novelraw Chapter 386-2: Lord Cain’s Aesthetic of Violence, Outside the Battlefield (2)
Chapter 386-2: Lord Cain’s Aesthetic of Violence, Outside the Battlefield (2)
Agabus was a little angry. If not for his detection skill, his moment of hesitation earlier might really have led to him being scared off.
If a demigod level powerhouse was frightened away by a bottom ranked Disciple, it would be humiliating beyond words.
He resolved to give Amos a swift death, and as for Cain… Cain could sample what it meant to wish for death and be unable to die.
[The moment you use your detection skill, the Twelfth Disciple Cain seems to sense something and turns his head to look at you.]
[You reveal a cruel smile and raise your sword to point at the enemy. You release your mythic grade terrifying power without holding anything back…]
[The powerful pressure makes the nearby trees creak as if about to snap. With you as the center, the trees are crushed to the ground one after another, branches whipping wildly and leaves fluttering everywhere…]
[Yet the Twelfth Disciple Cain also raises his greatsword to point at you at the same time.]
[Unlike your show of dominance and suppression, he raises his blood colored greatsword and slowly speaks…]
[Judgment is passed here.]
[The Ninth Disciple Agabus is an evil heretic who has betrayed the true Lord.][As the oath of judgment, filled with boundless majesty, falls…]
[In an instant, you feel your body go stiff, as if a heavy, towering mountain has been placed upon your back. Even with your demigod level might, you cannot throw off the pressure of the mountain.]
[Not only that, the sword in your hand suddenly becomes impossibly heavy. You must exert all your strength just to barely lift it…]
Agabus’ expression changed dramatically and waves of shock crashed through his heart.
“How, how is this possible? Was Cain not just pretending?”
[The Twelfth Disciple Cain places both hands on the hilt of the greatsword, holding it upright before his chest, his eyes fixed on the blade…]
[Endless blood aura surges and boils from the blade, engulfing it completely.]
[Blinding blood light erupts and shoots up into the heavens, forming a thick pillar of blood that pierces the clouds and disperses the layers of dark clouds.]
[The pale moonlight does not fall now that the clouds have dispersed. Everywhere you look, the world is filled with that maddening, corrupting crimson glow…]
[The Twelfth Disciple Cain becomes a streak of exploding blood colored meteor light that crosses the distance in an instant and crashes down on you with world-ending force.]
[You try to raise your sword to block, but before you can lift the sword that now weighs ten thousand pounds, your vision is filled entirely with thickening blood light…]
[Where the crimson meteor flies, waves of bloody flame sweep the land. Withered trees that cannot withstand the shock of the impact are ripped up by the roots and hurled into the sea by the immense power.]
[Behind the blood colored meteor is a scarlet ravine like a chasm of molten lava.]
[At the end of the meteor’s impact, beneath the bright red glow, there is only your face twisted in utter terror and despair…]
[You cannot block this terrifying might. You can only watch as your body is blown apart by the impact into scattered chunks of blood and flesh…]
[The shockwaves echo across the island with a sound like a sonic boom that could shatter eardrums…]
[By the time the blood colored meteor has turned back into the figure of the Twelfth Disciple Cain, nothing remains in the deep crimson ravine the meteor carved into the earth. Naturally, that includes you…]
[You have died.]
Agabus could not help but tremble all over as the terror of Soul Annihilation slowly settled over him.
It was as if he saw a reaper rest a scythe of death against his neck, then swing it down with all its might.
The unbearable agony that came straight from the soul gradually spread through him and swallowed him whole.
Agabus clutched his own throat without thinking, trying to use the pain of suffocation to drown out the despair of Soul Annihilation.
Yet it was all useless.
He collapsed to the ground, his body arching and contorting, jerking in spasms as he screamed like a damned soul.
As the light representing life in his eyes slowly dimmed, everything fell into silence.
On the phone that had fallen to the ground, the game called The Book of Salvation silently vanished.
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Amos stared blankly at the battle before his eyes. From beginning to end, it had only taken an instant.
Yet in that brief instant, it had perfectly demonstrated what it meant to be blown away and brutally crushed, what it meant to be cruel and merciless.
He had never imagined that Cain’s strength could be so overwhelming.
“I once actually dared to think about… killing Cain?”
Amos was filled with regret. With power this terrifying, even if Cain went to the island of the mid ranked Disciples, he would be able to massacre them like chopping vegetables.
Perhaps only the high ranked Disciples, those upper echelon figures who had mastered peak demigod power, could firmly suppress Cain.
“I am afraid only Lord Vishnu could defeat Cain…”
As far as Amos knew, Lord Vishnu had mythic+ strength, a terrifying existence among top demigods.
“Little Amos?”
“Little Amos.”
Cain called his name several times through the headset before Amos snapped back to himself.
“Ah, here, Lord Cain, your orders?”
“What are you spacing out for? Charge me up.”
Amos woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly summoned the Underworld Gate again, doing his job as a proper power bank.
Not long after, the crimson greatsword once again brimmed with thick blood light.
Amos had already witnessed the might of this almost divine-grade weapon and could not help feeling extremely envious.
He could only indulge in the fantasy in secret, however, and did not dare even to think of putting that idea into action.
Lin Xun opened the Soul Annihilation option and saw that one Disciple in the mid ranked Disciple area had already died, along with several retainers.
After pondering for a moment, he said to Amos, “Little Amos, stay here and do not move. Wait for me to come back.”
“Yes, my lord.”
The Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil Shell was excellent in every way, but it did have one rather awkward drawback, which was that it could not fly.
For native demigod level powerhouses, this sort of thing was nothing at all.
Once they gradually mastered transcendent power, they would naturally gain a series of transcendent abilities to match it, and flight was one of them.
The Primordial Fire Child of Evil Shell had reached mythic grade thanks to its talent compatibility and had stepped into the demigod realm.
The soul possessing the Shell would also gradually grow stronger as the Shell’s power increased.
For example, in reality, even without possessing a Shell, the transcendent power in Lin Xun’s soul was already enough to let his original body float a few centimeters above the ground.
Kim had done that before as well.
However, at that time Kim had been Firefly’s ‘eyes’ and had the plug in of a main god level existence backing him, which was why he had been able to go from merely understanding the transcendent to partially mastering it in such a short time.
Lin Xun had made some progress compared to when he had first grasped demigod-level power.
Even so, right now he could only float about half a meter above the ground. To truly soar freely through the sky, he would still have to wait until his soul fully adapted to the Shell’s power.
He switched to the Purgatory Angel Shell. With Flesh Authority upon him, switching Shells while possessed would make it so no one could detect any abnormality.
The moment he possessed this Purgatory Angel Shell, it changed into the appearance of the Child of Evil under the influence of Flesh Authority.
Compared to when he had first acquired Flesh Authority and the flesh had to writhe and squirm slowly to change his face, this was a huge improvement.
[…]
[You fly into the sky. The island beneath your feet grows farther and farther away, smaller and smaller…]
[You look off into the distance and see a large island. Its shape is different from the one beneath your feet, but its size is about the same.]
[Beyond this island, at the very edge of your vision, you can see another island.]
[You know that these are the three islands from the crewman’s memories, the three islands controlled by the three Sisters of Vengeance and used by them to toy with mortals.]
An uncontrollable thought surfaced in Lin Xun’s mind. What would happen if he left the area these three islands were in?
His instincts told him that he had better not try it.
He shook his head, then suddenly thought of another, even stranger thought, one he had not considered before.
According to Vishnu, the chapter for each Disciple War was different, but the rules did not change much.
Was it really just a coincidence that this world happened to have the three Sisters of Vengeance and happened to match the rules of the Disciple War?
There were countless chapters in The Book of Salvation, so many that the number was impossible to imagine.
How had the Master found a chapter from among the endless chapters that so happened to fit the rules of the Disciple War?
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes. He was sure that there was a tremendous secret behind it.