The dim hallway darkens as a flying creature spreads dark flames along the walls and the ceiling. "Roi won yet fell.." Kaien got closer to the white chamber's entrance.
He descended his chosen path as the air got thicker. Kaien lowered himself to the ground level, taking his last footstep into the chamber. Suddenly, the whole chamber shifts.
"Oh? Changing rooms? Unexpected." He observed the surroundings, turning his head back at the door. "It disappeared?" The door vanished like it never existed.
The walls pulsed like veins, and the air was heated due to Kaien's spreading flames.
He took a stare toward the ground, and the ground was already forming runes. A circle appeared on it, showing demonic words "SEAL"
Kaien realized he was trapped already, "A dimensional seal..impressive. You don't want me to leave, huh?" He took a step forward as the gravity rate increased.
The ground shook heavily, refusing to let a creature out of its core. "..." Kaien stood patiently yet calm.
A void appeared in front, showing a creature that lowered its head toward the ground. His humanoid silhouette was made of molten black glass, with thousands of unblinking red eyes across his torso. Lightning struck the area rapidly on every corner. The echoes of people in hell were heard. Kaien stared at the creature, "A new Turarach has been born..?"
The heavenly voice of a creature roamed onto the walls, descending to Kaien's ear. "Kaien Ranzaki...the blade that defied the lord of demons, how unfortunate i been born to erase you from existence."
The smirk of Kaien appeared on his face, "You thought the sealing would hold me off? I appreciate you for this favor.." He then proceeded, "You only made a way for me to use my full power without hurting my disciples."
His hand was already at his sheathed katana, "Sorry..i just don't fear divine creatures.." A circle mark appeared on his palm while he unsheathed the katana. "Kuroi..hono.." The spread black flames surrounded the blade as the shape darkened to black.
"Black flames.." The echoes of the creature roamed as the yellowish lightning struck once again, changing colors to black. The turarach erupted forward, distorting reality, movement skipping frames. Kaien's black flames reacted with an instinct, performing a black barrier to prevent the divine demon.
Kaien jumped in the midst of the flames toward the turarach as they both clashed, black flames against black lightning. The black flames consumed the lightning, though the demon fist was strong.
Turarach roared, "Shut your nonexistent mouth!" Kaien hovered to the right, ducking with a slash toward the divine demon's side. He parried it using his left arm, turning to Kaien as black lightning came to strike him from above.
Kaien lifted his head, using his katana with two hands to block the lightning. He then changed the rotation of the blade, reflecting the lightning to the wall.
Then Kaien vanished along with the turarach as the sound of steel was heard from the ceiling, each strike they hit black lightning, along with black flames spread around them.
The scene was intense as if two divine creatures fought; Kaien's eyes glared black with each swing, enjoying the fight with a grin. "Heh.." They both vanished as their sound was heard at the corner of the massive sealing area. Turarach rose his arm as a void appeared above them, leading a divine light toward Kaien.
"No matter what you do...Divine will construct justice upon you." Kaien's flames flew toward the fallen light, performing a clash of darkness and light. "My darkness will absorb every single light that defies me.." The black flames were eating the light.
Then Kaien swung his katana at the turarach, being met by the demon's fist. This attack shook the whole area, even beyond the sealing.
"Darkness..will never win against the light." The echoes roamed all around.
The loud swing clashes destroyed the veined walls, and the entities vanished, reappearing in every area of the sealing. Normal eyes can't and will never be able to follow the direction of the next hit. As the area shook, breaking apart.
One of the clashes triggered one eye of the divine demon's body to open. Then a fist strike went through Kaien's gut, sending him toward one wall of the place, destroying it fully.
This creature lost its powers a long time ago..dying in a battle against one of the anonymous Order of Austerity members...does it mean each eye's opening is a regain of its power?
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"It seems the pawn is restoring his powers by himself..i don't have to go through the pain of restoring it for him...still, would this be enough to end Kaien's existence?" The masked man is sitting in a chair with his eyes closed.
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Turarach flew down to the ground, landing perfectly on one leg. The sound of broken rocks breaking was heard as Kaien stood in the middle of the ruins. "I always wondered..." Kaien was cracking his neck while his eyes closed. "Hm.." The echo of the creature.
"Death is a curse or a humble gift..?" His eyes opened slowly as black flames covered the surroundings, "Or..will Kaien Ranzaki die against a lonely demon like yourself!?" He laughed, appearing in front of the seen turarach with a rotated swing from below to up. "!" The creature felt this strike would cut through it, as a void appeared behind it. With no hesitation, it lunged backward at the void in the hope of avoiding the strike.
As the performance of the swing finished, black flames erupted from the ground, consuming the broken parts with every vein it saw, almost breaking the sealing.
Another void appeared behind Kaien as the divine demon took a step into the sealed chamber again. Rushing at Kaien with black lightning charging from his hand, reaching in no time. "Not today.." A black flame barrier appeared behind him, in an attempt at prevention.
Appearing once again in the midst of the barrier, aiming for the turarach's head. As the creature twisted its body to the left, dodging the swing. Then, it sent a blow toward Kaien's gut, sending him flying to the ceiling as a spark of black flame left Kaien's eyes.
Kaien's Reikonryoku calmly poured out of his body, rotating his right leg, landing on the ceiling. He then lowered his katana, "Seriyoku style.." Black Reikonryoku aura flow surrounded his body.
"Hayai...style.." Then, the flow of aura immensely increased. His calmness took over the anger.
He calmly exhaled, seeing the turarach's movement approaching him. With a swift motion, he rotated his katana, raising it upward. "Divine.."/"Black.." The echo of their voices that roamed, "LIGHTS!"/"FLAMES!" Multiple voids appeared from the ground, sending a light toward Kaien, who stood on the ceiling. As it approached him, black flames erupted from multiple areas in the ceiling, going toward it.
Many clashes occurred in a single second while both Kaien and the turarach exchanged strikes, Kaien's calm swings that amplified darkness and the turarach's angry blows that amplified lightning.
The light, darkness, lightning, and flames consumed the area, showing no sign of a structure that had existed. As the entity's eyes opened one at each, the surrounding area turned into an empty void instead of a sealed chamber.
Every move they make distorts gravity, tearing chunks of the abyss off.
Impressive..now we're fighting in the void? Kaien thought as the turarach screaming echoes almost broke his sanity. Last strike from both amplified an exploding darkened red lightning, sending both of them back.
"A HUMAN LIKE YOU CAN DEFEAT ME!?!??" The angelic sound echoed in the empty void, somehow reflecting toward Kaien's ear. The last eye of the creature completely opened as divine light fell on him.
Kaien almost stopped himself from floating in the void, "!?" observing the newborn demonic angel. "Shit..i forced him into transforming..I'm screwed!" He saw a floating rock next to him, so he proceeded to land on it.
The light flickered as lightning appeared behind the turarach, sending him toward Kaien in immediate seconds with a punch toward Kaien's face, sending Kaien floating back in the void.
Blood forced its way out of Kaien's mouth, burned by black flames. Then, the entity was already in front of Kaien once again with multiple blows, "GR!" Kaien forced his arm forward, releasing black flames to consume the turarach's strikes. His flames dimmed, refusing to strike, instead going in other directions.
"The void is absorbing my Reikonryoku..at this rate!" The strikes flew toward him faster than before, striking him down and crashing into multiple rocks.
Kaien pushed his body upward, rushing from the rock into another, dodging each strike from the turarach. He slipped into the void once again. As the turarach fronted him with a punch, he immediately blocked the punch but was still sent back. Wins..? Losses..? These concepts are weak subjects Kaien thought while being sent backward.
He twisted in the midst of the void, landing on a rock. "THIS IS THE REASON WHY I NEVER DIED!" Kaien jumped from that rock into another in a matter of seconds, striking the turarach everywhere, shattering some eyes. "RAHHH!" He repeated the same concept, being unseen but a trail of a being rushing from place to place like light with black flames with each strike.
The turarach kept being sent backward and forward at the same time, not knowing what the next move would be.
"PEASANNNT!" The divine light struck Turarach again, preventing Kaien from taking another hit. Suddenly, the sound of a katana passing through the light. It pierced through one eye, "Checkmate..!"
"HOW!?" The angelic sound echoed all around the void.
Kaien immediately forced himself backward, standing in the midst of the void.
"Your eyes are the only weakness you've got. You actually have the potential of being a divine being, but i don't think you have the brain to become one.." Kaien landed on one of the rocks.
Turarach faced Kaien with two open red eyes. The void shattered slowly, shaking the whole area.
"IF I'M GOING DOWN I WILL BRING YOU WITH ME!!!" The echoes of the creature spread everywhere, reflecting again. One of the open eyes swelled widely, followed by the other one getting massively.
Two circular shapes appeared on both of Kaien's palms, "Dimensional abyss..." He threw his ushi up, then as it fell, he caught it on the sharpened blade that was surrounded by black flames. "Dark Flames Hell!" The sound of a hungry beast spread out of the blade.
Don't worry..after today, my flames won't be hungry once again! - Kaien Ranzaki
A light emerged with the exploding turarach, ready to spread and explode everything around. Suddenly, the entire void filled with black flames, consuming the darkness itself.
"Impossible.." The sound of the turarach as the black flames reached him, eating every part of his body along with the light that surrounded it.
"My flames never ate anything. Instead, it erases whatever it touches!" Kaien, who stood in the midst of the flames, as the void was completely shattered.
"I..will.." Half of the turarach's body disappeared, "RETURN!" The other part vanished as well.
"You will never return, instead you'll live as a part of my flames.."
Kaien fell to his knees after returning to the sealed chamber, "This fight..consumed my Reikonryoku..." He spoke, then snapped his finger.
The sealing shattered, returning the chamber to how it was before the battle once again.
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The window in front of him was shaking slightly.
"He broke the seal...? No... he transcended it. So that's Kaien Ranzaki… the man even gods refused to claim."
The smile was visible even behind the mask.
"Perfect. The experiment continues."
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Kaien stands amid the ruins, watching his own flames fade."Even hell burns out eventually…"
Chapter End.