CH3: The Fight

I sat on the bed next to the snow girl clutching her bloated jizz filled tummy. A soft white light lit the room, revealing cum stains on the sheets. Small crystal tears hardened into pearls piled on the bed and beside it. Glinting at the room's edges were formation arrays built to control the temperature. I tapped the seal and dropped the temperature to something more comfortable for a snow girl.

The snow girl perked up at the sudden chill filling the room. -40 would come before long, perfect for her. I wouldn't say anything to her or claim I was helping her. This was me taking care of an attractive girl.

She turned and glared at me with cool blue eyes. "This changes nothing. Tsukune will save me."

I smirked like a villain in a cheap porno. Fucking Mizore made me feel like a bull. "Will he want you after I've stretched all of your holes? I gained another inch pounding you. I'm sure you're too stretched for him."

She stared at my slow, softening meat stick, which had been everywhere, and then changed the subject.

"What is this place? I've never heard of a sealed realm like this?" Mizore said.

I closed my eyes and used the energy from two breakthroughs to snag the fragments of awe and impact. Lightning wasn't just about striking things. Awe was an essential part of the process. Impacting the force of a crashing wave would give my spirit art some much-needed power.

After the silence dragged on for too long, I answered her. "I worked on this place for a while. When the world becomes too much, I work on my projects to keep my cool. This little sex room was one of my projects. I have others scattered around the world."

"Is that your plan to run when Tsukune comes like a coward and hide in one of your safehouses?" Mizore asked.

"You have a mouth on you. Well, you already know how much I like your mouth." She looked down at herself at her bloated stomach, perky breasts, and purple maned crotch covered in cum. With my dick, I had destroyed her. "I would still eat your butt like groceries."

"I see; you're like Gin, only worse."

A presence dripping with demonic chi appeared, almost like a being in the core realm. I smirked as the brown-haired man focused on Mizore, then myself. He said nothing and appeared in front of me with his fist cocked back.

I raised my hand and caught him with a lift. He froze midair before wings exploded from his back and moved. My control broke, and pain lanced through my brain from the backlash. I smirked through the pain as a silver-haired beauty with bat wings kicked me in the chest, snapping my ribs like twigs.

My body slammed through the back wall and rammed into the dimensional barrier before the demonic chi flared with red and black bolts of lightning and tore the fragile fabric of the dimension apart.

I appeared back in my garage. A few things happened rapidly.

Thanks to the dragon's body, my body rapidly healed. Vast amounts of chi put my shattered ribs back together stronger than before. My muscles drank in the power, and my bones hardened and lengthened. It was small, but I grew almost an inch from recovering from that attack alone. My vast, potent demonic chi died before the infinite chi fed the dragon's body.

I sensed Tsukune and Moka. They each felt like the core realm with the demonic chi they produced. While they weren't exactly there, they were equivalents. Moka launched herself at me again, and suddenly, I saw double, triple, and illusion.

"Know your place," she yelled, and I activated lift, trapping her long enough to throw a punch. Tsukune flanked me and delivered an uppercut that shattered all the teeth in my mouth. My eyes popped, my brain turned to liquid, and my body lifted off the ground and through the ceiling above. I blacked out.

When I came to, it was in the air to a large moon. Lift arrested my momentum as my body continued to change. I contemplated using soul arrows, but those still exhausted me. This fight was too fast-paced to spend time forming one. If I had practiced beforehand, things might have been different. I sighed at lost opportunities. I punched out, turning lift into a strike-extending technique instead of a binding technique.

I acquired the fragment of pressure and felt it immediately upgrade to rank 9, maxing out. I saw two sets of red eyes looking up at me.

"How long do you think you can keep fighting?" I asked.

After all, why not extend the battle and see what happens? I wasn't running out of stamina anytime soon.

I threw a punch with 25% of my full regen behind it, not my reserves or the reserves in my soul space. The two-story brick and wood building, the garage with three cars parked inside, and the basement exploded. I sensed the monsters were elsewhere, including Mizore. I let myself drop and took up the Eagle Claw stance taught in the Thunder Eagle sect. It was the only marital art I learned, and it was beaten into me.

Energy appeared beside me, charging, and I flew up as Moka came in with a swinging horizontal kick meant to take my head no matter which direction I chose to move. I threw a punch, catching her in the shoulder, and an afterimage took my attack as I grabbed her ankle and felt my arm buckle. My dragon's body hadn't adapted to their core realm levels of power despite taking two would-be fatal wounds. The jump from peak foundation to core was immense.

"After I crush Tsukune, I'm going to take you in front of him," I said.

Moka blushed and crossed her fangs in anger. "How dare you?"

I threw a punch that caught her in the chin when she charged as Tsukune threw a kick to the side of my leg. The bones shattered, and only a piece of flesh connected it, and that was enough. He threw a finishing blow, and my leg snapped back into place. He punched, tearing my chest apart, ripping my heart out, and tossing my other organs on the ground. I used lift to snatch a piece of my own heart before Tsukune crushed it. I shoved the piece back into my chest as the dragon's body stitched it back and drained Chi to regenerate it. I couldn't regenerate organs wholesale, but if I had a piece, it was possible to regrow them.

Skin, muscle, and bone fused back together stronger than ever before as the fight entered the long middle. I barely blocked a blow from Moka and felt my fingers crush to pulp as Tsukune formed blade arms and struck.

I punched and used lift in every blow. A hit smashed into Tsukune's shoulder, peeling away skin down to the muscle before Moka smashed an ax kick on my outstretched arm. Bones snapped and healed stronger as I fought two powerful vampires together.

"We can't keep this up. He's slowly catching up to us, and his regeneration is insane, even compared to ours." Moka said.

She was the best tactician among them. Yukari was all about strategy, but Moka could fight. For some reason, no one was coming to investigate the explosions happening in a suburban neighborhood. I suspected some mind fuckery was going on. Some of those blows I took were hidden behind illusions. I searched for a hint of demonic chi and found another source nearby. That was most likely Kurumu. She had about as much in chi reserves as I did, which was scary.

I wasn't all that in reserves unless my soul space was counted. My regeneration separated me from other cultivators. It was a side effect of my version of soul cultivation. That happy accident allowed me to rapidly climb the ranks and maintain the quality of chi from my highest cultivation limit. My soul generation would produce core realm chi if I reached the core realm.

This was the time. I forged an arrow made of soul matter with three rings to keep it stable within my soul space.

A monstrous aura filled the air as Tsukune's chi climbed to the peak of the core realm. I whistled at it, which was much more than I expected. His reserves were flagging, but this was an all-out kind of deal. I loved it.

Moka appeared out of nowhere and struck at the sides of my knees, crushing the joints and bones and dropping me. Tsukune drew his hand back, and demonic chi concentrated around it.

He took a step, and the lift hit his inner foot, throwing him off target. I shifted with the lift and dodged a blow meant for my head. The monster made of black flesh turned his burning red eyes on me, and I smirked. Moka raced down with a flying ax kick, and I caught it with my palm.

I slammed her down, and my arm was gone. A black-haired, chested woman a little on the short side raised her arm to finish me.

"No one harms my Moka." Akua Shuzen said.

A girl with hair black as night and glowing red eyes said as my arm hit the ground. Lift stopped her finishing blow from landing as I concentrated on her attack. Her dimensional slash ate chi like a black hole, but I had endless amounts to give.

"This will end it," Tsukune said and kicked my back.

Pressure exploded around me, knocking the vampires back, sparing only my arm. I picked it up and pressed it against the stump, letting muscle, skin, and bone fuse back together. My attention turned to Kurumu. I used lift at 100% and crossed the distance. Physical laws shuddered as I appeared and placed a finger on her forehead. She was so shocked that she failed to break contact long enough for a seal to appear on her forehead.

I snapped my fingers, and she fell unconscious. When I turned three, vampires were racing in my direction. Then, I stretched my senses outward to see if anything could stop me.

When nothing, not even a hint of demonic chi, existed, I threw a full-powered lift strike. A barrier popped into existence, shielding Tsukune from a flow that would have killed him.

I turned my head to the side. How many barriers could be summoned to protect Tsukune? I raised my fists and dipped into my soul space reserves. My next blow caused the air to shriek and flames to lick the sky.

Cracks appeared in the barrier around Tsukune as he crossed the distance faster than before. He looked manic at the sight of Kurumu so near me.

I sucked in a breath and let it go. Fighting 2 on 1 had been too much. 3 on one with that dimensional slash bullshit would only get me killed. It was time to withdraw. Tsukune and Moka were trapped at their current power without any hope of massive jumps.

"You really shouldn't let me put seals on people," I said.

Array formations appeared around Kurumu before I kicked her into my soul space. Those arrays would keep her safe for about 30 minutes.

Tsukune fully changed into a black-skinned creature. Only his crimson eyes remained as he madly charged me. For a moment, he passed through the core realm and became something even stronger.

"Too slow," I used 100% lift and flew high. I looked down to see a black laser following behind me. I continued flying up as he madly chased me.

It was the right time. I realized it then. Tsukune would never be further from support or more vulnerable. A black portal opened in front of me, and a black arrow surrounded by three golden rings emerged. The mad guy's eyes didn't even register the arrow as a threat. With a flick of my finger, my arrow launched and impaled Tsukune through the middle of his forehead.

His body spasmed as his soul faced the power of one far more powerful. The light left his eyes, and I grabbed the still-living, if empty, body by the neck. Soul ink poured from my fingertips and formed formation arrays over this skin before congealing into seals around my fingertips. A white box appeared around his body, and I tossed the corpse into my soul space.

I laughed long and loud. The fifth lock broke. For the first time in two lifetimes, the way forward was open. I could do it here where I had won. The core realm was mine for the taking, and so were the others.

3 locks from Nascent Soul, and all I needed was to combine 3 spirit arts into a sage art. I flew off to the Gulf Coast, where a hidden realm I created waited. That's where I planned to fuck Kurumu and finally reach the core realm. After that, maybe I will see about the 6th lock. Partnering with a soul-bound weapon would take time. Then there was lock 7, the lock challenged to form a second core and link it with the first. Finally, I had to create a hidden realm with lightning tribulation for the 8th lock. That one would be a challenge.

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Moka screamed and begged the heavens, but Tsukune was gone. She could feel it deep in her soul. They had chosen this place at random to start a family and raise their children. Yukari claimed she sensed a witch and left to introduce herself and explain who they were. It was an easy task, but then Yukari disappeared. They went out searching for her, and Mizore also disappeared.

After the second disappearance, they found the location, but it was hidden within a layered dimensional space. Yukari escaped and warned them, but it must have been a long time before they entered.

Tsukune had been furious, but he wasn't thinking. He was dead, her husband was dead, and his killer had fled. Moka had to get revenge.