Zhu saw a giant figure appearing before her and boiling hot crimson red blood splated everywhere.
When the blood of the giant beast touched the ground it melted through it like acid.
Although Zhu was standing behind the beast some blood drops hit her body and burned through her cloths instandly and then her skin.
The pain of her dissolving skin was unbearable, tears appered on her eyes becuase the blood was from her traveling companion Ryu.
Also the old man wasn't spared from the blood rain. Some of the blood flew on his mantle and he quickly threw it away frm him before the crimson blood could melt through it.
The tiger also retreated several meters back to the old man with gapping holes in his body. His front claw was totally missing.
Zhu ran around Ryu to see how bad his wound is. A bit behind his left shoulder was a huge claw like hole. The scales were shattered into pieces and stuck in the flesh. Blood was continiusly flowing out and dissolving the ground.
Around this area should be Ryu's beast core located.
Zhu hastly took out a few healing talismen and threw tham on Ryu but it was useless. The gapping wound in Ryu's body was way to big to be easily healed with talismen and he allready lost a lot of blood.
Then Ryu's head fell heavily on the ground and his eyes slowly closed.
Zhu took his head in her embrace and shouted his name but he couldn't hear her. His heartbeat got slower and slower.
The temperature also dropped as if the heat was retreating.
From behind the forest a group out of ten humans appeared on flying swords and landed near the old man.
They lowered their weapons a bit toward Zhu and hastly asked the old man questions.
After less than a minute they turned to Zhu and walked to Zhu in order to catch and inprison her.
Zhu didn't notice any of this she was to focused on the dying Ryu and did not pay them any attention.
A glowing rope wrapped around her and dragged her away from Ryu towards the group of humans.
Zhu tried to struggle and fight against the rope but suddenly a huge magic circle appeared on the ground spreading hundrets of meters in all directions.
The huge blue circle began glowing brighter and brighter bluish.
The old man was the first one who turned around and tried to run away but it was already too late.
Alltrough he was the first one to react and act, he was still to slow.
The bluish light got so bright that nobody could even see anything. It was as if space had opened itself.
When the glaring light slowly dispersed Zhu found herself not in the forest anymore.
Her former traveling companion Ryu and all the other humans all were gone.
Around her were just rocks cliffs and huge montains descending miles into the clouds.
No trees and no beasts could be seen in this desolate rock landscape.
Only the cold wind was blowing down from the mountains.
It was so silent to believe that nothing was living here, but Zhu exacly new this place.
She wasn't herself here, but she heard a lot of this place.
She was lucky to escape the humans before, but now here luck ran out. She landed direcly in the Rising Mountains.