The Territory Lord, trembling with terror, turned to look at the place where his arm used to be. What he saw was nothing more than a spout of inky blood. "AHHH! MY ARM!" He screamed in a panic feeling the pain. "Why don't you just kill…" He started saying and then his lower half vanished. "FUCK! INK IS ETERNAL!" he roared in pain, attempting to do something.
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"What? Why didn't I go boom? I was supposed to go BOOM! Just like that…" The Territory lord cried, showing his true wicked self, weakness. "Why do you torture me this way? Don't you know it hurts? LET ME DIE WITH PRIDE!" He yelled as his scolding.
"Bwahahaha! You think I should give you mercy like that? Very well, I'll tell you a secret. There is a place called Hell, the king who rules there is quite ruthless with his tormenting punishments on the souls of the damned. And there is a special place within Hell reserved for those who wrought forth the fury of a dragon. What I do to you here, well, I have to prepare you for the pain to follow right?" I explained with a grin. "Hmm, maybe giving you practice for the pain is a little too kind. Unfortunately for me, I tend to like tearing my enemies asunder. And besides, you're kind, eats my people for fun. And pure amusement. Striking fear into their hearts…" I continued.
Everyone stopped moving, breathing and everything in between. The void was trembling as if something furious was about to rear its head. And sure enough, in response to my fury. Every pit of the infinite space in the Great Domain filled with lightning. Everywhere was covered in a thick, furious and chaotic power.
The Ink clan that had been attempting to hide were instantly killed. The ones currently in battle were killed down to a single Territory Lord. It didn't take long for the lightning to appear, and it faded just as quickly. There were a couple of ink disciples at the gate to the next territory. My lightning had responded to the presence of ink and thus purified them all. The guards there seemed surprised but…
"Thank you, for your help Master of Thunder… Geeze I hope I didn't offend this hidden master…" A guard said, as some others bowed respectfully, before quickly returning to their tasks.
"What… What did I just see? I can't… How?" The four 7th ranks shouted at once in total shock.
I returned to my human form and stretched freely with a smile, then gave a smile and a thumbs up. "You two can handle the rest right?" I asked, and two of my lightning bolts found their way into each of the Supreme Elder's. "You should be able to toy with that one for a bit. But don't take too long alright? I want to wrap this up and go home soon." I added, flying up to the ships.
"Heh, don't worry, without any interference, this thing is just a wannabe corpse." Azure Nether's Supreme Elder said with a laugh.
"Yeah this won't take long. Just a little, anger-born-stress, ventilation." Azure Void's Supreme Elder said.
The two 8th rank Supreme Elders began a rage fueled beat down on the lone territory lord. It was actually quite a good show to watch.
"If this situation could be reflected on the battlefield…" I spoke softly, but was overheard.
"You know of the battlefield?" The senior 7th rank asked, somehow still surprised.
"Huh, of course I know? I was born in my father's small universe. While he was over there. I've killed quite a large amount of Ink clan I think it's about… Eh, it doesn't matter. I've killed enough of them that these fools sent a Royal Lord after my head once before. Not lying, that was truly the first time I felt fear fighting the ink clan." I replied, gently scratching my cheek.
"So, you're the one my junior sister married… I was quite surprised that someone managed to take her. I was quite looking forward to claiming her for myself. But some man came along and took her while I was breaking through." The new 7th rank, young woman, just a little older than Qing Ning said.
"Hmm, you aren't going to cause trouble about it, are you?" I asked, raising my brow.
"No, just curious about the one you took her. You're worthy, so I'll only tease you about it lightly. Unless…" The 7th rank continued.
"Please, stop there. Anything further would be disrespectful to my wives. I do not actively seek out fairies to wed. I certainly won't go behind their back to wed another woman. I already have a tough time stopping them from unilaterally adding…" I said, stopping myself before I finished speaking. "Huh, I guess I'm a bit stressed out. Well, I do want my parents to finally have their massive wedding… Hey, are you two done yet?" I said, turning to call out to the supreme elders.
"Huh? Oh yeah. You can purify its body, correct? I think he's well past dead at this point." Azure Nether's Supreme Elder chuckled, lugging the corpse back towards me.
"Thanks for the help, Young Palace Master. Our people are safe because of you." Azure Void's Supreme Elder said, conveying his thanks yet he wore a smile. "And thank you for giving me a small insight into another matter." He added.
"Huh? Uhm, alright… Well, I hope you know that we'll be discussing our options moving forward. It's impossible to hide this from the public now. But judging by what my father feels… We should try to wait on giving the specifics of the enemy. And just say they are evil creatures invading from outside our beloved 3000 worlds. But we can hash that out another after the wedding." I answered, opting to ignore the common smile on the woman's face and the Supreme Elder's. "Now then, Star Boundary here we come!" I said, opening a large gate to get us directly to the Star Boundary.
The ships followed me through the gate and then exited the other side, safe and sound. I closed the gate up behind us. Though no one bothered to notice that, not when they were witnessing the World Tree for the first time.
"So… So this is the cradle of the Open Heaven Realm. It's beautiful." Someone said, with many others in agreement.