novelraw Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119 Blood Price (2)
'Haah…….'
The Alliance Leader caught her rough breath, closed her eyes, and felt her heart beating terrifyingly due to excitement.
THUMP-THUMP
'Come to think of it, how long has it been since I stained my hands with blood?'
She recalled the fact that since she had raised the Sado Alliance during the chaos of the Demonic Cult and ascended to the position of Alliance Leader, she had not personally drawn a weapon.
'Come to think of it, I have endured for a long time indeed.'
The Alliance Leader lifted her head and looked at Jaun.
'To protect the Sado Alliance right now, it is correct to soothe that child. But thinking about the far future…….'
The Alliance Leader's eyes, looking at the demonic energy covering the area around Jaun's body, began to be dyed increasingly red.
'The others do not know the true terror of the Heavenly Demon. If that fellow truly carries the will of the Heavenly Demon, even if things become difficult for now, eliminating him early is actually the path for the Sado Alliance.'
It was a sophistry.
If the Sado Alliance and the Murim Alliance were to antagonize each other now, there would be no way to stop the Blood Cult.
However, because her instincts were already consuming her reason, the Alliance Leader was unable to make a clear judgment.
The Alliance Leader, who was contemplating while biting her lips hard, exhaled a small sigh.
"……One-eye."
At the Alliance Leader's call, the figure of an old man wearing an eyepatch appeared smoothly from the air.
"Did you call, Alliance Leader."
"Deploy the Hidden Killing Squad and clear the Inner Court. It is difficult to control my emotions."
The old man, who had lifted his head in surprise at the Alliance Leader's words, bowed his head once again.
"Your command shall be obeyed."
At the same time as the One-eyed Pursuing Old Man bowed deeply, about fifteen martial artists wearing dark gray martial robes tore through the air and revealed themselves on both sides of the Crystal Path.
The Hidden Killing Squad, the strongest organization of the Sado Alliance that escorted the Alliance Leader and performed her secret missions.
They were the Alliance Leader's Guard, composed of the most prominent masters among them.
When the members of the Hidden Killing Squad revealed themselves, the complexions of the onlookers turned pale and stiff.
The hesitating martial artists began to retreat one step at a time.
The One-eyed Pursuing Old Man, who took a sweeping look at the martial artists remaining in their spots, opened his mouth.
"I will count to three. Those who remain in the Inner Court after that will be considered to have hostility toward our Hidden Killing Squad."
Blood drained from the faces of the remaining martial artists upon hearing the words of the One-eyed Pursuing Old Man.
Feeling the weight contained in the words of the One-eyed Pursuing Old Man, the martial artists scrambled to escape the Inner Court, competing with one another.
"One. Two……."
There was no need to count to the end.
As soon as they heard the words of the One-eyed Pursuing Old Man, the martial artists vanished as if washed away, and only silence was situated within the Inner Court.
The One-eyed Pursuing Old Man turned his head and bowed to the Alliance Leader.
The Alliance Leader, who checked the surroundings and nodded, let out a smirk.
'Yes. Being the Alliance Leader was quite cumbersome anyway. Even if I end up stepping down from the position of Alliance Leader because of this, I cannot miss out on such delicious prey.'
In the end, instinct swallowed reason.
Streaks of red light began to emanate from the Alliance Leader's eyes.
The Alliance Leader, who turned her head toward Jaun, wore a grin.
"Do you know? This strange silence. I truly liked this unfamiliar stillness felt before seeing blood."
Taking a deep breath, the Alliance Leader's eyes were filled with a bizarre heat.
The Alliance Leader stared piercingly at Jaun.
Feeling that the Alliance Leader's gaze was different from usual, the Ice Rakshasa ran forward.
"A-Alliance Leader!"
Jaun, who wrapped his arm around the waist of the Ice Rakshasa as she tried to kneel toward the Alliance Leader, stood her straight as she was.
The Ice Rakshasa looked back at Jaun with wide eyes.
Jaun whispered toward the Ice Rakshasa.
"……Step back. Something, the atmosphere is strange."
Jaun noticed the distorted desire contained in the Alliance Leader's eyes.
'This…… the way things are flowing is different from my expectations.'
The Alliance Leader's eyes twitched as she watched Jaun lost in thought while his arm was wrapped around the Ice Rakshasa's waist.
The Alliance Leader's hand, looking at the Ice Rakshasa with a cold expression, swung indifferently.
─ WHIZ
A dagger was shot out from the Alliance Leader's hand at a tremendous speed.
The dagger, which was quietly cutting through the air, momentarily began to rotate at a terrifying speed.
The momentum of the dagger, which was like a fluttering breeze, gradually grew in size until it soon became a massive and sharp whirlwind.
The Alliance Leader's dagger was aimed precisely at the Ice Rakshasa's heart.
"Look out!"
Jaun lifted his sword while pushing the Ice Rakshasa back.
'As I thought. Something is strange.'
Jaun, who glanced at the Alliance Leader's subtle smile, turned his eyes toward the dagger.
Subsequently, he pulled up his energy and swung his sword toward the dagger, which was rotating at a tremendous speed as if it would draw in all the surrounding energy.
─ BOOOOOM!
An enormous shockwave spread in all directions at once.
Jaun's body, which received the Alliance Leader's energy, was pushed back.
─ SCCCCRREEEEE
Having been pushed back helplessly over a distance of more than ten steps, Jaun barely shook off the Alliance Leader's energy and stopped in place.
And Jaun, who lifted his head, clenched his teeth and asked the Alliance Leader.
"……Is this your answer? Even if it is, why target Miss Pan?"
The Alliance Leader, who confirmed that anger was rising in Jaun's expression, spat on the ground as if she were displeased.
"Tsk tsk. So soft-hearted. To have a proper fight, one must clear away all the things that will get in the way. Only then can one fully feel the taste of that fight."
The Alliance Leader cracked her neck with a CRACK.
"It's the same whether that obstacle is an object or a person. And I want to forget everything and focus only on you right now, you see? In this spot, that child is nothing more and nothing less than an obstacle."
He could feel the void hidden behind the Alliance Leader's burning desire.
Looking into the Alliance Leader's eyes, which contained both desire and futility at the same time, Jaun exhaled a small sigh.
'In the end, you've been swallowed by the curse of blood.'
It was a symptom experienced by most martial artists who had seen, touched, and felt too much blood.
As one of the defense mechanisms to protect oneself, the emotions toward the lives of others completely dry up.
The Alliance Leader's current situation also looked that way.
'……If she's at the level of even launching a killing move at Miss Pan, it means she no longer cares about the surrounding situation.'
Jaun stared piercingly into the Alliance Leader's eyes.
The Alliance Leader's left eye, which was slightly trembling intermittently.
It was something he hadn't seen in the Alliance Leader he had faced before.
'It's not that spiritless gaze I saw when I met her as the Alliance Leader. The Alliance Leader intends to cast everything aside and kill me.'
Those who had been soaked in blood all their lives were destined to eventually seek blood once again.
The Alliance Leader was descending from her throne and stepping onto the path of blood.
'This means I'll have to fight properly…….'
Jaun's heart began to beat.
To oppose the Blood Cult, the Sado Alliance was a necessary power. However, he could not leave his back to someone who was aiming for his opening while leading that Sado Alliance.
In a situation where distrust toward the Alliance Leader had already accumulated, the thought suddenly occurred that perhaps this incident could become the starting point of change.
'Yes, it's actually for the best. If I can replace the Alliance Leader through this incident…….'
Jaun turned his head and looked at the One-eyed Pursuing Old Man, who was standing beside the Crystal Path.
Looking at the old man who was watching the Alliance Leader with worried eyes, Jaun firmed his heart.
'Let's try. Here, I will bring out all of the Alliance Leader's unstable sides. Only then will the Alliance Leader's position within the Sado Alliance weaken.'
Having finished his thoughts, Jaun turned his gaze to the Alliance Leader.
"……Because she's an obstacle, you're saying you'll kill the best Rising Star belonging to the Sado Alliance in such a way, without meaning? This is absolutely not something the head of the Sado Alliance should say."
"Such things no longer matter. In fact, if fellows like Mad Dragon or the Strange Physician hadn't stopped me, I would have been killing every single fellow who got on my nerves until now."
At the Alliance Leader's words, the eyes of the One-eyed Pursuing Old Man, who was standing nearby, twitched.
The hands of the Alliance Leader, who was warming up her body by rotating her shoulders, trembled slightly with anticipation.
The Alliance Leader, who was staring fixedly at Jaun, opened her mouth again.
"Through this rough Murim, there was only one principle I maintained. Not to imbue meaning into flowing blood. At the moment I came to live like that, I was able to attach the two characters for 'Heartless' before my title."
The Alliance Leader looked down at her hands.
"Blood Queen of Martial Souls. Within this title obtained by grinding away more than several decades of time, the lives of more than a thousand people are contained. Today, I intend to once again bring out the Blood Dagger that contains those thousand lives."
The Alliance Leader grinned while looking at Jaun.
"Ah! Come to think of it, the characters for 'Heartless' are also attached to your title, aren't they? Hehehe. I wonder how many lives you can sacrifice to carry on that title."
The Alliance Leader took a step forward and looked piercingly into Jaun's eyes.
"There are no lives to put into a mere title."
"For a man to have such little ambition. Tsk. It seems it is still an undeserved title for you."
The Alliance Leader scanned Jaun's body up and down.
And after being lost in thought for a moment, she opened her mouth.
"If I see something that doesn't make sense, I must set it right. I shall recover the first two characters of the title the Sado Alliance made for you. Since you are not a fellow who can handle the weight of those two characters."
The Alliance Leader's gaze stopped on Jaun's solid right arm.
"And the remaining two characters, 'Soul Stealer', will also disappear once my dagger is thrown. As the price for the rudeness of trying to oppose me, my dagger will sever your right arm."
Distorted desire spread through the Alliance Leader's eyes once more.
"All titles will be erased, and only the three characters of your name will remain. That raw thing will also be forgotten by the Murim after today. Since I intend to take those two shining eyes of yours as the blood price for the lives of the two elders of the Sado Alliance."
The Alliance Leader threw the dagger she was holding onto the ground and laughed as she took out six blood-red daggers from her robes.
Six daggers containing an energy that looked as if blood would drip from them right now.
They were the Blood Daggers, the secret weapon that had put the Sado Alliance Leader in her current position.
Confirming that the Alliance Leader was holding the Blood Daggers divided between both hands, the Ice Rakshasa trembled greatly.
"A-Alliance Leader."
Jaun pressed the acupoints on the body of the Ice Rakshasa, who was trembling with eyes full of terror.
"Rest for a while."
The Ice Rakshasa, who had been focusing only on the Alliance Leader, could not offer any resistance and smoothly collapsed on the spot.
Jaun, who carefully lifted the Ice Rakshasa's figure, placed her in a safe spot beside the Crystal Path.
As Jaun laid down the Ice Rakshasa and slowly returned to the Crystal Path, demonic energy began to emanate from his body.
Looking at the shooting demonic energy, the eyes of the Alliance Leader, who took a deep breath, were gradually dyed blood-red.
They were the eyes of one dominated by desire.
'This feeling.'
The Alliance Leader's heart began to beat rapidly.
Each time Jaun's demonic energy surpassed her own and penetrated into her body, a thrill flowed through her entire body.
At that feeling, which was both ticklish and ecstatic, the Alliance Leader's reason began to sink gradually below her consciousness.
'Is it okay to do this? It shouldn't be. No, I don't know. I can't endure it anymore.'
A tingling sensation rose near her thighs.
The thread of reason, which had been narrowly maintained, wavered precariously as if it would snap at any moment.
'I want them. I want them.
Those two eyes of his.
Those fingers. those solid legs.
I want to cut them all off and keep them in my room.'
Listening to the sound of her heart thumping crazily, the Alliance Leader licked her lips.
"……I can't endure any longer. Now stop breathing, and lie down before me."
The Alliance Leader, who was exhaling rough breaths, lifted her hands toward Jaun standing before her.
─ WHIZ
As the Alliance Leader's hands pointed toward Jaun, three red beams of light were drawn in the air.