Martial Arts Worlds - Chapter 812
Chapter 812: Kiernan’s Iron Smash
“…”
It was silent in the shore, and dark.
The small village had quieted down, and people were calming down for the night with their families.
At Bella’s and Karma’s farm, the animals were settled in their pens and coops.
Meanwhile, the farmworkers settled in their houses and hung around with their families—playing games, watching television, and just enjoying each other’s company.
At the shore, Ellie was sitting in the sand and used a wooden stick to draw in the sand.
She drew three heads with stick bodies—a family of three—and she tenderly wrote their names in the sand.
“Aoi… Ellie… Kiernan…”
At the last name, her lips trembled, and she hugged her legs close to her chest, feeling tears prick at the corners of her eyes.
There was a cold wind coming from the World Sea, and for some reason, all clouds and birds were escaping from the horizon.
It was the direction of the Dead World.
Almost like there was something apocalyptic happening over there.
“Dad…”
She buried her head in her knees and sobbed quietly, but there was somebody listening, and soon a comforting hand was placed on her shoulder.
Ellie flinched and turned to see her mother—Aoi—standing there with the same sad expression.
“Mom…?”
“May I sit with you?”
Aoi asked softly with a loving gaze.
Ellie nodded and shuffled slightly to the side, and Aoi sat beside her and looked at the cold dark waters of the sea.
“Tomorrow is your dad’s and my anniversary.”
Aoi said with a sad look.
She could still remember that day vividly and dreamed about it often, as it was the happiest day of her life alongside the birth of Ellie.
It only made her sadder when she remembered that happiness.
“…Why did he go there… Couldn’t he have stayed with you?”
Ellie asked.
“I have been asking that question by myself all these years, and I keep wondering whether it was really worthwhile to go over there.
“And I keep thinking about whether he also regretted it during his… final moments.”
Aoi bit her lip, wiped the tears off her face, and let out a deep breath, as she always cried when she tried thinking about how Kiernan died.
Every scenario she thought of made her bawl her eyes out, and she had become quite tired of crying all the time.
She also knew she had to look strong for Ellie.
“I want him to be alive… So much… It hurts… I just want to see him again, even if it’s just once more, and touch him…”
Aoi said.
In that moment, Ellie grabbed her hand, and the warmth got transferred from her hand to Aoi’s. It was a lovely moment between mother and daughter.
…
“GOD AMOTIC BREATH!”
Kiernan, in his Demon Wolf form, torched the nearby Black Knights with the deadly atomic breath.
The radiation in the air turned deadly, and the sky darkened with ash.
“ROAR!”
Mythologia, in his Sun Dragon form, smashed into Kiernan, and the Dragon and the Wolf fell out of the sky.
They bit, clawed, and tore at each other with all their might.
In the end, the two crashed through the ground, and after just a single second, Demon Wolf jumped out of the crater.
With the huge wings, Sun Dragon Mythologia flew after him, but in that moment, Kiernan turned around his massive demon wolf head and breathed a stream of black fire that engulfed the dragon in flames.
“BLACK WOLF’S SINFUL FIRE!”
“…Mind Distortion.”
In that moment, Itachi trapped Kiernan inside a new reality filled with his own twisted imaginations.
The reality was just one big mirror maze, and there were all kinds of twisted creatures coming after him from behind every corner.
It was like that reality was the result of the madness that consumed Itachi’s mind.
Kiernan returned back to his human form, and this time, his fingers turned into black steel, and he cut through the reality itself.
“Black Ripper!”
During his prison sentence, Kiernan kept growing stronger with the help of the system, as he was able to go to other “realms” to do quests in exchange for power.
The system wanted for him to keep getting stronger, and thus it modified itself to fit Kiernan’s needs.
During those quests, he kept growing stronger, and as a result, he also acquired a couple more abilities.
[Black Qi – Conjuration-Type]
[Black Darkness – Kinetra-Type]
[Demon Wolf – Transformation-Type]
[Black Ripper – Physical-Type]
[Dark God of Dreams – Mindbreaker-Type]
With the Black Ripper ability, there was nothing he couldn’t cut, and thus, he was even able to shred through the reality!”
The twisted imagination world shattered like glass, and Kiernan appeared back in the real world.
In that moment, he saw a couple of Black Knights going after the flying ship, and he immediately shredded through them with “Black Ripper.”
Most of the Black Knights were already dead.
However.
Kiernan left a few special ones for last and turned around to see Twisted, Kouketsu, and Miseria retreating.
They planned to leave this to Itachi and Mythologia.
“Hmph.”
Kiernan created a black vortex in front of his right hand, and a strong gravitational force pulled them straight to him.
“Black Hole!”
Kouketsu swung his fist at him and punched him in the face, but it didn’t even make him flinch.
“Tell Death I said hi.”
Kiernan scratched Kouketsu’s throat, and his head just flew off with blood pouring out like a fountain.
“Ahh!”
Miseria tried flying away, but Kiernan grabbed her leg, crushed it, and then punched through her face with his bare hand, killing her instantly.
“Hahaha… Are you still mad about that girl I killed? It wasn’t persona—”
Twisted said with an awkward laugh, but Kiernan didn’t let him speak another word and pulled his heart out of his chest.
“…”
In the skies, Mythologia and Itachi looked down at him. They were the only ones left since Metsudo was on his vacation.
“…Only the two of you? As I expected, Mercedes can’t come by herself, can she? She is bedridden, after all.”
Kiernan said with a smile.
“You have no right to say Her name. Know your place, you filthy human piece of shit.”
Mythologia said angrily.
Itachi, on the other hand, stayed quiet, as he never talked much from behind his strange mask that he always wore.
“…You two are the only ones left standing… I want to go home… So, get the hell out of my way!”
Kiernan lunged at them, reeled back his fist, and punched with all his strength flowing into one point in his fist.
“KIERNAN’S IRON SMASH!”