Traveling Through The Semi-Dimension's Continent

Swish! P- pom. Heian Ciemnosc said nothing and sent his right fist towards the rocky creature, but it was received by its left hand, which formed a pause between their bodies. Heian Ciemnosc immediately sent his left arm forwards, dark Power Energy, and all 32,000 kg of bodily strength added to the notion. But the rocky figure repeated its actions. This time, however, it employed Power Energy that Heian Ciemnosc couldn't compare to, sending it out in waves as it grabbed Heian Ciemnosc's left fist.

Waang~, pshift, pshift~, pshiiift~~... Heian Ciemnosc looked at the rocky creature, not bothering about its Power Energy harming his knuckles and scrapping some of his skin. They looked at each other in this silent bout, and for a while, the rocky figure seemed somewhat thoughtful as Heian Ciemnosc showed it what being relentless meant. Just as it was beginning to think of a following attack and got used to its small body, it felt its body light as its legs flapped upwards!

… …. … … Tak! Tuk! Cuuuuh…

The rocky figure ‘heard’ a tenebrous but silent sound. However, when it heard that noise, it felt its legs up as the ceiling welcomed its eyes. Before the rocky creature could do anything, it saw a hand with dark claws trying to stab at its face! The rock figure tried holding the wrist, and it succeeded! But before its mind allowed it to think of a counterattack, Heian Ciemnosc’s Vocón Link was already entangling the rocky creature’s waist.

PAM PAM PAM, POOOM- SLIIIDE~ BAAM!

Heian Ciemnosc grabbed the rocky creature’s body, with its hands still holding onto his wrist. He directly punched it with his other hand, broke some layers of stone, and forced the now platinum-stony hands to let go. Immediately afterward, the rocky creature’s body was slammed against the ground, sounding a thundering and rumbling noise that didn’t last before another followed! Heian Ciemnosc swung its body back and forth as the rock creature started forming lumps and sharp spikes around its body to try breaking the Vocón Link and cushion the impacts.

However, this was the first time Heian Ciemnosc took his Vocón Link, the first time he utilized his innate Supreme Art in this fight other than his Claws Out. Heian Ciemnosc started going all-out to kill! If he couldn’t make this rocky creature cease reanimating, then it would be a problem for the Heian Ciemnosc of the future. But for now, it all depended on him, so this thing finally met the ground for real!

At some point, Heian Ciemnosc no longer swung the rocky creature’s body to the ground but threw it sideways as it slid for a few seconds. Its body had been far too improved during previous evolutions. Before, this act alone would cause its face to disappear and at least a limb to be halved. Now, however, all Heian Ciemnosc accomplished by throwing the rocky figure’s body to the side was to leave a wide mark on the ground.

The rocky creature slowly stood up when the sliding force was receding. When it stood on its feet, Heian Ciemnosc looked at it already, his eyes as ultimately cold and as serene as always. But when the rocky figure looked more into what was behind, it felt a kind of innate, primitive fear. However, even if it knew strictly what Heian Ciemnosc was trying and how to deal with it, it didn’t have knowledge on how to use its Soul, even if it was ‘borrowed’ so to say.

Fwuh-pa! Suddenly, the rocky creature felt something in its chest. For the first time, it felt pain! But it couldn’t understand it, and instead, it thought it was another kind of reanimation without needing to die. However, before it could have the thought of having gained an advantage against Heian Ciemnosc… Its face was lifted as it looked at Heian Ciemnosc’s face, seemingly having noticed something… and saw it!

Within Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, there was finally color. But it was nothing beautiful or striking, none of that. It was ordinary orange and yellow, with specks of darkness flying around his eyeballs… Those were flames! The rocky creature had never seen fire, only rocks and flesh. But seeing those flames in Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes for the first time, it instinctively looked back to its chest, feeling scaringly apprehensive!

Step, tap- whoosh! Heian Ciemnosc didn’t give it time to figure out what was happening. He could feel his dark flame ignited and forming an area where any material was melting inside the rocky figure’s chest, right in the middle. Although nothing could be seen from the outside, and he didn’t know if it could be easily detected or not, Heian Ciemnosc was also sure only the person whom he affected would realize what was going on. This rocky figure had a Soul, but it wasn’t as natural as that of any newborn.

Sending his feet into the air after kicking the ground, lifting slightly more dust in a ring around his position, and forming a miserable crack on the floor, Heian Ciemnosc lunged at the rocky creature, still shaken to feel alive. His Claws Out mercilessly stabbed the rocky figure’s sides, targeting where ribs would be. However, only stone pieces and rubble came out as Heian Ciemnosc repeatedly stabbed and pulled his dark claws out to hurt it in many different but nearby spots.

Pak, crush- pok paka… Heian Ciemnosc’s fingers disappeared into the rocky creature’s sides. It didn’t hurt it, but as Heian Ciemnosc did, his dark flame continued to pose a threat to its new body. It rapidly sent an effort into concentrating its rigorous Power Energy at its mouth before shooting at Heian Ciemnosc with it. Heian Ciemnosc looked on with intrigue and not caring about it. But when the Power Energy attack condensed and was about to be shot, he stopped his stabbing motions and kicked its torso.

PSHIFT~! Whoosh- pew!!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body arched forwards as if in slow motion. But the rocky creature’s body was still the same as it was half a second ago, with the only difference being that dark claws were no longer entering and re-entering its body repeatedly. Its face, however, was aiming higher up than before, following Heian Ciemnosc’s movements. But all Heian Ciemnosc received in midair was the astonishingly loud and rapid sound of that Power Energy attack passing before his face.

‘Wooh… so powerful.’ Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes looked at the thing pass by without a problem, but he also had to employ his whole nimbleness. Heian Ciemnosc watched as the noise almost caused a ringing sound in his ears before the Power Energy attack embedded itself into the ceiling, dug for a few meters, and disappeared. He looked back down at the rocky figure, whose body flew up, and its right arm rapidly and heavily punched at Heian Ciemnosc’s stomach.

Pam! Wheeesh- Thuuuud!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body was hit and sent flying downwards. The rocky creature followed its speed on par with Heian Ciemnosc’s as he created a large area of dust. The rocky figure moved precisely in Heian Ciemnosc’s direction and nose-dived with its left foot aiming at him. However, as the dust settled apart, Heian Ciemnosc’s standing figure showed, causing the rocky creature to flinch momentarily before decisively continuing its motion.

Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes were without urgency as he watched the rocky creature’s body closing in. His darkest eyes slowly grew totally pitch-black, turning the sclera into darkness… Meanwhile, he lifted his right arm in the same direction the stony leg was moving towards him. When hand and foot were about to meet one another, Heian Ciemnosc rotated his wrist as his palm touched its heel and continued upwards as its body descended.

Sliiide~- GRAB! Pom, pom- Pa- crack! Cuh-... cruushhh!

Heian Ciemnosc’s right-handed fingers slowly started clenching, his movement not passing unnoticed by the rocky creature. It couldn’t do something and could only keep descending, hoping to land a blow on Heian Ciemnosc before he could do something to its new, fun body. However, Heian Ciemnosc’s fingers fully clutched and stopped the rocky figure’s descent when his right palm was just below the nook of its left leg.

Heian Ciemnosc’s fingers pushed into its stony skin and stabbed it with them, holding the rocky creature’s body stagnant in the air. The rocky figure was startled and tried retracting its leg but couldn’t. With its right leg, it started barraging Heian Ciemnosc’s chest with kicks. Those kicks weren’t for nothing, fully enhanced by its Power Energy and causing some blood to churn and splash within him. Heian Ciemnosc looked up at its stony face and slowly let it realize such damage was nothing to him.

Bowwbooumb… A familiar sound to Heian Ciemnosc’s pleasure went off as it did. Heian Ciemnosc’s eyes turned wholly pitch-black. The rocky creature had an even stronger urge to flee, its instinctive fear returning like never before as it ignored the Vocón Link slowly coiling around its trapped left leg. However, it lasted either too little or too fast. But the rocky creature could only sense its surroundings no longer belonged to the cave it was born in, but something that was strangely similar.

Stolen novel; please report.

Even as the cave was illuminated by molting rocks, it was obscure in the cave. However, the darkness the rocky creature experienced this time was nothing like that. And as its surroundings were filled with only that, only the sight of Heian Ciemnosc below itself remained until it started fading into the shadows. The creature felt its body still entangled by something, but it knew Heian Ciemnosc’s body was no longer holding it.

Trying to move was difficult. It couldn’t even tell which place its body was moving and in which direction, but it kept trying nonetheless. At last, it seemed to find what was coiling its left leg and part of its torso’s left side. Just as the stony creature felt Heian Ciemnosc’s Vocón Link, its enemy’s face reappeared before him. The rocky figure didn’t know when, but it now understood they were both on the ground, and it was with its back against it.

Heian Ciemnosc appeared above it, stepping forwards. He looked down at the rocky creature and its helpless state. Then, with a command from his mind, his Vocón Link instantly activated its painful feature. As the Vocón Link’s extremity hovered above the rocky figure’s chest, it suddenly sunk into its sternum. The creature struggled instantly. It still could not scream, but the pain it felt was impossibly real!

“...” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes were ultimately cold, looking at the rocky creature without any other intention than to exterminate it. Playtime was over, and after hiding his Vocón Link for so long, it was finally getting the fun it deserved so much. As the Vocón Link started squirming, pulling, and digging into the rocky figure’s chest repeatedly, it had difficulties progressing and effectively getting into the creature’s body, but it was advancing slowly.

When the Vocón Link met with the dark flame, they ‘greeted’ each other before devouring the rocky creature’s insides, starting from the core of its chest. However, at that moment, it suddenly sprung with endless Power Energy as its head distorted. Its jaw suddenly elongated and broke apart from its body as if it had screamed to the top of its lungs for the last time.

PSHIIIFT!! BAAAAH~, WHOOOOSH… Heian Ciemnosc’s body was forced backwards with his limbs forwards and his back slightly arching. He watched as his Vocón Link stiffened and kept him from flying further away. However, even as Heian Ciemnosc enhanced his skin with dark Power Energy, it wasn’t enough to remain unharmed against this explosive, rigorous Power Energy. His pale skin was gaining new, dark, bloody spots, and his hair was harshly flown backwards. As his hands held onto his Vocón Link, it came out from the rocky creature’s chest like a parasite.

Trek… step… dash!

Heian Ciemnosc forced his foothold to remain on the ground as the rocky creature’s explosive Power Energy attack with its body as the epicenter no longer went out in all directions but focused on his. Heian Ciemnosc’s dark Power Energy started effectuating as he felt a strange Spirit Sense latch onto his body amidst his Myriad Darkness Materialization. ‘So even someone new to this can spot me… curious.’

After evaluating the connotations of the rocky creature’s actions, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, still wholly pitch-black amidst his dark dome, look directly into the rocky figure’s self. Not just its physical body and Soul but its inner body as well. His eyes seemed to know all secrets, all hearts, and nothing on the run could escape from them…

Shuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaa~...!

‘Bloodthirsty Consuming Enshrinement!’ Heian Ciemnosc’s thoughts churned with the innate name of his Supreme Art. His eyes suddenly became impossible to look at the rocky creature. But it had already looked at and looked by them. It tried covering its face as its Power Energy explosive attack halted, giving Heian Ciemnosc a chance to push himself towards it and brandish his dark claws at its body.

On the other hand, the rocky creature felt an impossible sensation. It had seen Heian Ciemnosc’s blood, but it knew it was all made of rocks. However, deep inside its body and around its face, it felt something akin to losing things valuable to itself. Such as crucial and fundamental, but it was only the sensation, as nothing was truthfully happening to it. When it wanted to investigate its body, Heian Ciemnosc reached before it and punched the shit out of its face. Followed by a slash from his left hand and another from his right kick.

Pom, pam- slashhh! Heian Ciemnosc’s movements were swift, more than enough to deal with several heavy injuries on the rocky creature’s body. When it finally had a chance to react, with its mindset in disorder and Heian Ciemnosc still attached to it with his Vocón Link and dark flame besieging it. Only a punch was sent to Heian Ciemnosc, which he accepted cordially with his sternum and was sent flying away.

After Heian Ciemnosc disappeared into the dark with the help of its blow, the rocky creature couldn’t feel it as a victory as it once again lost Heian Ciemnosc and had to find his position. A few seconds passed before the rocky figure could locate Heian Ciemnosc again. However, just when it did, its body was cutely paralyzed on the ground as Heian Ciemnosc was already a meter before it, his dark claws bringing 5 10-meter-long dark energy claws towards it!

Slash, slash, slash, slash, slash… … … Pom, pom, pom, pom! … … Bam, bang, boom, slash! … … …

The fight within the Myriad Darkness Materialization only continued. Heian Ciemnosc was simply frenetic and unavoidable in his domain. Nothing the rocky creature attempted worked, and every time, it would be punished with ruthless attacks from him. Each second it passed without seeing Heian Ciemnosc - was a multitude of possibilities being thought out inside its head. But each time, even when it found Heian Ciemnosc before it was too close to its body, he would always strike first.

At some point, the rocky creature finally gained the upper hand and started beating Heian Ciemnosc in each skirmish. But Heian Ciemnosc would take the first hit without any protection, not even enhancing his dark Power Energy. And be sent flying anywhere and back into the sweet, sweet darkness. The rocky creature could tell Heian Ciemnosc was getting really harmed each time it landed its blow on him, but unlike itself, Heian Ciemnosc healed and was even smiling before, amidst, and after being sent flying away.

It understood that it simply couldn’t compare to Heian Ciemnosc. A sense of defeat washed over its shoulders as its body was, once again, destroyed by Heian Ciemnosc’s Vocón Link, dark flame, bodily strength, dark Power Energy, and Soul attacks amidst the even more mind-blowing Myriad Darkness Materialization dome.

… POM PAM PAM PAM… Already, in the afternoon, the passing of time that the current Heian Ciemnosc could finally take without mistake. Inside his Myriad Darkness Materialization dome, he charged at the rocky creature with only the back layer of its legs and most of its abdomen and center of its torso destroyed, forever gone. As it fell on its back from a kick Heian Ciemnosc gave it with his heel, Heian Ciemnosc was faster to chase after it. Its pried-open forehead was his target again.

A right fist came and connected with that forehead. The rocky creature could only stomp the back of it against the ground, its lower body bouncing. Seeing that reaction, Heian Ciemnosc brought his right foot to trample on whatever was left of the rocky figure’s torso. Comically, that made its body bounce again. Heian Ciemnosc’s left foot stomped immediately after, repeating this action with his feet kicking the rocky creature’s torso as his left-handed dark claws clutched its neck and his right prepared to stab its forehead.

Bang, bang, bang, bang… Heian Ciemnosc could clearly hear the rocky creature’s body banging against the ground after each hit, almost immobile to do anything. But suddenly, the rocky figure had had enough, and it used all of its strength, what remained, to swat Heian Ciemnosc’s left arm away from him. Its neck was liberated, and it shook its head as if crazily roaring, sitting up and meeting Heian Ciemnosc’s face head-on from below defiantly.

CRAAAAAASSSHHHH!

However, Heian Ciemnosc’s right hand, accumulating so much dark Power Energy, thrust towards its forehead. In a single movement coupled with the rocky creature’s sitting-up motion and his right arm diving at its forehead, its head simply broke into bits, and the whole body turned useless.

“... … … …” Heian Ciemnosc’s feet no longer kicked the rocky creature’s body. His Spirit Sense scanned the rocky figure’s body and the surroundings. In this ‘small’ place, his all-encompassing 10,000 km Myriad Darkness Materialization allowed him to see and understand everything perfectly perpetually as long as it remained. When Heian Ciemnosc finally confirmed it would no longer revive, he smirked and lowered its head. With a thought, his dark flame and Vocón Link went berserk and started consuming the prize’s body, feeding Heian Ciemnosc everything.

“Huaa, huff, huff…” Heian Ciemnosc pulled his Myriad Darkness Materialization down as his body relaxed. His pale skin and naked body could be seen, riddled with so many bruises showing internal injuries and a few open wounds with his flesh and tissue like worms, closing and reattaching to each other on the other side. It was an impossibly slow motion, but it happened to the naked eye.

Thud. “Baaah,” Heian Ciemnosc sat on his bum on the ground and relished in the sensation of the rocky creature’s nutrients coming to him. His Soul transmitted the dark flame’s gains, and the Vocón Link was always connected to him. Even if he successfully separated it from his body.

“Hmn,” Heian Ciemnosc hummed in pleasure as he closed his pale eyelids when a sudden ‘talkative’ bout of information entered his mind. It had been too quiet after he passed this test or whatever. Heian Ciemnosc was wondering what happened to whichever was testing him. Now that he received this attempt at communication, he wasted no time and said 2 things as he opened his adorable and to-die-for darkest eyes. One was what the dragon requested of him, and the other was his own needs.

In his mind, he conveyed the answer to this place’s question of what he needed. It would be given to him as a reward for completing all these trials. If looked at from an outsider’s point of view, it was like a prodigy child talking to ghosts in the middle of an ordinary day. ‘I want the vestige of a higher existence as that Fire elemental dragon so its bloodline can evolve beforehand. And I… want your core.’

… … …Silence ensued, but soon after, a pair of enigmatic, powerful divine platinum glows condensed above Heian Ciemnosc’s chest as he lay on the ground.

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