V1. C4. The King's Rage

Sparing no time after his rage filled roar, Neo sensed his surroundings, detecting an unfathomable amount of bloodlust in front of him, and ran past piles of bodies of not only his kingdom guards, but women and children. Neo could only see the color red, a deep crimson that had a shimmer as if it was from a ruby and not from the horrendous carnage that was actually happening. Blood was dripping on the brick walls of homes and the cobblestone alleyways. The rage inside Neo's heart was boiling over after walking through his subjects, once peaceful and happy, now turned desolate home... littered with bodies. As he neared the source of bloodlust, shivers crept down his spine, which worried him as he was certain only those of the same cultivation realm or higher could give him such a sense of urgency.

"There seems to be a strong element of darkness seeping out throughout the kingdom, whoever is releasing this aura is not only strong, but pure evil" Neo thought to himself as he got closer and closer to the screams, seeing sinister shadows on the walls of the building in front of him.

As he turned the corner, a foreign blade with unusual markings came flashing towards his jugular at an alarming speed. Just before it could connect with his neck however, Neo used a move that took him 6 years to master after he discovered his elemental affinity, "Spacial Jump!"

Reappearing on the roof of the building he was just about to turn the corner on, he looks down to see five men, with the darkness element surrounding them. These men looked menacing, not only with the darkness shrouding their surroundings, their eyes glowed red as if possessed by an evil spirit, and markings that looked almost like cuts across their arms and faces. They turned towards the sudden disturbance in their slaughter, *shink* the bigger of the five removed his blade from a body of what seemed to be an older man and glared at Neo.

"Sssssspatial affinity I ssssee. Rare sssspeciman I sssee. Secret of the Sssstoneheart bloodline. Mussst kill" the assumed leader of the evil men hissed out, bending his knees ready to lunge at Neo who was still perched on the roof.

Neo, who has fought his whole life to reach the top, prepared by grabbing his sword from under his cloak and and jumped through space again, reappearing behind the smallest of the five assuming he would be the weakest and quickly slashed in the direction of his neck, "better to break the weak ones completely than to waste time weakening the bigger guy," Neo thought in his head, quickly decapitating the weak link...or so he thought. As his blade was about to connect with the man's neck, the darkness that was surrounding the mysterious enemies hardened into a solid block in the air, just barely stopping Neo's blade from connecting and left sparks flying from the sheer speed of Neo's skillful swing.

"Tch. Seems you guys have some skills in the darkness element," Neo jumped back away from the seemingly weaker man he just attacked and mumbled over his blunder of underestimating his opponent even though his instincts told him not to. "Guess I'll let my rage take over in this fight," Neo thought and then started to release his golden aura. As the thickness in his aura reached its peak, Neo jumped back towards the first man he attempted to kill and sliced again with a speed tens of times faster than his original swing, *kukunk* the man's head slides off his neck and hits the floor with blood spraying into the air, not a drop of the almost black blood landing on Neo as he masterfully moves onto the next man at the same speed by using his momentum on the first swing to jump off the now dead man's chest towards the next man and kills two more in the same way.

"Ssssshould be imposssible. Must be using sssspace element to cut through our own element. Our one weaknesssss… mussst report to Bossss," the leader spoke out loud, but was too late to retreat as Neo, who has now taken out all but him, swung with an even more vengeful swing than the previous ones and ended that squad of evil men within thirty seconds.

"If my elemental affinity wasn't space…" Neo stops his thought with a shiver, knowing he wouldn't have been as lucky. "Though they recognized I was covering my blade in the space element to remove the darkness element from blocking my sword's path, they couldn't keep up with my speed. I must find the rest of these despicable vermin before more damage is dealt, especially since the leader of the last group knew our spacial affinity was due to our bloodline," *thwip* Neo who was no longer planning on using the element of surprise about his element and running to his destination, teleported to the nearest location where battle was ensuing. Not sparing another moment for the enemies to kill more of his people, he unleashes his wrath. *thunk thunk thunk*

The heads of Neo's enemies drop one by one as he warps through his kingdom, not sparing one.

"Is that all of them? I don't sense anymore of the darkness element…" Neo looks around his now quiet kingdom that still has smoke rising and the occasional screams and cries of sadness as people find their loved ones dead on the streets and in their homes, "I think I killed all of them, had to be around 600 all by myself… thanks to my element being one of their very few weaknesses. The cost from this attack is too great, I can sense that we lost more than 60,000 of our people...why? The citizens were too weak and were slaughtered like cattle… even my own kingdoms guards didn't stand a chance. A hundred of those dark men were able to murder more people than the amount of some surrounding villages and towns… how will we recover? HOW!?" Neo was confused and angry, questioning the heavens as to why his kingdom was attacked in such a brutal matter without a known cause. As Neo was about to jump down from the building he was perched on, he stopped... sensing a small presence of the darkness element in the direction he was about to jump towards… home. "NO!" Neo yelled as he jumped through space to the front of his house, to see the doors of his home ripped off their hinges and what seemed to be claw marks running along the walls and door frames.