Training Arc Part 3: Tengen Uzui!

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Anos: "Now then, I wonder just how much more entertainment these humans can bring me."

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Deep within a foggy forest.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Steel met Steel as the Sound Pillar Tengen Uzui was running around the fog filled forest deflecting a bunch of sharp kunais sent his way.

Tengen: "Show yourself Anos! This is so not flamboyant!"

Yet the only answer he received was even more kunais flying his way. Tengen got really irritated as he once more deflected the kunais sent his way. However, his eyes widened when he felt his grip strength weaken slightly.

Tengen: '!!! Is the fog poison?!'

Tengen clicked his tongue as he spoke.

Tengen: "Oi! Is this fog poisonous?!"

Tengen question was answered, but he couldn't pinpoint Anos's location as his voice came from all directions.

Anos: "Indeed this fog is poisonous. It looks like any normal fog, but its actually paralysis gas. You may have high resistance to poison, but your not immune to it. Let's see how long it takes you to adapt."

Tengen: "Don't underestimate me! As a shinobi I've been trained to adapt to poison fairly quickly."

Anos merely hummed in amusement before Tengen felt his vision go blurry and once more kunais came flying everywhere.

Tengen: "!!!"

Tengen managed to deflect a few of the kunais, and dodge the others. But he noticed his footwork getting sloppier, his eyelids becoming harder to keep open, and his strength leaving him. Tengens eye's narrowed as he spoke.

Tengen: "Paralysis poison shouldn't be making me feel sleepy. Did you change the effect of the fog?"

Anos: "Indeed. Everytime your about to adapt to the current poison, it's effect changes to challenge your body's adaptability to poison. Now it's sleeping gas. The next might be something different, or it might be the same. Either way, you must force yourself to adapt to your surroundings even faster than before, unless you feel like becoming a human pin cushion."

Tengen: "*Ugh*"

Tengen held his breath as he deflected the oncoming kunais once more. His body already starting to get used to the poison. However.

Tengen: 'How?!'

Tengens entire body became frozen. As the cleavers he wielded fell on the ground alongside him. Tengen gritted his teeth as he felt his back being pierced by a bunch of kunais. But he didn't feel the pain as his body was numb.

Anos: "Disappointing. Here I thought that a shinobi as powerful as you would have better resistance when a huge amount of poison was suddenly placed into your body."

Tengen could hear Anos's mocking words as his blood boiled in anger and frustration. Especially because he felt his eyes starting to forcefully close themselves. That was until.

???: "Lord Tengen save us!"

Tengens eyes widened in horror at the voice he heard as he raised his eye's to see his 3 wives floating in the air above him, and Anos standing directly in front of him.

Tengen: 'Makio! Suma! Hinatsuru! No please! Leave them alone! They have nothing to do with this!'

Anos: "Then get up. I'll give you 10 seconds to stand up and save them."

Tengens heart raced a million miles a second beating faster than he's ever felt it beat before as he screamed in his mind when he heard Anos countdown.

Anos: "10"

Tengen: 'Get up! Move it you useless body! My wives are in danger and you dare not move?!!'

Anos: 'Let's give him a little more motivation shall we? *Indol*'

Tengen was brought out of his internal screaming at a sound that made his blood run cold.

(Burst! Squelch!)

Anos's expression didn't change in the slightest as he spoke in a bored tone.

Anos: "Oops."

Tengen as well as his two remaining wives froze at what just happened. The young woman Suma blew up. Her blood and organs flew everywhere covering not only Anos, but Tengen, Hinatsuru and Makio in her blood and organs.

Tengen: 'SUMA!!!!'

Hinatsuru & Makio: "Suma!"

Anos: "You took to long. Blame your own incompetence and weakness that you lost your wife. Besides, she was too noisy for my liking."

(Badump..... BaDuMP..... BADUMP!)

All Tengen could feel in that moment was the beating of his heart, its erratic and abnormal beating pattern, before he realised what just happened, and he screamed in outrage.

Tengen: "SUMA!!!!!"

(BOOM!!!!!)

Hinatsuru and Makio shuddered in horror at the unreal amount of blood lust Tengen was emitting. It was so potent, that they could both physically see the blood lust blanketing the entire forest in a veil of ANIMOSITY. The next second, Tengen vanished and so did Hinatsuru and Makio. The 3 of them were several hundred meters away from Anos as Tengen spoke, his tone scared his other two wives because it was laced with so much ANIMOSITY that they couldn't help but shudder in fear.

Tengen: "I had hoped it was all an illusion.... That what happened to Suma wasn't real, and that I was just being tricked..... But, I'm now reminded again that I'm not facing a human."

Hinatsuru: "T-Tengen-Sama.... S-Suma-Chan is...."

Tengen had a dark expression etched on his face as he spoke.

Tengen: "I know. For now, you two are to retreat to safety. I'll take care of Anos."

Tengen crouched down and gave a gentle kiss to the foreheads of both Hinatsuru and Makio before they all heard Anos speak.

Anos: "Bold words coming from one as weak as you."

Tengen stood up slowly, he wasn't facing Anos, but both his remaining wives saw his expression hidden in darkness as he clenched the two giant cleavers in his hand, with his veins bulging violently due to how strong his grip on his weapons were as he spoke in an emotionless and dark tone. Every word he muttered slowly so Anos would hear properly.

Tengen: "Damate... Urusa Sugiru..."

Anos: "Now isn't that impolite. Here I was made aware that the Japanese people were more respectful."

Tengen: "Hinatsuru, Makio... Leave."

Makio: "But!"

Tengen: "NOW!"

Faster than he's ever gone before, Tengen Uzui vanished from the where he stood cratering the ground as the wind pressure left from him dashing to Anos pushed his wives away as his two cleavers came within an inch of Anos's throat.

Anos merely tilted his head backwards avoiding the blow before he dodged to his right as Tengen sent a kick to his face. Anos continued to dodge Tengens attacks with complete ease as Tengen was constantly attacking Anos hoping to kill him.

Anos: "I must admit, I'm slightly impressed with your performance. You're inhaling large amounts of different poison gases, yet you still can fight with such ferocity. However, how long can you force your body to adapt and attack."

Tengen: "ANOS VOLDIGOAD!!!"

At Anos's words, Tengens attacks became thousands of times more aggressive than before. His arms were a blur as they were constaly attacking Anos.

Tengen: 'First Form: Roar!'

Tengen lifts his twin swords above his head and slams them down with great force, causing a loud sound resembling thunder as a result. The ground catered as Anos blocked the attack with just his finger. But Tengen wasn't done just yet. He stepped on the ground causing cracks to spread everywhere as he used another technique.

Tengen: 'Second Form: Rising Kick!'

Tengen takes a forward front-step followed by a high-rising side-kick planning to launch Anos into the air. Anos sighed in disappointment as he move backwards avoiding the kick as he spoke.

Anos: "Did you really think that just because your remaining wives aren't near me that their safe?"

Tengen: "LEAVE MY WIVES OUT OF THIS FIGHT!!!!"

Anos smirked at Tengen whose expression was one of genuine Animosity and regret. Anos chanted.

Anos: "Lent, Gatom, Nedra, Rivide, Ingdu"

Tengen was thrown away by Anos once he had completed the various spells he casted.

Anos: 'Condition to be met. Target must show hostility and aim to kill the caster. The targets wives will be transported in front of the caster to defend him from the target via Gatom. Once the target has fatally wound or kill his wives, Nedra will be invoked transforming the remaining two into demons. Rivide will return all 3 wives to normal after target either gives up, or target loses consciousness. And Ingdu should solidify the changes used by Rivide. Conditions set to be activated immediately.'

Anos did all that in less than a second as Tengen gritted his teeth and charged at Anos once more aiming to stab him as he screamed.

Tengen: "ANOS VOLDIGOAD!!!!"

(SQUELCH, SPLURT)

Tengen: "E-Eh? NO!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!!"

Tengen looked on in horror as his two cleavers were ibbeded into the skulls of his remaining two wives whose expressions were also of shock before their eyes lost their light as Tengen pulled his cleavers out of their skulls.

Tengen: ". . . . Why? "

Anos: "Hrrm?"

Tengen: "WHY DID YOU MAKE ME KILL THEM?! WHAT DID THEY EVER DO TO YOU TO MAKE YOU DO SOMETHING SO HORRIBLE?!"

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Tengen merely clench his cleavers as his anger reaches a boiling point it's never reached in his life.

Anos: "You think I need a reason for what I do? Everything I do is merely for my entertainment. It doesn't matter who suffers in the end."

Tengen: "DIE!"

Anos whose expression was one of a lunatic as he smiled and his hand pushed his hair backwards as he spoke.

Anos: "Not yet! My gift to you isn't over just yet! The second half of the condition has already been met."

Tengen watched in horror as the corpses of his two wives changed and became alot more Demonic looking. The two looked at their hands before screaming.

Hinatsuru & Makio: "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!"

Anos: "How do you like my gift to give you extra motivation to train?"

Tengen: "THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL TRAINING! YOU KILLED MY WIVES AND TURN THEM TO DEMONS AND YOU STILL DARE CALL THIS TRAINING!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU YOU BASTARD!!!!!"

Tengen roared out as he dashed past the demonified versions of his wives who were cradling themselves in horror of what's become of them. And for the next hour Tengen would fight until Anos eventually got bored and knocked Tengen out activating the third condition of his spell.

A massive clock with Roman numerals appeared above the 3 wives and started moving backwards eventually turning the two modified version of Tengens wives Hinatsuru and Makio. As for Suma, she was brought back from her half dead state as she immediately ran to her sisters and hugged them trying her best to comfort them from what most definitely would be a traumatising memory for all of them.

Anos looked on in amusement as he spoke.

Anos: "Hrrm, aren't you three going to check on your husband? He doesn't look so good you know?"

Shocking enough, Suma glared at Anos filled with hate as she comforted her sisters for a bit longer before rushing to check on Tengen. She sighed in relief once she realised that he was fine, but then glared at Anos once more as she crossed her arms and spoke.

Suma: "Why did you do it?"

Anos: "Because I wanted to motivate him of course."

Suma became even angrier at Anos's words as she screamed.

Suma: "SO YOU THOUGHT KIDNAPPING US OUT OF NOWHERE TO USE AS HOSTAGES, PUTTING ME IN A HALF DEAD STATE WITH MY FIVE SENSES STILL INTACT, MAKING MY HUSBAND KILL MY SISTERS, AND TURNING THEM INTO DEMONS WAS A GOOD WAY TO MOTIVATE HIM?!"

Anos: "Yes. Don't worry, now he will learn to cherish you three even more than he already does. Your very welcome."

Suma: "WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I'D THANK YOU?!"

Anos: "You just did."

Sumi threw her hands up in defeat before continuing to console her sisters as Anos simply watch on.

Anos: 'Hrrm. Although his adaptation ability for poison has increased dramatically, its still not enough. I guess for the next hour, I will focus on developing his physical skills and his reaction speed. Well now, how are the others faring I wonder?'

(Gatom: ("Transition")

A spell that connects two spaces for instantaneous movement. It was developed by Anos Voldigoad during the Mythical Age, though not many people could use it even back then. This was because while it doesn't require much magic power, it is difficult to construct the magic formation. This is simply because the technique must be changed depending on the magical environment that connects the spaces. Therefore, there is no fixed form other than the core in the technique of Gatom, which is the reason why this magic has been lost.[21]

Activating the spell formula is surprisingly easy, but it is difficult to incorporate the current location and destination into the spell formula. If the magical field is disturbed, it takes more time to incorporate it, and it will become unusable unless it takes time.

Rivide: ("Time Manipulation")

An origin spell that allows the caster to manipulate the time of objects and spells. It can be used to reverse the time of a target to a point of origin, although this requires knowledge of the target's past. The spell can also be used to stop the time of a target[11] or send them to future.[8] Rivide is a rather difficult spell to cast and the amount of targets is limited. It also has a limit of one hundred years when rewinding time.[12]

If the caster makes major alterations to the past, they will be confronted by Eugo La Raviaz, the Keeper of Time, who maintains the order of time.[13] Rivide also cannot affect the time of the Keeper of Time.

Ingdu: ("Past Modification")

A spell that solidifies changes to the past made by Rivide.

Nedra: ("Demonization")

A spell that is mainly used to transform animals with the intent of improving their physical abilities. It uses animal nature and demon nature that exist in animals' sources. Results vary depending on the animal it is applied to and the power of the caster. Sometimes the target's intelligence decreases; other times, it increases, and sometimes it increases enough that they can understand human language. Additionally, the animal that has Nedra cast on it changes its appearance into that of a demon. These transformed animals are called mutants.[3] In the present Dilhade, unless certain conditions are met, Nedra is forbidden from being used.

Humans that have senses= are hard to demonize, but it is not impossible. Human demonization is different from other animals, probably due to their inherently high intelligence. A demonized human's desire, malice, and hate will manifest in their outward appearance.

Lent: ("Condition")

Magic that sets conditions for activating spells.)