Wrath Nihility Academy
"What for?" Heian Ciemnosc asked as he was brought here and there through the vegetation and trees longer than 13 minutes. Hong Mei turned her head around but continued to walk forward, "Alyona said she wanted to be the one to help you breakthrough into the Obsidiafying realm."
She stopped, looked down, and shyly said with her sweet voice, "I offered myself, but... She said, I moved my lips to chew more than I could and gulp. So I can only choose where you'll have your breakthrough."
Continuing forward, she looked back again and made it clear to him, and made gestures with her palms showing towards him, "It is important, crucial. Every realm, of every Step. Even if it is a realm in the middle stages of the First Step, it is crucial for your life, path, and soul. Doing a wrong turn in the middle of a breakthrough. Even if your foundation is so solid, it can surpass anyone I've ever seen before. That's including the boss."
“Oh, you care about me, and so much.” Heian Ciemnosc said. She turned around and continued to trek forth, just slowly this time. He came behind her, and hands immediately appeared on her waist from behind, holding her softly as she sharply breathed into her chest. She turned around after placing her left hand at the back of his left-handed fingers, saying with a blush on their cheeks. “Of course I do. If anything’s good with you and boss. Then I’d like to be your partner.”
Heian Ciemnosc looked directly at her and tilted his head to the left, his eyes calm as he gazed into her eyes. It wasn’t just his body being hurt all the time. Hong Mei would give him clear and abundant knowledge of whatever she had. Hiding nothing, it was as if she expected him to learn the basics from her and the rest on his own.
He had started slowly thinking and comprehending. He was spending more time meditating than sleeping, and Alyona was more than glad to rest her head on his lap to sleep whenever it wasn’t her turn to go take care of things during the night. Which were very few compared to Elyor’s time spent at night working on things she used to do all the time. If anything, only a couple of engaged horny dogs were harmed by this development.
With Hong Mei’s knowledge of nature, of reading the people’s bodies with just a glance and what he thought so much as an ‘enhanced glance’ being recognized as a natural glance, eye, sight, and henceforth. Among other things, things that made him doubt his identity more than before, such as his unknown but known familiarity with non-clarified flora, fauna, and even people’s potential and talents he saw previously. Like in Missa and Schnell.
“I believe Alyona likes you, though he won’t let anyone get close to me. A couple girls trying to accidentally enter the boy’s showers when I was there have been spanked. I heard.” Heian Ciemnosc looked at her and said, not deviating his gaze or feeling the cowardice of fickle men in such situations. “And I think she would be glad to see I’m receiving attention like this, and so fast without drama, for sure…”
Towards his final words, Heian Ciemnosc looked down. His voice also became quite saddened out of nowhere. Never having seen nor heard him in this way, Hong Mei was stunned, but she didn’t become distracted as she lifted her right eyebrow slightly. “Who is ‘she’? If not, boss Alyona?”
“... My mother.” Looking at her, Heian Ciemnosc said without hesitating, he just glanced at her for a second before responding as if through his eyes, he could let his Mommy evaluate this fine piece of meat that has done a lot for him already. Extracurricular.
“Oh, that’s wonderful to hear,” Hong Mei made crescent moons out of her eyes, showing understanding and slowly turning around. This time, she took 2 steps back to stand abreast of him and then resumed their walking.
… After another 3 minutes, Heian Ciemnosc was brought to a tree that looked simple, thin, and so old it could die at any moment. Hong Mei looked at it from below, all the way to the top, a serene expression on her face as she said with a relaxing tone. “This one is pretty old, but it s also the forefather of this place. You see, spaceships used to only use technology to be operated. But some Archeons before the Great Sage’s Change. That were changed to things like this.”
“It doesn’t need cultivation. It can be maintained with anything. Stones, pure energy, Elemental poison from the universe and nature. This Carrier uses all. Don’t get it wrong, it’s a really high cost, but Carriers need this much when they are as large as moons and ampler than most spatial installations.” She explained, sounding slightly proud of the Carrier, ey.
“Most Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers, and Fighters use one of those at the very least. The most problematic 2 options for citizens to operate these independently are pure energy and Stones. Elemental poisoning is everywhere in space, and spaceships’ cores are very decent in our times. You never hear anymore about a core malfunctioning in the middle of a battle or being too vulnerable to being neutralized by a citizen electronic weapon, let alone a cultivator’s means.”
“But in the case of our Carrier, we use all of those but depend vastly on this place, the heart of the Carrier, to operate it endlessly. It’s a really peaceful place here. I’ll give you access whenever you want after your breakthrough into the Obsidiafying realm.” Hong Mei said, tugging him with his right elbow on his left arm. Then, she closed his left ear and softly whispered. “I don’t mind being spanked by boss. I know she will go very soft on me.”
“I will, but I’m not sure Tania would do as well.” A voice came from behind them, Hong Mei looked down, and in a panic, she became paralyzed. Heian Ciemnosc turned around and faced Alyona, who looked at him casually, without an ounce of blame or hate in them. ‘Ah, she’s so powerful. What a woman.’
“Heian Ciemnosc, sit with your back against the tree. Let it help you rest and tranquilize. I know you’re ready to breakthrough already and can do it at any moment’s notice. But first do that, and while you do, I’ll tell you what to do.” Alyona said. Heian Ciemnosc nodded and took his clothes off while Hong Mei helped him keep them as his Covert Space bags were long disposed of.
Rustle, slap, rustle, tap.
While he undressed, his pale-skinned chest was slapped by Alyona, who then moved him to the tree trunk while Hong Mei had a womanly blush across her face. Heian Ciemnosc sat on the ground, his bum meeting dirt and grass, which swayed and even accommodated to let him comfortably rest on them. Then the tree’s trunk itself moved! It began changing its surface, making it smoother and a nook for his back and head to lean backwards.
“Now, close your eyes. Listen to my words,” Alyona said before making a pause. There was a pleasant and comforting silence even before Heian Ciemnosc closed his eyes. There was no sun nor much light around, but it was all cozy, and he felt like the living beings, which are all flora in this zone, were taking care of him and existing just to coax him to relax. And even as Heian Ciemnosc knew about this, it would be dum instead to refuse help from a much more powerful and knowledgeable cultivator.
“The Obsidiafying realm is broken through by merging your body to your Psychogenic and Dantian Links with your bones, flesh, skin, organs, articulation, and bone marrow. It isn’t a job that is simply done by expanding your Links. Every part of your body has to be one with your Links. That will open the path in a later future for your Linked Body. Anything goes wrong, and you’ll be in great trouble.”
“Start by condensing pure energy into you, do not be shy. This place belongs to you.” Alyona spoke, and Heian Ciemnosc started sucking in pure energy from his surroundings. The flora around him swayed a little despite the strong currents of pure energy flying straight into his body. Meanwhile, he sat cross-legged, and Alyona continued. “Have your Power Energy concentrated in your Psychogenic and Dantian Links, keep it within and let your blood run slower. At a snail’s pace.”
Heian Ciemnosc followed her instructions. His inner self began to have changed, his dark Power Energy started moving altogether towards his Links, and his blood slowly came to a pace finally detectable to Alyona. While Hong Mei had distanced herself a little but could still sense the change. The pure energy sucked into his body though alarmingly fast and in large amounts was just a slightly long glance from the two.
“There,” seeing his inner body’s changes, Alyona crouched just half a meter before him. Her face was serious, “Now extend your Psychogenic and Dantian Links. Find a way to do it your own way. Once it is extended, separate it. Like limbs or extremities, and take your time to organize yourself. Plunge those limbs or extremities into every part of your body as I told you to!”
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Heian Ciemnosc did as instructed. His blood was already so slow he could barely breathe, but it was alright for now. Even hours without oxygen or with his organs sleeping, anyone in the conflagrate realm could survive for that much.
His dark Power Energy extended along his Psychogenic and Dantian Links. They first expanded downwards, towards his navel and sides of his body. The Dantian Link could only go down, but that didn’t mean the Psychogenic Link would only go up. Their joint connection made a stain of pure blackness, one that became a fist’s size and traveled downwards right above where his manhood’s base where it waited.
Then, his Psychogenic went up on its own, movings to his head with the same type of fist made out of pure blackness. One for his head, his skull, and another 2, which rested on his upper left and right chest. Those 3 ‘fists’ were connected to his Psychogenic Link. While the other one was connected only through his Dantian and Psychogenic Link. And according to Alyona’s words, it wasn’t how he should continue.
Taking only 2 moments to think, Heian Ciemnosc began making another move. His Psychogenic and Dantian Links were still and always going to be united. As such, they were always the same, but that didn’t mean they became one single point of cultivation. The Psychogenic has been read by Heian Ciemnosc before, in others’ bodies, and their Spirit Sense potential laid there. Their cultivation potential could be read through their Dantian.
Similarly, as Heian Ciemnosc was connecting them, it wouldn’t be the same the ‘fists’ in his upper body as the one in his lower body. Thus, Heian Ciemnosc began to effectuate his dark blood and dark Power Energy from the Dantian to the Psychogenic and vice versa.
The dark Power Energy coming down from the Psychogenic Link to the Dantian would turn and fuse together, sharing the same properties, effectively cooperating with Spirit Sense and dark Power Energy.
The dark Power Energy coming up from the Dantian Link to the Psychogenic would only increase the efficiency of such. It would empower the link between those limbs, sharing their properties at the same time and without needing to create several fists anymore that were unnecessarily long. Heian Ciemnosc was starting to feel the brunt as his blood slowed down and began to be poured into his Links, effectively weakening him and threatening his life.
As he shared his Links’ properties and unique qualities, Heian Ciemnosc made those 4 fists into 2, one up and one down. The one in his upper body was at the center of his collar bone, condensed after tracing the 3 fists back into that point. But he also began slowly moving it up his throat where his apple was located.
The one below was moved to the lowest section of his pelvis but farther away from the base of his penis, leaving more room to move with all sorts of pathways he could imagine. Heian Ciemnosc began to feel weaker and weaker the more he did this. Only now did he comprehend the casualty rate of breaking into the Obsidiafying realm.
Heian Ciemnosc even felt the time he thought he was spending doing this was much more than he could imagine. He was already very aware of time, even in places and situations unfavorable for him with such prowess and perception. So Heian Ciemnosc intricately understood that more time went by while breaking through.
Finally, Heian Ciemnosc felt his preparations complete. He began to move from those fists’ little limbs that looked like mere lines, traces of a pencil without a clear substance and looking like they could disappear at any moment. Their trajectory was uniform and steady, lineal as they moved towards every part of his body. From his toes to his skull, those little limbs filled his body with their tracing. Forming a net within his body and under his skin, visible to anyone who saw his bare body from the front, back, up and down.
This wasn’t something that was ‘normal’ when breaking into the Obsidiafying realm, and Heian Ciemnosc went on with it with utter precision under Alyona’s instructions. The little limbs didn’t connect right away, some were slower than others, and others were farther apart from their target than the rest. When the little limbs were less than a millimeter from connecting, Heian Ciemnosc stopped them with solid stability.
One by one, they reached everywhere, stopping just that minimal distance while Heian Ciemnosc manipulated them all at the same time. When they finally had all been placed in position, Heian Ciemnosc prepared. He reunited his strength which was becoming less and less… before making his move all at once!
PSHIFT- PSHIFTPSHIFTPSHIFTPSHIFTPSHIFTPSHIFTPSHIFTPSHISFT…
They were the sound of energy moving but were as loud as thunder inside Heian Ciemnosc’s body. The little limbs suddenly formed their connection, touching his body and… making it one with his Links!
‘!!!’ Heian Ciemnosc’s mind fell attacked. But his soul made its presence stronger at this moment as if launching itself into a storm in the middle of the sea and showing him where to hold onto. His inner view was focused on his soul for a good moment, and when he became calm enough, he continued to breakthrough!
‘Come to me. I own you… pure energy!!’ Heian Ciemnosc glanced at the endless, boundless darkness. He saw himself within it, not trapped nor lost, but simply waiting there as if something or some watching him. And then, as if by art of his words, billions of tiny strands of white appeared all around him… in his darkness.
PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT! PSHIFT!...
‘Breakthrough!’ Heian Ciemnosc yelled in his mind, and so did his inner self yell out, receiving the millions, tens of millions… billions of strands of white, rushing at him with madness and zeal like they existed and were made to be consumed!!
In an instant’s breath, the darkness that had always been endlessly empty became filled with white strands of whatever they were. All it mattered was: they were Heian Ciemnosc’s ingredients in his breakthrough. Into the Academy and into the goddamn future he promised his Mother he would have!!!
PSHIIIIIIIIII- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFSSSHHHTTT~!!!
Heian Ciemnosc felt like roaring, but he couldn’t feel anything at this moment other than consuming so much pure energy he could not believe his eyes, heart, or thoughts. Just when he couldn’t hear anything but the incoming white strands, as if moths attracted to hellish flames, he felt his inner body break apart as something seemed to be set free!
Everything went up a level. The darkness within changed. It suddenly soared and spread all-over the place, grabbing, lunging, and snatching more and even more white strands into… Heian Ciemnosc himself!!
The devouring rate increased, and the speed at which he was presented with pure energy was too incredible! Heian Ciemnosc felt his body bloat repeatedly, releasing and becoming bloated until there were no more white strands. But when there were billions of shapeless forms of darkness that were why Heian Ciemnosc could consume them all, he no longer had the notion of breaking through. He practically lost himself.
Yet, Heian Ciemnosc remained lucid and exhilarated even as he consumed everyone and every pure energy thing!
“!!!” Just then, Heian Ciemnosc, in his inner self, realized that these shapeless limbs of darkness weren’t an ‘aid’ towards him, but he himself! Yet, when he discovered this, and even felt like he now had a body t speak of, with an appearance identical to his own, he felt darkness engulf everything in this already dark enough space. His vision, as if going through a stream of water at high intensity, focused entirely on striking him in the eyes, was lost, and he felt like he was pushed into a sweet, pure slumber.
. . .
“... He’s awake now.” Alyona’s voice could be heard, followed by a sweet one. Which was close to Alyona's. “Really? Oh, he is. Then he’s really okay, phew~~.”
‘Aggh.’ Heian Ciemnosc struggled to open his eyes. He felt his lips, skin, and blood wrinkled and dried up but somehow recovering at an impossible regeneration speed. A few attempts to open his eyes later, each try taking him tens and tens of seconds, Heian Ciemnosc’s body finally had enough strength and energy to support his body up with his elbows on the ground.
“Huu- haaff, haff… huaf- ah,” Heian Ciemnosc bemoaned, his lungs feeling alive like never before, as if they were being clutched by cruel, deathly hands all this time. His eyelids were heavy but now open. Heian Ciemnosc saw Alyona and Hong Mei standing before him a couple meters away. After they looked at each other, they closed in on Heian Ciemnosc, helped him up, held his arms, and placed them around their shoulders.
“How long was I gone?” Heian Ciemnosc barely managed to ask. His lips and jaw felt sore after so much work was done. He was still, after all, afflicted by his previous insane act in the Sinvonnia Kingdom and its surroundings. Alyon responded, to his left and with her left eyebrow soaring into her beautiful forehead’s skin. “Several hours, 5 to be exact. You were… different than what is known… we were… worried.”
“Mn, Alyona looked at me with ‘a’ glare several times. But I also didn’t know what to do, and your pure energy absorption suddenly increased after you broke through. It was scary.” Hong Mei chipped in, leaning her head to the right. Her concerned little face was so sweet to look at, Heian Ciemnosc felt.
“... Oh,” Heian Ciemnosc checked his cultivation base, only to find it was in the Obsidiafying realm 5th stage!!
“... Thank you for worrying… I’ll work hard, I promise… I’m guessing… breakfast?” Heian Ciemnosc said with his head low. Then, he lifted it and looked left and right, painting an ever so wonderful face on Hong Mei’s with his words, and when he looked at her, while Alyone was peacefully looking into his eyes before planting his forehead a warm kiss.
“That’s my man.” After saying that, Alyona shoved something into his hands and began dressing him instantaneously, with her left hand holding a piece of his clothes and the right hand the skin of his body.
“Oh… heh.” Looking at the letter, which was more like a piece of paper with Alyona’s message and signature, as it read in between the few words ‘Wrath Nihility Academy’ and Alyona Crimsonbreaking on them.
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