Chapter27: Uzunami's survival: age thirteen

Five years have passed since the akane slaughter and while Zanshi sasine has grew in power and status, the akane name was forgotten.

But the universe will remember the name in due time.

With the akane family gone a gang of zeons has taken over tortured, enforcing their own law upon the weak.

Their name abusive lead by the zeon named Onslaught, the brute like zeon who can change into an overload zeon at random.

In the ruined streets of tortured nothing had changed since the brutal enslavement.

The stench of the dead still lingered in the air, the decaying meat still fed the vermin.

And all the while the king made no effort to help his people.

His attention was only focused on furthering his own conquest against cryptos.

Nothing has changed in five whole years so why will it ever change, that's right it won't change.

It was up to the people to make it change so that's exactly what's gonna happen.

So that brings us to the lone survivor of the akane slaughter Uzunami akane or as he is known in the present the red emperor.

In the past five years his strength has grown more rapidly then any other zeon of his age and most of this is thanks to Surak sasine.

Who relentlessly drilled the brutality of his family into the young survivor.

Having learnt now learnt the first four curse abilities it was now time for the young emperor to make a name for himself.

Obviously with Surak's help.

As they both disappeared from the universe both Surak and Uzunami were thought to be dead.

But soon the citizens of not just tortured but the whole of kronen will learn the truth.

The back alleys were full of Onslaught's followers, and as you got closer to the capital you got closer to the monster.

It was almost as if he were placed there on purpose...

Meanwhile at the abusive hideout...

Lights flickered and the dome like room was empty except for Onslaught and one other.

That other person is Hollow, also known as experimentation's prodigy.

"So tell me, how's the mutation mark performing?" Hollow brushed his fingers across the muck stained walls.

But all Onslaught gave was mutters of fear.

"I see it hasn't gave you any ego against your master, just as it should be".

Hollow walked as if to leave before saying one last thing "before I go I must remind you that, Uzunami akane will attack soon and you must allow him to kill you".

And soon after around twenty zeons flooded their hideout at Hollow's absence.

But there was something off.

It seems that they are all identical to Onslaught.

So with that in mind it means that there is at least twenty one monsters controlling tortured and everyone living there.

"Isn't that?" a girl whispered.

"Nooo your crazy, Uzunami died in the akane slaughter remember".

"Ehh they don't even recognise you brother, we should remind them "Uzunami ran to his big brother.

"No it's not their fault after all my family tried their best to hide me and my sister from all who would wish us harm" Surak spoke while pushing a young boy to the ground.

"So where are we going anyway?, isn't today just like every other day just more training?" Uzunami's aura spiked as they grew closer to their destination.

"Ah so you noticed well were here, time to make your return to society my little brother".

"Hey this is no place for childr..." a fresh corpse spoke.

"You should know better then to underestimate any zeon" Surak walked through the falling corpse.

"Hey Uzunami time to make a name for yourself" Surak spoke to the dust left behind by Uzunami.

Two more fell this time by the hands of the future emperor, his hands tearing the skin off their skulls as he tore himself away to face the remaining fodder.

The ground shook as seven zeons entered imperial three.

But unfazed Uzunami took only a few steps towards them and in just a few steps four of them fell to their knees, overwhelmed with fear.

A crimson transparent gauntlet appeared around the young emperor's hand.

Ignoring the four who have already fell, Uzunami targeted the closest one to him.

Meanwhile, Surak had taken himself to the cowards.

"So you fear him?..., so do I but that is why I follow him, his power the potential he doesn't even know he possesses" Surak raised his hand outwards in which one of the cowards took it.

Rising up they all looked towards Uzunami who was massacring all of the opposing clones.

Uzunami tore straight through one of the bodies to reach his next victim in which he was killed but not by Uzunami's hand.

"So your the runt who master mentioned" Onslaught looked down on Uzunami as he crushed his final remaining clone's head.

"And i guess you're the one who has been dominating tortured oppressing all who defy you" Uzunami looked straight back into the eyes of Onslaught.

"Heh your only a child not even master's age" Onslaught attempted to grab a hold of Uzunami, but the young prodigy snaked his way out of the monster's reach.

Appearing a few meters above them all, Uzunami for the first time in this encounter uses his curse mark.

This time its the third curse and he entered imperial two.

His skin hardened as he gained resistance to all forms of attacks, and his muscles streamlined themselves making his speed increase.

Surak wrapped his arm around one of the cowards as he declared "keep watching this is what actually matters, his potential".

All eyes were on Uzunami almost as if it became impossible to focus on anything else.

But that was not all Uzunami had just killed fourteen clones and for that all his powers had increased by two hundred and ten.

Uzunami drew his fist back and in a flash of light he snapped the brute's jaw off.

And as Uzunami attempted a second hit Onslaught mutated himself into a overload zeon, putting a pause to Uzunami's assault.

Their energies clashed!

Relentlessly fighting back and forth but as everyone knows overload energy dominates all others.

Uzunami was knocked flying off his feet.

Surak caught hold of him ripping his fingers into Uzunami's shoulder.

"This is your only chance to rise in fame little brother don't mess it up" Surak launched Uzunami back into the monster's grasp.

Staring death in the face Uzunami retook his gauntlet and with just one hit the mutation was cancelled.

Forcing Onslaught to return to his weak and useless body at least when compared to a prodigy.

Hollow appeared above the battlefield hidden by the smog he looked across to Uzunami "so you have found a way to beat me, by disrupting the flow of energy within the user, well I can't have that the mutation mark is supposed to be perfection".

Meanwhile Uzunami continued to slaughter Onslaught, in a one sided brawl.

But compared to Onslaught's strength on top of his imperial three form the tide of the fight was soon to change.

Uzunami knew of this approaching change and to counter it...

He did something unexpected, something a beast would do, he let go of his control and entered uncontrollable power one.

And without any hesitation Uzunami created a quake bomb just like Zanshi did five years ago.

Lighting sparked from the ball of energy, constantly tossing and turning..

And once enough energy had been siphoned the bomb was released straight into the abusive monster known as Onslaught.

Onslaught's body despite being a monster like sized brute was quickly torn apart and siphoned into the quake bomb's energy.

Which only helped to continue Onslaught's agony at least until he was torn apart.

But his corpse was then further tortured until it was no longer visible.

Onslaught's corpse was torn into such small pieces not even the eye could see.

Uzunami had ended the tyranny that the abusive gang had lead all over tortured.

He had returned to civilisation but it seemed nothing had changed except one thing...

The happy joyful kid that saw the best in everything and everyone did die during the akane slaughter but something much worse was brought into the world, the revenant or as he will become to be known the red emperor.