Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 165



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165. Steel Guild (11)

The sound that had been reminiscent of a battlefield until just now suddenly stopped.

A silence came to the audience room.

“…What did you do?”

Lim Cheol-hwan let out a puzzled voice.

He was also aware that he had clearly been attacked by Hyunseong.

But, for some reason, there was nothing wrong with my body at all.

“There are no real monsters.”

Hyunseong lets out a voice that says he’s tired.

Lim Cheol-hwan stretched out his hand, thinking that his opponent’s attack had not worked.

but,

thud.

With a sound of something heavy falling, his arm cut through the air.

It wasn’t a mistake to mistake the distance.

It wasn’t like Hyunseong had just attacked and cut through the air.

just

“what…”

There was nothing where my arm should be.

The red, giant arm visible underneath.

It took me a moment to understand that it had fallen from my body.

“Just in case, let me tell you what I meant by what I said earlier.”

Ssuk.

thud!

The sound is heard once again.

This time the balance was shaken significantly.

When I looked down at my right foot, feeling as if my legs had given out, the part below my knee was rolling on the floor.

Hyunseong clenched his teeth as he watched Im Cheolhwan gradually crumble.

“I meant that it was surprising that you were still alive.”

It would have been normal if he had died a long time ago.

It must be thanks to the tenacious vitality of the Blood Demon that they are still alive.

However, it seemed that even that had come to an end, as Im Cheol-hwan’s red body slowly began to crumble.

Knock, knock.

Blood that loses its shape and begins to flow out.

The flowing blood quickly began to soak the floor of the audience room.

“Oh, no!”

If you don’t become a blood demon, you are nothing.

Lim Cheol-hwan, who thought so, tried to somehow collect the flowing blood, but the blood that had already flowed showed no sign of returning to him.

“My blood. My blood…”

“Why is that your blood? It’s the blood of other Awakened people.”

Im Cheol-hwan sensed death upon seeing the still blood.

A hollow laugh began to flow from his mouth.

“Kuhahaha, I gave up everything and gained strength, but is this all I can do…?”

“I’ve never seen a guy who gained that much power end well.”

“… … ”

“You chose it, you did it. Do you know what they mean by reaping what you sow?”

The eyes of the guy glaring at her were filled with hatred.

Hyunseong shrugs his shoulders, ignoring those words.

“So where did you get that strength?”

“…Do you think I’m going to tell you?”

“No, I just asked just in case. I know you won’t be able to speak properly anyway because of the loneliness.”

A guy who flinches at Hyunseong’s words.

“…Do you even know loneliness?”

“Oh, I know what the ingredients of loneliness are.”

“You know quite a bit about us.”

“Isn’t it pretty good?”

Because I was the one who destroyed the blood sect.

Maybe he knew more about the Blood Cult than Im Cheol-hwan.

“…Okay, I’ll tell you.”

“oh?”

Hyunseong, who was looking at him, tilted his head at a question that suddenly occurred to him.

“But… it seems like the loneliness isn’t working?”

It wouldn’t be strange if you considered it a betrayal and your head exploded just because I said I would tell you.

Lim Cheol-hwan didn’t seem to be in any pain, let alone have his head explode.

“Do you really think I would let something so dangerous happen?”

“but.”

Just by looking at him, he seems like a guy who cares a lot about himself.

I couldn’t keep something as dangerous as loneliness inside my body.

but,

“Is there any way to remove it?”

When I was in the martial arts world, I tried everything to get rid of my loneliness, but in the end, I couldn’t get rid of it.

The brain is in such a sensitive location that even if you wanted to touch it, it would explode first if you detected it.

I thought it might be possible to eliminate it thanks to scientific advancements, but

“I can’t get rid of it. I can only put it to sleep for a while.”

It seemed that loneliness was not something that could be easily eliminated even with modern science.

What a fucking mess.

No, rather, should we consider modern science, which can even briefly put us to sleep, as amazing?

“Anyway, I’m glad you told me, but why did you suddenly change your mind?”

Just now, he was glaring at me as if he was going to kill me.

The answer to the question was simpler than expected.

“Because I want to see you despair.”

Lim Cheol-hwan speaks quite grandly.

He seemed to think that Hyunseong would never be able to defeat the Blood Cult.

A guy who opens his mouth so quietly and continues talking.

“I met the guys on the third floor.”

“Spider Canyon?”

“… You know a lot.”

Lim Cheol-hwan had a rather surprised expression on his face.

Surely, I never thought you would figure it out that far.

“That’s as far as we can tell.”

“We… are not alone?”

“Unfortunately, he’s not a crazy guy who fights alone in the Blood Cult.”

“Hehe, what difference would it make if there were more people? We’d all be the same in front of him anyway.”

“…Him?”

“Yeah, I was trying to break up the party with Steel and die when I got to Spider Canyon. That’s when I met him.”

And, he gave strength to him who was prepared to die.

At first, it seemed like an unstable force in many ways.

He couldn’t control his own will, and if he was not careful, his power would run wild and consume him.

“But, that power was more attractive than anything else.”

I couldn’t help but fall for its charm that surpassed my imagination.

Moreover, as time passed, [Blood Demonization] was gradually improving.

-Improvement… skills?

“How do you get involved in the system?”

“To be exact, it’s not a skill, but improving loneliness.”

“Loneliness?”

“You have to be lonely to learn skills.”

– Indeed. It is possible in that way.

I was wondering how they could interfere with the system, but they didn’t know they could do that.

Solitude was no different from being one with the host.

Because every single movement and thought was being monitored.

It seemed like it caused an error in the system and gave birth to the skill [Blood Magic].

“I… steadily improved from that loneliness. When I became somewhat stable, an order came down from above.”

“Is that order to create a Flame Guild?”

“Yes, the mission was to establish a guild where the Blood Demons could operate externally.”

In any case, a vagabond had limitations simply by being a vagabond.

-Then it wouldn’t be just the Fire Guild.

‘I guess so.’

The Flame Guild is, after all, just a Korean branch.

Among the awakened people of other countries, there will be blood demons, and they will also have guilds like the Flame Guild for external activities.

In the worst case scenario, even the Korean branch might not be a single Flame Guild.

It’s not just that the vagrants created a guild, but that the guild they created for external activities is one of the larger guilds.

‘It’s bigger than I thought.’

The Blood Cult seemed to have grown more powerful than he had expected.

Even if the power of the Blood Cult that I heard from Im Cheol-hwan is only half true, its scale is enormous.

It was not far behind the Association or the Cheonmasin Church.

Seol-ah, who was listening to the story, asked worriedly as if something had occurred to her.

-Macheon River and Elena. Are they okay?

The two of them should be searching Spider Canyon by now.

However, Hyunseong answered as if he wasn’t particularly worried.

‘I’m sure you’ll figure it out.’

Trust in the colleagues who have been with you.

I’m worried about Elena, but if it’s Macheon River, wouldn’t she just pick it up and run away?

Hyunseong replied that he should put his worries about those two aside and asked Im Cheolhwan.

“If you were hoping that I would be scared after hearing how powerful my power is, then you’ve come to the wrong place.”

“He who knows nothing is brave.”

“So, I haven’t heard yet where you received the skill.”

“The place where I received my skills is the cliff of Spider Canyon.”

“hmm.”

I don’t know the terrain, but it seems like their research base is on the cliffs of Spider Canyon.

Just being able to narrow down the scope was a huge win.

“Do you know why I’m telling you all this?”

“Yeah, I thought you’d just be talking nonsense.”

There was a considerable amount of useful information, not to mention the enemy’s location.

At his own words, Im Cheol-hwan let out a low laugh.

“Because even though you know all this, you know that you can never be His match.”

Lim Cheol-hwan already looked like a complete fanatic.

Maybe it was the loneliness that was planted in him that made him like this.

Hyunseong stroking his jawbone.

‘It’s him…’

In the context of the story, he is probably the leader of the Blood Cult.

Could it be the blood demon?

To be honest, I can’t really imagine what kind of guy he is.

He might be an Awakened One who has obtained the skill [Blood Demonization] just like the other guys.

Or, perhaps he is someone who has truly achieved the realm of a Blood Demon through pure Blood Demon Divine Art.

“Coolook.”

Lim Cheol-hwan, who had returned to his original form after [Blood Demonization] was released, vomited a handful of blood.

A serious injury that won’t last long even with treatment.

He felt his vision getting darker and darker and left his last words to Hyunseong.

“Wait in hell, Skeleton.”

Lim Cheol-hwan, the leader of the Flame Guild, died in a pool of his own blood.

Seol-ah left a word after seeing his body.

-But I guess he knows he won’t be able to go to heaven.

Hyunseong approaches Kangcheol with a smirk on his face at those words.

“How are you feeling?”

“…I’m feeling better now.”

Steel stood up, using the spear he was holding as a walking stick.

Although he didn’t seem to be completely better yet, he seemed to have recovered enough to walk.

“Did you hear everything?”

“… Yeah. I never thought there would be such people.”

I didn’t really care about that, so I had no idea.

Who would have thought that such a force would be growing in power in a place he didn’t know about?

“How did you meet those guys?”

“It’s an old relationship.”

Kang Chul lets out a snicker.

An old relationship with someone who has never been revealed to the outside world until now.

I couldn’t guess Hyeonseong’s true identity.

“So what are you going to do from now on?”

In response to Hyunseong’s question, Kangcheol quietly looked at the corpse that was his close friend.

“First of all… I have to bury this guy.”

Although Im Cheol-hwan felt inferior to Kang Cheol, to Kang Cheol, Im Cheol-hwan was an incomparable friend.

It would be appropriate to bury it with one’s own hands, if only to sort out those memories.

“And I guess I should finish what I was doing.”

“You’re not going to get revenge?”

“What kind of revenge is this?”

“but.”

Lim Cheol-hwan simply made his own choice and paid the price for it.

If you say you will seek revenge for that reason, it is nothing more than venting your anger in the name of revenge.

“Aside from that, I think it’s right to get rid of those blood demons.”

This was Kangcheol’s comment after hearing from Hyunseong what kind of people the Blood Cult was.

However, through this battle, Kangcheol realized that he was still a frog in a well.

I knew of the existence of the Blood Demons, but at the same time, I could see how powerful they were.

“Even if I step forward now, I wouldn’t be able to handle even a mid-boss like that Blood Demon.”

That’s why I needed to build up my strength.

furthermore,

“Based on what you said earlier, aren’t your colleagues there?”

“That’s true.”

“Then there’s no need for me to interfere.”

All you have to do is grow your strength and destroy the places that are different from them.

Hyunseong laughed, his teeth chattering, at those words that were rational and efficient.

“You’re quite the efficient person, too.”