Chapter 2
Flying, Ragl closed his eyes. And plumbed into the depths of the wraith blade. Kain, for all his skillful maneuvers, could not escape the chasing archons. So Ragl absorbed the blade's knowledge until he found a useful skill. He waited until Kain used unbelievable dexterity to guide the fragments of him through a real group of bats, then turned himself invisiblethankfully, bats navigate through ultrasound, so none hit him. To his delight, Ragl found the skill also masked your soul residue, so now the archons were very confused. The downside was, Kain almost dropped him out of surprise. The three archons that followed Ragl gleefully shot down with projectiles.
No conduits in midair. They won't find me.
As they were flying over the Sarafan stronghold, an incredibly accurate, freakishly lucky shot from a Sarafan archer who knew all too well what bats flying over were likely to be, actually brought down three of the Kain-bats. Knowing his danger, Kain dropped Ragl and reformed, before the corpses could be lost forever. Ragl plummeted. He landed on a massive open air Moebius statue, and was forced to abandon his physical form. However, the wraith blade seized its chance to unbind itself from him, and remained, embedded in the statue.
Shortly afterward, Kain floated down. He landed beside the blade and paused, looking first at the physical blade, then the wraith. Eventually, he shook his head and flew away. He had grown slightly more cautious in recent years. Slightly.
To those who don't think a wraith blade can be embedded in a statue, in my opinion, if it can impale someone, it is solid. It also can open doors in material, so...
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