Everything was relatively stable now with the merging of the two realities. The one that was the Reality, though merged with Vescrutia, still retained its own established shape and form as its own reality that simply existed within the confined of Vescrutia once they landed. This was what was best for everyone and helped everything get settled in slowly. With that, Khrona was back to his usual Kage duties, picking about the Battleground to see who needed help…

I waited for a proctor, or another ninja to show up to rank, wondering exactly how high of a rank I could get…

Khrona materializes into the area “A genin…” He muttered “Ready to rank up? I will be the judge of this.” Khrona narrowed his eyes and cracked a friendly smile, which quickly turned back into his stern look once again.

I was surprised at Khrona’s appearance, but nodded stiffly with a serious look on my face.

“Thank you for showing up…Khrona-sama” Several vines suddenly burst out of the ground, trying to grab Khrona with amazing speed.

Khrona outstretched his wings, a resulting force from all around him ripping the vines to shreds “Huh. Someone is eager. Your test is not to get hit more than 3 times. If you get hit more than 3 times, you will fail. You must also hit me at least once. If you hit me once, you pass.” Khrona folded his wings back up, awaiting the next attack,

I raised an eyebrow, but nodded in understanding. The ground started to rumble, and a minute later, a powerful geyser of water burst from under Khrona’s feet. At the same time, I made a few handsigns summoning all the birds in the surrounding area. They raced towards Khrona ferociously, while chunks of land also flew up from the ground to try and hit him.

A psychic force around Khrona made the water spew in every different direction, mostly aimed at the birds to wet them and make their wings heavy so that they could not fly. Next, if the birds were still coming, Khrona would lightly flap his powerful wings to send all of the birds flying for miles. The same would go for the chunks, if they weren’t already cut up from the slicing winds that came from Khrona’s wings that would cut up anything in it.

Multiple pointy wood stumps burst out of the ground, speeding towards Khrona. They created a circle around him, trying to hit him at a blinding speed. At the same time, I extended my arms out on either side, making tremendous winds come rushing in behind me. While I was unaffected, the wind would try to slice and/or cut Khrona.

Khrona shook his head, flapping his wings lightly once again. Even a light flap gave enough power to break through the wood and parry the slicing winds of Chiyoko’s completely. “Hm. So far, it only seems like I have to use my wings to stay safe. In fact, that is what I will do. I will only use my wings and my body. No instant transmission, no DNA, just my wings and my physique. That should make things slightly less difficult for you.” Khrona wasn’t going to attack… yet. He wait waiting for something.

I frowned. While I didn’t like people to go easy on me…I wasn’t vain, I knew I needed the extra help.

With a snap of my fingers, rain clouds rolled by overhead. It started raining immensely hard down on the area. The raindrops were chakra-infused, and quite powerful, weighing about 20 pounds each. However, they didn’t seem to affect Chiyoko at all.

Hoping that the rain would distract Khrona, if only for a milisecond, vines silently crept out of the ground at the same time, trying to grab at his legs and feet to trap him…

Khrona smirked a bit, his Hyper Perception seeing not only every rain drop coming down with exact location of where it landed, but also saw the vines slowly sprouting up. In addition to his speed, he could react long before it was too late with his Hyper Perception. “Good… But it’s time to step up.” He made another flap of his wings, only this time he spiraled, encasing himself in his wings as he lifted into the air, dodging the vines. The 20 pound rain would be merely no match for the sheer strength of his wings if they were to make contact, and besides that, the slicing winds from his wings would create a sort of extremely sharp and cutty hurricane that would slice up the area, even if it was not touching things some feet away from it. Khrona was trying to keep a constant speed, for he did not want to overwhelm Chiyoko with such intense force. He was trying to test her skills…

Doing one handsign, several pillars of earth came up from the ground, silently surrounding Khrona. Between each pillar, a leaf-less tree came up, equally as quiet. As soon as Khrona opened his wings…the pillars of earth would strike, aiming for a blow, while the trees would sprout flexible branches and vines which would once again try to grab him.

I stood and waited for the opportune moment to activate the ‘trap’…

Khrona finally stopped spinning, abruptly opening his wings and releasing an insanely powerful cutting wind from his position which would take down everything in the immediate area around him. The trees and earth would be cut up the instant Khrona opened his wings, leaving nothing coming at him. Khrona raised a wing while still in the air, then swung it in the direction of Chiyoko, making a concentrated blast of slicing winds at her general direction, forcing away whatever would try to stop it.

Not even bothering to try and block the winds, I tried to dodge them, by quickly trying to run to the side. Luckily, I was fast enough to only suffer some minor damage to my back and foot before stopping to face Khrona once more. A powerful jet of raging water burst out from the ground underneath him, while I rubbed my back painfully.

Khrona saw the surging water coming from the ground since he was in the sky, and pushed himself back with a light flap of his wings, but that flap took him a loooong way. He landed, checking to see if any drops of water were on him. No, he was dry. This ranking exam would continue. Khrona raised a wing and slammed it on the ground with moderate power, making a large earthquake as well as cracks in the ground that would shoot toward Chiyoko at a high speed. It had been a while since Khrona used the power of his wings for attacking other than winds… Perhaps this was also a bit of a refresher for him, too, huh? He slammed his other wing down with a moderate power, making the earth shake even more, hopefully to throw Chiyoko off balance, mostly because of 2 different quakes that weren’t rhythmically in tune but also because of the cracks rupturing the ground.

“Woahhh!” I started stumbling around, and nearly fell…or, I would’ve if a jet of water didn’t come out of one of the cracks under my feet, and puch me up a few feet into the air, keeping me away from the earthquakes.

‘This…is effing impossible’

Trees shot out from the ground once again, unaffected by the ground’s rumblings. The grew in a circle around Khrona, before turning inwards in an attempt to wrap around hiw whole body, as opposed to just a limb. They attempted to wrap around his wings as well, so he wouldn’t be able to cut them with the wind from his winds.

The trees were also much stronger than the vines, so they hopefully wouldn’t be defeated quite as easily…

Khrona smiled “Let’s see… How do you kill a weed…?” Khrona flapped his wings down straight at the ground with moderate power, making a large pit that went down quite a long way. Yes, they were that powerful. “… You get it by its roots.” Khrona plopped underground as the trees were trying to wrap around him, most likely out of their reach… Though, there was a problem. Limited space. Khrona also knew that this was quite a bad idea since Chiyoko had control over plants and, well… the picture is clear. Khrona could always flap his wings a few times and make large tunnels to fly through, but maybe it was a bit much? Well… It wasn’t much for him to do it once… He flapped his wings and destroyed a large length of earth underground. He knew Chiyoko’s position as of now and he flew to the space underground that was hopefully nearest to it, then slammed his wings up at the earth, making it fly straight up into the air at a high speed, hopefully taking Chiyoko with it. Khrona was having a bit of fun using his wings now.

As Khrona went down into the ground, vines would shoot out of the earth, trying to hit him. When the earth came flying out of the ground, I simply jumped off the jet of water I was still standing on, leaping far enough away to not get hit by the earth, or get blown away. However, I now knew where Khrona was as well.

I crouched down, slamming my hand on the ground. This would cause many sharp trunks of wood to burst through the ground, targeting the area around where I assumed Khrona was. If he didn’t move, or find a way to destroy the massive trunks of wood, he would be hit or pierced, or trapped in the very least.

Khrona, staying true to his promise not to use anything other than his wings had been got.. He simply raised his wings around him as the tree trunks would smash against them and be broken. That counted as him getting hit. “… Well well. Guess you pass.” Khrona materialized up in front of Chiyoko. “You’ve done well. I do enjoy having a ninja here who can use plants… That may become useful in the future. Your rank is Special Jounin. Congrats.” Khrona gave a small smile.

I smiled and gave a low bow.

“T-thank you very much!” A strange wind then blew through the area, and I slowly disappeared with it…

Not quite ready to leave the Battleground yet, Khrona decided, after assisting the young Chiyoko, to continue honing his own proficiency with his Soul techniques, of which he excelled. It was the main power source of the Reality and had never before touched the face of the planet Vescrutia before, so he had to be in tip-top shape in order to show them how to use it as he learned the customary ‘jutsu’ that came from ‘chakra,’ as they called their energy source on Vescrutia.

Khrona materialized in a wide open space, barren and away from anyone or anything. His 2 weapon partners materialized behind him.

Misery: So, Khrona, what’s this you’re doin again with a new wavelength?

Khrona: I’m trying to master a new wavelength ability that I thought of… You see, if I can shoot my wavelength out through my body by physical contact, I am wondering if I can use my Soul Wavelength with both my wings and using it as strings… You get the picture, Misery?

Misery: Aha, hell yeah! That’s gonna be fun… Wait until you turn back into insanity… We will eliminate everyone who opposes us.. Heh.

Khrona turned to Despair, not listening to Misery’s words now “Despair. You will have to be my long range opponent…” he then turned back to Misery “… And you will be my close range opponent. You got it? I even have thought of a nice name for this new manipulation of my wavelength… Soul Cords and Soul Dragon. You like em?”

Misery flicked her own nose with her thumb “Heh. Sounds pretty badass.”

Despair began to clap “Oh, horridly wonderful, Khrona…! I cannot wait to see what they will look like…!”

Khrona nodded “Alright. Well, I might as well get these Soul Cords out of the way first… I’m not too fond of fighting at long ranges. Despair, if you will?”

Despair nodded, wrapping herself in her cloak to warp off into a different place. She then yelled “Ready, Khrona!!”

Khrona then began to focus deeply on his own wavelength. It was already quite flexible and it would be easy to make it move as if it were a string or cord… But the main problem was focusing the attacks. If he could use his weapons, they would help with precision, but he couldn’t… Oh well. Focus, Khrona… “Alright. Despair. Launch a missile at me. I think I can manage to do one.”

Despair launched a missile of Soul Energy at Khrona, wondering what these Soul Cords were supposed to do…

Khrona quickly focused on the missile, sending a string of his wavelength at it at a high speed. The string whipped around the missile for a while, seeming as though Khrona was having a bit of trouble hitting such a small object with an ability he had not become adept with yet… Hm… what to do…? More focus… more control… This would be a lot easier if he had experience with ranged weapons, like whips… But, a whip is like an extension of a limb, as if a soul. An extension of a limb… Khrona must move it as if it here his own arm, as if they were not separated. Yes, that is the key. The missile close in on Khrona before he finally got the cord to go through it, instantly slicing through it and disintegrating it.

Despair was amazed “Khrona! What did you just do…? It looked so deadly…”

Khrona smiled “The Soul Cord. A wavelength being shot out and manifested into one or many slim whips or strings with the ability to intertwine and cross with each other. Heh. What I did was exactly what was supposed to be done… Sending a strong, condensed wavelength strong enough to eliminate soul energy all together from its presence and destroy a Soul Resonance by touch. Despair, if I may lightly hit you with it?”

Despair was a bit afraid, but was happy to do what she could to further Khrona’s power “um… Go ahead, Khrona…”

Khrona nodded, the whip flying at Despair at a high speed before slowing down and lightly tapping her. There was an invisible pulsing shockwave, then Despair was launched back quite the distance.

Despair regained her composure in the air, touching her chest where she got hit “Gah… Khrona… I feel completely… drained of Soul Energy… Is that another ability of it…?”

Khrona nodded “Yes. Paralyzes the soul and ruptures the wavelength of others by sending mind into them as well as drains all Soul Energy into myself. That would make the person being hit unable to use Soul Energy and simultaneously unable to wield a Weapon Partner and at the exact same time, unable to use Soul Resonance in any way. These cords… will be quite useful. Able to nullify soul energy, rupture a soul wavelength and nullify resonance or even stabilization of a wavelength making them unable to use ANY weapon? Deadly. Quite deadly. Despair, I did not touch you hard, so you should have some energy left. Care to try to reject this with your Rejection Soul?”

Despair knew that only wavelengths could destroy her Rejection, since that was LITERALLY the ONLY thing that affected it, so she knew she was already at a disadvantage when Khrona was using his own Wavelength as a long range weapon… But, if it called for demonstration, then let him demonstrate. “Alright, Khrona… I will set up a dome of Rejection around myself…” A large, red dome of her Rejection Soul surrounded her, looking quite thick, indeed.