There Is This Type Of Little Bedtime Story... (1)

After hammering for days, Evans slowly stopped and brought Heian Ciemnosc to an empty plain where an invisible gray-death-like aura filled everything everywhere. Heian Ciemnosc was just dressing up after finishing the last Sky grade equipment when Evans descended towards this place. When Heian Ciemnosc 'entered' that invisible aura, he felt like he had entered a forbidden place... at least for most people, including cultivators.

“So, what did you find?” Heian Ciemnosc asked Sara in his mind as they descended onto the ground. The several meters tall grass was like a nice massage for Evans as he delayed the descent’s stop. Sara’s voice sounded in his head as she lay on her stomach and flicked her chin with her left index finger. “Now that we’re here, I feel it more notorious and is clearer, hmm.”

“Something I should worry about?” Asked Heian Ciemnosc. Sara shook her head, flinging her feet back and forth with her knees bent as she seemingly returned to her usual behavior. “No, everything seems fine. In fact, do you remember that little oldie from the Sanz Upper Kingdom? There’s a presence here that is similar…”

“Really? So, a Lord, is it? Or someone from that time?” Heian Ciemnosc was a little surprised and slightly raised his eyebrows. Sara wrinkled her nose before answering, shaking her head. “Who knows if it’s someone or something? Either way, let’s go!”

“Mn,” Heian Ciemnosc nodded before tapping Evans’s back with his right foot. The bird-brained fool was still playing with the grass. Heian Ciemnosc’s actions made Evans cry a little like a silly child after being caught looking silly. But it did the trick, and Evans finally stopped on the ground.

STOMP… “There, there,” Heian Ciemnosc walked up to Evans’s neck and caressed it. Evans was no longer a platform for Heian Ciemnosc to continue his Craftsmaking practice and creations. Although Evans didn’t mind, especially because Heian Ciemnosc’s methods gave Evans good massages and unique moments of cold and heat, it felt better to not be used as a house or garage.

Crii, crii. Crii, crii. Heian Ciemnosc patted the sonorous animal fool that didn’t bother about forming a humanoid shape or using the universal language outside his mouth beak, or jaws. Many Faunas that reached this great height are prideful to do so, and within reason. In Heian Ciemnosc’s case, he could use armor or better Sky grade weapons to enhance his attacks without using Claws Out, which was his second major consuming aspect in battle below his dark Soul techniques and Myriad Darkness Materialization.

Crriii~! Evans fluttered his wings as if he was pouting. Without further ado, he used his long legs to walk forth. On his back, Heian Ciemnosc stood just behind his neck, looking ahead with crossed arms. He just asked Evans to walk for him, since the grass was so tall, and he didn’t feel like flying. Evans had all the right to complain, but he wouldn’t miss a chance to spend some lazy time with his owner, as these moments were rare.

STOMP… STOMP… STOMP… WHEESH~.

Thus, Heian Ciemnosc stood on Evans’s back as he walked forward. The situation was a little comical, but there was no one to interrupt or observe them. Meanwhile, Heian Ciemnosc closed his darkest eyes as the plains with millions of kilometers in diameter spanned before their eyes. The grass from a distance looked bright green, but from up-close, it was obscurer.

Heian Ciemnosc walked back to check on the top-notch Sky grade weaponry he created for his people. They were already complete, with a Preternatural Spirit Heart-Link core embedded throughout them during the final merging processes. Additionally, the Elemental affinity within them had been ensured by Heian Ciemnosc, and who better than him to comprehend those?

… Evans continued walking for a few more days, completing a week since they arrived near this place. He flew forwards at times, wanting to feel the breeze again since the Craftsmaking tools were no longer on his back. On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc simply cultivated, not missing a day even as Evans spun and arched in the air. He was impassive.

After a few days, with the previous week passing by, they arrived at the zone when Sara’s voice echoed loudly in Heian Ciemnosc’s inner universe. He looked inside himself to stare at Sara, aiming ahead. “There! Just stand in that place for a few moments! Let me feel what’s happening…”

“Oh,” Heian Ciemnosc exclaimed before communicating with Evans. The latter nodded slightly before hurrying his steps, gliding in the air while his legs still kicked the ground and sped the process up. The arrived at the zone Sara signaled 20 minutes later. This place wasn’t filled with grass, and seemed like a hill compared to the ground level, hidden by the tall grass.

Whoosh, step. Heian Ciemnosc landed on the top of the hill. He looked around as Sara closed her eyes and took her time to detect anything. Evans silently moved around the hill, bored and wondering if he could kidnap some young ‘girls’ around here, but he never saw another living being these past few days.

“Aha! Found it!” Sara exclaimed. Heian Ciemnosc was slightly startled as he looked at Sara in his inner universe. She pointed downwards and excitedly shouted, “You just gotta dig! There’s a female chamber down there. Dug in, find whatever’s inside, and see if you can breakthrouuugh~! Let’s return to the Calatida Region as soon as possible!”

“Hmm, oh,” Heian Ciemnosc grasped his chin pensively as he noticed Sara’s behavior but didn’t put it to heart. He nodded and asked Sara while taking his Claws Out. “It is a female chamber… Do you want me to find someone there, too? Did watching all this long made you adapt to one of my wives’ unique treats? Has that desire awakened within you-”

“Naaaaaah,” Sara leaned her upper torso at the side, interrupting Heian Ciemnosc before he could complete his embarrassing words. She thrust her palms forth and mimicked a rubbing motion, giving him caresses on his defined abs as he began working like an ordinary civilian. “I’ve checked it. While there’s indeed someone, it isn’t possible for you to enjoy any exchange…”

“Hmm, that almost sounded like that’s a disappointment for you,” said Heian Ciemnosc as he dug half a meter deep with each claw of his. Sara pouted towards the left side of her mouth. Looking up, she spoke in a slightly dubious tone, “Nothing won’t happen. Unless that something has a special condition which I cannot discern from afar and in this state. Hmm…”

“...” Heian Ciemnosc fell a little silent but kept digging. Evans looked at Heian Ciemnosc for a few minutes, wondering why he was doing that in this way instead of directly forcing it all up with energy. But after those few minutes, he shrugged his wings and continued looking around. Even a female worm in the dirt would do…

After 7 hours, Heian Ciemnosc dug 25 kilometers underground before he finally stopped. He felt the dirt beneath him become softer and more distinguished, as if every single dirt grain was precious and selected to protect this place from wastage of time.

‘Hmm,’ Heian Ciemnosc became curious. He knew a little about founding one’s organization. This treatment of the surroundings was common in places where high-end cultivators decided where their organizations would be. But this was a place where the impossible happened, and a 3* Region became several 2* Regions in the past.

Crruuk, cruuuk, cruuukk…

After digging for a few meters more, Heian Ciemnosc found a hole leading towards a smooth, gray, slightly sparkling floor. He looked at it a little, not using his Spirit Sense to intrude since he wasn’t in the level Sara was, and finally dived through the hole. The floor was many meters below the ceiling, but Heian Ciemnosc simply spun once in the air and landed on his feet.

Tap, tap! Heian Ciemnosc looked above, where the ceiling was closing itself after he crossed through. He frowned. It didn’t happen before when he was observing it, so he was being… expected. Heian Ciemnosc looked ahead from his position and confirmed his suspicions.

“So, that was you, wasn’t it?” An enchanting, divine voice echoed in Heian Ciemnosc’s ears as he looked at a beauty. Before he could take her appearance in, she spoke gain with a frown so exquisite it nearly made him dizzy. “Wait, no… That can’t… Perhaps- GASP!”

“...?” The heavenly beauty suddenly retracted her neck. She wasn’t facing Heian Ciemnosc completely, nor was she even standing or sitting straight. Instead and foremost, her body was ethereal, similar to the oldie Heian Ciemnosc met back then, but she was in a worse-off situation. She floated above a stone bed which looked like jade. But it was dull, as if consumed and dead.

When she suddenly gasped, she retracted her neck in the opposite direction where Heian Ciemnosc stood. Her face was distorted to impossible levels, as if something world-ending had just occurred before her eyes. However, she seemed to calm down after seeing Heian Ciemnosc’s befuddled expression.

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“It isn’t important… it doesn’t matter anymore, who it was… pardon my offenses.” The unknown, heavenly beauty said. Heian Ciemnosc stepped forwards when he felt the lady look at him without hostility or apprehension. The latter was present in her eyes for a couple of seconds before she reacted that way.

“Oh. You don’t have to be polite. It is me who is intruding in someone else’s… chambers.” Said Heian Ciemnosc, looking around at the upper corners of the room. His darkest eyes returned to the pale white beauty, a different tone and aura from his, with furred ears and 4 fangs around her canines. She had 6 lineal marks across her cheeks from the corners of her mouth to the lower corners of her eyes facing outwards. He noticed she was fixedly staring into his eyes all this while.

“... Well, you aren’t wrong,” the Beast Semi-Soul spoke. She wasn’t naked and wore a pinkish nightgown that seemed more like a delicate dress, typical of those generational organizations who would send their dead in these customs. Just as Heian Ciemnosc’s eyebrows twitched downwards, the heavenly beauty with male-short white hair smirked and amiably, tenderly spoke to him.

“You’re right about that, these are my chambers… But not for staying or living… I suppose these might be for ‘departure’ instead,” said the heavenly beauty. She seemed helpless and remembered something she might not have wanted to. Heian Ciemnosc fell silent, deciding to let her speak at her own pace, since she didn’t seem to have any thoughts of harming him.

“I never expected to know this would be my fate after all these years. It’s somewhat… revealing. I never thought…” She said, changing the subject. Heian Ciemnosc kept his silence as she went on, “Ah, this used to be a place where many would come and the fate of the Dragoon Ore Kingdom was meant to be worthy of an Existential Sixth Step in the future…”

“Tell me,” the heavenly beauty addressed Heian Ciemnosc, or tried to, before falling silent with a startled expression. Heian Ciemnosc nodded slightly and introduced himself calmly, “Heian Ciemnosc, or black monster. Either is fine.”

“I… see.” The heavenly beauty frowned for a few seconds before her expression eased. She seemed to think of something else, and her expression became somewhat frustrated, but then lighted up. Heian Ciemnosc took this time to gaze at her lower body, where feet should’ve shown, but only a vortex of nothingness warped her figure.

“Sir Heian Ciemnosc, I come from the time when the Lords were still in our capabilities, and they weren’t yet in danger,” the heavenly beauty said those shocking words with such ease that made Heian Ciemnosc feel like they were nothing. She continued, “I come from the White Fox Beast Race, the Xue family lineage. How… are they doing?”

“... Well,” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes widened. He became startled. He didn’t know whether to tell her the whole story or just leave it at that. However, at that moment, the heavenly beauty spoke with a cold tone whose attitude wasn’t directed to him. “No, nevermind that. As long as they’re doing fine, it should be worthy enough of my descendants. It doesn’t matter. But…”

“Heian Ciemnosc, she can tell her lineage is still alive and kicking, but she can’t know the current situation.” Suddenly, Sara spoke in Heian Ciemnosc’s mind. She sounded stern but didn’t lose her energy and sounded full of vitality. Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes widened. Those methods where one didn’t even need to form a thought to ‘feel’ something were only vaguely described in the records from Changes ago.

“Huh? What was that? Did you… do you… have someone hidden within you?” The heavenly beauty stopped her words during the instantaneous exchange Heian Ciemnosc had with Sara. Possession was impossible unless one just wanted to kill themselves and fuel their target’s Soul. At worse, both would die if the purest forms of Soul knowledge were known by the former, but it would be so only if the victim was a civilian with no knowledge of the subject.

“Err, yes…” Heian Ciemnosc responded. To lie or act like a fool here, before such a being, was suicidal. He didn’t want to test if someone that comes from the times that Lords existed and walked among them would be mighty enough to kill him with a glare…

“I see… Indeed, only someone who can see through my hideout can enter your body and remain there for nutrition…” The heavenly beauty said. Heian Ciemnosc fell silent and Sara blushed. While he knew she used his inner self to keep her existence afloat despite not being in danger of disappearing. He could tell the improving state Sara has received since she presented herself before him.

As for Sara, she could only think of the times that Heian Ciemnosc ‘fed’ her nutrients with his dark Soul and dual cultivation method… Oh, those blissful moments!

“Pardon me...for intruding.” The heavenly beauty closed her eyes as if bowing. It was the only thing she could do in her current situation. Heian Ciemnosc courteously lowered his head before standing straight and asked her, “Miss, if I may… Were you a Lord before… this?”

“This? Ah, no, hehe~.” The heavenly beauty giggled as she heard Heian Ciemnosc. Hearing him refer to her situation, not knowing a hellish thing about it. She smirked, sending loud thumps in Heian Ciemnosc’s heart. She shook her head, which looked more like a nod from her position, and gently blinked her eyes before explaining with an enchanting smile. “Ever since I was a child, I longed to become a Lord. But a Senior stopped me, saving me and my lineage trouble that could have never been imagined…”

“...” Heian Ciemnosc was stunned when he heard this. She wasn’t a Lord, but her capabilities were already this tremendous. How powerful were the organizations and peak experts when the Lords still existed? What the hell happened?!

“Don’t ask me, because I also don’t know,” the heavenly beauty shook her head again, more gently this time. Her voice became soft and relaxed, albeit desolate. “I wasn’t far from becoming a Lord. But even I could feel a premonition the more I neared that path. When I was somewhat close to achieving it, ignoring my beloved’s pleas to wait until things improved after the last Lord’s disappearance, it was that Senior who convinced me to stop.”

“Not too long after, I neared my end as I felt my cultivation base falling… I wanted to become a Lord so much after their disappearance. To bring my family to the highest peak… But the closer I reached, the more I felt my body dissipating. In the end, I imploded and turned into a Soul without nature. I hurriedly spent countless resources of the Xue Clan to survive… and here I am now.”

“But, you see… I have never sensed the making of another Lord. This is… I believe, the world’s last effort to show us our wrongs, heh.” The heavenly beauty finished with a self-deprecating tone. She smirked devastatingly beautifully, but tragically…

“They… what happened?” Heian Ciemnosc suddenly felt the need to ask. The heavenly beauty looked at him and thinly smiled. Her eyes were gentle as she flatly responded, “They were taken away and turned into dust by the world itself… Herself. It was as if Her palm swayed throughout the entire world. Be it the Lords, their family, their organization, vassals, and anyone from their lineage… Dissipated.”

“...!!” Heian Ciemnosc suddenly felt as if this was something more than shocking, more than inexplicable… or impossible. But he couldn't decipher it, and he felt as if his mind was about to lose it, when the heavenly beauty spoke him out of his stupor.

“I… have a thing to ask of you,” the heavenly beauty acted as if Heian Ciemnosc had made her subservient, confusing him after sobering up. She continued. Her eyelashes fluttered weakly, “I beg Sir Heian Ciemnosc to keep my lineage alive. Even if they offend you in the future, and you must exterminate them, I implore you let my lineage survive. I want nothing more…”

“... What can you give me in exchange?” Heian Ciemnosc maintained a neutral exchange as he stepped forth until he was 2 steps away from her. The heavenly beauty didn’t hesitate to weakly shake her head, “Anything. But I can only aid you in breaking into the… Farsighted realm, as it is called now…”

“... That will do.” Heian Ciemnosc looked deeply into the heavenly beauty who had little to offer in exchange for a whole Beast family’s survival no matter the cost, even if they offended him. He wore a somber expression and prepared to sit cross-legged with his back facing her. Sara didn’t warn him of her, and he was ready to break into the Farsighted realm a year earlier if possible.

“No… not like that… I can’t even move my body. I don’t have any Essence, and my Soul will dissipate as soon as the last vestige of it is used. If I use any method, it’d be impossible to aid you… I am like this. I can only help you with… that unique dual cultivation method.” The heavenly beauty said, aiming at Heian Ciemnosc’s Dantian, inner universe, and Psychogenic in that order.”

“You can… read nature like that so easily?” Heian Ciemnosc stopped and asked her. The heavenly beauty weakly blinked. Her lips seemed heavy to move as she explained, “When one becomes an existence close to a powerhouse such as a Lord, nothing is unknown to you… Except the truths of the world.”

“Even Lords have unanswered questions?” Heian Ciemnosc blurted out, feeling disappointed, although he couldn’t tell why. The heavenly beauty grinned, “I know, right? We are all a bunch of gifted individuals in this world… We do not deserve it.”

“!” Heian Ciemnosc looked at the heavenly beauty and remained silent. Those words… But Heian Ciemnosc shook his head slightly. He wanted to sit cross-legged, but suddenly thought of something and looked at the heavenly beauty. “Why are you so certain I’ll help your people survive? I know you might see things in me others have, but… Why are you this confident?”

“...” The heavenly beauty looked at Heian Ciemnosc, speechless. She turned her head, with utmost difficulty, towards a certain direction upwards. Sara’s eyes with crosses atop them tensed as that was the direction she had worriedly been staring at since Heian Ciemnosc arrived near here.

“Maybe you shouldn’t leave things that are most important for last,” the heavenly beauty said as she returned her gaze to Heian Ciemnosc, who frowned after hearing her words, feeling she made absolutely sense. Her neck looked especially dangerous. He could lose his mind, wanting to bite it in different situations.

“The consequences of those acts are always hefty to pay… Sir,” the heavenly beauty said as Heian Ciemnosc calmly and absentmindedly lowered his body to the floor. He sat cross-legged and started cultivating ordinarily.

The heavenly beauty looked at him, pensive, before opening her mouth and moving him with her words. “You have the strong scent of half-a-Lord, so to speak, in you. But this person seems to have given up on those thoughts after meeting you. Not only did you severely injure this person, you also stopped them from reaching closer to the point where I collapsed, saving her. And that person seems to be fine now, right?”

“Sir Heian Ciemnosc, you are more than you are, more than you think, more…” The heavenly beauty said as Heian Ciemnosc looked up at her, stupidly astounded. “I can see she has given up on it after meeting you. She realized what could happen, and that… perhaps… you’re the only way to go through that problem. Mn, you’re also infertile, aren’t you? So it seems… It has really started. The world is moving, ah…”

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