The inner walls which once glowed with life energy began to dim. The pink walls began to discolour, turning gray as time went by.The area around Mato started to rumble. Large pieces of flesh started to slide off like rotten wood. The boulders of flesh falling down and crashing into the bottom causing destruction to appear in its wake. Smaller sized boulders of flesh came crashing down all around Mato. Like stringy mucus running down a child’s face, bloody liquid started to pour out from open wounds on the walls. The cave walls shuddered as they started to crumble.

Chunks of flesh fell down hitting the surrounding landscape.The destruction of the cave walls couldn’t help but create a disturbance. Vibrations echoed through the liquid and hit the exteriors of the mutated sperm. The boils on their skin shook like jello. The hundreds of millions of sperm that lined the walls started to shake their bodies. Their minds started to awaken as life energy started to pulse within their bodies. From their deep sleep, they awoke. Their muscles twitched, the growths on their body began to feed their life energy into their body. The mutated sperm began to press their tails against the wall trying to free themselves from its embrace.

The mutated sperm moved in a frenzy. The sperm that were still stuck to the walls were rushing to break free. Their tails were injected into the walls, life energy could be seen flowing from the walls and then entering into their bodies. The boils on their bodies got larger as they accumulated more life energy.

Having more life energy led to increased activity. The sperm broke free from the walls grasp and started to swim around like locusts on a farm. Hundreds of millions of sperm were swimming in every direction. The mutated sperm were anxious and their bodies showed it. They were like drones with no men to control them. Chaos was around Mato.

Mato awoke from his concentration and his eyes darted about. His eyes curving into a sly smile. Fear was not found on his face.

He squinted his eyes overseeing the chaos around him.

The mutated sperm were raving like mad men, not caring about the destruction they bring to their environment. Mutated sperm smashed into other mutated sperm. Some smashed so hard that both of their bodies exploded, leaving life energy alone in the surrounding space. Once the mutated sperm sensed the presence of that life energy, they would rush over and try to take the life energy for themselves causing even more destruction.

Supreme confidence welled between Mato’s eyebrows as he looked at the chaos surrounding him. A fire seemed to light within. The life energy orb inside of him lit up and sent radiated life energy into the surrounding space.

Mato wanted to test the full capabilities of his meridians. Battling these mutated sperms would be the most suitable training ground.

He let the light radiate out from his body, allowing the mutated sperm to feel his presence.

The mutated sperm started to turn toward the light source, basking in its familiar glow. They didn’t have eyes like Mato but they sensed the life energy. More mutated sperm turned toward the light. Like soldiers saluting their general, they stared at Mato. After a breath of time, millions sperm had their bodies turned toward Mato. Mato’s body was standing straight in the liquid, fearing nothing.

Mato was surrounded from all sides. To his right there was sperm. To his left there was sperm. Above and below him there was sperm.

They all stared at him. The sperm seemingly waiting for one of them to move.

A mutated sperm couldn’t control his desires and started to rush toward him.

Having seen movement, the other mutated sperm joined in. They started to clump together and rushed toward Mato. They were like an army of white ghosts rushing to the only living being left.

Mato pointed his face to a clump of mutated sperm.

“Hmph”

Mato snorted.

“Vibrational Destruction!”

Invisible waves of energy shot out of Mato’s forehead. His forehead skin rippling with unbridled power.

The vibrational energy traveled in the liquid like a silent killer.The liquid rippled as vibrational energy passed through it.

Zink!

The wave of energy hit a clump of mutated sperm that were headed toward him.

Their bodies started to shudder from the immense power of the vibrations. Their bodies were being shredded apart. Life energy burst out of their wounds as they were ripped like shredded pork.

The vibrations echoed out as more sperm succumbed to the same fate of their brethren. The vibrations reached more sperm, completely destroying their bodies. Time went on, and more mutated sperm were being destroyed.

The mutated sperm surrounding Mato wasn’t phased by their brother’s deaths. The sperm raced toward Mato even faster.

Mato paid no heed to being surrounded and kept concentrating.

“Disappear!”

“Vibrational Destruction”

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Mato had no choice but to keep using vibrational destruction. Nothing stood in the way of the vibrations. They were ephemeral. Like a wind, the vibrations glanced past their bodies and destroyed them completely.

The mutated sperm were blind. They hadn’t developed sight like Mato, so the only thing they could do was use their instincts.

The mutated sperm felt the threat that Mato posed. Mato was killing all of their brethren. Therefore, Mato needed to be put down in order for them to survive. This was the law of the jungle. Kill or be killed.

One of the swarms had finally reached Mato’s backside and rammed into his body.

Continuous explosions appeared at the point of impact.

More and more mutated sperm kept ramming into Mato’s backside. Their bodies exploded into a gory mist with each collision. The explosions of gore did not cease as they voluntarily threw away their lives to damage Mato.

Thousands of sperm had rammed into Mato until he could break free.

Drips of white looking ‘blood’ poured out of a tiny wound.

Mato was unphased by this wound but his instincts were starting to hum.

Mato had continually cast Vibrational Destruction but he only killed around a million. There was just too many. Every time Mato sent forth his vibrations and destroyed the sperm, more sperm would rush in from the back and fill its place. It was endless.

Hundreds of mutated sperm surrounded him as they smashed into his body. He had to use vibrational destruction and then follow the vibrations for him to have any space to maneuver.

Mato felt that the life energy within his meridians depleting. The life energy orb in his body was producing life energy but not at the rate of consumption. Using the vibrations used life energy. It was not free to use but Mato had to keep going.

“Vibrational Destruction!Vibrational Destruction!”

Mato was turning his forehead constantly, sending waves of vibrations in every direction so the mutant sperm wouldn’t sneak up on him.

A giant-sized mutated sperm came rushing out of a swarm noticing Mato. Its body was huge and was ten times larger than Mato’s.

The giant body caught Mato off guard and smashed into his rear. Mato was looking in a different direction and his body was thrown away like a kite. A large gash appeared on his outer membrane.

THAT SPERM WOULD DARE HIT ME!

Enraged, Mato shot forth ramming into the body of the giant sperm.

Mato rammed into his belly. His whole body entering through the front and exiting through the back. A large hole appeared as life energy flowed out of the wound.

A swarm of mutated sperm came rushing in and went inside of the giant mutated sperm’s wound. The swarm started to eat the giant from the inside. The giant sperm was still, the light disappearing from his eyes as more and more sperm ate the insides of his body.

Mato’s body was panting. He was riddled with wounds. He wasn't sure how much longer he would last.

“This won’t do. My life energy is low,” Mato said. “Vibrational destruction can’t kill this many at one time.”

Mato instincts started humming.

Mato’s instincts heard his cry for help. His instincts have always given him a way out. It was his instincts which allowed him to make use of life energy and create his meridians. It was his instincts which allowed him to create Whirlpool Stab. His instincts were his lifeline, his inner potential being brought out.

His instinct’s brought forth a vision into his head. Inside the vision, the life energy orb was radiating light in every direction. Nothing could escape its light. Under its light, everything was visible.

“This is it!”

Mato having been inspired, calmed his mind.

Mato’s body lit up like a white sun. The life energy orb started to radiate immensely, sending life energy throughout his body. The life energy flowed through his meridians sending it to the outer portions of his membrane. His pores on his membrane started to expand and contract, breathing in the liquid and expelling it afterwards.

“Vibrational Radiance!”

Minute vibrations started appearing. The vibrations were small at first but as time went on the vibrations started to overlap with each other. The millions of pores on Mato’s body kept on vibrating.

The liquid started to churn and turn. The vibrations pushed the liquid away from Mato’s body. The mutated sperm rushing at Mato were forced back.

Mato kept vibrating his outer membrane. The power of the vibrations kept increasing.

The vibrations then started to overlap with each other. One could even start to visibly see the vibrations. The surrounding liquid started to churn, empty pockets of nothingness could be seen appearing between each vibration.

The mutated sperm that were pushed away felt their bodies shuddering. Their bodies began to deteriorate. Their bodies felt like they were locked in space, unable to move. The vibrations were restricting their movement.

The vibrations overlapped each other. Mato was vibrating at a certain frequency which allowed multiple small vibrations to combine and turn into larger vibrations.

The vibrations became larger. Sounds of thunder echoed out as the vibrations were all-encompassing and ready to destroy.

An omnidirectional wave that was filled with countless vibrations expanded out with Mato at the epicenter.

The million mutated sperm closest to Mato began to fall apart. Their bodies unable to move, like a patient under anesthesia. If these mutated sperms had minds of their own they would be terrified.

The wave of vibrations swept over them, destroying their body and mind.

The wave continued to expand.

A wave hit a hundred million sperm. They started to feel the power of vibrations and surrendered under its power. They died.

Next, the wave hit three hundred million sperm and then five hundred million.

Everything the vibrations touched would be eviscerated.

The vibrations had destroyed all the mutated sperm leaving only life energy behind.

The vibrations did not stop expanding. They bounced into the walls. The vibrations traveled through the walls shaking the entirety of the flesh ball. The flesh ball had already started to deteriorate when Mato took the life energy orb. Now that the ball didn’t have the life energy orb regenerating it, it couldn’t handle the stress caused by Mato’s vibrations and started to deteriorate faster.

Mato looked on as the inner walls of the cave began to fall. Destruction was around him, as the once healthy pink flesh became black and broken. This ball of flesh was dying.

Mato had used only one move and he had killed hundreds of millions of sperm.

Mato stood in the liquid, amazed by the destruction that one move could cause. He stared at the bunches of life energy that were floating in the liquid, ready for him to consume.

He swam and started to eat all of the life energy.

Mato had killed millions of sperm and the amount of life energy they had stored in their bodies was immense. He wasn’t sure if he could fit that much life energy inside of his body.

Mato continued to eat and did not stop, even when his meridians were full of life energy he did not stop. His meridians started expanding to accommodate more life energy but it was not enough. When his meridians were full, the life energy orb absorbed the rest of the life energy. The white sun inside the orb started to expand, looking like it was ready to explode out of its icy shell.

Mato had consumed the life force of hundreds of millions of sperm. His strength had increased once again. The life force in his meridians had become purer and more abundant. If he had to use Vibrational Radiance again, the strength would likely be two folds stronger.

“.......”

Mato hummed to himself. His fight against the mutated sperm was frightening. He thought that nothing could harm him, he thought his meridians had made him all powerful but he was wrong. If one thing went wrong he could have died when the millions of mutated sperm had swarmed him. He had underestimated his enemy.

Mato was humbled by this experience. In the real world, thousands of ants could kill an insect ten times larger than itself. This was true in Mato’s experience as well, if Mato was slightly slower in learning Vibrational Radiance, he would likely be dead. The millions of mutated sperm would keep on pursuing Mato giving him small cuts. Those cuts would then became large wounds and those large wounds would lead to him being unable to defend himself.

Mato had confidence in himself but too much confidence was dangerous. This experience had taught him this.

The vibrations were still echoing out into the flesh of the ball. The fleshy ball could no longer hold on and started collapsing. Tunnels that could be used to escape had become blocked, as dead flesh had broken off from the ceiling.

“I gotta get out of here.”

Having seen all of the tunnels that led out of the cave being blocked, Mato decided to make his own path.

“Whirlpool Screw!”

Mato rocketed into the flesh walls and started to make his way out. Bits and pieces of tissue could be seen trailing behind him.