Kai was lying beside the Fury King, who was bleeding. The darkness had almost completely disappeared, and Kai began to see that he was lying on a vast wasteland. And above him hung the familiar grey sky of Asura's Hell.
- N...Nak...Finally... - Kai's words rang out.
At that moment, it was clear that his perception of sound had returned to normal as well, as he could speak.
Lying down, he shifted his gaze to the Fury King from the last of his strength and saw him turn into balls of black mist.
...
- Gaaaah! - Kai shouted loudly, returning to the Tomb of Time.
Just now, something that Kai was already expecting had happened. That black smoke went straight into Kai's eyes. After that, he felt an incredible pain in all of his senses. But it didn't end there. Kai felt as if he had been struck by lightning, he felt a rather strange feeling. He felt like the pain was crashing all over his body, following incredibly thin strings.
Kai even grabbed his face and pressed on his eyeballs a bit. It was an instinctive movement. It seemed to his mind that it might help ease the pain.
After lying like that for about a minute, it soon went away. But right after that, Kai felt his attention swim a lot and it became difficult to focus his thoughts... After a moment, Kai collapsed to the ground and fell asleep.
The last fight was quite exhausting. Kai was delivering his last blow on his last breath. The pain from absorbing the Fury King was the final one. Therefore, as soon as he relaxed, he immediately fell asleep.
After sleeping for about two hours, Kai started to come to his senses....
- Mmm... What... - Kai muttered to himself, slowly getting up.
With slightly sleepy eyes, Kai looked around, trying to figure out what was going on....
- Right! Another one! - Kai shouted and jumped to his feet, - Fuck yeah! - Kai smiled, clenching his fists in joy.
Such a reaction wasn't typical of him. But the last two months had been exhausting. Although it seemed that the Fury King was weaker than the Envy King in pure martial arts. But the conditions under which one had to fight him were just prohibitively difficult!
Kai had spent almost twice as much time absorbing the Fury King. It had already been almost three months since he had been in the Tomb of Time.
Thinking about it, Kai walked towards the river. He decided to clean himself up and refresh himself. This time, he didn't even look around himself using his Essence Eyes. He realised that until he absorbed all five Kings, he wouldn't learn anything. There was no point in studying his body.
Kai decided that he would study the changes in his body later. Most likely after the second stage of the Invisible Kings Torture Technique was already completed.
"I'll wash well, restore my energy to its maximum, and head to Asura's Hell again. I don't have much time left..." - Undressing thought Kai.
Feeling that he only had three months left, Kai began to feel the pressure of time.
"The King of Pain and the King of Terror are left... If I have to spend as much time on them as the King of Fury... It's too long, I need to speed up." - Reasoned Kai in his thoughts.
If things continue on the principle that each successive opponent will take more time than the previous one... Then, he doesn't even have enough rented time for that!
- I don't think there will be a problem with King Pain. After all, I've made tremendous progress recently... His speciality is defence and overwhelming power. I mean, I'll be fighting, and that's the easy part. - But the King of Terror... I can't imagine what he'll do to me..." Kai said thoughtfully.
Of all the five Kings, the most peculiar and incomprehensible was the Terror King. He literally tested your brain and mind, forcing you to experience very different events. A weak minded person would simply go insane.
If the Queen of Lust played on a person's temptations, the King of Terror seemed to test every aspect of the master's soul. He could make you feel the entire spectrum of feelings. By creating an illusory life starring you, he could show the most unbelievable scenarios. That kind of power was too frightening!
- Fuck it. I'm sure of myself and my thoughts. Yes and the point is to wonder, we need to go to Asura's Hell and find out for ourselves! - Kai said firmly.
Taking a deep breath, he dove completely under the water. Kai put all outside thoughts out of his head and decided to just rest in peace.
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Hours later, Kai was once again entering Asura's Inferno. He was already fully recovered and had even worked on his Energy Vortex a bit.... After a moment, he opened his eyes, returning to Asura's Inferno.
- So you're going to be next? Hehe. - Glancing at his opponent, Kai gave out with a smile.
He was now watching as a huge silhouette stood across from him. It was the King of Pain. But what surprised Kai the most was the scenery surrounding him. They were standing on a rocky terrain, near a huge mountain that was split in half. It was about a few hundred metres away from them.
Kai was about to pull out his daggers and rush into the atka, but he suddenly stopped....
"What is he doing?" - Kai thought with puzzlement.
At this moment, the Pain King just calmly turned around and started walking towards the mountain split, not paying attention to Kai. Only after walking a few dozen metres did he stop and turn around to look at Kai. It was as if the king was hinting to Kai to follow him. Seeing Kai's incomprehension, he raised his palm and waved in his direction, showing Kai to follow....
- What's going on... Okay, the hell with you... I'm going I'm going! - Annoyed, Kai shouted out, scratching his head in parallel from not understanding the situation.
Hiding his daggers, he ran towards the King of Pain. This whole situation seemed slightly infuriating to Kai.
"I'm not surprised by anything anymore... I'll just improvise..." - Kai calmed himself down.
After a few minutes, they began to approach the split. At that moment, Kai saw that the rift was spreading deep into the ground as well, creating a gorge. It was so deep that only pitch blackness was visible beneath their feet. A strange sensation constantly radiated from it. If one looked at it from a certain angle, even the air was slightly distorted.
From the depths of this gorge, small stone pillars were rising up. They were so narrow that only one person could fit in there. And that was if he kept his feet together. There were long distances between the pillars, it would be unrealistic to advance through the gorge on them.....
Looking at all this, Kai's face began to have a strange expression on it....
- Shit! You couldn't have brought me here right away? Why did you have to make me come all the way here?! This gorge sucks! King Envy and King Fury were more spectacular! - Kai cursed.
The King of Pain looked at Kai with a slight squint. After that, he folded his arms, crossing them at the level of his chest and jumped towards the gorge.
After landing on one of the pillars, he slowly turned around. Standing there, he looked at Kai in an arrogant pose, as if provoking him.
- Know... Of all the Kings, you're kind of.... The most retarded... - Shaking his head, Kai said.
After that, he looked at the gorge, chose a suitable pillar and jumped towards it as well. Kai understood what the King of Pain wanted from him.
It seemed that the competition would take a different scenario than Kai had thought. And it would only begin when he took his seat.
Landing on a column a few metres away from King Pain, Kai too folded his arms across his chest and looked at his opponent.
- So what's next? Are we going to compete to see who can hold a pompous pose the longest? - Kai asked with a sneer.
But at that moment, the whole space began to shake slightly, and Kai felt a sense of approaching danger.
"Something is about to happen!" - Kai shouted in his mind, and instantly became serious!