Chapter 549: Declaring war

Translated by: La0o9

Proofreader: Arya

TN: Due to a lack of distinction on the author’s part, there are some confusing concepts here. ‘Demonized’ people are those who became slaves of the [Demon King Order], but they aren’t actually demons. ‘Demonified’ people are those who were turned into real demons, there is a difference.

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The top of the ice mountain.

The divine temple of the Old Gods.

The 800 demonized Combatants all calmed down

One of them took up their weapon and moved towards the giant hill-like monster’s corpse.

“What are you doing?” his friend asked.

“We’re about to leave anyways, let’s take a few things with us. This is still an ancient creature, so maybe some parts of it can be sold for money”

As he got near the corpse of the monster, he raised his weapon.

And he was stunned.

The [Origin] UI that was supposed to have already been removed once again showed up in his vision.

“Ah? Didn’t I already uninstall you?” he spoke in surprise.

Lines of text quickly appeared on the [Origin] UI.

[Uninstallation terminated]

[The Order has cross-checked your identify, final confirmation: Slave]

[As a slave, you do not have the right to remove Origin]

[You ignored several dozen warnings and acted in betrayal to Origin]

[Considering your acts of betrayal, your privileges have all been removed]

[After three seconds, your punishment will commence]

[3]

[2]

[1]

[Living beings full demonification experiment, begin]

The notifications all faded.

A unique power slowly filled his body.

“What, what is this!?”

He was surprised.

He found that his body was becoming hotter and hotter, as if a boiling power wanted to be released from his body.

But before this power was released, he had already reached his end.

Pfft!

A thick and sharp claw went through his back, pierced his heart out of his chest and dangled it right in front of his eyes.

The man coughed up blood, unable to speak and was only barely able to recognize the still-beating heart pierced on the claw.

His head went limp.

He died.

Behind him, his friend who was now a full demon, appeared as a 3-meter tall 5-clawed monster.

“Kiii, kiih, kih, kih, kih kih!”

The monster was growling constantly, apparently trying to explain something.

But seen enough, the monster was attracted to the bright red beating heart.

It forgot everything and devoured the entire heart whole.

As the heart naturally slid down its throat, the monster felt full of power unlike ever before.

This beating piece of flesh seemed to be the exact requirements for its evolution.

Roarr—-

The monster roared

It wanted more of this flesh!

That roar acted as a signal.

The symptoms of full demonification began to appear on many of the demonized Combatants.

All 800 of these demonized people were veterans in battle, if it wasn’t because of their own bodies being warped in such terrifying ways, they wouldn’t have screamed so desperately.

The originally silent divine temple was now filled with howling and screaming.

Flesh and blood splattered everywhere.

Monsters were rampaging all over the place.

In mere seconds, the icy divine temple of the Old Gods had turned into a slaughterhouse of hell.

God’s Eye, God’s Trek and God’s Might all quickly backed off.

They hid where there were the fewest people, standing back to back, weapons in hand in a complete defensive formation.

On their left, a demonized Combatant’s body suddenly broke apart and became a tattered pile of flesh.

“What kind of situation is this?” God’s Might asked in a low voice.

“I’m observing” God’s Eye’s pupils gave off a purple light as he observed the entire plaza.

Right in front of the three of them, another demonized Combatant was screaming in a frenzy.

His body suddenly expanded, 7-8 bone spears sprouted from his body, his neck became thin and long as his head started shrinking.

He also turned into a monster!

As they looked beyond this monster, they found that the entire divine temple had turned into a chaotic mess.

Many demonized Combatants either suddenly shed all their flesh, exploded, or rolled on the ground screaming in pain until they slowly lost all signs of life.

And then, there were also a few demonized Combatants turned into various kinds of monsters.

These monsters completely lost all their rationale and calm. They only knew to dive into the crowds of writhing demonized people and conduct mindless slaughter.

“Demonification! They’re all turning into demons!” God’s Eye loudly declared.

“Really? Are you sure?” God’s Trek felt a bit shaken and quickly asked.

“They are low level demons, I met a few of them before, others I’ve only seen in books” God’s Eye’s pupils glowed purple as he confirmed.

“Could it be that man from the Iron Fist Club did something?” God’s Might suddenly asked.

His voice was trembling a bit.

Under this chaotic situation, the other two didn’t take too much notice of this.

“He didn’t, I was observing him the entire time. Besides talking, he did nothing”

God’s Eye continued: “The change came from their own bodies, as if some sort of power came from nowhere”

“Then this must be something [Origin] did! No, we have to leave!” God’s Trek hurriedly said.

Those were his last words.

God’s Trek’s head disappeared.

A 5-meter tall monster had just cut off his head with its long scythe-like claw before throwing it in its mouth

“Brother, I, I didn’t want to eat you”

The monster said as it ate.

The monster had a pair of purple glowing eyes.

If you carefully look, you’d find that this monster was actually God’s Eye from before.

As it chewed, the monster’s body started shaking.

“No! I don’t want to be a demon!” the monster screeched.

It chopped off its own head with its razor-sharp scythe claw.

Thud!

The monster fell.

Its body immediately broke apart, turning into a pile of soft flesh.

In the blink of an eye, two of the three most powerful demonized Combatants had already died.

Only God’s Might silently stood.

——he was a powerful Demi, the leader of these demonized Combatants.

He was still hesitant to believe Gu Qing Shan’s claims and was still observing the crowd up until now.

He still hasn’t uninstalled [Origin].

Over 800 people, and only he didn’t uninstall [Origin].

The monsters all avoided him.

Because he was still a demonized person, someone under the protection of [Origin].

God’s Might knelt down, reaching his hands out to stroke God’s Trek headless body and God’s Eye’s monstrous body

“My brothers…”

He shed tears of blood.

“So we were deceived by him”

“It really was the true [Origin], the [Demon King Order], but he fooled us”

“But rest assured, I will not let him escape like this”

“I swear, I will take his head to come see you!”

Wiping his tears of blood, he stood up and quickly left the divine temple.

Behind him, the remaining monsters stopped killing each other.

They all followed God’s Might outside.

…

Let’s go back in time a bit.

In the temple, right as the demonification began.

Desperate cries and screams echoed from atop the mountain all around.

The noise and commotion could still be heard at the side of the mountain.

“We’re going to wait right here” Gu Qing Shan spoke.

The black horse stopped.

Laura climbed down from Gu Qing Shan’s shoulder, hiding in his chest.

Gu Qing Shan sat still on the horse, hugging Laura as he gently patted her back.

In his vision, the bright red [Origin] UI lit up again.

It finally returned from being grey.

“Finally not playing dead anymore?” Gu Qing Shan casually asked.

[Kindling]—– no, it should be [Origin], angrily replied: [Abandoner, betrayer, destroyer of Order, just now you went against me once again, why do you act like this?]

Gu Qing Shan stayed still and said nothing.

[Sinner, you deceived them, you made them betray Order—- you directly killed over 800 of your own comrades!]

“No, they were never my comrades in the first place” Gu Qing Shan replied.

[They were the same as you, those who have this Order supporting them, you originally could’ve fought alongside each other on the search for power, but you rejected Order, you killed them]

“First of all, you’re the one who killed them” Gu Qing Shan calmly answered, “second, they are those who blindly pursue wealth and power, killing innocent people in their path. I believe this is exactly what they deserve”

[Origin] fell silent.

Gu Qing Shan muttered: “Their deaths are only the beginning, the war between you and I will continue”

[You mortal human insect, weakest in all the 900 million World Layers, are you declaring war on me?] [Origin] furiously questioned.

“I am”