Let Tranquil Studies Begin

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From the enemy's side, there were 2 armored cars that were at the front, 2 at the rear, and 3 in the middle. But now, as only 3 armored cars were shooting, because only 3 armored cars were visible and still around, they were all still bombing the base of the academy. Before, there might have been a sort of protective array that broke away after 3 rounds of bombing managed to hit it consecutively as the commanding vehicle didn't have endless cannons available and had to prioritize the pure energy 'shells' that were aiming at the actual temporary base.

The commanding vehicle was only one and had 3 cannons which were the exact same as the 6 cannons that began bombing the academy’s base as soon as Ciemnosc was identified. With only a good reload speed and efficiency distinguish the 3 from the 6. Hence, the bombing was a difficult situation even as the aiming guidance system of the commanding vehicle’s cannons was shooting from before the enemy’s ‘shells’ could even come too close.

It was still a lot though, no matter even then, and in the end, the array formations protecting and inscribed all around the base were taken down by those enemy ‘shells’. There was no doubt that it caused damage to the construction sites, still needing just a few days more before some of them were finished, the storage building among them.

They all got a piece of pure energy either exploding nearby or directly onto them, making the work that has been ongoing for just 3 days before 2 weeks could be completed all futile.

It was also no doubt that there was a rage inside everyone’s hearts as they saw the constructions of buildings that they were all making, spending all day in, and getting to know so many of the others around them. But the discipline was more or less strictly embedded into their minds and they didn’t dare disobey. They could, otherwise, only watch as even some construction sites were completely destroyed.

But, on the other hand, and because they didn’t count with Ciemnosc’s aiming guidance system arrays, the enemy’s bombardment of the academy’s territory was pretty null to hit and take actual lives. Only taking away time and the work of those who live. Some explosions of pure energy even happened way outside or past the academy’s base, let alone the temporary base where the commanding vehicle was shooting from and making sure none hit the living beings.

At this point, even though the entire base was suffering damages, repairable but disastrous damages, the students slowly calmed down while watching their work gets done over with. Feeling comical; as they were at first even weirded out by having to build them, now feeling insulted as they are being taken down completely.

And also feel the danger of war and their incapability to do anything in it despite being the ones to be sent to it. They felt insulted left and right by the enemy and their Chief in Command, who deemed them worthless, but the feeling from their Chief in Command also slowly turned into two wholly different things.

One was the respect of seeing someone, from so far away, able to deal with so many Conflagrate realm cultivators that they even made an escape but ended up being killed even by just some rocks that Ciemnosc found among the snowy terrain. Though the students and the enemy all though he used some kind of sharp arrow or exploding knives as the bodies of the escaping, flying ones became dusty red and guts rained onto the ground far away from the battlefield.

And it was even more fantastic when seeing how so many armored cars, which boasted that even a Conflagrate realm couldn’t get through them, get through by their Chief in Command. They hadn’t tested yet the capabilities of one. But they were sure that when they got the chance, which seemed to be possible soon with the Chief in Command always going out to search for mines. They were going to get even more shocked once they knew how durable those armored cars were, and their respect would grow even further.

This was their Rocaloi Academy’s first and only current Genius!

And second: terror. They didn’t think that they could really just die. But seeing Ciemnosc just sweeping armored car after armored car, even if they were too idiotic, they could still tell that there should be people in those armored cars. Yet none came out as Ciemnosc seemed to store them, and it was even worse when seeing those pure energy explosions happen even just a few meters away from the temporary base’s perimeter.

Altogether, they were wing-showered with what was the veracity of a war, of a simple battle. They were being bathed in a sensation that was unknown to them despite all else that they knew. Their acknowledgment of the ‘major’ organizations was then founded, and correctly it was so.

… Step.

In another one of the armored cars, Ciemnosc suddenly made his appearance in front of so many enemy disciples and believers with the handles of his Mortal swords fully covered by blood, thickened and denser without drying out.

“Wait, no! Ciemnosc, Ciemnosc I was your trooper once, I was with you, I am with you- wait Ciemnosc!” As soon as he showed himself, and the tens of cultivators within saw the way the monster was looking at them, the way they seemed to have become his food, many already felt their coming deaths. But one of them began shooting while pedaling the air and trying to marginally float away from Ciemnosc still within the closed quarters of the armored car.

“GRAAAGHH!” The monster, Ciemnosc, heard not the loud and sharply screeching young man as he simply grabbed the head of the latter and slowly began squeezing his fingers into the young man’s skull. While he did, however, and with an annoyed face, Ciemnosc swung his left-handed sword over and over again.

Cuh, cuh, ckrsheerr crreeshhktok tok tuk tak.

While he cut through bodies, pulling and thrusting his left arm over and over again with as much speed and nimbleness as he could, Ciemnosc also got attacked by a few mice and some powerless rats with their own weapons, covered fully by their Power Energy in desperation as they couldn’t help becoming utterly hopeless when seeing their weapons break apart directly after hitting his body even if without any strength behind their arms and their Power Energy covering their whole weapon’s body in question.

If it wasn’t because 1, they were cultivators then it was because 2, the climate outside was quite cold and not a single armored car had the defensive properties against the environment as Ciemnosc’s previous armored cars did, they terrified and wide-eyed but slowly becoming expressionless faces would be sweaty and they might’ve already beginning to dirt all around.

In the end, just like in the rest, not a single body was left without a couple of stabbies from Ciemnosc’s sword, as it even cut through some parts of the armored car itself while dragging a few bodies with the flat side of the sword ending up making a few opening gaps here and there. And from 3 cannons firing away towards the base, only 2 remained.

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Ciemnosc repeated his usual activity for today. He came out of the armored car and watched as the other 2 armored cars which were quite close together still bombing the base, but without another 5 to shoot at it, nor with just another 1 to match the commanding vehicle itself, Ciemnosc was now able to make use of at least 1 canon to bombard anything else he wanted.

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But would Ciemnosc do that? Nope.

Step- fwoosh~.

While storing the corpse of that one who claimed to be from his army before, which Ciemnosc indeed recognized as one just among the others, for a snako later, Ciemnosc stepped once against the snow without his left foot burying deeply. In the next seconds, his body dashed fast and quickly towards the nearest armored car. But instead of entering it by a ‘self-made trapdoor’, he simply grabbed it by its right side and just shook it off!

Fwushoah~! Tilink tilan tilink tilan lankk…

“AAAH!” - “What’s going on!” - “Your whole hand was in my mouth, fucking idiot!” - “I had a fucking dick down my throat. What are you complaining about?!” - “Ooops, that was me~, sorrah~.”

From inside the armored car that Ciemnosc’s fingers simply went through and penetrated as if he was just grabbing dough, voices and exclamations could be heard. It didn’t take long for the voices and exclamations to become vomit noises, and the sounds of puking blood. Which Ciemnosc was quite familiar with, as well as the sounds of limbs, the torso, and even skulls being crushed.

The armored car that was being shaken in the air as if a baby was playing with it was naturally no longer shooting. And the hell that the students were going through earlier had already been lowered down to a negligible level. The students were now no longer crouching down or cringing, thinking they would die in just the next moment, as their backs slowly straightened up when watching the darkening skies no longer showing that many more shells of pure energy.

And rather than the enemy’s pure energy shells filling the skies, there were no longer any explosions of such occurring even remotely close. Only one cannon from the commanding vehicle was now working, shooting still to catch the enemy pure energy shells, and that was enough to have them explode even farther away than ever before from the base.

And Ciemnosc, seeing that the base was no longer in any case of danger, all of his troops basically being completely fine, despite their hurt hearts and pride. He let go of the armored car in his hands as it crashed not against the ground but against the other armored car immediately crippling the other armored car that was still shooting but was amidst reloading.

Crash. Bugsh, bugsh bugsh, sssshhglaaagghhh sssshhglaaagghhh sssshhglaaagghhh~...

The armored car on top and below made quite the noise, while the one on top had only sounds of many, many things either rolling around or stumbling about within the armored car with the always welcoming sound of flesh and viscous stuff falling and being slammed, as well as moving here and there a little nonstop.

On the other hand, the armored car below did have people screaming the first 2 seconds, but as the armored car above descended more and more onto the one below, the noises quickly disappeared. They were all probably taken by surprise still sitting on their seats or standing.

Their dying last noises were like those of mice being eaten by a bullfrog, there just was no escape, but the will to live was there, despite them not having any chance of even remaining with a corpse that wasn’t separated by more than 2 occasions.

In the end, cracking noises sounded nonstop as Ciemnosc watched the one on top fall even further down to the one below, they were either dead or not conscious anymore, but so many cracking noises made his skin numb. It felt as if he was the one doing those cracking noises with just his jaw having a nutritious meal.

“...” Shaking his head as he no longer heard the noises of death, he stored both the armored cars, which became slightly useless. But in his eyes, they were just a little challenging to restore. Besides, these were obviously of the previous ones, those that were already made when Ciemnosc hadn’t even arrived at the Self-Mutilating Honores Sect; they were the ‘bad quality’ kind in Ciemnosc’s armoredstuary.

Ciemnosc saw lots of blood come down, almost coagulated already with all the foam around and the whitish liquid that seemed to be the main reason for there to be foam. Though he couldn’t tell how much of that came from the juices of organs or the sexual organs of both male and female with exactitude, Ciemnosc was well aware that no one survived the ‘tragedy’.

Eyes were the ones that ‘survived’ the most among the remains of the enemy disciples and believers. Though some others died with their puppets, corpses, and broken weapons together with them. Some of them had their tools or weapons embedded into themselves in even more tragic ways to imagine.

Other than that, there were just too many pieces of sole flesh lying around, and slowly buried themselves not under the ground or the dirt, but in the snow only.

While enjoying the sight, even contemplating and praising it a little in his heart, Ciemnosc was just beginning to feel satisfied for not being able to use his Claws Out and his especially little whip out. When suddenly he heard the marching of thousands of feet all rushing towards the base, and Ciemnosc became annoyed again, ‘Agh, gotta use these ones again.’

Giving a look at his thin Mortal swords in his hands and about to his waist height level, Ciemnosc lowered his chin, sinking it into his neck as he opened his slightly pale lips to say something to the communication device attached to this collar… suddenly stepping with all his strength forwards and wielding his thin Mortal swords harder than before!

Cracks appeared easily all around the handles of and even… on the blades themselves.

… On the other hand, just as a couple of minutes went by with the students at the temporary base noticing that there were no other sounds whatsoever from any cannon firing away, Missa and the rest of Ciemnosc’s team were slowly standing up fully again, and looking so far into the distance.

“Missa, I’m going to take another walk, let everyone go out and take a rest for the rest of their day but to assess the damage. Tomorrow to repair…” Suddenly, from her uniform’s collar, Missa heard dear Genius Ciemnosc’s words drill into her ears and whole self. She was nodding her head, still slightly awestruck when she suddenly felt herself awakening, and just as she wanted to respond properly to Ciemnosc, there was a ’chk’ sound of something close.

“Ah…” With her mouth left open, Missa looked at her other teammates, and only after a good while of looking at each other in shock and vehemently elation did she mumble. “He fucking killed them all off…”

“...” - “...” - “...” The other 3 had nothing to say to that, only that their team leader and their Chief in Command, also their academy’s Genius… was fucking incredible alright!

“Everyone, it is now safe to go out,” from the communication devices of many, of all, Missa’s voice sounded and cleared the doubts off their minds. Their eyes slowly came to no longer narrow or press together in worry and uncertainty. And their hearts felt at ease while their lungs felt alive again and their sides, around their ribs, as if they were just unclogged of fear.

“Now everyone move out, get to your respective spots. Today is going to be a resting day, Chief’s orders, but go out and examine the damages done to your activities for tomorrow. Missa out.” As soon as she finished saying that, she took a few more steps along with the blondie, Fatima, and posed over a rock fully covered in snow and a layer of ice, only to see the tens of thousands of students move in unison to their respective construction sites and material processing spots.

“It’s amazing.” Said Fatima, placing her blonde hair behind her left ear and watching the backs of the many students walk slowly to their own places to go, not needing any guidance from the leading students, both old and new who were looking out for those, who they were in charge of.

“Mn, you don’t see this even in the academy, Chief in Command is… hm,” Missa commented, watching as the sun settled down to their left and the coldness from the night and its freshness slowly came to greet all living beings on the snowy parts of the world.

. . .

An hour later, from the already nightly skies, even as it was just the evening, a tiny figure went into the commanding car and slowly drove back to the base.

… trckrr.

While there was no longer much movement within the base, in the temporary base, many lights were on as there were a few bonfires here and there at the corners of the temporary base, and with hundreds of students staying there for a few minutes before standing up and letting others rest around the bonfire. Besides that, there were lights here and there in a few tents, while the large and main tents were all dark instead.

With the sound of the motor of the commanding vehicle coming in, everyone understood that the Chief in Command was coming back and, without causing much disorder or a situation, students from all over the place stood up and watched as the commanding vehicle slowly came into their territory.

Though there were a lot of beating hearts becoming restless, when a pair of bloody shoes only came down from the commanding vehicle already in front of the temporary base, everyone could see how the rest of Ciemnosc’s body was clean and even spotless. Naturally, the gore from before and from the massacre that he might have done without them was all cleaned up by Power Energy. And his dark Power Energy was very good at cleaning the remains of living beings unbeknownst to them.

He, of course, left only his shoes to be still well bathed in blood and even with some disgusting smell of flesh on them as he walked into the temporary base with the commanding vehicle being stored. As for the armored cars, he could make a distribution of some later, besides his teammates, of course, being unfair is fun sometimes anyway.

Ciemnosc, very comfortably as if he was a changed man, but only because he got to solidify his cultivation base to a beyond-extreme level, which was naturally only ‘normal’ or even ‘possible’ for him; walked towards the large and main tent.

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