All-Out Kill (4—Last Part)

Fwuuosh! Fwuuosh! Pshift... bang! Whoosh- boom!

Two Fire energy flame tongues rushed upwards from Heian Ciemnosc's dark Power Energy-covered hands. They moved quickly, leaving no choice for Kilah than to face them, but she was less than worried. With her back against the barrier ceiling, she prepared to kick her feet against it as her right hand accumulated some Neutral Energy. Sending an energy attack with her right hand, it targeted one of the flame tongues while fearlessly impulsing herself towards the other.

Kilah welcomed the other flame tongue into her Golden Era. It disappeared into the blurry painting as she tried expelling it, facing Heian Ciemnosc. However, before she had the chance, the flame tongue self-exploded, immediately dashing her body away as if someone had forced her body with telekinesis. She was slightly befuddled, and after a second of standing in midair, she resumed her flight.

However, Heian Ciemnosc had sent not just another 2 flaming tongues from his arms. This time, an additional 4 Wind bursts emerged around him to accompany them. Kilah learned this time and flew towards them still. Her arms flung about to send smallish Neutral Energy strands to detonate as many techniques as possible before she met them head-on.

Bang, bang, bang- pssftt- whoosh, whoosh, whoosh- boom boom boom boom boom…!

This time, Kilah stopped a few attacks. Their bodies were destroyed without causing much of an impact. Then, she rushed into the others as her Golden Era didn’t let them remain within for even a second before spitting them out, sending them all towards Heian Ciemnosc. Without a care, Heian Ciemnosc kept flying forwards, receiving those techniques he himself sent out, but when they landed on his body, they simply puffed and dissipated as if having returned to the source.

Kilah frowned but remained focused. He was still flying upwards, mere seconds from starting melee combat again, and she didn’t want to just let him do that so easily. Kilah closed in, but at the last minute, she impulsed her body backwards and towards Heian Ciemnosc’s rear, flying over him with her hands shedding Neutral Energy like a fairy dropping some powder, but each bit threatening to injure him!

Swish- … … … … swiiip! Thud! Grapple! Rapidly, Heian Ciemnosc spun his body so the top of his head faced the ground. With his back towards her, he faced Kilah upside down as she leaned on her right, and her pupils shrank. When Heian Ciemnosc spun his body, his right arm shot forwards as if holding something between his index finger and thumb. Immediately, from his right palm, a Vocón Link sub-body passed through his fingers like it had no physical body and made its tenebrous, nonexistent-like sound as it shot towards her!

“!!” Kilah’s eyes trembled as its contents became big dots. Her Spirit Sense, yet again, could only sense it when the sub-body was already being shot. The next second, she felt her flight stop, and Heian Ciemnosc faced the opposite side as she still leaned to her right in midair. Her skin wrung as she looked at her solar plexus, only to find her crystallized armor broken apart by a marginal amount.

It looked like the dark whip turned into a needle before penetrating her crystallized armor. However, it returned to its 4 inches-thick appearance immediately afterwards and latched onto her stomach. Like a suction cup with dark, shapeless limbs covering her white skin without clothes like trying to take over the white with darkness, she felt her body stiffen. And suddenly, she looked at Heian Ciemnosc, whose right arm started a pulling motion.

Whooooosh! Swish- swish! Pam! Craaaaccckk, fwuosh! Fwrrrrrggghhhh~!!

Heian Ciemnosc didn’t let her think for an additional second as he pulled her towards him while forcing his body to face the ground with his back and force Kilah’s back to once again face the ceiling barrier. As Kilah was pulled towards him, his left claw elongated to its full 2 inches width. Kilah forced her Golden Era to send his dark whip away, but it wasn’t working! She was anxious for the first time in her life, with her solid confidence breaking!

Kilah tried forcing Heian Ciemnosc to back off with a right kick, but he simply pulled his right arm slightly up, and her entire body changed directions, leaving her even more vulnerable with her bum facing Heian Ciemnosc’s stomach. Heian Ciemnosc palmed Kilah’s right side before embedding his wider dark claws into her crystallized armor. He could only pierce the for half a centimeter and a smallish hole with such little time left, but it was enough for him to grab her and let go of his dark whip.

‘Now I ca- !?!’ Kilah felt the dark whip disappearing. She felt like her lungs had just escaped extreme pressure when she suddenly saw his right palm closing in on her face… with Fire energy accumulating and spreading outwards. Before she could move after the dark whip smoked away, just as her hands opened and her feet were starting to send Neutral Energy to escape his grasp, her face was met, head-on, with flames!

Heian Ciemnosc flamethrowed with his right palm pressing against her crystallized armor face. Kilah’s arms went limp at her sides as she lay in midair. This continued for 2 seconds, and while the crowd Kilah lost fighting capabilities, Heian Ciemnosc saw Kilah’s eyes wide open, looking into the void as the flames slowly melted her crystallized armor headpiece. But finally, there was movement coming from Kilah as her mindset morphed into a feral animal mad at him!

Swish, whoosh- pak tuk tak tak! Whoosh, dash! Whoosh- fwuoosh! Pshift- bang! Whoosh! Swish, pom pam pam pom pam pom bum- pshift, pshift- bang!

It was like Kilah’s switch into mad killing mode was activated, turned, and broken. She moved simply by wagging her legs up and down and holding his arms with her hands, not caring about the damage she was suffering. Jumping from his grasp under Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, she immediately flew up until she faced the ceiling barrier, but she turned around and dashed towards Heian Ciemnosc to fly face-to-face with him half a second later.

After looking at Heian Ciemnosc with calm eyes that yet radiated huge bloodthirst, she folded her back, further-up her shoulders, and suddenly pushed him with her right foot. Right after, her left foot came swinging from the side. Without rest or waiting for even a second, her left hand came swaying from below to up in a knife gesture. Every move she made radiated with her Neutral Energy, and she wasn’t shy to spend it.

Before any of those hits could land, with Heian Ciemnosc simply incapable of avoiding it, her right hand abruptly swung to her left, above her shoulder, across her face, hiding those calm yet bloodthirsty eyes… mesmerizing and fearsome. Her right elbow came straight for Heian Ciemnosc’s collarbone…

Her right foot exploded Neutral Energy into his body as it pushed him downwards, but her body was as if omnipresent, never letting him separate from her by even a millimeter. Her left foot struck his right side, almost racking a rib, while her left hand cut through his pale skin, leaving a long trail of dark blood seeping out even as her nails lost some substance and became uneven. Her left foot vamoosed some Neutral Energy on his right side, flying about aimlessly, but when her left hand cut his body up, she drew every bit of it into the slim cut on his torso.

Lastly, her right elbow knocked down on his collarbone, where she cracked more bones. But, this time, her Neutral Energy didn’t crash on his body and dispersed around it. While the Neutral Energy seeping into his body was diminished, what could enter him didn’t stay to face off the dark blood and dark Power Energy around. It immediately flew towards his collarbone, where her right elbow was about to connect.

When her elbow landed, her Neutral Energy remained as she started twisting and kept finding spots to cleave it into his collarbone while whatever of her Neutral Energy inside him self-exploded, causing severe, extra damage. Heian Ciemnosc’s body finally reacted, and his left claw, still with the dark claws elongated, stabbed towards her side, intending to dig out some organs!

However, she immediately ran from him, leaving his body as if she wasn’t even trying to harm him. And as Heian Ciemnosc sent a wide flame tongue created from the side, with some dark Power Energy sparkling Fire particles, she flew in circles around him. The Fire tongue spread everywhere around Heian Ciemnosc as he could only follow her with his Spirit Sense. She didn’t stop, and whenever she met the Fire tongue, now creating a sort of flaming cyclone around Heian Ciemnosc, she had her Golden Era spit it out before it could reach her body.

Like this, an area over 400 meters was rapidly covered by Heian Ciemnosc’s Fire technique. Meanwhile, Kilah continued to fly in circles until Heian Ciemnosc’s Wind blade suddenly burst inside from the outside into the flaming cyclone, targeting Kilah. But she stopped in midair, spewing flames out of her Golden Era everywhere like a beacon for all fire, and rubbed her hands together before striking the incoming Wind blade, over 50 metes long, and blasting everything to make an opening in the Fire cyclone.

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The gap allowed them to see a nearly completed gigantic ball, about 400 meters in diameter, with their naked eyesight, and only its top left to complete. Several small arena floor chunks and pillars were flying towards it, slowly but surely completing it. With this sudden gap in the Fire cyclone, Kilah stopped and looked down at Heian Ciemnosc, floating above him. Heian Ciemnosc stood casually with his dark coat mostly unscathed, showing part of his pale thighs and pelvis after her sudden attacking outburst.

After observing each other for several seconds, Kilah’s face flinched, eyebrows trembled, and the corners of her mouth spasmed before she rapidly dashed towards him! Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes’ pupils shrank along his pupils. His Claws went fully Out, elongating as he separated his fingers and folded them to his sides as his arms semi-folded, his back muscles intensely tensed, and he drew his upwards and downwards, respectively, to reveal his dark fangs.

Kilah arrived swinging her body sideways from a little to the right towards the left. Heian Ciemnosc jolted his body up and leftwards, keeping his left claw down and the right claw stabbing in a sweeping motion. Kilah’s kick was blocked by his left shin, and he immediately clawed at her with his right claw, but she used both hands, covered in Neutral Energy, to stop it.

She bent her body and closed in on Heian Ciemnosc. Their bodies had become stagnant and pretty close after he blocked her kick. Now that she had flexed her body, her face was before his stomach, and her right leg escaped his left shin as her knee came crashing against his stomach. But Heian Ciemnosc stopped it with his open right palm. Without waiting for the other’s move, they both sent a fist towards the other’s neck, meeting head-on without the intention to block.

And it began just like this. In such close quarters, Kilah made most of the aggressive moves as her Neutral Energy halted any attack she couldn’t stop otherwise. Her crystallized armor shouldered attack after attack. If it wasn’t Heian Ciemnosc’s dark Power Energy attacks, Elemental techniques from the Wind or Fire spectrum, then it was his simply threateningly mighty bodily strength!

Whenever one came, her arms or legs would rapidly slide through the air, catching his strikes or techniques with her body and crystallized armor, overpassing on it with her Neutral Energy, attacking it, weakening it, before throwing it to the side, eating it with her Golden Era, and spewing it out immediately after, not leaving an opportunity for Heian Ciemnosc to harm her.

But her attacks were just as detrimental for the Wrath Nihility Academy’s little black monster. Each of her swinging kicks, punches, headbutts, and Neutral Energy attacks were backed by her already unmistakably overly powerful immense speed. What’s more, each of her moves, even just dashing around Heian Ciemnosc to gain a better angle, only to more or less fail every time since she couldn’t deal with his overly bizarre Spirit Sense, was supported and empowered by her Spirit Image, Golden Era, and infused with Neutral Energy.

From time to time, Heian Ciemnosc would claw towards Kilah with Wind or Fire elemental energy accompanying his dark Power Energy, but that was it, and whenever she faced this, she evaded most of those attacks before resisting the rest with everything she had to offer. Dark Power Energy and brightest orange with yellow, or a grayish, transparent yellow, would flash together, following the motion of his claws, and sometimes force red blood from her lips or skin.

On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc’s bones were constantly broken here and there. The long wound on his torso was rapidly closed, even though not totally healed. It was also very superficial, so his All-Devouring Force Chronicles in the 4th level were enough to deal with it. But as she kept breaking his bones and opening wounds on his pale skin, his All-Devouring Force Chronicles started working at top engines, making Heian Ciemnosc’s skin and blood boil without the temperature rising.

At this moment, Heian Ciemnosc and Kilah were facing each other, 4 meters away from each other, and suddenly, both had the same idea. Their hands came closer together as dark Power Energy and Neutral Energy were brought out from their bodies. Locking eyes with the other’s body, setting them into their minds, a powerful, small, but potent energy attack was brewing, and the crowds’ eyes widened as their skin started becoming numb…

They threw their energy attacks out, moving a little to the left or the right and, maybe, slightly up or down. And as if they were stuck in time, in slow motion, their energy attacks took a ‘long’ time to meet the other. When they were finally crossing the 2 meters mark at the same time, their bodies rushed forward. Kilah was faster, but the energy attacks were just as fast and with an advantage. An explosion sounded as Kilah and Heian Ciemnosc flew to their right.

The left side of Heian Ciemnosc’s face was illuminated by Neutral Energy, while Killan’s left body and face were wholly obscured by dark Power Energy. Both energies were going off together and against each other. Like lightning bolts in the shape of balls, they crushed each other's bodies with their own. The dark energy was faster and clearly more invasive than Kilah’s energy, capturing more terrain quickly, but even as the Neutral Energy lost some strength, it was still more powerful.

At last, it exploded, sending energy waves everywhere, outwards. But, without fear, both fighters rushed immediately in once the explosive waves started spreading. Heian Ciemnosc’s body wasn’t halted, but his dark coat started losing sustenance, and more pale skin was being revealed. Kilah, on the other hand, felt dark Power Energy latch onto her face and body like electric sparkles adhering to the first physical object they could find, even with her marvelous speed, well beyond her cultivation base.

Whoooosh…

‘Huh?!’ Just as Kilah crossed the dark Power Energy that unsettled her and put her feelings in a solemn spot. However, while she felt better escaping its clutches, instead of seeing Heian Ciemnosc flying towards her or finding him just as soon as he found her, she was instead met with a weird feeling. It wasn’t painful, yet she felt betrayed, ridiculously mad deep within her being, but she couldn’t immediately discover why.

Pshift… … … … …

Only a second after she crossed the energy explosion and its waves began receding and looked down did she realize what it was. Her abdomen, whose superficial cuts were still open, was completely covered from the inside as if she had only darkness beneath her skin. They weren’t like this a couple seconds ago, and the other superficial cuts around her body were bloody and showed flesh or some red blood.

And just as she looked down, frowned, and wanted to send Neutral Energy to clean her body, she realized that, like new veins or worms, parasites, and disease in her body, dark cords were moving beneath her skin but above her muscles and bones! Even more bizarre and shocking, her wounds suddenly detached from within smallish, thin, dark energy strands! Forming a type of shapeless limb with its base just 1 centimeter above her solar plexus.

“!” Then, Kilah heard a sound she was already familiar with and feared the most right now. Against her wishes, however, that precise thing happened as the shapeless limb started taking the shape of a 4 inches thick dark whip! And just then, she felt the same sound come from somewhere amidst the dark power Energy explosion, within a smallish sphere that appeared out of nowhere and still outside her Spirit Sense’s scanning until she used her Soul.

… … … … fwip! Crisp! WHOOSH! PUNCH! Craaaaaaaackkk- crasshhh… pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew… fwuoosh, fwuooosh- whistle, whistle, whistleee~!

“...!!!” What happened next could only be described as monumentally silencing the crowd.

Kilah’s body projected a dark whip from her body, a full-fledged, dark whip, and not a dark Power Energy shapeless limb. From that dark sphere that quickly dissipated, it revealed Heian Ciemnosc in a semi-fetal position, erecting another dark whip from the nook of his right elbow. His right arm was extended towards Kilah in the distance, his dark claws spread, and his claw opened.

When both dark whips met each other in midair, and Kilah was amidst drawing her body backwards despite feeling fresh coldness all over, within her body, Heian Ciemnosc’s right arm was already in the process of closing his claw into a fist and pulling it back. Heian Ciemnosc’s dark coat, semi-broken, revealing most of his torso and arms, but keeping his pale back covered, showed his tensed muscles as Kilah was insanely quickly pulled towards him yet again.

As that happened, the Fire cyclone, with its gap closed long ago, seemed to rage on as it twirled with them inside like it had gone hella crazy at the same time Kilah’s body was pulled over. Yet, as she was pulled, she and Heian Ciemnosc once again exchanged positions as Heian Ciemnosc came to face the ceiling barrier with his back and Kilah the opposite.

Kilah’s body arrived before Heian Ciemnosc, and before she knew it, his left claw also turned into a punch. She braced herself for the impact but was already preparing to use the ricochet from it to flee. Yet, as she was in the middle of getting away once she was irreversibly hit, her Spirit Sense caught onto something that shocked her and the crowd alike.

8 thin Water strings suddenly flew from underground hundreds of meters, moving towards Heian Ciemnosc. More specifically, they were targeting Kilah at the same moment she would be struck by his left dark fist! They were pristine, azure starred colored, the beautiful Water elemental colors. As that happened, Wind discs started flying from within the Fire cyclone’s inner walls towards Heian Ciemnosc with the same objective.

They were each a half-crescent moon, spinning thrice each second as they flew towards them. And lastly, flaming snakes zig-zagged, also from the Fire cyclone’s inner walls. They were the second fastest among Heian Ciemnosc’s 3 techniques, surpassed only by the Water strings coming from underneath the ground. Kilah saw this, and her left nostrils suddenly exploded with her Neutral Energy becoming overpowered after spending blood essence.

However, she was already far too into receiving Heian Ciemnosc’s attack before noticing his hidden sneak attacks. Thus, she braced her body and covered her entire self, even her Soul, with Neutral Energy, further improved and transmuted by her blood essence. The time for being punched came, and soon, she saw Heian Ciemnosc’s left folded arm slowly extend, sending its fist towards her Dantian region. But that would only damage her, not her cultivation and Heian Ciemnosc was well aware of it.

Under every pair of eyes watching this grand final-like climaxing of a duel, Heian Ciemnosc’s dark Power Energy-covered left fist struck Kilah’s abdomen. Without any hope, and with even his dark Soul put into it, Kilah’s crystallized armor broke her front pieces into tiny shards, flying about everywhere to the sides, forming a circle. Her eyes’ pupils shrunk to a needle, followed by her irises in paused spasms. Saliva, blood, and some organ tissue left her mouth as her tongue flapped outside.

Next was her raw body, whose Spirit Image clothes further tore apart and her skin dented inwards. Her head inadvertently turned to the right, her eyes obviously unfocused as she held his left arm, whose hand held her left shoulder softly, unworried about her escaping now. Imminently, the Water, Wind, and Fire techniques Heian Ciemnosc had employed were just half a second from landing on her legs, sides, back, and face.

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