3 Colorful Seeds Tainted By Darkness (2)

Heian Ciemnosc's body was immediately covered with blue lightning everywhere, each one as strong as the first attack he received. Dozens of which landed on his body as he struggled to fly across the storm. Ernesto and Schlank were behind him, brazenly chasing him while Landa watched from the side as she kept her Elemental Art technique functioning.

WHOOSH, WHOOSH!! Elemental techniques flew through space as a Fire Energy ball, and Earth Energy light crossed the blue storm without being targeted or injured by the accidental touches with some blue lightning. Their techniques reached the young black monster before their owners could. Heian Ciemnosc didn’t defend against them and only glanced back once before stopping altogether.

Landa frowned, but she couldn’t move yet. Heian Ciemnosc was a few hundred meters short of escaping her technique. The Elemental techniques crashed on Heian Ciemnosc’s back, but other than creating a large shockwave, they also impulsed Heian Ciemnosc a couple kilometers to the back of the destroyed blockade.

“Shit!” - “Hurry!” Schlank cursed while Ernesto covered 3 meters around him in his Fire Energy as he dashed towards Heian Ciemnosc after hurrying the Special Earth Lotus Body. Landa shook her head slightly and became a person-sized blue lightning as blue Lightning Energy condensed around her crystalline skin.

“What’s that?!” Landa rapidly arrived 30 meters behind Heian Ciemnosc as he was flung forth like a kite with its string cut. But suddenly, as his bum was spinning forwards again, she saw an extra dark ‘whip’ appear at his lower back, and she nearly stopped moving.

They had to be cautious. The young black monster’s Soul techniques and body tempering Supreme Art were no joke. However, before she could give it another look to discern what it was, Heian Ciemnosc stopped ‘uncontrollably’ spinning, and his body shot far away with his arms stuck to his sides… And a 4 meters long dark tail projecting from his rear!

PAH! PEW- WHOOOOOSHH~~~!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body shot far into the distance in just a second! Landa’s face dropped, and the trio’s mindset was the same. Shit!

Landa’s blue lightning bolt suddenly trembled and then harshly swept forwards like a cascade going upwards. The 2 young Chosens stopped, and after exchanging glances, they nodded and walked slightly closer to her.

They didn’t dare to get too close, and terror was apparent in their eyes as they remained 3 meters around her. Suddenly, her originally eyeless eye sockets with only violet pupils expanded, and a slightly obscure violet became the pupils as the former turned into her irises.

KA-CHAAAAA!!! ZAAAPP- ZAP- ZAPPP- ZAPAAPAPA- ZAP!

“Hold on,” Landa extended her hands, but the 2 young Chosens beside her nervously gulped as… Landa’s blue lightning became completely violet!! Her Lightning Energy went from blue to violet, and it seemed to have grown fearsome, imposing, and dashing! As they looked at her violet Lightning Energy, they didn’t notice their hands grabbed by hers, and before they could form a thought, Landa leaned her upper body a few tens of degrees forward and stepped forth.

K-CHAAAA!!!... PEEEWW~!

She became a house-sized violet lightning streaking into the distance where Heian Ciemnosc was flying to. The 4th line battlefield is no longer changed by the Existence’s advancement into the Evergazing Existence’s lines. The area where Heian Ciemnosc was flying was where hundreds of spaceships fought each other off, but for some reason, neither side bothered with them as they entered their zones.

“!” Suddenly, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes stiffened. He slowly lifted his eyelids to reveal more of his eyeballs and looked back, only to see a house-sized violet lightning bolt just 30 meters before him. A tiny curve went up on the right corner of his pale red mouth, and then… he was struck.

ZAAP- PAAAAAH! WHEESH WHEESH WHEESH WHEESH~~!!~~!!~~!!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body was immediately engulfed as he received it directly without protecting himself other than the dark Neutral Energy enhancing his offensive/aggressive might. Immediately after, the lightning bolt seemed to find its purpose and stopped, creating a shockwave that spread outwards for hundreds of meters but didn’t damage the spaceships.

While it was flashy, and the violet lightning made several cultivators apprehensive, they were safe within their spaceships and ignored it… Letting the ‘big bosses’ play alone was a better option.

Veeeem, veeeeeeem, veeeeeeem~! The young black monster’s spaceships rushed over, intending to keep the battle between him and their targets. Even if both sides were fine with fighting this way, there would always be some who’d like to kick those others while they’re down or at their weakest. In this case, the young black monster himself.

PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT!- PSSHIIIIIIFTT~!!!

After the violet lightning bolt struck Heian Ciemnosc, the rest of its few hundred meters long body rapidly joined the explosion and only increased the severity and prowess of this Supreme Art technique. Heian Ciemnosc immediately disappeared from everyone’s senses, with only 3 figures standing together discernible in Spirit Sense and Soul reading.

“!” Suddenly, Landa’s eyes widened, and her Lightning Energy surged within her body. The other 2 did the same and prepared as soon as they saw a change in her expression. On the other hand, the violet lightning ball and light where Landa was gazing at just now slowly cleared up. It had a diameter of 4 meters, so it was impossible to see through it well enough.

A burst of energy condensing also sounded from within the lightning ball and light, but nothing happened. Yet, that sound was much louder than theirs, and it caused them to be hell-bent intensive.

…! STOMP!! CUUH- CUUH!! Shuaahuaaa~!!

“!!!”

Vocón Link suddenly escaped the lightning ball from the opposite of those 3 and swung towards them, carrying tremendous, crazed momentum with it as it battered any spaceship it encountered on its path towards them slightly away. The mere sight caused fear to grow in Schlank’s eyes, along with envy in his heart.

Before the Vocón Link was halfway through, though. Heian Ciemnosc’s figure appeared for half a second amidst the violet light, and a dashing figure blurred outside of it as it flashed towards them! Their eyes widened fully, looking at Heian Ciemnosc, whose dark claws were vertically aimed at their bodies and rushing with the same invigorating speed enhancement he had used before.

His legs were in an after-kicking posture, and the weight of his jump was tremendous as he arrived before them immediately! However! Before he could even reach them, Landa’s eyes’ contents shrank as Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes were like orbs spitting tiny dark blobs dancing in space towards them.

“Disperse!!” Landa raged on, her voice throwing a few high-pitches as she softly slapped her fighting partners away. Ernesto and Schlank used this opportunity to fly away in circles, but Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes continued throwing off ‘dark blobs’ as some had already arrived before the trio.

Pfuh, pfuuh, pfuuh, fwump~!... Tak, kakk, takk, tak, pfshiesh~!

Ernesto defended his mind as tiny flaming bursts flew from his head in the same color as his Fire Energy. Each of Heian Ciemnosc’s Bloodthirsty Consuming Enshrinement dark Soul attacks was too formidable. The young Demon had to send several wisps of Soul Fire Energy defensive techniques to defend himself.

Even then, from over a dozen dark blobs, 3 to 5 passed through their defenses, tearing their minds slightly apart. The young Demon agonized but held his foothold as he continued flying in circles, eleven passing by Schlank as they went on a full-on circle around Heian Ciemnosc.

On the other hand, Schlank was sending traces of light from his Earth Energy Soul Art, but whenever he suffered an attack from Heian Ciemnosc’s Bloodthirsty Consuming Enshrinement, he would strain his neck and stretch it while fighting them off with less and less efficiency.

It was to the point that while Ernesto kept a steady balance of suffering and defending himself, Schlank suffered more and more dark blobs as time passed, and he started to fail defending himself from even 10 dark blobs in one go.

Heian Ciemnosc grinned as his dark claws sought Landa’s face, but she lightly stepped on plain space and impulsed her body up and backwards. Heian Ciemnosc gazed up at her as his feet also lightly tapped space. A dark ripple spread from behind his toes as he continued chasing her.

Those dark blobs were only seen through Soul fluctuations, and these 3 were going all out by not wanting to miss a mere movement from Elemental Poison in their surroundings. They were like little balls that moved in spirals towards them, but when inside their minds, they became terribly ugly little monsters searching for food. That’d either be their Soul or anything in their inner being, including the space of their inner being.

What’s more, Heian Ciemnosc could see through those dark blobs! He identified Schlank as the weakest among the 3, with Landa effortlessly dispatching his dark Soul attacks away. Heian Ciemnosc could still seek to affect her with a Bloodthirsty Consuming Enshrinement dark blob, but he’d exhaust his Soul a little and receive some backlash just to harm her mental state slightly.

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Landa didn’t even need to use a defensive Soul Art. She merely let the dark blobs get close enough before they smashed against the crystalline face and head, and they’d self-destroy themselves. Not even her violet lightning, exceptional against Soulish methods, was necessary.

But this wasn’t her innate, passive defense. Her crystalline skin had a tiny layer of pure creamy color, making her look even more rotundly attractive and desirable.

WHOOOSH- ZAP! ZZZZ- PAH!! ZZZ~!! PSHIIIFT! PEW!!

Heian Ciemnosc’s speed was scary, but only for short distances. When Landa noticed this and that a bunch of energy left Heian Ciemnosc’s Dantian, she knew she could win him in speed and dodge him as long as she wasn’t close enough to him like just now. However, that wouldn’t be fun!

Landa stopped and waited for Heian Ciemnosc as he continued moving towards her. She lifted her hands to meet his darkened palms, trying to avoid his dark claws. While Heian Ciemnosc only had to clasp his fingers to hurt her a little, she knew her speed and felt confident. Plus, her innate defense was something only those too many stages above her battle prowess could immediately injure with just basic moves!

Landa’s hands were covered in violet Lightning Energy and small violet lightning strands encompassing from her forearms to her fingertips. She flamboyantly heaved them down on Heian Ciemnosc’s claws and pushed her violet Lightning Energy to the maximum.

“!” However, as soon as she struck him, while she felt Heian Ciemnosc’s body suffered through their contact, and her violet lightning scurried through Heian Ciemnosc’s outer body and left ghastly burnt scars wherever it went, his grin left her feeling slightly confused.

But since that wasn’t enough to terrify her, Heian Ciemnosc slowly closed his claws. Landa’s furrowed eyebrows released tension as her eyes’ contents relaxed, but she didn’t dare look elsewhere as her skin was immediately pierced by Heian Ciemnosc’s dark claws with but a slightly forceful touch!

‘How powerful!’ Landa gloomily thought, but her mind was thundered as she heard Schlank’s incessant cries and Ernesto’s groans as if they were suffering more than before. She roared the violet lightning within her, preparing to burst it all out and heavily injure Heian Ciemnosc, even with the prospect of losing her hands. And time even seemed to stop as she looked at her comrades.

Ernesto held his head with his Fire Energy-covered hands clutching above his ears and pulling from his skin. His horns cracked, signaling the torment his mental state was going through. Landa’s expression worsened with this, and her eyes trembled, but they moved elsewhere out of instinct and caught Schlank screaming to the top of his lungs as his widened jaw and bleeding eyes became ghastly.

‘No!!’ Landa thought, but she was bent on attacking Heian Ciemnosc first before helping her mates. Unfortunately for her, Heian Ciemnosc’s Vocón Link coincidentally arrived at Schlank’s back after traveling in the same direction without changing since its first appearance. The Vocón Link’s extremity lunged at Schlank’s collarbone like a snake intending to break its prey’s neck.

Landa’s eyes widened, but before she could go on with her attack, she felt the Vocón Link extending from Heian Ciemnosc’s clothes suddenly stiffen, and a tremendous bodily strength emanated from the dark whip. At the same time, Heian Ciemnosc’s body suddenly jolted 3 inches away from her, his dark claws leaving long, 4 millimeters-deep cuts on her crystalline skin.

Then, Heian Ciemnosc kicked with his right foot’s sole and threw his body backwards. His head faced Schlank just a few tens of meters below. With his right knee tensing, Heian Ciemnosc stomped hard, and his body was shot towards the Special Earth Lotus Body cultivator, engrossed in the thrill of his dark Soul Divine Art’s torment!

…peeew… PUM-WASHAAAAAAAWHOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHH~~~!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body flew away from Landa, who was just a few milliseconds short of exploding violet lightning on Heian Ciemnosc’s face and front body. Her eyes widened, nearly imploding from their eye sockets, and she even threw a few crystal pieces the size of a pinky fingernail from her crystalline lips before blasting thousands of meters away.

That was 160,000 kg of brutal raw force! The fact she didn’t turn into a mere mess of crystal and energy demonstrated how mighty powerful a cultivator in the Third Step was to be capable of enduring such a robust bout!

The Special Lotus Body didn’t give special defense, and her Colgova innate inheritance from nature of great defense in mental and physical faculties was one thing, but she didn’t use any bit of energy or Art to cover her body. She only left Heian Ciemnosc with his right foot having its lower section burnt off and his right leg’s lower section slightly burnt because of the cluster of violet lightning she still managed to shoot from her body.

“Senior Sister Landa!!” Ernesto screamed as he looked at this scene. His hateful eyes glanced at Heian Ciemnosc as he incinerated space with Fire Energy, virtually turning half into the brightest, most spectacular red flames, before rushing straight to where Landa was sent blasted.

Heian Ciemnosc exchanged the glare with Ernesto as he was flying down towards Schlank, but his narrowed, darkest eyes were indifferent, and he moved them to Schlank before Ernesto turned his head away from him.

WHOOSH! WHOOOOSH~~!! FUTOMP!! PSHIFT- CUUUUUH~ CUUUUH~... …ZAPAAAHHH!! PEEEEW!!!

Heian Ciemnosc’s body shot towards Schlank, while Ernesto was even faster, and his speed lasted for more. On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc pulled himself forcefully to gain more momentum with his Vocón Link to arrive above the shrilling young Merfolk. With his mental state rampant, his star and galaxy-like skin seemed to collapse as starry clouds and opaque lights were everywhere.

Heian Ciemnosc forcefully halted his body 2 feet above Schlank’s head, the sheer force of the act expelled Elemental Poison 40 meters around them, banning it from getting any closer for the next several seconds.

PHHSHK!! PHHSHK!! CKRSHEERR~~~!

Heian Ciemnosc’s darkened left palm hit the space above Schlank, used it to support his motion, and handspring to Schlank’s right. Heian Ciemnosc’s body descended, and as it did, his left claw changed from being flat and used to support himself in space to a clawing downwards motion!

“!” Schlank opened his eyes wide, his instincts warning him with thunder-like bells in his head. His pupils were halved, and they trembled as the upper half seemed about to lose shape and dissipate at any moment.

Schlank’s body glowed with an intense, warm, light lime color, and the murky green in the bottommost layer against his body signaled he went all out. Even then, to his unnaturally widened eyes, he realized it wasn’t enough as 8 inches of ultimately cold, lifeless set of dark claws entered his body from below his nape, between his shoulder blades, and forced his body to bend backwards with pain transmitted even to his Soul!

“KAHGAAAH!!” Schlank barked a howl. It sounded terribly painful and nearly high-pitched. But Heian Ciemnosc didn’t stop there.

Once Schlank’s upper body bent backwards, Heian Ciemnosc stretched his right arm downwards, lowered his stance behind Schlank, and folded his left knee. His left foot set a base to land in space with a wisp of dark Neutral Energy, and his right leg spread along his right arm. His right claw was relaxed, but the dark, individual claws projected from it were creepy and sinister.

Heian Ciemnosc flashed them towards Schlank’s body, stabbed his lower back, and dragged them to meet with his darkened left claws. Heian Ciemnosc didn’t waste time and lifted Schlank’s body over his head.

Meanwhile, Schlank’s eyes were fully opened but no longer exaggeratedly. He looked up, and it was according to the general universal focus, but his heart, mind, and body were under a pain so tremendous he couldn’t even know if it could be described.

PSHIFT! Heian Ciemnosc’s expression at ease didn’t show what he was doing with the Earth Lotus body. The tips of his darkened claws had touched, and he commanded his dark Neutral Energy to form atop the middle. Schlank’s pain came from this, as a dark bubble formed, and it rapidly increased in volume but popped and then increased again, only to pop again. It went like this for several seconds until Schlank could no longer hold it together, and his larynx finally moved.

“KWUWAWUWUWUWUAAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~!!!!!!!!”

“... … … …” Suddenly, the sounds of bullets and shelling stopped, although some missiles and torpedoes exploding on shields or spaceships’ structures still echoed since they were already launched or were forced to detonate.

They watched as Heian Ciemnosc’s eased countenance didn’t match the situation he was in, in which his victim was crying like no cultivator within the younger generation's 4-lines battlefield had ever heard before.

Ta- ta- ta- rararararara- puh... pum... pfiush… But the 4th line battlefield’s silence didn’t last long because those already launched missiles and torpedoes made them react. However, Heian Ciemnosc saw some enemy spaceships move towards him and felt as if some things locked onto him, and they were fucking deadly.

His spaceships moved to protect him, with 2 Low Battleships blocking the incoming firepower where he felt those locking sensations coming from things, not people. It wasn’t the first time Heian Ciemnosc felt such, but it was the first it was so notorious and deadly.

‘Oh?’ Heian Ciemnosc grinned because, at the same time the battle resumed, his Spirit Sense quivered as if something wanted to strike it but didn’t manage to forcefully return his Spirit Sense into his body. Then, as if to declare who it was, from thousands and thousands of meters away, an explosive sound that reached the 4th line battlefield zone Heian Ciemnosc was in stunned the cultivators again… Although not as much as Schlank’s incessant shrieks.

From afar, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes witnessed a pretty-much shocking scene. A violet lightning bolt returned in his direction like a rocket exploding with impossible speed. Additionally, it was 3 times the size he had seen before and injured his body when it struck him. Its speed was… too much. Heian Ciemnosc chuckled because he knew even his 5th meter dark tail would be considered slow compared to it.

“Come! I have your partner here! Since you missed him that much!” Heian Ciemnosc stopped torturing Schlank and shoved him in front, towards the incoming lightning bolt. He grinned and stepped forth with his right leg stepping up before stopping. Then, he added with a tremendous grin savagely formed on his irresistibly handsome face, “Here, you can grab him!!”

WHAAAAA~!

Heian Ciemnosc threw Schlank’s body towards the incoming lightning when it was just 5 seconds from reaching him. With the speed it had, 5,000 meters was nothing. Heian Ciemnosc didn’t move, but his Vocón Link had already sneakily moved towards an enemy Cruiser besieged by a dozen Frigates. If they were merciless, he’d just swoop away.

BANG~~~~~!

‘Indeed,’ Heian Ciemnosc thought as he watched the gigantic violet lightning bolt self-explode and show Landa and Ernesto in perfect condition, while Schlank had black blood seeping from his nostrils and middle of his pupils… or at least the middle of his halved irises and pupils.

ZZZZZZZZZZAP!!!!

Heian Ciemnosc watched as Landa’s ferocious expression contorted her crystalline beautifully. Women could be breathtaking if angry, that was for sure. Heian Ciemnosc watched as she didn’t become an enormous lightning volt this time but merely covered her body with violet Lightning Energy as it became transparent… and her energy made Heian Ciemnosc’s itchy claws tremble.

Landa rushed towards him while the other 2 followed behind her. While they were tenacious, she was formidable! Speed! Defense! Prowess! Heian Ciemnosc won't have it easy!!

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