Welpen's Destined Fate

He broke the Time Chaplet on the ground, increasing the time in the sky to zero. Michiaki released himself from what he was fighting, and bolted in less than 0.01 seconds to the Wandering Corpse, but even his abilities were not strong enough to stop him. His sword slowly cut through its body with all his strength, but not in enough time to stop it.

He reached his finger out to the Dark Mold, and an explosion of mana particles erupted the area. The rippling realm of the Dark Mold started to expand bigger and bigger until things could enter and exit at will.

Iki called Yahiko and Wally to the scene and they were ready to help even after all this time frozen. They didn’t question it and stood by his side. Black, purple, and red hands shot out from the Dark Mold, grabbing Welpen and slowly pulling him inside. Michiaki targeted the hands and cut them off one by one, but they kept approaching and multiplying.

Reiken laughed and Iki saw out of the corner of his eye the face that was behind the Reaper Sword. It was Lorenzo Cain’s, but the clock had approached 11 o’clock and was close to 12. The air began to push everyone back with their feet off the ground.

Kouki: “Sacred Divine Tree!”

Yasuhiro: “Limitless Creation!”

Clara: “Mana Zone!”

The three Great Swordsmen entered the playing field, having felt the pressure from across the lands. They targeted Lorenzo Cain while Michiaki dealt with the slicing of the hands, although they numbered in thousands that kept approaching. The more he cut, the more that appeared. His speed increased tenfold at the speed of light, but eventually, there would be more hands than he could handle.

Welpen pulled out the rusted sword from Kaibo and tried to cut through the hands that encompassed him as well, but to his surprise, when he went to swing, the blade just stopped and didn’t cut anything. “Ah! Stupid piece of crap!”

Giant tree roots grasped Lorenzo while thousands of flowers circled him within a barrier that was then covered by a large dome of mana. Kouki continued to send everlasting tree roots at him inside, but this thing, this creature, this…being, it broke the barrier that they had set up.

Astro felt useless as Welpen screamed.

He couldn’t let this happen again.

He stepped forward where Michiaki stood, took a stance as a swordsman, and followed his movements. He wasn’t as quick as Michiaki, but he could do some damage following behind him. It wasn’t night time, which hindered them not being able to use their moons. Even with most of the Great Swordsmen here using their abilities, they struggled against both of these. Wally jumped on the man’s back and Yahiko used ‘Invasion of Species’ to try to enter the body of this creature in front of him, but his skin was too thick.

The clock struck twelve and the creature that was covered fully in black screamed out loud, echoing throughout the air, sending a wave of thick mana combined with static out towards everyone. They stood their ground, but the terrifying look on this thing’s face said that it wanted to kill them all. Its bright white eyes and white teeth smiled. Reaching into its eyes, it pulled out 2 glowing white swords. A black crown remained on top of his head, but it was attached to his body like a horn. 10 black flaming swords remained behind as well. Michiaki looked over for 0.2 seconds to see this and shouted out amongst everyone.

Michiaki: “EVERYONE! Do not touch those! Those are replicas of the Reaper Sword! If it touches you, your soul will corrode!”

Kouki: “Let’s have some fun brother. I haven’t been able to go all out since we fought father.”

Yasuhiro: “Yeah, I’m pretty pissed off being stuck in place for 5 years. I have a lot of energy left.”

Welpen’s body approached the Dark Mold quicker now. Clara saw this happening and ran to aid them with boosted mana, but it didn’t really help. The black creature still smiled with white glowing teeth in place while everyone activated their mana lines. Reiken still sat down in the distance and laughed, knowing that he would probably see Iki’s death.

The creature flashed next to Yasuhiro in a split second. Normally, a person or even Great Swordsman wouldn’t be able to defend this besides for Michiaki Sen, however with Kouki by his side, they were harnessing the power of the Sacred Tree, a power that was equal to strength beyond strength. It drew from every part of nature in the world. The entire playing field was theirs to work with.

Both: “Dynamic Air.”

The white glowing swords targeted his neck, but swerved in the air, curving the blades around his head and missing back towards the creature.

Yasuhiro: “How about I do what I did to you in the first place! Sunflower’s Gated Cage!”

Kouki: “Mother Nature’s Tenor!”

The gated cage went straight to where the black goo was, but it broke instantly unlike last time. The clock was at 12 this time, so the same powers wouldn’t work. Kouki’s ability created a singing voice of a woman that pressurized the air, making the being fall to its knees, but instead of falling, the ground went straight down with it and out of the crater came the swords behind him.

Everyone sprinted in multiple directions with the same idea using Yellow Egress Chaplets to teleport to different areas within the field, so the swords would hit the ground.

Kouki teleported multiple times using Egress Chaplets and threw Seed Chaplets down every time he got close to this being that connected green vines to its head and zapped him constantly. It didn’t do much, but it did decrease its luck, which may be effective, he thought when continuing the battle.

Yasuhiro: “Grassy Highlands!”

The ground shot up below the creature boosting him in the air, but the 10 swords came flying down again at all of them, this time splurging into the ground and the black substance spread throughout the field, specifically attacking everyone like before.

Michiaki yet again activated a Crux Chaplet while dealing with the hands still, creating a crater in the ground that ran for 20 miles, ultimately getting rid of the black substance underneath, but the relentless pursuit of this creature didn’t stop. The hands on the clock above him rattled so hard and then broke past 12 and onto 1 again.

Yahiko: “Huh? It keeps going after 12?”

Iki: “That’s only its halfway point! It’s at 12pm. It’s going to circle again!”

Natsuki picked up 2 of the shards that were left. Reiken had the other and Michiaki was using it for his battle at the moment. He combined them together and tried his best to control it, although it shifted around like crazy and he struggled with it.

It bolted towards Lorenzo Cain’s new personality and began to clash with the combined 12 swords, which was something that none of them had been able to do with their own swords.

They held their ground, so Natsuki stepped back and activated a Beast Chaplet that turned him into a similar monster. He ran at the creature and shoved him back with all he had, but he only moved but a few feet. In his mouth, he bit down on a Sun Enhancer Chaplet that rained down extreme heat from the sky onto the creature. It didn’t make him feel painful, but it did slow him down even in the slightest.

Yahiko tried Switcher’s Code, but when he moved into the man’s eyes, all he saw was darkness. There were no powers to go off of. He wasn’t even sure if he was using mana, even though he had mana lines activated before. He activated a Manipulator Chaplet and helped Natsuki push him back.

Iki didn’t hold back anymore and jumped in.

He didn’t care about the consequences that would happen. This was life or death right now. His horn lit up along with his eyes and hair. Pink specks ran throughout his body similar to mana lines, but in the form of dots. He screamed hard in pain.

Iki: “AGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”

The monster opened multiple portals behind him, sending out similar foes to his dark appearance. They attacked everyone with similar strength, making it harder to approach them. Wally had stayed by Iki’s side the entire time in case something were to attack out of nowhere.

He stepped aside from what Iki was doing and let him continue, not knowing what this was.

Iki: “Dark Mold: Level 10…Infinite Death!”

Thousands of holes started to pierce into the creature’s body. He couldn’t move, nor could he do anything about it. Blue blood spewed endlessly from its black body and its white teeth stained blue as well. It tried to speak, but couldn’t. Its healing abilities were so strong that it was countering the effects, but ultimately, Iki’s ability overpowered it, causing him to grovel to the ground and take the endless hits of holes in his body.

However, had this creature been past the 1 o’clock mark, then Iki might’ve lost. His regenerative speed might’ve countered his best ability. Iki fell as well, not having used his actual power in a long time. ‘Crap!’ he thought. ‘I haven’t used the Dark Mold’s powers in hundreds of years. Level 10 right away was too much. I wasn’t thinking. I can’t breathe. I’m going to die.’

Wally tried using Healing and Recovery Chaplets on Iki, but nothing would work. Clara had activated a black hole void behind them to try and pull Welpen away who was screaming endlessly and tried to cut the hands that kept trying to take him. Michiaki, Clara, and Astro couldn’t even stop how many approached.

Astro peered over at Michiaki for a split second and he was more focused than he had ever seen him. It seemed like nothing could touch him right now. However, they only delayed it, until they suddenly stopped and something came out of the Dark Mold.

Welpen dropped to the ground, coughing up blood from being wounded by the piercing hands. Clara ran over to him and healed him, but everyone stood still from the pure aura that came out of the Dark Mold.

Astro stepped back to regather having been out of breath already from just avoiding these hands.

Michiaki’s eyes changed color as he looked over at the Dark Mold.

Three people walked slowly into their world. One being an innocent looking boy not older than 18 with pink fluffy hair and 2 golden horns that wrapped back into his head. He wore a pink and gold outfit with a gold diamond necklace that hung down from his neck to his waist. To his right, a girl that had long pink hair and two small horns that stuck in the hair. Her tongue was hanging out, pierced with tiny blades. Her face had red spiral markings on her cheeks. She was an attractive woman, but scary to the bone. In front of them, a man with pink hair that combed over, covering his other eye. A black headband stretched across his forehead. He wore a black and pink suit with pink earrings, and was drinking some sort of purple liquid from a cup.

The real danger was just starting to appear.