Storm of the abyss

Inside a warehouse, behind some wooden boxes stacked together, a young man was hiding while squeezing his abdomen with his right hand, keeping pressure on his bleeding wound.

The young man panted heavily as the pool of blood around him grew larger and larger.

”Look for him! He must be around here somewhere ” shouted a man at the entrance of the store.

The young man had hidden the trail of blood he left behind with beast blood scattered around him, although this gave him a few moments to recover, it was only a matter of time before he was found.

”I know you
e around here somewhere Seth, ” one of the thugs whispered as he slowly moved around.

Although it was a whisper, Seth could hear it very clearly as the entire warehouse was silent, except for the soft gasps coming from his own mouth.

Shit

As he braced himself on the ground with his free hand, Seth tried to get up, barely succeeding.

Seth supported his back on the boxes to keep from falling as he pulled out a 12-inch long knife, which he kept in a sheath on his hip.

Moving as slowly as possible, avoiding worsening his injury, and not making a sound. Seth moved to the edge of the box where he was leaning. Hearing approaching footsteps, Seth readied his knife for a surprise attack.

Of the group that chased Seth, 3 of the 5 men were normal people, the other 2 were baptized. People chosen by the world.

Seth didn know if the approaching man was a normal human or a baptized, but he hoped and trusted that he was a normal person, people without powers that could finish him off in less than a minute. Or less time if you took into account his current state.

If the approaching man was a baptized, then it was the end of Seth. If the man was a normal person, there was still hope that he wouldn die in the next minute.

What would happen next, even Seth didn know.

Noticing the footsteps getting closer and closer, Seth tightened his grip on his knife and his heart began to race even more.

Although the warehouse was dark, Seth had gotten a little used to the dark by now, enough to see three feet around him.

When the footsteps were appropriately 3 meters from Erza, they stopped. Seth held his breath, waiting for the man to leave his location. But to Seths bad luck the man broke the silence again.

”I found you ” the man whispered again, but this time the whisper was much quieter.

Seth didn know if the man meant it or was just talking to scare him. But Seth had no time to think further as the footsteps resumed in his direction.

Taking all of his willpower to raise his arm and aim at where he thought the thugs neck was, Seth quickly stepped out of cover and stabbed straight ahead.

To his good luck, he hit the target, it just wasn a killing blow.

”Arghh! ” a mans cry of pain when he noticed that he had been stabbed in his shoulder.

The man was not baptized, as Seths knife would not have pierced unless he was a creation. And he was not.

When the man screamed, Seth knew his time was up. Surely the other men had heard him and were heading in his direction. Even though the warehouse was dark and it would surely take them 30 seconds to arrive, and that being optimistic, Seth swore to himself that, even if it was, he would take th