Can you believe?
Alice's POV:
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As Shao Xian shouted the command, everyone ran forward at high speed. When we were about five hundred meters away from each other our side suddenly halted and ‘prepared’ for the incoming charge. Five hundred meters were nothing for us at this level.
Seeing us ‘preparing’, Wu Shan thought that everything was alright and didn’t stop, but as he ran forward, suddenly their faces turned into fearful ones. They probably felt our traps under their feet. They didn’t have time to think about what it was because they learned of it in but a moment...
While running at their top speed it was impossible to stop so suddenly, even if you were a cultivator. You would need to control the world laws to do something like that and because of that, they could only control their Space Energies to move towards their feet to protect their lives. Suddenly the ground exploded with a colorful light as many kinds of elemental attacks blasted into their faces.
Those enemy soldiers at the lower stages were immediately punctured and skewered by spears made of earth or burned to the death by fire arrows and cut into pieces by wind arrows. Some were hit with dark magic, making their body rot in mere seconds! As soon as these flurries of attacks started, screams followed after them. There were people who didn’t die on the spot losing an arm or a leg.
Their guts and blood were flowing in large amounts. [Ugh- although I do have a strong stomach, but seeing this up close and in such a huge amount at that, is something different...] Hiro said through our bond, upon seeing this gory scene.
[Yeah, I know. Even though I’m a dragon I still feel a bit nauseated. Well, It’s true that we have killed many beasts and monsters, but this is still different. We killed only one or at most about five of them at the same time.] I agreed with his words with a stiff face as I also felt the same upon seeing it.
[*Sigh* We have to get used to it. Who knows how many situations like this are going to happen while we train and struggle to get to the top.] I heard Hiro's thoughts, which to I answered with a small yes.
Seeing so many of his helpers and soldiers dying, enraged Wu Shan. “You fucking liar! How did you break the promise!? That should be impossible!” He shouted with a red face, with anger clear on his face. “We aren’t here to talk!” Shouted Shao Xian on the brink of breaking into a laugh upon seeing Wu Shan's stupid face.
This only made him more enraged. This trap killed about ⅓ of the enemy soldiers, lowering their chances for victory by a lot and also weakening their morale by a large margin. Now the enemy didn’t want to fight as much as before. This meant that now was the time to charge at them. “See? My soldiers! This is all they’ve got haha! Now attack!” Shao Xian shouted happily, raising the morale once again.
Attacking while ‘stepping’ on the already wounded soldiers only worsened their morals even more. As our side reached theirs, we successfully took out many soldiers. The hostile army was screaming in pain because of the attacks, which kept decimating them. They bore heavy losses, but since they were well trained, they didn’t back out and stood back to formation.
Unfortunately for them, the soldiers of the Shao family had powerful weapons, thanks to us, which made it very hard for them to defend. We kept pushing their side back without stopping when Wu Shan found us in the charging army. He was at the ninth stage which was quite rare in this weak and rural sector.
To be honest, this sector wasn't much better when it came to cultivators than the sector we were born in. In other sectors having thousands of people at the ninth stage wouldn’t be weird.
“Now that I’ve found you, you will be sorry for what you have done! You’ve caused me many problems and now you are going to pay the price!” Wu Shan shouted at us with his stupid, low-class speech, like a third rate villain.
The surrounding warriors didn’t dare to come too close to us, fearing that they might get caught up in the effects of our forthcoming battle. Shao Xian was battling with the other two world’s main leaders. Normally, people would think that we were outnumbered, however, you mustn’t forget that this was a ‘Human Sector’ whilst those two weren’t.
Since this was a Human Sector, the cultivators here didn’t have great battles with the beastmen. This meant that they had more space to live and fewer warriors to die. This was the reason that although those two came over from their sectors, but they couldn’t send too much ‘help’. If they would have done so, then firstly, they would be overrun by the beastmen and secondly, they didn’t have a big enough army and population either.
[Hey, Hiro~ What’s with this shitty speech he gave? And why is it that whenever we see someone who wants to kill us they are giving speeches all the time. Is this some kind of curse? If they want to kill us then just try it and then die. They don’t have to give speeches.] I said as I thought about Wu Shan's little speech.
My sentence made Hiro laugh slightly as he answered by saying [*Chuckle* Well said, though it’s not like we are going to talk to him, so let’s kill him first. That would greatly reduce their morals. If we can kill him, then this battle will become an easy sweep.]
Not answering him, we only looked at each other for a moment, before focusing on him again and charged towards him. This further enraged him, but after our first collision, he had to realize, that he had to be wary of us.
Although he was at the peak of the ninth stage, which meant that he had the power of a hundred and twenty-five golems (937 500 kg), he realized that none of us were much less weaker than he himself.
Although we were only at the peak of the fifth stage, but we still had a hundred and five golems of strength (787 500 kg). This was indeed much lower, but considering our powerful and tough bodies it was possible for us to withstand his strength. Noticing this, Wu Shan felt threatened. I think that he realized that if he lets us grow, then he is going to die. But he thought it wrong. He is going to die anyway.
Now that he took us seriously, he positioned himself. We rushed at him, with weapons drawn. Upon reaching him, at first, Hiro attacked with his right arm with a horizontal slash. When his strike was deflected, just as he expected it to happen, he used the kickback force of his strike to rotate his body in the air, and he attacked with his left arm from above.
While he was still rotating I used both of my scimitars to pierce him and at the same time, with one of my steps, I also used water magic to make the ground muddy under Wu Shan. This was very dangerous for him because he had to make a footing with his magic, defend from the incoming piercing attack, then even defend from Hiro’s slashing that would reach him almost exactly when he would still be affected by his clash with me.
Cold sweat was flowing down on his forehead. This was our first attack, yet it was so perfectly coordinated as if we would be a single person just with more bodies. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t know that it was almost like that. Now that he knew that he is going to be wounded because he had no way out, he tried to minimize the damage.
When the piercing attack came, he used his blade and superior strength to push my scimitar upward, in the meantime expecting from my attack which was no flying upwards to block most of Hiro’s. What he didn’t expect was that I would jump and turn in the air using his push, just like Hiro did. Now he had to face two attacks from above and he didn’t have time to do anything!
All he could do was to hold up the sword and brace himself. As Hiro struck close to the handle of his sword, he pushed it down towards his left shoulder, almost cutting into it. The problem was that my weapon also reached the tip of his sword where his power was at its weakest, so he wasn't able to stop me.
I cut a deep wound into his right shoulder, and thanks to my attack, his sword moved downwards, making way for Hiro’s sword to also cut into his other shoulder. Now both of his shoulders were wounded. If he hadn’t been able to solidify the earth under him by using ice to make it steel hard, then most likely his arms would have been cut off.
He didn’t wait for another round like this so he immediately jumped back. What he didn't expect were two thirteen colored magical attacks, flying towards him. He was barely able to stop when our attacks, which were easy to cast thanks to our weapons, struck his body. He was able to erect a few thin magical walls, but it was for naught.
Our attacks broke through his stupid walls and bombarded his body. He flew through the air and we wanted to jump after him to kill him, but at that time, two guys appeared in front of us who came to help Wu Shan out.
In these last two days, we perfected our teamwork to such a state where Shao Xian didn’t stand a chance. We measured up their new enemies. Our newcomer guests were at the seventh stage of Space Founding Realm.
[Such bothers... They are real party killers.] I thought upon seeing their arrival. If not for them, then maybe we could have killed Wu Shan by now. Although it's going to be harder for us, but it was still better like this because this meant that our allies would have to fight against fewer high-level cultivators.
[I think that it would be better if we picked out the weaker ones. Could you cover me, Hiro?] I asked my dear boyfriend with the sweetest voice I was able to make. [Yeah honey~ No problem, though I’ll have to give it my all since I’m going to be alone.] He answered with a tone, which made it obvious that he was expecting payment.
[I’ll reward you plenty if we are done here! 💗] I said as I sent a possible scene into his mind. [So I’ll be pampered by you?] Hiro questioned me happily, already expecting a lot of pleasure and naturally, I confirmed his thoughts. [Fufu~ In any way you want.]
[T-this, I can’t refuse. Last time something like that happened I couldn’t move for hours! It was a real bliss! Die you fucker! Only you are severing me from a great event!!] Hiro shouted in his mind upon hearing my offer and he became fired up to kill Wu Shan.
[You are quite easy to motivate-] I remarked, but he cut into my thoughts by saying [Every man is! Hehe, just some of them hides it well!] I couldn't help but agree with his words. [... That may be true.] He was cruel enough to remark on my lustful nature, but I can't help it! [But you are no different. I feel and know everything about you.] I blushed slightly upon hearing his thoughts.
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Afterward, we planned how to do this, with lightning fast speed in our connected minds, then we quickly moved. You can think much quicker in your mind even while being a mortal, so to us, all this talking took only a second at most. At the higher realms, not even microseconds would be enough to describe the cultivator's movement speed and reaction time, not to mention our thinking speed.
Since Hiro was alone against Wu Shan he had a much harder time. He doesn't have too much chance to win against him without me since we aren't powerful enough to use our abilities yet. All he could do was hold out till I kill these two uninvited guest. Hiro ran towards Wu Shao and engaged in a battle with him.
Wu Shan still had more physical strength since he was at a much higher stage. While they kept exchanging attacks, I was pushing back the other two. Even if they were two, they were only at the seventh stage and they were hardly good at coordinating with each other. Most likely they never fought together...
Thanks to that, I had it easier, but it would be still hard to kill them because they kept protecting each other. Thinking about our plan, I started slowly and unnoticeably backing out. After reaching the right point, I stopped kept them in their places -
- Meanwhile, Hiro was defending against Wu Shan. Suddenly Wu Shan cast a huge fireball and shot it towards him. He didn’t know why, but Hiro kept fighting stagnantly while barely moving around, not like before, making it possible for him to finally cast a powerful magical attack. When he shot it Hiro grinned and using earth magic, went under the ground.
The fireball went past him right towards me. Seeing this Wu Shan was delighted, but his face soon changed to terror because I did the same as Hiro. In a normal case, this would have killed me, since my enemies could have simply beheaded me, but right now, they were surprised to see the gigantic fireball which was cast by a ninth stage cultivator, flying towards them.
It was easy for me to evade the fireball since I knew about it long before, but it was different with them. It was already in front of them and they couldn’t do anything to stop it; they did try but it was futile as the fireball devoured one of them while the other one was badly burned.
I didn’t give him a chance as I jumped out of the ground and beheaded the still screaming guy. Realizing that we used him up to kill his stupid soldiers, he became enraged and his face became flushed. While he was raging, Hiro didn’t stop fighting, nor did he forget about everything.
He went under the ground and he came out right under Wu Shan, almost skewering him in the process, but he jumped back in time. It was only that there was unexpectedly... Another Hiro!? Since he jumped backward he was in the air and couldn’t control his body!
He flew straight into Hiro’s sword skewering his heart, dying in the process. Just who was this other Hiro?! He couldn’t understand even in his last moments! He died an unwilling death without even knowing how! Just what happened!? But it didn’t matter to him since he had already died. Now all his plans and aspirations were for naught.
What did it matter if he was going to die? The Hiro behind his back slowly dissolved and turned into a black mass on the ground and it quickly crept back to his leg and entered his body. Although this left him with a pale face, he was fine since this was one of his racial skills.
True Divine Beasts had some very powerful racial skills, at our current level and stage, it took a lot out of us to use since we were too weak. Hiro wasn’t supposed to use this till reaching the Domain Space Realm. That was the reason he was so pale. But on the other side, the enemy soldiers were even paler.
They knew that it was over. If their leader died then what were they fighting for? Who was going to control or lead them even if they were to win? The other two sectors’ main powers? For sure they wouldn’t want something like that so many dropped their weapons and held up their hands.
Why should they die a meaningless death? Even if they were to be punished after this, at least they could still live and ascend later, so it was better for them to surrender. Then came the chain effect. Seeing one surrender, caused many to follow and slowly all of our enemies dropped their weapons.
[You should rest, Hiro. Your face is all white and you lost quite a lot of your energy to create that replicant of yours. I think that it would be better if we left the frontlines for now.] I advised, fearing my dearest love's health.
We went to the back of the army and Hiro sat down to start meditating. He didn’t have to wait long before he not only recovered but even broke through to the sixth stage! Finally! Feeling this I felt a bit downhearted because I wasn't able to break through, thanks to me, being on the lookout.
[Hiro, do it for me too while you are at it.] I said, but he was already doing it. Thanks to our bond, we are able to cultivate in the other's place. Hiro was doing it for me all the time. This is possible because our subconscious minds aren't refusing the other one. This isn't the case with other cultivators.
If you would try to send you energy into other's body, there could be only two possibilities. One being that your energy wouldn't be able to enter your target's body because his/her subconscious would refuse the alien energy. This happens only if you are weaker or only if you aren't powerful enough to force your energy in.
Two being that you would crush your target's energy veins forcefully. Obviously, this happens if you are much stronger than your target. Thanks to us being connected with our bond, our subconscious minds are like a two piece set, making it possible for us to send our energies into each other's body.
While sitting there, Hiro collected the Universe Energy, purified and converted it into Space Energy, then sent it towards Alice’s body. I felt my power increasing and reaching its peak. After accumulating enough energy for me, I also broke through to the sixth stage of Space Founding Realm! Those who didn't surrender before were already dead, while those who surrendered were kneeling on the ground.
The other two sectors’ main leaders came forth to talk with Shao Xian. One of them was called Michael while the other one was called Chrissy, or so I heard from their introduction. Not every sector was like China on Earth. The sector we were born in was quite mixed since Hiro was a Japanese name on Earth, while Alice was French. Of course, there weren't such countries in these sectors.
As they stood face to face, Michael and Chrissy knew that now it all depended on Shao Xian but they wouldn’t give in so easily. “Why would you want to conquer our sectors? Isn’t this enough for you?” Questioned Michael with an anxious face.
“Yes! You would also have to fight against the beastmen!” Chimed in Chrissy.
“...”
“What are you standing there mute? You can’t do this to our sectors!” The woman couldn’t calm herself down as she kept on with her rambling.
“Why are you shouting at me? I didn’t even want to attack your sectors. I’ve already sent you messages that I don’t care about conquering your sectors. I just want to keep up this as a Human Sector. Why would I go around conquering and causing more wars and problems for myself? Are you two stupid or what?” Shao Xian ridiculed them with an - 'I don't get you' - face.
They looked at each other with perplexedly. Probably they started realizing that those messages he sent weren’t a lie... that he told them the truth all this while, that they were played! Now they realized their mistakes. They realized that the only one who wanted to conquer was Wu Shan.
“Where is that bastard!? Let me kill him!” Michael shouted, with Chrissy in tow. “No! I’m going to do that!” Both of them wanted to kill him because they didn’t know that the reason why the soldiers gave up was because of people seeing how their main pillar died.
Michael and Chrissy were at the ninth stage too, but the Shao family still had another two ninth stage experts, one being Shao Xian’s wife, the other one being a close friend of his. They also realized that if we were able to kill Wu Shan, then that meant that they would be overwhelmed instantly after we killed the other two at the ninth stage.
They were not only outnumbered, thanks to our traps decimating them, but even our weapons and armors made it hard for them to fight against our allies. “Sorry, he was killed by my guests, but you shouldn’t forget that you caused me losses too, so now you are going to pay the price.” Shao Xian said with a threatening voice.
“Ugh...But we can negotiate about the details, right? I swear we didn’t want this to happen!” Both of them grunted. That’s how humans were. They lost in a battle. They should be happy that they can keep their lives yet they are already trying to negotiate...
[Can you see that shamelessness? You could see things like that even on Earth!] Hiro started our little conversation. [Yes-yes I see it. Now let us go over there. I want to get access to their sectors. I want to see the beastmen's town or city too. Their sectors are Stagnant Sectors so I'm sure that there are beastmen.] I said, already planning to go there.
[Yaay~ I’ve always wanted to see beastmen! I’m going to pet someone haha!] Hiro started laughing in his mind happily. [Not women.] I said seriously, though I knew that he didn't care about women other than me.
[*Gulp* Such a scary voice. You know that you are the only one for me Darling~ so don’t say things like that. Seems like I’ll have to punish you~] Hiro gulped loudly as he started acting, but he couldn't stop himself from playing with his newfound game which was him teasing me by using our bond.
“Kya~” “Mhn~” I moaned slightly because of where he made me feel good. [“Hey, stop it! Another one like this and you won’t get your ‘event’!] I threatened him, but even I didn't think it seriously. [Yes, my lady!] He knew it all too well, but he answered like that nonetheless.
We went towards Michael and Chrissy. “And you are?” They asked for our names, but Shao Xian answered in our place. “They are called Hiro and Alice. They are my guests and they are the ones who killed Wu Shan.”
“What? But they are only at the early sixth stage! How could they kill him? What are you lying for?” Michael couldn’t believe his ears as he started shouting, surprised. “Oh? So you broke through? Then now you could probably easily kill him right?” Shao Xian questioned us as he noticed Michael's words. I guess he didn't check out our auras before.
“What? They were only at the fifth stage originally?!” Hearing his question, this time it was Chrissy's turn to shout as she lost her cool. What did they expect? We are mythical monsters!
“Okay, let's get to the point. Firstly, what do you two want? Do you need something as compensation?” Chrissy looked towards us as she asked if we need anything as compensation. Only the strongest would get a share and since we were able to kill someone at the ninth stage, it was natural that they would pay up for us too.
They were probably bleeding in their hearts, but it was still better to pay than to die. I don't know what they were thinking, but upon hearing our wish, they were surprised. I guess they were expecting more.
“We want to go to your sector where we can find beastmen too. Of course free of charge and we need a spaceship too. We want to travel freely!” I said, demandingly. “Eh?- That’s all? But you can just simply come with us when we go back like that...”
“No, like I said I want to own a spaceship.” I corrected her misunderstanding, which made it worse, but it was still manageable. “Ugh. That’s a bit more... complicated. I think that I can do something about it, though you may have to wait about a week for that.” She explained.
[That’s enough for a long fuck Alice! Hear me!? Hehe-] Hiro kept spouting his nonsense in his mind. Okay, I'll be honest. It wasn't nonsense... [Shut up. I can’t talk to them - listen to them, talk to you and listen to you at the same time. Not everyone has split minds like you. Damned parallel minds. So unfair! Don’t you dare!] He just made me remember about his unfairness, but upon hearing his thoughts, I threatened him, but it was for naught.
“Mhmm~” I moaned slightly, while I cursed in my mind. [YOU LITTLE! Just you wait...] Naturally, my moan wouldn't escape a cultivator's ears. “Mhm? Is something wrong with you, Alice?” Chrissy questioned me with a suspicious face.
“...N- No. So can you arrange what I’ve asked for?” I tried smoothing out the situation. “Yes!” She accepted our request happily. She could get away cheaply. Now it was Michael’s turn. He looked at Shao Xian hoping for a similar condition, but he pulled the shorter one as Shao Xian started telling how many of his soldiers died by his evil hands and how he lost so much money and metal to prepare for this war.
He was literally robbing him and encashing on him what we used to make weapons and herbs for him. [That’s quite shameless. And he didn’t even lose that many soldiers. Others would call this a complete victory, yet he is here crying how many things he has lost. Even though there are still many weapons and pills we have left for him.] Hiro said with a small while laughing in his mind.
[And here I thought that he is a generous person. But now I know that you are a really good judge of personalities. Seems like that past life of yours wasn’t such a worthless time wasting activity.] I remarked jokingly.
[See? I told you that he is nice only because we are benefitting him. Otherwise, the most we would have got would have been some ores and herbs and the lodging itself. But wait, did you just call my past life a worthless time wasting a-activity?! That’s really cruel. I wasn’t worthless!] Hiro explained then he realized what I said.
[Revenge for before hehe.] I thought with a small laugh, but he took revenge with his little game once again. "Kyah~” I moaned out once again. [What?! Just what can I do to make you stop this! Everyone is looking at me weirdly again! Just look at their faces! It’s good that at least we aren’t on your planet. They would think that I’m using some kind of ‘toy’!] I pleaded. I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
[But you’re so cute while being embarrassed. I’m starting to feel like a sadist.] - I looked at him 'that' way - [Okay, okay I’ll stop. Come, let’s return to our room.] He said with a small chuckle. “Chrissy~ We are staying with Shao Xian till you send our new spaceship... So see you later~” Hiro said as he turned around to leave. We have to wait at most one week, so we could just train here, till then.
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“I think that Hiro guy... Is a sadistic and perverted guy.” Chrissy remarked as Hiro and Alice left. “That’s for sure.” Everyone agreed with her words.
Meanwhile, Hiro was hiccupping.
“Did someone mention me? That shouldn’t be the case. Do even cultivators hiccup? It seems like they do...” Hiro said after another hiccup as he thought about such things.