Ominous signs

Not even a week had passed by and Ki sat in on the tall wall that surrounded the mansion as she overlooked the village and over the out walls and the forest.

She stood there watching for any slight changes or disturbances for a while and then turned to Isaac. "How is it? Have you got a grasp on the karma eye technique that the old man left to you?"

Over the year Isaac spent his time working on improving his martial arts a little to protect himself better but he was not as talented as others when it came to martial arts.

The upside to this was that while he was not talented he had acquired the Estrella families starlight qi art.

The stronger the good karma or presence of emperor qi nearby the faster the rate of practice becomes so he found himself advancing faster than he had expected but still he was far too behind the others for his age to think of reaching a high stage like the others so he had to primarily rely on his intellect.

The karma eye technique was the old man Bernard's own interpretation and evolution of the Estrella families stargazing eye art which helps them to see through the mysteries of the stars better.

The difference of the karma eye art was that instead of gazing at the stars for answers it focussed more on the strings of fate and karma that connected and bound people together.

If he found a thread connecting a person of good karma and fortune them that person must be a friendly relation and be a positive part of the persons life.

However if the threads were displaying signs of bad karma he would be able to locate the strings location the moment it reached a critical extreme of bad that it may harm or kill those connected.

It's like being informed that many were in danger before it happened but also helped to provide a direction however there were no answers on how to overcome it since the old man left that part of the techniques he had out of it to leave the rest to the human mind to figure out the rest and not suffer from the heavens punishment.

He looked towards the village and many threads were tangled and then they connected with the land, the mansion and those of the Bombyx family signifying their deep connections to the family and the land and were all representing good karma which continued to flow towards Ki's direction.

Ki's aura was a little ominous the first time he had witnessed it after mastering the technique but when time passed it was as if the good karma that the village and other places connected to her were slowly beginning to purify her aura like small specks of light trying hard to illuminate the darkness and as time more are added until the room is fully lit.

Isaac sighed at this image and was somewhat in awe over it. 'In the past I couldn't dare to guess she could overcome what she has… it's as if the whole world is pressing down on her right now but all of a sudden she is being pushed back up to continue walking forward by numerous helpful presences. This must be from all the work she has put in within the village, Wolfden city and the surrounding cities and influences, there is also the businesses, the orphanages, the herb pavilions and clinics and the efforts put forward to finding a solution to broker peace with most of the northerners.'

Isaac looked again at the walls and the surroundings and spotted a couple of ominous looking threads connected to the lookouts that had just changed to start their shift on the outer wall. "It appears that there is an ominous sign on the outer walls this time, those on the walls may be injured or even die. There are several homes nearby inside the walls that also have some ominous signs so I am guessing that who ever is coming this time has come prepared and we may not be able to stop it with your usual tactics."

Ki smiled coldly upon the forest outside and spoke in a chilling tone of voice. "So it's going to be a blood moon tonight."

After hearing the sentence from her his eyes turned to her and he could of swore that her aura flickered with a deathly murderous chill, so much so that a cold sweat appeared on his back. "Lets go down to the walls and investigate."

After arriving at the walls Isaac located the person with the most ominous connection to the bad karma and pointed deep into the forest. "It's that way deep into the forest or maybe even outside the forest but they should be here within an hour at the least if they are on foot according to my guess as I have little evidence."

Ki nodded and then ran back to the mansion, unbeknownst to anyone else deep within a secret room a tall but thin body was bent over after exiting a large barrel of toxic looking bubbling liquid.

The naked uncoordinated body stiffly walked to a table with a box on it and opened it up.

Inside of the box was a pair of gloves that fit perfectly on her hands but did not cover up the palms and on the knuckle parts there were metal attached in place connecting to the wrist and the other side to each of the fingers and thumbs joints where they bend.

At the position of the joints the metal circled as a loop around the fingers so that when the hands clenched the metal on the back of the hand bent along with it and as it reached the end the metal extended past the fingertips like like several sharp fingernails like blades while the fingertips of the hand rested inside the metal shape that matched the size of the corpses fingertips.

As the corpse bent its fingers inwards the blades followed and pointed towards and clashed with each other but as she straightened them again they face outwards and away from each other.

After flexing the fingers to get used the using the gloves, the corpse stiffly moved and then suddenly lunged forwards within the room and swung her hand downwards towards the table.

The force of her body and the addition on the finger blades cut through the table with ease where she hit the edge of it and also left deep claw marks on the inner parts that she did not fully cut through.

As if admiring her handy work she continued to inspect the remains of the table and then as if being instructed to do so she stood at the side of the room and then stood upright with her legs and arms separated from the rest of her body.

Soon after a small figure entered the room and began to get to work as if on a short time frame.