Meeting Fireflies

Heian Ciemnosc slowly opened his eyes. The darkest within was more obscure than the cave, as it was without light with no entrance. The pool of gore was squeaky clean, and in under 10 hours, Heian Ciemnosc's body had completely healed and restored its dark Power Energy. Whatever injury he had was also nonexistent. He stood up slowly, his torso bare and his lower body wearing uniform pants as he stretched, cracking his neck, evaluating his body. He was finally at the early level of solidifying his path, relatively close to the middle.

Heian Ciemnosc revealed no satisfied expression. This was what his cultivation path was supposed to be. There was nothing as feeling accomplished over something considered normal to him. As he put on his shirt the ordinary way, he sent his Soul Energy to one of the cave’s walls. An aperture slowly opened. Heian Ciemnosc had already given everywhere around him a good read with his Spirit Sense. After seeing the flora waiting to be picked and some delicious Fauna resting around, he swiftly made a mental list.

Shua-haaa…~. Heian Ciemnosc walked outside the cave with his dark Power Energy, making a mess out of everything and, with his Soul, levitated some devices and tools for protection and surveillance back to his Covert Space bags. As soon as the sun met his eyes, Heian Ciemnosc flew in a straightforward direction, heading to where many flora stalks were waiting to be plucked from the ground and fully harvested.

Whoosh~. Heian Ciemnosc arched from flying 100 meters above the ground towards it, landing on a zone where a flower bunch slowly swayed in the wind. There were spots of yellow, sparkling pink, navy blue, and luminous light green. As he looked around himself, spinning once, Heian Ciemnosc started plucking them each. These flowers’ petals were like fur, their shape like a fish’s tail, but their stems were like a bamboo stick.

Heian Ciemnosc casually placed his hands at the lowest bottom before pulling them out simply. No dark Power Energy was used, only his sincere emotions of picking up materials as his mind gave off those thoughts everywhere around him. The flowers were efficiently picked up and placed in his storage Covert Space bags. In under 15 minutes, Heian Ciemnosc picked thousands of flowers despite seemingly acting slow and taking his sweet time. From the dozens of colorful spots, only a handful remained until Heian Ciemnosc finally left as he circled the cave to look for some Fauna.

… After he left, 2 kilometers away, a couple groups that had been looking for about 10 Heian Ciemnosc picked these florae up like it was nothing, looking at each other confusedly, finally dared come out. They kept giving an unbelieving look to each other as they arrived at the few spots Heian Ciemnosc left untouched. As they neared them, some talked in between.

“Did you see that? Was it always that simple?” - “Mnn, maybe he has a distinguished alchemist profession? Or a Relic to deal with some stuff, you know?” - “Let’s try it. How did he do it? Like this? AH!” They became relaxed and rapidly felt their confidence boosted. One of them spoke while mimicking Heian Ciemnosc’s actions to perfection. It wasn’t as if he had done a god’s job picking up flowers.

Crugh- splash! SLUURP. However, the yellow flower it tried to pick up protruded hundreds of needle-thin tendrils from its petals as its pistil spread outwards before slumping to the ground like a new hole dug from underneath to up. The tendrils thus exploded the cultivator’s body as its remains, mushed flesh, hair, fabric, and blood fell on the flower’s mouth. It even sucked in the rest that smeared around it, eating some dirt in the process.

“!!!...” - “!...” - “Fuck, they killed Jimmy!” - “Cut the bullshit. We do it the usual way. No more idiots dying, understood? You idiots?!” The group that lost 1 cultivator could only nod as they watched the murderous flower go back to normal and, as if trying to go back to the rest of its group, it waited before swaying in the wind like before in synchrony with the other flowers. Everything was peaceful. It didn’t seem like an idiot had just died, but such things were ordinary happenings in every part of the world, not just these contests.

The other group nearby looked on and felt apprehensive but didn’t offer support or malice. They simply continued on their way to pluck a few flowers before leaving. On the other hand, besides feeling a bad taste in their mouths after one of their partners died, the other group was also feeling bothered whenever they remembered that pale young man picking these up as if he had planted them here. And they remembered it many times per minute.

… Long gone, Heian Ciemnosc circled the cave a few times, evading those around. Unless it was someone in the Neutrality realm, Heian Ciemnosc could hide in his Spirit Sense and Soul energy, covering him even when he flew at maximum speed. As for that couple of groups from before, they were just watching and didn’t attempt anything. He even picked up a few more to see if they would show up, but they didn’t.

After 4 hours of collecting as many introductory flora and some Fauna, a few Broken Crystallization realm 1st and 2nd stages at that. Heian Ciemnosc finally left the area and left for the north. According to the information received from his pal, the dragon, Heian Ciemnosc, would arrive at a Water elemental door. The guardian of that door was either absent or dormant, and that Heian Ciemnosc shouldn’t bother finding them. Thus, he planned to let a bout of his dark blood essence as a gift. After all, what Heian Ciemnosc received was the knowledge that many couldn’t even start grasping until the Fourth Step, at the very least. Or so thought Heian Ciemnosc.

Traveling through the continent, Heian Ciemnosc saw many flying pets and food. He collected them all, although he wasn’t planning on rearing Fauna just yet, so everything was turned into corpses. Heian Ciemnosc also saw many people fight other Fauna. Most did so in groups since every single Fauna here was at least at the Broken Crystallization realm. He saw a few Neutrality realm Fauna, but they ignored him without interest.

Every time Heian Ciemnosc ran away from a Broken Crystallization realm 6th stage Fauna or higher, they wouldn’t pursue him for more than a few minutes, 10 minutes at most, before letting him go and returning. Those he did go after went all-out against him even after knowing how weaker they were compared to a pale young man not even in the Second Step. When they were about to die, they accepted it instead of becoming crazy or losing all senses.

Naturally, Heian Ciemnosc didn’t fly everywhere to kill and harvest anything he could see. He still stopped to gather from dozens to hundreds of flora, each at the ‘basic category’ for all pills and alchemy products. Those rare or intricate types were majorly left alone by him. Heian Ciemnosc focused on gathering the former, filling up his Inferior Covert Space bags diligently. A few hours passed, and it was soon afternoon when Heian Ciemnosc felt a strange situation occur thousands of kilometers from his current trajectory.

Wheesh- whoosh~. Heian Ciemnosc thought for a moment before changing his direction. He flew towards that strange situation, calmly observing and hearing everything happening while traveling at maximum speed. After half an hour, Heian Ciemnosc arrived near the destination, just in time to see some things happening with his naked eyesight. A woman and 2 men were fighting, the former like a rabid barbarity and the latter emanating pressure to slow the woman down.

“Please! Not everyone attacked you. There isn’t even any other interruption!” The woman shouted, holding a knife close to in front of her face, holding it as if to do anything in her hands to ensure her survival. The men looked at her without a care until one of them spoke. All 3 witnessed it was still possible to attack someone and kill them if it was explosive enough. Just as it happened to these 2’s team, massacred by some of the woman’s team.

“You don’t get it. It doesn’t even matter anymore! You killed most of our team!!” Shouted one of the men. The other took 2 steps forward, forcing the woman to take 2 backwards, and said with equal fierceness. “It wasn’t enough before. It’s time to suffer the consequences… after fucking killing you! Monsters!!”

“You killed us too like that, like that!” The woman shouted back, desperately but not feeling fear, only the hopelessness of dying without having participated, just as many others from both teams had done. Hearing them from 5 km in the skies caused Heian Ciemnosc’s eyebrows to rise, wondering if his team would encounter such scenarios here. It seemed like there were constant loopholes, left there not by mistake, within the event.

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“Shut up!!!” One of the men shouted, his face terrifyingly twisted and pained. His eyes twinkled, and at that instant, the woman felt something as her face changed, becoming more distracted and flaccid. She looked at the man, who seemed to have something to say. And indeed, the man spoke, his trembling voice filled with uncertainty. “If you truly want to live, fall down and pull up your dress. Your life will depend on how fucking good of a little slut you are to us!”

“Ah- I-...” The woman’s face contorted, but compared to simply being killed, she, of course, considered this option as well. The other man, although not interested in such an ‘other way’ at first, fell silent as he watched the woman. They were both waiting as the woman looked at them with eyebrows slightly sunk. She said nothing and plummeted to the ground, lifting her white dress up, revealing her shins and then her knees.

Thud, thud, rustle… Before the woman’s upper thighs were shown, she already had a phallus before her face and another one poking at her vagina. She let her body fall backwards as she felt a rough hand holding her head from the right while the other guided its owner’s prick into her mouth. She accepted it with tightly shut eyes and wasn’t shy despite being inadequately aware of how to proceed. With one in her mouth, the other entered her, hurting her without blood. But the pain was practically nothing for a cultivator, so she held any whimper while letting her feminine functions please her rapists.

A few minutes went by as the men continued how they were going. The woman’s mentality wasn’t one to suffer, showing resilience, as she even started expelling some juice from her body not out of pleasure but from compromised ‘pleasure’ as she went through it. But just then, an ever so obvious ‘whoosh’ sounded as both men looked up as the woman continued rubbing the man’s glans in her right cheek, back and forth as if enjoying the sensation.

“Who the hell are you?!” - “...!” One man shouted while his waist stopped humping as the other had his cock fellated but looked up silently, feeling strangely wary. Heian Ciemnosc was hovering in the air, just 500 meters above them. But they could see him, in the afternoon, as if he was right in front of him, from any angle, and without using Spirit Sense. Their eyes and formed Souls were enough to make that happen.

“... Oi.” When Heian Ciemnosc noticed the woman was too focused on going through her current ordeal, ignoring him, he called out again, this time with a bit of Soul energy in his voice. The men frowned but let it happen as the woman suddenly stopped, her cheeks sucked in as she let go of the penis, her left hand still holding to it as she lay on the left side of her body and looked up. With a frown, she looked up at the pale young man but didn’t find any coherent reaction to give.

“If I help you get these 2 killed and save you, what would be there for me?” Heian Ciemnosc’s voice wasn’t ‘pleasant’ to hear, but it seemed like heavenly bells in the woman’s ears as her left hand clutched. Feeling a warm, squishy sensation, she sat up with a dick still inside her. The men were suddenly a little nervous, but reading Heian Ciemnosc’s cultivation base, they let the kid continue pranking with narrowed eyes.

“I have 2 Spore flowers with me. They are good for any Element except Light or Darkness elements.” The woman said, shocking the 2 men as they looked like they were about to rip her skin apart. Heian Ciemnosc ignored the men and nodded, a little grin formed on his lips, but far from making him look in a good mood. Yet, he spoke in a light tone. “Good.”

… … … … plash plash. GURGLE- WOOUUSHH~. TWSHING~.

Heian Ciemnosc acted in a swift manner. His Vocón Link exploded from his right foot’s sole and entangled around both men. Lifting them in the air, Heian Ciemnosc ruthlessly slapped them into a thrown. Before letting them have any reaction, Heian Ciemnosc took his Golden Array Snakes out and into his right palm. It shot forwards as his left palm pointed at the men. They were only 2 meters apart from each other.

They could only see a flash on Heian Ciemnosc’s right hand as they crazily recomposed themselves and were about to fly away to evaluate this bizarre situation. Suddenly, they saw a torrential of water come towards them from the pale young man. They were already taking measures against the glow, so their response was weak when the torrential water crashed on their bodies and threw them backwards. However, they felt a rigid barrier stop their bodies.

Just then, the men and woman heard Heian Ciemnosc speak to a third party. His voice was calm, but it seemed to have endless charm. “Now, go and get these for me. If you do well, eat them in a spectacular fashion for the lady below. I will make you my pet.”

Bubble, bubble. Heian Ciemnosc looked at the torrential of water expelled from his left palm. It went from his hands’ volume to a whole 1-story building before crashing onto the men’s bodies. From the torrential water, a ‘response’ was heard as the woman frowned, but the men were too preoccupied with their torn clothes and their skin being ripped apart. Just before they could stand up or flat and recuperate their balance, they saw something coming towards them.

It was a shark. It had an adorable appearance. Its body was somewhat bubbly, especially in the middle. Its front was like a step-down, looking dorky. But its face, pitch-black eyes, and wide reverse ‘U’ mouth were terrifying. Its fins were all chubby but also seemingly contained incredible, heavy might. When the men saw it, it saw them too. The next second, rigorous Power Energy surged forward and opened its jaws. An abrupt burst of Power Energ shot towards them before it bit one of them and started shaking its body wantonly.

“Simmer Shark!” One of the men shouted before water engulfed the Golden Array Snakes, fully formed and 1 km square meters large. Heian Ciemnosc looked at the rectangle-shaped Artficat and contemplated before directly descending down. Heian Ciemnosc looked at the partially naked woman, not caring about her flashiness, so he ogled her a little until she felt her skin prickled by his darkest eyes.

“W-what do you want?” The woman took two balls, looking like eggs, and a sphere-shaped spume. They were white in color but had no luminosity, only a strangely viscous look that was actually illusory. Heian Ciemnosc took them and stored them in his Covert Space bags before looking directly at the woman. She asked, worried, but kept looking up in wonder at the blood and limbs and halves of bodies as the Simmer Shark continued ‘playing’ with them. She felt glad.

But she wasn’t glad enough to think she wanted to die now. She looked at Heian Ciemnosc and drew a step and a half backwards. Heian Ciemnosc grinned and tilted his head slightly to the left. With his right hand raising and his mouth charmingly smiling a little, he stopped forth once and said. “Here, let me do a little something more for you. Don’t move.”

The woman’s eyes were distrustful as she wanted to finish her second step backwards. But Heian Ciemnosc moved faster, and his right hand directly held her left cheek. She felt his fresh coldness on her face and was paralyzed. Looking into Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, her body relaxed, and before she knew it, she suddenly felt her body, even her genitals, back to normal. Her right palm met her right cheek as she felt warm, and color returned to her skin.

She looked in shock at Heian Ciemnosc. She felt completely clean! Heian Ciemnosc licked and nibbled his lower lip a bit before retracting his arm, swaying his body, and saying with some intrigue. “I didn’t know I could find people with so many treasures. I might try this more often.”

“Then… you should. Many of us come here to gain resources, not fame. Cultivation is what’s important, not our face… At least for the poor ones, like most of us.” The woman said, advising and chatting with Heian Ciemnosc. She didn’t feel repulsed by this pale young man. Heian Ciemnosc nodded and added, “I will. It’s just what I need. So, what about you? Do you have something more to offer?”

“!” The woman felt her body electrocuted and her spine stiffening with a slight trembling. Heian Ciemnosc wasn’t being charming or a casanova. But she suddenly felt her body growing strangely numb, totally different from her just recent situation. He stepped forward and held her left waist, his right hand reaching to her spin as their bodies closed in a lot. She nodded slightly and let her neck fall backwards in repose. Heian Ciemnosc grinned and, this time, charmingly commented. “What, did they not satisfy you enough?”

“...” The woman’s eyes were hazy. She had nothing to say, nor did she owe anyone an explanation. Heian Ciemnosc simply ignored her heating silence and moved to her mouth. She felt like he was just another pervert right then and there. But after feeling her tongue completely clean and every inch of her body explored by his Spirit Sense and Soul, causing her to tremble and shiver in newfound delight, she felt as if having recently broken through.

Delivering her tongue to him, Heian Ciemnosc suddenly inserted himself inside the woman. She was sufficiently aroused from his direct confrontations and even more since she could look up at the bloody liquid being slurped by the Simmer Shark. It all got her in that kind of mood. As for Heian Ciemnosc, he had not been released for some time already despite going through an arduous struggle. He was rock, stone, diamond hard the moment he set foot on the ground before the woman.

She was a beautiful woman, but her body was prominently humble, only with perky nipples and breasts. Her bum was moderate, but her abdomen and navel were just… Heian Ciemnosc started humping her without delay, ensuring waves of pleasure to both parties. Before 2 minutes passed, he stopped, making her confused but still reeling in the sensation as he pushed her head down. Despite barely learning how to fellate, and with horrible conditions, she started going all-out for Heian Ciemnosc as he silently enjoyed her progression into sexual experience.

The day went on, but before 3 hours could pass and evening came, Heian Ciemnosc finally departed from their natural bed. When he wanted to clean her body, extensively smeared of him inside out, she stopped him… It was an enjoyable afternoon, indeed.

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