The Bloodstone Cult’s Two.
Na: Unknown.
Level: Unknown.
Main Weapon: A massive axe.
A towering figure over 190 cm, yet not as excessively bulky as one might expect. His muscles are not just for show but are battle-hardened, refined muscle, compressed for maximum efficiency.
Thus, contrary to the usual image of soone wielding a massive weapon, he is not sluggish at all.
He excels in martial arts and, befitting his rank as Two, is naturally proficient in Blood Arts.
At first glance, his temperant appears hot-blooded.
Those facing him might consider exploiting this by provoking his temper to make him lose composure, but that usually doesn’t work.
Even his rough speech is rely a tool for provoking his opponents.
For most adversaries, he maintains an unshakable calm throughout battle.
Body. Mind. Martial prowess.
He is a near-perfect absolute master in all aspects.
And now, such a man was radiating killing intent directly at .
I felt my eyes tremble involuntarily.
“… I couldn’t destroy everything.”
“What?”
“Regrettably, I couldn’t destroy everything. Since I was already at it, I wanted to bring it all down… but these barriers are stronger than I expected.”
I pointed beyond him, toward the barrier.
The very barrier that had protected the Bloodstone Cult’s stronghold from the outside for hundreds of years.
Now, a massive hole had been blasted into it.
Or should I even call it a hole?
At least one-fourth of it was simply gone.
Though it had seemingly been restored, forming a thin protective layer, the damage was evident.
Two also turned to look behind him and furrowed his brows.
“What the…?”
He looked at as if I had done sothing absurd.
Well, he wasn’t wrong.
I had completely ignored his presence.
Two had thrown his axe and delivered a grandiose line, only for it to be utterly dismissed. He had every right to be angry.
But neither I nor the Blood Witch paid him any mind.
As if we had planned it, the Blood Witch spoke up.
“Ahh. Now that I think about it, I seem to have gained so insight too.”
“Insight?”
“Yes. You see, Ian, that radiant Infinite Cataclysm you just unleashed…”
The Blood Witch deliberately enunciated each syllable, ‘In. Fi. Nite. Cat. A. Clysm.’
It felt a little embarrassing that my technique had already been given a na.
She was grinning slyly, clearly teasing .
But only for a mont.
“You managed to contain infinity within a single point.”
Her voice suddenly turned serious.
So serious, in fact, that it felt as if only the two of us existed in this place.
She spoke her realization aloud.
“Ian, you contain things, but I stop things. So what happens… if I stop infinity itself?”
“Wait… does that an you were only stopping a part of it before?”
I knew her ability.
She could halt everything, almost as if freezing ti itself.
She nodded.
“Normally, my power only stops an area. However…”
— BOOM!
We both leaped back instinctively, cutting our conversation short.
Of course—
Two had hurled his axe at us once again.
The ground where we had stood caved in violently.
“Save that kind of talk for when you rent a damn room!”
Crack.
A vein bulged on Two’s forehead as he yelled.
Hah.
Looks like we finally got to him.
Being ignored is probably the most infuriating thing.
Two may be difficult to deal with in many ways, but he’s not invincible.
Even a seemingly solid ntal fortress can be chipped away with ti.
Seeing his anger boiling up from deep within, I couldn’t help but smirk internally.
“So, what brings you here?”
“What? What brings here?! You bastards destroyed the barrier!”
“Ah, that?”
I casually pointed toward the barrier again.
Another vein popped on Two’s forehead.
He turned toward the Blood Witch, eyes narrowing.
“Right. I expected this brat to act like this. But Three, what the hell are you doing? Why are you just standing there, watching?”
“Two.”
The Blood Witch’s gaze remained utterly unwavering.
“I desire strength more than anyone.”
“And?”
“That is also the creed of our cult. Above all else, we pursue power.”
“I’m running out of patience. Get to the point.”
Two growled.
Yet, he didn’t attack imdiately.
Which ant—
He didn’t actually want to fight right now.
‘Makes sense.’
This is war.
Even that reckless brute was restraining himself, realizing that if internal division started, there would be no solution.
Of course, the Blood Witch had no such brakes in her mind.
“I’m drawn to the strong.”
“What kind of insane nonsense is that?”
“It ans you should see things as they are, Two.”
She wrapped her arms around mine, deliberately provocative.
Two ground his teeth and shouted furiously.
“Isn’t the Cult Leader stronger right now?!”
“And what about the future?”
“What?”
“That leader you worship so much— The one sacrificing tens of thousands of people just to force himself onto a divine throne because he can’t handle the training? That’s your leader.”
“…Stop insulting the Cult Leader.”
“But it’s true.”
“Right now, he is the Blood Demon!”
“Blood Demon? So what? What does that have to do with ?”
A sly smirk played on the Blood Witch’s lips, her eyes glinting mischievously.
— CRACK!
Two clenched his massive weapon tightly, his knuckles turning white.
“Fine. I was willing to listen because of the Blood Demon’s orders… but it looks like there’s no need for that anymore.”
— FLASH!
An overwhelming surge of power erupted from Two’s body.
And at the sa ti—
— BOOM!
In the blink of an eye, his massive axe swung, aiming to cleave both the Blood Witch and in one strike.
Whoosh.
The delayed shockwave ruffled my hair.
I barely managed to block the axe’s edge with Ether, keeping the balance of power in check.
“Your reaction isn’t bad.”
Two glanced at , speaking casually.
The real problem was the Blood Witch.
Blood was trickling from her nose and mouth.
Blocking Infinite Cataclysm had triggered so kind of internal damage.
Two’s lips curled upward in amusent.
“For all your big talk, you haven’t improved much, Blood Witch.”
“Oh, really?”
“Pretending you’re fine is useless. I can hear your heartbeat from here.”
Thump. Thump.
Just as he said, the Blood Witch’s heartbeat was louder than usual.
“Hmph.”
She let out a snort, then—
Her hand shot out at an unbelievable speed.
A whip was suddenly coiled around Two’s hand.
— CRACK!
At the sa ti, the whip glowed a deep red, a thick, blood-like fluid writhing as if ready to lt his skin.
But Two’s reaction was just as fast.
— WHOOSH!
He unleashed his aura violently, blasting everything away like a hurricane.
Both the Blood Witch’s blood arts and the whip were repelled from his body.
But I wasn’t finished.
From beneath Two’s feet, the Ether I had planted earlier exploded upward.
[Leap] rged with the surging Ether, creating a devastating rush of energy.
“?!”
Two turned, but—
It was too close.
— Slash.
Two deep red lines appeared—
One across his cheek, the other across his right arm.
“You little—!”
He lunged at , but—
This ti, it was the Blood Witch’s turn.
She kicked off the ground, her hand slicing through the air in a diagonal arc.
From her fingertips, crimson droplets of blood erupted like sharp projectiles.
— SHAAA!
Two was drenched in the red mist.
His legs turned deep red, pulsating as if about to burst.
“Damn it!”
He quickly pressed his thigh, forcing the energy to stop spreading.
The Blood Witch covered her mouth, chuckling.
“If I hit your pressure points, your movents will be restricted.”
“Shut up!”
That was the only conversation exchanged.
The battle continued without a mont to breathe.
Our teamwork was effective.
Maybe it was because we had spent more ti fighting together than we realized.
The Blood Witch aid for his arms, while I targeted his legs.
When I moved within Two’s line of sight, she naturally maneuvered behind him.
We were in sync.
And with that, we began to overwhelm him.
Or so we thought—
“Damn it!”
Two suddenly shouted and leaped backward.
Then, he tore off his upper garnt.
…What the hell is he trying to do?
I barely had ti to question it before—
— GLOOP.
A dense black light suddenly engulfed the surroundings.
“Hold your breath.”
The Blood Witch’s sharp command cut through the air.
I obeyed imdiately.
— WHOOOSH!
A black wind swept through the area.
Grass, trees—everything that had been alive turned ashen gray in an instant.
And when the darkness receded, Two erged.
His entire body had turned pitch black.
“You’ve forced to use this.”
I wanted to ask—
What the hell is “this”?
But I didn’t have ti.
— BOOM!
By the ti I realized it—
I was already flying through the air.
His fist had connected squarely with , sending hurtling backward.
I barely managed to block with Lunar, but—
— CRACK!
The tal shattered, scattering into fragnts.
Overwhelming speed and power.
But I had no ti to analyze.
— FLASH!
Two had already lunged at the Blood Witch, his axe swinging down toward her.
It happened in an instant.
‘She can’t dodge.’
The blood woman couldn’t dodge.
That certainty gripped .
“DIE!”
The mont his axe was about to cleave through the Blood Witch’s forehead—
— THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.
Her heartbeat echoed three tis.
The third beat—was louder than the rest.
And then—
— DRIP.
A single drop of blood fell, rippling across an invisible surface.
Like a disturbance in water, the world shuddered.
“…!!!”
In an instant—
The entire world turned red.
As if soone had painted reality itself with a single color.
And then—everything stopped.
All movent.
All ti itself.
“T-This… how?!”
“Your tricks could never stop before!”
Two’s eyes widened, his lips barely moving in protest.
Sohow, we had entered a realm of pure crimson.
And in this blood-drenched domain—
The Blood Witch rely smiled.
— Click. Click.
Her heels echoed against the red-stained ground.
The master of this domain began to approach Two—
One slow, deliberate step at a ti.
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