All-Out Kill (2)

The wind flew past and back around Heian Ciemnosc, seemingly congregating around him specifically. Now, the crowd could see what Kilah was already aware of. Bursts and whooshes surrounded Heian Ciemnosc in a type of cyclone, gaining momentum instead of speed, becoming heavier instead of smoothly traveling through the air. Kilah was just a couple seconds from reaching Heian Ciemnosc, and as she closed in, she threw the dagger forward!

Wheeeeeesh~... futomp~... twaaaang~!

The dagger spun in the air as it flew high up in an arch, stabbing the air and becoming stuck with its tip. It was thin but long and had a rusty, crimson-ish color alone. The dagger stopped over 17 meters before Heian Ciemnosc, and as it did, a Spirit Sense pulse dispersed, targeting the area it was facing, which Heian Ciemnosc was in, in a 500 square meters perimeter. Immediately, Heian Ciemnosc felt a strange sensation targeting tools and devices, but since they were all in his Covert Space bag, nothing happened to them, and he could only frown before immediately relaxing.

Whoosh!

“!” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes weren’t distracted, however, as a confident Kilah jumped 30 meters into the air and pushed herself forwards, diving towards Heian Ciemnosc without any regard. As his darkest eyes hardened, Heian Ciemnosc commanded the Wind around him, sending smallish snakes towards Kilah, undulating up and down but with a sharpness enough to destroy any Neutrality realm 5th stage cultivator’s defenses.

Wheesh, wheesh, wheesh… Pshift! Pshiiift!

Kilah didn’t stop in midair but continued rushing towards Heian Ciemnosc. As she did, however, she suddenly formed a shapeless Neutral Energy limb with her right-handed fingers before holding it with both hands and started gyrating to her right. The Wind bursts coming for her were struck by that stiff, shapeless Neutral Energy limb, not even 7 meters long, slapping them away and smoking their structure into the air.

Whooosh! Stomp- dash~~! After dealing with Heian Ciemnosc’s first attack, Kilah let go of her Neutral Energy shapeless limb and kicked the air, sending herself faster towards Heian Ciemnosc, with Neutral Energy covering her shoulders, arms, and feet. Her movements were quick and smooth, not leaving much chance other than letting the crowd visually enjoy it. But to Heian Ciemnosc, she was starting to move too fast, enhancing her physical body with Neutral Energy and becoming blurry!

“Heh,” seemingly understanding what he was seeing, Kilah chuckled once. She didn’t change her trajectory or make a sudden, surprising move. Instead, she merely continued with her previous plans and rapidly came to fly before Heian Ciemnosc! Her head leading the way, she was just 3 meters away from him when she folded her body in a fetal position, rapidly facing Heian Ciemnosc with the soles of her feet instead.

Heian Ciemnosc remained unmoving. When she was 1 meter away half a second later, shockingly, her left leg managed to extend down fully, kicking towards Heian Ciemnosc’s left eye! Heian Ciemnosc’s already widely opened darkest eyes didn’t alter, and with a swift of his head to the right and below, he suddenly clicked the left corner of his lips, opening them.

Pshift-click… whoooshah! Swif- thud! Crack- futomp! Pshiiii~iiiii~iiiiii~iiift!

Kilah’s kick failed, and just as her shin was passing by his head’s left, Heian Ciemnosc’s dark fangs showed and immediately enlarged, taking a bite on her leg! Kilah responded by placing her hand above his head. She didn’t have time to push herself off, so she effectuated Neutral Energy to her left palm, stopping her body. At the same time, she twisted her hip, right leg, and whole lower body to strike at him with her right foot’s heel.

However, Heian Ciemnosc’s head posed to the left with his mouth closed as the dark fangs’ elongated image dissipated in slow motion, with her right shin was caught by Heian Ciemnosc’s right hand, with dark claws slowly coming out of his nails and fingertips. Kilah felt her bone start cracking, so before it could form a larger crack underneath her skin, she stopped her whole body’s movement, throwing tiny Neutral Energy traces all around her.

Immediately after, she entered into the Gray Era, and her feet, knees, waist, wrists, back of her hands, collarbone, forehead, and shoulders were covered by gray, blue, and gold like a blurry image adorning and protecting her at the same time. In a mere second, she was more than 100 meters away from Heian Ciemnosc’s clutches, with a piece of fabric left behind in Heian Ciemnosc’s right palm.

“...” - “...” - “WOOOOOOOOO~~!!” Their first encounter thus ended in a semi-draw, favoring Heian Ciemnosc more. The crowd didn’t lose anything that happened, especially Kilah suddenly backing away from danger, one that anyone would be terrified to face. Furthermore, the face she put on once she was back to safety was that of a girl who got her boobie accidentally touched, insulted, and confused. She took a dainty pose, looking rather cute but stupid considering her personality and previous traits shown in the Change Merit Trials event.

“Argh!” Kilah growled. She threw her arms down and backwards, baring her feet towards Heian Ciemnosc strangely. Not even she knew why she was acting like this when she had never behaved this way. However, maybe her instincts kicked in. Seeing a significant threat with scary claws and fangs made her want to show her enemy she could also wound him with hers.

However, unbeknownst to her, the spectators were praising her somewhat. To dare go melee against Heian Ciemnosc after he showed a splendid, perverted physical defense was way too impactful! Even as she fled right after, discovering something the crowd had no time to uncover, they treated her as such an amazing cultivator and fighter. She was already notoriously powerful from the records they read and heard about her, but now, they saw it with their eyes!

Dash! Whoosh! Kilah began another run. This time, with her Gray Era, she arrived before Heian Ciemnosc in a second and a half, truly demonstrating her speed to Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, which trembled once. However, this was within Heian Ciemnosc’s reaction speed, and he flexibly prepared to receive her as she came running at him as if wanting to turn him into a paste by simply crashing her speedy body against his.

Heian Ciemnosc’s flashed, and instead of acting, she let her try her thing. Kilah looked deep into his darkest eyes and knew he was challenging her. How dare he?! Incensed, Kilah frowned hard and shot towards Heian Ciemnosc! Bracing her crystallized armor, forming before arriving before him and covered her torso with a Neutral Energy spearhead projecting forwards. Yet again, Heian Ciemnosc didn’t bother protecting himself, just like when he faced that Neutrality realm 1st stage cultivator early on.

Whoosh! Paah! Phh-...

Kilah’s body crashed against Heian Ciemnosc, her Neutral Energy spearhead coming in between as only her upper body met him head-on. He was taller than him, but she managed to target his sternum with her elevated trajectory. Heian Ciemnosc’s uniform broke apart immediately, not because of the energy spearhead’s sharpness and mighty, but because of the explosive waves as the energy spearhead cracked.

At first, the energy spearhead penetrated a centimeter into the pale skin, but it stopped. And just as Kilah was in the middle of lowering her head to see her attempt failing, several cracks spread throughout the spearhead, and dark fissures appeared and spread everywhere around it. Kilah’s eyes barely widened as she understood something and immediately broke the connection with it off.

But the damage was already done, and with Heian Ciemnosc standing still without even being forced to move a millimeter backwards from the impact, he looked at a wide-eyed Kilah with his sternum releasing a small trail of dark blood. Heian Ciemnosc’s head was slightly lowered, and half his upper torso revealed, pale and bare to the entire Existence. As he lifted his head, Kilah saw a dark think sway behind his lower back, looking like… a tail!

‘Shit!’ Kilah’s brain worked hard, and she immediately tapped the ground beneath her to impulse her body backwards. Just as she did, looking at Heian Ciemnosc, she saw him floating towards her. But even as she separated from the ground and started fleeing, it was like she wasn’t moving at all, with Heian Ciemnosc ‘standing’ in the same spot 1 meter away from her. But soon, that changed.

Whooosh, whooosh, whooosh, whoooosh! Kilah’s eyes remained widely opened, and her pupils shrank each time Heian Ciemnosc came 10 centimeters closer. From the moment they began this cat and mouse chasing, going 100 meters every 2 seconds from one place to another, zig-zagging in roundabouts and direct lines. On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes calmly and inactively locked onto her face, seemingly lifeless.

This continued for a good while as Kilah tested Heian Ciemnosc’s speed time and again, tapping the soles of her feet in the air to keep her speed up while Heian Ciemnosc didn’t seem to need to do that. His dark tail allowed him to keep his speed. It was only 1 meter long, but the small amount of dark Power Energy needed was too small. Ever since he started ‘chasing’ Kilah, he had only used it once and semi-continued using it every now and then to keep his pace. He was simply flying, not utilizing the terrain or Elements to increase his speed.

Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.

‘Kah!’ Kilah, overcome with speed despite using her beloved Consequential 3-Eye Supreme Art, felt too bothered and annoyed. With little peace of mind, she covered her right palm with Neutral Energy before sending it towards Heian Ciemnosc, planning to slow him down and increase their distance in between without entering the Blue Era, for it would be too miserable if she did.

Whesh- pah, futomp…

“?!” To her elation, it worked, and more than that! Heian Ciemnosc’s face was slapped, barely making a noise, but it made Heian Ciemnosc stop in his tracks, hovering in midair. Kilah’s eyes widened, and the rest shrunk. With her reaction speed, she effortlessly stopped, too, and before giving Heian Ciemnosc any chance, she didn’t waste the advantage.

Pshiiiift~~~! Dash- pshift, pshift, pshift, pshift, pshift- FWOOOSH… Kilah entered her Blue Era, immediately appeared behind Heian Ciemnosc, and slid leftwards in midair, 3 meters above his nape. She lifted her arms above shoulder level and conjured 5 little Neutral Energy spears with sharp handles, looking more like daggers or short javelins, and threw them to his back to target different places before nose-diving towards him!

‘That’s his tail- no, what- !!’ Kilah’s face contorted in satisfaction and bloodthirst. She saw Heian Ciemnosc’s tail wobbling behind him as if in pain, confused and crazily wobbling its extremity around. However, its image reminded her of something more. Just then, her sharp eyes looked at his lower back, where a smaller but thicker, non-physical dark object protruded from and was completely calm.

… … … … Slap! Pruh- crrrrraaaaaaaaaaa- RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAACCKKK~!

Kilah didn’t have time to reach as her little energy spears stabbed Heian Ciemnosc’s shoulders, the back of his thighs, and the lower right side of his back. However, all of that was muffled as her face was punched by the ‘tail’ she saw wobbling up and down in confusion. Although Vocón Link punched her square in the face, it sounded more like a direct slap, one of those that hurt the most and even left her left nostril bleeding. Her crystallized armor was helpless to stop it, especially since she was preparing to attack and not defend her body with Neutral Energy.

Kilah immediately opened her eyes to look at her enemy, but her Spirit Sense caught on something more unexpected. The land they had been traveling all this time, in circles, zig-zag, and in a straight line. Every single rod they took in midair… started lifting!

The arena’s floor immediately raised, soaring into the air like divided chunks attached to some kind of body, forming a structure with dozens of different limbs and raising from underneath. It wasn’t just a few kilometers worth of floor that were affected. The entire arena was lifting to a single command. Heian Ciemnosc’s!

WHIIIIIISTLEEEE… The environment wasn’t planning to stay idle, and as ‘something’ was slowly being built with the arena’s floor, lifted and moved by one sole, gigantic, several tens of meters thick dark whip, the wind everywhere around their arena started dropping towards it, seeping inside and recklessly battering through the gaps between the structures.

“!” Kilah sensed something, and as her blurry image saw an approaching Heian Ciemnosc, she moved backwards, jumping from the ground into the air time and again, followed by Heian Ciemnosc, who was no longer feigning pain. He rushed towards her, and unlike before, he showed his Vocón Link above his dark tail, now growing to 2 meters after Kilah entered her Blue Era.

Whooosh! Whoooosh! Whoooooosh! Whooooooosh! Another chase began. This time, Kilah didn’t try anything while running as she felt Heian Ciemnosc’s speed also increase, but she could also feel his dark Power Energy running out the first time he burst with speed after she entered her Blue Era.

Whiplash!

“!!” Kilah narrowly avoided an incoming whip attack from Heian Ciemnosc, barely achieving the dodge due to muscular memory and reflexes. Looking towards him, he saw several different dark whips slowly appear from behind. The Vocón Link sub-bodies prepared and aimed under her eyes before striking towards her!

Plash! Slash! Cuuuh- whoosh! Plash! Pshift- whiii- Bam! Whoosh- whoosh! Futomp- futomp!

One sub-body came at her, shrinking Kilah’s pupils as she moved her blurry image, rapidly turning to the side, rolling, and sidestepping with her body still lying in midair. As the first cracked the air and sent damaging waves, consisting of only wind, towards her, the second dark whip came towards her, aiming at where she was sidestepping. Kilah jerked her body, twisting her arms and arching her body backwards.

Although Kilah’s body couldn’t be seen, and in others’ eyes, her blurry image only changed its shape a little, Heian Ciemnosc’s calm, casual-looking, darkest eyes saw through it. The second dark whip crashed the air above her stomach, opening a layer of her clothes and tracing a half a millimeter wide bloody line across her abdomen from her right to the left. Her body was further pushed down by its explosive waves.

“!” However, just then, she heard another incoming dark whip. Kilah’s eyes opened from being tightly shut, enduring the pain and planning her next move. The third dark whip ruined her plans, but she wasn’t helpless. She rapidly turned to face Heian Ciemnosc with her back, and as the third dark whip was just a couple meters from her back, she impulsed her body in midair, using up a smallish portion of her Neutral Energy storage.

‘Fuck! What?!’ That was, yet, not enough. A fourth dark whip was already chasing after her, seemingly with an endlessly long body, striking the air before her because she was just a tad quick to react and once again used her Neutral Energy to impulse herself for the second time successively. But the explosive waves did reach her for the third time, and this time, they sent her flying and rolling into the air as she moved towards her specified direction.

Although she should’ve lost control of her body and flown into the air, absurdly to the sides, or stomped on the ground due to the discontent, her Consequential 3-Eye helped her maintain stability. Unfortunately for her, a fifth dark whip came rushing towards her, forming a great momentum to slash at her neck. However, in one of the spins, her messy body rolled in, and her palms faced the incoming fifth dark whip, with an industrial amount of Neutral Energy covering them.

Without wasting a moment, Kilah thrust her palms forward like knives, landing on her enemy’s chest. Her eyes radiated bloodthirst, and her gritted teeth showcased the viciousness behind her actions. The Neutral Energy shot out of her blurry image, like a sudden teleportation, but it was merely hidden under an illusion, momentary and weak but efficient. Even Heian Ciemnosc, with his monumental Spirit Sense, couldn’t detect it right away, but only after her attack landed on the fifth dark whip.

Kilah’s massive Neutral Energy counterattack met the fifth dark whip head-on, immediately exploding it to bits as the Neutral Energy continued to track forwards, looking to engulf Heian Ciemnosc. However, the Neutral Energy seemed attracted and bewitched by the dark whip’s body as, instead of directly flying towards Heian Ciemnosc, it followed the dark whip’s body as if to completely destroy it.

Kilah frowned, and Heian Ciemnosc’s gaze hardened. He couldn’t immediately draw her Neutral Energy. Not because it was too much but because it was too powerful for him to influence with his Vocón Link sub-bodies. Yet, it was still too much, and as it destroyed most of the fifth dark whip, it closed in on Heian Ciemnosc. In a second, it would reach Heian Ciemnosc and bombard him with multiple self-detonations, bathing him in pristine torment.

Both suddenly dropped their speed, causing shockwaves around them, but minimally. Flying sideways at their maximum, but not overly exhorted speed, they surrounded the still massive Neutral Energy attack and the fifth dark whip. Kilah circled rightwards while Heian Ciemnosc moved to his right.

Dash! Dash!- Pshift- BOOOOM! Whoosh, whoosh- pah, thu- thud- pom, pam pam pam pam…

Suddenly, before the fifth dark whip and the massive Neutral Energy mass seemed to explode, Heian Ciemnosc and Kilah rushed towards the other, 1 meter above the ‘new’ ground level, and at their maximum speed without wasting their respective energy.

This time, Kilah enhanced her body with Neutral Energy and invoked her Spirit Image out. On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc brandished his Claws Out and his 3 meters long dark tail, bearing his dark fangs as he parted his lips like a threatening wolf, without the growl and gums showing. However, the appearance of those fangs was enough to eclipse any rabid animal’s stance, showcasing their most threatening image.

His arms were semi-folded, to his sides, and slightly backwards. His palms faced their respective arms, and the 10 dark claws were intensely eye-catching for Kilah’s tensed, deadly serious, bloodthirsty face and the crowds’ eyes.

Just as Heian Ciemnosc passed closer to his fifth dark whip, he detached it from his Vocón Link’s body and used his left palm to thrust a bout of dark Power Energy. It traveled faster than his or Kilah’s speed, immediately rushing to crash in between the dark whip and the Neutral Energy mass. Everything exploded in a swift but controlled manner as both fighters flew near it to beat the crap out of the other.

Heian Ciemnosc struck first! His right, wide-open palm landed on her sternum, above her prominent breasts. Her body was pushed backwards, but her crystallized armor held on its own. Heian Ciemnosc’s right leg rapidly folded and unfolded right after, aiming at her sternum. But Kilah was prepared and sent her left shin to stop him, blocking his attack but not definitely, as the sole of Heian Ciemnosc’s foot slid and slightly hurt her skin.

However, her right knee suddenly moved up with impunity. But before her knee could land on Heian Ciemnosc’s left ribs, she stopped it and sent her right foot forward instead. Its tip rushed towards his heart! A massive, trepid, sharp amount of Neutral Energy covered her right foot from heel to toe.

Just then, with a swift motion and unorthodox movement, Heian Ciemnosc bent his left elbow and lowered the left side of his torso. His elbow head-on blocked her right shin, stopping any threatening attack. But by then, a feral Kilah, at failing yet another deadly strike on Heian Ciemnosc, started palming his chest with plenty of fury!

For a few seconds, all the crowd did was look as all this happened and then as Kilah rained Heian Ciemnosc’s torso with several palm strikes. However, although Heian Ciemnosc frowned, there was no sound coming from them, muffled by his pure physical body’s durability. And as Heian Ciemnosc was busy deflecting from Kilah’s Neutral Energy strands, and she kept hitting him, the earthen floor around them began forming a sort of ball…

…