TRAILING SHADOWS

"I am Ibiyemi, daughter of General Folarin. I am not a cowarddddddddd..." She yelled out, spitting out essence from her bleeding mouth.

And about that, she did not care because right now, the real battle was about to start. After all, she had the awakened an eye, what more did she have to fear? 

"What? Her Eye..." The slim Irunmole coughed out essence, his eyes bulging in fear and disbelief.

"Partner... The Pyramid... it's breaking off. We should return to full strength as soon as it shatters." The spiky Haired mercenary backed the other, his body in the posture to dash out already as. he gazes intently on the shimmering and breaking sheath of energy around the three beams that struck deep into the ground.

Any moment from now, the Pyramid Hierarchy technique would be absorbed into Ibiyemi's eye and if they were just able to capitalize on it, quickly, then getting out of here would be no problem for them.

They just needed to time it exactly.

The partner, the slim one, turned his back to look at what he was being called to without turning his body. As he did, a smile cut across his face.

"It's not entirely bad. She awakened an Eye. There's no telling how strong it would be but that same eye is making our escape route open for us." He smirked, relief seeping into his tense frame.

"Oh..." Tobias who was up above them, at the pyramid apex g.r.o.a.n.e.d, his eyes squeezing in the aftermath. 

It seemed as though he was receiving some damage of sorts.

"Shit! Tobias." Elias cried out, his hands holding the back of his had as he watched Tobias sway about in the air.

"What are you screaming for now? Don't just stand there. He needs help. Ibiyemi's eye is taking a heavier toll on him because he cast this pyramid hierarchy technique." Elisa retorted, slamming her hands together to form a cross.

"Right!" Elias agreed, repeating the same symbol as Elisa.

Seeing them, the slim Irunmole gasped, his pupils dilating.

"We need to make a run. Now..." He ordered, trying to turn around.

"The pyramid is not down yet. our soul class is still restrained." the spiky haired one replied just as the partner stood beside him.

Meanwhile, Elias and Elisa are involved in something else entirely.

"Ibiyemi, hurry up and finish them off. We can't help you directly anymore." Elisa called out, her two hands stretched towards Tobias, a shimmering wave of energy flowed steadily upwards.

"We need to keep Tobias in shape by sharing Agbara with him. If your eye aborts Pyramid Hierarchy while Tobias still keeps the technique on, it might return a heavy backlash on him." Elias grunted, doing the same thing as Elisa; nodding over to the figure of Ibiyemi who with a yelp, slapped her left hand over the eye, inadvertently shutting the energy flow into it.

"What is the matter? Why in so much a hurry?" It was Ibiyemi's voice and her words sent a cold chill across the spines of the rogue mercenaries, stunning them as they faced the the breaking wall of the pyramid hierarchy, backing her at the trees.

Going against her initially had proven easy but going against her when she activated her innate ability that only existed in the earlier years of an Irunmole's life had somewhat tried to even the field.

Now, going against her with an awakened eye? The duo did not need a soothsayer to tell them that this was not going to be any easier.

The scales had been tilted and as it looked, with their full class strength still restrained by the technique that had refused to go down, facing her was surely not something they looked up to.

"Speaking of which..." Ibiyemi said, wiping her lips off the essence with a knuckle.

She opened her awakened eye and it flashed. Immediately, she slammed her feet running forward, weaving the symbols for the Abefele Iruju.

"Law of Chance: Abefele Iruju" 

"She's coming..." The spiky haired mercenary yelled, leaping out of the way to the far side of Ibiyemi's left.

The other one with the red belt was not so lucky as Ibiyemi got into reach before he could react.

"One, Two." Ibiyemi yelled, swinging her two legs one after the other in a bicycle kick, knocking the mercenary high up into the air.

Leaving that one, she turned to the other one and dashed, the two illusionary blades of energy pointed out.

"Don't be so confident yettttt... " 

The spiky mercenary yelled out, slamming his hands.

Just then, Ibiyemi's eye flashed.

"Law of lightning: Thunder Arrrrrrrrrghhhh..." The atmosphere flashed, like reality contorting upon itself. Suddenly, the spiky haired mercenary arched his back as if he had been hit at the back as he began falling to the ground.

SLASH! SLASHHH!!

Ibiyemi's blade slashed through him, drawing out life essence from his arm and neck just before he hit the ground.

Her eye flashed again and a yelp resounded behind her. Turning around, she saw the other mercenary stumbling into a heap before her.

Looking up at her with horror in his eyes, he cried. "I-i...it was a perfectly timed attack. How did that stone suddenly pop up there... "

Quickly, he turned his head to look back but on his path, no stones were present.

"N-no... There was some stones that I stumbled on. N-no... Is this the power of the Eye of Chance???" 

The Eye of Chance it was called, the same very eye that Ibiyemi had awoken in her desperate time. It was an eye that twisted fate to a certain degree, usually through accidents and coincidences, to allow a higher advantage to it's owner.

In other words, it gave to it's owner, luck. Pure, unrivalled luck, depending on the dexterity and skills of it's owner. In rare cases, the eye of Chance when activated could turn a single move such as a finger flick into a critical attack. However, this chance manipulating ability was only limited to its owner; It could not control anything beyond it's owner field.

Eyes in general sense, were awakened when there happened to be condense concentration of Agbara in the eye. It was very important because one did not need to exert Agbara to activate it. It just worked, most times, on its own.

In rare cases where condensed energy did not flow to the eye, it appeared as a mark in the part of the body where it was most abundant.

Eye or Mark; They operated on their own Agbara reserves. This meant a person could exert all his or her energy and yet the eye would still work fine. Just so far the person was still in good shape. And this same reason was why Eyes were very much valued, even to the extent of being extracted and implanted in the new owner.