Cold black eyes pierced through the many spheres floating within the void to gaze at the many fights taking place within the subspace they housed.
"Quite a lot has come for you."
A black sky enlightened only by the brightly blazing blue stars, lines of criss-crossing energy intertwined each star into the formation of a phoenix and within its center a small crown floated with an ethereal phoenix slowly taking form beside it.
Attention was more focused on the subspaces, the eyes caught a few exceptional participants, "some of them are really close to stepping on that path."
"Flames, Serenity and Destruction. Interesting, this one has already taken half a step onto the path."
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The scent of burning flesh filled the air with the aroma of meat.
Purple and a reddish-green flame littered the area as they worked tirelessly to extinguish the other.
Golden eyes meet swirling reddish-green vortex of flames, "I've gained a lot from fighting you, to think this energy could be this strong all by itself, I've been going about it wrong all along."
Amore gave a half bow in the direction of the energy apparition to express her gratitude and respect just as she had done with the eight others she had dispatched.
"It's time to end this though, Elefsi Flogas," flames engulf her body, dispersing seconds later to show her dressed in her battle garment.
Sensing danger the gray skinned apparition retreated ten meters back.
"Wrong move. Burn bright my flames of Pride and reduce yourself to dust to give rise to Chastity and Lust."
A wave of towering flames bursted from Amore's body, bathing the entire space in its purple brilliance.
Specs of dark and light blue flames slowly spread within the tower of flames, rising to the sky where they gathered into a brightly shining moon encircled by a ring of purple flames.
The flames danced with the appearance of the moon, its shape twisting into a sea of purple roses.
A gust of wind slowly scattered the petal all round the 100 meters that had become a world of roses.
"Garden of Serene Destruction, that is your name."
*Rumble*
As if responding to its name the garden quaked, shaking the space around it in tandem to show its approval.
Basking in the beauty she had created, Amore glanced at the apparition in the distance as the drain on her energy was swift and she couldn't maintain the Garden for long.
She transmitted her will for the destruction of the apparition that stood within her Garden.
A single rose petal flashed before either people in the area could react, leaving a pin-sized hole in the head of the Amore's opponent.
Falling to her knees gasping for breath, Amore was beyond exhausted, that single attack had drained her of all her energy and even a little of her vitality was lost.
"I've comprehended my Expression, all that's left is the self, then I'll truly be a Royal."
Amore smiled as the strand of energy entered her body as she entered a state of cultivation.
Such fights raged within each sub-space, each win made one stronger but one loss meant the end of one journey.
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Thirio slowly opened his eyes with a smile on his face.
Clenching his fist and feeling the power he now held, he now three times stronger than before he came here.
Thinking back to old self, he would easily kill him with a breath of energy from his current self.
'Vadne with my current strength, how many realms can I sermount.'
'Don't be lost in your new found strength, you're still weak, even among the younger generation you're now just barely catching up but against those normal trainers, you're able to crush all those below the peak of the next major cultivation realm.'
'What's the next realm.'
'It's not time for you to worry about that, don't you plan to attain the next stage. Now focus.'
Calming down, Thirio reflected on all his previous comprehensions, he perfectly fused his astral energy with the others while cleansing all of the impurities within his energy which made it flow faster and smooth.
The perfect fusion also brought about unexpected new abilities and properties to his energy.
The fighting had thoroughly stimulated his potential as with each fight he came out stronger then when he went in.
"What's that sense of calling I've been feeling though, it feels near but every time I reach for it, it slips right through my fingers."
*Rumble*
Vibrations shook the room as cracks started to form in the distance.
Thirio Swiftly sent his last strand of energy outside to begin his final trial.
Energy swiftly converged around to strand to form two completely black gigantic eyes, specks of light shuttled around within, vortices of energy swirled within.
Thirio was entrapped by the view the eyes presented, they seemed to have contained the movement and mysteries of the astral energy that floated within the vast expanse of space and more.
So lost was he that Thirio barely noticed the approaching crack that signified the impending destruction of the subspace he occupied nor the shining door of starlight two step behind him that was his way out.
"So that's how it is, if I circulate astral energy this way around my body it will have the effect of tempering my body. The energies I use can be even further transformed into something stronger. Hmm, so this can be linked to this, it can be compressed this way."
As more and more mysteries were understood by Thirio, changes were happening real time within his body.
*Shatter*
The crystalized energy within his spheres shattered, returning to its gaseous form, slowly seeping from within they all charged to hover above his heart.
Piece by piece and bit by bit, as more energy gathered the form of a golden nine pronged star with a chain link at each end was slowly taking form.
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*Chirp chirp*
"This is as much as I can interfere for you little guy, the rest is up to those guys that you have chosen."
*Chirp chirp chirp*
"What do you mean since I have already helped you twice I should just go all the way, listen here, I'm not the one you should be complaining to, why don't you try complaining to that woman."
"Hmph, you don't dare do you, with your inborn knowledge you should already understand some things."
*Chirp chirp chirp*
"You little shit, did you just threaten me, how can you be so ungrateful."
*Chirp*
The eyes narrowed causing the entire expanse of void they were in to become illusory.
*Chirp chirp*
"You've got balls for a newborn, I'll help you out one more time and I hope to never run into another shameless fellow like you."
*Crack*
"Quite down, it's time."
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"I'll get straight to the point, overcome the constellation and gain everything within."
The voice vanished as quickly as it came, but no more needed to be said as everyone was using their own methods to madly rush into the sky.
While many had rushed forward in excitement, just as many were still standing on the ground waiting.
"It's all fun to have fodder to lead the way, don't you think so?" laughing crazily, his eye never once left the view above.
"A Mastiga like you has no right to speak about fodder when you're just a slightly bigger fodder in my eyes."
"Hoo, I've alway heard human women were feisty, it seems they were right," stepping of the Mastiga slowly rose into the air, ascending higher with each step as if a stair was created in the air solely for him.
"Was it really wise to provoke him in that way Miss Amore," having walked over to greet a friend, she had been just in time to hear the short exchange of words.
"Ah,Princess Teresa, would you kindly mind your own business," burning wings for purple sprouted from Amore's back; with a beat of her wings she tore through the sky like a comet.
"She's as impulsive as always isn't she Rian, no the less we should be on our way before everything is snatched," wind gathered underneath Teresa's.
*Boom*
"You can come back now Vasilias, word of advice, it's best not to try anything with those two, not even your family would be able to protect you if you crossed either one of them."
"Yes yes, now let's just go, I haven't seen or sensed Thirio since we arrived in this place but I'm sure he's fine."
*Swoosh*
Only the shimmered air remained in the spot the two once stood, showcasing their immense speed to all that remained.
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Thirio slowly opened his eyes that now had the addition of a nine-pronged star that shone with a golden light.
"I don't know who you are but I will remember this kindness and repay it one day," Bowing to slowly closing eyes, Thirio stepped toward the door of starlight before stopping to look at the screen before him.
'Vadne, did you have anything to do with this?'
'Nope, but I do approve of it, good going Lust, let this young man learn the pleasure of the female body.'
Thirio shook his head as he stepped through the door.
-Lust is disappointed in your sexual appetite-
-Grope a drop dead beauty within the next 30 mins-
-The greater risk, the greater the reward-