The blade missed his heart but carved through his shoulder instead. And the Void Fang essence activated.
A sphere of Richard's shoulder—roughly two inches in diameter—simply ceased to exist. Not cut, not destroyed, but erased from reality. Richard looked at the wound and screamed.
There was no blood because there was nothing there to bleed from. Just a perfect spherical void where flesh and bone and muscle should have been.
"My shoulder! You ERASED my shoulder!"
Satou didn't give him time to process the injury. He attacked again, combining abilities in ways Richard had never encountered.
Shadow Manipulation filled the entire library section with absolute darkness. Perfect Stealth made Satou completely undetectable within that darkness. Shadow Step let him move through the black space at will. And Dark Vision let him see Richard perfectly despite the lack of light.
Richard was effectively blind, fighting an invisible opponent in pitch darkness.
