Just A Little Ruckus Before Going To Her

The darkness lasted for a second. When it disappeared, the Celestial and Patriarch didn't bother looking for Heian Ciemnosc, he had long disappeared from their senses. The entire Scintillating Crop of World witnessed the event, but it was so widespread and brief that it seemed like a misconception the people in the Existence shared. Only the beings and existences in it knew it wasn't the case. While Xue Moli and Lamidas experienced first handed, they weren't the only ones who knew what happened.

Xue Toreon and Lingmin Toreon immediately zoomed from the distance, as if their bodies stretched from a distance and their feet sprung to their front, arriving before their parents within a moment. They stared at their parents in disbelief and anger, but the young beauty raged first, “What did you do?! That was our benefactor! How come- why?!”

“Father, Mother, he helped us… Why did you do this?” Lingmin was more at ease. He looked at his parents with Xue Toreon on his right after staring at the spot from where Heian Ciemnosc vanished. Xue Moli walked to her daughter, lifted her right hand, and placed it on her daughter’s left cheek. “Xue’er, you need not worry about this. Your brother and you can be together from now on. Our organizations can merge, and or Universal Land can also do that, but we’ll need time…”

Xue Moli took the attention away from Heian Ciemnosc’s disappearance as she exchanged a glance with Lamidas Toreon. They had felt a bad premonition when Heian Ciemnosc spoke his last words before disappearing. However, they quickly shook the feeling and appeased their children. Left with utmost acceptance of their relationship, the lovely couple no longer meddled.

Although the matter still concerned them, they cared more about themselves than a person they barely met. They felt at a loss, but it wasn’t something they could focus on, or do something about. On the other hand, the Patriarch and Celestial immediately mobilized their stealth troops, running their senses through every imaginable thing in all that exists and there is.

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While the entirety of the Scintillating Crop of World Universal Land spread from their ‘capital’ Existence to the rest of the Universal Land, searching for one sole person with even more value than before, and threat level. The person in question was visiting an old village in a Kingdom of unknown origins to anyone but himself.

Heian Ciemnosc stood before a nice, yet slightly wasted-by-time house. It spread over 40 meters long, and 20 meters wide. It had a small extension of the building as the main entrance, with walls on its perimeter. Looking at it, Heian Ciemnosc was walked from the front and rear by the villagers like he was invisible. Some nearly bumped into him or ran him over.

“Thanks, Halonso. It’ll take just a minute,” Heian Ciemnosc said as he caressed Halonso’s head, which peeked out of his dark coat’s right arm sleeve. Halonso’s doubts disappeared before nodding. He blinked before going back into Heian Ciemnosc’s sleeve before teleporting away, wanting to give his father time.

“Sigh…” Heian Ciemnosc expelled air from his slightly wide open mouth before walking forth. His steps were stable, and as he arrived, he heard the typical sounds any civilian in this livelihood would enjoy of a parent yelling to their kids that food was ready, or to go bath already. His steps were as if his shoulder weighed heavily, and his shoulders smoothly balanced back and forth.

Knock, knock… … …step, step!

“… coming!” A muffled voice from inside rang out, followed by clear, light footsteps from delicate shoes walking from the center of the house to the entrance section. A sound of keys echoed before sounds of the door opening followed it. Then, the door opened.

“He- !!” A beautiful middle-aged lady opened the door. Her back leaned forth a little, but her polite expression turned into one of shock. 5 seconds later, with the village seemingly becoming deserted, leaving the two of them alone, Heian Ciemnosc spoke, “Hello, Leska.”

Brown skin, medium long hair, and a cute countenance. Her clothing was ordinary but didn’t hide her features. Her not-large but sizeable East West-shaped breasts were just as Heian Ciemnosc remembered her. His words further shocked the lady, who became too lost to even move. Before she could utter a word, Heian Ciemnosc calmly and softly conveyed while taking something from his Covert Space bags.

“Take these, they’ll make things a little better. And this is a method to link your lifespan to your husband. This is a token from me which even a tiny infant can break by mistake, so let’s leave it to fate whether something happens or not. Hey,” Heian Ciemnosc passed several dark pills, a piece of paper which he rapidly passed to her, and a little octagonal-shaped, star token with his dark blood essence instilled within into Leska’s hands while she continued to be dazzled.

The Dark Blood Pills and piece of paper were welcomed swiftly, but the token wasn’t. Leska looked down at it and wanted to throw it at Heian Ciemnosc’s chest, but hearing his words and the easiness that it could break apart with, she changed her mind.

The star token was tightly held as she lowered her left arm with her hand putting it in her pockets. Then, she looked up, placing the Dark Blood Pills into her other pockets. She threw herself at him, hugging his neck and burying her nose on his left shoulder.

“There… no need to be so clingy now. I won’t take you with me, nuh-uh.” Heian Ciemnosc said, hugging her back softly as she spilled a few tears, not wanting to shed more because she knew this encounter wouldn’t last. Feeling his hands patting her upper back was enough to feel like her 3 youngest babies after the motherfuckers ate. She smiled, and that was when Heian Ciemnosc softly pushed her away from his chest.

“Mwah,” Heian Ciemnosc planted a smooch on her forehead before rubbing the spot where his lips landed. Then, he softly whispered to her face while holding her left cheek with his right palm, which was cold but slightly warm to her. “I never blamed your silly self. Live, Leska.”

Leska then felt her sight darken for an instance before everything went back to normal again. After gazing outside the window, hearing a few cars and chariots moving by, she quickly closed the door and walked back into the house.

“Hey, babe, what’s up?” Her husband walked up after he finally found her. He saw her slightly tearful eyes and asked, concerned, as he grabbed her shoulders. Leska looked up and smiled at her man, “Ah? Ah, nothing. Mn. I was visited by a friend. Here, let’s give this to the kids…”

“… Mom? Mom! I feel my legs again, haha!” - “I can see with my right eye again! Wow!” - “Darling, where did you get these? Even cultivators would sweat blood to get these kinds of things!” - “Hehe, I got 2 more for us…”

***

In the Leftover Goldslaughter Universal Land’s ‘capital’ Existence. Above a Minor Kingdom’s space territory, called the Severely-Emotional Kingdom, in the Electo Faya Small Galaxy, from the Octomaple Starlight Universe.

“…” Heian Ciemnosc looked down at the Kingdom, feeling for the immediate future, but his darkest eyes showed only lifelessness and a serenity no living being could understand. Their ultimate coldness added the last touch of non-mortality even beings and existences believed.

“Halonso, be ready to bring me away again in case I take too long.” Heian Ciemnosc said while looking down at the Kingdom. Halonso’s amicable wormy face was currently filled with hatred as it looked at the Minor Kingdom. He nodded before disappearing from sight, entering into another space in the same place to observe.

Upon seeing this, Heian Ciemnosc nodded and flew towards the Kingdom. He infiltrated it stealthily, not bothering with alarming the orbiting space stations, or anyone else, for that matter. After calmly and slowly diving to the Minor Kingdom, taking his sweet 10 minutes, Heian Ciemnosc directly burst into the earth. His body disappeared as he left a 2 meters crack in the ground.

The Kingdom was exquisitely beautiful, relaxing, and expansive. It didn’t have any unusual flora or environment, but even its largest trees were crooked, and its longest rivers zigzagged everywhere. Every scenery seemed pure and untainted.

However, beneath the surface of beauty, the dirt looked like rotten flesh, and the boulders, rocks, and ores were all of a green, brown, putrid color. Time passed, and the initially calm Kingdom suddenly started shaking. It went from a slight tremor every few seconds to light shaking. Then, just as a Kingdom-wide earthquake started, Heian Ciemnosc shot out from the Minor Kingdom’s surface into space before stopping and looking back down.

Rumble… rumble… rumbleee~… cra- ruuuumble! Ruuuuumble! RUUUMBLEEEE~!

“RWUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRUUGHH…!” A knee, 2 arms’ halves from their fingertips to the elbows, and a head with half the neck peeking out of the ground sprouted from the ground. They were distanced with a distance of at least over a million kilometers from each other, with the knee nearly 3 million kilometers away from where the head peeked out.

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“Who defies this lord’s slumber? Aaaagggh!!” Its roar echoed outside the Minor Kingdom and right into space. Immediately, as Heian Ciemnosc felt his ears ringing, the orbiting space stations’ decorative crystal broke apart, followed by their structure. They became distorted ‘soundwaves’ before shooting into space, with countless tens of millions of people dying instantly while hundreds of millions more died on their way to space, consumed by Elemental Poisoning.

However, the thing seemed concerned and scared of something else. It had a skinless-like, humane body, with its skull, muscles, and tissue showing everywhere. However, not a speck of dirt entered in between these.

After looking around for a bit, it looked up, straight where Heian Ciemnosc floated in space. It seemed to feel fear from just looking at the overly pale, impossibly handsome young man. Heian Ciemnosc hadn’t hidden his features. It wouldn’t be needed this time.

“W- who are you?” Thus, the head asked. Heian Ciemnosc emotionlessly looked down at it after ignoring it and simply looking at the empty black space. Hearing those words, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes darted about 4 times before exchanging glances with the head. This made the latter impatient and angered, but Heian Ciemnosc finally spoke.

“You thought hiding here and eating away a Kingdom’s Spirit in exchange for letting your cultivation corrode would have made a difference? Tsk, tsk. You all are just hopeless. No. The Great Sage has been dead for half a millennium. You’re free.” Heian Ciemnosc’s calm words echoed.

First, they were hits to the head’s confidence and added to its terror. But then, Heian Ciemnosc’s last sentence brought the head’s eyes immeasurably delight. He uncaringly lifted his left arm and slammed its palm on the Kingdom’s surface. Paaaaaaaaaaaam! CRRRRGSSHHH~~… …

A fifth of the Minor Kingdom immediately became slowed as the laws were broken, and space extended into the Kingdom. Its destruction wasn’t halted, but it didn’t occur as it would have if its laws were untouched. Heian Ciemnosc calmly looked at these antics as the left arm pulled the rest of its body up the ground.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHEEEEHAAAAA!” The body came out of the Minor Kingdom, destroying it in the process. Trillions of lives were lost just from this act alone. As the body came out, a scarlet, warm, hue-light that is supposed to be only for Kingdoms emanated on the abdomen’s Dantian region. Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes narrowed when he saw this.

“And who are you?” As the Kingdom lost its life and became a horrifying destruction, it looked up at Heian Ciemnosc and asked with a smile forming from ear to ear, creepy and baleful. Heian Ciemnosc didn’t say anything and lowered his body to stand at its head level.

“As a Titan who once was an existence, yet fell so low to barely a baby Atmosphere God… Shut it and get to dying,” Heian Ciemnosc encircled his wrists and twirled them in the grasp before his chest. His face was low as he said those words, ultimately coldly.

“Kid. I was planning to reward you for waking me up in time. Hehe. A baby Atmosphere God is nothing, indeed.” The Titan spoke as its over ten million kilometers tall body stood straight in space. His voice was a little high-pitched for his size and age. “But you have a strong body, great blood, and a marvelous Soul. Mmmmnnff! Not even the Great Sage had such a smell, and his Soul was at the Genesis level.”

“Heh, heh. What my luck is sometimes, hehehehehe!” The Titan laughed to his heart’s content, spreading his arms, causing Elemental Poisoning to scatter in a 40 million kilometers radius. “I just woke up and found the person to cultivate a brand-new level in the Soul cultivation, bwahahahahaha! Mine, mine, mine… ALL MIIIIIIIINE!”

It suddenly screamed, with its arms thrown to the back and its neck thrusting forth. However, Heian Ciemnosc was unaffected by its scream, leaving the Titan slightly awkward.

“You wanna eat me?” Heian Ciemnosc asked, looking at the Titan with a light smile. The Titan looked at Heian Ciemnosc and nodded like a contented kid, rubbing his belly with its bony fingers. “Even existences cannot match my bodily strength right now. What else of a puny God like you, kid? Come into my mouth, I promise not to munch you until all of you turns into liquid before gulping down. Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“I don’t like that. Also, don’t scream at me. I hate that.” Heian Ciemnosc said, placing his arms to his sides as a diamond energy cube appeared before him with a transparent dragon flowing within. The Titan fell slightly apprehensive, but before it could point at the cube and ask Heian Ciemnosc, knowing it was a Relic, Heian Ciemnosc threw a punch with his right arm.

Pom. Fwooooooooooooshhh…

“!!!” The Titan’s eyes absurdly widened. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he saw the overly pale young man becoming tinier than a star in just a few seconds. His eyes suddenly bulged, and he wanted to lash out forth, but right then, he saw a dark whip uncontrollably shoot towards him.

His stomach had just caved in when the dark whip hit his sternum. The soundless muffle spread everywhere as he wanted to scream in pain. His face opened wide from every orifice, especially his jaws. But just as he looked up and his neck’s veins bulged, about to implode. A 3 meters dark tail appeared in his line of vision.

A moment later, an overly pale fist flew to his forehead. The Titan had no choice but to fly downwards as it neared a Middle Kingdom. The Existence had already become alerted when they detected a Godly cultivator destroying a Minor Kingdom, so when a humongous Titan’s body descended on a Middle Kingdom near the destroyed Kingdom, the orbiting space stations opened fire. However, their projectiles were like water droplets falling on sand.

Craaaaaaaashh- buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumm…

The Middle Kingdom started breaking into halves, with only a third left before it separated into 2 and drifted to space. Its nucleus was already destroyed, but the Titan used this chance to turn around and eat it, letting his mouth and teeth burn in the process.

“Typical of animals,” Heian Ciemnosc commented before spreading his arms. Suddenly, his Claws Out appeared as the Titan’s body healed, and his torso recuperated to its original form. Their maximum length and width were employed, but at this moment, a ghostly, dark extension spread from Heian Ciemnosc’s darkened hands.

This was similar to before, where Heian Ciemnosc’s darkened limbs elongated. However, this ghostly form was more insanely powerful and fast. Besides, it did not waste his 3 power sources like before. Their ghost form was 80 meters long, 80 inches wide, and 8 centimeters thick, superimposing on his dark claws.

Fwuuuuush-… Heian Ciemnosc flew to the Titan’s back as it continued eating. His left claw formed a fist, while his right claw aggressively thrust at the latter’s upper back. The Titan reacted in time to turn his head and look at the incoming beating.

Cab- ppooooooooomm… Puuuuuff… baaaaaaaaaaaang… Craaaaaaaaaaaaassshhhh… Pah, paaah, pah- veeeeeeeeeeem… swiiiiiish- ppooooooooooomm… craaaaaashhhhh…

Heian Ciemnosc and the Titan continued their fight. They went from group of Kingdoms to group of Kingdoms, and they even punched or kicked the shit out of each other to another 2 Galaxies, destroying tens of Minor Kingdoms in the process. On the other hand, they made a slight stop every Middle Kingdom, turning to rain bouts on the other’s body.

When they launched themselves at Upper Kingdoms, they only left whenever Heian Ciemnosc sent all his Dark Energy and bodily strength with natural force in his punches or kicks. Time and again, they rocketed from one Kingdom to another, but mainly formed a ballad in space. The Titan’s consumption of Kingdom nuclei became his bane after 10 Minor Kingdoms.

His skin petrified, becoming more lavish and crunchy when Heian Ciemnosc’s ghostly dark fangs ate chunks of the Titan’s body. While their fight continued, the Titan’s regeneration was on par with Heian Ciemnosc. But after the Titan suffered a backlash, his healing stopped, but Heian Ciemnosc’s did not.

Furthermore, of the 2, only Heian Ciemnosc could eat the other’s body, tiny chunk by tiny chunk. Yet, that wasn’t the source of danger the Titan felt, albeit it scared him senseless. It was Heian Ciemnosc’s inexhaustible stamina and tireless bodily strength that made the Titan feel trepidation.

He had already realized that his Atmosphere Godly Energy was useless against Heian Ciemnosc and that unknown dark energy. But he had to try everything he could before he could… lose.

Over time, the Titan’s limbs ceased working. Heian Ciemnosc continued the fight, but this time, it was only him beating the other. He destroyed another dozen Middle Kingdoms like this before deciding to coil Vocón Link around the Titan’s carcass. He first devoured the brain and heart before slurping the Soul through Vocón Link.

Heian Ciemnosc didn’t even need a second to accomplish each of these actions, saving it for later. Finally, when the Toreon Clan’s existences were aware of Heian Ciemnosc’s apparition, and their Patriarch was informed, Heian Ciemnosc teleported away in one of the Kingdom groups his fight nearly annihilated.

***

Heraxle Clan’s territory, Universitalities of Yore Universal Land. In the Existence at the whole opposite extreme of the Quiongu Fanhui Existence in the Universal Land. Somewhat near the Neutral Existences and the Universal Land’s ghostly space.

This was the Ephemeral Palace of Grand Universe, Shattered Awaiting Star Upper Galaxy. In the Parsimony of Tardiness Divine Kingdom.

This Divine Kingdom became a terrifying yet lavish merchant Kingdom despite being a Divine Kingdom. Everything started when something peculiar yet old-fairy tail-like event occurred in one of its 3* Regions.

Everything began as a touristic sighting, slowly evolving to a place where many rich cultivators, meaning: Soul cultivation-based cultivators, traveled to gain enlightenment from a dead land that precedes over even Disasters. Then, very slowly, the Divine Kingdom came to gain a reputation for the trillions of non-inhabitants transit. Most left, but some stayed.

Before long, some tried their luck by selling First Step products, ending up with a treasury that not even peak Second Step organizations could amass in their life expectancy. Then, others tried it, too. Not too later after that, Second Step and Third Step merchants joined the fray.

Thus, the Parsimony of Tardiness Divine Kingdom became a notorious Divine Kingdom for trading. Although it still couldn’t compare to the renown Divine Kingdoms from yore, such as the Sinvonnia Kingdom once upon a time, that prevailed until Time’s legend. The Kingdom became a place even existences traveled to after transcending to exist.

Every year, hundreds of millions of people visit a certain place where a 3* Region had laid dormant since time’s gone, and hadn’t entered its restoration stage since then. However, strangely, as it was just the half of the year, and the situation in the Collariverse Universe was beginning to dwindle. That particular, desolate place was empty.

Nobody surrounded the 3* Region, unlike before, where some even dug as many hundreds of millions of kilometers as they could before losing their lives. Being too close to a Divine Kingdom’s nucleus was deadly despite dozens of billions of kilometers left in between before actually coming near them. Just to try entering the 3* Region’s area, no matter the prize.

Of course, they all became nothingness, where not even extinction was as bad.

… In a strange, lonely plains of dark-brown dirt everywhere and not a single small piece of flora or even fauna life. This place, whose one ‘side’ spanned over hundreds of thousands and thousands of kilometers… Where desolate, dead, and lifeless fitted the most perfect definition of loneliness… lay a young lady sitting cross-legged in the middle of it all.

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This is the end of Volume 8 — Despotic Ascension.