It stepped back with both hands raised but Hao Xuan could see its true form preparing to attack. The black clouds in the smaller creatures were moving faster and faster as if charging up for something.
"You don't want to fight?" Hao Xuan repeated the demon's words.
It nodded, "I just want to live."
"So you will let me go?"
"Of course, as long as you don't do anything to me I won't either."
"Thank you, I don't really want to fight either," Hao Xuan said smilingly and approached Wern. He bent down to pick him up, purposefully exposing his back to it.
As expected the demon moved quickly and silently, much faster than it had before to strike at his vital points.
But by the time its knife-like fingers landed Hao Xuan's figure was already gone.
"Blink," his voice came from somewhere behind the ruins.