Chapter 194 – The Bright Cult or the Demon Cult (2)

“Use innate energy! We need to buy time!”

At Sun-woo’s appearance looking beyond human, the shaman shouted toward the protector.

For Fist Demon, already not in good shape after having considerable life force stolen by the shaman, to demonstrate his true ability was unavoidable.

Though it was natural to be hard to survive if losing more life force when already having lost quite a bit, as Fist Demon whose obedience was maximized by brainwashing and drugs, he couldn’t refuse his words.

Keurk!

Fist Demon who let innate energy run wild while groaning could instantly regain his original appearance.

Fist Demon immediately thrust his fist toward Sun-woo.

Peng!

With a sound piercing air, sword energy burst from his fist and shot toward Sun-woo.

It was sword energy in a form like sword aura, not something like palm wind.

And that wasn’t the only sword energy.

Pe-pe-pe-peng!

Fist Demon’s punching continued and sword energy kept bursting from his fist and shooting toward Sun-woo.

An appearance like continuously firing cannons. This was the appearance of a super-peak master using sword energy.

Sun-woo didn’t dodge the incoming sword energy.

If he dodged the sword energy, it was certain to harm Nanseol lying behind.

Of course, he didn’t feel the need to dodge either.

Having transcended realm, there was no longer meaning in distinguishing internal energy inside and outside the body.

And even if it was someone else’s internal energy, it didn’t matter.

That meant internal energy others couldn’t control could be controlled from this side.

Wheee-rik

The sword energies shot toward Sun-woo flowed beside Sun-woo’s body and rotated centered on Sun-woo, then shot back in reverse.

It was the direction of Fist Demon who shot the sword energy.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

The sword energy Fist Demon shot began shooting down the sword energies following behind instead.

The moment he realized the shot sword energy was useless, Fist Demon launched his body.

A person who reached super-peak master with fists anyway. Super-close combat suited him.

Naturally there was no way Sun-woo would just let him come running.

Stone pillars surged up before Fist Demon.

Though they couldn’t stop his advance, they were enough to block his view.

And toward Fist Demon’s face emerging through the stone pillars, one sword suddenly revealed itself.

Divine Wheel Sword. It was Sun-woo’s sword.

Though Fist Demon desperately raised both arms to block the sword, he ended up with a large wound on one arm.

Though Fist Demon could block swords with bare body, he couldn’t block a divine sword and sword aura beyond super-peak.

Just not being cut off was impressive enough.

But at that moment the fight was decided.

Since someone fighting with their body had no way to block the sword and couldn’t avoid the sword itself, there was no way to win.

Fist Demon’s entire body became covered in blood in an instant.

When he no longer saw any chance of victory, Fist Demon aimed for mutual destruction, receiving the sword with his chest while thrusting his lifetime’s punch toward Sun-woo’s face.

But his fist that had been brightly shining wrapped in sword energy was blocked by Sun-woo’s left arm.

A shabby bracer blocked his fist.

He glared at the bracer even as his breath stopped at the last.

He couldn’t accept a leather bracer that was fine even against his fist.

Fist Demon’s body that fell to the floor instantly aged.

The body that had been sustained by internal energy at the moment of death returned to its original appearance.

Since he was someone with life force nearly gone, he changed to the appearance of his original passed age.

Instead of checking the fallen Fist Demon, Sun-woo looked at the shaman who had withdrawn to the back.

“Are you that nemesis! Damn! To be caught at such a time and ruin the great enterprise.”

Though trembling at the presence felt from Sun-woo, he hurriedly drew hand seals.

“But even this much is enough! I’ll kill you, take control of the cult, and dominate this world!”

Regrettably he couldn’t gain all the power, but still the situation was several times stronger than before.

The presence transmitted through his body was no joke, but the shaman still believed he could handle it sufficiently.

“Come out everyone! My servants! Let’s lead the whole world to despair!”

Kwaaa-aak.

As he raised his hand shouting as if spitting blood, howling sounds came from all directions in response.

And grayish semi-transparent energy stealthily revealed itself from all directions.

“They’re evil spirits made of spirit energy! True sorcery that can’t be touched by martial arts or physical attacks! You become my servant controlled by evil spirits too!”

The semi-transparent energies the shaman designated as evil spirits rippled across floor and walls approaching Sun-woo.

Sun-woo shot sword aura in all directions, but just as the shaman said, he couldn’t inflict any damage at all.

Moreover, even the shaman’s body entered into the energy called evil spirits.

Whether entering and assimilating inside, the sword aura directed at the shaman also penetrated straight through without harming him.

The evil spirits’ movement was unexpectedly fast.

The semi-transparent energy that instantly approached Sun-woo immediately wrapped around Sun-woo’s body.

And immediately seeped into Sun-woo through Sun-woo’s ears, nose, and mouth.

“Kya-kya-kya, you’ll be in pain for quite a while, just endure a little. After that, the blessing of becoming my slave awaits, so accept the pain joyfully too.”

When the evil spirits wrapping Sun-woo all disappeared, the shaman laughed loudly and screeched.

As he said, the evil spirits that entered Sun-woo’s inside began attacking Sun-woo’s brain, heart.

The evil spirits made Sun-woo recall the most fearful things and most painful things he’d felt.

But unfortunately, Sun-woo had already received such attacks several times.

Though it wasn’t something like superpowers as before, ultimately attacking his heart was the same.

And Sun-woo had stronger mental strength and superpowers than anyone.

Kwa-jik!

Thomas the train with a grotesque face was crushed, trampled by giant feet.

Keeee-eek!

Simultaneously, one evil spirit that had entered his heart and created Thomas the train nightmare screamed and vanished.

Next, his first love who appeared with a half-melted face ascended sprinkling light.

Simultaneously another evil spirit vanished,

As evil spirits vanished in turn like this, the remaining evil spirits tried to escape from Sun-woo’s heart in surprise.

But this was inside Sun-woo’s heart. Though they entered as they pleased, they couldn’t leave as they pleased.

The evil spirits couldn’t escape Sun-woo’s heart and all vanished inside.

“It can’t be!”

The time the evil spirits entered Sun-woo’s heart and vanished was truly the blink of an eye.

The shaman who realized the evil spirits vanished in an instant was struck with terror.

A shaman who came to be the Blood Cult’s second-in-command using evil spirits.

Having risen in status, he could finally create evil spirits that took no damage from not only physical attacks but energy attacks as well… In that monumental first battle, the evil spirits were nearly annihilated.

“Ha, ha, ha, bu, but you can’t do anything to me either. Anyway, if I’m inside this, no attack can do anything to me!”

Inside the last remaining evil spirit, the shaman forced a smile.

Certainly as he said, the flying sword, sword aura, and even magic Sun-woo released passed through the evil spirit wrapping him.

“See! Since it came to this, can’t we pretend not to know each other and go separate ways? We can’t attack each other anyway.”

Though not something to say as a contaminated one, the shaman who rose in status somewhat seemed to have survival instinct overcoming contaminated one’s instinct.

Certainly nothing worked except spiritual attacks. And Sun-woo didn’t have spiritual attack means.

‘No, wait?’

That wasn’t it. Sun-woo also had spiritual attack means.

Just as the opponent summoned evil spirits with sorcery, Sun-woo could use the same method.

“First time trying this.”

Sun-woo used sorcery to give ‘direct’ instructions to earth spirits.

‘Remove that evil spirit!’

Until now he used earth spirits to move earth and use as radar, but never once thought to use earth spirits themselves.

But earth spirits were also a type of spirit.

The earth spirits precisely understood Sun-woo’s instructions.

Ku-gu-gu.

Earth around the evil spirit wrapping the shaman began rippling.

Stone slabs and earth wobbling like pudding gradually gathered and surged up wrapping the entire evil spirit.

“Wha, what is this! Magic is useless anyway! Huh? It’s not magic? What is this!”

As the shaman was covered up to his head with earth, only then did he seem to realize it was different from ordinary earth piles.

“Melting! Melting! The evil spirit is melting!”

Earth burst and the semi-transparent evil spirit distorted wildly.

It was a fight between spirit and spirit. The evil spirit’s power backed by a mighty sorcerer was formidable, but the earth sorcery Sun-woo possessed wasn’t weak either.

Moreover, endless internal energy converted to energy continuously strengthened earth spirits.

Eventually, all evil spirits vanished and the shaman tumbled bare-bodied to the floor.

Sun-woo quickly released the sorcery. Earth spirits’ side also wasn’t without damage.

Regrettably it seemed difficult to call them for some time ahead.

Sun-woo’s appearance that had been blocking in front of Nanseol appeared before the fallen shaman.

He grabbed the shaman’s collar and lifted him.

“How can I restore lost life force?”

Nanseol’s life force that had escaped still hadn’t returned. Though stabilized with potion and magic, it was a very unstable state.

While asking the shaman, Sun-woo was using his ability to continuously dig through the shaman’s past.

“Kuk-kuk, try begging. Maybe I’ll tell you. Now I finally understand why you caused such a fuss. She must have been a very precious woman. Good. I felt wronged to die alone. At least I can deliver one blow.”

As he finished speaking, Sun-woo’s expression hardened.

At that expression, the shaman tried to open his mouth more excitedly, but Sun-woo opened his mouth first.

“You don’t know either.”

“No! I know! Let’s make a deal!”

He hurriedly talked about a deal at Sun-woo’s words, but it was meaningless talk to Sun-woo who confirmed the shaman’s past.

More strength was added to Sun-woo’s hand gripping the collar,

Kwa-jik,

The shaman’s neck broke just like that.

Sun-woo who threw down the dead shaman hurriedly approached Nanseol.

Due to his risen status, he could see at a glance Nanseol’s emptied life force.

But even he didn’t know how to fill life force.

No matter how much more he searched through magic, no magic restoring life force appeared, and potions had nothing to do with life force either.

Sun-woo truly didn’t know what to do for the first time in a while.

Having solved everything with his abilities all this time, now that he’d become even stronger, the shock was even greater.

It was when Sun-woo was agonizing while taking out the dragon heart as a last method.

[I think I might have a way?]

The bracer that had been quiet spoke to Sun-woo.