A red moon rose.
Blood-red moonlight illuminated all directions.
The surroundings were all red.
The moon, the sword in my hand, the sword energy blooming from it, the beasts of the evil god surrounding , everything.
Was red.
No matter where I looked, it was all blood-red.
My internal energy boiled as if it would explode.
The blood-red sea that filled my dantian seed to be boiling.
"Haha..."
A feeling of going mad.
An unknown smile ford on my lips.
"Look at this. The world was originally supposed to be red."
Hwiooong!
An attack flew in without warning.
A claw resembling that of a bird struck down.
Kwajik!
I kicked off the ground and dodged the attack.
The claw destroyed the spot where I had been.
A second attack flew towards as I floated in the air.
It was a giant cross.
It was a fast and powerful attack that struck down in the blink of an eye, but I could clearly see the attack before it was even swung.
The bastard's attack drew a red trajectory.
I found the part where the force was weakest and lightly tapped my sword against it.
Tung—
With just that, the magical beast's attack was easily deflected.
Suddenly, the surroundings darkened, and when I looked, a giant foot was above my head.
Kwaaaaang!!
It struck down where I had been, completely destroying the ground.
It was a trendous force, but since it didn't hit , it didn't matter how strong it was.
I kicked off the air with the Black Immortal Steps and jumped up, creating a giant Night Sky Spear of about 10 ters in one hand.
Even the Night Sky Spear was red.
I twisted my body in the air and threw it at the eye of the bastard who had just struck down where I had been.
Its whole body was made of hard rock, and every ti it opened its mouth wide, a light resembling a furnace leaked out from inside.
Its eyes looked the softest.
Kwajik!
The bastard scread and covered its eye area, which had been pierced by the Night Sky Spear.
Another one swung its weapon.
Hung!
An inverted cross tore through the air.
It was a weapon in the shape of an inverted cross, and sothing was constantly flowing from the eyes of its wielder, but no matter how I looked at it, it didn't seem like tears.
Because it was smiling from ear to ear.
Kang!
When I parried the attack, this ti the one with the pierced eye spewed fire from its mouth.
It was closer to lava than fire, and since it was a huge bastard, the lump of lava it spat out was large enough to swallow whole.
I swung the red-dyed Ash Bud Sword to cut through the flying lump of lava and imdiately rushed towards the bastard.
The mont the bastard opened its mouth wide again to spew lava continuously,
Kwagak!
I plunged my sword into its wide-open mouth.
The lava gurgled as if it would burst out, but I didn't care and poured a large amount of cold energy into the sword.
Teudeudeuk!
The sword froze red, and the inside of the bastard's mouth, which had been blazing like a furnace, quickly cooled down.
In that state, I mixed the energy of the blue fla into the tip of the sword.
The blue fla, which ran smoothly over the frozen sword blade, entangled with the energy of the frost branch at the tip of the sword.
Kiiiiing!!
The two pushed each other away, and at the sa ti, they held onto each other and spun around.
Perhaps sensing the unusual energy, the bastard struggled wildly to shake off.
But it was already too late.
The Heaven-Reversing Light exploded inside the bastard's mouth.
Kwaaaaaaang!!
The bastard was shattered into pieces by the energy that exploded from within, and rocks flew in all directions.
After deactivating the White Snow Cold Barrier that enveloped my entire body, I turned around.
Two were left.
Among them, the female figure holding a giant inverted cross rushed at , shedding tears.
Even the tears were red.
I summoned the Frost-Fla to my sword and faced it.
Kang! Kagang! Jjeong!
I dodged and parried the inverted cross, clashing with it.
Every ti the sword and the cross collided, the surroundings exploded.
The bastard didn't seem to consider the other magical beasts as allies, as it swung the giant inverted cross wildly without caring whether they died or not.
I parried it here and there, and then, suddenly annoyed, I amplified the Frost-Fla to its maximum and struck the incoming inverted cross.
Kwaaaaaang!!
The inverted cross was shattered.
I cut off the arm that had been swinging the inverted cross, then imdiately rushed in with a mad wind and cut its neck.
Seogeok!
To be sure, I stomped on its head, which was still smiling even while shedding tears, and crushed it.
Peoseok!
Then, this ti, the claw of a monstrous bird struck down.
The third and last beast of the evil god.
It was a giant monstrous bird with four pairs of wings.
Every ti its wings flapped, a storm raged.
The bastard flapped its wings and sent storms at to keep in check, then descended rapidly from above like a hawk hunting its prey and attacked with its claws.
Since the sky could also be my battlefield.
I didn't care and kicked off the air with the Black Immortal Steps and chased after the bastard.
The monstrous bird glided through the sky at a trendous speed, summoning storms, but I didn't care.
Because a mad wind was blowing for .
I chased after the bastard and summoned flower petals.
Moonflower Sword, First Form. Moonflower Falling Petals.
I wrapped the flower petals around my sword and swung it, and blood-red flower petals scattered.
I clashed with the bird-head, with the flower petals wrapped around the Ash Bud Sword.
The bastard flapped its wings, sending a storm filled with demonic energy, and tore through the air with its sharp claws.
Moonflower Sword, Second Form. Moonflower Blizzard.
I dyed the battlefield with my own.
The bastard could not be free from the falling blood-red flower petals.
After cutting off a few of its wings and restricting its movents, I went in for the finish.
Moonflower Sword, Third Form. Ice Man Under the Moon.
Under the red-dyed moon.
There is a frozen man.
I looked up at the sky.
The brightly shining red moon seed to be protecting .
Swararak!
Frozen flower petals flew and shredded the bastard's body.
The monstrous bird struggled and tried to peck with its sharp beak, but I was no longer there.
Moon Shadow.
Appearing behind the bastard, I put the Ash Bud Sword into a virtual scabbard at my left waist, then swung it with all my might.
From bottom to top.
Moonlight Sword, First Form. Half Moon.
Puhwak!
The monstrous bird was split vertically.
I landed on the ground and then slowly walked towards the altar.
Then, magical beasts poured out from all directions and surrounded .
It was a pathetic effort to slow my steps sohow.
But I had no intention of playing along.
"Hoooo..."
I let out a long breath and pulled the sword to my waist.
I spun around once and swung the sword in a circle.
Moonlight Sword, Third Form. Moon Wave.
Kwaaaaa!
A giant wave rose from and swept away the magical beasts.
It was closer to a tsunami than a wave.
The blood-red wave that rose in all directions swallowed up the magical beasts that were rushing at all at once.
I continued to summon the waves until the surroundings beca quiet.
After summoning the waves about three or four more tis, the only sound was the distant sound of waves, shwaaaa...
Jeobeok. Jeobeok.
My footsteps echoed in the silence.
Tuduk. Tuduk.
Raindrops began to fall one by one.
Swaaaa—
It rained.
I looked up at the sky.
The red moon was still there.
And the sky was dark.
I couldn't tell where the sudden rain was coming from.
Jeobeok. Jeobeok.
I walked towards the altar.
The traitor was looking at and smiling.
"You're smiling?"
The traitor, Yuri, said to .
"It's been a while."
***
Swaaaa—
The Dark Heaven Lord looked at the man who had arrived before him.
His eyes were burning with a blood-red light, and a blood-red aura was rising from his entire body.
A blood-soaked demon stood there.
A nacing and terrifying atmosphere.
He was no different from a devil.
The blood-red wave he had unleashed had swept everything away.
All the remaining Dark Heaven Society mbers could not block his wave twice and were swept away.
The only one left was Yuri.
But Yuri felt no fear.
Rather, he felt a sense of gladness.
'It has been a long wait.'
He had entered the Dark Heaven Society, which had killed Tina, as a low-ranking mber, beca the vice-lord through constant effort, and betrayed the lord to beco the Dark Heaven Lord and stand in this place.
Everything was for this mont.
The most important mont.
To stab a knife in the back.
To sprinkle ashes on a fully prepared feast.
A traitor, and an avenger.
The downfall of the Dark Heaven Society that had killed Tina.
Furthermore, the death of the 'Naless God' who had ordered it.
This was a villain role that only he could play, a punishnt for himself, and an atonent for Tina.
Yuri.
He was an apostate.
From the beginning, to the end.
"Ashuban."
He did not answer.
But, Yuri didn't care and uttered the words he had prepared.
"The thread above my head is connected to the 'Naless God'."
"..."
"If you kill , the backlash will cause the fallen god to lose his divine authority."
"..."
"There is only one chance. Don't miss it."
Ashuban looked at Yuri without a word.
"Since when?"
Yuri smiled in the rain.
"Who would care about my nightmares?"
Swaaaa—
It was raining.
Just like that day.
The two boys who had lost their precious one, had beco n and were looking at each other.
Kwajik!
He raised his head.
The pitch-black passage had been torn open, long from top to bottom.
The evil god was about to co out.
"Finally, chaos shall reign."
Yuri looked at Ashuban.
"Now, give back my death."
Yuri spread his arms wide.
"O judge! Give judgnt! The price of my sins! Death!"
Ashuban silently raised his blood-soaked sword.
Seeing the chillingly sharp tip of the sword, Yuri smiled brightly.
"Co, sweet death...!"
Puk!
The blood-soaked sword protruded from behind Yuri's back.
"Aah..."
Yuri collapsed slowly with a peaceful smile.
He gathered his tightly clenched fists to his chest and finally fell.
Swaaaa—
Ashuban stood with the blood-soaked sword in his hand, looking down at him without a word.
It was raining.
***
"..."
I looked down at Yuri.
His face was peaceful.
So much so that anyone would mistake him for just being asleep.
I looked at his fist, which had not unclenched even in death.
What was inside that he held so preciously?
I tried to open his fist with the tip of my sword.
Inside, there was a single faded hairpin.
The hairpin that I had once given to Tina.
The hairpin that Tina had given to Yuri, who had betrayed her.
"..."
I put it back in his fist and then placed it on his chest.
Yuri was strong.
Was it because he was connected to the evil god by a black thread?
Even as everyone was being swept away by the several waves of the Moon Wave, he had stood there aloof.
If he had truly beco a subordinate of the evil god and tried to stop ,
it would have taken a considerable amount of ti and effort.
If, if the world had not been so cold and heartless.
Could you have walked by my side?
Could you have been a comrade I could trust with my back?
—————————!
An indescribably terrible cry echoed throughout the world.
At the sa ti, with the sound of a footstep, thud!
The evil god tore through the present world and appeared.
I stood up.
'...I don't know.'
But what I had to do now was clear.
Just to beat that noisy bastard to death.
Tadat!
I kicked off the ground and soared into the air.
In the anti, the evil god took a step.
Thud!
The ground collapsed, and sothing terrible crawled out of the ground.
I stepped on the air and circled around to face him head-on.
He, strangely, looked similar to the heart-demon. I had seen in my mindscape.
A red giant covered in blood.
Did it look different to each person?
In the form of their most powerful enemy?
Or did it appear in the form of the evil that everyone nurtures in their hearts?
Or was it just a coincidence?
It didn't matter.
Right now, I just had to beat that bastard to death.
The bastard looked quite unstable.
Perhaps because he had struggled to tear open the passage in a hurry, one of his arms was torn off.
His head was severely distorted.
And one of his legs was torn off below the knee.
A broken divine authority.
I had to tear his heart now.
Thud!
Perhaps because one of his legs was uncomfortable, he was walking with a bizarre gait, almost falling over.
I looked behind .
There was a considerable distance to where our allies were, but that was by human standards.
In six more steps, our allies would be trampled like insects.
'I can't let that happen.'
I looked at the dark bracelet that was flashing with nine colors and crackling loudly as I faced the evil god.
Now is the ti.
Now is the ti for the rainbow to bloom.
Then, let's go.
Let's make that damn rainbow bloom.
I kicked off the air and rushed at the bastard.
What ultimate technique should I use?
Nurous ultimate techniques ca to mind.
I erased those options one by one.
Then, in the end, nothing was left.
The ultimate essence of martial arts.
Is not to add, but to subtract.
Not to accumulate, but to discard.
Not to fill, but to empty.
When I discarded everything, in the end, only the single intention of 'to pierce' remained.
Just, pierce!
I refined it like a well-honed blade and put it into my sword.
I made myself a single spear and thrust it with all my might towards the evil god's heart.
The dark bracelet began to tremble and crackle.
Bloom.
Bloom!
Bloom!!!!
But, the rainbow did not bloom.
Kwaak!
The evil god's giant hand flew in and grabbed , then slamd down to the depths of the abyss.
Kwang!!!!
"Keoheok!"
I groaned, buried deep in the ground.
My whole body felt shattered.
Thud!
Leaving behind.
Thud!
The evil god took a step.
Thud!
Buried in the ground, I stared blankly at the shattered sky.
The red moon was nowhere to be seen, and the sky was still dark.
'Why didn't the rainbow bloom?'
I was confused.
But, I got up anyway.
Because this was not the ti for this.
Thud!
From a distance, I heard screams and shouts.
The evil god was about to trample them.
My comrades-in-arms, and my companions.
I forced my disobedient body to get up and ca out.
Under the still-raining, pitch-black sky.
The evil god was striding forward.
I imdiately summoned a mad wind and caught up to the bastard.
Thud!
"Heok... heok..."
Facing the bastard, I raised my sword again.
But, the sword was broken.
"Haha..."
A dry laugh escaped .
My whole body was covered in blood, a complete wreck.
A broken sword.
What should I do?
Mixed with the screams and shouts, I heard voices calling from below.
But looking back, life was always like this.
Life always threw trials at that I couldn't handle, and I sohow managed to get through them, covered in scars.
A broken sword.
That was my life.
This ti would not be much different.
Thud!
That was the sixth step.
The last.
I could not let him take another step forward.
"Bloom!!
I held the broken sword and rushed at the bastard with all my might.
"Bloom!!!!!"
I shouted until my throat was raw.
"I said bloom!!!!!!"
[You foolish fellow.]
I heard the Heavenly Demon's low voice.
[That's not how you do it. You dull-witted fool.]
With a low laugh, the Heavenly Demon borrowed my arm.
[I'll lend you a hand for a mont.]
Woong......!
A brilliant, multi-colored light flashed from the dark bracelet.
[Draw the sword from your heart.]
The power contained in the bracelet flowed through my hand and into the sword.
Along the broken blade, a brilliant light blood like a flower.
Soon, it ford a complete sword.
It was a dazzlingly beautiful sword.
Saak—
The nine-colored sword gently cut the evil god's hand that was trying to grab .
I charged straight towards the evil god's chest.
[The sharpest sword is the one that blooms from the heart.]
Puk—
A beautiful rainbow quietly pierced the evil god's heart.
[My disciple, this is where you must reach.]
Heart Sword.
Saak—
The rainbow-colored sword split the evil god's heart.
As the rain stopped.
A dazzlingly beautiful rainbow blood.
(End of Chapter)
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