As the two Adjuchas pave way to the unexplored territory, they seemed very vibrant and chatty. As he continues listening to their conversations, he was vastly interested in their topic of the heart.
"We used to have hearts Muscles, that blood pumping organ that humans have."
Ronny proceeds to shove his entire arm through his hollow hole on his left side of the chest.
'Why did he put his whole arm through it?' He continues to observe their actions with interest.
Muscles burst out laughing, he teared up and said, "Man, you funny as hell, why did you bring that up, you look like you killed yourself. Oh wait we can't even do that in the first place."
Ronny couldn't help but smack his arms on the rough sand beneath them and roll around laughing.
'It's odd that their laughing feels familiar to me…'
—-
—[Menos Forest]—
Entering the unknown territory for the first time, he could tell this place wasn't ordinary at all.
The screech from Hollows was louder in this area.
Higher form Hollows appeared more frequently and in unity.
He could feel danger tingling across his skin as he steps foot inside.
The strong reign superior here. The weak perish beneath their grovelling feet.
It was a scene he was numb to by default.
Some had no sense of urgency, no sense of rationality as they run towards Muscles and Ronny who he had just been acquainted to.
Their mouths drool to no end, endlessly seeping through the cold, grey sand.
"More nusainces…" Muscle lightly flicks his hand as if he was swatting a fly. The power behind his flick was enough to splurge their remains everywhere. It was the definition of blood and gore.
Ronny on the other hand was the same. He felt annoyed at their presence.
As more come towards Ronny, he beams them with his finger tips. He calls it, 'Finger Cero'.
'Ronny and Muscles are strong…' He thought while analysing these two with each step of the way.
"Hey Weird Gillian. We are nearing the centre of Menos Forest. The strong ones live here by the way." Ronny said, though he remembered that he couldn't get a response from him.
Knowing this, Ronny scratches his head in embarrassment.
Muscles points towards a brightly lit encampment.
"I sense extremely strong beings here. Maybe they aren't hostile Ronny."
"Who knows… all types of weird shinnanegans happens in this rechid lands."
"You right…"
They both sigh, thinking it's going to be another encounter with uncompromising Hollows.
As both Ronny and Muscles gaze upon their strength, Muscles was the first to speak about his concerns. He whispers, "Aye Ronny. these Adjuchas are kind of strong. I think we should leave."
"Well no fucking shit. They are the same evolutionary species as us." Ronny remarked, though he hinted at joy rather than fear.
Squatting down next to a big white, crystalline stalk, they looked like two mischievous creatures sharing the same brain cell.
"You know what I am thinking?"
"Mhm…mhm…"
Both were lost in their own little world.
Just before they could formulate their plan, the unknown Adjuchas detected their presence as they immediately saw a massive Gillian next to the giant crystalline stalk.
'I don't know where to hide at all…' Definitely felt a bit too big for his own good.
Surrounded by two Adjuchas, they left no room for escape.
"Well well well, who do we have here?" An Adjucha who looked like a scorpion said quite condescendingly.
The first to initiate the fight was an Owl-like Adjucha. They flutter their silent wings towards the Weird Gillian.
'Someone strong!' He could feel it, his skin crawled with intense sweat.
—-
The Owl Adjucha launches a falcon kick dive to his chest. The kick stirred up a strong gust of wind towards him but he braces himself by crossing his arms in order to block it. As a result, his towering figure was sent flying towards the large crystalline stalk.
'So fast…' This Adjucha was faster than his eyes could perceive it.
But it didn't demoralise him, it only made him feel reignited.
Brushing off the debris, he begins spewing out the green miasma from his arms and legs.
"Hoho… This is new." The Owl Adjucha rubbed his chin in ponder, looking at the Gillian in front with interest.
"Alright then." Moving at a faster speed, the Owl Adjucha shoots out multiple cero attacks.
The Gillian points his finger towards each cero attack with his condensed green miasma.
'Iyono Fingers!'
The condensed miasma formed into bullets shooting towards the bombardment of ceros.
Hiding beneath the explosions, the Owl Adjucha spun his entire body like a drill, drilling towards him through the smokescreen.
'I had a feeling he was going to do this.'
Just before he was going to shoot out his cero, the Owl Adjucha duplicated, forming the exact same doppelgänger in the air.
'There's two?!' Flabbergasted, he tries sensing which one was the real body.
'There's no time to be thinking who is who…'
'Improvise…' He clasps his hand together, after he made a circle with his hands, he charges up his cero.
His hands was swirling all the condensed, green miasma towards his hand.
Then with a powerful beam shot forth from his mouth, a hint of green tunnels towards both the two Owls in the air.
'Iyono Cero!'
Sensing the danger emnanting from the beam, the Owl Adjucha dodges by a hair's width, showcasing its experience. The Owl Adjucha twisted midair, catching the shockwave of the blast with his wings, accelerating toward him like a bullet.
"Silent Killer." The Owl Adjucha made his wings sharper a katana, spreading his wings like two bladed edges.
Sensing the impending doom, the Gillian moves behind the giant crystalline stalk to his advantage.
"Smart… But you have to do better than that!" Changing direction mid flight, the Owl Adjucha dives towards the Gillian not knowing what he was doing behind there.
"Shit!"
'Iyono Blades!'
Three blades with acidic properties burst forward at Mach speed hitting the surprised Owl Adjucha.
The blades exploded on impact, sending a massive shockwave across the Menos Forest.
"Hooo, impressive."
As he stops fluttering, his wings feel extremely heavy. He notices it immediately and proceeds to land safely onto the rough sand. The way he lands gracefully, he is reminiscent of a young business entrepreneur in their suit.
Thr Owl Adjucha's wings took considerable damage, small holes cascade across both sides.
"You are quite powerful, young one." The Owl snickers with pride and eloquence.
The Scorpion Adjucha instanteously moved towards the Owl Adjucha to check up on him.
"He actually got you even in the Gillian form, that is so embarrassing." The Scorpion Adjucha said and wheezed.
She smacked her scorpion tail onto his back.
The Owl closes his eyes, crosses his arms and grunts like he was having a bad day.
"This Gillian has the qualities of a true king."
The shadow of a silhouette begins to approach and reveal their location.
The aura imposed by this being was so strong that it surpassed everyone's spiritual power combined.
"You should be called a name young one."
He instaneous teleported directly next to the Gillian's face.
"Darwin, you shall be called Darwin. Boundless paths, boundless ways, boundless evolutions."
'Darwin…' Listening to the suggested name, he felt somewhat pleased with its meaning.
"I forgot to introduce myself." The unknown small silhouette with a humanoid figure begins to bow graceful with a 90 degree incline.
"My name is Mies De Beur."
As Darwin begins to take note of his appearance, he was left astonished.
The person in front of him fit the descriptions of the ultimate form of a hollow.
A Vasto Lorde. A significant existence counted on one's finger.