Chapter 128

Editors: Ytho, LaidBackGuy

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Lee Sungmin couldn’t understand the joy that Kim Jonghyun felt . So he kept silent . After a moment of silence, Kim Jonghyun guided Lee Sungmin and Rubia to a room on the second floor .

“I will not interfere with your life . Likewise, please don’t interfere with my life either . ”

Kim Jonghyun said as he put on his robes . Where are you going? Those words came up to Lee Sungmin’s throat, but he swallowed the question back down . He had already been told not to interfere with his life .

“I was invited to the party today . ”

Lee Sungmin did not ask, but Kim Jonghyun answered first .

“It’s a party for Black Mages . I would offer to take you along with me, but… you are not a Black Mage . ”

Kim Jonghyun laughed while shaking his arms in the sleeves of his robes .

“If you want, I can teach you some basic black magic . Are you interested?”

“It’s alright . ”

“Well . ”

Kim Jonghyun shrugged at Lee Sungmin’s swift refusal .

“Black magic is a very interesting discipline . Let me know if you change your mind anytime . ”

Kim Jonghyun left the house after saying those words . Lee Sungmin went up to the second floor with Rubia and looked at the room Kim Jonghyun said he could use .

[I don’t think he’s messing with us . ]

“I’ve looked around using magic, but there’s nothing suspicious . The whole house is like that . Normally, a mage’s house would have at least one or two vigilance spells protecting it…”

Rubia muttered as if it was strange . Lee Sungmin thought for a moment and nodded .

“It’s a little rude to leave without saying anything, but let’s just move on . ”

“Okay . ”

Kim Jonghyun had always been a suspicious figure . Until now, he had never harmed Lee Sungmin directly, but since he came to such a city, he could not believe him unconditionally . He did not know what Kim Jonghyun was thinking . Perhaps he really brought Lee Sungmin to his place as an act of simple courtesy .

But just in case those were not his intentions . Lee Sungmin did not want to be swayed in such a case . It would be better to stay out of it from the beginning . If you get caught up in his work while staying at his house . If it was like that, he did not want to see such a side of Kim Jonghyun .

So he left the house .

He was thinking of leaving the central district . From what he had heard, Geniella seemed to have not only the central district, but the whole of Travia in her palm . In that case, even if he left the central district, he could not escape Geniella’s eyes as long as he was in the city of Travia .

‘The Divine Spirit had directed me to the North . It doesn’t have to be Travia . North…’

Lee Sungmin looked North . Travia was the northernmost city of Eria . But it couldn’t be called the end of the North . Let’s go a little further . Lee Sungmin turned to the North .

“Where are you going?”

“To the North . ”

“… You’re not going out of town, are you?”

Rubia asked in an uneasy voice, but Lee Sungmin did not respond . Rubia had spent a long time following Lee Sungmin . So she knew it well . That silence following her question meant that the answer was yes .

“The bed… The bath… ”

Rubia lamented with drooping ears . Lee Sungmin said in a loud voice .

“We just had a delicious meal, so please be satisfied with that . ”

* * *

Why am I here?

The man didn’t know the answer . At some point, his memory had started to cut off intermittently, and when he was awakened, he could not recall what had happened . But one thing was certain . When he came to his senses and connected his memories, he was always covered in blood .

‘It’s happened again . Now, where was this again?’

The Crazy Heavenly Demon helped himself up while laughing .

It was unusual . Even though he had just come to his senses, he was not covered in blood . Ever since he had qi deviated, Crazy Heavenly Demon would periodically lose his memory and reason . Whenever that happened, he would always awaken in a bloody state . Thanks to his extraordinary martial arts, he did not feel any pain . It was only that he found it to be dirty . After all, the blood that soaked his body did not belong to him .

‘I can’t tell how long it’s been since I lost consciousness . Snow… winter… Where is this?’

Crazy Heavenly Demon felt dazed as he held onto his head and groaned . What he saw in front of him was a snowfield . The wind was harsh, but there was no snow falling . He saw a huge mountain at a distance . He turned his head again, and soon he saw the city walls .

‘North… A city… Perhaps…Is it Travia?’

No way . He came all this way? Crazy Heavenly Demon decided to sit down and circulated his qi, fixing his meridians just in case .

“This crazy…”

He couldn’t figure out what had happened . There was no way he had rushed to such a faraway city using his inner force . What for? Crazy Heavenly Demon’s eyebrows trembled . So far, whenever he had lost his reason due to the side effects of qi deviation, Crazy Heavenly Demon had indiscriminately slaughtered . That kind of brutal massacre was familiar to him, but this was the first time .

Although it was impossible to remember, Crazy Heavenly Demon still had his martial arts intact . He quickly checked his body . He circulated his inner force and looked through his meridians to find what martial arts he had used . There were no signs of battle . The only martial arts he had used was qinggong . Just what was the reason for him to run all this way without any rest while he had lost his reason?

(T/N: qinggong – also translated as lightness or movement techniques)

Kwaang!

Crazy Heavenly Demon stood on alert at the distant sound . He slowly raised himself up . The sounds didn’t stop . There was a fight going on nearby . He didn’t know what had happened, but he headed in the direction of the sound without hesitation .

‘First of all, I should ask where this is . ’

He guessed it was Travia, but he still needed to get confirmation .

* * *

Aine was attacking Lee Sungmin . Lee Sungmin shot his spear toward the five tentacles approaching him from the front .

Kkwaaang!

Aine’s tentacles bounced back with a bang . However, Lee Sungmin did not suffer any damage . The spear force covering Lee Sungmin’s spear bore the brunt of the force, only scattering his hair slightly from the blow .

It hadn’t been that long since he had left the city with the North as his destination . In the meantime, another attack occurred . What jumped out of the darkness was the kid that Lee Sungmin had encountered a few years ago . It was Aine, who had now perfected her use of inner force .

‘I don’t know whether I should say my luck is good or bad . ’

Lee Sungmin swung the spear strongly, ignoring his trembling grip . Aine’s tentacles bounced forward once again with a heavy sound . Aine’s attacks were like that . She was not actively attacking . Instead, she was wielding her tentacles in that way, watching Lee Sungmin’s response .

[What the hell is that kid… ?! What did you do for a kid like that to have such a strong grudge against you?!]

Rubia screamed inside Lee Sungmin’s mind . She transformed into a sphere of light instead of her beastkin form and hid inside Lee Sungmin’s sleeves . Lee Sungmin ignored Rubia’s cry and took a few steps back . However, Aine’s tentacles wriggled and shot forward to attack Lee Sungmin again . Immediately, Lee Sungmin intercepted her tentacles using a lightning strike .

“Where is Freskan?”

Lee Sungmin asked while looking at the fragments of scattered tentacles . Aine stared at Lee Sungmin’s face with yellow eyes and opened her mouth .

“In the city . ”

Freskan was captured by Vampire Queen Geniella . She hadn’t forced him to do anything since making him join the Predators, but it was still impossible for Freskan to escape the city from under Geniella’s nose .

That’s why he sent Aine instead of moving directly himself . That didn’t mean Freskan wasn’t watching the battle . Several birds floating in the air were watching below .

‘It turned out just fine then . ’

He was lucky . Lee Sungmin decided to judge it like that . He was also hoping for a reunion with Freskan . It saved him the effort to find him . If he subdued Aine here, he could pull out Freskan . Lee Sungmin could already feel the gaze of the familiars flying in the sky . He didn’t know why he did not come here directly . Perhaps he was planning something .

It was not that he wasn’t on guard . Lee Sungmin deployed the armor . The armor, which only covered his upper body, expanded greatly and covered Lee Sungmin’s entire body . He positioned himself as he held the spear with both hands .

Without Scarlet’s help, Lee Sungmin would have died on the spot when he was attacked by Aine five years ago . At that time, Lee Sungmin had already entered Peak level, but he was lacking in many ways and had many anxieties . The time that had passed since then was only 5 years at most . However, the time accumulated for Lee Sungmin was not just that .

Aine stopped probing with her tentacles . As long as Lee Sungmin continued in earnest, Aine realized that it was meaningless to continue playing around like that . She retracted the long tentacles into her body .

[That bitch gives a terrible feeling . ]

Lee Sungmin also agreed with the words Heoju muttered . The tentacles soaring from Aine’s body would regenerate endlessly even if they burst or broke . Aine narrowed her eyes and stared at Lee Sungmin . Her hands were covered with a black crust, turning her five fingers into sharp black blades .

Uduk!

Dark stalks rose from Aine’s back . It took the form of a deformed wing, and the remaining part of the stalk became a flapping tentacle .

Aine did not obey her father, Freskan, unconditionally . But it was true that she, personally, had some feelings toward Lee Sungmin .

‘It was the first time . ’

It was the first time she had felt that much pain . Aine stuck her tongue out and licked her lips . She remembered the feeling of her body being pierced through by a powerful attack . The strange feeling that she had felt five years ago had not changed . Her father, Freskan, had ordered her to not kill Lee Sungmin . It was alright if he didn’t have a few limbs, but he told her to bring him back with his life first .

Aine had no intention of following those orders . Since the moment they met… Aine could feel an intense urge . Even when she saw him five years ago, she had felt the same urge . Back then, she didn’t know exactly what this impulse was .

But now she knew . This was her appetite . She was not hungry . Nevertheless, she wanted to eat . She couldn’t stand it because she wanted to eat him . If possible, she would continue eating even if she had to vomit out everything she ate . Aine could feel her mouth watering . The heart wasn’t the only thing that she wanted to eat .

‘Where shall I start?’

Would it be better to start eating him from his feet and go up from there?

Aine swallowed her saliva while imagining that mouth-watering scene . At the same time, her feet hit the ground . She rushed toward Lee Sungmin at an abnormal pace .

[Her eyes look like she is looking at prey . ]

Heoju muttered with a joyful voice . Lee Sungmin could also feel Aine’s predatory gaze on him .

Baang!

Aine kicked the ground and jumped up . A pile of snow beneath her feet soared as if it had exploded . Amidst the scattering snow, Aine swished her long blade-like nails down toward Lee Sungmin .

Lee Sungmin did not hesitate to step aside . He seemed to approach the attack head-on, but he swiftly dashed to the side, leaving afterimages in his wake . Lee Sungmin used the Two-step Calamitous End and ran to one side of Aine . Aine, floating in the air, spread out her wings and quickly changed her stance in midair . She used her tentacle to pierce through the afterimage left behind while the other tentacle came up on her side to attack Lee Sungmin .

Lee Sungmin drew a circle with his spear, ripping apart all the tentacles that touched the vacuum that it formed . But Aine’s hands were still intact . She stretched out her sharp nails and tried to pierce through Lee Sungmin’s chest . Lee Sungmin sped back through the snowfield and recovered the spear that he had thrown .

‘Her reaction is fast . ’

He activated his Defense Aura . The Orichalcum-coated armor amplified both the Defense Aura and the spear force of the spear held by Lee Sungmin . An intense aura covered the entire spear, making it look as if it were surrounded by flames .

Before long, it slowly faded away and condensed .

“I know what that is . ”

Aine murmured as she looked at the inner force used by Lee Sungmin as her body also began to radiate a fierce light .

“I know how to do it too . ”

Aine said with a bright smile .

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