CHAPTER 152
CHAPTER 152:
The Shadow Realm
Kouki well this new Kouki the fused Kouki was silent as he processed the memory he had just had. How the war had started. It was all Noboru's fault. If that disowned trash had just played the part he wouldn't be here in this suffocating, endless void that stretched beyond sight, the space the endless darkness, blackness and everything around him twisting in unnatural, incomprehensible shapes. These shapes from what his eyes that can see different types of were of infinites from countable like universe to uncountable infinities like the infinite layers off hierarchies in which dimensions are contained and finally inaccessible infinites that were so big the no matter how countable and uncountable shapes made of this dark shadow realm you put together it wouldn't reach touch or even scrape even a atom of the these shapes formed naturally and even unnaturally in the shadow realm and there was the realm itself was so big that same no matter how many of these incomprehensible shapes you put together or even apply any operations to it wont touch the realm. It was neither warm nor cold, neither light nor dark—just a constant, pulsing nothingness. A realm outside of and beyond space time and dimensionality itself, where reality itself bent and coiled like a living thing.
And to think Rika can only manipulate a small portion of this. A tiny 5 layers of this. She can manipulate 1 to 5 dimensional equivalent layers in this. But since Kouki and Hikari fused. Kouki can manipulate the entire realm nearly.
But what bugged him was from Hikari's memories he knows that he was told it was either Noboru, wife, Or his concubines who made this entire structure.
That pissed him off but it didn't matter right Noboru was still trapped but from Hikari's memories he knew that won't be for long he completed the story. The Combat trial meaning he will be free so so he must get back to Akari and the others as Kouki knows the beast In human skin the aberration and abomination won't be merciful to those who killed his family. He can remember Hikari's fear of the beating Noboru gave him.
Just remembering it gave Kouki chill and all for some concubine from some past life just what will he do to Meiyo or Akari and the other to get back at the people who destroyed his kingdom.
Right now Kouki stood at the edge of this abyss, his crimson-ringed golden eyes flickering with frustration. His body felt different, unfamiliar. Powerful yes but from what he can tell he was unstable.
Something was wrong.
He clenched his fists, the raw Omni energy's inside him refusing to settle. Fighting for control. It was Kouki and Hikari. The two beings who made. The two existences fused into one.
Neither one was ready to cede control.
His memories felt fragmented and jumbled, his thoughts were and are a constant battle between two very different being. One moment, he was Kouki—emotional, reckless, fueled by instinct The prized son of Hiroshi and Amaya Chikara the destined child. The next, he was Hikari—calculating, strategic, The betrayed son of Yahweh.
And the power inside him? It was chaos.
Kouki's Yin Omni Energy clashed violently against Hikari's Yang Omni Energy, the two forces raging against one another, refusing to find harmony. Fire and ice. Creation and destruction.
If he left now—if he returned to Akari, to Meiyo, to the others—this instability would consume not just him but everyone.
His intelligence, his Hikari instincts, told him one undeniable truth: He needed to stabilize the two warring Omni Energies. Now.
His lips curled into a snarl.
"Damn it," he muttered under his breath, dragging a hand through his hair. He wanted—no, needed—to go back. He could see them in his mind: Akari's desperate, tear-stained crying face, Meiyo's trembling hands, the sheer fear in their eyes as they watched him die.
He couldn't leave them waiting.
He wouldn't let them be hurt.
He Shouldn't do this.
But He had to stay here and train.
He exhaled sharply, forcing himself to think. Rushing in like an idiot won't help.
He needed to find a way to stabilise his Omni Energy.
He switched from thinking hard like Hikari once second and the the next he would be pulling his hair and shooting fireballs at random places like Kouki would.
But then answer came in form of Hikari's memories as he recalled the lesson.
"Hikari," the voice spoke in his mind. "You will never master what you do not understand. You do not dominate Omni Energy. You become one with it. If you fight your own energy, If you aren't one with it. If it is not a extension of yourself. you will destroy yourself and everyone else before your enemies ever get the chance."
Uriel.
Yahweh's first daughter.
One of the oldest Archangels.
His well Hikari's former mentor.
The memory hit him like a storm—
A flash of blinding white. The infinite expanse of timeless realm. A golden battlefield, stretching beyond the cosmos, where stars themselves flickered beneath the weight of celestial warriors.
And at the center of it all—Uriel stood before him.
Her long hair cascaded down her back, her glowing wings unfurled in radiant perfection. Her golden eyes, sharper than a blade, bore into him like she was dissecting his very soul.
Hikari stood before her, young and brash exactly like Kouki but with more finesse and intelligent not much to make a difference though, He was barely even a fraction,, even a percentage of the warrior he would become. His fists clenched, his breathing ragged, the raw, unstable Omni Energy inside him raging against his control.
Uriel did not look impressed.
"Again."
Hikari grit his teeth. "Tch. You keep saying that, but I already—"
In an instant, Uriel moved.
She barely lifted a finger, and suddenly, the universe itself trembled.
A pulse of unseen force struck him in the chest, ripping through his essence, sending him crashing through the stars. She had made in this place.
Hikari coughed, his body struggling to reform, his golden wings flickering with instability.
Uriel sighed, shaking her head.
"You are not listening to me." Her voice was cold, absolute. "You rely too much on brute force. Power is not about force its about control, Hikari. It is about balance. You must be one with your Omni Energy"
He snarled, forcing himself to stand injured. "Balance? Tch. That sounds like something the weak say when they can't keep up."
Uriel's beautiful eyes darkened.
In less than a breath, she was before him.
And then—pain.
Her hand struck his chest, and the energy inside him—his Omni Energy—collapsed inward.
He screamed.
It felt like his very existence was unraveling.
"Do you feel that?" she murmured, her voice eerily calm. "That is your own energy rejecting you. Because you refuse to listen."
Hikari's vision blurred. His breathing was ragged. He was losing control.
"You cannot force power to obey. You must exist with it. Become part of it. Meditate within it. You do not own power, Hikari. Power owns you."
She released him.
The energy inside him stabilized.
The pain vanished.
For the first time, he felt clarity.
"What must i do." Hikari barely let out
Uriel gave a small. "Finally you are listening. You must mediate while in that transcendent state of your. Become one with your Omni Energy it shouldn't be a separate from you but it must be part of your. Part of your concept. Part of your conscious. Part you everything that makes you you."
The memory faded.
Kouki stood still in the endless abyss of the Shadow Realm, his breath slow, controlled.
That lesson.
That was the key.
Kouki had Yin Omni Energy.
Hikari had Yang Omni Energy.
They weren't supposed to exist together. They were opposites.
But opposites did not have to fight.
Opposites could become one.
His mind clicked.
he Had to meditate—if he entered a Transcendent State, like Uriel had once taught him—he could force his energies into harmony.
And the best part?
Time doesn't flow here.
That was from Kouki's knowledge. From his memories, from before the against the Hydra, from his sister made the plan.
Riza explained when they were transversing the shadow Realm that she can erase the concept of time and he was dying he remembered Riza saying they can put him the Shadow realm where she will remove concept of time so they persevere his near dead body and get to a healer before he met Hikari and fused.
He could mediate in the transcendent for an eternity to stablise the two opposite omni energies in this realm, and outside, not even a second would pass.
This was his chance.
His only chance.
Kouki exhaled, rolling his shoulders. He forced himself to relax, his muscles untensing, his mind clearing.
He entered his Transcendent state his Gold Omni Energy getting a white hue an exact opposite to Noboru red and black Omni Energy in the transcendent state.
He then sat down, crossing his legs, palms resting on his knees. His eyes closed.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Slow.
Steady.
The Shadow Realm pulsed.
The energy inside him raged, trying to reject itself. Fire and ice. Creation and destruction.
It clashed, burned, twisted.
But he did not fight it.
He let it be.
He let it flow.
The battle of control was not a battle at all.
It was a dance.
And slowly—ever so slowly—balance was found.
The unstable, violent force inside him settled.
His body stopped trembling.
His mind became one.
And then—something shifted.
Deep inside him, something awoke.
Not Kouki.
Not Hikari.
Something new.
Something greater.
True Kouki opened his eyes.
And for the first time—
He felt table
He was beyond mortal sight.
He was beyond even the Angels and Yahweh.
He was beyond even Lucy and her demon spawns
He was like Noboru.
No he was better.
He smirked.
"Now… I just need to focus on stabilise all of this."