Swimming
Not letting the still-injured Beast Queen recuperate her foothold, just as she was falling from the wall that had a smallish hole the size of a pinky's fingernail revealing the snowy world outside, Heian Ciemnosc arrived before her and mercilessly swung his right fist forward and down! Striking the Beast Queen's upper back, she opened another tiny aperture and a large crater on the wall. Heian Ciemnosc's body slowly fell after stagnating in the air momentarily.
‘But even if I find a way to realize which parts of the wall are then connected to her, am I supposed to slowly kill her, hitting her at the same time she strikes the wall? What if that isn’t enough? What if there is something else needed to kill and not just hurt her?’ Heian Ciemnosc thought as he slowly lowered his head after the Beast Queen’s body struck the wall. Seeing another section, far from where he was, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes flushed. ‘I see.’
Recognizing a way to localize whatever section is connected to any part of her body, Heian Ciemnosc’s spirits were lifted. He returned his head to where the Beast Queen’s body was slammed as assertive and rapid wing surged from, and his glare turned severe. In a quick set of motions, the smoke cleared up, and the Beast Queen’s poisoning beautiful face appeared before Heian Ciemnosc. A right pale silver fist accompanied that face, and an upwards-sweeping motion came from below.
Pum, pam. Heian Ciemnosc was hit on the chest directly with her right fist. Her left fist struck his sternum, returning the favor. His body jumped up as rigorous Power Energy entered his body, looking to slice his insides in chunks. But his dark Power Energy met it head-on and stopped any advances. On the contrary, Heian Ciemnosc’s dark Power Energy counterattacked within his body as soon as it met the Beast Queen’s rigorous Power Energy.
Without letting Heian Ciemnosc’s body have a rest, her right heel, extended by her right leg sweeping up in a second, came crashing down against his chest again, covered in rigorous Power Energy. Heian Ciemnosc felt a silent ‘crack’ go off inside his head as it landed on his body, immediately slamming it against the floor as his back broke open the ground and a scar appeared under her left eye. Before he could take these occurrences and process them, her left instep came at him and swung him into the air with a kick.
Whoooosh whoosh- futomp, pu-po, pa-pu! WHOOSH… Heian Ciemnosc’s body was struck, flying into the air. When it almost reached the middle of the igloo, a blast of dark Power Energy ensued on his back, creating a cobweb that halted his body without harming him and even positioned in the perfect stane just to meet the chasing Beast Queen. She looked at him with surprised eyes, but her right knee attack became a left punch instead, intending to crack open his head and then follow up with that knee.
However, Heian Ciemnosc’s right-handed dark claws struck first, thrusting upwards and feinting an attack, only to grab her left fist and inject dark Power Energy into her. A ‘... … … …’ tenebrous sound went off, seemingly deafening her eyes. But she couldn’t see anything until a snake seemingly lunging at her from Heian Ciemnosc’s navel. Immediately, with all terror in her heart, she backed away and flew several meters in a flurry.
‘...’ Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes glowed, understanding striking him as he analyzed the Beast Queen, who was aware. ‘Not only did she become adept at close-quarters combat. She even knows about my Vocón Link’s torture methods? These creatures formed by these doors and… Elements are something… really worth noticing.’
Heian Ciemnosc had no more free time as the Beast Queen brought a golden shield formed by her Power Energy out of nowhere and charged at him again. Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes looked at her scaringly, somber as he flew forwards. His dark claws brandished forwards from the sides, creating 10 dark energy claw attacks less than 1 meter long, shooting towards her at maximum speed.
Pshift, pshiiiift~. Pu-pom pam, bam bam! The Beast Queen brought her shield to the front to keep all of her front body, learning from her previous disadvantage. The dark energy claws’ attack impaled against her golden shield, only a few inches in as the rest were still trying to push forwards and meet the Beast Queen’s juicy body to make it bleed icy blue blood. She looked ahead to visualize Heian Ciemnosc, already feeling the grasp of this exchange of blows, feeling his bones cracking in her hands.
Her pale gray and pitch-black eyes showed how much she enjoyed the sensation. But she underestimated Heian Ciemnosc’s melee capabilities after understanding her current immortality. Heian Ciemnosc’s body simply flew below her at maximum speed. But before she could change her direction to avoid her back getting stabbed by more dark energy claws, she saw a long and 4 inch thick whip soar towards the ceiling and embed itself into it.
… … … … wing~!
Just as she looked up to see theVocón Link’s end easily penetrate through the ceiling and get itself stuck in there, she also saw its body tensing before a sudden protrusion came towards her. What became one became two, then three, and so on, until the Vocón Link had multiple sub-bodies projected from its body from different angles, and others were faster but took a longer way than others. However, they had one thing in common: each was moving to intercept her!
It didn’t take long for the Beast Queen to find herself helpless. She felt as if multiple tentacles, each one as formidably impenetrable but with such aptitude and solid body, were entangling her body to their heart’s content. She could only break apart a few of them, whose broken-off parts immediately turned into dark smoke, as the rest were still attached to the main body and simply regrew before being subjugated by them.
Swish- whiiistleeeeee~... At that time, she heard a rather alarming and dangerous sound from her back. Her mouth and stomach were covered the most. Meanwhile, the rest of her body only had a couple tentacles entangling her body around every few centimeters. She was still too tall to be fully enveloped in the Vocón Link’s sub-bodies. Doing all of her best to look backwards, the Beast Queen’s eyes losing color and beauty as she almost cut through the corners of her eyes to take a look. She saw Heian Ciemnosc’s body speeding like a meteor towards her!
Dark Power Energy in front, in a cone shape, with his dark claws at the front and only his fingertips placed together. Heian Ciemnosc’s speed was also increased as his rear back had a shadow of a tail showing. The Beast Queen was astounded and, for the first time, felt terror and apprehensive of being harmed. However, when Heian Ciemnosc arrived before her back and could’ve impaled her body then and there, he instead stomped her with the soles of his feet in a particular direction.
Tom- tomp- WHOOOSH, SWIIISH, WHEEEESHHHH… The Beast Queen could only feel the wind trying to cut her eyeballs as she closed her pale silver eyelids. Before doing so, all she saw was another wall that she was soon to be smashed again. Just before she felt her body growing close enough to be struck towards it, she felt immeasurable pain in two parts of her body. One was her nape, where a Vocón Link had suddenly plunged itself into, not harming her physically by penetrating her neck. The other was her back towards the middle.
When they were close to the wall, Heian Ciemnosc finally guided his dark claws, still with the previous inertia as he kept it with his Spirit Sense and dark Soul energy, now enhanced with even more dark Power Energy, before plunging it into her vertebral column. Heian Ciemnosc felt the noise of his hands crushing flesh, then bones, and organs, but all quelled by the ringing whip going at his ears from the speed they were going in.
CRASSSHHH. SPLASH. Tap, tap… whoooshh~...
The Beast Queen finally crashed against the wall as her back was impaled. She even felt Heian Ciemnosc’s forearms exit from her stomach, above her navel, before his arms suddenly disappeared, and she met the wall head-on. It had already started cracking before her arrival, but when she finally did, it broke apart immediately instead of slightly!
As the wall literally exploded, giving the golden igloo a new exit or entrance, a splashing sound went out as Heian Ciemnosc, who was already descending a few meters back, was covered in icy blue blood as a bout of smoke rose from the impact. Heian Ciemnosc’s feet landed on the golden, icy floor as his shoulders, face, and pitchest-blackest hair were tainted with icy blue. But his darkest eyes stared where he saw the Beast Queen land.
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“... lick… lick lick lick…” Slowly tasting her blood on the back of his wrist, Heian Ciemnosc then took a few more laps as his darkest eyes slightly darted around, investigating everything with his full capabilities. At this moment, the Beast Queen’s shadow was finally visible. She was haggard, and though her body was healing again, from her back, some shadows of blood fell to the ground.
Her back was slightly bent but still high up, and as she lifted her head, her pale and black eyes looked at Heian Ciemnosc with too much indifference. Heian Ciemnosc floated in the air a little, feeling most of his doubts answered. It had worked, and it seemed to be enough to kill her, but there might be a better option to do so. As he thought of this, he came close to another section connected to the Beast Queen’s body, and now, she could understand that, too. Feel it.
Whoosh. Whoosh! Both parties flew towards each other. Heian Ciemnosc was 30 meters up in the igloo, and the Beast Queen was standing with her middle back opened, gushing with some icy blue blood as a trail of it became her body’s contrail. She no longer felt superior to Heian Ciemnosc. The Beast Queen had gone from a dutiful child, seeing others as subjects, to a cocky daughter of a bitch. But now, she had returned to her indifference, and better yet, she was more concise and proper. Not underestimating Heian Ciemnosc, but also not undervaluating herself.
“!” Just as they were 30 meters away from each other with a diagonal trajectory distancing them from one another, Heian Ciemnosc’s mind spurred, and his darkest eyes widened. Just as he was about to enter melee with the Beast Queen, his body flew to hug the wall. His hands were like spoons trying to scoop something from the golden walls. But instead of picking up something, dark Power Energy, mixed with his Spirit Sense and dark Soul, waterfall from his arms.
They were like sludge, slowly turning into something else… taking a different form… Fire!
PSHIFT~, PSHIFT~, PSHIFT~- … FWUOOOH~!!
The layer upon layer of his dark Power Energy mix suddenly took the shape and form of flames, becoming one with a golden wall section, strangely becoming transparent as it went into them, but didn’t disappear from one’s eyes. At that moment, the Beast Queen’s body surged with icy blue Power Energy all around her body, taking the flames’ forms as her eyes widened, clearly in pain.
Before anything else could be done by both, Heian Ciemnosc’s flaming dark Power Energy came out of the golden wall’s section as he immediately acted to direct it towards the Beast Queen. But more specifically, towards her left shoulder!
PSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFTTT~~... “!” The Beast Queen’s eyes, shocked and unbelievable, became as big as saucers as she wanted to flee. However, at that moment, a spark of something seemed to echo from her mind. No, deeper… From her Soul! Fwuh-pa!
All in all, Heian Ciemnosc’s sudden realization and desire to attempt something bore perfect fruits. The Beast Queen was left helpless, and even if she might get to have ways to counter him since he had already understood the correct way to do it, nobody could stop him. Nothing. The flaming dark Power Energy arrived quickly, shuddering the Beast Queen’s left shoulder. She was too overwhelmed right now. The rigorous Power Energy inside her body wasn’t all too useful now, but still fought hard against the increasingly growing ordinary orange, yellow flame inside her Soul. Meanwhile, her physical body was already being besieged by what seemed to be her nemesis.
PSHIFT- FWUOO FWUOO FWUOOHHH…
“...” Heian Ciemnosc looked without expression. He wasn’t content or showing joy at the success of his ideas. Naturally, the result of his gaining this understanding was due to passing the Fire door’s trial before. His darkest eyes flashed in ponder, but he rapidly returned to the fight. It wasn’t over yet. And it has just begun for real. The best and most arduous parts were barely about to start… he felt the excitement of such a battle all over again.
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BAAM- PU- FWUOOOOOOHHH~!!~!!~!~!...~
It had been over 4 hours since Heian Ciemnosc discovered how to efficiently terminate the Beast Queen. After many struggled for survival and killing, a massive, flaming wave of dark energy spread in the only place of the golden igloo not riddled with gigantic holes. It floated midair before descending as if following something rapidly falling down. When they landed on the floor, whatever had fallen had its noise suffocated by the raging dark flames.
After a few minutes, the flames began fading. By command, not because their power or source of it was away. Seconds passed as the figures within the flames were revealed. If this place didn’t have its majesty and beauty destroyed, and blood didn’t cover their gory wounds, it might’ve instead been seen as a heavily sexual act. A pale young man stood before a female torso with her arms barely standing. Her neck was delicate and alright, untouched, while her face had some scratches and scars.
She had only part of her torso. As she was more than 10 meters tall, only about a meter of her torso remained. While her arms were still attached to her body, her left shoulder was gone, and her left arm hung to her torso with determination. Her right arm was half-destroyed, a semi-success on her part to stop Heian Ciemnosc from destroying one of her most necessary limbs. For whatever reason, Heian Ciemnosc simply didn’t target her neck even when she had committed mistakes and left a loop to the golden wall section connected to it.
She rested on the floor, her face more than worn out, but still everything-destroying beautiful and enchanting. The glimmer and indifference in her pale gray irises and pitch-black pupils were eternal, not leaving her aspect even once. The Beast Queen looked up at Heian Ciemnosc. Her eyes were like a little girl’s as she looked at her father after training hard and having fun practicing some sport. Her eyes were predominantly bright but very focused on her hero.
On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc stood before her cut-off torso, which had been like that since the 3rd hour of their fight. His right arm extended downwards. He could hold her neck at any point now. But he moved slowly, looking at her face, saying nothing with their mouths. His pants were essentially gone, destroyed by the numerous all-out bursts from this little lady’s monstrous attacks. Only part of his dark coat remained, covering his bum, but not the right side of his back, shoulder, and ribs. Deep, wide gnashes gave clear sight to his bones, and pulsating, bleeding organs and flesh showed from those parts.
His feet were bruised like hell. If the Beast Queen had icy blue blood, then his feet were turned into icy violet creepy. However, dark ‘worms’ around his veins moved and slowly cleansed up the damage done to them. His chest was exposed, with slightly pale skin and barely some defined muscle showing his manly charm. Even if this Beast Queen wasn’t an organism like that, even animals and insects, she could appreciate his beauty, which she did on occasion.
Heian Ciemnosc would’ve been the only living being she would see no matter what, but now, she was already confirmed to be terminated by him instead of peacefully spending her few years alone before starting to decompose. Thus, as they were having this one last moment of life in accordance with their goals, none of them spoke. One couldn’t, and the other wasn’t willing. Heian Ciemnosc bent his back and reached out to hold her neck, calmly raising her mutilated body to the air.
“... ah… ack…” Tiny sounds left her pale silver lips as she bumped her hands against his right wrist, slightly holding onto it repetitively. Heian Ciemnosc’s grip was light, but he loosened it up even more. Heian Ciemnosc looked at her with a tilt of his head to the left. Her bare body meant nothing as she looked at him and slightly nodded. Heian Ciemnosc let silence engulf them as he gazed into her eyes. After a long while, he changed his grasp on her to his left hand and clutched it even more loosely.
Tap… Heian Ciemnosc placed his right palm on her left breast. It was tiny but still well-pronounced enough. As he placed his pale skin on her chest, she looked at him one last time before throwing her head backwards, her eyes closing, tired and at rest. Heian Ciemnosc had debated and pondered about it but decided to do it this way. He slowly pushed into her body, caving through her chest, and clenched.
Bugsh… spasshhh~...
The death of yet another pitiful creature was on him as her heart was eaten by his pale skin. It was crushed and turned into mush, but it was smaller than a Human child’s heart. Heian Ciemnosc dwelled on it as his Vocón Link started circling her body, nurturing his body with it. He felt some dark Power Energy return to him, not rapidly, but consistently and incessantly. Because, at the same time, bouts of data, sensations, and different ideals entered his head. As it did with the rocky creature, Heian Ciemnosc’s understanding of the Water element was evolving even after being shown so much about it. It felt marvelous
“Siiiigh…” Heian Ciemnosc plummeted to the ground as his Vocón Link fully entangled the Beast Queen’s corpse, disappearing it from the naked eye and slowly turning it into his nutrients. He was tired again and would have to repose for a few hours at the very least. Thinking of needing to go to another 2 places to do ‘the same’, Heian Ciemnosc felt both excited and frustrated. Why couldn’t these things just happen at once?
However, after experiencing 2 trials, he understood he was asking too much of himself. Facing all 4 possible creatures from the Elemental doors’ trials would mean total death, even more so with his path not completely solidified. He planned on recuperating for 15 minutes here before heading outside. That should be enough for the moment to find a place to stay. However…
“?... !!!”
Hushash~! PAAAAMM!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHH~!!!!!
First, Heian Ciemnosc saw the Water door suddenly appear before him, sitting cross-legged. Secondly, he felt a movement behind him. Instantly, he felt his body suddenly floating, his back bent, and his bum exposed to whatever was behind. Before he could figure out anything, thirdly, he was kicked on the butt, opened the door with his open forehead, and met the Semi-Dimension once again. Before he could feel denigrated, his eyes were forced to close as his body was kicked into a speed he couldn’t even fathom. Through the trees and dirt, his body ‘traveled’...
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