Stroll Through The Jungle

The bolts descended from the skies, rapidly shooting towards Heian Ciemnosc one after the other, with the same intensity, power, and speed! Heian Ciemnosc's shoulders resisted the brunt of each lightning strike as its blue body turned into shocking waves of white. It spread from his shoulders to all over his back, nape, and part of his chest, striking at every thinkable corner of his pale skin afterwards. He had already experienced this when he tried breaking into the Dantreulity realm, but what would follow after weren't 3 lightning bolts…

Heian Ciemnosc’s body was shrouded by the mighty bolts. Empress Shuna could feel the might of each of those and believed that just one of them would be enough to injure at the peak of the Hana-Saga realm even if she was fully prepared and protecting her body instead of waiting to be struck by the heavenly tribulation. She looked at Heian Ciemnosc worriedly, not because she doubted Heian Ciemnosc could deal with this, but because of what was coming after… and in case he felt a lot of pain. Something like that would have only worried her about her daughter… before.

RUUUUUMMBBLEEEEEEEEH~~!

Before her mindset could settle and adapt to this, she and the entirety of her Empire heard a never-before-seen and heard thundering noise from the dark skies. Like a body the size of a galaxy passing by the Blackotia Kingdom, a lightning bolt so immensely thick and endlessly long flashed within the dark clouds. The unfortunate ones to witness it felt, for a moment, like their heads were about to explode and that they would piss themselves to their deaths.

However, it didn’t last long. The insanely gigantic lightning bolt seemed to dissipate in the dark clouds, outside anyone’s expectations. And even Empress Shuna, whose Spirit Sense was at its maximum just a year after learning about the Soul-exalting Old World parchment under Heian Ciemnosc at 60 km, couldn’t cross its threshold to peek. Still, she understood one thing… her tribulation to break into the Hana-Saga realm wasn’t like this.

This was too dangerous, powerful, too… above the Hana-Saga realm! Anyone facing this, even with multiple protective array formations— would be destroyed and extinct! Without a doubt!

“...” Empress Shuna looked at Heian Ciemnosc, who remained calm and composed, as he always is. But she could also feel his apprehension and the profound severity of his situation. He was confident in himself, but he was also aware he could fucking die right here and now. Heian Ciemnosc was in a tough spot, but at the same time, he had a significant chance for growth, and knowing him… Empress Shuna knew he’d take it.

Ruuuummmblee~~~!!!

The skies continued to shake as the potent vibrations from the sky slowly descended, integrating into the level of the tallest structures and the streets, but caused no harm to either life or non-living objects. Empress Shuna finally recognized the veracity of this notion, and with a swing of her Spirit Sense to her medallion, the Blauw Empire started covering every nanometer of the Blauw Empire’s territory except Heian Ciemnosc sitting cross-legged atop the Palace.

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, the inland top organizations watched, surprised, as the Blauw Empire acted like an enemy was approaching. Five different positions looked on with interest, while the other 2 were silent and observed, maybe aware of what this could mean. After all, they were the only ones who exchanged words with Heian Ciemnosc on a daily basis unless something else was happening at the Empire, like now.

PSHAAAAAAAHHH!! Suddenly, the sky parted into two, revealing what seemed like tiny heavenly lightning bolts, similar to those 18 from before, but with electric red colored sparkles accompanying the surroundings of each. Furthermore, these lightning bolts looked just like the previous lightning bolt crossing the dark clouds. It was as if it had dispersed just now and was about to make its move!

Heian Ciemnosc was still sitting cross-legged atop the palace, but he suddenly gained an idea as his body started floating upwards, leaving the ground. The dark clouds above parted, but they were becoming thicker and more abundant as they closed after the several lightning bolts started ‘forming’ below them. Heian Ciemnosc slowly breathed in and looked up. His body was no longer in pain, and he was getting ready for the incoming, new, heavenly tribulation.

His body started shaking a breakthrough aura off his body. Dark Neutral Energy covered his back and slowly spread down his bum and the back of his thighs, forming a strange, dark seat in the air. He continued with his legs crossed but stopped at 8 meters above the Palace’s rooftop. His face kept looking up, waiting to see those heavenly lightning bolts with electric red sparkles surrounding their bodies.

Whooosh… whooosh! Whooooshh…! Whooooooooosh!... KA- CHAAAA~! KA- CHAAAA~! KA- CHAAAA~! KA- CHAAAA~! KA- CHAAAA~! KA- CHAAAA~! KA- CHAAAA~!...

“!” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes widened to their fullest, their contents shrinking to no end when one heavenly lightning bolt descended from the sky amidst the harsh wind and long bursts across the skies. It was slow at first but rapidly gained speed in under a couple seconds, surpassing Heian Ciemnosc’s eyes’ detection and striking his body before he could even finish 1 breath! His pitchest-blackest eyebrows were descending, starting to furrow, when he saw the next heavenly lightning bolt several meters above him.

Heian Ciemnosc felt his body opening, breaking apart by the first heavenly lightning bolt, landing on the upper section of his right chest. His pale skin was cut through, revealing some muscle, and a few drops of dark blood escaped his body. But before they could even touch with the lightning bolt’s light blue color or crash against one of its electric red sparkles, Heian Ciemnosc’s collarbone was hit square on the center, slamming his body downwards against the grand array formation’s protective golden barrier.

Thud! BAAMM! Heian Ciemnosc didn’t have time to even blink in pain when the next heavenly lightning bolt struck his abdomen, terminating any other sensation he felt on his collarbone and giving him intrusive pain, starting from his Dantian region. He felt his entire cultivation base shaking and played with it as if a giant was flinging his body after capturing him with its palm. Heian Ciemnosc’s attempts to think about standing up were extinguished as he realized… he wouldn’t be able to even move if he exerted everything he could, including his Art techniques.

Heian Ciemnosc’s right arm was barely standing up, trying to hold onto Wind elemental particles, and his left arm held above his abdomen from the pain he suffered when his left shoulder was penetrated by another heavenly lightning bolt. Yet, before he could process the pain following such an event, he saw another about to land on his face, and then, his darkest eyes darted to the left side…

“!!!...” Everything seemed to slow into a gradual stop, momentary and short-lasting. However, it allowed him to see a cascade of heavenly lightning bolts heading towards him, each one longer than the heavenly lighting bolts he had been struck by previously and more powerful. Of which some of them, Heian Ciemnosc even saw their tips and rears becoming violet. Additionally, those extremities didn’t have electric red sparkles… possibly because they fused with their bodies.

Heian Ciemnosc’s left darkest eyes captured all this information in less than an instant, unleashing some potential from nowhere, but that was all he could do, and it gave him no other advantage to this heavenly tribulation. He had barely suffered 4 of these, and there were 99… could he really go through it like this? Heian Ciemnosc wanted to wonder if everyone else felt as helpless as him, but his Spirit Sense was like gum, and he couldn’t see Empress Shuna’s overly shocked face as she looked at his fallen body about to be struck by several heavenly lightning bolts in under half a second, all at once.

The cascade wasn’t that long, especially since there were a few dozens of meters between those from below and up, and there were only between 3 and 5 heavenly lightning bolts traveling side by side, separated by less than a dozen meters in between. They arched in the sky like a mermaid’s swimming up and down but moved forward and disappeared as every little millisecond passed.

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From below, the sight was breathtaking and better than any other firework in the world, but atop the Palace’s rooftop, Empress Shuna was rapidly being forced into a terrified state as she saw her grand array formation remaining impassive to the dark blood and pale skin flying away from the heavenly lightning bolts’ target.

Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!! Piu- BOOM!!...

‘!!!’ Heian Ciemnosc felt his body simply slapping, slamming, and bouncing back and forth between the cushioned ground by the grand array formation and the heavenly lightning bolts exploding bits and chunks of his body. Before even a second passed, he felt his bones breaking away, disappearing into the air, only to be touched by the other bolts, ceasing to exist. Heian Ciemnosc felt his veins breaking apart little by little, increasing his pain and his muscles rupturing from the inside before being completely pierced by them.

From an outsider’s point of view, only Heian Ciemnosc’s shoulders and hands were visible, but in less than 4 seconds, those turned into bones, and not even complete. Most were broken and had more than half their structure disappear as the rest of his body was targeted and kept mindlessly, rapidly bouncing… out of anyone’s perspective of reality. Lightning energy danced around those destroyed hands and shoulders, like fire dancing in the flames of destruction.

As for Heian Ciemnosc’s perspective, at some point, the tremendous pain exhausted every fiber of his being, but he could still feel it. His body was not even responding to his commands anymore. It limited itself to react to the pain it was suffering, reacting depending on where it was hit, and how much it was turned into a lifeless carcass. But… at some point… Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes stared straight ahead. Which in this case was the sky, the dark sky, and clouds… the last few heavenly lightning bolts trying to finish him off.

‘No… I can’t sleep now… So many things to do! Why would I be wasting it? I can’t… It’s a lot of work.’ Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes remained dull and unfocused, but his mind was still there. When he finally managed to think, it wasn’t what he thought he’d have in his mind, but it somehow… It felt like it was just what he needed.

Whoosh! Pah- pah, pah, pah, pah~~!~! Piu- B- crashhh!!!

‘No…’ Heian Ciemnosc’s left arm suddenly rushed upwards. It wasn’t meat and bones anymore, but just… pure darkness!! His mere motion cleared away the Heavenly Lightning energy eating his body away, revealing his body with half its matter eaten away and still gnawed by Heavenly Lighting energy remnants. Empress Shuna’s eyes were just barely reflecting such a scene when the dark left hand, with longer and thicker claws than before, sharper and more powerful, caught the subsequent heavenly lightning bolt.

The heavenly lightning bolt wanted to crash his dark hand away and turn it into a paste before continuing to eat the left side of his body. However, when it landed on the dark palm and wanted to detonate it, Heian Ciemnosc clenched. Just then, his left dark hand flashed and, for just a moment, showed a monstrous, creepy, terrific shape. It was still his hand, but it looked more like a claw, and it gained veins, dark hue, smoke, and seemed nonexistent at the same time… as if it was one with the world.

“!!” - “!!!” Heian Ciemnosc and Empress Shuna were shocked at the same time, but the latter was more so, while the former reacted at once and tried standing up! His pale back showed, but Vocón Link encompassed it, its base commenced right below his nape, and it was slightly trembling with Heavenly Lighting energy revolving around it. After Heian Ciemnosc successfully stood up, he shook his body off, and the remnants of this bitch tribulation’s energy dissipated as if scared away.

Heian Ciemnosc looked while lifting both his arms, whose dark hands became dark claws, and he rapidly extended them to face the incoming heavenly lightning bolts. Only 33 remained, but the rest of Heian Ciemnosc’s body was still half-eaten, showing even parts of his organs and his skin eaten away from the front. Yet, he still chose to stand up and thrust his hands. And just as the next batch of heavenly lightning bolts threatened to crush him back down, his legs became dark! Exploding all that useless flesh and bones away, leaving only… that pure darkness!

… chaaaaaa!! Chaaaa!! Chaaaa!! Chaaaa!! Cha- POM PUM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM!!

The first few heavenly lightning bolts rushed towards Heian Ciemnosc’s body. His claws faced them and directly faced the brunt of their attacks. Once again, Heian Ciemnosc was filled with pain, and he momentarily fell paralyzed. The heavenly lightning bolts landed on his claws, and while they did destroy part of his dark claws, they rapidly regenerated and ate the Heavenly Lightning energy into his body!!!

“KKK-RRRRGAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!” Heian Ciemnosc’s mouth opened wide, so wide he could fit his own fist in his jaw. But what it showed was much more shocking. Dark fangs were exposed, but where his canines would be, 2 larger and thicker dark fangs took shape, forming a terrifying, dangerous, threatening, savage, and primordial feeling that made the skies rumble all over again as if collapsing!

His roar shook the air, turning everything blurry and difficult to discern. But the heavenly lightning bolts were unaffected, except for his dark fangs and limbs. Everything else happening was helpless against their law! Heian Ciemnosc’s dark claws could endure their power, but his body was not wholly covered in pure darkness! The heavenly lightning bolts targeted his dark limbs, trying to pin him down and strike his body afterwards, but Heian Ciemnosc had woken up… the darkness inside him had been tempted out!!!

“GROOAAARRRR!!” His expression turned fiercer! His dark claws threw the heavenly lightning bolts to the sides, and his legs kicked the ground! His body flew upwards as the pitiful heavenly lightning bolts he threw exploded and lost their cause, dissipating into the sky after forcibly exploding by an outside force. Pure darkness particles soared from the same place as if chasing them. But these were only the first ones.

Heian Ciemnosc flew higher up, soaring with an explosive might and speed! His dark claws caught, cut through with their new size and shape, all the heavenly lightning bolts targeting him, whose direction changed after he started flying. His rear was slightly forming a shape but was far from solidifying. His dark feet were traversing diagonally and suddenly thrusting forwards or upwards, dealing with the rest his dark claws didn’t manage to catch.

His body rotated, spun, and jerked from angle to angle as it kept soaring, forcibly exploding heavenly lightning bolts as he advanced. His dark fangs bit off a few, cutting them in half and eating them right away! He gave no fucks of what these things were, where did they come from, and what could they do to harm him! Inside his body, nothing should threaten him! Never!!

Heian Ciemnosc’s Vocón Link, still enshrouding parts of his back, started moving towards his shoulders. Leaving its pure darkness behind, which is Heian Ciemnosc himself, it recovered Heian Ciemnosc’s meat and bone, replacing it with darkness. It wasn’t the same as with his claws or fangs, and they would be easy to break, even for someone of the same cultivation base as his, but they would be enough for now.

After reaching its shoulders, Vocón Link spread down his arms, biceps, elbows, and forearms. When it reached Heian Ciemnosc’s wrists, it returned to his body, but his dark claws started growing, and his hands seemed to slightly regain that terrifying shape from before as they became as large as his body. The claws were longer than his oversized dark limbs, but to Heian Ciemnosc’s mind, it only made sense at this moment.

… Whoooooooooosssshhhhh~~~!...!...!

Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes looked up at the dark clouds silently and as if waiting for something after he brought the last 3 heavenly lightning bolts to his dark fangs and chewed on them. They were helpless and could only wait to be devoured. That was when, in the skies above, the dark clouds flashed with heavenly lightning again… an unprecedented event! Never recorded before in history. Just happened!

“Grrrrrrrrr…~!!” Heian Ciemnosc looked up at the skies as the dark clouds flashed with more and more light. Whatever was up there wasn’t letting go of him, not just yet! Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes slowly narrowed as his face turned fiercer, yet again, and even more!! His hands were slowly lifted, and his Vocón Link enhanced dark claws on his arms and legs seemed to provoke something from the heavenly tribulation.

His body growled, not just from his throat as a guttural sound, but from his body itself… As he lifted his arms and bent his knees, his back remained straight. And despite feeling a never-ending increasing fury rising within him, Heian Ciemnosc struggled to open his dark fangs, with all his teeth turning into dark fangs, and only those 8 big ones shaking as his jaw trembled to open. His tongue had become dark and even gained a smoke-ish transition, flapping about without and with a mind of its own at the same time.

“That… darkness… these… clouds… dark… all dark…” Heian Ciemnosc’s voice became extremely hoarse and dragged on. He spoke word by word, unaware if it was because of his current state or because he was building an endless sea of fury inside! His arms spread outward, but his claws moved as if already grabbing onto something as he felt his dark Soul passing energy throughout his body.

Then… he slowly spread them even more as his dark feet seemed to land on a smooth surface, but they were still in the air with his knees up to his abdomen, bent. The dark clouds above seemed to slowly open… forcibly. The dark clouds naturally realized this, and as they were just raging with more heavenly thunder and basking the Blackotia Kingdom’s midnight in its light, overall… Heian Ciemnosc’s dark voice thundered everywhere in the Far East Region.

“IT’S ALL MINE…!!!!!!!!”

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