The cat gran out a scream louder than any other sound she made ever since she appeared. The oil was scorg hot, but it only started to smoke and catch fire when spshed onto the cat granny.

  Gloria, Tae Kuo and Gyuu Park took this window of opportunity and rushed to Sue’s side, for she was the only civilian in the apartment right now.

  “Are you okay!?” Sue still held the pot in her hand up, ready to use it as a red hot blunt on should she be forced into a fight. “Is it - is it dead?”

  “No. I don’t think it - ” Gyuu Park shook his head, but before he could say anything else, his legs gave out and he almost fell onto the ground, if not for Tae Kuo’s catg him by his arm.

  “What happened?” Gloria immediately k by his friend.

  “He’s bitten. The dark energy is this creature poisoning him!” Tae Kuo wiped the sweat off his forehead: “We o take him to a care ter! We ’t - ”

  “Okay! I’ll buy you some time, you help him for now!?” Glrunted, every fiber of her muscles hurt, she just did not have the luxury of esg right now. With her firembling, she reached the inner pocket of her jacket and took out a wooden - the same oiled blessed ade by lightning struck peachwood gifted to her by Gyuu Park. As she infused her Qi into the , she felt the hairs on her shoulders, the backer of her ned forearms standing up. Tingliion pulsated through her body, numbing the muscle sore she felt, yet simultaneously causing a throbbing, burning pain in her head, eyes and ears. “Sue! You go with them, now!”

  Sue shook her head, as she held the door open with her left handto let Tae Kuyuu Park out of the apartment, while holding the pot in her right.

  Large ks of skin and flesh were melted off the cat granny’s body. Pale gray smoke rose and filled the entire apartment with a foul burnt smell. The cat granny stopped struggling on the ground after a while, and started standing up, using what was left of her extremities.

  “Sue, what are you doing here?” Glrunted as she raised the up: “Leave!”

  “No. I’m here with you.” Sue shook her head, while still holding the empty metal pot.

  The cat granny gurgled and turned her face tloria. The eye ohroat bulged out, staring at her, specifically the held in her fingers. She hissed, showing once again her sharp fangs. Within the blink of an eye she unched herself from the ground directly at Gloria.

  Gloria’s mind moved, but her body gged behind. Her hand holding the oiled blessed issed the cat granny’s head by just a hair, and she was tackled to the ground i. The dropped on the floor and rolled to a er of the living room..

  “Sue! Run!” Gloria screamed.

  Sue did not listen, the base of the metal pot in her hand nded on the back of the cat granny and made a loud bong. The hit also cracked something, a a visible, even grievous dent o granny’s head, from the edges of whie could even see yellow and bck yers of bones and simir dark tar seeping out.

  The cat granny screeched and swung her right hand at Sue, knog the pot pletely away from Sue’s grasp and leaving a small scrat the back of her right hand.

  Sue fell onto the ground, but immediately locked her eyes onto the lying on the ground. She struggled up, and dragged herself to the position of the , crawling and stumbling.

  Glrabbed the cat granny’s right wrist a shoulder in an attempt to block the creature’s attacks. But the cat granny just forced her body down with her mouth open, aiming her bite at Gloria’s neck.

  Gloria trated what was left of her Qi on her forehead and butted her head upwards, just in time to make tact with the creature’s nose. Another crag sound came, this strike seemed to have broken the creature’s nose bridge.

  Sue screamed, with equal desperation aermination, as she smmed the blessed oiled onto the dent o granny’s head.

  Sparks of lightning exploded from the . Sue was thrown bad down on the ground behind. Gloria screamed, with the bolt of electriergy c through her at the same time.

  But the tact betwee granny and Gloria was short-lived: the creature jumped up and banged her head on the ceiling, then fell down while tinuing shaking her head, seemingly trying to shake off the that was embedded into her skull. Glowing cracks crawled from the back of her head onto other parts of her body, like destructive, red hot vines.

  Sue tried to stand up, but the feeling of gettirocuted and havihrown almost pletely across the room kept her legs shaking and uo move at all. This time, it was Gloria who made the move. She pulled herself up from the kit floor, ran to her friend’s side and began draggiowards the door.

  The cat granny lu Gloria and Sue, o attempt at an attack. The cracks that had reached her waist area burst, and a gust of dark fog shht out of the sliding door leading to the baly, breaking her lower body off. Her arms and hands lost trol before they could touyone. Glowing cracks filled up the cat granny’s fad entire upper body. Her upper body lost the ability to maneuver or even move, and simply fell onto the floor and shattered like a gss statue.

  Glot one good look at the pieces scattered on the floor before she pulled Sue out of the apartment: they were all pieces of wood, including barks and roots, with some cy pieces mixed in.