"D...don't look at me like that..." Lucid said, seemingly wrapped up in his own thoughts as the eyes looked towards him. "I'll never run from you!"
"Focus Lucid! Clear your mind." Kraai suggested to Lucid, but wasn't sure if his words were getting through to him.
Although Nin was granted the vision of numerous eyes, it didn't necessarily mean that what they saw was clear. What the eyes saw was a twisted version of the scenery, further distorting the already warped reality around them. Seen only though the tree's eyes were mutilated bodies, the bodies of those Lucid had killed, hanging from the trees, dripping deep crimson blood upon the snow below. Though their eyes had all been ripped from their faces, their heads lifted and stared at Nin with empty and bloody eye sockets as if trying to bore into his soul. The eyes then also looked back towards Nin with sinister glares, attempting to purge his control from them.
Lucid still appeared distracted, and even Kraai wondered if he was even paying attention until Lucid finally replied to what Nin had been saying.
"I've found that pain is what drives me," Lucid said, giving a smile full of malice as he looked up at Nin once more. "It's what makes taking revenge all the more satisfying..."
He appeared to watch what Nin was doing with little interest, but in truth, he was continuing to carefully study his opponent, and prepare for his attack. It wasn't that he was worried, but he wanted to be extra cautious.
As the red tentacle split and came towards him, a wall of thick ice suddenly surged up from the ground between Lucid and blood hands. It hit the wall with an enormous amount of force, spraying blood upon the wall and sending chunks of ice flying as the wall was destroyed on impact. He was about to move back away from the wall as it was destroyed in an attempt to avoid the flying chunks of ice, but the force of the impact caught him off guard and knocked him back, sending him rolling through the snow where he finally came to a stop on his side several feet from where he had been standing.
He turned over on his back and saw that Nin was suddenly upon him, but he wasn't going to be done in so easily. He wasn't sure why, but he felt like he had to avoid the blade of Nin's sword at any cost. With this in mind, he quickly rolled to the side and pushed himself up off the ground to the right, just out of the range of Nin's sword, narrowly avoiding the attack.
With little hestitation, Lucid then turned back towards Nin and held his hand out with his plam facing upwards. Seconds later a flame erupted to life on his palm and began to snake around his arm before suddenly shooting towards Nin in a violent wave of scorching heat, melting the snow in it's path.
The hundreds of eyes upon the trees that were witnesses to the fight were suddenly joined by gnarled mouths filled with jagged teeth which penetrated the air with a eerie chorus of chilling screams and moans from the sight of the fire. To some, the sound of voices filled with fear were horrifying, but to Lucid it was the perfect music suited to this battle.
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