Chapter 107 - The Grey One.

A grey light poured in through the window. Inside the room resounded pantings of a person, the sound of two bodies slapping against each other echoed in the room.

On the bed, a woman with soft white skin. His sight moved upwards, her breasts bounced again and again. 'Miyuki, Miyuki, Miyuki,'

His sight moved upwards towards her delicate shoulders, her exquisite neck, her amorous lips.

Abruptly, Tatsuya back away, scared; taking a deep breath, he sprang forward and gently patted her cheeks, "Miyuki!"

Noticing her not waking up, Tatsuya back away. The moment Tatsuya stepped off the bed, he jumped up. He felt he stepped on something soft; looking down, the ground was littered with naked bodies with the same lifeless eyes as Miyuki.

"Ning'Er!" "Shen Xiu!" "Teacher!"

He crawled from one body to another; the whole room paused. As if time had stopped.

A voice resounded in the room, "Don't you think that is a crappy counterfeit?" A Tatsuya appeared in the room, standing over the image of him crawling on the ground.

A sharp laughing voice sounded in the room, "But, isn't that how you want to become, a normal human." A grey Tatsuya appeared in front of him, his grey hair, grey skin, grey clothes, and shining green eyes. He had a laughing expression in his eyes.

Tatsuya gazed at him, apathetically, "You are still here."

The grey one laughed, "Of course, I am. Did you really think you could kill me? I exist because of you. You want to get rid of me...Hahahahha...Kill yourself."

Tatsuya ignored him and looked around, "Why all this?"

Suddenly, the grey one disappeared. When the grey one re-appeared, it was standing beside Tatsuya with his hand around Tatsuya's neck. He whispered to Tatsuya, "Don't you see, you will become this pathetic if you become ordinary. You shouldn't think about having normal emotions; let go, relish them, use them, be free."

Tatsuya looked at the lifeless bodies, "then why the lifeless bodies?" A sword appeared in his hand, slashing the grey one.

The grey one dissipated, but his laugh resounded in the room, "that way, it is more fun, don't you think?"

Tatsuya nodded, understanding something, "you cannot control the dream absolutely. That is interesting to know."

Tatsuya snapped his fingers everywhere the sound of snap traveled everything disintegrated, killing the hollow with it. Until the whole dream disappeared, leaving only a boundless void.

Myriad Painting, A house build on the foot of mountain, Bedroom,

Tatsuya opened his eyes; Miyuki was sitting beside him on the bed with a worried look on her face.

Tatsuya slowly raised his body, "Did I wake you?"

Miyuki shook her head, "I was awake; I felt a surge of negative emotions."

She hesitated before asking, "Was it him?"

Tatsuya nodded, "Yes, it was."

"Didn't you kill him?" It had been a month since Demon Lord attacked the Glory City. Although Miyuki wanted to keep Tatsuya here, she knew they had to go out someday. But, before that, they needed to restore some of Tatsuya's strength. Who could have thought there was another trouble waiting for them.

Hearing her words, Tatsuya remembered what happened a month ago.

A Month Ago,

Tatsuya was sitting on a rock, with his cultivation had crippled. Like before when he came to this world, he couldn't use anything other than Elemental Sight. Although so, his body was much stronger than before, even if he stood still, those of 1-Fate Soul might not even be able to scratch him.

They were currently inside another Dimension. The information dimension here was different too. Tatsuya could diagnose his body using Elemental Sight without any worries.

But, the information was too much and jumbled to make any sense of it.

Although it looked jumbled, Tatsuya discerned there might be a pattern to it.

He didn't bother; he needed to start cultivating again.

He absorbed Heavenly Energy for a whole day, but his body showed no signs of change. He continued absorbing vast amounts of Heavenly Energy like a sponge. It took a week before it showed some signs of changing.

Tatsuya was astounded by the changes; his body had started to absorb energy automatically. A soul realm began forming where the lower dantian should be. The lower dantian was the access center of the body.

Power was equally distributed in the body from this point.

Energy started flowing from the soul realm across his whole body; the emptiness he felt in his body was finally disappearing.

Once the soul realm was stabilized, he opened his eyes, only to find that he was somewhere else entirely.

Standing in the boundless blue void, Tatsuya was surprised. He thought this place must be lost. He walked around aimlessly as if waiting for something.

After a while, he suddenly moved his head to the side. A sword cut a few of his hairs. "I thought you would wait longer."

A sword appeared in his hand, slashing the figure behind, but all it cut was nothing.

A figure appeared at some distance away in front of him.

"I was expecting my hollow to be more sensible," Tatsuya commented, after knowing hollowfication was one of the rewards. The first thing he did was read all information available on hollowfication.

The powers that hollow provided were great, but the risk it brought was also that big. The grey Tatsuya stared at him with an arrogant looked at his hand, "Oh, to think you noticed so soon."

Tatsuya looked at the silver sword in hand, "You mean this? It wasn't hard to understand after seeing this void."

Numerous swords appeared around Tatsuya, proceeding to stab him. Tatsuya glanced towards them. They disintegrated as if destroyed by some power. At the same moment, a grey hand appeared in front of his face. A small spherical mass of black-green energy radiated on its palm.

A black armor-like carcass covered Tatsuya's hand; he grasped the mass of energy before destroying it between his fist.

"You are inefficient with that," Silver Trident appeared in his hand, firing multiple black-green ceros towards the grey one.

The grey one dodged them at high-speed, leaving behind after images.

In the next instant, Tatsuya appeared behind the grey one with his gun against his neck, "Sonido, is it? You didn't seem to have time to combine it with the flash step."

The grey one scoffed, "you seem to have combined bringer-light with flash step."

Tatsuya shot a cero disintegrating the grey one's head, "Yeah."

The grey one's body slowly dissipated; his voice drifted in the air, "I will be back, as long as you exist, I will be back."

Present,

"I didn't think he would come back so soon." Tatsuya thought it would take some time, but it only took three weeks before it was restored, "He seemed different than before."

"Different? How?"

Tatsuya thought for a bit, "He seemed smarter, more expressive, more creative with his ways. Better control over my powers."

Miyuki became restless, "he grew?"

"Yes, next time he appears, he would have grown even more." Tatsuya was sure of that.

"Isn't there a way to handle him?" Miyuki discerned Tatsuya's negative emotions grew exponentially after his duplicates died. Negative emotions originated from thousands of deaths. They were all absorbed by the hollow. It was an amalgamation of Tatsuya's void, his despair, pain. And all other suppressed emotions.

"There is; I will handle him, now is not the time." Hollow was truly what he needed, with hollow and those eyes. He had to barely face a small part of his negative energy. The problem was that he was the source of negative energy, he would create new negative energy. The only way across that was to become more balanced. But, that made him think of the dream. It seemed more of a warning than mental torture.

Is that the wrong way? maybe, normal isn't better than what he was now? It did raise many questions. Maybe, he should try the way hollow spoke?

"Can I seal him?" Miyuki thought she should be able to seal him.

Tatsuya smiled, "I need to face this sometime. It's best if I did that now."

Miyuki nodded meekly before falling into Tatsuya's arms, "if you say so."

Tatsuya got up from bed, picking her in a princess hug, "We need to leave. Others are already in the Nether Realm."

Miyuki put her arms around his neck, "How do you know? I thought this painting separated everything."

"It is one of my new abilities." Tatsuya could sense things related to him, even across dimensions. He even knew the meeting between Ye Han and the Demon Lord.

When they reached outside the wooden house, Miyuki looked at it sadly, "Sadly, I will have to leave this behind."

Tatsuya looked at her gently, "I will take care of it."

Miyuki looked at the duplicate Tatsuya just created, "Please do."

Miyuki and Tatsuya disappeared, leaving the duplicate behind.

Tatsuya's duplicate appeared on top the Glory City.

Nie Li and his group, Ziyun, who had recently woken up and others, had already left for Nether Realm. The only people here left were the ones that weren't going to Draconic Ruins Realm.

A dark shadow appeared; it slowly started spreading from Tatsuya.

Ye Mo, Ye Zong, and the President of Alchemy Association were standing on the wall.

Ye Mo suddenly felt something and looked up, "What's that?"

Ye Zong followed his gaze to look up, only to see a large shadow spreading and covering the air over Glory City.

Before they knew, the shadow had covered the whole Glory City like a dome.

Ye Zong felt something shake; soon, the shadow disappeared. What they saw was a different sky.

Nether Realm,

Nether Master had just sent off the others when Tatsuya and Miyuki appeared in front of his eyes.

After he saw them, he let out a sigh of relief, "You made it in time."

Miyuki looked embarrassed and apologized, "I'm ashamed of my behavior."

Nether waved his hand, "I understand, you should hurry. The vortex is about to close."

Suddenly, Nether became vacant.

Miyuki looked at him, confused, "what happened?"

"He is seeing the true meaning of Nether; we should go." Tatsuya smiled as he and Miyuki disappeared into the vortex.