Chapter 70 - Shock!

Among the thick forest with trees so tall that, they seemed to touch the sky, arrived a bunch of beings who doesn't belong there. A Dwarf with metal limbs, a beautiful nymph, a weird man wearing a clown mask, a cloaked man, and behind all of them was a young man whose appearance can be described as average.

"Are you sure this is the way?", The dwarf asked the nymph in doubt.

"Just a bit further and we will be there" Anna seemed to be a bit on edge as she guided them to the place that she said was her village.

After five or some minutes of walking Shiva and the others arrived at the place but there was no village, it was just trees all around them and there was a waterfall, it was a small waterfall that seemed to be made by a stream running downside from the mountain.

"Where is your Village?", It was Shiva this time who asked the question.

"It is concealed by Illusion, please wait for a movement"

She said as she started to chant something.

There was a reason that even the inherently weak Nymphs are able to survive in the Tower without getting buried.

Illusions!

That's right, it was a law of nature that all living creatures will try to learn one way or the other to survive no matter how weak they are, like a pufferfish which develop spikes around itself to avoid being devoured by larger animals.

Nymphs mastered the Illusions and covered their tracks on the World so much so that the presence of a nymph itself become a mystery in Tower. They never revealed themself to the outer world in the fear of being attacked and always dealt with any matters needed in disguise. Even their place of living was covered by tens and hundreds of layers of Illusion that made it impossible for the people to find them unless a High ranker came down.

The Illusion Seat holder once said that "If the Nymphs were born with strong bodies, Then the Illusion seat would have been not able to seat someone other than them"

It wasn't known if that was truly the case but the sight in front of him reminded Shiva Why Anna was not caught even by the Rankers present on the colosseum.

'It would be much advantageous to have skills like that' Even though the Skill itself was not anything like the stealth or invisibility of an assassin, it has its own different way of escaping from troublesome situations.

After a minute, she seemed to have finished casting her skill as the stream faded away like it was a lie, and in place of the stream a cave appeared,

"We will reach the place if we just go to another side of the cave"

Everyone nodded as they started to move towards the other side of the dark cave.

'Hey, old man! were nymphs really that proficient in Illusions?', Shiva was curious about that as he personally witnessed the ability of illusion. He wouldn't even have been able to guess that there was a cave if not for Anna telling him.

{Well I don't know about others but the one in front of you seem pretty skilled}

'She?!' He looked towards Anna as he asked the Old Sage.

But Nicholas irrupted saying {It seems like she is hiding her abilities, you better be on your guard}

'You mean she may some ulterior motives?'

{I don't know for sure but it's will not be bad to be on guard, right?}

Shiva silently looked at the nymph moving in front of him, her big assets were jiggling around which made him turn his head right away!

'Ah! how can I be on my guard when it is like this?!'

Just when he was about to ask Karna to be alert, the light was seen.

It seemed like they arrived, it was pretty small for a cave.

Anna ran forward as she disappeared in the brightness of the light coming out from the other end.

Shiva and others also followed behind her as they arrived out of the cave.

"...!"

Everyone stood surprised at the sight in front of them, as it can only be described as heaven.

beautiful green plantations, with some weird monsters, running and flying around, and In the middle of all this, there was a small village, the sight was too beautiful as Shiva wondered if this was really true or if it was some illusion.

He was lost in the beauty of nature. He let his guard down for a second and that was a fatal mistake.

Because that's when it happened,

Sweep....!

A dragger came down right on his face aiming at his forehead, Shiva was too shocked at the sudden attack as he was a bit late to react, he hurriedly moved to dodge the dragger but..!

splash!

"Ahhhh!!!!!!", but he couldn't

He had to pay the price for being careless!

His Left eye was slashed off, as blood gushed out from his eye dying the ground around him red. He collapsed on the ground as he wimped in pain.

<You have been attacked by the Tezcatlipoca's dagger>

<Your left eye is affected by the curse of Tezcatlipoca>

<Your left eye has gone completely blind>

<Healing it will be impossible as the curse of a myth has been placed on the dagger that attacked you>

'Fu*k, I was careless', He cursed himself as the pain in his eyes was getting worse.

'Summon Kapali, Virupa, Ugram, Bhima'

His faithful summons appeared coving him in all four sides as they stood around him.

he once again cursed himself as he looked up with his remaining eye, The beautiful sight in front of him was gone replaced by the burning image of the Village, the livestock being massacred, numerous nymphs were tied on to the poles and many of them are dead on the roads of Village.

Shiva looked at the woman who bought him here,

"I am...…sorry...", She was crying and trying hard to stand on her shaking legs, in her hand was the Dagger which slashed his eye!

He got enraged thinking that he was betrayed, he tried to help her but this bi*tch!

'This ungrateful b*tch! I shouldn't have believed her!'

Numerous masked figures appeared behind her as the tiger mask they were wearing was revealed.

She was alarmed as the situation was getting out of hand, he hurriedly looked around for an escape but even a bigger surprise was waiting for him!

A man with a jaguar mask was holding the head of Karna which was separated from his body!

Chills ran down his spine as he blurted out his inner words, "When did he....?!"