The Mix Between Cultivators And Non-Cultivators

4 days later. Flora-Sweet White-Heavens Dynasty's territory. Central north. In the northeastern Medium City.

Xue Yoler had been stressed for 4 days. After sending a plethora of messages to the Crimsonbreaking Faction for confirmation and immediate response, they received nothing. Fortunately, today, the Dynasty had the leisure time to reply to her pleas. She needed their permission to act, and only when they were 'truly' invaded could she take control of everything, regardless of the situation. Otherwise, she can only wait before the Dynasty grants her that kind of power. If they even would, of course.

“Anything?” Xue Yoler was in her city office, at the top of the central building, which was only about 100 meters tall, but spanned over several tens of thousands of kilometers in the middle of the City. The Cities the Empire and Dynasty built were nearly a Large City, lacking only the fundamentals to become a Large City officially.

She drank from her hot drink in her cup and kept it in her hands while staring through the vastly wide window facing the south. Her eyebrows were lightly creased as she turned her head backwards to her group of advisors and assistants. One of them stepped forth from the rest and opened her mouth to speak with a comfortable, soft, yet hardened voice.

“Yes, ma’am,” she saluted with her right arm extended forth before folding it to her left. “Their message is clear. We can’t jump to conclusions and will only wait. The Crimsonbreaking Faction’s actions are outside the Heraxle Clan’s expectations and orders. Miss Xue Yoler will be granted full authority of the forces in the Lsefattern Kingdom as long as the chief’s forces attack.”

“… Hoh, so we won’t do anything unless the black monster actively invades us? Don’t do anything until they do, so we can have all the resources to strike them all-out?” Xue Yoler sarcastically commented, leaving her people slightly confused. Only some had white fox ears and tails, much smaller and less striking than hers.

This was to be expected, as the others weren’t from the main branch of the Dynasty’s family. However, her words still weirded the others, who didn’t know why she would react like this. Of course, they didn’t attend those meetings. Only she and her cousin knew Heian Ciemnosc’s personality and what he could be capable of. Thus, she wondered if her Dynasty’s good idea was actually good. Especially with this enemy and in this situation.

“Go tell the Dynasty I’ve understood and will abide by their arrangements. But…” Xue Yoler voiced. The female who spoke nodded and was about to turn around to walk out, when Xue Yoler’s words caught everyone off-guard with that ‘but’ directed to no other but the Dynasty.

“Let them know I recommend direct action,” Xue Yoler said while turning to face them. Her slightly tall, hourglass hips and big bosom dazzled them a little before she concluded, “It doesn’t matter we are not under danger, and our few people’s safety is constantly confirmed. This is an insult to the Dynasty, much above the plans we have to strike a more advantageous deal with the Heraxle Clan. He is no simple representative the Heraxle Clan will gladly replace again…”

“… Yes, miss. I will convey your words,” the female said, bowed, and left with an earnest expression. She was a shortie Human, brown-skinned, and one of Xue Yoler’s right-hand people. After she left, Xue Yoler looked at a male Snow Fox, another one of her right-hand people, and added in an indifferent tone. “Once again, contact the chief and warn him one last time. His people should retreat or things could go awful for all 3 of us.”

“Yes, miss.” The man respectfully nodded before bowing waist deep. He turned and walked to the door after receiving Xue Yoler’s slight nod. The office became silent afterwards. Xue Yoler turned back to face the window and contentedly sipped from her cup, her eyes unreadable.

The cup’s contents were a little green and yellow. It originated from an ordinary herb the civilians sell a lot for tea in their northeast. The green belonged to that herb, while the yellow was from a flower which Snow Foxes consider one of their most preferred snacks, turned into powder.

‘He really broke through? And he’s breaking through… again?’ Xue Yoler frowned a bit. When Heian Ciemnosc flew out of the Stormy Calm Sea, he had already been followed until its shores to other Regions’ areas by the Est Soul Empire and the Snow Foxes’ Dynasty.

His Planet Gate realm cultivation base had been long read by them, but this wasn’t worth taking notice. However, knowing this information, the black monster is breaking through again? What kind of dogshit luck did he find in the Lsefattern Kingdom that aided him? It has been a year since his people relayed messages of his secluded cultivation.

Usually, with Heian Ciemnosc’s status, he wouldn’t have been bothered. The Planet Gate realm was a long and arduous path. He must be protected by all the Universal realm experts on their side, and would probably take a few hundred years at most. However… just 1 year?!

Not only that, but the chief himself relayed news that he’d attend the meeting to deliver them the information to recruit and raise citizen soldier units in a month? Just to consolidate his foundation after stabilizing his cultivation base? This was the black monster… the one everyone accidentally thinks of when mentioning the most monstrous cultivators in the new Change, huh?

‘What’s he planning? To move your troops in your coming out of secluded cultivation, aren’t you worried the Heraxle Clan would ‘let you go’ to pacify us? Mm, no… Someone like you wouldn’t worry about that possibility, not with that strange meeting to ‘accept’ this task.’ Xue Yoler thought before taking another sip, but found her cup empty. She looked down at it, feeling at a loss.

Xue Yoler couldn’t help but think back to the empty jar she was gifted, and fell silent for a long minute. Her face was cute, looking down, silly in the reflection. Finally, she turned her upper torso around and extended her right hand towards a maid nearby. “Lili, fill it up again. Prepare my schedule in a week. It might be dangerous, so accommodated the forces in a defensive formation within the Medium City. Remember, you all, the City must not fall. Understood?”

Xue Yoler’s people were astounded before solemnly nodding as a Human maid walked forth and took her cup dully. She then walked to the back to fill the cup again. Their representative suddenly became engrossed in tea 3 years ago. It wasn’t meaningful, but who would’ve thought?

***

Back at the Turtle Fortress, in the Turtle Hiding Region’s south’s center.

Heian Ciemnosc sat in his pitch-black meditation bedroom. His focus was centered in his inner universe, although it wasn’t the only thing he was focused on. In his inner universe, Sara entangled his body in a sitting cross-legged position. She was sweaty, and strands of her pink hair stuck to her skin and Heian Ciemnosc’s. The majority of her hair, a strong verdant color, was wet and caressed by Heian Ciemnosc’s semi-immobile hand.

‘Citizens naturally do not belong with cultivators, but their will allows them to face them. It’s been a long time since they became used to treating cultivators as their second parents, always underneath them but protected by the Glorious Nexus Entente. It’s more than 1 reason to grow dissatisfied with them, with each other.’

‘Citizens shouldn’t be in the same place as cultivators. However, they have a long way before… they can earn that from me.’ Heian Ciemnosc thought. When he came to that point, he paused before continuing, ‘Even though cultivators form part of the majority of atrocious acts towards my world and its nature, the civilians have never been free of guilt or sin.’

‘For countless Archeons, they’ve done their best to influence cultivators in their infancy stages, or in their weakest moments. Some killing those cultivators for satire and hatred, others aiding them with ulterior motives, either rising in the world or crushed under its reality.’

‘Sigh… There’s just no neutral point that all these living beings have ever gained. Now that the world has become so poor in nature and will, there’s no chance for 1 to be formed in the future. It all depends on me… and you, Mother Tree. Bet you didn’t imagine your actions could make something like this, right? Just look at them, it is the same people who only wanted to devour us because they believed it would have been the way to reach us and… or… replace us.’

‘Well, they’ve had their chance. I could’ve just devoured them, but this long has passed, and they’ve driven our world to nigh desolation… chaos…’ Heian Ciemnosc gradually opened his darkest eyes. They were calm, serene, yet ultimately cold. As he did, Sara moved a little and positioned her body atop him, with his member between their bellies, hugging his neck with her arms.

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‘Halonso might have not noticed, neither did you, but in the last times I existed before incarnating into my new true self… All I felt was it… chaos. Just like the abyss, there’s more to the world that only you and I know. Well, and our children, for that matter. Sigh… I’m really going to punish you when I find you.’ Heian Ciemnosc finished his thoughts as his darkest eyes moved to Sara’s face.

She was just lowering her face to his, and when her lips touched his mouth, it was just in time for someone to do the same to his physical body. Sara shared the feeling of kissing him, someone kissing his physical body, and that other person’s lips.

The other person didn’t notice, of course, but Sara immediately reacted. She covered her lips and smiled from ear to ear as she blushed. Although she couldn’t sweat, let alone blush, it gave them a strong effect whenever Sara simulated having a real body. She looked at Heian Ciemnosc and made a noise as she couldn’t help herself, “Ehehehaaw! I think I like ladies now, because of you.”

“Good. It’s a good moment to mention my plans when I create a body for you, then.” Heian Ciemnosc said, placing his hands on her little bums. Sara’s head was emptied, except for the prospect of Heian Ciemnosc creating a body for her. Only she and he knew how insufferably impossible something like that could be. After all, she wasn’t a Soul that could be recuperated as a living being, like Beto or that Kilah.

“GASP!” Amidst her muddiness, Heian Ciemnosc moved his right hand while holding her lower back strongly with his left palm. Then, adjusting his virile member’s size to Sara’s shortie, lolita-heighted and proportions body, into a strong push on her belly. His phallus suddenly went into her stomach, vanguarded by his underside stem, and appeared in her vaginal cavity.

His arms comfortably hung around her waist before his sudden, potent thrusts turned her brain into jelly and her lower body became active at full motors. Outside his inner universe, his physical body was ‘captured’ by 3 pairs of legs, arms, and 3 heads as they traveled everywhere. Sometimes, they ganged up on whoever rode him. The meditation session clearly ended. It was now time to talk about life.

. . .

Days passed. Before long, the time to travel to the Mountain Pass arrived. Today was the 93rd year, 1st month, 1st week, and 1st day of the Change. The situation in the north was troublesome.

Before Heian Ciemnosc’s mansion, everyone from his core circle joined him to see him off. Rosina seemed more determined than before, and she stood beside her teammates confidently and serenely. Anastasia and her maids seemed like one entity. Vol and Cris treated Heian Ciemnosc as their father whenever the 4 of them spent time together.

For this trip, Heian Ciemnosc wouldn’t bring his lovers. However, there were his 3 Fairies, seeing him off with the rest. His subordinates were also present, and after learning his breakthrough, they grew more solemn when they saw him. The realization of whom he really is struck them now harder than ever.

The rest of the Captains and other Universal realm cultivators except for Tania were in their positions, and what they needed now was to wait just a little more. Heian Ciemnosc gazed at everyone and said enough with just his darkest eyes landing on them.

It was strange, but it felt as if he conveyed heart-to-heart words to them that only their future selves would understand… would recognize.

After seeing everyone, Heian Ciemnosc rode on Evans and flew off from the mansion entrance. The civilians living in it looked up and noticed that flying fella, menace of all female Faunas, disappear again without noticing Heian Ciemnosc on his back. They felt safer and planned to bring their pets out, when the military in the fortress began mobilizing for defensive measures.

… At maximum speed, any Peaksky Swan would have it easy breaking into the sound barrier and simply isolate themselves from it, increasing their speed without consuming much of their stamina. Thus, after a few hours, Heian Ciemnosc rapidly arrived before the mountain range. He could feel 2 not-so-strong-anymore Spirit Senses latch onto him as he exited the scope of the nearest villages to the mountain range’s foot.

15 minutes later, Heian Ciemnosc arrived before the Mountain Pass meeting tower. Evans circled it 6 times before landing in front of its southern gates. Heian Ciemnosc dropped from his back and took his sweet time beside Evans, stroking his snow white feathers as he waited to see if any of the 2 would receive him, but nothing.

With a smirk, Heian Ciemnosc casually walked into the tower and made his way directly to the meeting room. When he opened the door, he saw the same old 2. This time, they were already sitting around the table, one in front of the other, with Xue Yoler a seat further to Ogork’s right on the other side.

Heian Ciemnosc quietly grinned from ear to ear, hooking the corners of his upper lips a bit more than usual before walking towards the table. However, he didn’t sit anywhere and just stood 2 chairs away on Ogork’s left. His hands fell on the upper backrest of a chair. He looked at them with glinting, lifeless, darkest eyes.

“Is it bad timing if I speak fir-” Heian Ciemnosc slightly relaxed his face and softly spoke, but Ogork lightly slammed the table with his left palm, exiting his crossed-arms stance and sitting straight in his seat.

“Of course it is!” Ogork nearly burst out in rage. He signaled to the chairs before demanding, “Go take a seat before any of your troops cause more trouble that cannot save you, not even now!”

“A seat won’t be necessary,” Heian Ciemnosc smoothly smiled and said, his tone becoming somewhat hoarse as his lips seemed dark in Xue Yoler’s eyes, looking from the side. She folded her right forearm before her chest, on the table, and started; driving the tension away and bringing their attention to herself. “Congratulations on breaking… into the magnitude stage, sir black monster.”

“Oh, thank you for that. I did breakthrough,” Heian Ciemnosc smiled at her and said, but still didn’t move away from his current position. Xue Yoler momentarily frowned, but didn’t delve on it and continued, “Sir black monster, some of your soldier units have ventured into the north. I imagine you were aware of this, and that no mutiny has caught you amidst your breakthrough?”

“I’ll save everyone time here. It’s from my orders that everything happening now… is happening.” Heian Ciemnosc directly spoke in a lackadaisical manner. Ogork and the Snow Fox expanded their eyelids, quite a bit surprised by his sudden honesty.

Heian Ciemnosc intertwined his fingers and placed the sides of his hands on the table, somewhat smashing it and making it… sink a few centimeters. Xue Yoler was busy looking down at the table, while Ogork stared directly at Heian Ciemnosc’s face as the latter continued, “Before we follow. Don’t think I’m going to go back on my word. Here are the promised rewards for being so nice as to let me build within my own territory, it has been… liberating.”

Clank, clank- thud, thud.

2 tube-like devices with a sharp end, and the other end smooth and oval-shaped, fell on the table before rolling towards Xue Yoler and Ogork respectively. Heian Ciemnosc’s palms faced the table as he supported himself on it. Xue Yoler picked her device before immediately lifting her face to Heian Ciemnosc. On the other hand, Ogork waited until he saw Xue Yoler reaction to take the device and confirm its contents. Once he confirmed it himself, he faced Heian Ciemnosc.

“Now, let’s talk,” Heian Ciemnosc looked at them, winning Ogork to speak first. Ogork gestured with a milder expression for Heian Ciemnosc to continue, and Xue Yoler calmly nodded. Heian Ciemnosc tilted his head to the right, “Let’s start with this Mountain Pass tower. Did you really believe this would be a good thing to build? Placing a defensive structure between the only road connecting our territories. Did you believe we wouldn’t see it as an insult?”

Heian Ciemnosc stared at the two of them, but his gaze landed more on Ogork than Xue Yoler.

“10 million citizen soldier units per year? When anyone can recruit even 30 million a year with my method if they’re on the lower end? Oh, and my warships have always been followed by your few Universal realm experts’ Spirit Sense, even when they just practice. Is this what being in another Universal Land’s Kingdom means to you? Is this how you expect to be treated back in your homes?”

“It’s a border Kingdom, and anyone can nest their organization’s forces there, as long as they’re willing to keep peace and are looking forward to improving the relationship between each other.” Ogork peacefully commented, joining his fingertips as he faced Heian Ciemnosc with a lazy sitting position. He sounded polite and educated, but Heian Ciemnosc’s following words left Ogork and Xue Yoler feeling incredulous.

“No, it’s time the entire Collariverse Universe starts understanding that their place is with the Heraxle Clan. Thus, they bend their knee to the Heraxle Clan, not the Est Soul Empire, not the Toreon Can, not the Flora-Sweet White-Heavens Dynasty, and not to any other but the Heraxle Clan!”

… … … … Bowwbooumb!!

As soon as Heian Ciemnosc finished his words, he took his Claws Out, but their ‘pshift- click’ sound was muffled by the image of Vocón Link. It suddenly appeared and flew from behind him in a detour towards Ogork’s surroundings, seemingly aiming for his back. At the same time, the 2 representatives felt their vision darken as Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes became wholly darkened.

Within just a second, a dark dome enveloped the meeting tower as a whole, and half the mountain range from the Mountain Pass. Of course, those 2 didn’t know it, as their senses and memories of using energy or Soul were completely forgotten for a second.

That second was all Heian Ciemnosc needed.

“No… sir… monster… wait- wait- wait!” Xue Yoler abruptly stood up from her seat, wanting to stop him from committing something nobody could save him for, nor them from the subsequent situation. She didn’t bother considering why she didn’t feel threatened and only thought of Heian Ciemnosc harming Ogork, who was his Heraxle Clan’s ally. She didn’t even bother questioning why she was sure he could commit an atrocity with a supposed Planet Gate realm magnitude stage cultivation base, when that was far from threatening a peak Universal realm expert.

But there it was… Just as Xue Yoler stood up and extended her right hand, letting her white claws extend from her white fingernails, the darkness dissipated. She didn’t bother recuperating her Spirit Sense, as all her power sources returned in a matter of half a second.

However, her eyes showed shock and incredulity, harder than ever in her entire life, save for the time her most reputable ancestor saved her from sure death in the Est Soul Empire’s disciplinary council’s hands.

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