yet I still struggled grasping breath as the bleeding didn't stop. Then as if gravity is against me , I slowly felt as if the world became heavier as the damage in my body spread.

Internal Bleeding seems to be currently happening in my body and I don't patch this up soon then I would die.....

Die? I ask myself....Stian....me........ gonna die here?

Stian Peregrine, a wanderer who got transported into an other world will die here? Who have not even spend a week here will die? Isn't that just cruel? Stian grumbled.

Stian thought that despite all the blessings he have been given, it seems his life will end here. Feeling helpless, Stian slowly move his left hand towards his face as he lean his back on the ground and look at the mark on his left palm and thought:

Enhance Strength , the ability given by the Wanderer's Hand towards the given in order for the person possessing the Hand to endure the travels and harshness of the World.

Invisibility, the ability given by the Wanderer's Hand towards the possessor of the blessing to be shielded from the eyes of the greedy and the hunters that stalks the wanderer...

Even though these powers are already helpful, what about the phantom ability? What does it mean? Stian thought deeply while heavily grasping for air and then thought again:

They say that it is common for Wanderer to be lone....they say that the wanderlust of a wanderer is caused by an irresistible desire to travel to understand one's very existence as because they are lost.

Though are wanderer's really alone in the road they take? No, behind them is a shadow....a phantom that they carry behind them... The shadow in the ground, that helps you know the location of the direction...The shadow that helps when you are lost.

So I declare, that no wanderer travels alone without the phantoms behind their backs.. Now that I am about to be lost in a wrong direction and head to death.....I shall use the Shadow of the wanderer to help me through!

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The Hand of the Wanderer who has the glow of white slowly turn back as the phantom of Stian moves towards his hand as they infect the energy with shadow. The white energy threads turn from white to black as they slowly turn into black threads of energy lines as they wrap Stian's body with black smoky lines that seems to turn Stian into a Phantom that is akin to a Shadow wraith.

Stian's wounds disappeared like a shadow in the night as he stands his ground. With his google mask being covered by the smoking black energy threads of lines, Stian's face looks like they blended together forming a skull like look and his eyes glinting in shadowy black as the goggles covered in smoking black lines reflect the lights.His body, due to being covered in black cloak gave a look akin to a ghostly shadow of death that will reap anyone who dares to oppose it.

Swoosh! As the Phantom Turned Stian move like instantly like a shadow letting behind a mix of black and white of smoke due to the glow of white lines under the black threads glow as Stian use his enhance strength to move even faster due to his Shadow form!

Arrows fire at the Shadowed Stian as he moves likes a phantom and pointed a weapon towards his enemies!

Bang! As the uzi fires a hail of bullets towards the bandits fighting!

The Bandits even with their blessings was unable to dodge and did not manage to endure the burning projectiles that gouge their bodies and slowly fall to the ground one by one. The Wyvern rider's who got gouge by Ava's spear roots who saw their comrades die flew in rage as they change directions from Ava and turn towards Stian.

Then with a a sound and swoosh of cold wind was felt. The rider's who charge after Stian then found themselves facing the weapon of terror that did not even give their comrades a chance of victory. Not faltering, the Rider's charges towards the Shadowed Wanderer and tried to stab forward but was forcefully stop when a loud sound came out of the strange weapon!

Then as if stunned by the sudden holes in their body. The Rider's then look at the Shadowed Figure clad in black cloak took out some sort of object as it inserted the object towards his weapon and pulled some sort of lever before disappearing again like a smoke.