"What is happening," Alice thought as she fell to her knees, bent over and unable to lift herself up due to the overbearing presence which had just appeared some distance from her.
Alice knew this powerful force originated from Dorian, whose body was slowly being surrounded by a dense amount of qi, the qi around her getting thicker and thicker as time went on.
Once again, Alice found herself gasping for air, unable to breathe, and then she felt something flowing down her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, dripping to the floor, staining it with its red pigment.
Today was slowly turning out to be the worst day of her life and Alice just praying for it to end, the qi currently suppressing her and her subordinates had her worrying for Dorian despite her own desperate situation.
After years of being beside the woman, Alice would recognize Dorian's qi anywhere, but the dreadful qi she was feeling at the moment made her feel like she was in the presence of an angry and powerful beast, she tried to hold on but could feel her conscious slowly fading away, with blood continuously flowing out of her orifices, Alice knew death was the only thing waiting for her the minute she closed her eyes.
Desperately fighting to remain conscious, Alice bit her lips so hard she began drawing blood, but it was all for naught as her eyes slowly dropped close, but just when she thought it was over for her, she felt a powerful arm grab her by the waist and sped off with her, the overbearing presence of Dorian's qi fading away as they moved.
"hack, hack" Alice coughed when the arm finally laid her down, she pushed herself up and opened her eyes, straining to see through the thin film of blood which coated it.
"Are you okay" Alice heard a familiar voice say as the image of a panting Adriana who was sitting beside came into her view and surrounding them were Ashley and Gift who were both on their knees and looking at her with worry.
"Am fine everyone" Alice said in reply to their worried looks, checking Ashley and Gift who seemed to be way better off than her as she could only find traces of blood around their mouth.
"You need to rest," Adriana said, moving to wipe the blood that covered the woman's face, but Alice pushed away her hand away as she turned to look at the growing storm of qi kilometers away from them.
"You were the one who got injured and you should be resting, what are you doing over here" Alice questioned while she observed the storm.
"I noticed Seth running away, and suspecting that he did something to you guys I immediately headed over, and it seems my suspicions were right," Adriana said with a frown.
"What did he do to Dorian, did he harm her," Adriana asked with gritted teeth.
"I don't know," Alice said in a defeated tone, "he diagnosed Dorian to be in critical condition, so he used a different method to heal her, but it seems there was a problem as ran off just some seconds before all this happened".
"Is there anything we can do for her?" Alice mumbled.
"I don't think so" Adriana sadly said, whatever Seth did, he tampered with her qi is so chaotic it might explode, every meter around her right now is a stronghold for possible qi poisoning and an eventual explosion" Adriana sadly said, with a teary gaze and a tight face.
The four women silently watched the expanding qi with clenched fists none of them able to do a thing, and just as they expect, there was a loud bang, but this sound was not accompanied by an explosion.
With confused gazes, everyone watched as the thick qi which had surrounded Dorian blasted away from her in waves, traveling away from her for miles but thankfully dispersing before it reached them.
They stared at the center of what had once been a mini qi storm and saw the naked body of Dorian lying there in pristine condition, and without wasting a moment Alice moved to charge at her form, but a powerful arm gripped her by the shoulder and kept her in place.
"let me go " Alice growled at Adriana who for some reason was holding her, but the woman calmly replied, "look".
Confused, lice turned to look at Dorian's vulnerable form but saw nothing out of the ordinary, but just as she was about to turn back and rebuke Adriana, she felt the subtle movements of qi around her begin getting stronger, she saw qi from both far and near rush past her and flowing into the Dorian.
"What is happening" Alice tentatively asked, having an incline to what was occurring but finding it hard to believe.
"She's breaking through," Adriana said in a quiet tone unable to believe what was happening before her eye.
"Impossible" Alice muttered, "It hasn't even been up to a hundred years since she entered the 3rd stage.
With bated breath, the four women who soon became six as they were joined by Yuni and Niara who had been left behind watched the qi surrounding Dorian get sucked by her till she could take in no more and it began dispersing.
"3rd stage liquid Kaiser," Alice said in happiness and disbelief, but just as she moved to go toward Dorian, Adrian once again grabbed her arm.
"Huh, what's wrong now," Alice asked.
"It's not over" Adriana replied, but this time her voice was a quivering mess and she was breathing heavily.
Alice turned and observed the surrounding and noticed nothing, but trusting Adriana she decided to wait and observe, and minutes later her patience was rewarded as she observed qi once again begin moving toward Dorian in waves far stronger than the last time.
"Impossible" Alice couldn't help but scream out, but with her own two eyes she watched Dorian begin another session of qi absorption till she was saturated and everything returned to calm.
Previously Alice had been the first to try heading towards Dorian, but this time the others had to turn around and check on her when she remained standing and staring at Dorian's prone form in shock.
"Evary Seth, just what are you," Alice thought.
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While Alice was stunned and wondering about the mysteries of a certain person, in a far-off place, and some hours later, the certain person Alice was thinking about was floored as he tried to solve the mystery of why he was back in a very familiar forest.