Chapter 109: Lapis Lazuli

The semiprecious azure stone essentially shine with it's spangles of pyrites and complex silicate when the husky voice revealed it's form from Deliyah's ripped heart. His azure hair and lashes with richly nude eyeballs stare in arrogance. He ignored Ain and Hexel and started to duel with Nevi. Nevi got himself sop in the lake. He got pushed deep within the liquid. As the man started to greedily dive in and punched Nevi till his body collided with the water bed.

Hexel uplift his sword to pray.

"Our God who understand our anger and reasons. May You purify and rebuke us if it's not pleasing unto Your eyes. Mold my sword not in accordance of my current emotion but of Your judgement.Amen."

His sword transformed into a anchor. Hexel used his anchor to trail Nevi and the brawling man. Ain sliced the space and it lead him to Ophir and Kiel. Ain reported Nevi's situation.

"Sorry for supporting you this late." Ain apologized.

Ophir waved Ain's apology and inquired about the current situation.

"Nevi is in a pinch. For some reason a unknown man instantly aimed and tormented Nevi."

Ophir instructed Ain to have Kiel be tended by Lehi. Ophir asked for the directions and rushed toward Nevi and Hexel.

Ain continued to pierce and split the space to help Kiel. His bleeding was severe that his face paled in comparison. Ain can even feel his weight getting lighter. He started to increase his motion when he saw the cabin on view. Lehi and Natalina responded with urgency. Lehi gasped at how badly Kiel was injured.

"His blood and heart were frozen. Not with ice but with lapis lazuli. His systems were inflicted with poison."

Natalina tried to contradict it with silver and gold but it remained solid.

Ain tried to resize the stone but Kiel's heart gone mad with aperiodic reaction.

Ophir cannot spot Hexel nor Nevi. He paced and roam around the storage room but he can't see any person. His searching got shaken when the lake quaked. Hexel dive out mid air and was followed up by a strange man. His stature was taller than Cyprus. His age is unpredictable because of his baby face. Hexel grappled his anchor and pitch it toward the soaring man but the man just used his index finger to halt the heavy and huge anchor.

Ophir summoned his bones and styled it like a blade. He gathered all of his energy and jump toward the man but his target just transported to his face. He grinned and kicked Ophir's attempt to hit his waist. He stepped on Ophir's bone blade and kicked Ophir's face and got pileup to the storage room.

Nevi dive out from the water and used his head to hit the man's back. The man pushed Hexel's anchor like a button and Hexel got himself sucked by the lake. Nevi was about to grab Hexel's anchor to help him but the strange man used. his fist to beat Nevi's ribs. Nevi pulled the man's wrist and used his ankle to hit his neck. When the man got his neck face sideways. Nevi used the same foot to implant his heel over the man's head that sent him buried by the water.

Lehi used her oil to scoop out all the poison from Kiel's system. Ain got instructed by Natalina to tend on Urchin. Urchin used his trance to glimpse at his father's state. He looked lifeless Urchin retreated his trance and asked Ain to pray with him.

"Fathwer plwease hweal my papa. Plwease twake away thew pwain. Plwease Lord opwen hwis ewyes.Amwen."

The pail of oil has been utilised by Lehi but the poison continued to spread like a virus. Lehi needed to decide for something irrational and summoned Ain. Lehi sat infront of Urchin and gently asked for a favour.

"Urchin dear, can you please wrap your father's time. I know it's mean for me to have you do this but I can't think of anything else."

Urchin wiped his tears and nodded.

Urchin tounched her father's forehead and the virus halted.

Lehi invited Ain and inquired.

"Aside from cutting the space and dimension, do you have another gift?"

Ain looked at Lehi and confessed.

"I can change the size of anything and can make things visible and invisible. I can block someone's senses."

Lehi sighed in relief. She commanded the team to maximize their gift.

"Natalina would you mind collecting dust from my coal shoes. Ain please erase the poison inside Kiel's body. "

They performed as Lehi instructed.

Ophir, Hexel and Nevi assembled and waited for the man to come up from the water. The man appeared behind them and threw Hexel to the woods. He yanked Nevi and Ophir's neck and spoke.

"Who is your caretaker?"

Nevi and Ophir looked at each other and started to resist. The man spoke with the hint of anger.

"Tell me Harpsichords! who is your caretaker?! Keep resisting or I will snapped your neck."

Ophir and Nevi zip their mouths as the man's hand gripped their throats.

The man's eye glowed like a lazer and surveyed their body. He snickered when he saw the firefly insignia.

"So it's Novena, Listen and deliver this message toward her. -- I will come for you, brace yourself."

The man released Ophir and Nevi who got themselves smashed on the water.

Before he fully walked away he tossed a coin toward Ophir and said.

"Give that to her. I will collect my change at the right time."

Ophir and Nevi got out of the water and searched for Hexel.

Lehi carefully used the oil and coal to melt the lapiz lazuli that coated Kiel's heart. Lehi can smell the evaporating steam of the stone. Keil's heart started to pump without a blood. Since Kiel's blood were also locked his functional heart started to frantically slow down. Lehi can feel her sweat damping her back. She needs Hexel at this point. Hexel will be able to operate at this critical and fragile crises.

Hexel, Nevi and Ophir are heading back toward the cabin when they heared Natalina's voice from their earrings.

"Hexel please get back here as soon as possible Kiel is.... Kiel is.. in a critical condition... Lehi can't handle this alone."