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章節 1188: Chapter 1188 Strange Creatures

In the unexplored lands of Hell from which no souls seem to have reached yet and was still full of life, Kisuke set up a temporary camp, "I've been teleporting nonstop since the other day, enough to circle the whole Earth a few times, and I'm pretty far from any civilizations yet I still haven't had a glimpse of this unknown monster that they are talking about."

However, that doesn't mean that he wasn't able to discover a few things. He initially thought that Hell was very large because he couldn't see the curve in the horizon, but as he moved away from where people are, the laws of spacetime are slightly changing as if the whole space was getting smaller and smaller, "This world is flat."

[Master, I can also feel something strange now that we're nearing the edge.] Tiamat on his waist suddenly said.

"Tell me everything that's bothering you."

[...] Tiamat was silent for a while, gathering her thoughts, before saying, [This doesn't feel like a normal land.]

'We're in Hell though.' Kisuke retorted in his head but didn't interrupt Tiamat's thought process. While he couldn't really understand her perspective due to how different they are from each other, her point of view is still something that could see the essence of the world, and anything she says could be a useful clue.

[It's full of life... yes... But everything around us... feels dead.]

"We're in Hell though." Kisuke finally voiced it out.

Since Tiamat couldn't articulate herself, she became silent after saying, [Master, the land is teeming with life but the land itself is dead. That's the best I can explain it. Go to the edge of the world. Maybe we'll find out more about this strange feeling.]

It was Kisuke's turn to be silent. Aside from the absence of 'dead' people and the descending barrier on top of them, he can't tell how the land is dead, 'If the land is dead, how can it support life?'

Nevertheless, Tiamat's suggestion of going to the edge of the world is good, 'But where is this monster?'

As if answering his question, Kisuke suddenly felt the ground shake slightly and he hurriedly packed his belongings. Just half a minute later, the slight shaking turned into a full-blown earthquake.

Feeling the several presences underground, Kisuke took to the air and waited.

A few seconds later, twelve 15-feet wide white worms with countless black sharp teeth lining their front end shot out of the ground and one of them was directly aiming at Kisuke with blistering speed.

Kisuke put his hand forward and conjured a barrier to meet this gigantic worm.

Kisuke was pushed back by a few feet but he was able to stop the worm's lunge. He wanted to study it for a bit but immediately changed his mind when he felt and saw his barrier rapidly losing power and being eroded, "!?"

He dispersed his barrier and went under the worm's 'chin' to give it a kick.

Kisuke thought that this kick would be enough to pull it out of the ground but was surprised yet again when he was only able to send back its head and there was no visible damage. In fact, it only made it angrier as it lunged back at him with greater force. And not just that. The other worms also started moving towards him.

'That skin has as much defense as a high-level Arrancar's Hierro.' Kisuke thought to himself as he dodged the incoming attacks when all of a sudden, he felt a fluctuation of Magic Power from one of the farther worms, 'Magic Power? Not the Psuedo Demonic Power?'

The next instant, he felt the space around him bending and the gravity multiplied several folds, making it hard for him to move properly.

Meanwhile, the worms that were directly attacking him also emitted Magic Powers of their own and the space around them returned to normal, making the Gravity Magic of their comrade negligible on their part, 'It's hard to properly calculate how to normalize the fluctuating space so this means that they could directly communicate with each other and with accuracy enough to nullify each other's Magic.' Kisuke calmly thought and adjusted his breathing.

Kisuke flew up and was soon followed by the worms. He flew for about 820 feet or 250 meters when the worms stopped following him, 'Is that their limit? My senses are telling me that they are still massive under that ground.'

However, the worms didn't stop attacking and instead switched to attacking with various Magic projectiles. Kisuke put up another barrier to stop these projectiles and unlike the first time, his barrier didn't strangely disappear, 'So only when in contact with their mouths?'

He wanted to test more things but his instincts were kicking in and telling him to finish this now.

Kisuke dropped back down while dodging bullets and pulled out the tanto blade on his waist. Without releasing her, Kisuke swung Tiamat at one of the worms while covering her with very dense Reiatsu-Ki, instantly severing its head.

Black blood spurted out of the beheaded worm and Kisuke hurriedly collected some of it while securing the head, 'It's still alive? Amazing.'

After sealing the head and placing it in his inventory, Kisuke immediately left the place, leaving behind the worms, 'Something big is coming. I have to retreat first.'

Thanks to this immediate decision, Kisuke was able to leave the area before the earth started shaking again, this time, much more intensely. A second later, the earth below the worms started bulging up before a pillar of light more than 500 feet wide engulfed them, instantly reducing them to ashes.

"!?" Kisuke braced himself and deployed multiple barriers to protect himself. He watched as the pillar of light hit the thick barrier above them that covered the entire world and pierced it. Beyond the barrier was nothingness, but that's not as important as the light that pierced it.

A few seconds later, the light subsided, leaving behind a giant hole in the sky and ground.

While the only in the sky started repairing itself, Kisuke approached the 500-foot hole. He couldn't easily tell how deep the hole was but after his eyes got used to the darkness a few seconds later, he shuddered and hurriedly flew back up to get away from it.

Deep inside the hole was another worm just like the others from earlier. However this one felt much more dangerous and he could only see a part of its head full of teeth peeking from the abyss, 'The hole is about 500 feet wide, but I can only see a part of its head facing up... This guy is at least 600 or 700 feet wide... Not to mention, my detection abilities are disrupted and I didn't realize that thing was looking at me until I found it.'

Kisuke didn't want to deal with it right now so he started teleporting away from this region, 'Yep. That's an unknown monster, alright?'

And just as he was about to disappear, a certain thought occurred in his head, '...What if that's not a unique thing? How many of them are hiding down there?' 


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Something properly hellish! Magic Hellworms! Reality is non-existent at the edges of the flat plain dimension that is hell, but the worms seem to control it. Hell’s ecosystem is weird.

章節 1189: Chapter 1189 Corpse

After making some distance from the region where he was attacked, Kisuke set up another camp to study the worm that he'd just killed.

He spent a few days dissecting the worm to figure out how it was able to get through his barrier. After careful experimentation, because he only had a part of a sample, Kisuke found out that the absorbing powers came from its black sharp teeth that also act as filters to clean and purify the Magic Power before transporting it through its body using special nerves.

Aside from that, Kisuke also found out that those worms don't store the bulk of their energy in their flesh and blood. Instead, it seems that these special nerves gather in one spot though he doesn't really know where that is, "These guys probably have a core somewhere in their body. My best guess would be at the latter end of their body, buried deep inside the ground. That's a pretty good defense mechanism."

Kisuke then grabbed the black powder, which was the worm's teeth that he pulverized to examine, "I can use these."

But even with these discoveries of potential weakness that he can use against these worms, he was worried. First of all, these worms are not Souls, meaning, they have their own bodies that are not made out of Magic. They are a new species that suggested many things about the inner workings of Hell.

Second, he couldn't estimate just how many of them existed out there, 'While they don't seem to exist near settlements, I could only guess that there are abundant numbers of them at the edge of Hell if they can attack like that in groups. A Lieutenant-class Shinigami can defeat one with ease, but 5 of them simultaneously? They are going to have a hard time. And what if there are millions of these worms under the ground? With how wide the Hell is, I wouldn't be surprised if there are billions of these things. If they decided to attack all at the same time, it's going to be a disaster.'

'And the third problem.' Namely, the giant worm. It's obviously a special variant and the damage it could cause eclipses that of the normal worms, 'It's capable of blasting a hole through space but I doubt it can do that repeatedly considering how energy-intensive a blast like that is.'

[Are you going to continue your exploration?] Tiamat suddenly asked.

"I intend to. I still haven't figured out how those guys sense their surroundings and I really want to see the edge of this world." Kisuke started packing up again.

[They are using Magic Power waves to sense their surroundings.]

Kisuke's hands stopped and turned his head to his tanto blade, "But I didn't feel anything?"

[It's a very fine wave that almost matches the environment's frequency. It's no surprise that you didn't notice it. Even I didn't notice and only figured it out when I thought back to anything strange that time.]

Kisuke rubbed his chin and asked, "Do you think Ki assimilation will work?"

[It covers your presence by fusing your own aura to nature itself, so maybe? You can only try.]

"Alright. If I can't avoid these worms, I'll get around them first."

[You're not going to catch more of them?]

"I want to, but I don't think it's a good idea to make them wary of my presence right now. In the first place, I don't have much time. It's about time I visit the former Captain Commander to try a few things."

[Oh right. You found a way to extract those chains some time ago. Are you going to remove them?]

"I want to, but I'll hold back for now. You said it yourself. Those chains have the same scent as Hyousube Ichibei."

[Not exactly the same, but it does remind me of him.]

This past year, he had already concluded that there was no point in sparing Szayelaporro Granz and his colleagues. As they were just unnecessary threats, he didn't want to wait for the Seireitei to eliminate them. While the Seireitei were being careful about how to deal with them, Kisuke is pretty confident that he could just annihilate them. After all, they're just babies who just started to learn how to use [Hell's Blessing] aka, Pseudo-Demonic Power.

His otherworldly knowledge is enough to make it backfire on them.

But after linking the existence of these black chains to Ichibei Hyousube, he hesitated and opted not to mess with them for now. Not until he figures out what Ichibei has to do with these guys and what it really means to remove these chains from the [Chained].

Kisuke finished up and teleported again.

.

.

.

Kisuke was able to confirm that he could hide his presence from the worms by expertly manipulating Ki. However, the happiness from this discovery quickly subsided by what he's seeing right now, "What the heck is this?"

[There are at least a thousand of them just in this spot.]

On the ground that has already become lifeless, are countless worms of varying sizes, crawling and intervening with each other, "And I can feel more of them under."

[Ignore them and go to the edge. We're near and I feel like we can finally find answers to our questions.]

Kisuke stared at the worms for a few moments before teleporting away once again. Each time he teleports, the worms would feel his presence and would look up. However, Kisuke's not there anymore so after a few minutes of looking around, they continue with their business of chewing the ground, absorbing all the power in it for their growth.

It's the same when he reappeared. They'd all look up but since Kisuke is hiding himself, they'd soon return to their business of nonstop eating. This action caught Kisuke's attention and he thought, 'So the reason why they haven't made their way to the inner regions is that they're busy eating dirt?'

If they live off the Magic Power present, Kisuke could understand their actions because unlike any other worlds he has been in, the concentration of Magic Power in Hell's ground is several times compared to others.

After a few more teleportations, Kisuke finally reached the edge which was a dark and endless cliff, "Finally... That took a while."

Kisuke looked down and sent down his senses but found nothing, 'How does gravity work in these parts? It's still pulling downwards.'

He then looked up and saw that the barrier that was protecting Hell from the void also went down along with the cliff. He wanted to jump off but something was telling him that that was a very bad idea.

While Kisuke is busy inspecting everything in the surroundings, Tiamat suddenly speaks up, [Oh... So that's how it is...]

"You found out something?"

[Yes. Now I'm sure that you are currently standing on top of a corpse.]


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Ah, god corpse. They’re not worms, they’re maggots! IT’S ALWAYS FUCKING GOD CORPSES BECOMING CONTINENTS/WORLDS/REALMS DAMMIT! Wait, maggots are just larva…

Goyya: Yes, there are more lingering underneath. On another note, this would explain the need to seal Hell and why the Soul King is a soul and a king.

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