End Of The War

"...!" Kali Gura looked at the dark globe, but that was everything he could do. He felt as if there was movement inside, but all he could see was the darkness from it, and his Spirit Sense could only penetrate a few inches into the globe before being rejected and bounced back. Whenever he wanted to probe it with his Soul, he would find himself drawn, just like his eyes did when he looked at Heian Ciemnosc's darkest eyes before. Kali Gura rapidly detached his Soul from any further probing and remained outside without being able to do something.

… Pom, pum! Crack- BITE!

… On the other hand, inside Heian Ciemnosc’s Myriad Darkness Materialization, as he felt the brunt of forcing all these people into it, he grew his tail to 3 meters and dashed from one side to another as he rapidly killed 3 cultivators. They were in the 9th stage, and although they were already recomposing themselves and starting to understand how to ‘survive’ in a strange place like this, they were successfully beheaded by Heian Ciemnosc before his dark Neutral Energy ate their insides away while his claws held their corpses and he ate them.

This was already a well-practiced behavior for Heian Ciemnosc, but when he arrived to sneak attack the fourth victim, also in the 9th stage of the Spirit Magna realm. Things became complicated. The fourth cultivator was bombed with 2 punches to his tailbone, which left him immediately paralyzed, but his Neutral Energy kept his body afloat while he sent several mind-focused Soul attacks at Heian Ciemnosc to no avail, other than making Heian Ciemnosc furrow his brows.

Heian Ciemnosc pried open his victim’s body with his claws, separating the left shoulder from the neck, and dived his head in between, immediately munching on the heart with tons of blood essence left to be used. However, at the last moment, this offExistence cultivator turned the right side of his body to face him. The cultivator opened his mouth wide and freed a sword covered in his guttural flesh towards Heian Ciemnosc’s head!

“!” It wasn’t something he expected or something he sensed, as this enemy was just at the point where he couldn’t scan their bodies without their defenses low, unconscious, or dead. Rapidly, Heian Ciemnosc dashed his head away to salvation and blurted a dark Neutral Energy to push the flesh sword away. Its tip dripped blood, bright red, and it had burst veins around it, encompassing it as if to ensure it remained wrapped in the flesh around it. Meanwhile, the cultivator’s neck thinned out, becoming several millimeters less thick, and his face paled.

While the cultivator’s eyes faded to lifelessness, Heian Ciemnosc felt the flesh sword lock onto him, and even as he dashed his body away and stomped on the cultivator’s upper thighs to escape while his Vocón Link entangled with it so as to not lose it. He felt his left shoulder rapidly pierced by something. His right claw flashed before his darkest eyes, and grabbed onto the flesh sword, which felt like an octopus trying to capture him, sticky and stabbing his pale skin to no avail.

Pshh! Whooosh…! Heian Ciemnosc grabbed the flesh sword harder and pulled it out of his left shoulder, which was barely penetrated by 2 inches. He gave it a glance for a second before flinging it into the dark distance as it blew everything it could have, leaving a bloody contrail. After it disappeared, Heian Ciemnosc looked down to stare at the lifeless corpse of the fourth cultivator, which his Vocón Link had kept its grip on, and started eating it after studying his body. His Spirit Sense and thirst for knowledge were triggered, but his life still felt threatened.

After he was finished feasting and felt his dark Neutral Energy reserves recuperate a little while his cultivation base surged more, and his wounds started recuperating incredibly slowly, his darkest eyes flashed as he selected another victim…

… Less than a minute passed, and Kali Gura, outside the dark globe, suddenly felt like his medallion became strange. He took it out and looked at it, expressly searching for his 12 pals’ link to this medallion, but found that they were ordinary and as usual. However, he couldn’t help shaking off the feeling that something was wrong and felt that only because he was close to the ‘cause’ was the reason he could have this strange detection. If he was far off, even just a few tens of kilometers, or didn’t know this dark globe thing was there… he might not feel anything.

Pshiiiiffffft… Pom! Whoosh- thudddd! “!” Suddenly, Kali Gura heard an intuitive sound and stared at one place from the dark globe, at its lower left in the middle. There, he saw the black monster suddenly being kicked in the chest by a bloody female cultivator whose neck was bleeding but had some strange blood-looking ‘black’ liquid on her left rib as she showed she was enduring pain. On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc’s front wasn’t visible, covered with dark Neutral Energy, but his back stomped against the ground and opened a crack before sliding away.

“!” Kali Gura immediately looked at his people, all not from this part of the world, everyone much better in anything than any other cultivator he saw before the 10 year war happened. However, he could only find 3! They were the woman floating in the air, with her body convulsing as the black monster’s unique energy flashed in and out and all over her body like a technological device malfunctioning, and the others were the 2 Spirit Magna realm 8th stage cultivators.

There were shards floating in the air, glowing but rapidly losing their luster and, with ample might, dissipating from them. All these were Earth grade weapons’ remains! And they were all broken apart, shattered! However, what dumbfounded him the most was when the female cultivator looked at him, seemingly pleading with something but incapable of saying a word, before slumping and looking at the sky.

Her body arched backwards, and she floated in the air while shards of her Earth bastard sword flew from the right side of her body, broken in 2 and with the breaking point stuck to her skin as if someone had hit it so hard it penetrated her skin and stabbed her when it was cracked in half. Kali Gura looked at the other 2, and he couldn’t help feeling his world turn upside down at their state.

One was facing a tree while floating upside down, with the top of his head nearly touching the ground. The other was at the highest altitude where the dark globe had been and looked at the sky confused, probably wondering why he was in the sky when he thought he had continued moving in a straight line. Kali Gura looked at them and became more infuriated, even wanting to kill them! Heian Ciemnosc had let them live because they were the weakest!

“...” Kali Gura seethed as he gradually turned to look at Heian Ciemnosc, whose body was cleaning the dust off his body and whose injuries bled on his humble but fashionable-styled dark coat worn out with some stabbing and cutting wounds. Heian Ciemnosc seemed to sense Kali Gura’s gaze. He casually looked up and grinned at the pretty boy before extending his left hand to the remaining 2 cultivator survivors.

… … … … Phhshk! Phhshk!

“!!” Kali Gura flew towards his pals when he saw this, ignoring the dead female cultivator, and was just raising his hands with his fingertips flashing Neutral Energy when Heian Ciemnosc’s left palm shot a dark whip. The dark whip flew incredibly fast and immediately penetrated the remaining Spirit Magna realm 8th stage cultivators.

“Bastardly black monster!” Just when Kali Gura felt shit had gone terribly wrong and stopped moving as he became befuddled seeing the dark whip penetrate his last few surviving pals and their corpses suddenly turning dry. The sensations such happenings gave him, and remembering the bite on the female cultivator’s neck clarified many things inside his head. Yet, when he saw the dark whip target the female cultivator next and started sucking its properties, he could only bark as he held his head and looked at Heian Ciemnosc still with his extended arm.

“... When you saw your ‘cousins’ die, did you also feel this bad? Because I don’t know. To me, it seems you only cared about tiring me out.” Heian Ciemnosc calmly said. His darkest eyes looked upturned at Kali Gura, who was still at a height higher than his, unwilling to meet him. Then, Heian Ciemnosc added, “Well, you’ve tired me out. Are you coming down? Or do you want me to drag you all the way down here?”

“Shut uuuuup!” Kali Gura hollered. His body started growing in presence with Neutral Energy surrounding his body, and his hands began gaining volume as his nails turned like a Fauna’s, and those pupils and irises became thin and vertical, nearly like a rhomboid, but more like a simple line. Still, the pretty boy kept his face, and the more his body changed, becoming taller and gaining muscle everywhere… He finally lowered his body to not only on the same level as Heian Ciemnosc but also on the ground.

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“...” Heian Ciemnosc jumped his eyebrows at the notion of the pretty boy changing his ‘almighty’ heart. Kali Gura noticed this and became irritated, but kept silent, and his strength to beat the hell out of this black monster. Heian Ciemnosc relaxed his left arm, stuck it to his left side, and then danced his fingers together, showing them to Kali Gura. After 3 seconds of mutual silence, Heian Ciemnosc opened his mouth again. “Did you have fun playing ruler of a Region?”

“Ugghh!”

Whoosh! Pshift- pah! Baaam~! Pew- whiiistleee~~! CRACK!

Kali Gura’s face contorted at last, and Heian Ciemnosc even sent a little Spirit Sense image, which could never be harmful, towards Kali Gura. Even then, he immediately bashed that Spirit Sense image with his Spirit Sense, only to realize it was one of Kali Guru, the Venerable Ancestor of his Blue Starreye Clan. When he realized he directly broke her image, it made him ever-more mad as he rushed towards Heian Ciemnosc the next instant.

Kali Gura’s body wasn’t that fast, but Heian Ciemnosc only crossed his forearms before his face and welcomed the pretty boy’s attack. Kali Gura’s Neutral Energy condensed on his right hand, fully covering it. He struck it against Heian Ciemnosc’s small defensive stance and immediately sent him flying away, but it didn’t break his bones. Even then, Heian Ciemnosc felt his body convulse from the inside just from the mere impact, hurting everywhere, even his eyeballs and strands of hair. When he flew backwards at nearly the same speed as his Vocón Link, he saw Kali Gura’s body encompassed by his crystallized armor.

However, beyond Heian Ciemnosc’s expectations, as he flew backwards, his body gained more speed, and when he landed on the ground again, his body became stuck after creating a crater 25 meters in diameter! Heian Ciemnosc became momentarily paralyzed when his tail grew to 4 meters, and his Claws Out were covered in his dark Neutral Energy, giving them an aura-like appearance, and his darkest eyes tenebrously flashed.

Wheeeesh…! Cuuh! Craaaaack~! Rumble, rumble~! Tap, tap…

Heian Ciemnosc heard another sound follow after when he was still incapable of moving, and his darkest eyes’ contents shrunk as Kali Guru’s crystallized armor body and Earth long sword nose-dived towards him with an all-out intention! Kali Gura’s body rapidly fell, thumping his knees against the spot where Heian Ciemnosc landed, but before his long sword’s tip could meet the pale skin he had sought after, Heian Ciemnosc’s body flashed away in a blur.

Kali Gura’s long sword stabbed the ground with both his hands holding it in reverse. The damage to the earth was too much as the center of the crack seemingly penetrated dozens of meters further below. Every passing second was a scary round of noises from underneath. Suddenly, it stopped. Kali Gura stood up and smoothly pulled his long sword as he turned 90 degrees to his left and waved it in the air before holding it in his left hand, aiming at the ground.

The ground cracked in 4 different slices, which opened wide when Kali Gura turned around and waved his sword, followed by the slight tremors of the earth as Heian Ciemnosc’s feet landed on the ground, not even 10 meters from Kawli Gura and that long sword. The latter looked at the former dominantly, clearly having more than one advantage in this fight, and Heian Ciemnosc knew it. Of course, he didn’t care.

Stomp! Crack! Whoosh! Pshift- cliiii~~ck! Heian Ciemnosc kicked the ground. Heian Ciemnosc’s claws aimed in the pretty boy’s direction. It made Kali Gura feel a bit of a threat, which could be seen by how the pretty boy’s eyebrows twitched. Heian Ciemnosc’s speed wasn’t slow in the slightest, leaving Kali Gura no choice but to continue acting all-out. He didn’t want this kid to touch him, to even lay the tip of his claws on his body!!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body flexed at the last moment, bent his knees, and crouched on the ground, just one meter before Kali Gura, avoiding his long sword as it caressed his head with the air it cut through right above his head. Then, his dark tail extended to its maximum, 5 meters! His legs flexed again, but this time, they carried all his bodily strength, and his arms tensed while the enemy’s long sword pointed to the other side.

BAAM! CLAAANNK! Pshift~! Pshift, pshift, pshift, pshift, pshift! Poof, paf, poof poof poof…!

Heian Ciemnosc’s claws met Kali Gura’s crystalized armor, stopping him from directly breaking it and claw the enemy and giving him enough time to pull his sword back and slash it towards Heian Ciemnosc! Heian Ciemnosc kicked Kali Gura’s abdomen and went head overhill backwards, avoiding the reverse slashing motion, but used his Vocón Link, already meters behind Kali Gura, to pull his body back to melee with immediate force.

Heian Ciemnosc’s dark claws met the long sword head-on this time. His claws’ tips, aimed at Kali Gura’s face, were stopped by it, and both stagnated while struggling to overpower the other. Kali Gura’s blue eyes became round, and his pupils shrank little by little as he recognized and finally experienced Heian Ciemnosc’s bodily strength. However, contrary to the rumors, it wasn’t just his body tempering Supreme Art. It was also this unique energy that was too formidable!

No matter how much he tried pushing Heian Ciemnosc’s energy away, Kali Gura failed to even overwhelm it unless he went all out and surpassed it naturally by law. After all, not only was Kali Gura a whole realm above Heian Ciemnosc, but he was also above Heian Ciemnosc’s battle prowess, which seemed to be a realm and a half. This provoked a thought inside his head, resolving him to foil particular plans.

“!...” However, when he fleetingly looked at Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes, Kali Gura saw a pair of darkest things ever in the entire world. Being looked at them felt like he was naked to the entire world and as if Heian Ciemnosc knew all his secrets. However, Heian Ciemnosc was just looking at Kali Gura indifferently and ultimately coldly. Yet, this alone made him seem terrifying, and this was someone above what he could contend against.

Suddenly, Heian Ciemnosc turned around to the left, kicked Kali Gura’s collarbone, actually sending some pain to his body, past his crystallized armor, and jumped. Heian Ciemnosc faced Kali Gura head-on, upside down, and sent a dark energy claw towards him. Kali Gura responded by igniting his right-handed fingertips with Neutral Energy. His long sword was left at the side, already on the defensive in case Heian Ciemnosc came closer again and shot at Heian Ciemnosc with his right hand.

Smallish, needle-long tiny energy swords came out of Kali Gura’s fingertips, each landing on Heian Ciemnosc after dodging the dark energy claw. Heian Ciemnosc rotated as his feet faced the ground, and when he landed, the tiny energy swords landed on his shoulders, arms, and one in his dantian. Each one opened a wound, superficial, but showed flesh and bled dark a little.

Heian Ciemnosc grinned, provoking the pretty boy even more. Meanwhile, Kali Gura’s eyes were shocked as he flew backwards, impulsed by the heavy impact he suffered in exchange. His crystallized armor didn’t even crack, but his body felt some pain as it was blown backwards. That was inconceivable! Kali Gura was seething with rage as he forcefully stopped his body and rushed at Heian Ciemnosc.

Whooosh! Heian Ciemnosc saved him the trouble, as his 5 meters long dark tail suddenly stretched fully, like a scared cat becoming startled the shit out of, and appeared before him a second later. Kali Gura’s eyes widened, but his pupils shrunk. As he swung his long sword, a gray-silver Neutral Energy seemed to incorporate into it before slowly fusing with his body, creating an aura around his crystallized armor, sending a greater amount of threat directly into Heian Ciemnosc’s mind.

Heian Ciemnosc didn’t back down despite the ringing bells of alarm sounding in his head. He dodged to the right, slightly bent his right arm, and thrust upwards at Kali Gura’s chin, going for a direct, mortal hit! But Kali Gura suddenly gained swiftness. He was as fast as before. He didn’t gain speed, but his movements were suddenly flawlessly smooth, as if gravity, laws, and weight didn’t affect any part of him.

Kali Gura seemed to turn… into his Earth grade long sword! They were one! Together! And moved as one! Heian Ciemnosc suddenly felt that every part that was slowly enveloped by the gray-silvery aura became as sharp as Kali Gura’s weapon and that it could cut him if he didn’t defend himself or attack. Still, Heian Ciemnosc clawed at Kali Gura’s chin fearlessly, but what he received before even halfway through the motion— was a slash to his torso.

Slash! Splutter~! Whoosh- swish! Cuh- Crrreeesshhhhkk!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body flew backwards from Kali Gura’s slashing sword’s mere impact! As he looked at his wound, bleeding dark as it tainted the air, and the world became slightly obscure everywhere in hundreds of kilometers around, Heian Ciemnosc felt the pain finally coming to his senses, as if he had been stuck in slowed time. But immediately after, he saw Kali Gura fly after him when he was just sent 50 meters away from that slash and come at him again, with a stronger blow than before!

“!” Heian Ciemnosc saw the Earth grade long sword, and Kali Gura, enveloped by that gray-silvery energy aura as the sword cut into the air before even arriving near him. However, the cut seemed to prolong, and Heian Ciemnosc slowly felt the air before him and above, pushed apart as a sliding force crashed down and towards him. Heian Ciemnosc immediately stretched his tail to its maximum again, trying to escape, but Kali Gura grinned, and his flight speed moved in the same direction Heian Ciemnosc wanted to take.

The sliding force seemed to follow, shrinking Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes’ contents like never before as he felt threat blow its breath at his face for a moment, just before his torso was cut deep by the sliding force and the long sword’s blade simultaneously before he could react. His pale skin was pried open several inches, revealing his muscles and flesh and part of his ribcage as dark blood poured in between. Then, his body fell squarely back on the ground where he wanted to see if Kali Gura was willing to come, and he wanted to flee… but was forced back to by the latter.

Whiiiiiiiiistolee~- THUUUUUDD~! Fwgosh, fwgosh, fwgosh!

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