Execution!
At the same time Kilah's body was struck, and her crystallized armor was inherently broken from the front, the wind discs at the sides, the zig-zagging fire snakes, and the water strings from below began changing. Their color was seemingly lost just as they were turned dark from one half immediately, as if they had always been like this. The water strings and fire snakes had their lower half change first before seemingly slowly darkening the rest, but it would be slowly only in slow motion as they didn't stop and were about to crash on Kilah's body.
It was possible to discern within the crowd’s eyes, even though they weren’t seeing this in an actual slowed motion. Their retinas could strangely sense the dark color taking over the Wind, Fire, and Water. And there was even a strange sensation occurring in most civilians and citizens watching the fight get to this point. However, for Kilah, whose body was in pain and blood essence was drawn but still continued to be used, it all happened in the exact same second.
Whip- slash slash slash slash!- Fwuooosh- poom poom poom poom poom!- Swit-! Splash, splash, splash, splash- creek~!
The wind discs were the second to land, breaking apart her clothes and opening wounds on the rest of her body where the crystallized armor still existed. It broke through it, even though not for long, but the dark Power Energy in it helped it create an opportunity to pass through in complex ways. Like tiny tendrils moving between the slimmest gaps, tentacles dragging themselves into them, and boneless bodies letting their mass elongate to cross over before latching onto her skin’s wounds and entering.
The flaming discs were the last to land on their target, directly stabbing through the crystallized armor, breaking through it, and caving open a fist-sized hole at her sides, seemingly influenced by the darkness around her, illuminated in it. They didn’t create an explosion as other Fire techniques had during the fight, but when they penetrated the crystallized armor like a missile, their explosiveness was manipulated into Kilah’s body to concentrate the damage done to it.
The water strings arrived first, but they took a second in order to be fully effectuated. They latched onto Kilah’s soles before rapidly expanding around her feet, grasping onto them and traveling up her body. Each foot was struck with 4 water strings, which then moved to intercept her shin, wrapping around them before wringing onto her legs, putting dear pressure on her limbs.
The dark water, however, was no simple thing. When Kilah felt her body being pierced and attacked from all sides, including her face and so on, she was furiously working her blood essence and Golden Era to deal with it. The latter was to protect her unprotected body without a crystallized armor piece, but the former was to deal with those that managed to injure her and were threatening her life.
Yet, even as she was constantly fighting against the Fire and Wind techniques when the dark water strings wrapped around her lower legs, she almost went stiff, with only her unprotected zones remaining mobile, but she couldn’t pose any threat to Heian Ciemnosc with most of her power sources working on defending her body. And what’s more, the fire cyclone around them was still furiously twirling, somehow making Kilah frown as she darted her eyes around, not wanting to evade Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes to transmit her rage and killing intent to him.
This continued for a while, but when she was just starting to feel some of her unprotected zones start stiffening, her eyes turned more solemn, she felt as if her world was turning upside down. She looked up at the fire cyclone’s ceiling, closed since long ago by her previous actions. Meanwhile, some dark Fire and dark Wind energy was dispatched by her Golden Era. She saw the same fiery ceiling, but this time… it had lost some glimmer.
FWUOOOOSHH~! “!!” Just as she looked at it, a gap spread out of nowhere, exposing what the fire cyclone was facing… and that was the floor! Kilah’s eyes widened while everything else shrank instead! Her body trembled, and just as she looked at an almost fully formed enormous earthen ball, the fire cyclone’s gap had dark fire slip inside from the outside.
Kilah might not have been able to witness what was outside the fire cyclone’s interiors, but now that a gap was opened, she could see how more than half the fire cyclone had turned dark. Furthermore, the rest of the cyclone was starting to fully turn into a dark fire one and was turned upside down, facing the earthen ball with its ceiling, bizarrely floating in midair in the middle of the arena. The crowds were already aware, but only now did she come to know this truth. And the spectators could see that.
FWUOSHHHH~~...
‘Shit!’ Kilah thought as she felt her body move downwards, and since they were both also upside down, they were nose-diving towards the earthen ball! Her nostrils started trailing with red blood once again as the fire, almost dark, cyclone rushed into the smallish aperture atop the earthen ball. From an outsider’s perspective, the fire cyclone destroyed itself by crashing against the earthen ball, but the latter wasn’t harmed in the slightest, and even the fire the former sent off couldn’t illuminate its surface.
In under several seconds, the fire cyclone dissipated into the earthen ball, self-destructing and disappearing from the world, while the image they could only see via the streaming features for those who weren’t several realms above theirs, for starters. When those streaming features were activated, they could see Kilah floating in midair, trying to escape by flying upwards with her Golden Era, trying to shake those dark water strings off, now attached to her upper thighs.
However, she couldn’t even budge a millimeter, completely entrapped by Heian Ciemnosc. And, at these moments, she was looking down at Heian Ciemnosc with silent rage. Heian Ciemnosc looked at her as he frowned, seeing something inside her body that was new and… curious. Her clothes self-repaired and reappeared again, covering her mostly broken Spirit Image clothes, but her Neutral Energy was strangely soaring in motion and ignoring his dark Power Energy, eating her flesh and bones, tiny bit by bit.
This sensation wasn’t strange, but even her Spirit Sense, and Soul were undergoing a slight improvement as she became catatonic while looking at him. It was as if the mere sight of him helped, stimulated, and overly triggered her most natural instincts, helping her… forcefully break into the 7th stage!
“Rggrrrhh… graaaawwhh!” Kilah’s body suddenly started trembling as Heian Ciemnosc saw the energy cycles within her body resume and turn even faster and gain momentum. She suddenly shook until her body, within her Golden Era, started moving left and right so fast it became blurry. Her hands were almost made into claws, but her determination kept them half-opened. Her fingers thus became crooked and ugly as she finally parted her eyes from Heian Ciemnosc and looked into the sky, where the only exit of this earthen wall was slowly closing by more flying Vocón Link sub-bodies carrying earthen chunks.
PSSHIIIFFTT~!~!~!~!~!...
“...” A sudden energy outburst left Heian Ciemnosc totally speechless as Kilah’s body calmed down, becoming apparent again and losing that previous blurriness, gaining some more glowy feeling. Kilah lowered her head and gazed at Heian Ciemnosc. She wasn’t him, so her injuries were still there, but that energy outburst was enough to dissipate most of the dark Power Energy he instilled inside her after harsh struggles.
When she looked down at him, with red blood running down her skin under her self-repaired clothes and broken Spirit Image clothes, her face was still somewhat pale, but a bit of rosiness accompanied her cheeks. She looked even more enchanting now, but her eyes broke that and formed a bizarre image of beauty as her bloodthirsty eyes stared at Heian Ciemnosc as if it was him entrapped and not her.
“You couldn’t kill me before, little black monster. Now that I’ve become stronger than even you, who can jump between an inferior realm to fight a superior one… what do you think you can do? HAHAHA!” Kilah’s legs were still unmoving as she spoke, and she lifted her arms to emanate some Neutral Energy from her palms as they faced the ground. In this earthen ball, there was no light, so only energy and her Golden Era were illuminating a tiny portion of the interiors.
‘Uh-oh, I’ve met- no, I’ve made someone crazy again.’ Heian Ciemnosc thought. The pressure Kilah emanated from her body affected him actually. However, just then, Heian Ciemnosc frowned again after his expression relaxed. This new Kilah, having just broken into the later stages of the Neutrality realm… started fighting off his dark water strings and attempted to eat them into her Golden Era!
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‘You really dare touch what’s mine?!’ Irreconcilably, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes suddenly turned wrathful, which left Kilah with frowning eyebrows and a paused-in-time-like face, with her mouth open and her lower lip somewhat dangling. However, that didn’t last. In the next second, Kilah abruptly jerked her legs back and forth and to the sides, trying to break apart the dark water strings, forming bloody imprints around her luscious legs. The mere thought of it disgusted her.
“This is a nice place! Let me touch it!” Kilah shouted with a high-pitched voice, smiling big time at the walls around them. Immediately after, she sent a bout of Neutral Energy to the walls, striking in an area of 10 meters long and half a meter wide, but she could only break a small hole, not even 2 meters long, in the wall. She frowned but relaxed a second later. Smiling again, showing her canines and covering from her forearms to her fingertips with Neutral Energy, her nostrils bled as she sent more and more energy attacks everywhere she could!
Pshift, pshift, pshift, pshift- whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh- boom boom boom…!
Several gaps let the morning light come in, and by now, everyone thought it was only a matter of time before whatever Heian Ciemnosc was planning collapsed, and the rest would be left to him, sacrificing his blood essence, and bla bla bla… However, Heian Ciemnosc wasn’t even concerned. He was indeed in trouble after this young woman broke through, but it was still in his capacity to deal with her. After all…
… … … … pshift- craaaack! Futomp~~~!
Heian Ciemnosc said nothing, but Vocón Link exploded into action from his back. Its speed was magnificent still, but it was all within Kilah’s reaction speed. When she saw it approach, she immediately worked her Golden Era to successfully break 3 of 8 dark water strings wrapping around her legs, almost freeing her right leg under Heian Ciemnosc’s widened eyes.
Not wasting time, Kilah moved. Her Golden Era was infused with even more Neutral Energy and Soul energy, letting Heian Ciemnosc’s Vocón Link in. When it did, her face changed as she tried ‘eating’ it so she could destroy it. However, when the Vocón Link crashed into her Golden Era and appeared before her, although it halted and struggled to move a centimeter every 2 seconds, it wasn’t being damaged at all!
“?!” Kilah’s face dropped, but rage continued dwelling even more inside her. She started growling while moving her arms, directing them towards the Vocón Link. Outside her Golden Era, Heian Ciemnosc stood in midair as he slowly breathed in and out for a few seconds to prepare himself before finally moving up. Kilah immediately felt this, and without needing to remember his perverted bodily strength, she became alarmed.
Pshift- whoosh, futomp~! Whoooo~... oooosshhh~~- Paaaaaaaaaahm!
Heian Ciemnosc entered her Golden Era as if knowing everything about her, alarming her even more. Feeling more astounded since she hadn’t yet been taught what to do as only Godly beings could enter another’s Golden Era in the Consequential 3-Eye Supreme Art, she didn’t attempt something foolish and just stared at him as she fended off against the dark whip still to no avail.
“Accept it,” Heian Ciemnosc’s calm, soft, quiet voice suddenly reached her ears. Kilah’s eyes went up to look at the darkest, lifeless, serene, but ultimately cold eyes of his. She locked a digital message in front of her Golden Era, outside the space she and Heian Ciemnosc were now in. They seemed far away but right next to each other at the same time. Heian Ciemnosc added as the crowd outside became crazy, “Or do you not dare?”
“Hahaha?” Kilah’s eyes were wide open as she looked at the digital message outside. The Vocón Link creeping towards her was totally ignored. She then returned her gaze to Heian Ciemnosc as he remained there, standing, without moving back or forth, simply waiting for her response with those darkest eyes. Nobody could tell what she was thinking before she answered.
“Okay, okay, okay, okay!!” She shouted, with more excitement in each ‘okay’ she spouted. Her eyes turned more bloodthirsty and thrilled in killing intent, too. At her words and crazy nods, her face adorned with a wide smile, the arena’s bluish barriers around them started turning yellow…
“WOOOOOOOOOOOH!” - “I can’t believe it! He did it again. This time is for real!” - “Another life and death? Waah, man… Didn’t Grand Elder Jolden request to not do this again?!” - “SHHH! Shut up the fuck up, we’re gonna miss it!” - “...”
“Hmf,” Heian Ciemnosc didn’t comment or think anything about her crazed eyes, behavior, and mentality. Snortling through his nostrils, he smirked and took a step forward. In the next several seconds, Heian Ciemnosc slightly floated forwards as his Vocón Link started grasping onto the left side of her face. Kilah ignored the Vocón Link, slurping her skin and getting stuck with her body as if a tube was feeding her, and her eyes widened further while looking at him.
Heian Ciemnosc decided to immediately close in, and as he did, the Vocón Link started pulling downwards. However, her right leg was already breaking apart the 4th dark water string, practically freeing it from any stiffness like it never existed. Still, Heian Ciemnosc advanced forward, reaching before Kilah as his left palm summoned his Golden Array Snakes and let it float upwards to exit the Golden Era.
The Golden Array Snakes flew outside the Golden Era and started expanding with Kilah’s Consequential 3-Eye in the middle under her frowning eyes. She didn’t bother anymore with it after it functioned correctly and received Heian Ciemnosc. His hands were extended outwards as if to grab her waist and do whatever harm he planned with her body. But just as Heian Ciemnosc was near enough, her right leg was freed from the last dark water string, and she lifted it to smash her sole onto his face!
The hit didn’t land on his face, as Heian Ciemnosc twisted his neck and tilted his head rightwards. It instead struck his left trapezius muscle.
Paahm! Paaahm! Paaaahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pahm! Pshift-click, Phhshk!... Ckrsheee- crack- eeerrrrr~!
Heian Ciemnosc felt his neck and shoulder share the pain and damage. His muscles and flesh immediately tore apart from the inside, leaving him gritting his teeth as a tiny smirk formed at the left corner of his lips. However, Kilah wasn’t fazed by this development, and like a broken machine, she kept striking his body with the soles of her right foot and heel! Once, twice, a few times, several times… she started detaching Heian Ciemnosc’s left shoulder from his torso as a wide crack opened to reveal muscle, flesh, bones, and dark blood!
“GASP!” The crowds were astounded, but it made sense. With a sudden breakthrough and her Neutral Energy placed entirely into her right leg as the rest of her body began ‘rotting’ with dark Power Energy, even Heian Ciemnosc’s body would be incapable of resisting so much potency! His left arm wasn’t gone limp even now, though. And just as everyone, including Kilah, thought he was about to falter despite having her neck attached by his dark whip, his right claw moved.
“Heian Ciemnosc! Kill that bitch!” Suddenly, from the bleachers. Elena shouted to the top of her lungs, using her Soul energy to harmlessly elevate her volume. And as if waiting for just that signal, Heian Ciemnosc’s right-handed dark claws flashed and embedded into Kilah’s left hip, burying all 4 inches in. Furthermore, after entering her body, they expanded to 2 inches wide, grabbing her whole bone infrastructure at once.
“AARGGGH!” Kilah opened her mouth wide, more than possibly, and bared her teeth towards Heian Ciemnosc. But all he did was look up and show his dark fangs. With a swift motion, he propped himself up as her right foot stopped constantly hitting his left shoulder to simply impede his movement. Heian Ciemnosc’s dark fangs emitted a fresh coldness she didn’t dare feel with her skin. But as Heian Ciemnosc aimed him at her lower abdomen, with his left shoulder swiftly bleeding dark, his pale red lips spoke.
“I’m so glad you accepted,” after saying that, he sunk his teeth into her abdomen! Her navel was in the middle of his bite as she threw her head to the back, emitting a noiseless scream only she could feel, and the spectators could only frown and cringe, to. After a minute like this, with her right foot wasting more Neutral Energy and effort from her blood essence, the left side of his body almost detached from the rest of his torso down to his hips, showing all sorts of flesh and even some organs peeking from within, she looked down.
Her eyes were bloody, infused with some of his dark Power Energy, while her white skin started being covered in dark layers, and her voice turned breathy but demonic. “You will see! Aaggghh! You will see!! That Gora- awwgh! Even if he was a useless idiot, that was not yours to kill! AAGGHH! … You will die here, Heian Ciemnosc! Aaaagghhh!!!”
“You seem to have talent.” Suddenly, Kilah’s crazed, demonic shouts paused as Heian Ciemnosc’s calm words entered her mind. He continued as she slowly lowered her head and rested her chin on her collarbone to directly look at him. “But you should’ve learned how to not waste time and keep quiet. I couldn’t ask him back then but, right now, I have the chance to. Would you rather be eaten, turn into dust, exploded like that Lona… or with holes everywhere in your complete but unrecognizable corpse?”
“... KYAAAAWWWWGGGRRRHHHHH!!!!” Kilah looked down at Heian Ciemnosc some more, and he could see as her head starting uncontrollably shaking. Blood essence virtually left her Spirit Bosom and started boiling everywhere inside her body. She brimmed with might she had never touched upon before. Her white skin started reddening, but by then, the dark Power Energy, spreading through her insides all this time, had covered most of it.
She looked a bit like a Human gone dark, like a Devil from the legends. Meanwhile, the Vocón Link that had been stagnant all this while started constricting her body like an anaconda. Yet, her right leg continued pushing his left shoulder off, about to fall off from her just increased might.
“AAAAAAAAAAGGRRHYAAAAAAAAAARRR!!...”
Kilah continued screaming, and the spectators could still see Heian Ciemnosc’s body detaching. Only his lower waist kept everything somehow together. Meanwhile, from the outside, the bleachers and those outside the stadium, the latter via the streaming features, watched the earthen ball turn wholly dark from the outside.
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