"Wake up, boy." A deep voice echoed and König was stirred awake. He was in the middle of a devastated city and standing over him was a tall man dressed in a black flowing cloak and sunglasses.
"W-Where am I?" König asked. The man sighed and sat on a piece of debris across from him.
"You are within your soul. I brought you here because you're a disappointment." The man said and his tone was getting angrier.
"W-What?" König stood up and the man clicked his tongue, "I want to be angry with you, I really do. But I understand you haven't even achieved a fraction of your true power, OUR true power."
He walked over to König and placed his hand on his shoulder. Immediately a pillar of pure reishi was created and it invaded König's body.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" He screamed in agony as he held his head. Reishi flooded every orifice of his being and was beginning to destroy him.
"Control it or your soul will crumble. If you die who is going to avenge Henry?" The man asked with a mocking laugh. König gritted his teeth and glared at the man.
"W-What did you do to me?!" He yelled as his right arm began to crumble into dust.
"I simply unlocked a piece of your soul, albeit very forcefully. Your body is supposed to acclimate to such levels of power but you don't have that luxury right now." The man said.
König closed his eyes and tried to fight through the pain, 'Instead of trying to absorb it all at once, let's take in portions.' He told himself.
By using his new tactic, his body slowly began to restore itself. Eventually, his body was returned and he continued to absorb the exorbitant amount of reishi.
The man stared at him with a minuscule smile on his face, 'The boy is evolving right in front of my eyes.'
König's body began to deconstruct once again but not out of death, out of rebirth. His bones, muscles, organs, and ethernano pathways were remade with reishi.
*WHOOSH*
König stood up anew. His features remained the same with the exception of his eyes. They were no longer split into three pupils but condensed into one. His eye color was now a dark blue that exuberated with power.
"Fuck you." He gave the middle finger and left. The man laughed heartily and sat down on debris, "Good luck, boy."
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[Magic Council High Security Prison]
König opened his eyes and this time he was in a jail cell. All of the injuries from his battle with Lollipop were healed putting a smile on his face.
"The Almighty has evolved. Something tells me it's not completely restored but aside from seeing the future, I can alter it now." His smile was maniacal. The bindings that sealed away his ethernano were suddenly removed. Nobody released the spell, König simply altered the future to where he was released.
"A powerful ability indeed. But my current strength can only maintain doing that once or twice a day." He said as he stretched his arms. He melted the bars of his jail cell and walked down the hall to where his blade was stored.
"How did you esc-" The guard's head fell off his body before he could even finish his sentence. König dropped his head on the ground and punched the steel door holding his weapon off its hinges.
"W-" Another guard had his head pulled off his body like a grape. His blade was behind a thick layer of glass with a restriction spell on top.
"Move." König said as his hands were enveloped in blue fire. He burned away the spell and broke through the glass.
Once he gripped his blade, he expanded his senses to find his targets. He felt the weakest mana signature a few floors above him.
He pointed his finger at the ceiling and enveloped it in flames, "Hell's Arrow."
At his words, a thick arrow made of fire pierced right through the ceiling and burned anyone in its path. His target, Kan Guy managed to dodge the arrow but was shaken by its speed and power.
*BOOM*
König stepped on the ground and flew up. He landed on Kan Guy's floor and pointed his blade at him, "You will be the first to die."
Kan Guy scoffed, "I don't know how you got free, but I'll do Captain a favor and kill you." He stomped on the ground and a halberd made of rocks flew into his hand.
König's Blut snaked across his body and he made a thin layer of reishi above his skin. Kan Guy's skin became rock-like and then both of them vanished.
*BOOM*
They reappeared clashing blades. The force of their collision decimated the entire floor they were fighting on. König swung his blade downward sending Kan Guy through the floors below. He then pushed off the air and flew down to continue his assault.
Kan Guy flipped around and landed on his feet, uplifting the ground below him. König came flying down from the sky and they collided blades once again.
*BOOM*
König's blade cut Kan Guy's halberd in half but failed to rake against his rocky skin. Kan Guy prepped his leg to fire a powerful kick but König saw this already and had shields of reishi formed.
*BANG*
His leg failed to break König's shields and he dispersed them while simultaneously attacking. Kan Guy side-stepped his slash and tried taking König's head off with a wide slash.
König easily dodged by letting go of his sword and jumping over Kan Guy's attack. He landed gracefully and dodged another swing from Kan Guy.
"STAY STILL!" Kan Guy yelled as he stomped on the ground creating dozens of large spikes. König preemptively jumped into the air avoiding the spikes. He pointed his finger at Kan Guy and released a volley of arrows.
"Earth Magic: Iron Wall!" Kan Guy slammed his hands against the ground and a thick wall blocked the arrows. A large dust cloud was formed and Kan Guy scanned for König. He felt him behind him and swung his halberd but there was nothing.
König came from his blindside and swung his sword. Kan Guy was too late to turn around resulting in a huge slash across his back.
"KEUGH!" He vomited blood as he fell to his knees. König stood over him with a cold expression, "Enjoy your vacation."
König was about to decapitate him but he stopped himself and jumped back.
*BANG*
A large fist of a black-skinned creature came from the ceiling. It was the same creature that attacked König and killed Henry.
"This is why we train Guy. You're getting your ass handed to you!" Cecily exclaimed as she slowly floated down and landed on top of the Soul Hunter's head. She crossed her legs and her blue eyes glared at König.
'Tch, can I fight two at the same time? I guess we'll find out.' König exhaled and looked at his enemies ahead of him with an untold amount of hatred.
Kan Guy stood up and the wound on his back was regenerating in real time. Cecily jumped off her Soul Hunter and unsheathed the katana on her waist.
"Hell's Barrage!" König yelled and fired a volley of flaming arrows. Guy made a wall that he and Cecily hid behind. König dashed towards the wall but was stopped by the Soul Hunter.
"RAAAHHHH!!" It roared and tried crushing König with its fist.
"Get the hell out of my way!" König yelled and swung his blade at blinding speeds, dicing the monster into pieces. He then flipped backwards avoiding Kan Guy who tried grabbing his ankles.
He then deflected a swing that came from the left. He kicked Cecily away and tilted his head to the right dodging an earth spear from Guy.
He used Hirenyaku to blitz Guy and knee him in the gut, "BLEGH!" Guy spat up more blood and the rocky skin on his stomach was cracked.
König then flipped him over his shoulder and slammed him into the ground. Guy coughed up more blood and gritted his teeth, "Earth Magic: Rock Burial!"
Rocks quickly encased him and König, "Soon you'll be crushed into a ball! DODGE THAT! HAHAHAHAHA!" He laughed and König laughed with him.
"You just sealed your fate." König laughed as he grabbed Guy's face. The air temperature quickly began to rise and the sweat on their bodies evaporated immediately.
"Boom." König said with a maniacal smile as he made Guy combust.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Guy screamed in agony as his flesh, bones, and ethernano pathways began to melt and fuse with his rocky skin. Moments later, he was a husk of burnt flesh.
"One down." König sliced open the rocky tomb and exhaled, "Next."