It Starts
"Wake up," hearing Heian Ciemnosc's voice, Elena slightly moaned and moved her head. She felt very comfortable, held by warmth and a nice scent. Elena protruded her lips and smooched the mouth before her. She continued to do so, giving light pecks and a few licks, but her intent changed when she first wanted to kiss Heian Ciemnosc's lips. After enjoying this mouth and its taste, with remnants of her husband's scent and taste, she opened her eyes and said.
“Why am I kissing Arla? Wasn’t I supposed to be hugging my husband? Hm?” Elena’s words made Arla, who feigned sleep, smile and lick the foreign saliva from her lips. She said nothing and went for more, forcing Elena to be eaten of her whole mouth. Meanwhile, Heian Ciemnosc casually explained like nothing strange or unusual was occurring. “More than an hour ago, this vixen woke up asking for the toll. I had to pay the taxes and bedded her a few times before you broke through.”
“PLAH! Ahem… mmm,” Elena was allowed to breathe. When her lips parted from Arla’s, they exploded with the latter’s saliva all around her mouth and some on the rest of her face. Arla looked at Elena with a bright smile, even holding her own hands with a ‘awww’ feeling on her face. Elena lightly said, “I see. So you knew. Ah, well. Thank you for your help again, husband. What time is it?”
“Oh, 3 hours before the 3rd phase’s tournament begins,” Heian Ciemnosc, balls deep inside Arla, letting it marinate - said. Arla gave out little, kittenish moans as Elena looked down at the full-on penetration, still slightly sleepy, then at Arla’s tender, warm, and soft face. Arla cutely muttered, “It’s deathly hot inside me, ehe.”
“Wait, what?! Hours?! What the fuck happened?!” Elena finally reacted. Not to Arla’s words and teasing, but Heian Ciemnosc’s meaning. They had been cultivating for almost 3 days?! How?! She had never lost track of time when meditating or cultivating, so how did she suddenly become this stupid?!
“Relax,” Heian Ciemnosc brought his hands around Arla to hold Elena’s pouty, tomboyish, puffed cheeks. Those furiously alarmed brown eyes looked at Heian Ciemnosc’s face behind Arla’s hair, smelling the young woman’s beautiful scent, and slowly calmed down. Elena grabbed Arla’s nose with her right hand and lowered it to rest under her chin before slumping her mouth to Arla’s breasts and suckling nonexistent milk from each.
After calming herself thoroughly, Elena looked back up and smooched Arla’s chin, lower lip, upper lip, and nose before sighing. “Aiiish, we must leave already. Did your people depart, or do we have to wake them, too?”
“Nah, they left yesterday,” Heian Ciemnosc said, biting Arla’s neck from behind… Suddenly, his darkest eyes met with those brown ones. Arla was none the wiser as a little hand slowly tried to get where her vulva was already conquered. Suddenly, she felt the phallus exit as that little hand took advantage of the gaping hole. Arla frowned, discomfort from having her baby-making hole no longer threatened to bake pies. But just as she was about to poutingly ask for more bedding, her rectum was spread open by force.
“AAAH!!...” They had a vip vehicle anyway, and nothing wrong with losing another hour, right? Besides, Elena needed to rapidly stabilize her cultivation base. After all, today was the day everyone would give their all! Even then, after the 3rd phase’s battle royale section, nothing would be simple for sure, and many deaths should occur during the tournament. It was much better to come fully prepared.
… After banging Arla to a dizzy state and rapidly waking her up because of her cultivation base and Heian Ciemnosc’s dual cultivation method, and with Elena having a nice smile plastered on her face with her body feeling more relaxed as a few hickeys appeared on her back and front under her clothes… Heian Ciemnosc and the girls were exiting through the hotel’s entrance to wait for their vip vehicle when the hotel owner walked towards them.
Heian Ciemnosc had the girls wait farther to the front as he walked back to meet with the hotel owner. The bald fatty’s good natured face nodded in greeting before speaking, “Today, good luck in the tournament, kid. But, more than anything, don’t go around just killing. Even though it is accepted, and it can be understood. Things such as killing because you just can doesn’t discern one’s nature or purposes. It is simply wasteful.”
“... Thank you, senior.” Heian Ciemnosc looked at the bald fatty for a long while before answering. Although it was a short answer, the bald fatty seemed pleased with Heian Ciemnosc’s words. The hotel owner nodded and was about to turn around when Heian Ciemnosc commented. “I can tell those words were from the senior’s heart. However, why did you lie to us earlier? Tens of millions of years old? You’re older than even the hosting Gods and Goddess in the event. How many billions of years is that?”
“!!” The bald fatty turned around and looked at Heian Ciemnosc, his face tilted up and down in crazy shock. His opened eyes looked terribly comical now as they could finally be seen. However, his sweat didn’t drop from his head for too long before it halted, and the hotel owner recomposed. “Sigh. Since you are that person’s disciple, it only makes sense you can see through someone’s natural age, hm?”
“Oh,” Heian Ciemnosc lightly exclaimed. After thinking for a while in this pleasant silence, still facing each other, Heian Ciemnosc added. “Although you’re this old, much more than my Master, it is my Master who seems more skilled and wise. If you want to take anyone as your pupil, choose among my COs or my Academy, except for my women and the Headmaster’s disciple. Don’t look for them if you want a successor, though. They can’t follow you.”
‘Not when they are following a leader like you, snobby brat.’ The hotel owner thought as he peacefully looked at Heian Ciemnosc. He then smiled, closed his eyes, and kept them like that for a moment before nodding and opening them. “I understand. Once again, good luck.”
“Mn, thanks,” Heian Ciemnosc nodded with his lips inside his mouth and pressed together. He knew the hotel owner wasn’t wishing him luck, but neither did the hotel owner want to say, ‘have fun and beat everyone up as hard as you can!’ since that was basically out of his status to say. Heian Ciemnosc turned around and walked to his women, one his wife, the other a lover. Placing his arms on their shoulder, Arla directly dropped her head on him while Elena hugged his back with her arm. Together, they waited 2 minutes before a black, speeding spaceship descended to pick them up. The pilot was a little robot. They boarded it and disappeared into the sky under the hotel owner’s thoughtful eyes.
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Early morning, in the stadium.
“WOHOOOOOOOOO!!!” The people were crazy. No one had yet to fight, and the hosts had yet to appear, but they were already cheering and roaring on occasion. In the platform, several arenas the size of 5 square kilometers spread everywhere. Although most of the participants had left after the 3rd phase’s battle royale section, there were still thousands of participants left, just to avoid saying more than a few tens of thousands.
The crowds were the same as when the battle royale, only taller and with a curvature to allow more pairs of eyes on each bleacher’s seats. The arenas were squares floating above the platform. But many could see them smoothly going up and down a few tens of meters. Despite being cultivators and living in the time of ultra-advanced spaceships, this sight amused every pair of eyes, even that of robots.
The arenas were empty, however, although everyone could see the participants in the free zone with their arms crossed, sitting cross-legged, standing still, and in meditation. But every single one of them… faced those arenas. It was as if they could see themselves in them, even choosing their own, fighting, and winning. Similarly, it was infectious, and the notion was spread to the spectators. They could see those participants in the arenas, fighting each other, chasing the peak, and escaping their shadows. It was a light phenomenon in nature’s mind.
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“... Wooooooooooooh~~~!” At this moment, most spectators around the bleachers looked to one single place in the free zone. It wasn’t like there was a rule for participants to remain there. They simply walked and stayed there without prior notice. Everyone suddenly looked at a mildly large group of cultivators wearing the same emblem and waking out into the open. Among them, Heian Ciemnosc.
“... Big Brother!!” Fera rushed from one side, with Yon standing beside her, towards Heian Ciemnosc. The latter tilted his head a little forth and to the right. Fera flashed by and landed on his torso. She hugged him softly and rubbed her right cheek on his right ribs. Heian Ciemnosc rubbed that little head with affection while looking up ahead. Teno and Tene were leading a small group to walk near where the Wrath Nihility Academy was headed.
Looking in another direction, he saw Yun Nitu and Yun Tang walk towards them, with their small group following them. They weren’t the only ones. The Interchanging Dust Dynasty’s leaders also walked around, although not with the same intention as the Phosphorescent Flower Sect and the Obscure Orb Sect. The Kiinta Pavilion, Liechu Nao Grotto, Kutsal Durum Cult, and the Flourishing Empire were all present with their little groups each.
“What are you doing here? Came to bother me?” Heian Ciemnosc looked down and hugged the young girl’s back shoulders. She lifted her little head, smiling from ear to ear, and nodded. “Mn! I want Big Bro’s attention. You’ve been too much with the Big Sisters. I will be returning to my Sect after the event. So… can we stay in the Godly Space Station afterwards for a long time? I don’t want to leave without spending more time with Big Brother…”
“Cheeky,” Heian Ciemnosc said, hooking her nose and lightly grazing it between his fingers. Fera’s eyes narrowed dangerously cute. A couple tears exited those tiny eyes in an even smaller size. Only she and Heian Ciemnosc, perhaps Aleksander, too, knew how much she was feeling from what she had been lacking. Especially her unnecessarily tough times at an organization that wanted to nurture such a person.
Like other organizations, they want said individuals to learn alone, but most of those members die before achieving something, let alone growing. It wasn’t all organization, probably half and half, but even 1/20 was still too much. In any case, thanks to his discovery of such a blatant, cute, and determined little fellow, Heian Ciemnosc had somehow saved this little beauty from such a possible destiny. Dying somewhere else.
“Okay, you can stay here. And I’m sure the representatives won’t mind having a potentially Gifted, or even Chosen, walking among participants. With your Master here, you won’t be mistreated, alright?” Heian Ciemnosc rubbed, pulled, and pinched the young girl’s cheeks, ears, chin, and nose. Fera let him do as he pleased, nodding firmly and with determined eyes. Heian Ciemnosc then seemed to think of another young girl’s words and added, “But you have to promise me that, no matter what your Master says, if it contradicts me, you have to listen to me. Alright?”
“Don’t worry, Big Brother. Although I still have a different home, my little ears only hold your words, okay?” Fera cutely spoke with a damnably serious face, making Heian Ciemnosc grin at this sight. The crowd was gossiping about another wife for him when he was just seeing a cute little future daughter. Sigh. He began combing her hair backwards with his forearms, holding the rest at the sides with his hands. Fera closed her eyes, like a puppy having its rough and ugly fur well combed, feeling like a little goddess.
“... I see that everyone is ready, good!” Suddenly, a grand, potent voice spread everywhere before anyone could see anything happen in the sky or around them. Before the crowd realized this, several portals appeared above the platform. As everyone had become used to it, they simply waited for the hosts’ appearance. However, as they finally showed up, the crowd saw many more portals with figures emerging from them.
“Today marks the initiation for the tournament section! Please give a warm welcome with applause to our fellow visitors here!” Jolden’s voice spoke again, no longer easygoing but somewhat solemn. He appeared wearing a thick outfit, a long coat, pants, and a long shirt. As he spoke, he gestured to his back, where the other hosts parted ways and allowed the crowd from everywhere to look at the other Gods and Goddesses coming to watch the show.
CLAP CLAP CLAP!!
Even when feeling fucking overwhelmed, the crowd wasn’t disappointing. The spectators received the beauties and handsome fellows, whose Race and skin colors were from any possible and imaginable. There were approximately HUNDREDS of peak Fourth Step cultivators everywhere, shocking the crowd and spectators from the Existence like nothing ever before. It was a pity only this Existence could see the event without restriction.
The other Existences could only have the few angles shared through Universal Conveyance or those from the participants allowed to record it. However, that was it. Meanwhile, the spectators and anyone from within the Existence could see whichever battle they could, while the other Existences’ people could see what others like watching a reaction.
“...” The Gods and Goddesses showed their spectacular worldly awareness, not talking or voicing their thanks, simply bowing at the crowd as if they were the Godly beings and not themselves. Some were Existences’ spokespeople who held its rule under their name and organization. The rest were immediate subordinates or equals in said Existences. All in all, this event started overwhelmingly and abruptly but continued without much tension.
Afterwards, the 4 hosts seemed to speak with the visitors one by one, leading them to their sets as they materialized with an array formation’s help, similar to what Heian Ciemnosc witnessed back then when a Supervisor lent him a furnace. However, this was made without any materials or Elements, pure Godly Energy and Soul. Spirit Sense flashed a couple of instances, and a sophisticated yet not luxurious chair was made for each visitor.
When they passed by the platform, flowing slowly through the air like a recording of a rapidly passing object, blurry and gradual but insanely fast, they looked down in Heian Ciemnosc’s direction. However, they were looking at Fera, whose peculiarity wasn’t something to be hidden. Heian Ciemnosc was ignored afterwards. He could only keep holding the young girl as she didn’t detect the visitors’ praising eyes and attention. Only a few Goddesses looked at him. Other than that, nobody seemed to actually notice him.
Heian Ciemnosc couldn’t bother, however. Fera had pure energy caress her body, forming a little aura he could only see with his nature reading before. Now, though, after understanding the 4 primary Elements and still having a lengthy space for more study, he could feel the same pure energy aura around her. She was like a delicacy to any phototactic being to the pure energy of the world. If that wasn’t attractive, calling for attention, then what was it?
“Once again, we dearly welcome our fellow guests and hope you can stay until the end of this tournament.” Jolden and the other 3, including Diego, although he looked to almost forget, bowed towards the visitors. Jolden then continued, his voice turning solemn, thundering the entire Middle Godly Space Station. “Now, I give this tournament… its start!”
THUMP!
“!!” Heian Ciemnosc felt everything around him rumble. Just once, only a single tap, but the whole Godly Space Station was affected. It was like a heartbeat, echoing everywhere inside this station, like a calling of sorts. Heian Ciemnosc felt like his body could levitate and float forever with just a thought. It wasn’t a crazy sensation to him, but it was for the citizens and civilians. More for the latter, who never gets the chance to feel like this.
Strangely, Heian Ciemnosc felt like… he was in space? As if, suddenly, but still with the Middle Godly Spatial Station’s protection. All he had in memories of this was when he was still at the Crimsonbreaking Carrier, flying through space and deactivating the gravity array formations’ default features. And when he was almost killed, but that one was too brief.
“There is no need for lots. Every person will face an opponent that is equal in cultivation base. Although there is… there might be a special occasion that is only unique. Each of you is no longer fighting together but on your own, until only 10% of you remain. There is little to no chance you will find someone from your team before that happens, but it may still occur. Now… fight!”
WHOOOO WOOOOOOSH~! Suddenly, from the ground, just like a few days back, black smoke came out and started individually targeting every participant. Heian Ciemnosc felt Jolden’s extra notice was directed at him, and as a strand of black smoke aimed at him from a distance, he felt like an obsessive viper had chosen him as its prey. Heian Ciemnosc felt a strange connection through it somewhere else… and that place came from the Interchanging Dust Dynasty’s small group!
“Fera, be good to Yon and Clarke. They’re my seniors. But if any of us returns after just a few fights, make sure to embarrass them. Unless it’s Elena or Arla, cough.” Heian Ciemnosc rapidly spoke. Fera looked up, feeling somewhat numb that her Big Brother was about to go and get to work again. She nodded, her chin trying to pierce into his solar plexus. “Okay, Big Brother. Make your family proud, bah-byuuuh~!”
“Eh?” Whoosh!
Before Heian Ciemnosc could have another word with this little devil, he felt his body embraced by the black smoke. Immediately, he felt his body transported to another world, but it was just towards one of the arenas through a transportation tunnel through an array formation. Fera, on the other hand, grinned a little as she got got her Big Brother. However, a second later, she looked around and felt lonely.
Before she could pout for long, Yon walked over and took her away towards the vip bleachers where the rest of Wrath Nihility Academy’s higher-ups were seated.
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