Lighted Stage, Return To What Once Was

A year later, in another Region, 5 months' worth of travel from the Stormy Calm Sea.

It was a beautiful prairie under the green sunset. Several figures sat around the grass, with some tall, colorful flowers here and there. One of them was Heian Ciemnosc and Anastasia. The latter's maids were huddled together, dozing off to the comfortable sunset, leaning against each other. Anastasia looked at her Heian Ciemnosc while resting her right cheek on his chest and opened her calm, sleepy lips. “Father, one day, when I grow old enough to build my own organization… Where can I start?”

“Are you worried that one day I’ll put your rebellious acts down the blade?” Heian Ciemnosc grinned and hugged her little neck. Anastasia shut her eyes and stuck her little tongue out. Her sweet words echoed to his ears from below, “Of course not! I want a place for my own. If I do it under you, it won’t be fun or meaningful. With how you move things, nothing in the world would be outside your hands and rule.”

“What a good daughter…” Heian Ciemnosc sarcastically commented. Anastasia tsked and put on her most brawny, ready-to-beat-people-up face and stared at her father’s overly pale underchin. Heian Ciemnosc’s grin turned into a thin, wide smile.

Poking Anastasia’s nose as he used to when she was a stupid little baby, she became docile and lovey-dovey with her father’s fatherly love. Heian Ciemnosc spoke with his breath softening her thoughts to a sleepier notion, “There’ll be enough space to do that. Besides, some of your younger siblings might want to own a territory, too. After my world is back to its origins, what’s stopping you from figuring a way to create one yourself?”

“Eeeh? Can I?!” Anastasia’s eyes went big-round, as big as saucers, but sleepy still. She looked up with blinking, sweet, beautiful eyes filled with hope and desire. Heian Ciemnosc looked down and caressed her right cheek as she plastered her left cheek on his solar plexus, “Look at you, so ambitious. Are you sure your Mother Mei didn’t use Alyona’s blood instead? Or is it my fault?”

“It’s definitely your fault, Daddy. Mommy is pure, innocent, almost as sweet as me…”

‘Yep, my Bloodline and Race’s half is too influential in her, I suppose.’ Heian Ciemnosc didn’t need more clues to know from where his daughter became like this. He looked down at her face as she continued blurting nonsense nonstop. Anastasia was vigorous and energetic when it came to showing off to daddy. There was no helping it.

“Mn, come here,” Heian Ciemnosc lightly spoke amidst her blabbing. His hands held Anastasia’s face above her cheeks. He lowered his head and repeatedly smooched her forehead. Anastasia reacted after the second smooch, trying to struggle out of his clutches as she complained, “Daaaaaaad! You’re going to scare my future husband when he nature reads my past affections!”

“Mmmmwoah,” Heian Ciemnosc finished indulging his daughter. Then, he arranged her messy dark-green long, smooth hair around her forehead, but only a little. He smiled before softly whispering to her face, “If he dares look before your late childhood, I’ll kill every man you encounter from then on.”

“Hehehe, mn!” Anastasia giggled with sweet sounds, akin to her mommy. Then, processing her father’s words, she nodded and kept her eyes closed as she felt too comfortable to get off his lap. With the darkness was beginning to fall, caressing the skin on her face like massaging her mind, she felt heavier and more comfortable. Heian Ciemnosc silently looked at his silently resting daughter, becoming unresponsive.

“Uh-oh,” Sara sounded inside his inner universe. She sent Soul messages to his trio of lovers dozing off in the distance. Immediately, a few whooshing sounds went off, followed by Grietta and Elyor’s glances, who were just a few kilometers away from Heian Ciemnosc and Anastasia.

“Cra, Cren, take the miss away, I’ll go first,” Lu Cro said as she started unclothing Heian Ciemnosc’s torso. Cra and Cren’s bodies flew to Anastasia’s maids after nodding towards their eldest sister. Meanwhile, as soon as Lu Cro finished speaking, she turned to Heian Ciemnosc. Her mouth began salivating his face.

Before long, penetration occurred, and a barrier formed around them with her anti-Spirit Sense. Grietta soon flew over and enhanced the barrier, just in time to see the other 2 Fairies spread around Heian Ciemnosc to take turns savoring him. While one mounted him, another massaged his body and shared his mouth with the rider, while the other had fun with his rear.

Grietta became specifically intrigued of the last as she stayed to watch. She gave her husband a glance before entering the fray, but just to observe. Elyor remained behind, nodding to Grietta before breathing deeply. It wasn’t because his wife was still helpless to Heian Ciemnosc’s charms, but it was related to Heian Ciemnosc still.

‘Shadow is… he is breaking into the lighted stage after merely a year since his last breakthrough… Only he is capable of such an act… I wonder what it would be like if World Tree was born and cultivated.’ Elyor thought before closing his eyes to meditate.

Meanwhile, in Heian Ciemnosc’s inner universe, Sara sat cross-legged with her eyes closed and her eyebrows knitted. She didn’t dare open her eyes. Just as Heian Ciemnosc began breaking through, the crosses on her pupils began rotating crazily. The inner universe around her became like an unstoppable force rushing from up to down, streaming down endlessly yet crashing nowhere. Like an endless waterfall that would never finish.

On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc saw images of complete lifeforms, from chunks of land to Divine Kingdoms. From Galaxies to Everlasting Universes. From the Existences to the Universal Lands. From the Universal Lands…

Everything became clearer. However, his darkest eyes were closed, and even in his inner self, his sight was dark. However, he could still sense the world. But not the current one, where a portion of its total population was reaped in the 10 year war and was still amidst healing from it.

Hummmmmmmmmmmm… … … … Heian Ciemnosc suddenly felt a humming sound from nowhere and from the deepest corners of his being at the same time. He became lost in that sound, as if he found something… really precious. A burst of white light spread from the center of his mind, clouding everything in white, but it… didn’t feel invasive.

In the last instances before Heian Ciemnosc abruptly awoke, the humming continued, but it changed to one where a female lightly echoed it through her closed lips. Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes snapped open, and he even gasped, “Gasp!”

“…?” Grietta watched Heian Ciemnosc wake up with a startle and became mildly surprised. She stepped forth and offered him her left hand. Heian Ciemnosc breathed irregularly as he noticed her hand. He grabbed it and stood up before looking around him. His Fairy lovers were heavily palpitating from their lower bodies, giving a pungent odor of his sperm, with several trails connecting them from a distance of 1 meter around him.

“Whatever you saw, it really kept you going for a few hours,” Grietta mentioned, pointing down. Heian Ciemnosc fleetingly looked down at his towering manhood. He ignored it immediately after and breathed in and out, somewhat at a loss. Grietta smiled and went on her knees, placing her left nostril close to the bulbous, overly pale head, sniffing in strongly.

It was full of stench and viscous liquid, courtesy of the 3 Fairies and Heian Ciemnosc’s constant use. Grietta didn’t seem to mind, though. She slowly placed the stem’s underside on her left cheek, gradually letting it weigh down on her skin and left, slightly opened eyelid as her tongue sent invigorating shivers to Heian Ciemnosc’s brain.

“Is Elyor aware you’re being like this despite your late-late pregnancy?” Heian Ciemnosc gulped down and asked, but his right hand caressed Grietta’s head as if petting her for being a good pet. Grietta seemed not to hear him, as her fingertips traveled to his crown and root to balance his cock to her desires. Her eyes narrowed dangerously as she slowly gulped another plethora of smelly liquid before speaking in a contented tone.

“I wonder what Alyona would think of that?”

“!” Heian Ciemnosc was dealt a heavy blow. His penis throbbed. How could Grietta not notice? She rapidly moved his manhood to eat and clean it from their mix of love juices before golfing it down until it stretched her throat and bulged near her stomach. However, Grietta continued forcibly self-impaling her esophagus until Heian Ciemnosc released himself inside her.

“Mmmnf~,” Grietta skillfully let his virile member climb up, outside her throat, before it exploded. When it began, her tongue looped and lapped it with utmost ferocity, even a few minutes after the last spurt. She then let go of his lengthy meaty object and stood up. She smiled victoriously as she hugged his neck with her delicate arms and pressed her tummy against his behemoth and torso.

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“When she sees this, I wonder how contented she’ll be with us, hehe.” Grietta giggled before joyously assaulting Heian Ciemnosc’s mouth. Heian Ciemnosc wrapped his arms around her waist as she pushed him down slowly, tightly pressuring his penis and pleasuring him as their session had only just begun…

. . .

7 months later, near the Stormy Calm Sea.

After breaking into the Planet Gate realm lighted stage, Heian Ciemnosc’s Spirit Sense efficiency became as powerful as a Grand Universe. Above the Star Universe and below the Everlasting Universe classification. Similarly, Heian Ciemnosc only needed to break into the Planet Gate realm last stage before achieving the peak before the Universal realm.

His dark Vigor Energy became stronger again, and its quality was… truly something beyond incredible. When he compared it to Elyor and Grietta, it was clearly more robust, consolidated, and fearsome. However, their Universal realm’s Vigor Energy was still innately superior to his, at the Planet Gate realm still.

Nevertheless, this showed the intricacy of the Planet Gate realm’s fruits. If Heian Ciemnosc was to cultivate it like any other cultivator has gone through, or will have to. With the insufferably larger quantity of requirements and energy storage he has compared to others, it might take him 10,000 years to breakthrough compared to a Favoured, which would be around 100-500 years.

But it is precisely the same reason of why he has such requirements that he doesn’t need to go through the arduous process of waiting in silence in the middle of Hollow, failed Kingdoms, and planets.

Currently, Evans was already close to the Stormy Calm Sea. After a couple of years, he felt the not-so-missed sea breath and humidity. During their journey, they went through several seas, albeit through smaller paths to cross between them and their Regions.

… A few days later, Evans and company returned to the Stormy Calm Sea’s Turtle Hiding Region, where they could immediately see the vibrant, colorful changes from the time they left it. Even with one’s naked eyesight, the differences between then and now were astronomical. Especially the Turtle Fortress in the middle. It was nearly finished…

From the cliffed coasts at the west, south, and east, 14 Forts were erected. 5 to the west and south, and 4 to the east. Numerous Small Cities behind them, spanning the ‘a little over’ a million kilometers comprising the inner perimeter. The forts and watchtowers, with some supreme towns and cities accompanying them, were on the outer perimeter.

At the center, 8 Medium Cities were finished, already bustling with more than half of the City active in each. 4 large watchtowers, taller and bulkier than the one at the Mountain Pass, spread to the northwest and northeast from the Turtle Fortress.

When comparing the Heraxle Clan’s territory with the Flora-Sweet White-Heavens Dynasty and Est Soul Empire’s territories, the south had much more diversity and life activity than the still gray, sparse atmosphere in the north.

The north has enjoyed peace for nearly a hundred years, and the south had just suffered a thorough shaking by the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s hands. But in less than a decade, it went from a place riddled with uncertainty after the war, to the most bustling place Heian Ciemnosc and the others had seen even after 2 years of traveling around the Stormy Calm Sea.

Moreover, the ports, which were already finished, had half their berths already filled, with quite a few Carriers showering under the sunlight here and there. According to the new military reforms, naval and armada Fleets were now separate from the number of land forces. Thus, this navy was made from new recruits. The Crimsonbreaking Faction base should have also already enlisted enough manpower to keep their spaceships and soldier units as strong, but more in quantity. A fearsome fact.

“Go,” Heian Ciemnosc lightly whispered. Evans felt his owner’s dark Vigor Energy around his body and softly chirped before shooting towards the south. When he was just a few tens of thousands of kilometers away, a bulge in the water abruptly raised from underwater as they approached inland.

CRIIIIIIIIIIIII~~~!

Evans cried out, joyous to return to this familiar place. It was better than endlessly visiting new places. He has done that for several decades now. Thus, it was expected for Evans to grow tired of it. However, it was abnormal that he was still up and kicking to find any possible hole to ‘nest’ for a while and then abandon.

WHEEEEEEEEEESH- WHIIISTLEE…

Evans’s speed had become sharper and more terrifying now that he was nearing the Planet Gate realm. Alejandro showed his actually bigger body from underwater, soaring into the sky, as many fishers in the sea near the cliffed coasts were given a tremendous scare. However, Alejandro was careful to not accidentally murder these civilians.

Evans shot through the air, nearly forming a piercing, whistling noise as he headed straight to the Turtle Fortress. No defensive measures were activated, clearly identifying Heian Ciemnosc’s mount, and the Universal realm peak cultivators sitting atop Evans.

WHOOSH, WHOOOOSH, WHOOOOOOOSH, FLUTTER- FLUTTER~~!

Evans descended before the mansion. This time, he didn’t ruin the garden and stopped a few kilometers before Heian Ciemnosc’s mansion, on the streets. He whistled past the buildings and above the streets before fluttering his beautiful, magnificent snow white wings, immediately stopping. The people on his back calmly experienced a smooth series of motions.

Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap… Heian Ciemnosc and the others landed their feet on the ground. They felt refreshed after finally returning, and Anastasia couldn’t wait to lay on her bed in her father’s mansion and gossip with her maids until she felt like leading her people again.

By now, everyone knew they returned. However, before she could join the military, she must check the procedures while she wasn’t present. It was the same for the others, except for Rosina, who just needed to present herself before her seniors in the Eternal Return Team and receive a briefing from the advisers Heian Ciemnosc placed for her.

“We’ll go now, Grietta will soon enter a delicate state,” Elyor said, holding Grietta’s stomach with his right palm. Heian Ciemnosc looked at them and blinked, showing them he cared. Then, he looked at Rosina, who patiently waited her turn to talk with him.

Heian Ciemnosc walked to Rosina, slightly surprising her. Rosina stood in attention until Heian Ciemnosc’s palms landed on her shoulders, letting her stand at ease. Heian Ciemnosc then calmly spoke to her from up-close, “If you don’t want to command, that’s fine. You are my Team member, not my contracted worker. Stop feeling like you owe others for just stepping into an opportunity that belongs solely to you.”

“Team Leader…” Rosina nodded, but still felt a little guilty. Heian Ciemnosc shook her shoulders a little before calmly adding, “If you feel like doing something special for us, prepare your Fighters and spaceships. Even if you don’t want to admit it, I can tell you understand what commanding is. You enjoy success, even if it is small. I want that in my people. Cultivate well and break into the Planet Gate realm as soon as possible.”

“Mn,” Rosina determinedly nodded, bowing to her Team Leader before walking away. She summoned a Fighter before disappearing into the sky and the distance.

Afterwards, Heian Ciemnosc walked into the mansion with his people. He addressed them as they would have to also read the reports while meditating at least, “I will be gone for more time. I’ll return before things start, so just continue as usual. This operation’s success depends on you a lot. But you don’t need to show me your worth. Not when it’s already obvious. Work together, and do it well. Let’s begin writing our history, starting with you beside me.”

“Yes, my liege!” Heian Ciemnosc’s subordinates echoed in unison, placing their right, closed fist on their left chest with a punch. They bowed before walking to their respective cultivation bedrooms. Then, Heian Ciemnosc turned towards his Fairies and kissed his lovers for lengthy periods before facing the rest. “I will be going alone. Come and receive my blessing again.”

Heian Ciemnosc grinned teasingly, but the Fairies— his lovers and the others, who had been with him since the beginning, showed worried expressions. He caressed a few other Fairies who took a tall form and grinned, “It’s only about a year or so. I have another date before the 11th year comes. Oh, make sure to tell that to the representatives when they come asking for a meeting. I will be busy. Okay? Mwuh.”

Heian Ciemnosc finished his words by kissing another Fairy’s forehead before passing to the next. Although only 3 decided to become his, the rest joined up in a line to wait for their moment. Heian Ciemnosc would grab their jaw and gently pull them up while lowering his face as much as possible. Then, he would proceed to the next.

Like this, Heian Ciemnosc went on until he finished ‘blessing’ each Fairy, but there were still 3 remaining. He looked at them with his left, pitchest-blackest eyebrow raised as the other Fairies giggled behind him. Still, Heian Ciemnosc walked forth and softly kissed Lu Cro, Lu Cra, and Lu Cren’s foreheads slowly and traced his overly pale red lips left and right before passing to the remaining two.

“Stay in my bedroom and cultivate. You’re still quite weak, but I won’t abandon you. When the time is right, you’ll meet your seniors. None of you are allowed to find a partner until you reunite with me.” Heian Ciemnosc said after ‘admonishing’ his 3 lovers with his darkest eyes. They responded with sternness, “Yes, master.” - “We will wait for your blessings to marry, then.” - “Hehehe! That’s right. Master has to find us husbands and wives~.”

“Eh? We too?” Lu Cren, the youngest of his lovers, curiously asked with a semi-trolling face. Heian Ciemnosc tilted his head leftwards and shook his head, caressing her hair like she was incurable. “Of course not. You three are all mine. Did you think you could escape my grasp?”

“Mfmf~,” Lu Cren blew from her nostrils, holding a grand, bright smile with her lips pressed together as she swooned left and right towards him. “No~~… my liege. I was just worried. I’m only, only, only yours. Ah, my two sisters as well. A package. Mn! Only then are we worthy of becoming your concubines!”

“We’ll see,” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes imperceptibly blinked. He stepped backwards and waved towards them. “Cultivate diligently.”

“Take care, my liege~!” - “Good luck breaking through, masteeeer!”

With that, Heian Ciemnosc turned around after seeing his Fairies’ backs disappear from his naked eyesight, without his always-present nature reading triggered, and walked to an underground floor of his Mansion.

Once Heian Ciemnosc adjusted his mental state, he extended his right palm and looked down at it. Immediately after, Halonso appeared, stopping a bed conversation he seemed to enjoy to greet Heian Ciemnosc. “Woooh~, yes darling. Mhm. Your belly now has many little wo- Woah! Father! You’ve requested for me? What are your orders?!”

Heian Ciemnosc blinked and ignored Halonso’s new love life as the little worm looked up at him with sparkling, empty, dark eyes. He grinned and said to Halonso with a hint of building expectation, “Remember what I told you of my natal home? The failed Kingdom she made me born in? Bring me there, now.”

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