Nox's POV:
"Bye, bye! Have a nice trip!"
"NOX! UNLOCK THIS DOOR! WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SHIP?!"
So, here is a recap for all my loyal mind stalkers, in case another documentary is made. After I left the weirdo trifecta in that pink nightmare, they destroyed zed nightmare, and I ended up blasting the playboy with his new sky-boat. Seeing my genius, my little brother handed me the position of employee of the month along with the sweet bonus that came with it. Then the trio of weirdos came to try and infect me with their weirdness, so I used my restraining order/soul contract to shoo one away and had the dumbass leave via the Ass-U-Ming airlines. Then I slapped the captain's beard on the playboy, before locking him up in the captain's quarters alongside his merry crew of goons. Then I activated the auto pilot, before waving farewell to my fake wife for the foreseeable future as he went off on a business trip overseas.
"NOOOOX!"
*SWOOSH*
*BOOM*
As I watched the god-powered bakery instantly break the sound barrier as it flew off into the horizon, I couldn't help but let out a crocodile tear.
"*Sniffle* I promised myself, I would pretend to cry!" I said, before turning around to face my Crybaby, playing a game of, hit the jester, with his uncle.
"COME BACK HERE!"
"NAH, NAH, NAHNAH, NAH! YOU CAN'T CATCH ME!"
"TAKE THIS YOU THIEVING BASTARD! FIREBALL!"
*BOOM*
*Bonk*
*Bonk*
"AAAAAHHH!"
"AAAAAHHH!"
Seeing how much fun they were having on their own, I got jealous and gave them a bonk on the head with the pain stick for leaving me out. Also.
"WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT SHOUTING OUT THE NAME OF YOUR ATTACKS, YOU IDIOT?!"
"Ugh! To not do it, unless its to confuse the enemy!"
"That's right! Now if you've reflected!"
"HEY! WHY DID I GET HIT!"
"Then let's go pick up your siblings I abandoned in the woods for two months!"
...
On a dark thundering mountain top a young man, covered in blood and bruises could be seen limping in front of a wall of white flames burning atop the corpses of a herd of dead magical beasts as his companion was enduring the wrath of heaven.
"FUUUCK!" Shinji screamed.
When those hooligans appeared to rob them, he had nearly been killed in a single hit. If not for Aiko's sudden outburst and her agreement to go with those vultures, he would have most likely perished. However, the reason behind his anguished cries was not for his companion having to sacrifice herself to save him, nor because of the wounds he suffered from having to defend Kenji alone. The reason he is shedding tears was…
"WHY AM I STILL SO FUCKING WEAK!"
His lament over his own weakness.
He had studied under the mad professor and become a 3rd tier spellcaster. He became a rare 3rd stage aura user in just a year. And he even learned some demonic magic directly from the demons themselves, and yet in a single blow he was nearly killed. He had finally started getting confident in his own strength, but that pride was so easily shattered by a single attack, and to poor salt in the wound, Aiko, his fellow disciple, saw the need to go out of her way to give herself and her golems over to the enemy to protect him. He couldn't even go after them, because that would leave Kenji wide open to an attack from the magical beasts.
The frustration, anger and sadness from his situation flooded his mind, causing his aura to get a significant power-boost, increasing his range to a point where he didn't need to worry about having to dodge most attacks heading his way. Funnily enough, as he is now, Shinji might have stood a chance against those hooligans all on his own. Unfortunately, this temporary boost in power could only come about after taking a great loss, as is the power of aura. For most, more often than not, it is a great power, gained a moment too late.
"Shinji?"
"I'm sorry! *Sniffle* We're not good enough!!!" Little flower and little thunder said as they came out of Shinji's body.
While his aura was certainly strong, it was not the only reason why he survived that nascent souls strike. If it was not for his little spriggan friends reinforcing and healing his internal injuries to whatever extent they could, he likely would have lost consciousness from that one blow. If that had happened, even if Aiko had sacrificed herself, they probably still would have died due to the magical beasts.
Unlike Nox, Shinji can't use his aura to mend his own body back into shape. Hence, he had to rely on little flower and little thunder to keep him from collapsing this entire time, but now that the sun is finally setting it seems to have come to an end.
*RUMBLE*
*CRACKLE*
*BOOM*
With an earth shattering boom, the last tribulation lightning finally rained down upon Kenji, shattering the earth beneath him, as the inactive volcano he was sitting on, erupted. From behind the veil of lava and flames, Kenji finally opened his eyes, the red flames flickering out as he did. As he stepped out of the orange and red geyser of molten rock, he let out a suffocating pressure. Kenji, a former crippled cultivator, had now advanced to the red core stage of the nascent soul.
"Whoa! Crap my shoe! Hey, who the-!"
As Shinji was trying to avoid getting his leg melted off by the lava that clamed his left shoe, someone grabbed him by the neck from behind and lifted him off the ground.
"Yo! Meathead! Slowpoke! Now, can one of you idiots tell me, where your wimpy sister's at!" Said Nox as she and Alex suddenly appeared out of thin air.