The Regressed Young Master’s Guide to Living on Easy Mode

Chapter 165 : Towards the Honey Pot (1)

The Blood Demon, the master of the Blood Cult, had become a jiangshi.

People focused on the topic I had thrown out of the blue.

"Then what happens to the Blood Cult?"

Although the Blood Cult's military power had been chipped away, in reality, only the jiangshi had been destroyed, so it had to be seen that most of the military power was being maintained.

The Blood Demon, who had become a jiangshi, said.

"It can't be helped. For the time being, Soma has no choice but to take charge of the Blood Cult."

A twist occurred here.

"I don't want to."

"Is that so?"

"Yeah!"

The Blood Demon seemed quite indifferent to Soma's reaction. Come to think of it, perhaps the Blood Cult was being run in a rule-of-thumb manner.

Just then, Soma made a new proposal.

"I don't like complicated things. Let's have the strongest person here take the Blood Cult!"

"Soma, what are you talking about now? Do you think the Blood Cult is a neighborhood store?"

Still, the Blood Demon had some common sense. I thought he didn't, seeing his usual behavior.

"Blood Demon. Are you stronger than me?"

But Soma was a man beyond what the Blood Demon had thought.

The Blood Demon, as if he were at a loss for words, could not open his mouth this time and kept it shut.

Soma chattered excitedly.

"The Blood Demon said it. The strong decide everything. Isn't that the Blood Cult?"

The Blood Cult is also one of the branches of the Divine Cult.

The doctrine was the same.

"Hehe. Yes, that is the Blood Cult."

The Blood Demon, who had regained his composure.

But in my eyes, it seemed as if a drop of sweat was flowing on the Blood Demon's forehead. If he were a person and not a jiangshi, it probably would have been really flowing.

And so, in a place where all the disciples of the Blood Cult had gathered, Soma said.

"From now on, the person who is standing until the very end will be the master of the Blood Cult."

Will the disciples of the Blood Cult really accept these words?

If it were the Divine Cult, they would have gone crazy with joy.

And the disciples of the Blood Cult showed the madness of attacking the colleagues next to them as soon as Soma's words ended, letting out a cheer.

Looking at it this way, the Blood Cult and the Divine Cult were just the same.

The law of the jungle.

This is the romance of the Demonic Path.

And my older brother moved stealthily.

"Older brother?"

"Younger brother, I haven't prepared a gift since you became the young leader."

"Don't tell me you're planning to join in there?"

This is the Blood Cult, not the Divine Cult. Are you perhaps mistaken?

Of course, the reason I was stopping my older brother now was not because I doubted him. My older brother had definitely become stronger while I wasn't looking.

But to the question 'Can my older brother beat Soma?', I couldn't give a definite answer.

Even though Soma looks like that, he is clearly a master of the Transcending Demon. It wasn't for nothing that the Blood Demon was trying to pass on the position of the Blood Demon to Soma.

Look at that. The scene where only the area around Soma is empty while everyone is fighting.

That was not a conscious act, but a warning that instinct was giving to oneself.

To live!

My older brother approaches Soma.

And an unexpected situation occurred again.

"Senior brother."

"Huh?"

"The fact that you showed me my father means that you know how to return my father to his original state, right?"

"For now?"

"I understand."

My junior sister, who had been looking at the lying former Heavenly Demon all along, has a determined look in her eyes as if she has decided something.

My junior sister walks to Soma and my older brother.

"Junior sister?"

"Yes."

"What are you trying to do now?"

"Come to think of it, I also haven't given my senior brother a congratulatory gift for becoming the young leader yet."

"Isn't that a bit much?"

"I can give you more."

My junior sister wedged herself between Soma and my older brother.

Is this right? Why did it become like this?

The important thing is, I wouldn't take the Blood Cult even if you gave it to me!

"Hehe."

The Blood Demon, who was watching from the side as if it were a fire across the river, was laughing.

"You're laughing?"

The house that's burning now is your house!

"Then should I cry? Are you not going?"

Of course, if I could participate there, I felt like I could defeat everyone there and win. But I had no energy left to fight now.

What I learned from this is that there is a limit to the number of times you can use a boundary.

Is about 3 times the maximum?

By the time I was organizing my thoughts about the boundary, the fight was gradually coming to an end. Surprisingly, the first person to leave was my junior sister.

"Because the deputy leader asked me to concede just this once."

I nodded. If the higher-ups say so, you have to do it.

Still, you're keeping what you have to keep, junior sister.

If I had just asked you to concede the young leader position back then, would you have conceded?

Thinking about it now, it seems like she really would have.

I should have just closed my eyes, swallowed my pride, and said it once.

And the following fight between my older brother and Soma.

My older brother had surprisingly reached the Transcending Demon.

Who could see that person as the same person who was panting because he couldn't even reach the peak of the Transcendent Realm until just a while ago?

Soma deploys a boundary.

"Abyss Boundary!"

It was a crystal of enlightenment that was similar to what the Blood Demon had spread, but clearly different.

"Oh! It seems Soma has finally completed it."

The Blood Demon seemed to know what that was.

"What's that?"

"The Abyss Boundary is one of the few secret traditions left in the Blood Cult. It's exclusively for the Heavenly Killing Star."

So what is it?

"A person in the Abyss Boundary becomes stronger by the number of people they have killed. It's a boundary that is perfectly suited for Soma, who is the Heavenly Killing Star."

I looked at the two people in the Abyss Boundary.

My older brother raises his two hands.

"It's my defeat."

Only the energy of a third-rate warrior was felt from my older brother.

On the contrary, twice as much power as before was felt from Soma.

"Huh?"

Soma made a face as if he couldn't understand.

"In this boundary, I am no different from an ordinary person. So it's my defeat."

Because my older brother had voluntarily conceded, the winner of this fight had become Soma in vain.

At that moment, Soma did something unexpected.

He suddenly folded the boundary and spread it again in front of me.

"Abyss Boundary!"

Soma looked at me and said.

"This way, Jae-ha can also fight, right? Regardless of your energy, only the laws of my boundary exist here!"

W-Well, that's true.

Although I had killed quite a few people after my regression, I don't remember killing people as if it were a meal like Soma...

The moment I was about to declare my voluntary defeat like my older brother, an unbelievable power was felt from me.

Looking at the total amount of power alone, it was about twice as much as Soma's.

"J-Jae-ha? Are you perhaps the Heavenly Killing Star?"

Since Soma, who was the Heavenly Killing Star, was so surprised, you might say 'How many did you kill?', but I definitely don't remember killing that many people after my regression. I don't know about before my regression.

Huh? Don't tell me this also counts the number of murders before my regression?

Come to think of it, the soul is the same.

Then the number I killed is about several thousand.

I approached Soma, and Soma trembled all over and stepped back.

And this time, Soma voluntarily conceded.

"I-I lost. As expected, Jae-ha is amazing."

And so, I had become the Blood Demon by chance.

Is this right?

Just then, I felt someone approaching this way quickly.

My junior sister, who was the most intact here, noticed first and moved.

Boom!

That person lightly avoided my junior sister's attack and, on the contrary, attacked my junior sister. And my junior sister could not avoid that person's attack and allowed it as it was.

My junior sister, who had reached the Transcending Demon, was subdued in one blow?

This is a situation where everyone could die!

I looked at the opponent with a tense heart and immediately relaxed.

It was worth it for my junior sister to be hit.

"You're still weak."

My junior sister immediately got up from her seat and clasped her fists.

"I will strive a little more."

"Yes."

The person who had appeared was the leader, Hyuk Won-sang, whom I had never thought I would see here.

He glanced around once and then opened his mouth.

"Blood Demon. You've become a jiangshi while I wasn't looking. Have you finally given up on being human?"

"Hehe. Don't worry. I'm just having some fun for a while."

At the Blood Demon's shamelessness, I secretly clicked my tongue.

By the way, why did the leader come here in person?

"An unexpected piece of news was delivered, so I came just in case, and fortunately, everyone seems to be safe."

Just to deliver this information?

No! Don't tell me he came because he was worried about me? No way. He must have come because he was worried about my older brother.

The leader continued.

"The Sura Cult has collapsed."

"What?"

At my question, the leader added.

"To be more precise, the Sura Cult has been completely absorbed by the anti-emperor faction."

The anti-emperor faction? What's that?

For now, we followed the leader back to the Divine Cult to hear more detailed information.

The leader looked at me for a moment and then asked.

"Are you hurt anywhere?"

"I'm fine, except that I have no energy."

"I see."

* * *

The anti-emperor faction.

After the emperor's death, the picture of the crown prince naturally becoming the next emperor was being drawn.

However, there were people who opposed that. That was the anti-emperor faction.

Come to think of it, it was a matter of course.

No matter how much the imperial family is, there can be a force that does not like the current imperial family.

And they had gathered the courage to express the feelings they had been hiding after the emperor's death.

And the fact that the anti-emperor faction had quite a large power that even the emperor's faction could not do anything about right now was the biggest problem facing the current imperial family.

We, who had gathered in the leader's hall, listened to what the military strategist was saying.

"The reason why the Divine Cult was able to be wary of the imperial family's power was also thanks to the existence of the anti-emperor faction. If the only thing the emperor's faction had to worry about was us, even the Divine Cult would not have been able to be so comfortable now."

It would have become a battlefield.

"The anti-emperor faction had a much greater power than expected, no! Beyond imagination. To the point where they could have a power struggle with the emperor's faction right now."

The power that the emperor has is largely divided into two.

The one million capital defense army that protects the capital, Beijing.

That is, the Golden Guard.

And the one million northern defense army stationed in the north.

That is, the northern army led by the grand general.

If what he is saying now is true, then what I am predicting is probably right.

Because there is only one place that can stand up to the emperor's faction right now.

"The grand general has betrayed."

As expected.

But why?

"Why did the grand general betray? Betrayal has to have some advantage, but is there a motive for a person who is a grand general to abandon his confirmed position and do such a thing?"

Unless he is going to become the emperor himself.

Even if he succeeds in the rebellion, the grand general can never become the emperor due to the problem of legitimacy.

"The young leader's words are a hundred times right. Even if I were the grand general, there is no reason to start a rebellion. And the grand general has been a pro-emperor faction since long ago."

So he must have entrusted the most important northern region to him.

"But a variable occurs here. That is the newly appeared emperor's bloodline."

"Don't tell me?"

"Yes. 'The one who appeared after the emperor's death, calling himself the crown prince of the empire, was a person closer to an emperor than the current crown prince.' That was the grand general's opinion."

"So the two crown princes naturally came into conflict, and the grand general came to follow the newly appeared crown prince?"

"Yes. That's right. And just a few days ago, the Sura Cult collapsed due to the army led by the new crown prince. To be more precise, it would be correct to say that it was absorbed."

"Wow!"

There was still more surprising news.

"The Righteous Faction of the Central Plains has also signed a petition against the current emperor, and now more than half of them have joined the anti-emperor faction."

"Wow!!"

There was still more surprising news.

"And so, the current emperor's faction has been completely isolated by the anti-emperor faction, and they have requested our help."

"Wow!!!"

"Now, the decision can be made by the young leader himself."

"What is it?"

"Whether to stand on the side of the emperor's faction and personally lift the extermination order that has been placed on the young leader. Or to stand on the side of the anti-emperor faction, wipe out the emperor's faction, and make the extermination order a thing that never happened."

* * *

Black Heaven.

"The only one who has inherited the great emperor's blood. I have just taken the Sura Cult."

"Well done, law enforcement officer. Hehehe. Isn't the Dragon God Lord a fool? Did he think that if I got my hands on the Great Reversal of Heaven Art, I would become the second Dragon God Lord as he intended? Hehehe. What kind of era is this, the era has to change now. Isn't that right, Sa Cho-hon?"

"Yes. That's right."

"By the way, why are you still one-armed? I have specially prepared a new body for you."

"I will follow the orders of the Heavenly Lord, no! the Crown Prince, after I have broken through my own limits and have proven myself."

"Hehehe. Yes. You've always had a stubborn side. That's why I liked you. Compared to that, the Righteous Faction guys are like bats, sticking to this side and that side."

"Isn't that their nature?"

"That's right. After things are well over, I'll have to wipe them all out. By the way, what do you think?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I'm keeping an eye on is not the emperor's faction, the anti-emperor faction, or the Righteous Faction. They are like insects that can be wiped out at any time if I just set my mind to it. But the Demonic Cult is different. They are a unique force that has risen to the position of the strongest as a single force. The only variable that can overturn the current situation. Where do you think they will stick?"

"In my opinion."

"Yes, speak."

"The Demonic Cult..."

* * *

"Alright! I've decided!”

(End of Chapter)