novelraw Chapter 103 : Feeling the Waves (10)
Chapter 103 : Feeling the Waves (10)
Chapter 103: Feeling the Waves (10)
"Gasp, gasp!"
The Rakshasa Divine Maiden gasped for breath. She planted her sword on the ground, and her knees buckled. It didn't seem like she could continue the fight any longer.
It was a great relief that she had won, but it didn't seem like she could join forces against the Blood-Faced Demon.
I took my eyes off the Rakshasa Divine Maiden and looked ahead. Now, if I just kill this guy, everything here will be over.
Don't tell me there's another guy after this. If there is, just let the Black Heaven take over the world.
"Tsk, tsk. I told you that if you keep showing off like that, you'll get stabbed by a sword someday. In the end, you're dead!"
Even though his comrade had died, he didn't seem sad at all. On the contrary, he had a refreshed expression as if he was glad he was dead.
He slung the huge saber over his shoulder and looked down at me arrogantly.
Unfortunately, I looked up at him, which made me look less cool.
"The fun is over, and we should start a proper fight now. Don't you think?"
"..."
I had been fighting with all my might until now. I had used the Reversal of Heaven, the first infinity, the second infinity, and the third infinity. So I had nothing to say.
The moment his words ended, a thick killing intent rose from his body. I thought the words he had just thrown were just a provocation or something, but it seemed he was serious. I'm really fucked. Just then, his arm moved. Flinch! I was startled for a moment. It wasn't an attack. However, he put his hand into his bosom, took out a mask, and put it on his face.
"A snake?"
It resembled a snake. On one side, there was a complete horn, but the horn on the other side was cut off. It was as if he had been trying to ascend but had failed to become a dragon and had been thrown back to the ground.
I didn't know why he had suddenly put on a mask, but I just respected it as his preference. However, the mask reminded me of something.
Chaotic Heavenly Society, Black Heaven, even the names were similar. But the former was just something I had made up to make it easier to call them.
Anyway, through the eyeholes of the mask, vertically slit pupils resembling those of an animal were looking at me.
"Do you know? Humans are weak. They don't have the sharp teeth that beasts have, nor the claws that can tear anything apart, nor the hard scales that reptiles have, nor the poison that can turn the tide of a battle with a single injection. Do you know why such a human could become the strongest in the ecosystem?"
What are you trying to say?
"That horn, where did it get cut?"
"Kid."
"It's not 'kid', it's Jae-ha. That's my name. Cut the crap! I asked where the horn got cut. Don't tell me you got your ass kicked somewhere and got your horn cut off in humiliation? And you're embarrassed about it, so you're blabbering on now?"
"Just because you have a mouth doesn't mean you can say whatever you want."
Although I couldn't see his expression, I could feel a faint anger in his tone. As someone who had exchanged heartfelt compliments with the Orthodox Faction guys before my regression, this was a direct hit to the center of my chest.
And it hurts more when you hit a sore spot.
"I can tell just by looking at you that you got your ass kicked by someone and were chased out here. I know because I was in a pretty high position in a group once. A guy like you who lives on his own pride is perfect for being stuck in some ambiguous place and used as a guard dog. Be honest. You didn't have any close friends when you were in a group, did you?"
"..."
"Sorry. I have a knack for poking at other people's sore spots. Especially for a loser who has been beaten by someone and has a resentful look like a mangy dog."
"Are you done talking?"
"Of course, I'm far from done. In the first place, a horn on a snake's head, what a childish idea..."
Swish.
The ground scatters. The Blood-Faced Demon, who had been far away, appears enlarged in an instant. When I blinked and opened my eyes, the huge saber had already arrived in front of me.
To attack while I'm talking, what a cheap bastard!
I reflexively thrust my sword into the trajectory of the approaching saber. At that moment, whoosh! The saber, as if it were a living creature, twisted its trajectory and came crashing down on me.
That's!
The strange movement I had seen at first!
I quickly kicked off the ground backwards.
The fourth form of the Reversal of Heaven, the Reversal of the Situation.
0th technique, True Thunder.
Crackle!
A trace of lightning qi grazed the floor. I had definitely created a distance. But the saber was still stubbornly following me like a snake that had found its prey.
'You're catching up to the Reversal of the Situation using lightning qi?'
It was amazing. But this was not all I had.
'Then how about this!'
I once again performed the Reversal of the Situation, this time in a zigzag pattern.
'This can't be caught...'
Huh?
A single saber filled my vision. It was getting bigger and bigger. Soon, the distance between the saber and me converged to '0', and slice! I twisted my body to the side as much as possible. I felt a pain coming from my side, and when I wiped my hand, blood came out.
Drip, drip.
The wound was quite deep. The bone was not hit, but it was cut deep enough to damage the muscle.
I prepared for a follow-up attack, but it didn't come.
When I raised my head, the Blood-Faced Demon was slinging his saber over his shoulder and looking down at me. His pupils, visible through the mask, were still vertically slit, resembling those of an animal.
At that moment, although I couldn't see it clearly, I had the illusion that his pupils were curving into a crescent moon shape.
"You've finally quieted down."
I readjusted my breathing and took care of my wound as much as possible.
"Yes. You're finally in a state I like."
"You didn't win just because you got one lucky shot, you know?"
"Hehe. Don't be cocky, kid. Don't you wonder? Why you couldn't shake off my saber."
"Are you using some kind of sorcery?"
"In your eyes, this looked like sorcery. How amusing."
Shit. Why are you asking me when you're not going to tell me!
Swish.
The Blood-Faced Demon kicked off the ground again.
'If I can't dodge it, I'll counter it!'
Huff! I took a deep breath and, using the third form of the Reversal of Heaven, the Left-Right Reversal, I took care not to open the wound on my side, and with my sword held in a reverse grip, I crossed my palms back and forth and thrust them forward.
Take this!
The second form of the Reversal of Heaven, the Twin Poles, the Three-Legged Crow.
The shockwave created by the collision of yin and yang energy swept through the front.
The clear voice of the Blood-Faced Demon was heard through the dust.
"In the beginning, yin and yang were born from nothingness. That is called Taegeuk."
The Twin Poles were nullified too easily. To be more precise, the yin and yang energy that had been combined were separated near the Blood-Faced Demon and returned to their original state of nothingness.
Although I couldn't understand how that was possible, I had no choice but to believe it because it had happened right in front of my eyes.
'This is...'
The difference in level was too great.
Crackle.
I used the True Thunder again to create a distance. The Blood-Faced Demon was still following me.
And he was spouting some incomprehensible words.
"From Taegeuk, the three talents were born, and the four images, the five elements, the six harmonies, and the world was born. As a result, humans and various other creatures appeared in this world."
The Blood-Faced Demon swung his saber from right to left. The Blood-Faced Demon's saber had a reddish tint.
I spread my palms wide again.
The second form of the Reversal of Heaven, the Twin Poles.
Crash!
However, the direction the Twin Poles were heading was not the Blood-Faced Demon, but myself.
Slice!
The saber cut through the air, and my body was sent flying backwards by the Twin Poles I had launched.
As I hit the ground and got up, cough! I coughed and blood came out. As expected, I had internal injuries. But if I hadn't launched the Twin Poles at myself just now, I would be checking my internal organs with my own eyes right now, not just having internal injuries.
And this method was not something that could be used twice.
'If I get any more internal injuries, it's really the end.'
The flow of my internal energy was being cut off due to the internal injuries from before.
Thud.
The Blood-Faced Demon was walking slowly towards me, as if approaching a prey he had already caught.
"Humans are the lowest creatures in the ecosystem. They don't have any of the advantages that other animals have. Do you know how such a human could rise to the top of the ecosystem?"
"How would I know?"
Jing.
The Blood-Faced Demon's saber stopped right in front of my head. My skin was cut just by the sharp edge of the saber. Blood trickled down my face.
"Will. The distinct difference that humans have from other animals."
Light began to emanate from the Blood-Faced Demon's saber.
I was seriously scared.
"The yin and yang energy that just exists in this world."
On the right side of the Blood-Faced Demon's saber, a red energy flickered, and on the left side, a blue energy flickered.
"Will is imbued in it. The desire to wish, to want, to crave!"
A new yellow energy appeared in the air and mixed with the red and blue energy.
Gurgle, gurgle.
Then, countless colors of energy were born and disappeared repeatedly.
"Such a will creates countless possibilities."
It became a complete black color.
Just looking at it gave me goosebumps all over my body.
"I'll ask you again, kid. What do you think the Profound Realm is?"
Gah! Spit!
I gathered the boiling blood in my mouth and spat it out. Only then did I feel a little refreshed.
There are always people like this in life.
Attention-seeking bastards who are sick with a disease that makes them die if they can't show off what they've achieved.
It's really unfortunate, but I had to admit what I had to admit. That guy knows a world I haven't stepped into. He's ahead of me right now.
What he sees is different.
Therefore, what he feels is different.
Therefore, what he accepts is different.
Therefore, what he understands is different.
Therefore, he is now the predator, and I am the prey.
An ant can never look up at the sky. To an ant, the sky is an object of awe and a world that does not exist.
But the sky clearly exists, and it holds a vastness greater than the earth.
A place I haven't seen, a place I haven't reached, the guy has seen and reached.
What is certain now is that there is a difference between the guy and me, similar to how an ant cannot perceive the existence of the sky.
It's a really shitty reality.
"Last question. Have you entered the Profound Realm?"
"Fuck off, you son of a bitch!"
Whoosh!
The saber came flying.
I could feel it instinctively.
That it was impossible for me to dodge that.
***
If it's a revolving lantern, it's a revolving lantern.
I thought I had forgotten, but it seems it was still in my head.
A sword was approaching.
To be precise, the sword that my junior sister had swung during the Young Lord competition was being thrust at me.
Why is the same scene from that time coming to mind now?
Because the location is the same?
Because they're both belly-stab fetishists?
Because of the expectation that I'll have to live a life with wet pants every day again?
If I knew that, I'd be a saint.
What was certain was that I couldn't do anything.
I just watched as the sword dug into my belly and gave me an unpleasant feeling as it stirred around.
To be more precise, I had completely given up on resisting.
Because it was useless anyway.
Come to think of it now, the moment I had made up my mind like that, I had already lost.
And the fact that this memory is tormenting me again is proof that the regret of that time is still binding me.
Even after entering the Transformation Realm and the Profound Realm, I still hadn't been able to shake off the past.
Perhaps the reason was that I hadn't taken a step forward on my own.
Until now, I had only come this far with someone's intervention.
Yang So-pyeong had helped me when I was entering the Transformation Realm.
My junior sister had helped me when I was entering the Profound Realm.
After that, the Heavenly Demon and the Divine Monk had helped me.
Looking at it this way, I really hadn't done anything on my own.
I still hadn't changed much from the past.
And now, I was at a point where I had to make a choice without anyone's intervention.
Will I be pierced by that saber and return to my shabby past self?
Or will I struggle and escape this crisis?
I was just trying to take a little revenge on the Black Heaven bastards, but I didn't expect to have to risk my life.
And since the Sword Empress is also involved, they say that even a brush of the sleeves is fate, but these guys are involved even after I've regressed.
It's truly a bad fate.
Alright! I'll admit it. I was a little... no! I was very arrogant.
After entering the Profound Realm and defeating the lightning-bolt guy who was also in the Profound Realm, I thought I was a little strong now.
But when I was on the verge of death, I realized that the lightning-bolt guy was a half-assed guy who had only fought advantageously after poisoning the Divine Monk.
To realize this before I die, damn it.
If he had fought with his true skills, the Divine Monk would have lightly smashed the lightning-bolt guy's head with an infinite number of honey-chestnuts. I was tricked by the lightning-bolt guy. A guy who only knew how to show off with his flashy eyes.
Although it was no one's fault but my own that I was in this situation, I still didn't want to die.
Even if I lived, I didn't want to live with a pierced belly.
I want to live.
I want to live more lowly, more vulgarly, more sloppily than anyone else in this world!
If possible, while spending a lot of money all night!
While eating whatever I want!
And drinking until I lose my memory!
And rolling around with a woman all night!
Of course, with a pretty woman!
Of course, with a woman with big breasts!
Of course, with a woman with a big butt!
Shit, I!
I want to live a honey-sucking life.
So I could never die here.
***
From the moment a person is born, their fate is decided.
"You can, but why can't I?"
The being in front of him was a predator at the top of the ecosystem.
Sharp, vertically slit pupils looked down at him.
"That's the natural order of things."
"The natural order of things?"
He looked down at him arrogantly and opened his mouth with a playful expression.
"Yes. A snake is born with venom from birth. No one taught it, but from the moment it's born, it knows how to use its venom. It's as if the world is telling it, you are a predator."
"Are you saying I was born as prey?"
"Wow! You understood in one go? Amazing!
"Hehehehe."
A laugh came out. What he was talking about was the theory of birth. That all fate is decided from birth... If someone else had said it, he wouldn't have believed it, but since the guy who was trampling on him was saying it, it suited him so well.
"Don't worry. Even trash has its uses. So I'll think carefully about your use!"
Crack.
As he gently pressed down with his foot, one horn broke.
The most promising prospect in the Black Heaven had his horn broken by a real predator who had appeared out of nowhere.
After that, he was stuck at the end of the world and didn't come out.
In his boring world, a man appeared.
The man was ignorant, as if he were his past self.
He didn't understand anything about the principles of the world.
That man was also prey, just like him.
And he could understand what the use the predator had talked about was.
There is a hierarchy even among the prey.
If he was a frog, that guy was a bug.
In this situation, he was the predator.
Ah! This is what it feels like to look at trash.
Today, he will live, and the man will die.
Because that is the natural order of the ecosystem.
Although the bug had not lost its will to fight.
And the guy's pupils, as he looked at him, were still shining.
But a person, no! All living things are given a fate from birth.
The theory of birth.
Unfortunately, this man's fate was as good as decided from the moment he met him.
The saber reaches his abdomen. Soon, the sensation of cutting through his internal organs will be transmitted to his hand.
Slice!
He cut. But it was shallow. The moment it pierced his belly fat and was about to cut his internal organs, he was pushed back by a repulsive force from inside and was only lightly cut.
The Blood-Faced Demon realized that the man had done something.
"Surprised?"
He was the one who had cut, and he was the one who had been injured. Blood was flowing freely from the opponent's stomach, but the opponent was grinning coolly as if he had been the one to cut.
"If you can't dodge it, you just don't dodge it."
Slice!
Soon, the man's sword fell. One of the Blood-Faced Demon's arms was deeply cut.
"Using your own body as bait to attack?"
"Yes. In the moment you cut, you can't do that strange movement of yours, can you? Just like now."
He was a madman. If he had failed, his internal organs would have been sliced by that blow just now.
"Come on! Let's see who lasts longer! Hehehe."
The man's expression, as he laughed while bleeding profusely, was not normal.
The Blood-Faced Demon kicked off the ground and went in. The man did not run away as before. He didn't even pretend to block.
Whoosh!
The Blood-Faced Demon's saber once again moved with an unreadable trajectory, like a snake. The man just stood there.
The Blood-Faced Demon swung his saber with all his might.
Slice!
He succeeded in digging into the flesh and muscle. But this time too, he failed to cut the bone and internal organs.
"What the fuck is will? What's with the Taegeuk and all that! If you get cut by a sword, whether you're a person, an animal, a reptile snake bastard, or even a monster, you all die the same! You son of a bitch!"
Whoosh!
The man swung his sword. The sword was falling.
The Blood-Faced Demon tried to pull out his saber and block, but the saber stuck in the man's body wouldn't budge. The man's hand was holding his saber tightly.
The Blood-Faced Demon let go of his saber late. But the sword reached the Blood-Faced Demon a beat faster.
The moment he saw it, the Blood-Faced Demon realized.
Ah! I see. I've been mistaken all this time.
I've been living in a well, trapped by his words all this time.
Slice!
The other horn was cut off.
"Was it all the same in the end?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Hehe. It's a shame. If I had met you a little earlier, would I have changed too?"
"Then you would have died sooner at my hands."
"Is that so. It was a good match."
The Blood-Faced Demon's upper body slid diagonally and fell to the ground.
Yoo Jae-ha immediately collapsed on the ground.
"Wow, shit! I almost died!"
If I had chased after the illusion of will or whatever the guy had said, the person whose upper and lower body were separated now would have been me, not the Blood-Faced Demon.
And this time too, I ended up getting help.
I didn't think I would succeed.
Congenital great meridian blockage, blocked meridians.
The only solution to that.
Extreme exoskeleton strengthening through acquired fine meridian activation.
As a result, I was in a state where I couldn't even move a single hand because my whole body's bones felt like they were shattered, but in the end, I survived.
Hehehe.
It's a life where I've decided to suck honey since I was born again.
Honey! And other people's too! Just everything!
Let's suck it all up!
This is my life philosophy
(End of Chapter)