All-Out Kill (3)

Heian Ciemnosc resisted for 3 more seconds, receiving palm strikes everywhere around his upper torso. Having had enough, he let one of the Neutral Energy strands that flew from behind Kilah's back before immediately lunging at his body like snakes biting at his left arm. On the other hand, his right arm rapidly struck forth with dark Power Energy, enhancing it, not defensively, only in the offense.

Swish! Thud- pum! Heian Ciemnosc’s right palm descended onto Kilah’s collarbone with his thumb widely spread. Kilah’s face was astounded as she could not predict that Heian Ciemnosc would move so swiftly out of nowhere, but she didn’t have time to consider it as her body flew backwards. All the crowd saw was Kilah’s Blue Era suddenly flying away again as if fleeing from him. But just then, another Vocón Link sub-body appeared from beneath the ground, like a rope being pulled, hidden in the sand, and lashed at her with the intention to strike and capture.

Plaaa~ sap! … … … … The sub-body landed on her spine, directly crushing some of her crystallized armor and sending the pain through. Immediately, it wrapped around her, making that tenebrous, silent noise like the Vocón Link itself, but smaller. Heian Ciemnosc’s right foot stomped on the ground, impulsing his body forwards to reach above Kilah’s body in under a second. His right hand turned into a fist and came crashing down on her stomach.

Pom! Her upper vertebral column was held stiff still by the sub-body, so she could barely twist her waist before Heian Ciemnosc’s knuckles started digging her skin without cutting through. Kilah felt her body like a broken hose getting fixed, saliva exploding from her mouth as she crazily and unbelievably looked at Heian Ciemnosc, who had such immense power despite being a whole realm below her and without Neutral Energy!

Cra- thud! Pah! Swish, whooooosh! Swish, fwip- fwop fwap, fewp- whoosh- pum!

Kilah’s back met the ground head-on. After being separated and layered off once, its more rigid and uneven surface would surely hurt more than the original floor. As she landed on it, she shockingly flattened 2 meters around her in diameter. But before she could break the round further, suffering under Heian Ciemnosc’s fist, he picked her up with the sub-body and kicked her away with his instep, landing on her sternum, barely ‘missing’ both rib cages’ sides.

Heian Ciemnosc waited a second before grinning, liking the sensation of fighting, and even as he seemingly had the upper hand, he wasn’t harming his opponent as others would have been writhing on the ground or in the air nonstop. This time, he flew without his dark tail, simply pushing his feet on the floor, making 2 meters diameter areas under them crack open and reveal several inches deep cracks.

Kilah’s body flew in a straight line for half a kilometer before Heian Ciemnosc caught up, the sub-body around her already dissipated and nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, Heian Ciemnosc swung his right elbow towards Kilah’s heart. She had been lying in her Blue Era without moving, her feet slightly lower than her back and facing the sky. Now, however, as soon as Heian Ciemnosc threatened her life or to severely injure her, her neck shrank, and her eyes widely opened to reveal her bloodthirst and rage.

Heian Ciemnosc’s attack missed for real this time. Kilah’s left hand tapped his right arm’s biceps, and her body bent forwards while moving to her right. The strike passed by her forehead as her right hand formed into a fist with her middle finger semi-folded. Neutral Energy created a spike on that finger as it came up and aimed at Heian Ciemnosc’s solar plexus. It immediately failed as Heian Ciemnosc’s left palm pushed her further to the right before rushing to fling his arm to the left and skywards.

This way, Heian Ciemnosc’s body followed her trajectory. But before he could slap her with an open hand down, she covered her crystallized armor headpiece with multiple spearheads and headbutted him! Wind elemental energy appeared on Heian Ciemnosc’s back, precisely on his vertebral column and whole left shoulder and arm. Heian Ciemnosc saw Kilah’s crystallized armor headpiece pass by his sternum, cutting his uniform further and tracing his pale skin.

Neutral Energy condensed everywhere on Kilah’s right side of her body, clearly preparing for another attack. Having detected the initial point of this with his Spirit Sense, Heian Ciemnosc’s left foot suddenly stabbed towards Kilah’s lower abdomen. Although she wanted to let it hit her, sacrificing her crystallized armor’s durability, her instincts told her otherwise. Abruptly, she found both her hands stopping a foot from reaching her abdomen, perforated by 10 dark claws, 4 inches long each.

“Agh…!” Kilah’s hands tasted Heian Ciemnosc’s dark Power Energy for the first time. There was no way she would feel content from avoiding a worse fate than thought out. However, she was quick to act, and before she could feel the sensations of ‘something’ eating her Neutral Energy, skin, and flesh for the tenth time, she sent all the Neutral Energy on the right side of her body to her hands, rapidly neutralizing the dark Power Energy wreaking havoc in her body.

“!” She looked up and to her left to gaze at a silent, unmoving Heian Ciemnosc, who looked at her with the darkest eyes she could ever witness as if he was dead, pale, and everything. She wasn’t stupid, however, and with her eyes gaining a golden luster, she gritted her teeth before uncaringly separating her hands sideways, letting his dark claws cut through them, mangling her own body. This was how determined she was, and Heian Ciemnosc didn’t have time to react until she was more than 100 meters away in her Blue Era, actually fleeing this time.

Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, sparkle…

Heian Ciemnosc swung his right arm, and the air everywhere around him, to his right, heated up to welcome hundreds of sparkles, turning into semi-fire that flew to each other and formed 8 separate balls in midair. Behind Heian Ciemnosc, those balls turned into fire in under 3 seconds, as big as twice his torso’s size and with a volume of 5 Heian Ciemnoscs. These fireballs flew up behind his back before suddenly shooting forwards!

Fwuush, fwuush, fwuush, fwuuush~! Swish, whoooooooooshhh~!

Heian Ciemnosc didn’t just do that, and after the fireballs went flying after Kilah, he formed Wind spears everywhere, sending dozens of them flying beside those fireballs. The crowd gasped at the sight as if motherships were leading each of their fleets to chase after Kilah, gaining speed and momentum as Kilah’s speed was… matched! The Wind started forming around them all as if personally escorting them to go faster and gain mobility. The fireballs spouted sparkles to the rear, like an engine combusting with more fuel, adding even more to their speed levels.

In this way, they rapidly arrived just a few shy, tens of meters before Kilah, who didn’t bother looking back and planned something. Her Spirit Sense traveled everywhere around her, and Heian Ciemnosc could even feel it analyze what was happening with the earthen structures, now forming a ball in the middle of the arena. She kept flying, chased by the ever-closing-in fireballs and Wind spears.

Futomp! Whoosh~... dash! Whoosh! Whoosh! Boom! Whoosh, boom, boom! Whoooosh! Boom! Boom! Cuh, cuh, cuh! Tak, tuk- whoosh!

Still in her Blue Era and wearing her crystallized armor, Kilah stopped, faced the fireballs and Wind spears, and started flying through them. First, she overflew them, but they flexibly caught her almost immediately after. Like a wave suddenly raising and entrapping a cliff, she was surrounded by danger everywhere. Yet, Kilah didn’t think twice to swim through. Her Blue Era passed by a fireball with rapid speed. It exploded just 3 meters behind her feet, but it still made her bounce 4 meters in the opposite direction and further up.

That allowed 2 more fireballs to come close as Wind spears chased behind her, below, and were about to impale her from the front. More specifically, aimed at her face, shoulders, and neck. Those fireballs exploded, one 2 meters before her to the left and the other to her right. Her body shot upwards and to the right, with another 2 rapidly moving fireballs chasing after her tummy. Even as the Wind spears were close to those fireballs, they were immune to their explosive waves and continued flying like nothing. In fact, the crowd seemed to see a change in them.

Exactly 1.5 meters below her torso, they went off, with not even half a centimeter separating them, and at the same time. The sight made it seem like the rest of the world had become dark, and only her front body, colored by the brightest orange and yellow, had light. When it happened, Kilah felt her front body’s skin scorch for 1 second before the sensation dissipated. However, she was further blown farther up into the skies.

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Without letting her room to breathe, the air around her nostrils, mouth, eyes, cheeks, and ears seemed to disappear. At the same time, and while she tightly shut her eyes, Kilah’s chest, sternum, and abdomen were struck with several Wind blades. Because of her still-standing crystallized armor, they became stuck without even a third of the spearheads penetrating, and the rest of the Wind spears outside her armor rapidly dissipated.

However, there was a problem for her. These weren’t just Wind blades. When they landed on her body, they felt hot despite having most of their color denominated by the Wind element, grayish, transparent yellow. The remaining colors around the Wind spears were bright orange and yellow. Fire circled around the Wind spears’ heads! Blinking in and out of one’s naked eyesight and even Spirit Sense reading!

And as the rest of their bodies dissipated, the hotness Kilah had felt when the Wind spears penetrated only increased. Immediately after, they were like many fangs prickling at her skin, unprotected by her crystallized armor and helpless to defend with just a bit of her Neutral Energy enhancing her entire body. She could concentrate her enhancement there, but the rest of her body would become slightly less protected. However, she saw Heian Ciemnosc flying towards her from a distance and knew that wasn’t an option.

“AAAGH!” More and more Fire wind spears started cutting into her crystallized armor, attacking her skin and beginning to form a massive Fire energy disorder under her skin. If this continued, Kilah would just suffer a forced cultivation deviation in the long run. Feeling a few more Fire wind spears stabbing at the lower sides of her torso, she couldn’t take it anymore and turned her hands into fists, folded her elbows, and attached them to her sides, slowly and tremblingly, sending them backwards.

“AAAAHH!!!” Her mouth opened wide, and burrows sank, enraged. She roared to the skies as even more Fire wind spears continued to stab all around her crystallized armor, some even directly drawing blood from her skin after dozens penetrated prior. Her voice echoed everywhere… as she gained a golden glow.

PSHIFT!!... PSHIFT- PSHIFT- PSHIFT!!!

“!” Suddenly, in Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, as he ignored the upheaval of pure energy and Neutral Energy congregating all around her, forming a cyclone without the Wind in her favor. Kilah’s upper garments were destroyed by… her inner garments! Her obscure gray uniform was turned into pieces and ragged, but instead of falling from her body or disintegrating by the 2 types of energy swirling around her, they were ‘eaten’ by her inner garments.

They were brown-crimson, and as they appeared at last, Heian Ciemnosc’s mind became a little intrigued. He stopped flying forwards as he saw the golden of her blurry painting take up most of the colors. Her inner garments weren’t something normal, not even Earth grade equipment… they were her… ‘Spirit Image!’

Heian Ciemnosc fell intricately silent as Kilah entered her Golden Era, and her Spirit Image was being fed up. It wasn’t as simple as Kilah grabbing further enhancement from her Spirit image. This Spirit Image was different to most, seemingly making Kilah. Although it didn’t offer her protection, she gained resilience, willpower from her emotions, and comprehension!

“Raaaarrghh!” The Fire wind spears and other fireballs flying towards her, and already stuck in her crystallized armor, went into her Golden Era, but her body no longer exploded away or was stabbed. She looked at Heian Ciemnosc, her eyes glistered with gold as her hands were placed together, and she extended them down the sides of her body, appearing dainty for once.

“Today’s the day you die!!” Kilah’s voice, however, was hoarse and bloodthirsty. After screaming at the top of her lungs, a few fireballs and several Fire wind spears exploded from her Golden Era, immediately flying in Heian Ciemnosc’s general direction. Heian Ciemnosc remained immobile as they came towards him. A fireball quickly landed on his right shoulder, but it puffed most of its body when it did, barely exploding and moving his dark coat.

Whoosh! Pshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffttt~! Pshift-click! Cuuuuh! Swish, crrr- swash! Whoosh! Pa- tuk, pa- tak, pum! Tuk! Swiish, pum- pum pum!

After looking at each other for over a minute, turning the arena silent except for the moving earthen walls, still moving around and building a gigantic ball, Kilah flew towards Heian Ciemnosc. Her speed was already over what he could match or see through. Golden contrails were left behind as she sped over 300 meters in under a second, shrinking Heian Ciemnosc’s pupils and alarming his body to tense up.

Heian Ciemnosc only had enough time to fully cover from his wrists to his fingers and his whole feet with dark Power Energy before Kilah arrived before him. He attacked first. Heian Ciemnosc sent his right claw forward, its back facing the sky, aimed to cut wherever he could on Kilah’s stomach. However, he was met with nothing. Kilah’s body stopped without needing to expose her Neutral Energy, and despite his Spirit Sense catching up to it, he might as well not even know she was already above him.

Her right foot descended in a swinging motion to kick his head, but Heian Ciemnosc responded with his left hand cutting sideways from the side. His dark claws stopped her right foot, colliding with her leg’s shin, but they barely even made her crystallized armor gain any cracks as they simply sparkled with energy splashing everywhere. Heian Ciemnosc’s right claw returned, grabbed her knee, and swung her down. For as fast as she could be, Kilah wasn’t wholly untouchable.

Having her float under him, even with her Golden Era making it predominantly impossible for attacks to land on her, his right fist didn’t miss as it hit its target. With a lower punch, her waist was struck, but it was stopped by the crystallized armor, which only cracked and dented a little but didn’t let Heian Ciemnosc’s mighty 80,000 kg of bodily strength continue. Even the powerful waves from his attack were nullified, leaving Heian Ciemnosc helpless.

Heian Ciemnosc tried again, his left palm immediately crashing on her forehead, but under the cobweb and dented headpiece armor, Heian Ciemnosc saw bloodthirsty eyes and a shaming glint. With one last attempt, before she could answer, Heian Ciemnosc’s dark claws clutched her headpiece armor and pulled her head towards him, surprising her into widely opening her eyes. Before she knew it, her chin was struck by his left knee.

Like a raging cat or a child in a play suddenly brawling, Kilah’s face contorted in rage as she flung her hands everywhere to grab onto Heian Ciemnosc. Once she grabbed his shoulders, empowered by her Neutral Energy and Spirit Image, Heian Ciemnosc couldn’t even move! She rapidly circled, placing them in opposite directions. He was below while she floated on top. Separated by less than half a meter, Heian Ciemnosc gained mobility and managed to ‘stand up’ in the air, but a sudden kick from her left hand as she grabbed him near his trapezius muscle forced him to stop.

The kick landed, exploding with Neutral Energy spreading outwards on his chest, destroying all of his uniform from his upper torso. His pale skin was entirely bare from this section. But before Heian Ciemnosc could respond, another 2 quick kicks came crashing on his sternum and collarbone, her instep making all the damage as he almost heard his bones break. This was just the beginning, and she started sending more and more kicks before he could raise his hands.

Each kick destroyed the rest of his torso’s uniform and jacket, leaving him bare with only his dark coat still on. Heian Ciemnosc grabbed her waist with both hands, harshly applying pressure to penetrate through her crystallized armor, but he couldn’t do it any time soon. The more time he wasted, the more his chest was close to getting broken of its bones. At some point, Heian Ciemnosc felt one of his bones crack. He couldn’t grab her legs as they were far above what he could accomplish, too fast and nimble.

Thus, Heian Ciemnosc gritted his teeth, and before the next kick came in, with Kilah naturally noticed she had finally broken one of his bones… Fire energy shot from his arms to his hands at a moment’s notice! His arms, covered in his dark coat’s sleeves, became torches as copious Fire energy amounts bathed them and exploded towards his claws. Kilah didn’t have time to respond as she was utterly engrossed in breaking through his bones and bury her feet there to start destroying his body.

FWUOOOSH! Crash! Crash, crash, crash, crash-... Phhshk! Phhshk, phhshk, phhshk, phhshk, phhshk, phhshk, phhshk, phhshk, phhshk!

The Fire blew away Kilah’s Neutral Energy as if finding it fearsome to deal with the former, but the latter immediately returned to clash against the Fire energy. Still, that was enough for Heian Ciemnosc’s dark claws to break through! His left dark claws penetrated at once, with the right claw’s dark claws penetrating one by one after the left claw penetrated. There was a silence between the two as it happened, with Kilah moving her eyes from Heian Ciemnosc’s pale chest to his darkest eyes.

On the other hand, his darkest eyes were already locked on hers. When they looked at each other, Kilah’s face winced in pain as 10 4 inches deep dark claws buried inside her body. Red blood seeped out as if having been waiting for this for a long time.

WHOOOSH! WHOOOOOSH! SWIIIISH!

Kilah struggled to get away from his grasp like a rabid dog or cat. She nearly effortlessly slid 8 dark claws out of her body, but his thumbs were complicated, holding onto her stomach with dark Power Energy layering within her like hooks adhering to her insides. After she felt a patch of her skin fall off when she broke away from his thumbs, she immediately flew towards the arena’s barrier ceiling.

However, Heian Ciemnosc, left below, with a bruised chest and some dark blood seeping from his left nostril, calmly looked up. Behind him, from the lower end of his tailbone, a 4 meters long dark tail flapped twice before the ground beneath him exploded, and his body blurred before slowly dissipating. By the time his semi-afterimage disappeared, he was up in the sky, cornering Kilah against the ceiling, with his hands sending explosive Fire energy flames upwards towards her!

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