Chapter 226: The Immortal’s Demise (1)

Chapter 226: The Immortal’s Demise (1)Chapter 226: The Immortal's Demise (1)

A/N: @everyone ch 3-5 updated. The edits include—

1) Removal of Rick. While Ehg had his role just a tiny bit, like Brian, I just don't see how adding OCs with minimal role would fit when I can just add more h character to the homeworld

2) Reiko's name is turned to Souko once again... really sorry! I won't play with her name once again! I promise, truly!

3) Ch 5's bath scene is edited for typos and made slightly more 'steamier' with just a dusting of character growth on Mitsuko

4) Added alternative and fun titles at the end.

Hopefully, despite my lack of creativity, I may just try to add some spicy stuff and like always, I'll inform all of it on the latest chaps and here.

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"Wait for me? Right time?" Aang could barely even comprehend how the siblings walked 'through' time with Monk Gyatso's message being far more prioritized for him. His expression grew pensive and he looked a bit distraught. Although he kept himself from thinking the worst after his friends 'died' due to the memory of the Second Avatar after Avatar Wan, couldn't help but feel a lot of things weighing down on himself.

But after experiencing so much, Aang couldn't let his fears... make him back off.

"T-Then what about the other airbenders? How did they survive?" Aang inquired as Hina cast a worried look over her brother and caretaker.

"They were raised and indoctrinated by Fire Lord Sozin," Niwan did not hesitate to answer, "Others believe the rumor that Sozin butchered every Airbender youngling in cold blood but that's not true. The rumor itself was spread by Firelord Sozin himself... All this knowledge comes from a spirit that is primal in nature— Dhi, the Spirit of Cognition. It revealed that Sozin wanted to twist the airbender's ideology so, that if an avatar does come from them, he or she is solely loyal to the Fire Nation."

"If all that is true, I would have known this," Iroh frowned.

"The Fire Lords do not 'rule' over these airbending priests. When Sozin nurtured them, he made it so that the airbenders would willingly reveal themselves to the next ruler of the Fire Nation and I believe... they would not have made themselves known to you until Ozai's death. To them, only one can be their ruler," Niwan revealed and looked at the duo seriously, "We live in the deepest corner of the sewers itself. And... after we managed to become a part of this group during the end of the war... they are still suspicious. Until now, we never wanted to blow our cover by looking for you despite hearing the news but now that you're here, Avatar Aang, our stay with the Stormbenders end, too."

"Stormbenders?" Aang tilted his head with a strange look.

Looking a little embarrassed, Niwan muttered, "That's the name of... their new tribe..."

Aang blinked and then shrugged. There was something about names like the Nut Crushing Messiah that made him numb towards even weirder monikers.

"Do you know something about Grim and Reaper? Even my predecessors did not know of their weakness..." Aang continued and it was Hina who looked a little bit conflicted as she revealed, "Um... none of us can defeat Reaper, much less Grim..."

Sitting down cross-legged and letting out a tired huff, Iroh closed his eyes, "I will let you young ones discuss how to challenge unbeatable beings. My nemesis... the consequence of exercise, that is, is after me once again."

The trio's expression grew bleak at this as Aang scratched his head and looked at Hina, "Do you think... we can find some good tea? Or sweets?"

Iroh's ears twitched as Hina looked serious, "Anything you demand of us, Avatar Aang..."

"Uh..." with his eyes brightening, Aang grinned, "Then once this is all over. Please Teach me the method of entering the spirit realm physically!"

"Should we not talk about how to defeat Grim and Reaper?" Niwan frowned.

"I mean... you just said that no one can defeat them... and my memories certainly did not help to oppose this view," Aang groaned and slumped down on the ground, "And, to be honest, the only thing I can think of is... to ask that squirrel what is going on." The boy pointed on top of a nearby violet tree on the branch of which a scarlet squirrel ate nuts quietly.

Niwan and Hina turned to look back and their expressions changed, too.

They did not sense this being at all!

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Nik looked at the army of 'dead' with a serious expression as Reaper's voice cackled from hundreds and thousands of them.

"Go ahead, try hurting me. Only injuries and deaths granted by me are not part of the rules of the world so, the only way to stop them is by killing them. Of course, it will make me go hungry but... I'll just eat more."

Frowning harder as he couldn't hurt Katara or others fatally because he still wasn't aware of how this spirit named Reaper 'functioned' and its weaknesses and strengths, Nik chose to retreat by jumping through the ledge once again.

While he could individually energybend the victims of the Reaper and hope to pull their souls out, Nik still had a grave problem at hand. He could not identify where Reaper resided as he controlled too many hosts. His violet pupils grew somber as he observed everyone while kiting over the trees and evading a few knives and needles from Tom-Tom and Mai. To be honest, Reaper's precision, despite living so long, was worse than the real Mai's.

'Only someone not kissed by destiny or death can take them out... that's what the Squirrel said but... even if I assume I am free from the spirits of this world and their effects to a larger extent, Reaper did consume me. All Mokshi's presence did was not make me lose my sense of awareness in that lifeless world... The most problematic thing is what to do in the scenario where I actually find his real body.'

Nik began to raise a wall of the earth only for it to promptly crumble with Toph shooting large boulders and Azula setting the said boulders on fire!

Scowling, Nik suddenly raised his hand and—

A dozen bodies seized up, those that were planning to continue bending the very next second that is.

Reaper's sharp tone echoed, "Bloodbending? How?!"

After attaining mastery of waterbending by consuming La's essence completely, Nik could blood bend without the moon. This was a realm far beyond their first master— Hama, and Katara also wanted to reach that state yet she was far from it at the moment or Nik would really be in some—

Nik grunted as he hurriedly recovered control of his body and found a dark-skinned, square-jawed man sneering, "You believe that humans haven't been in the same realm of expertise? Ever since we were discovered by Sozin in the coffin of that old, decrepit Avatar who sealed us, I have hunted many."

Nik evaded attack after attack as 'everyone' laughed, "The war is the event meant for me! I ate siblings, parents, and children. Warrior and cowards alike! I watched their families burn them and other foolish rituals of the dead only to bring all of my... liberated individuals here! Hah! They all should be thanking me! Even if they had a funeral, all of them lived through me!"

Nik's eyes widened as he saw a group of men and women in saffron clothes and pointed arrow-ended tattoos suddenly create a massive gust that he could not evade and thus he countered it with airbending of his own! Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

'Fuck... the dude has almost everything except—'

As Nik saw a thin old man suddenly creating arrows of lava that throttled in his direction, he was forced to reconsider his situation.

'Maybe... he collected every style of bending...'

Nik jumped down and ran without looking back. Airbending could be used to increase his speed but the other airbenders did the same while many earthbenders began to chase after him by shifting the ground to move at a quick pace and bringing others alongside them!

Yet... this is where Nik also realized something in the moment of the dead chasing him.

'Can he control more than two bending styles?'

"I won't kill you..." Nik interjected and suddenly gave a toothy grin, "You really helped me get in touch with my inner craziness... the things I did in these few hours alone outshine my existence before. So... why stop now?"

His mouth opened and Reaper's eyes widened. Its sharp squeak was cut short by Nik stuffing the rat into his mouth and then closing his jaws.

He winced and prepared for the bad taste but the moment he closed his jaws...

The entire grey world began to disperse in a grey mist at a breakneck pace while he found his mouth empty with nothing but something metallic still present.

Spitting the object in his hand, Nik realized that it was a tiny, pinky-finger-long sickle...

Reaper's husk.

But... he also felt strange. Something he did when Mokshi bonded with him and voluntarily forsook its freedom and even when La and Tui danced alongside Nik and Yue...

[Name: Nik Faran

Age: 20 (80)

Code: GC—EHG—98034

Authority Rank: 1 (12.36→ 13.2/100)

Paradise: Transmigration

Title: Transmigration Intern

Bloodline: Adonis' Ember (Common)

Physique: 3.8

Mental: 5.8

Energy: 37.3→ 46.5]

[Stats relative to the most common species through multiverse— Humanoid Homo Sapien.]

[Authority Rank: 1

Benefits:

1) Chat Module Unlocked.

2) Additional transmigration vacation: 504 hours.]

[Skills:

1) Freedom Paradox Source: A being unbound by metaphysical shackles and restrictions around itself yet bound by its own. (Additional Info: This skill is bound by an external existence.)

2) Water Element Mastery (Master): The manipulation and enlightenment of elements of water either in nature or through one's own creation in the realm of a master. (Additional Info: Through constant training, a noob turns into an expert and an expert reaches the realm of a master.)

3) Fire Element Mastery (Expert): The manipulation and enlightenment of elements of fire either in nature or through one's own creation in the realm of an expert. (Additional Info: Through constant training, a noob turns into an expert.)

4) Earth Element Mastery (Expert): The manipulation and enlightenment of elements of the earth either in nature or through one's own creation in the realm of a master. (Additional Info: Through constant training, a noob turns into an expert.)

5) Limitless Library: Whatever is experienced, seen, or heard can be registered and later looked up once again in this library within one's consciousness. (Additional Info: The library is not part of the biological function of the user.)

6) Death Eater: The ability to consume a soul and to use it to strengthen one's own metaphysical reserves upto a certain portion from the soul consumed. (Additional Info: The remaining portion of the soul tainted by causality escapes without the ability to refine it all.)

Bloodline—

1) Charm of Adonis: The user's charm can attract the opposite gender and similarly oriented individuals. (Additional Info: This is a passive skill that isn't needed to be actively focused on.)]

{A/N: I should have made a skill for the library so there it is.}

Nik looked at his own stats as he heard others groan and twitch before finally waking up all around him...

'Damn... I can eat soul and that's alright I guess... but how do I even take a soul?'

And then his gaze fell on the sickle-shaped remains of the Reaper and he blinked.

Keeping certain possibilities in mind, Nik promptly stored the sickle husk into his personal world and then began looking all around for his friends.

All he needed to do was use the variations of seismic sense to lock onto familiar targets.

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Alternate Title: Nik's Spiritual Cuisine

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