The Bleeding (4—Last Part)

Step- step, whoosh whoosh- WHOOOOSH...

After several minutes of clashing with one making the other mostly step backwards and become stuck in defensive measures. Ciemnosc and Fu Lan made a step backwards, and while they did, the amount of power surrounding them from the clashes between Mortal weapons and dual weapons finally exploded, it was as if they were being enveloped by that large amount of power that those in their same level be it in cultivation realm or battle prowess in case of Ciemnosc shouldn't really wield.

And as their feet dragged on the ground, separating from each other furthermore due to the incredible gushing air all around them forcing their bodies to all possible sides but rather peacefully, they looked at each other as if they were hurt; but without showing a bit of it.

Shiing~, wang wang.

Flipping his right wrist a little in the air. Ciemnosc’s sword flashed a bit through the last bits of the sun from the coming evening, while Fu Lan’s arms swung her dual blades from in front of her chest in a cross stance towards her sides, holding each Mortal blade at her waist level and pointing at the same angle towards her shoulders.

… Whistle whistle whistle! Step! Shing~, step step step step, clank clank clank clonk.

Suddenly, Fu Lan took a couple of things from her left hand as she held her left-handed blade with her teeth, in a quick motion of jolting her blade up and flawlessly catching it with her teeth while her left hand went over to her Covert Space bag at her left waist before taking out 3 star-knives; she then directly began throwing them at Ciemnosc while taking out more and more from her Covert Space bag.

On the other hand, without much surprise, Ciemnosc first took another Mortal sword from his Covert Space bag. Fu Lan was indeed surprised, but rather than shock and feeling overwhelmed, she was feeling content and blatantly giggled just once through her nostrils only for Ciemnosc to hear.

Stepping at once towards Fu Lan while fashionably swinging his now left-handed sword out while his right-handed sword was hung towards his back, Ciemnosc looked as if his right arm had gone limp and he could only hold on to his right sword somehow. His steps were continuous and were only being stopped, or Ciemnosc was forced to make a couple more for each step forward to around and the like. While his posture was steep and almost there to his low stance.

As moved toward Fu Lan to the best of his capabilities, he came to face off with many, even dozens of star-knives over and over again, and there was even the occasional kunai flying towards him with effect, taking a curve and moving towards either his heart from the left side of his body or to his right and aiming towards his lungs and sometimes the brain.

Only in the most necessary of moments would Ciemnosc actually use his right arm to deflect and block some of those already powerful and quick knives being thrown at him. But whenever he did, he made it seem like it was child’s play and just that easy, despite the fact that he was quite slowly advancing by the kind of speed that his 8,000 kg strong body could rawly grant him.

And even as he was already so fast himself without the use of his strange, unique Power Energy, Fu Lan was definitely much faster than Ciemnosc even without her Power Energy flowing within her body at the utmost. And that could be so clearly seen with how extra agile and nimble she was just whenever Ciemnosc was about to reach her and she moved back- or sideways with ease and whenever she was throwing those knives at him with such speed and precision.

‘...’ There was no other option now. Just as Fu Lan was planning to once again retreat as Ciemnosc had reached the 3 meters threshold before her yet again during these few minutes of her now gaining such an advantage over the big, bad monster. She suddenly felt a sense of terror, but not one of insufferable fear or of actually becoming terrified. No, it was just a most natural, instinctive, and…warm; sensation of being involved in darkness; to be devoured.

“!” Suddenly waking up from her stupor that had actually lasted no more than a moment, as she could see herself still throwing the next 3 star knives at Ciemnosc, Fu Lan was overly shocked when seeing the dark energy begin to engulf Ciemnosc’s body.

Started covering both his lower abdomen and his forehead, just like his previous enemies either at the arenas or those enemy believers and sect disciples had ever done when fighting a war against his own troopers, with the latter also doing just the same for those who were at the Phrenic realm at the very least. Ciemnosc’s body began to ooze off his own Power Energy, showing itself in this world for the first time!

In the fight against Oscar, if anything, Ciemnosc had mostly used his claws and whip to destroy him in the end, also taking such a notion as a kind of test for this seemingly innate ability of his, which he still couldn’t really comprehend that really well of what their origin was.

But now, after having fought with his Power Energy only flowing at its usual, which is many times faster and stronger than even Obsidiafying realm cultivators by impossible margins, as if compared both the heavens and the mortals’ livelihood. And as Fu Lan watched, she almost dropped her right-handed blade along with the remaining star knives in her left hand.

Grip… Whistle, whistle, whoosh whoosh whoosh…

However, she recomposed herself a second later and began to once again throw her star-knives at him without any qualms, flooding the air in front of Ciemnosc as a current of steel and barely some free spots for air right in front of him flew towards him. All while his body was slowly being fully covered and seething with his dark Power Energy.

Clink clink clink clink clink clink clank clink clink clink clank clink clink clink clink clink…

However, as Ciemnosc’s body began to be fully encompassed by his Power Energy, all of the star knives coming at him first had to pass through his layer of dark Power Energy. While each of the star-knives and kunai thrown at him had Fu Lan’s very own Power Energy infused in them and should they make contact with Ciemnosc’s body so freely they could even become stuck on his body as if normal star-knives were penetrating a normal person’s body, that foreign Power Energy was swiftly dissolved when they came in contact with the dark Power Energy.

And in the next moment, Fu Lan could see how Ciemnosc’s body which was supposed to be riddled with red spots and bleeding at the very least, from all over his front body, become like a wall of the strongest metal ever imaginable as they each not only bounced half a meter away from him before losing all kinetic force and directly falling onto the ground; but they also became ruined with their tips, all of them, breaking and twisting as well as bending.

“... That, what kind of-... That can’t be the Darkness element, can it?” Fu Lan asked, her Covert Space bag never becoming short on granting her dangerous weapons. It was also notoriously simple for her to keep on massively attacking while speaking and even becoming somewhat distracted, but just really a little bit.

“... I’m not sure,” Ciemnosc answered, his body hidden among the flying knives. But as the ‘clinks’ and the occasional ‘clank’ kept on going nonstop, Fu Lan suddenly felt a most powerful danger approach her as she heard a light stomp drowned by the sounds of metal bouncing off more metal before she then suddenly felt her abdomen elbowed and her chest headbutted.

…-tep… PAM- PUM! Crraaeeaaaaaaaakkk~...

“!...” Fu Lan could feel her armor creaking away, denting even more but also trying to repair itself with her Power Energy, also granting her some mild protection against the all-out going Ciemnosc!

Her eyebrows furrowed as she couldn’t move not her head or her neck. Only the sensation of her body flying along with the strong body slamming against her was all that she could take in. Even with her helmet and face armor on, Ciemnosc could see the pain on her face and body as not only her hands but even her toes were getting crooked as soon as he collided against her.

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After just a couple seconds of his successful body slam connecting to Fu Lan’s body and her marvelous breasts having his head between them, Ciemnosc felt movement from within her body, his ears ‘facing’ each breast granting him a much internal sound which he didn’t really need to hear the movement of her bones, tendons, and even organs as well as her flowing blood to know that she was barely able to move her neck and head to look down at him and at his head between her breasts.

“...” - “...” After staying like this for a bit more in terms of seconds, seemingly at ease and comfortable while reminiscing, they went back to the action as an unwilling Ciemnosc was grabbed by the armored hands and fingers on his shoulders. He was gripped tightly, but even with her Power Energy infused into her full armor, she was still incapable of penetrating even her sharp armor’s nails into his skin.

Grab grab- fwoosh, roll roll roll roll- roll roll roll roll roll roll roll roll…

Opting for sending Ciemnosc away to no longer be hurt, and at such a disadvantage. Fu Lan threw Ciemnosc off while she herself became afflicted because of such forced strength mustered by her being used like this, ending up with both of them rolling on the ground with Fu Lan rolling a few extra dozens of meters, while Ciemnosc rolled over more than 200 meters away from where they separated from each other.

It was really Fu Lan’s strength that forced Ciemnosc’s body that far away, but Ciemnosc’s very own strength ended up ‘flying’ for even more than 100 meters during their whole time in the air after the body slam. When he was grabbed on by his shoulders and then thrown off, there was still a lot more distance needed to be covered by their speed not reducing one bit.

“Ugh… ah- cough cough- kaggh…” After finished being rolled over, Fu Lan began to help herself up, her fists against the dry, even hot ground. As she looked, the armor at her palm on her fingers had opened up quite a bit for each finger, some grains of sand entering it before being expelled with a few swings of her wrists while helping herself to stand up.

“...” On the other hand, Ciemnosc was still rolling around a bit more farther away, and seeing this, Fu Lan’s beautiful bright azure eyes slowly began to take in their current surroundings.

As she turned her body around a few times for a full 360 degrees, she saw that though they were still surrounded by the plains of the Region’s center, there was 1 forest to their southwest position and another to their southeast. But right now, they were in a really small land where only sand was available, like that of a desert, or even a beach. Like a dried-up, dead land.

Looking back at Ciemnosc’s figure that had already stopped rolling away and was even standing up, shaking the sand off and starting to look back at her, she then felt her heart thump, and so heavily at that, while Ciemnosc himself took his shirt off and even part of the upper sections from his pants, revealing quite a bit of the lower pelvis…

“Hmff,” through her nostrils, a questionable single chuckle came out from them and made a noise that had Ciemnosc place all of his attention on it and on her. After throwing away the disgusting sect’s uniform he had worn so far, Ciemnosc then began walking towards her.

Step step step… step step step step step… step step step step step step- dash~~!

At first, his initial 3 couple of footsteps were somewhat quick, but he wasn’t hurrying over at all, while Fu Lan watched him come to her and there was no murderous intention in each other’s eyes.

Then, Ciemnosc began to finally run towards Fu Lan, who was slowly picking her left-handed blade back into her left hand after having stored it. While Ciemnosc’s hands held his 2 swords as well.

At last, just when there were about 50 meters away from each other, and Ciemnosc was going almost full out on his run, Fu Lan’s soles of her shoes began to fire a blaze. While her dual blades began to be set aflame as well, her speed was incredible as she was faster than Ciemnosc even as he also went full out towards her!

Right before their subsequent clash, Ciemnosc could see her face tranquil, at ease, and content even. She was at peace and serene. Nothing else could be said about someone becoming such an enormous beauty and one hell of a woman; that he had to kill.

…whoosh… whoosh… … …CLANK! CLIN-CLAAANK! WHOOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH, RUMBLE~!...

Their figures were silent through the mini desert as they passed by the desertic land with both their bodies seeing so lonely. Their blades were no longer shining except for the pair set on fire that had already expanded over their owner’s whole armor and whose eyes turned a kind of crimson azure, as bright as the flames of any sun. And as the other’s swords’ blades simply became one with the night; finally met each other yet again… yet again.

Their left sword and right blade met each other, almost fully body to body. And despite the general knowledge of blades themselves being thinner than any other weapon with the edge, it was the swords that were thinner than these colliding blades’ bodies. As such bodies met one another, it was as if they were trying to break each other by cutting the other in half.

And nonetheless, it happened, just as the right sword and the left blade became a cross altogether and began to slowly incline towards the left respectively, while sparks came off nonstop, but only to be devoured by the dark power energy that surrounded Ciemnosc… The left sword and the right blade broke each other’s bodies apart.

Their edges became basically useless, and a light shone off from both of them as they broke and began to illuminate both their faces, the pure energy blasting off from the connection between 2 different sources of not only these 2 Mortal weapons but also from the purpose they were made of, their laws and… their nature. When they met each other, a chaotic result came to be, slowly engulfing the Power Energy of both parties and from their blades’ bodies and swords’ blades.

Furthermore, in the next several seconds their right sword and left blade were with just the lower section of their weapons, right above their handles, clashing off and sending sparks about that were then consumed by the dark. The pure energy, in actual slow motion, began to spread through their bodies.

For Fu Lan, it was her right arm’s armor disappearing wherever the seemingly endless pure energy went through, from just the small globe of white, translucent, and transparent pure energy from the connection of both their broken Mortal weapons. And for Ciemnosc, it was his left arm becoming engulfed by the pure energy. But it made only a few tickling to his hair, not even burning it to ashes or disappearing it, let alone hurting his skin.

Their surroundings, however, were going ultimately crazy. It was the craziest scene that Ciemnosc got to ever witness, even the ground right beneath them began to tremble!

Seemingly in response to the absurd one of a kind, the trillionth chance of something like their Mortal weapons connecting despite the absurd difference in their everything, and the entirety of life and all that exists… It all responded to such a marvelous, improbable, and never-before-seen sight.

It was even worse for the air all around them, as non-invisible blades and bursts all around them avoided their bodies like a plague but decorated the ‘night lights’ bathing them, and they spread over more than 100 meters around them. Yet, those two who were in the middle of all this trouble were just looking at each other while their arms were trying to go stronger and harsher against the other’s blade.

Swipe, cliiiiaaank~ …phhshk… phhshk.

At that very moment, Fu Lan’s left blade and Ciemnosc’s right blade lost whatever balance they had left. Fu Lan’s blade went over towards Ciemnosc’s heart, its aim was simply there, and its movements were slow, and in the meantime, her face armor was being disappeared from the pure energy that had spread just that much.

Ciemnosc’s sword slashed from his far right in front of him, towards her collarbone, for her still armored left arm and powerful, resistant arm also didn’t let him lower the aim of his sword to her heart, and aiming at her head would cost him a second or two even.

Their respective blade’s body and sword’s blade entered deeply into the other’s body, a large but not overly deep yet still deep gnash right below Fu Lan’s collarbone, and 2 inches above her breasts decorated her skin with her armor mostly gone, now revealing even her exhaustively beautiful face. Her tireless bright azure eyes looked endlessly at Ciemnosc while her sword pierced his left chest. Such ease and serenity were incarnated in her facial expressive beauty.

Time stopped for them, and even if it didn’t really do so, it still seemed to for them.

The pure energy already crossing over the left and right sides of their bodies, beginning to envelop their blade and sword respectively as well as what took away Fu Lan’s crimsonness from her eyes, not just from her blades.

And for Ciemnosc, though the dark Power Energy disappeared, his slightly pale skin, overly dark, pitch black hair, and darkest pools of all that can consume everything - kind of eyes - were still there no matter what. And now even more, as if enhanced, as if her eyes were allowed to see the truth, Fu Lan’s love when looking at him was as if finding all that she needed to find, all revealed to her.

Cliiiaaaaaank!...

And once again, with a much more ‘pacific’ development, their blade and sword began to break, this time by the actual mix of pure energy between 2 different natures and everything else; at all.

But instead of directly exploding, they first disappeared. The blade in Ciemnosc’s left chest went away, seemingly by an act of mercy from reality itself. While the sword below Fu Lan’s right shoulder, which had become stuck at a certain point in her body while laterally slashing, also began to disappear with mercy and gentleness.

Then, the pure energy from both of them went back towards their right and left respectively, joining with the already chaotic union of different pure energies. And right at the moment it happened, everything blew up to Fu Lan’s right. To Ciemnosc’s left. And while their eyes just went over to eat each other’s pair out while their chests bled.

BOOOOM~!!...

From the distance, oh so far away, a catastrophic explosion went out, illuminating even thousands of kilometers around but barely doing any damage to any more than 1,000 meters around the epicenter… Yet, it was all too deadliest, as a large sphere of extinction-destruction came to be and would create an enormous gaping hole, unexplainable and in the middle of nowhere from now on… Until the world itself ended.

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