Ch-45 : Breath of Cosmos
A child of about 4 years old was lying on ground with his body covered in dried blood, near him there were 4 dead bodies lying with all their throat cut open.
Suddenly, the child's finger twitched as he felt a stinging pain in his head.
The child was none other than Damien.
He woke up after he depleted all his energy last night, fighting with 4 trained men in a body of 4 year old was no easy feat.
He his heart still hurt when he remembered the previous night events, he stood on his legs as he directly went to river and cleaned his body.
After cleaning himself, he made his way to his village and carried his parent's dead bodies and fellow village members' bodies to the graveyard.
He buried all of them, after which Damien went to his parent's tomb and kneeled on ground as he smacked his forehead on the ground until blood came out from his forehead.
"I am sorry father, mother...I am really sorry."
After that he mourned for some time and finally when his mood became slightly better, he stood up and said one last time,
"Goodbye father, mother...I have far more responsibilities to carry on...I can't afford to break down here, I need to return to my family."
With that being said, he walked slowly from the grave as his eyes flashed in fierceness, he remembered the thing the 'big brother' said,
"hmm...who is their boss who had ordered them to take 4-6 year old children? What is their purpose? I know that I should have kept one of them alive to interrogate them but the anger made my decisions get falter."
"Anyways, I will look into these trouble after I become stronger...I also need to join the 'demon slayer corps'."
He returned to the village and then took all the metals like iron, copper, etc.
After taking all the materials, he went to the cave he discovered, placed all the materials there, he also brought some clothes, cushions and other necessary items.
He arranged all the items in the cave, and then he stood at the entrance of the cave, near the shore of river.
He stretched his body as he resolutely said, "Let's start the training."
(4 years later)
A person was sitting underwater, he was wearing many weights on his body which probably weighed upto 150 kg in total!
Two pieces of 25 kg on both arms, and two on legs and a 50 kg piece on his waist.
His eyes were closed with his veins bulging on his neck and arms, his face was calm and composed.
Suddenly he opened his eyes and swam swiftly to the top as he leaped from the river like dolphin and landed on the ground, there was no resistance in his movements even with so much weight on his body.
After he exited the river, he wore some loose clothes and started running upto the mountain, he leaped, he jumped , he slithered to make his way upto the top.
His breath was somewhat disoriented when he reached the top, but he did not stop and again started descending the mountain, in between he even made jumps on trees and due to which he fell many times.
His body was totally bruised, many twigs of wood had pricked into his body, his feet was pricked with many sharp stones as they were bleeding but he did not care.
It was like he became to numb to pains, he continued his descend.
After reaching the bottom, he readjusted his breath and then made his way to a clear area and to try his new 'invention'.
This area had ten wooden rotating machinations, if one would hit any one of ten wooden machine then it would trigger all the ten to move, after which all the ten would kept rotating and would randomly move in various orbits.
It was just like the solar system, where planets would move on their axis and also around the sun in their respective orbits, but here the orbits were randomized.
Also with each increasing hit, the speed of rotations and revolutions will increase and thus increasing the difficulty.
Also this wooden part could be changed to copper and other materials.
But as the starting point Damien would use the wooden part.
He made his way in between the mechanism and took a deep breath.
He came into stance and then gave a chop to one of the wooden plank, this resulted in moving all the others, he hit them and dodged the others...but then,
*bam!*
A wooden plank directly hit in his abdomen, which shook him and in this moment he was being hit by all the wooden planks, they hit in his abdomen, his legs, his shoulders, his arms.
After some time, he was thrown out of the mechanism where he plopped on the ground, his body was swollen and was hurting like hell.
But he still again went inside the formation and continued the training, he was again hit by the mechanism.
But he stood up again and dragged his body to the formation, he again was beaten to pulp.
The cycle continued until Damien was lost of all his energy, he somehow dragged his body back to the cave, inside the cave, he had prepared a medicinal bath for himself.
He removed his clothes and jumped inside it.
*haish*
He released a contented sigh just as he went inside the bath, all his pores of body were thoroughly washed by the bath, he relaxingly closed his eyes while he started remembering his time with his women, their smiles, their enchanting faces, their charming and lovely voices, their love for him.
He also remembered the time he spent with his 'parents' which left him with a tinge of sadness.
Also, till now he had not encountered a single demon because he had brought wisteria back with him and spread all over the mountain.
(Next morning)
After doing his morning training, he had started blacksmithing.
After all, the weights was made by himself.
*clang*
*clang*
He hit the heated iron with his hammer, with each swing of his hammer a resounding sound was heard, the veins on his arms bulged while his body kept sweating profusely.
The blade under him had started to take shape into a sword, he kept hitting it with all his might.
After he made the shape of the sword, he heated it and quenched it in oil.
After quenching he put it under some rags, he then go to his mini kitchen-lab, he takes wisteria flowers from there and mesh it to put it in some poisonous broth.
Then he applied the broth on his sword, after which he left it to be dried.
He sits on ground after being tired by smithing the blade...he had made many blades and also had chipped many blades.
He keeps one for practicing and one coated with wisteria poison for emergency, after all, one needs a nichirin sword to kill demons.
He could only obtain the sword after joining the demon slayer corps...for that he must prepare.
After taking some rest, he went outside to continue his breathing exercise, reflex training, swimming, etc.
One must be aware that he does all the things with 150 kg on his body!
Damien's speed has become extremely fast after he had gained enlightment on how to reduce air resistance around him.
Though, he can't be compared to the speed of Zenitsu's first form, but he definitely is second to none in terms of speed!
Moreover, he is still 8 years old!
There is no guarantee that he would not surpass Zenitsu in terms of speed!
Damien's both arms strength has also reached around 50 kg each!
That means he could lift an object of about 100 kg!
Damien's mental state also had become extremely tough.
(3 years later)
A boy of about 168 cm was standing at the top of mountain with a sword in his hand, his silver hair fluttered in wind, he spoke slowly,
"First Form : Birth of Nebula"
His sword got covered in a black miasma as blue veins danced over it, he made the slash and a strong energy pushed the trees back.
And at the next moment, all the leaves fell down.
But, Damien was not happy as he muttered in a heavy breath,
"Still not much powerful! I even become slightly fatigued after just one strike!"
"I need more training!"
In past 3 years, Damien had tried many types of sword forms, he actually had remembered the sun breathing but for some reason, he was unable to practice it.
And then his pursuit for his own trademark sword form began and finally, he recently succeeded in creating his own breathing style!
The Breath of Cosmos!
But this style was too mysterious, he had made the moves in theory but he was able to perform only 4 out of 9 styles practically...moreover some styles even have different power.
[Breath of Cosmos
First Form : Birth of Nebula - Burst of energy, gallops the enemy in dark miasmic substance which erode them.
Second Form : Meteoric shower - Cuts about hundreds of times in one second
Third Form : Solar consolidation - All the energy gathers at the sword tip.
Fourth Form : Starry Nightfall - Illusions of numerous swords piercing them.
Fifth Form : Stellar Shower - Rays of deadly energy releases from sword.
Sixth Form : Galactic destruction - One slash, one kill.
Seventh Form : Universal trepidation - Increases the aura of user which make enemy shiver in fright.
Eighth Form : Cosmic Annihilation - Buffs speed, strength, agility to many times.
Final Form : One with world - User becomes one with sword as he can do teleportation and make his body momentarily totally disappear along with his aura.
There could be other forms in future.]
Now Damien's muscles are compact with explosive strength in them, his speed has also greatly increased, he now runs without making a single noise.
His 'sixth sense' has also been formed thought it is still in early phase where he could sense things in just 3-4 metres from his body.
After practicing the sword forms, he drags his tired body to his cave as he jumps into the medicinal bath, he relaxes before muttering,
"I would leave the mountain for final selection in 3 years."
Now Damien's base strength could easily rival that of any Lower moon, but its just base strength...because each demon has their own Blood Demon Art.
The blood demon art plays a huge variable in any fight between a demon slayer and a demon...because it is just not restricted to strength but also to many other things like psychological damage.
As for Upper Moon Ranks, Damien still have a way to go...though he could put up fight with the last ranks but killing might be difficult for him as of now.
He first need to perfect his sword forms to defeat Upper Moon Ranks and Muzan Kibutsuji.
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