Just A Little Drama
Weeks passed. During this time, Heian Ciemnosc came to know more about the couple's lifestyle. They weren't from prominent or at least cultivator families. Even then, they had reached the Spirit Formation realm before 20, that was already good enough. Their resources were scarce, and Heian Ciemnosc already hid a few Covert Space bags with First Step pills, and some elementary Second Step alchemy products in their Covert Space bags when they meditated.
After a few weeks chatting them up, Heian Ciemnosc decided to enter meditation in the last couple of days before arriving at his destination. He was getting off a little earlier than the others, but this was already a lot of time traveling.
His cultivation base improved, and his dark Soul and Spirit Sense with it. However, that wasn’t everything. The bodily strength the Snow Fox Celestial discovered on him was no longer of 300,000 kg. Instead, along his evolution, his [All-Devouring Force Chronicles] innate Divine Art progressed to the 8th level.
That day, with Sara in his arms, Heian Ciemnosc’s body tempering underwent a sudden qualitative exchange. If it wasn’t because of Sara’s uniqueness, she might’ve been ‘reborn’ alongside him. That day, Heian Ciemnosc’s body dissolved into 6 different colors. Four of which pertained to the Four Primary Elements, and the other 2 to the Lightning element, blinding white and powerful purple.
His body had already been one with those Elements, but even though Heian Ciemnosc seemed to have a strange connection to all Elements since he could remember, he had no affinity with them, not even the Darkness. Thus, when his body dissolved, Sara was illuminated by 8 different colors.
The other 2 colors pertained to none other but Light and Darkness. After 500 years, Heian Ciemnosc finally welcomed the concept of all Elements into his body, as he broke into the Godhood Step. However, this one was an even more enigmatic mystery. It wasn’t the Godhood Step or his Godhood Step… But the Dark Godhood Step.
Upon initiating their breakthrough into the Godhood Step, any other person would receive 9 white lightning strikes before receiving a red one. After merging their 3 power sources and Spirit Bosom, of course. However, unlike them, Heian Ciemnosc received 9 red lightning bolts and a black one. If it wasn’t for Halonso teleporting them directly onto his body, they would’ve destroyed the Turtle Hiding Fortress.
As for the black lightning, that one was enough to send a 1* Region to its restoration phase. They were the same for Heian Ciemnosc as it is for any other person. They struck his body, cultivation base, and Soul; dark Soul, in his case. However, they couldn’t compare to the sensation of ‘turning into Elements’ that permeated for a minute but felt like an eternity.
When Heian Ciemnosc returned, the dark and white of the Darkness and Light elements interchanged coloring his body from the left to the right, and stripes all around his body. It was a strange, nonsensical phenomenon, but it signified all Elements’ merging into him.
That was when he woke up with his complete body, with more defined muscles, and slightly taller. Then, he went out and massacred countless Gods and Goddesses, of which the strongest was an old High God.
Once again, unlike them, Heian Ciemnosc didn’t become a baby Almighty God after successfully breaking into the Fourth Step. Essentially, because he didn’t step into the Godhood Step, but the Dark Godhood Step. Likewise, he didn’t become a baby, juvenile, adult, or old —something— God… but the Almighty Dark God instead.
In this Step, Heian Ciemnosc had no stages or levels to go through. He was no baby or old, only the Almighty Dark God. Furthermore, with the evolution of his [All-Devouring Force Chronicles] to the 8th level. This offered him 530,000 kg of bodily strength, only 15% less than double his previous bodily strength of 300,000 kg. This was something overly stupid, and it was becoming too bizarre that it might not matter anymore.
After all, a God’s raw defense increases when they use their Godly Energy, just like in previous Steps. Their limited raw defense becomes doubled or as much as their bodily strength. Thus, other than protecting against energy and other harmful methods, their melee combat is widely enhanced. However… 530,000 kg of bodily strength was more than double of Universal Gods.
Nevertheless, while it didn’t add more to one’s destructive prowess, one’s individual prowess could still be enhanced. Heian Ciemnosc might be able of lifting even 3* Regions with his current raw bodily strength if he used everything and his entire body. But he might do unthinkable things if his Dark Energy was added to the equation.
After all, even a baby Almighty God can turn an entire Minor Kingdom to its restoration phase, nearly dying, if given enough time and opportunity to strike, steal, and deteriorate everything. Let alone a Universal God, whose 250,000 kg of bodily strength would just insanely enhance everything they do as long as they utilize Godly Energy.
One’s Godly Energy is golden. From pale to obscure-gold as they advance from baby to old. But Heian Ciemnosc’s wasn’t Godly Energy, it was Dark Energy. Before, Heian Ciemnosc’s traces of energies had always been according to usual. From whitish, translucent, and transparent in the First Step. Whitish, semi-transparent, and translucent in the Second Step, and whitish and translucent in the Third Step. But now, his Godhood was attained, and he created his Dark Energy.
Heian Ciemnosc’s darkish energy had always been above his peers, so much that that would have been enough to fight those 1 realm above his cultivation base in the First Step. When that was added with his bodily strength, it not only became a surprising factor even for knowledgeable enemies, they also complemented each other and merged.
When breaking into the Second Step, the laws of the world followed him as he progressed, weighing down on him, but so did his [All-Devouring Force Chronicles] continuously evolve. His battle prowess was kept in line as he advanced through the Steps. But when he broke into the Third Step, where only 7 realms comprised it, turning it even more compact, his battle prowess fell again.
Yet, as he broke into the Dark Godhood Step, that went up as if his body had been finally let free. As if… he was no longer and would no longer ever face the world’s laws weigh on him. His Dark Energy wasn’t just superior to other Godly Energies, his very own dark Soul could directly push his 3 power sources, except for his Spirit Sense, into the Godly spaceships. Those who died that day didn’t even know when they died, as everything they belonged to was consumed.
It was another type of extinction, only Heian Ciemnosc wasn’t yet sure if this erased them completely or let them wander through all that exists and there is or is only held by his will after he devoured them. It was almost an instantaneous, massive attack, one that needed no Art, not even Divine Art… it was like a gift almost.
If Heian Ciemnosc was really just a new Bloodline and not who he really is, this might’ve just become the new way to see Bloodlines, a definitive or ultimate move only those with his dark blood could use.
His dark claws also evolved, along with his fangs and tail. Furthermore, Heian Ciemnosc’s nature reading could do what only existences could accomplish with long, tedious preparations and efficiency. He could read the Kingdoms’ age, the people’s past circumstances and their smells, aka talent and potential, they had before they died. Not just from their past Change, but any.
This was already happening before, but it was faint. In Alyona’s case, her impossible ancestor was quite a figure to remember, and Heian Ciemnosc has mated with her countless times. It would be absurd if he couldn’t deduce that much.
He could do the same with Hong Mei, Milyy, and even his Master, Calisneia. However, only Milyy had a story he needed to deal with after completing his purpose, the reason he was born.
His dark claws’ length increased to a maximum of 80 inches, from 16. Their width to 3.2 inches, and thickness from 1 to 2 centimeters. His dark fangs to 2.4 inches long, and 2 centimeters thick. Likewise, his dark tail’s maximum length was 8 meters, but Heian Ciemnosc hadn’t had the time to test it. Not yet.
“… Hey, Elder Brother. Why are you still with your eyes closed if you’re already awake?”
Heian Ciemnosc heard a voice, making him grin from the right corners of his overly pale red lips. He softly opened them and looked to his right, where the young lass looked at him with her body tilted to her right, projecting forth from her seat.
“We are arriving at your stop. Henry went to the bathroom, so if you want to make it worth, kiss me now!” The lass added once Heian Ciemnosc slightly shook his head at her. She grinned after speaking, ‘oblivious’ to the Henry she was speaking of behind her. She lifted her arms over her head, as if to demonstrate her vulnerability in a ‘V’ shape, but Henry caught her wrists.
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“Naughty,” Henry smiled before flicking his girl’s nose. Heian Ciemnosc thinly smiled and relaxed his sitting cross-legged on the seat. He knew a little ‘difficulty’ of these youngsters. Of how Henry was kissed by a beauty before the lass’s eyes, and how much of an early husband-attitude Henry had become afterwards. Heian Ciemnosc ignored their antics as the young woman spoke again.
“Elder Brother, you meditate so much when you’re barely at the Second Step, you’ll go far.” The lass said with worshiping eyes. Henry smiled and amicably said from the side, “Yeah. You’ll catch up with the black monster soon, haha.”
‘I’m already a recurrent conversation topic, who would’ve thought. I’m this famous,’ Heian Ciemnosc ignored the comment and stretched his arms upwards before placing his hands behind his back. “That’s because I have to complete my assignment.”
“To the Palpitating Memory Middle Kingdom, right? Well, it’s a Middle Kingdom, so be careful. You’re still far from being an expert. Just be careful,” said Henry, worried. Heian Ciemnosc nodded before exchanging some more words with them. A few hours later, the large vessel stopped. Heian Ciemnosc bid the couple farewell, still unaware of the things he left for them. After getting off the vessel, he deduced the time before setting a timer for the hidden stuff in their Covert Space bags to expose themselves before walking to the orbiting space station’s administration.
After flaunting his VIP pass, Heian Ciemnosc boarded a landing shuttle to the Palpitating Memory Kingdom. This was located in the Green Juice Upper Galaxy, and was one of many Upper Galaxies that welcomed countless battles across their life expectancy.
The shuttle was nice, with a rare dog and a baby staring at each other for 2 hours beside Heian Ciemnosc before the shuttle landed in a Small City. Then, Heian Ciemnosc walked out of the landing zone to arrive at a luxury hotel. He bought 2 hours worth of naughty time before entering meditation. Once 2 ladies entered Heian Ciemnosc’s VIP residence with his Spirit Sense’s confirmation, they were surprised to see the only available ‘person’ to play with.
At first, they were disgusted, but then, as Heian Ciemnosc continued to meditate with closed doors, they gave it a try. Who knew they’d become addicted to a worm and begged him to buy them off? Thus, Halongos got 2 new lovers while Heian Ciemnosc meditated for 2 days.
When Heian Ciemnosc walked out of his bedroom, he saw Halonso’s body shared between his new future wives, deeply inside their bodies as he conversed with them via Soul. Reading those words, Heian Ciemnosc was astonished with Halonso’s smooth talk before using his VIP pass to buy them from the hotel. The Dynasty would cover everything that wasn’t independent merchants, trades, or business.
Halonso was a decent, talkative, overly patient, great listener, and caressing gentleworm after sex. What else did these depressed women could wish for? Furthermore, mighty rich with a more than decent owner. After they were bought off, Halonso ate them up, keeping them safe in his inner body. There, they met their future co-wives…
… Heian Ciemnosc flew for 4 days on Evans’s back, who complained until Heian Ciemnosc let him marry 2 Blue Drakes in his Covert Space bags. But only those that weren’t with a mate and close to laying eggs. Afterwards, a complacent Evans, who learned from his younger/elder brother Halonso, worked his way to flirt the gals up.
Evans finally understood why Heian Ciemnosc always ate the females who came running to his groin. On the other hand, Heian Ciemnosc was glad he no longer had an animalistic mount who’d rape anything he sees as long as he doesn’t realize it isn’t male. The motherfucker didn’t change even after knowing Heian Ciemnosc’s identity.
Time brought progress, otherwise, recession. When Heian Ciemnosc finally neared the immediate surroundings of the location the document he ate instructed, he was just moving downwards when he sensed something a few hundred thousand kilometers in the distance.
It was a bonsai tree with pink vegetation, 40 meters in diameter with octagonal brown-honeyed seeds in 1 out of 7 branches, occasionally sparkled a gold luster hanging down them. There was a couple of a young Snow Fox woman and a young man wearing the Toreon Clan’s emblem. They calmly walked together through the passing near the tree before stopping to sight see it.
The young woman wasn’t ugly, but she was below Xue Yoler and Xue Po in terms of beauty, let alone Xue Moli, the Snow Fox Celestial. However, strangely, they gave off Heian Ciemnosc faint familiarity with Xue Moli. He ignored them and dived as Evans parted the dirt and boulders underneath with Heian Ciemnosc’s Dark Energy.
They traveled half a million kilometers before stopping, as they neared an empty chamber. Or looked empty, at least. Heian Ciemnosc got off Evans’s back and signaled him to shush. When Evans nodded, thirstily darting his eyes between the flirty, expressionless countenances of the Blue Drakes and his owner, Heian Ciemnosc placed them in his Covert Space bags. Meanwhile, Halonso rubbed his viscous head, emanating it out of joy, on Heian Ciemnosc’s right arm before teleporting to one of his father’s Covert Space bags.
Crrkffggghh… Heian Ciemnosc then moved through the dirt as his surroundings couldn’t drown him. Every time a grain or speck of dirt neared him, it bounced back as if 2 Kingdoms’ surfaces were forced up against each other with nearby Gods and Goddesses fighting.
2 minutes later, Heian Ciemnosc caved a hole through the empty chamber’s perimeter. He smoothly flew into it without flying and silently coursed through the air before equally soundlessly landing on his feet.
“…” Heian Ciemnosc looked at his surroundings. It was all walls from trees, as if countless trees, or a sole tree, comprised this chamber. However, there were no upper or lower floors, only this one. The place was strangely lit despite no lights around. It looked somewhat brown-orange oak colored when he landed, but it imperceptibly became grayer with a slight blue hue.
Heian Ciemnosc felt the emptiness of the chamber after everything became colorless, even his overly pale skin lost its touch. However, his pitchest-blackest eyes and darkest eyes weren’t affected. Heian Ciemnosc lightly protruded his lips on the spot before taking a few steps forward.
His footsteps were muffled. But the sound traveled from his soles to his brain. Heian Ciemnosc could hear the sounds of the sand grains smashed by his feet. They were smooth and soft, maybe too soft, unlike sand or dirt and more like skin?
“…” Heian Ciemnosc suddenly looked down and found a creamy, bloodless endlessness of skin burying his right foot, as his left knee was already sunken. Blood suddenly splurged upwards, as if it became real just as he looked at it.
Heian Ciemnosc’s expression hardened as he exerted pull strength to lift both his knees. He felt his soles leaving solid ground before his vision blinked without his eyelids moving. Just as Heian Ciemnosc felt his feet about to touch the ground, he lowered his entire body and put weight on it, landing smoothly without making noise. He lifted his face a moment later.
Gfuuuh…
A heinous face with hardened yet slimy gray-black, dull sludge the size of a baby’s head appeared before him. Its eyes were smallish, with a black lateral stripe and a glowing yellow around it. Its mouth slightly opened with no teeth, only slimy sludge as if its lips and the insides of its mouth were one.
Its breath landed on Heian Ciemnosc’s face, putrefied and invasive. It visibly entered Heian Ciemnosc’s pores, and its eyes didn’t move as it stared at him like a statue. However, life and intelligence were displayed within that glowing yellow.
“!” Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes opened fully for a moment before he stood up at once! He looked at the thing before him, his sight momentarily blurring before clearing up. He suddenly saw a 20 meters long left arm from the thing spread just above the solid floor with its palm upwards. Only now did Heian Ciemnosc realize his surroundings became desolate.
Gray walls with ‘scratched’ patterns as some ‘lines’ protruded downwards and others were caved in surrounded him. The ceiling didn’t exist, replaced by boundless, black smoke, and the floor became a dull, grayish blue color. The thing’s eyes finally moved, now upturned as it slowly stood up.
“!” Heian Ciemnosc’s eyes jolted open again. The lower rear of his head felt as if it was getting dislocated from his senses, not his body. He rapidly pulled himself down and felt as if he went from a hot desert to a 1 billion meters deep pool. His face felt tightened as he crouched, and his bum nearly touched the solid floor.
With his left knee against his bent chest, and his right knee against the floor, Heian Ciemnosc sweated not to make a sound as he leveled his rapid breathing until it became calm again. Then, he carefully stood up, unfolding his legs as he made no sound with his shoes grazing on the solid grayish blue floor.
Heian Ciemnosc’s nostrils slightly moved as his heartbeat quickened. Then, out of instinct, he looked up, something he shouldn’t have. There was nothing above.
“…” Suddenly, a finger hundreds of meters long yet thousands of kilometers into the black smoke for a ceiling folded and unfolded, gesturing to something behind Heian Ciemnosc. When he lowered his gaze, trembling with a creeping sensation coming on his nape and an intense tremble of his head, Heian Ciemnosc stared at the thing from before, in front of him, only smaller than him by 4 heads.
Its shoulders were slouched, and its eyes became as big as an adult’s fist, which no longer had black stripes. The eyes were only yellow, glowing slightly brighter, albeit paler. When Heian Ciemnosc looked at them with his head inclined downwards, he suddenly felt their roles were exchanged. He saw himself through its eyes… and there was something behind him, indeed.
It was a child, with a normal torso and neck, but its legs and arms were a couple of meters long. It was an ordinary kid. With short black hair and its head tilted to the right, just behind Heian Ciemnosc’s back. Although… its face’s skin wasn’t as white as the rest of its body.
Its face was of a stone color, with some cracks below its eyes and below the corners of its lips, which were spread open. Its jaw obscenely gnawed at Heian Ciemnosc’s nape!
Even then, the jaw didn’t look dislocated, as if it was pretty normal to do that, whilst Heian Ciemnosc’s neck length could fit there, let alone only his neck’s width. The lower teeth of the kid’s jaw neared his skin as its lips became obscurer and its eyes twisted to stare down his nape.
Those eyes became blacker and bloodier with sludge as it neared Heian Ciemnosc’s skin. Finally, a tooth touched Heian Ciemnosc’s skin, sending the chillest, coldest sensation that won’t be found anywhere else in the world. Dark blood slightly streamed down his nape and back from a tiny hole made by the tooth.
“Au, haw- au, aauh, au, au, au… plk, plk, plggh, plfft!” Heian Ciemnosc heard noises behind him, akin to saliva landing on his skin, as the sensation of something creeping into his nape emerged from nowhere. The sensation only increased with the pitiful, loud, breathy sounds behind him.
The feeling he felt changed, becoming warmer and warmer, as if the most terrifying beast ecstatically smelled its prey behind him: himself. However, neither the warmth nor the cold seeped into Heian Ciemnosc’s nerves or mind. It was all maintained as the kid behind him moved its jaws, slightly closing and opening as it tried to munch his skin into the wide gaps of its mandibles!
Tap-…
The kid behind Heian Ciemnosc suddenly stopped, before becoming startled and delighted. Heian Ciemnosc moved his left hand and touched the wound it made on his nape. One of the backs of his fingers touched with the kid’s tip of its tongue. However, before the kid could chomp down as its head broke into two and its eyes bulged to quadruple their size in madness. Heian Ciemnosc’s hoarse, dragged-on voice echoed endlessly in the desolate chamber.
“You’re not playing by the rules…”
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