My Researching Journey (HxH)

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Chapter 190: My Exploration Of The Marvellous Dark III

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"No one to protect the place huh. An unprotected ritual place, either they're all dead or they know nothing can destroy it."

Noted Yasuo as he landed above a tall cylinder stone among the many stones around though the one he landed on is the tallest of the bench and the one at the center.

The stones were perfectly placed to form a rhombus shape. Each stone had a sense of ancientness but just looked quite exquisite making it apparent that it stood the test of time.

The gracefulness mostly comes from the perfectly engraved inscriptions on the pillars, "A barrier, one of the more complex ones."

Remarked Yasuo as he stepped away from the tall pillar yet strangely, instead of falling to the ground, he remained standing on the same height.

Even stranger is the fact that this wasn't the result of his control domain or any ability of his. There is an invisible barrier surrounding the place stopping anything from endangering the sacred place.

No from below the ground or above yet Yasuo found himself standing within the ritual site bypassing the barrier by tearing apart the fabric of space.

"Nothing too interesting, most are inscriptions I already know." Remarked Yasuo after observing the place for a bit.

After which, he teleported outside the barrier and lightly jumped a few hundred meters to the sky finding his silent loyal mount waiting for him.

Yasuo gently landed on the black dragon's back. The dragon was strangely just resting above a dark static cloud in the middle of the air, a cloud of its own creation.

Yasuo comfortably sat on its back and ordered, "Darco go... In that direction." Only then did the dragon deeply inhaled the air in the surroundings specifically the dark cloud he was resting upon.

He spread his large and massive wings as he started falling until that turned into flying higher and higher into the sky.

The remaining dark substance left beneath his wings helped a lot in that. Dark dragons have a massive advantage in the sky as they learned how to use their powers to fly smoother and faster.

The dark substance has both destructive properties and defensive ones. The latter can be used in some wondrous ways just like how the dragons in the high-sky use it as a nest.

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In a location not far from the ritual location, an obvious artificial building could be seen, what looks like a Stadium or a Colosseum, not too well-made but looked like it stood the test of time.

Life seems to be abundant within the Colosseum as the sound of human cheers and screams reverberated all around. A massive Colosseum with many many humans inside.

The Colosseum seems to be well decorated especially with a beautiful purple rose, this kind of rose could be seen everywhere in the Colosseum and its surroundings.

The burning torch lighting up the Colosseum brought even more beauty to the scene especially with the obvious smell of blood within, blood the audience seem to enjoy.

Blood of their enemies, of their arch-nemesis as well as their kind.

Their choice of outfits seems to be quite similar, very light clothes, mostly white clothes decorated with purple accessories and what looks like a fresh purple rose, the same kind of roses scattered everywhere.

It seems to be a symbol of their because some of their accessories are just a replica of that same rose. Most importantly, close to the highest point of the colosseum lies an exquisite statue of that same rose.

The seating sections surrounding the arena were completely full of numerous men and women, even children.

The most striking location however is the apparent elegant podium, the most prominent position in the Colosseum, looking down the on the arena.

The only one there is the ruler of these people. A tall muscled man seated on a large purple chair, he was the shining beacon of the Colosseum due to the many accessories and pieces of jewelry he's wearing.

However, he still doesn't really look like a ruler, more like a barbarian with eyes shining with wisdom. His clothes in contrast to most other people are purple.

His hair also looks purple with some of it looking inky. Not a natural purple color, that's the blood of his enemies, the blood splattered all over him, all over his skin and clothes.

His demeanor was cheerful and carefree countering his heavy muscled build and the blood over him which leaves little to the imagination.

A strange large juicy and yellow fruit was on his hand as he watched the scene before him unable to hide his happiness.

The scene of some strange creatures being butchered by his people.

The creatures were obviously some type of ants, humanoid ants. The only similarity they have to humans is their humanoid form but even among their species, they look quite different.

They have similarities to other creatures that live in the area around and beyond, this species of ants were the nemesis of his predecessors, the ant species that seems to hold a deep grudge against them.

They live so far apart yet fate always deemed for them to meet and time just barely erased that grudge from the ants' hearts but it wasn't erased from the humans' one bit.

It was written in the history of their people and Nozerdimor inherited his predecessors' will and watched discreetly for an opportunity to massacre the Ants.

Generations passed and the Ants forgot their grudge not caring anymore, instead, they did their job and brought food to the new queen for her to birth the new king.

However, there was so little they can do to get good food, everything around them could easily eat them alive. They were once a primordial predator under a strong King and Queen.

They however died due to humans. Nozerdimor knows why they died and how the grudge started in the first place, it's because the King and the Queen ate some of his kind.

Nozerdimor knows that's forbidden and for a reason, because his Kind is poisonous with some kind of unknown poison, something dark within them that doesn't allow even other humans to eat other humans.

The prime predators of that era that were preying on his kind died due to his predecessors' cunningness.

And now that generations passed and the Ants forgot, he was planning on doing the same thing. He was planning on giving the Ants a few human gifts for them to eat and thoroughly enjoy.

The problem with facing the Ants head-on was always their numbers, they're infinite.

The queen just births more and more but when his predecessors killed the queen through underhanded methods, it was an unexpected victory against the incoming predators.

The distance between their settlements is extremely large and it became even larger once his predecessors decided to migrate even further.

The Ants survived and became what they are today, somewhat a ferocious predator, and Nozerdimor was planning on exterminating them once and for all.

He knew his people became strong enough to do the job but that'll certainly lead to many casualties so why not just go with underhanded methods?

Unlike some of his predecessors who refused such methods, he doesn't mind them, in fact, he likes them quite a bit.

Imagine his surprise when he reached the Ants' nest and found it in rubbles, chaos. Many of the Ants already dead and the Queen nowhere to be seen.

He killed most of the remaining living Ants and brought the rest for his people to celebrate though he kept in mind that perhaps the Queen could still be alive.

But from his investigation, it appears that some kind of creature attacked their nest and possibly devoured the Queen as he found no signs of her anywhere near, and he and his people left quickly wary of the dangers in the area.

Nozer had his fun playing with the Ants and let his people have their fun with them. It was basically just torture.

The humans of this tribe are quite strong, all of them are stronger than most Ants. They were playing a game similar to volleyball, they crowd a few ants inside a large metallic ball.

Then they start passing the ball between themselves until someone messes the cycle up, that person will be eliminated from the competition.

The strange thing about the game is that the ball is too big for them to hold even with both of their hands.

What they do is pass the ball between themselves either by foot or hitting it with their hands and they need a significant force to push the ball to the next person.

The more people eliminated the more force the remaining contestants will need to push the ball as they get further and further from each other.

They also have to send the ball with a significant force to disturb the rhythm of the next persons and eliminate them and for that, they use their inherited powers.

They either punch the ball to the next person or kick it with their barefoot. A strange phenomenon happens whenever they do so, their skins start shining in scarlet color.

Even their eyes turn into that same beautiful color. Their physical strength increases by several times.

Many many times as a light scarlet barrier appears on the part of their bodies they want to attack with.

A barrier that disappears after they strike the metallic ball as it attaches itself to the latter strangely increasing the ball's defense, their similar scarlet Aura also has another function that only works on creatures outside their tribe.

Due to that, the ball hardly suffered any damage but even then, the Ants within were in hell, they were suffering an even worst method of torture as the ball was moving at near the speed of sound.

The speed only continued to increase until no sound could be heard from within the ball, the screeching sound of pain and terror that feed Nozer's people stopped yet they continued.

They continued until a winner was decided. The winner had the honor of opening the metallic ball and all they found inside is puddles of blood and flesh as well as bones.

Blood of all colors, blood they poured over the winner while the audience cheered as the winner lifted his wet hand high up the air, the celebration was sort of a ritual of theirs, a tradition they value.

Nozer on other hand turned his head into the dark night sky, today was especially dark with little to no stars to be seen. The sky was hidden by the dark inky clouds.

He can however smell and hear something as his nose and ears turned scarlet, "Something is coming." He remarked lightly but everyone heard him as the place turned completely quiet...