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Ciemnosc didn't have the option to even have his eyes shrink, when the entire body of pure energy covered his hair, skin, clothes and even farther away to his back. Leaving not a single spot behind and completely engulfing Ciemnosc, everything around him was of that beautiful, transparent and translucent white - his clothes even 'burnt' to a crisp and then nothingness in just a moment, all while Ciemnosc was still facing up and even the hidden waters of the Little Lake still faced by his back.

But as his clothes did become nothing, and everything seemed to become shiny and everything glowed, yet not blinding in such a way. Ciemnosc’s slightly pale skin remained slightly pale, his hair remained as the pitches of all blacks and his eyes remained the darkest pair of things ever.

There was a sudden notion of peace, not a single move of his body could be felt, much less from his surroundings as there was this quietness that had come and stayed. But slowly, things seemed to move as he was already engulfed by the body of pure energy that seemed to even show signs of life just now…

While Ciemnosc seemed to have become part of the pure energy, it didn’t seem as if the body of pure energy that scampered him was trying to harm him; maybe it couldn’t even do that in the first place. So not only was Ciemnosc not panic stricken or suddenly long lost as soon as he was reached by it all, he was also conscious and sober as he saw twirls and swirls began to occur all around him, all as if forming a kind of scenery for his eyes.

Gurgle, gurgle, splash plash…

At this moment, Ciemnosc even heard the sounds of water and, according to his ever so obvious memories, those were indeed from the Little Lake. From the sounds, feelings came and Ciemnosc began to then also feel the warmth of the current time at the Little Lake in the way of some kind of absorption.

As a vapor-like substance seemed to fill him from the back, and the pure energy seemed to keep on dancing softly and meekly with Ciemnosc already engulfed, Ciemnosc began having this feeling… the feeling of… about to start finding answers.

His eyes changed, his pupils incredibly shrunk, along with his irises, they formed a sight of his white sclera becoming more enunciated up to the point where it was even scary, bizarre and unsettling, creepy, to take a look at his eyes who had not even-sized pupils and irises.

“... gasp.” Ciemnosc simply let out a silly, little exclamation from his slightly pale lips, and the whole surroundings around him began changing at last. The swirls from before went on faster and enlarger; more and more twirls of the body of pure energy appeared, creating a kind of sensation as if they were becoming larger but being projected forwards, up and down and not just becoming bigger as the swirls were.

The vapor that was coming from way below his back became more pronounced, getting to wet his back and the rest of his body by just passing him by and letting his entire appearance become as if in the middle of endless water with his hair fluttering back and up unlike with the motion of the body of pure energy which was to all possible angles.

Every time his hair fluttered by the body of pure energy, it was as if playful, but mostly with some strong tugs at his hair and moving very fast at certain intervals of time. When it came to his hair fluttering with the ‘vapor’ from below, his hair was as if in the water, stopping the sudden and ‘chaotic’ movements from the body of pure energy and making everything just look so incredibly peaceful and calm; quiet and even more peaceful.

The things ongoing around him were getting more and more boisterous, Ciemnosc was still falling, even if it felt like he was either falling with his back facing down forever or in an incredibly slowed down time. In the end, with his Spirit Sense going, running all amok and barely getting out of the body of pure energy, he could tell that it was still daylight and that there was indeed a sudden stop to all crazy movements not only ‘inside’ but also ‘outside’.

But that was soon going to change…

SPLASH~!!!!

Ciemnosc finally sensed the water of the Little Lake right below his back, his body was going to finally collide hard against the Little Lake. And while the pure energy seemed to be everywhere, even below water, Ciemnosc’s back was going to touch part of the ‘outside world’ again, or so he thought.

When he hit the water, his body was immediately sunk, first from his chest, below his collarbone and in-between his ribs. It was as if he was both being pulled from his spinal column and as if he was being heavily pushed down from that same spot on his chest, water quickly storming on top of his body, but didn’t invade his body despite Ciemnosc also not having enough time to put some of his dark Power Energy to cover himself.

In just a jiffy, only his forearms and below his knees remained visible, the rest of his body having gone just below the surface of the water level, but already invisible with not even a shadow being seen from above.

Then only his feet and hands were seen, with part of the wrists and shins still visible somehow, it was all changing from frame to frame like a problem was occurring with everything that existed all and everywhere at the same time.

Within just another frame, and the last one of the ‘chaoticness’ from inside and outside, only his fingers and his big toes remained visible, everything else below the water surface, with still not a shadow seen from above.

This time, slowly, his big toes and his hands’ fingers slowly sunk into the warm water of the Little Lake, all as his eyes which had never closer or even moved— it seemed —looked up above. But while he couldn’t be seen from above as soon as he went into the water, he could perfectly see everything above the waters of the Little Lake; even with his head going harder and faster with thinking and revelation like never before!

He could see… Ciemnosc was able to see… he was able to tell… from above, the pure energy and the waves of the Little Lake beginning to churn up and start ‘fighting’ against each other!

There was no sound, though. Ciemnosc could only see, as his scary and bizarre eyes could now for sure be seen trembling, how the pure energy and water met each other above the surface of the water where he was, not being affected in the slightest.

But that began to change as Ciemnosc felt his body moving ‘up and backwards’ as if he and the entire water surrounding him were being sucked or mobilized through a sudden yet slow movement. In his eyes, his ‘tiny’ eyes that were because of his pupils and irises shrinking just that much, reflected the images of pure energy exploding, going off and just blasting apart everywhere; including itself.

The water, on the other hand, rushed just like large and improbable torrents of water would, but at a much majestic level, with all of its water facing off the pure energy as if it was nothing, as if pure energy wasn’t the most essential thing in the world.

But… although there was no sound anywhere around Ciemnosc, it didn’t mean it was the same for the outside as it is within the the inside of ‘two worlds’ of sorts.

SPLASSSSHHH~!! BOOM B-B B-B B- B BBBBOOM KAP- POOOOOOOM!!!

On the outside, there were just noises that were capable of being heard by even the most ordinary of living beings from tens and tens of kilometers away, even a few hundreds of kilometers away. There were also huge, gigantic and simply impossibly tall demonstrations of the water and pure energy just coming and getting to each other, going all out as if trying to win by making the most thunderous sound that anyone within that range could hear.

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The sight of there being ‘things’ so far away taller than the more than tens of meters trees of the forests nearby and even more so from the ones that were cut down by the very same students of the base but were already gone with how clean the area had become of forests during the past few months; making all those extremely tall trees from the past just seem like children besides a hill when compared to the blue ‘water’ and the whitish ‘something from afar.

From the place where a battle occurred, just right outside a base, just when the victor was moving their fellow students’ corpses back to the base for proceeding with their funeral that their Chief in Command has clearly given them strict instructions with. And as they moved the other corpses just to form a pile and intending to throw it somewhere to rot and impregnate the surroundings with those cultivator’s nutritious selves to nature’s delight.

And from where they would then start moving the lifeless, large objects all basically littering around the battlefield, the sounds of those ‘two’ fighting off or ‘even playing’ scared the base off, all of them turned their heads to look up into the sky to the east only to find that magnificent sight.

From all of the students, 4 in particular who were now standing together once again and talking to each other, their silence was the most telling one. They looked to the east with knowledge of who was supposed to be there right now, but though they couldn’t tell what those things were and what was going on, they knew they had to trust Ciemnosc for keeping himself safe.

He should be able to, right? He’s their Chief in Command, after all.

…And, indeed, they didn’t have to worry. While Ciemnosc was indeed in the middle of it all, he was rather looking around from the inside as the pure energy and water seemed to be actually clashing off at first, with the latter ‘responding’ unwillingly.

But afterwards, and very soon for that matter from the moment they both began clashing, the water turned playful as well, as if convinced by the pure energy and began to willingly reciprocate to the body of pure energy. All went on and on while Ciemnosc was inside them, witnessing everything… studying them… understanding so many things.

From the outside, however, the Little Lake body of water wasn’t being levelled down in the slightest, still seemingly keeping the same amount of water despite having tens to even a couple of hundred meters-large torrents water to play with the pure energy which had just the same proportions to play with the water.

Ciemnosc would have gone crazy already, if he wasn’t already crazy that is. Just looking at water and the most precious thing of life, and of the whole cultivation world as universally; pure energy! Both playing around like living beings and shuddering him with endless emotions and thoughts, how could that not make even the most powerful beings in existence turn into madness and become obsolete in the fucking mind?!

The shores at the side, which were just a few hundreds and hundreds of kilometers in-between shore to shore, and yet were not the widest of the Little Lake in its entirety by even the slightest of nearing as being in the middle of the widest sections; were all completely fine.

The water and pure energy kept on playing like crazy, becoming even more ferocious and terrible than when they had initially and genuinely clashed. They now seemed to be so engrossed in losing themselves that Ciemnosc, who was constantly swimming between both bodies of ‘things’ could only lie his body to the intense and impossible movements for him to see through.

He also stopped using Spirit Sense, doing so only made him feel dizzier but not crazier, he was already up to the heavens for the latter one. All he could feel was his body, moving at speeds not even the Rychly Transporting Formation Array could hold a candle to, and that was only from the small, little and sudden movements that either the water or the pure energy did.

… It went out for what seemed like hours and hours inside Ciemnosc’s head, and even more with the things he was discovering. But in reality, not even 15 minutes went by before the bodies began to desist. The whitish body from afar could be seen shrinking, but mostly dispersing all around, while the body that was clearly of at least some liquid, blue, began to calm down and return to stand still back down.

Splassshhh… gurgle gurgle, splash~~...

Ciemnosc laid on the water with his back facing down, his eyes and frontal body facing the sky as he floated on the Little Lake. His arms sprawled, even somewhat above his head level, but his darkest eyes like bottomless pools capable of absorbing ‘all that exists and there is’ and even life itself still looked up into the sky; still looked up into the sky as he wasn’t finished yet.

Poke.

After a few minutes, still with some droplets that were falling from a cleared up sky barely in the middle of the morning, Ciemnosc’s eyelids had movements made to themselves, their motions letting the bits of water attached to his eyelashes drop onto his eyes but he remained unfazed.

Just as he was looking everywhere around himself, his eyes darting around, Ciemnosc felt the top left, back corner of his head bump onto a strong, solid wall of mud, dirt and rock all at the same time.

Gurgle, splashy splash.

‘Ouchie.’ Ciemnosc mentally exclaimed, very much for no reason, before sitting up. Even in the water, Ciemnosc simply placed his dark Power Energy over his bum and under his heels, and he literally just sat down on the water, like it had become either his to rule around to change its laws… or just discovered how to walk on such, utmost fragile substance and surfaces like water.

His body still fully naked, he looked all around, his eyes a tiny wee bit tad lost as if he was just having some fun in a playground but the kids he was getting to enjoy with were 15 minutes earlier gone than him and were already returning with their parents.

Splashh, splassshh, gurgle.

Standing up after looking at the still waters of the Little Lake, which itself and the pure energy covering over hundreds of kilometers from different angles all over the Little Lake had been ‘throwing’ his body all around and moving him along with their own movements.

It was now, all, completely the same as it has always been. As if it was only Ciemnosc’s craziness that allowed him to witness such a thing happening, from a most unlikely happening and an even most improbable possibility that would now remain in his head from now on. He wouldn’t dare to try things so casually, unless he became desperate and unless he just had no choice for whatever matter.

Otherwise, Ciemnosc didn’t find the wanting to once again awkwardly learn things that even up until now made his head hurt and that ‘something’ felt extremely sore. His that ‘something’ was already feeling heaved down since he made use of ‘it’ when he made that ‘captain’ end up killing himself without Ciemnosc even needing to move a single foot sideways.

But with the playfulness of these two damnable things, both his head and that ‘something’ came to hurt even more, but the boy could deal with it as he stood up and climbed up the steep shore of the Little Lake, back to his precious west where his base was.

“...” Ciemnosc looked back, once more, not turning around fully and simply gazed at the environment surrounding him, his bum bare and barely reflecting on the water. Not a single little splinter remained, anywhere, for the ‘fight’ of the Little Lake and the pure energy were brought way outside the limits of the former’s shores; the trees and thickets he came through were long gone and only a small quantity of its previous lusciousness remained.

Without telling a thing to the air, Ciemnosc moved away from the shore a few meters before taking his commanding vehicle out from his Covert Space bags and entered it right away. The warmth of the Little Lake might be really warm despite not being at its warmest in the morning, but Ciemnosc still felt none of it.

. . .

Just 20 minutes later, Ciemnosc went full speed back to the base.

When coming back, he noticed the cracks all over the now hidden light green barrier, his eyes easily reading through such a well hidden array formation of his. It wasn’t that he could see it just because he was the one to set up such a large array formation, such a thing couldn’t be anything else other than stupidity.

Rather, his eyes saw through everything that formed this array formation, and even if he looked in the distance to where the dormitories of the students were, which had now become empty, he could see that those bedrooms belonging to the ones from the Craftsmaking division had little arrays that he had spoken of during his teachings.

Some had barely started their arrays, which seemed to be dissipating for not having set their mini-array training formation well enough, while it could very well have been because of the sudden emergency. Some others were almost halfway done, but none were beyond that as it seemed that it was still difficult for them to comprehend.

“...” Ciemnosc felt weird and awkward, also cringe when noticing all of this, for he knew that he had it in himself and that there could very well be nobody alive who could even be somewhat ‘like him’ in this matter. But the way he had given his info, teaching them and telling them of his findings now… seemed so lame, even embarrassing and that is to say the least.

‘I’ll have to fix these things starting tomorrow.’ Ciemnosc thought, driving to the east of the base and starting to finally dress himself in his commanding vehicle, nakedness was his habitual state - he was born naked as well.

Passing over the east to the front of the base where its entrance lied, Ciemnosc’s commanding vehicle that could already be heard from afar caught every student’s attention, but they only stopped for a while before continuing to move some corpses while those farther away from the base began to pick up the armored cars that were left behind by some cowardly, running away enemies.

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