This galaxy was ruled by two gods, this is common knowledge even to mortals.
Before Everything was the primordial light, Umbryon and his brother the primordial darkness Emrod battled for supremacy of the thousand realms. After years of stalemate, Umbryon decides to do what he's the best at, create. He created the angels, his most loyal servants and used them to battle the primordial darkness, finally defeating it and banishing it into the depths of the abyss.
Umbryon being victorious, created the thousand realms without the interference of Emrod, from which creatures sprung and other gods emerged forming his pantheon.
Emrod, furious swore revenge on all the creations of Umbryon, deceiving them with false knowledge and creating his army of demons and devils, amongst whom demon gods emerge terrorizing the thousand realms.
This is a classic fairytale between god and devil, but it is believed by inhabitants of this bubble dimension. Orion thought to himself as he watched Tatio gut his bullies.
The six paths, though not infinite are extremely massive, as a result, many wonders exist. Among them is a bubble dimension, which in all sense exists and is real, coexisting with the six paths. Some were created, while most are natural. Orion and his family are in one of those natural dimensions. This dimension was not created by a god, it was invaded by one.
Umbryon was originally a god with many worshippers in the six paths, a god with the abilities of a veridical immortal class cultivator (Veridical Immortality is the sixth class in the Nine classes of the Immortal realm). As with many, he had enemies and he was defeated by their combined might, his god-spark shattered into fragments, most of which died immediately, but not before he killed many of his enemies one of which just discovered this natural dimension.
This secret, now in Umbryon's hands was naturally put into good use. As his god-spark was shattered, the god-sparks which survived were saved by some of his worshippers. Umbryon, Emrod and Umbron were part of them. Weakened, the god could not help but be corrupted by some of his worshippers, that was how Umbryon and Emrod possess opposite ideologies despite being the same being. Umbryon and Emrod then went on a killing spree, devouring the weaker god-sparks until they were equal in strength, Umbron was rescued by his most faithful servant before landing on Planet Umbron.
Umbryon and Emrod, noticeably equal in strength decided to finish their conflict in this natural dimension. They colonized it and used their abilities to ensure life flourishes in many of the solar systems in the dimension. Finally, with a place to hide and recover, both god-spark decided to strengthen themselves before the final battle between both of them which would decide who devours who. As for their initial worshippers, they had been turned into puppets with all memories wiped, they are the angels and fallen angels of these gods. This final battle had been ongoing till now, Orion had gotten hold of their secret from Umbron and decided this would also be a place for him and his son Lightless to rest and grow.
Orion turned to look at lightless, or Barry Thompson, or Barry Thompson's heart.
After their first meeting at Cloude city of Planet Thanen, Orion had given Barry Thompson a technique as he noticed Barry had the physique and the unresolved karma for it. So he helped Barry resolve his karma and he used the self-destroying technique to refine Barry's heart. The refinement continued by using a sliver of source darkness and the hearts of the thousand saints he killed to create a masterpiece. Lightless is the consciousness that emerged from this refinement. As for the physique type, he used the information from all the body parts he harvest to create a mortal physique capable of evolving to the extent of holding authority in the future.
While Orion can't bring out matter from the Void Heaven Reality, it is possible to retain all information on the matter in his void soul. It was this information he used as a template to design Lightless' physique. A physique above all in the six paths and below one, a Herculean Physique.
This would be wasteful to all in the six paths as the materials could be used to forge a supreme immortal from a mortal. But why would Orion leave such a large amount of impurities in his son?
Looking at the projection, Orion turned to lightless, "Prepare to carry him up the mountain."
"Hmm..." Lightless nodded.
Tatio had killed the remaining three of his bullies and is en route to Dario's house, the town lord's compound, where he would be detected. If there are no external variables, he'd be killed.
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Tatio calmed his trembling hands, unknown to even him if they were a result of fear, excitement, fatigue or a combination of all. Nearing the town lord's compound, he knew if he was caught here then he must ensure it is after he'd finished his job. He must not meet his mother before he cripples Dario for life, he told himself.
He crouched in the shrubs outside the fence, waiting till the coast was clear before he enters the building.
"Have you seen the young master today? I couldn't find him anywhere." A conversation reached his ears.
"Oh... I heard he got into a fight while drinking... He is training for tomorrow... It's his big day after all." Another replied but the rustling of trees and others interfered making him unable to hear the main points.
"At this time... night... incredible..." The conversation by this point is beyond his ears. While unable to hear the full conversation, he knew the main points and from that, he could understand that Dario is training.
'Praise be Umbryon!!' Tatio thought gratefully, for the free information. Aware of his next destination, Tatio sneaked around the compound using his intuition to differentiate the purpose of the buildings. This went on for a few minutes until he saw a training hall with lights on.
With measured breath and steps, Tatio sneaked into the building.
Dario really was dedicated to his training. If he had not been paranoid of Tatio overtaking him, the misfortune about to be inflicted upon him would have missed him.
Nevertheless, He was in a corner practising his basic stances with a straw doll, many straw dolls were strewn on the floor. Focusing on the straw doll, he was hacking at it, directing every bit of strength from his well-toned muscle, imagining that dastardly face on the doll. This exercise continued until he started seeing two dolls instead of one.
Alarmed, he broke his focus to scan the surroundings for abnormalities only to be hit on the head.
"Fuck..." was the only thing that came out of his mouth before blacking out.
Gazing down at his foe, Tatio brought the ropes and tied him up by looping the rope around multiple times. Tatio looked at the adversary before him, well tied, before stabbing his chest through the lungs before stopping and pulling out.
Dario woke up from the pain but could not shout as his lungs were being filled with blood instead of air. He could only cough as he looked at his assailant, immediately he knew who it was and his face was clouded by fury.
"Interesting..." Tatio commented, looking at Dario, "Miho was filled with fear when I got to him, while the rest were silent."
"You still managed to be angry..."
Tatio stabbed the other chest but left the stake in it, he wouldn't want his tormentor to die quick. Dario's face was already showing signs of breaking away from fury.
"You know..." Tatio said, "I used to look up to you, even when I was ignored by all. I looked up to you."
"When the bullying started, I wished I could live the kind of life you had."
"..." Stakes to the shoulders, this time Dario showed despair, "I know, you draw in mana with your lungs, so I crippled it first."
"With that, you would never be a bloodline artist or a mage." Tatio said cynically, "Without your hands, you would be half a man."
"Hmmm... Let me take your legs too." Tatio promptly stabbed his knees, sending the stakes through to the other side, causing Dario to hiss out of pain, causing more pain from the condition of his lungs.
Dario's face was pale, extremely pale, but he refused to shed a tear or show fear even though he was scared.
"Should I take your manhood? or your spine?" Tatio thought out loud, but he would not finish that thought as he would hear footsteps from the far distance causing him to panic. Despite his actions throughout the night, Tatio had been a person who had always been bullied, taking actions like this does not mean he magically became courageous. The sounds of the footsteps seem to be coming here when he decided to at least leave the last mark on Dario. He used the knife on him to cut off Dario's ears before he makes his way out through the rear of the compound.
On his way out to the back of the compound, he heard calls, from people who seem to be looking for Dario. Sprinting, he took off his cloak and doused it in the powder he used to knock people out and threw it, folded around his left shoe towards another direction away from the rear of the house.
By the time he reached the boundary fences at the rear, he could hear sounds of people shouting and alarm being raised, he knew they would be on his trail in minutes with hunting dogs. Without lagging, he jumped over the fence as he started to make his way towards the town gate.
On his way, he removed his clothes and doused them with the last of his powder before throwing them in another direction with his shoes. On his way towards the gate, a loud bell ring shook the whole town startling all those in charge of security. In seconds, all the people in charge of security had gathered themselves, hounds were barking and people were aroused.
"What happened?" Someone asked.
"The bell is ringing, meaning the whole town is on lockdown." Another replied, "Detain any suspicious-looking person and we'll know the reason when the town lord addresses us."
This conversation reached his hearing from the place he was hiding. Immediately, he tried to sprint in the direction of his house at least when he blacked out. From behind, Lightless materialized as he lifted him before moving towards the gate, causing shouts to ring through the area.
"Found him!!" One shout came through.
"He's kidnapping someone." Another scream moved in their direction, both of which Lightless ignored as he kept sprinting towards the gate at an extremely fast speed.
"Close the gates!!!" Another shout echoed throughout the town, the whole town was coming after them.
Three people suddenly appeared before them, performing an ambush that would seem perfect. Those from behind and sideways thought it was perfect, only for lightless to disappear before their eyes and continue behind them.
"He's a Journeyman!!!" A Yell came from one of the three ambushers as that was the only conclusion they could come to.
"Then let's see if he can escape me too." a deep voice came from the already closed gate, a huge man stood at the gate waiting for them to approach, he was holding a huge broad sword.
"It's the assistant captain!" Those behind yelled excitedly as they recognized the assistant captain of the town guards.
"Let's join up and surround him." The voices behind were visibly relaxed now, as the assistant captain is a Rank One bloodline warrior and he should have no problem dealing with a journeyman warrior to them.
Lightless just continued his approach showing no intent to slow down, as if his way out was not blocked.
"Arrogant!!" The assistant captain yelled before swinging his broadsword down, his strike was explosive blasting open a large hole in the ground as lightless was absent from the area.
"Where--?" He was startled to have missed when he caught sight of the sole of a shoe coming to his face. He was unable to dodge it, but it didn't harm him as lightless used his face as a launching pad to propel himself up over the gate.
"ARRRGGH!!!" The assistant captain, with the print of feet on his face, screamed to vent his humiliation.
As he was preparing to propel himself, he caught sight of two shadows following the kidnapper, "Captain! The lord!"
He was stunned.
Isn't this just a case of kidnapping?
Not daring to tarry, he jumped over the gate as the four shadows flitted through the plains towards the mountain.
Lightless moved with the top speed he was capable of, he could hear his pursuers following him closely behind.
Do they want to tire me out? He snickered silently, 'I could run at this speed for years.'
At that speed he went, moving without breathing heavily until he could see a familiar mountain in the distance.
With a few leaps, he got to the base of the mountain where he stopped to look back at his pursuers before moving up the mountain leisurely.
The three got to the base of the mountain and tried moving further when they were sent backwards.
"HERMIT!!!" The city lord, Tusli Saryo screamed in anger and frustration. There is only one person on this mountain who could stop them, but why would he?
His only son is crippled, was he supposed to stay silent?
A slender palm appeared before his face as he was sent tumbling several hundred meters back with a bloody mouth.
Seeing the fate of their lord, the guard captain quickly went to the aid of the unconscious lord. The assistant stood there for a while before kneeling, "Please, release the criminal to us sir or---" he was also sent flying like his lord.
"Or what? You'll summon a dragon? your god? don't make me go on a killing spree..." A light-hearted voice sounded from the mountain peak.
"Come on, little lightless, let's see the result of your first action."