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Reborn as the Doomed Heir of a Mage Dynasty (Web Novel) - Chapter 336
Chapter 336
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Kuh-heck...!!Someone rose, retching, from where he lay. With the motion of his massive frame, the bed itself shook.
"Kuheok... Kuh...!!"
He clutched his throat and continued coughing violently. The man's identity was the Great DemonHwang Sogong.
"Haa... haah..."
"Hmm. You're awake?"
At the lilting voice, Hwang Sogong looked over. Sitting at the table was the Ghost Demon, peacefully sipping water as if it were the calmest moment in the world.
The Great Demon furrowed his brow and shouted.
"What's going on...!"
"Oh my."
The Ghost Demon cringed at the outburst.
"Don't shout. The room's small enoughwhy be so noisy?"
"Answer me, Ghost Demon...!"
"What's there to answer? Don't you realize just from seeing yourself lying there on the bed like an idiot?"
"... What?"
"You lost. To him."
"...!"
At the word 'defeat', Hwang Sogong's eyes widened like lanterns. Lost? I lost? He could only groan at the words.
"That's impossible... That can't be."
"Did you hit your head? Your head seemed fine to me."
"I lost to that brat?"
Bang!
"Oh my."
Unable to contain his rage, the Great Demon swung his fist. The wall caved in under the force of his punch.
"What utter nonsense!"
"Men who can't accept reality just aren't cool, Great Demon. Pull yourself together, seriously."
"You...!"
Provoked by the Ghost Demon, the Great Demon finally burst in anger. As he tried to rise with strength surging through him
Totter!
"... Kuh!?"
His massive form collapsed.
Thud!
He barely managed to catch himself with one knee on the ground.
"Haa... haah..."
"Not doing so well, it seems? Stop wasting your strength. Or you'll collapse again."
"What's... what's happening?"
Hwang Sogong looked at his hand. Something was off. Feeling the sense of wrongness, he tried to muster his energy.
Zzzzt!!
"Kuh!!"
A tremendous wave of pain swept through him. His ki just wasn't circulating right. What on earth was going on? Startled, he opened his eyes.
"From the look of it, there's a binding seal placed on you."
"... A seal? A binding seal?"
"Yes. The Moon Herothe petty kid of the Righteous Factionseems to have played some trick on you."
"... That's not possible...! This body is...!"
"Right, the Young cult leader personally bestowed it with a blessing."
"And yet, why...?"
If the Young cult leader had bestowed his blessing, there shouldn't be any way to place a binding seal on top of that. Not even the Broken Heaven Palace Lord could interfere with this body.
That was a secret art passed down through the Demonic Cult.
'How can a seal be placed on this body?'
How could that be? It made no sense. Only one possibility existed when such a thing happened.
'A higher level of blessing.'
Something passed down only within the Demonic Cult: unless one had received a higher blessing, it was impossible.
'... No way.'
There's no way. How could that brat use a blessing higher than this? He had to have pulled some trick.
"Ghost Demon... Remove the binding seal from my body at once."
"Oh my?"
The Ghost Demon looked dumbfounded at Hwang Sogong's words.
"Giving orders so openly, are we? How senseless."
"The blessing from the Young cult leader's become compromised...! Hurry and remove the seal!"
Whap!
"Kuh!"
Hwang Sogong's head snapped backbecause the Ghost Demon suddenly kicked him in the face.
"Getting full of yourself because I let you slide."
"... You bastard...!"
Furious, Hwang Sogong glared, but even as he did, the Ghost Demon's fist shot out.
Whap! Bam! Repeated blows struck his face.
Blood spattered in a wave.
Splatt!
Chunks of bloody spittle scattered to the ground, but Hwang Sogong endured the pain.
"... You bastard... You..."
"You couldn't even fulfill your mission, and yet you talk so much. Disgusting."
"Krrgh..."
"You even caused trouble and messed up the things we were supposed to do. Now what are we supposed to do?"
"... What...?"
Seeing Hwang Sogong's reaction, the Ghost Demon pulled something outstakes.
"Our task was to measure out all the streets in the Shaanxi region and drive in these stakes. Your job was probably to capture the Plum Blossom Swordsmen and collect their blood."
"... That was..."
"But you showed up, interfered, and then lost. So things are messy on our end, too. Now everyone's attention is focused here."
It had become difficult to drive in the stakes. At those words, Hwang Sogong gnashed his teeth.
"Nonsense. You mean to say you didn't see even that coming?"
"Did you think I know everything in the world? I can't foresee every unpredictable action of yours. If I could, I wouldn't have lost to Heavenly Insight."
"..."
As the Ghost Demon calmly mentioned losing the battle, Hwang Sogong fell silent.
Then, changing his tone:
"You're lying."
"You just don't want to believe it. You doubt me."
"..."
"I swore by the heavens, so why not believe me? I don't get it."
Swearing to serve the young heaven. He'd said those words, so it was incomprehensible that the Great Demon didn't trust him.
"Believe it or not, doesn't matter. The point is that things got tangled up because of you. Now I'll be even more out of favor with the Young cult leader."
"As if you care about that."
"But I do care. Didn't I tell you?"
The Ghost Demon smiled brightly.
"I live for the young heaven."
"..."
"Get ready to move. If you want that pitiful body of yours healed, you'll have to go back to the Demonic Cult, after all."
"... And you?"
"I'll have to clean up the mess you made, of course."
"... Hah."
So go off on your own. At those words, fire flashed in the Great Demon's eyes.
"You're hiding something."
"Oh my?"
"There's definitely something you're up to."
"Why so suspicious? There's nothing more Ican do for you."
Shrugging, the Ghost Demon stood and wiped the blood carelessly from his hand, addressing the Great Demon.
"Give the Young cult leader my apologies. I have other business... and an eye to manage."
"... An eye?"
"The Sword Emperor."
"...!"
"That evil spirit is being troublesome."
"... The Sword Emperor is here?"
"Haha."
The Ghost Demon scoffed at the Great Demon's words.
"You really know nothing, do you?"
"Grrr."
At the taunt, the Great Demon gnashed his teeth.
"If I want to send you back alive, I have to move too. So behave yourself, and don't act up anymore."
The Ghost Demon chuckled, as if the Great Demon's response was of no concern.
"If anyone hears that one of the Eight Demonic Beings lost to a rising star... the demonic beings will just love that news, won't they?"
"You!!!"
Bang!!
Just as the Great Demon tried to retort, the Ghost Demon's fist struck his abdomen, sending him rolling across the floor.
"I'll go first. See you again, our incompetent Great Demon."
"... Ghost Deemoooon!!!"
Crrreak. Slam.
The door closed, and the noise gradually subsided. Clearly, the Ghost Demon had silenced him out of annoyance.
"Hmmm..."
Leaving the Great Demon behind, the Ghost Demon strode out.
The smile vanished from his face.
"Seriously..."
He's a perceptive one.
He found the Great Demon's suspicion ridiculous, but grudgingly acknowledged it.
He's got good instincts.
Which was why he should have killed him.
"What does our heaven wish for...?"
His grand existence. A new heavena deity to be worshipped.
That heaven did not desire the death of the Great Demon.
Why was that? It was puzzling, and yet...
"How dare you..."
Whatever his heaven desiredwhatever it might beit wasn't for him to judge.
Thinking so, the Ghost Demon continued on. At the same time
"Such a lofty head."
"... Hiek."
Recalling the electrifying heaven of that moment, the Ghost Demon shuddered.
Arrogant, lofty gaze. Eyes that could not abide the existence of anything above themselves.
Recalling that tingling gaze, the Ghost Demon could not hide his excitement.
"Ahh..."
Oh, heaven.
"... I long to see you again."
He chewed his fingernails, as if to hold back his emotions.
***
Cold.
The environment was dry and desolate.
The child opened her hand and looked at her palm. Her hands, frozen stiff, seemed almost bluish.
What was it?
What had happened?
She couldn't remember.
'... Please...'
Her mother's final words.
'Please... please, find a way to escape...'
Escape from where? How? She didn't know. After her mother was killed by strangers
The child lost consciousness.
When she opened her eyes
"..."
The snowy field was awash, stained ever redder.
A sickening smell assaulted her nose. Only then did she look beside her.
Her mother's corpse, already cold. She was sitting right there.
"Ah... ahh..."
No words came out.
"Uhh..."
With trembling fingertips, she grasped her mother's hand, now completely cold.
She had no idea what had happened. She was merely enduring.
Why?
Why had it turned out this way?
'Mother!'
'Ah, no...!'
It all began with her calling out, not realizing her mother was hiding.
And so it turned out like this.
The child's voice also ceased, seeing her mother lifeless. With a single word, she had lost everything.
"... Aaah..."
She clung to her mother, voice choked.
She only trembled, again and again.
After a while
"..."
As blood gradually pooled on the ground, her shivering gradually stopped. Something felt wrong.
Ssssss...
Slowly, warmth crept into her once cold body.
Being so near death and a corpse, her body began to react.
Something.
Something was coming.
Clatter.
"Ah... ahh..."
More.
She felt she had to do something more. What exactly? She didn't know what.
She couldn't know. She was far too young and ignorant for that.
Yet, ignorance was sweet. If she simply surrendered herself to the approaching visitor, she'd find peace.
Instinctively, she knew this.
Should she let it happen? As the temptation rose to the crown of her head
'Is it tasty?'
"..."
The child froze.
'Eat some more. Here, eat this too.'
A face surfaced in her mind for some unknown reason.
'You eat so well.'
"... Ah..."
If she surrendered to this instinct
She'd forget this memory, and forget that child too.
Once that fear struck her, she tensed her whole body.
Like a stone, she dared not move, certain that the slightest movement would mean everything was lost.
So she grew colder, buried in the icy air.
"... Come with me."
A voice spoke.
She opened her eyes hazily. She no longer had the presence of mind to know who it was.
"Let's go to spring."
She didn't know who it was.
It didn't matter anymore. Anyone would dojust please save me.
That was the plea in her clasped hands.
Though the other's hand was wrinkled and old
Strangely, it was warm.
Tap.
"..."
Yu Yun opened her eyes.
Warm air, not the cold landscape, greeted her.
She awoke in a serene place and slowly raised her head.
In front of her lay her master, as if dead.
"..."
'Let's go to spring.'
He had once told her that cold places weren't good, that they should go somewhere warm.
Now, he was going somewhere colder than anywhere.
"..."
Yu Yun reached out her hand, trying to grasp his, even a little.
In that moment
Bang-!!
"Are you here?"
"...!"
The back door burst open and someone appeared.
White hair and blue eyes.
It was Bang Sung-Yun.
Why? Why did he appear so suddenly? His bodywas he all right?
A rush of relief and worry battled inside Yu Yun.
"Ah, there you are."
Bang Sung-Yun smiled at u Yun.
"Let's go right away."
"...?"
With a smile
Slish.
"...!!"
A flash flew at Yu Yun.
Bang-!
She barely avoided the strike. Startled, Bang Sung-Yun seized her by the collar.
She was thrown right out the door.
Thud.
Something landed in front of Yu Yun as she touched down on the bare ground.
What is this?
It was something wrapped in cloth.
"Take it."
"..."
As if on instinct, Yu Yun grabbed the object and unwrapped the cloth.
It was a sword.
A battered, broken sword. Frowning, Yu Yun looked over at Bang Sung-Yun.
What is this? Why did he give it to her? Still puzzled, she looked to Bang Sung-Yun.
"Come on. Time for a bout."
"...?"
He uttered strange words.
-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=
BSY just cheating, giving Yu Yun a dilapidated sword.
