This was no longer just a technique for withdrawal training. All of her skills were now mine.
Of course, I could not help it if there were things I didn’t rember, but I was sure I could use things that I had absorbed through the connection and then polish them.
Cheol Su-ryun was trembling and spoke with an anger-filled voice.
“… you bastard! You took it from !”
She only realized it now.
But what if she developed it all over again?
There was no way to retrieve the Will that had been taken away, and for her and her children, who had lost a large part of their strength, they could do nothing. The Wicked Moon Sword would also not stay idle.
“Kwaaaak!”
Before anyone realized it, the man called Jong Man’s face was already covered in blood. The one they called Ja Song was on the ground, wriggling as he died.
“Mother!”
They were begging Cheol Su-ryun, but it was useless.
The eldest, Cheol Um-yu, looked at
with an impatient look. He was asuring the situation.
The ability to control their seal was with .
“Then let us add another one.”
As I prepared my hands to snap, the faces of the rest of the brothers were in shock as they did not know which of the three it would be.
Eventually, Cheol Um-yu spoke out.
“Mother, I will apologize for the sins of my life! Blood Demon! Stop this. Please…”
“Enough!”
After interrupting him, Cheol Su-ryun shouted.
As I turned to look at her, I saw that she was biting her lip strong enough to make it bleed and told .
“I will speak!”
A declaration of surrender. Putting aside the potential death of her sons, this seed a natural choice for her since she might die a final death.
Snap!
As I snapped the fingers once more, the painfully bulging veins on their face subsided.
This was because I stopped the seal from inducing another runaway qi reaction. The one that seed to have suffered the worst wouldn’t be able to recover.
“Tell .”
At those words, she clenched her trembling fists and said,
“Stake your title as Blood Demon on the line and make a pact for ?”
“What is all this now?”
“Like I said before, it’s a guarantee for my life.”
She was trying to convince
to risk my life, probably afraid that I might go back on my words. I then glanced at her children.
Their feelings seed to be confused and anxious. Especially since they saw that Cheol Um-yu was trying to spill out her secrets to survive.
Should I try it?
“You are the only one in the pact, so the rest can die, and you will be fine right?”
Hearing this, Cheol Su-ryun looked straight at her children and spoke venomously.
“After feeding and raising them, they were just bastards who would betray their mother! It doesn’t matter if you kill them!”
“M-Mother!”
“How!”
Her children cried out. Cheol Um-yu simply sighed and closed his eyes as if he had expected this to so extent.
The other two simply shouted out in pain.
“Mother! Help !”
“We said nothing. Everything was done by my elder brother.”
Cheol Um-yu’s face distorted at this.
Despite not being real brothers, he had made the choice to save his younger siblings at the cost of his mother. Yet they were now the ones trying to survive on their own.
-He is different from the other ones.
Short Sword felt the sa way I did.
The man sighed and closed his eyes as if he had given up, a look of disappointnt on his face.
Cheol Su-ryun told
through gritted teeth.
“Kill those unfilial bastards first. Then I will tell you everything you want.”
“Is that so?”
After asking that question, I turned to them.
Feeling a sense of crisis, their choice was simple. Unlike Cheol Um-yu, who closed his eyes and accepted his fate, the other two tried to escape.
Snap!
In response, I lightly snapped my fingers. Those who tried to jump and use their footwork were suddenly tied down by sothing invisible.
-Wow. How did you do it?
Sorcery.
This happened to
as well, but the earth’s qi was what grabbed the ankle and increased the body’s weight. Of course, it doesn’t actually increase it but simply induces that feeling.
“Damn it!”
“It’s the earth qi compression sorcery!”
They quickly recognized the sorcery I had taken from the old woman. They mumbled sothing at the sa ti and made shapes with their fingers.
“Om Gara Jyul”
Papapak!
Just like Cheol Su-ryun, who had great sorcery skills, they too seed to be preparing sothing for their level.
And they both shouted at the sa ti.
“Break!”
Their immobilized legs began to move again, but did they think I would let them leave?
I stepped on the ground.
Thud!
At that mont, they, who were about to jump, beca startled and crossed their hands defensively. Both of them fell to the ground at the sa ti as if they were hit by sothing,
The two fell to the ground, but they couldn’t see anything and shouted as they looked at .
“What monster is he?”
“I’ve never seen sorcery like this!”
Cheol Um-yu, who had closed his eyes, opened his eyes after hearing this.
The two of them looked up and hurriedly moved their hands to try and break it again.
“Break!”
They shouted at the sa ti, but nothing happened.
“What?”
“Huk!”
Their eyes widened as they looked up and hurriedly raised their hands. Cheol Um-yu shouted at the two of them as they acted strangely.
“Ma Jong! Yun Ho! Why are you doing that?”
They couldn’t answer their older brother’s questions. Rather, they were out of their minds trying to endure the situation they had been pushed into.
They were holding up their hands as if sothing was holding them back, their arms tense and trembling.
“Eukkkk!”
“B-Blood Demon! Please save us!”
The two begged for salvation. They were vicious beasts who could easily kill both Murim people and civilians. They weren’t worth saving, but they might have a use for , so I didn’t want to kill them that easily.
“Do not hope things work out how you want them.”
How could they make a fuss like this even though they’ve never t the reality?
It was at that mont.
Crack!
“Kuak!”
Their trembling hands were snapped as bones pierced through their skin.
What? I was just trying to scare them by…
“Eukkk!”
The two continued to scream in pain as their faces were flattened as if sothing heavy fell on them. Soon their necks and waists were also bent and torn.
‘….!’
Both my father-in-law and Cheol Em-yu were shocked at this.
“Just how….”
Even Cheol Su-ryun was speechless at this. She wasn’t able to kill them now, but her reaction was natural.
-How did you do it?
‘Ha….’
In response to Short Sword’s question, I simply communicated my shock.
I was equally shocked.
-What are you talking about?
The thod of sorcery through sound as well as the third stage of the Illusion Eye, was mixed in there. I used them to stimulate the five senses and added Cheol Su-ryun’s skills which I obtained through her Will.
But the result was too shocking for .
-What now?
I had made an illusion of a large monster the size of a trendous tree that was stepping on them. Did they really die from an illusion?
It was shocking.
‘Ah…’
A stray mory appeared in my head.
When Han Baekha, the Bloody Hand Witch, passed this skill to , she told
that the first part of the last stage was unknown.
[Unfortunately, the explanation of the last thod was cut off from the book from the start. In the previous one, it is written that hallucinations will beco accepted by the five senses, but I don’t understand what it ans.]
It was indeed difficult to understand what it ant then.
It was such an abstract concept, but I think I know it now.
Accepting the hallucination through the five senses ant the target would actually experience it.
-I do not understand what you’re saying.
The basis of Cheol Su-ryun’s technique was to deceive the human senses.
A human would start to salivate at the thought of eating sothing sour.
This was said to be due to the transfer of mories that they had experienced previously.
-Shocking.
There was a mory of an experint that this woman had made. After showing the target an image of boiling water, an amazing thing happened when they poured cold water on their back.
-How did it go?
Burns appeared on their back.
-And it was cold water which was used?
That’s right.
The scared target assud that the cold water was boiling water as he had seen it. There was a strong self-suggestion that the mont the hot water touched him, his flesh would burn. At this extre thought, the brain deceived everything, even his five senses.
Cheol Su-ryun tried to implent this technique, and I tried it too.
-Uh? So you worked it out?
Actually, it was as if the final stage of the Illusion Eye was completed.
I managed to understand the parts that weren’t in the teachings and combined them with Cheol Su-ryun’s arts.
‘Hat….’
In an instant, I almost burst into laughter.
Acquiring the Will of this woman was an amazing boon to .
-Yah, this is totally a scam! You can hurt people by showing illusions.
That’s right.
However, the final stage of the Illusion Eye was different in terms of qi consud from the previous stage.
Thought and innate qi would decrease by nearly a quarter at the sa ti. Even though my thought and intent had increased after absorbing Cheol Su-ryun’s will, it wasn’t a technique I could use repeatedly at this level of consumption.
Three to four tis was the limit of consecutive use. In addition, the last stage might only be valid for opponents of certain levels.
-Still, it would be quite useful.
Yes, if I used it well, there was nothing more useful than this. Cheol Su-ryun’s voice then spoke as if she found all of this ridiculous.
“How can you reach the highest level which hasn’t been achieved in decades…”
A voice that sounded as if she had lost all hope. It seed that she, too, had tried to do this.
So it must have been quite shocking.
It wasn’t enough that her tricks got taken away. I also achieved the ending that she wanted.
“Well.”
I spoke in a dry tone.
It wouldn’t be nice if I looked too proud in front of my father-in-law.
[Just how?]
Sima Chak asked .
I thought he would wait until the end, but he was curious about this. It would take too long to explain the Illusion Eye, so I had to simply say that I mastered the techniques of Cheol Su-ryun.
But…
[The last goal of those learning martial arts is to subdue their opponent with willpower alone. Even after crossing the wall, I didn’t understand how to do it. Then how did you arrive at the realm of Heart Sword?]
Uh…!?
Heart Sword?
It seed like he was misunderstanding sothing.
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