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Chapter 198
Although I had extracted the souls and given them physical force to take revenge on the Elder, there really isn’t much they can do.
Hwa Ryeong, however, must have had a lot built up over ti.
Forgetting even the pretense of being composed, she was ruthlessly beating the elder’s soul.
Even though she was breathing heavily from pumling the soul, revenge isn’t sothing that ends so easily just by doing that.
In my case, I had many ans at my disposal.
I crushed Tyvel to dust and eventually used him as a material.
But all they could do was beat on the elder’s soul that remained.
Moreover, that elder wasn’t even the entirety of their revenge.
“Master.”
“Watch carefully now. This will be the last.”
At my reply, Cheon Ryeong let out a short groan.
He shed tears as he looked at his youngest sibling, who was tied to the floor, screaming in agony.
“There’s no way to turn this back? You seem capable of directly handling souls, Master.”
“Isn’t your clan also one that manipulates spiritual power?”
“Our interference is extrely limited. Especially when it cos to soul control—it’s considered taboo.”
So, the spiritual practices of the Sichuan clan only involve helping wandering souls find peace or purifying spirits that have turned evil.
“Cheon Ryeong, as I said, interfering with one whose soul has already departed is no way to honor the dead.”
Even if it’s possible, it’s not easy.
Especially since Ma Cheon’s soul has already lted into the river of reincarnation.
“……”
“What stands before you now is nothing more than a beast wearing your brother’s discarded shell.”
“Then what should we do?”
“For the dead, the options are burial or cremation. Given the situation, cremating what’s inside that body is the proper course.”
Cheon Ryeong hesitated, then slowly approached Ma Cheon.
He spoke.
“Lady Luna, I know this is a cruel request but…”
“Even a finger won’t twitch.”
At her words, Cheon Ryeong silently embraced his grotesque-looking brother.
Ma Cheon scread and tried to bite and claw at Cheon Ryeong’s neck, but just as Luna had said, he couldn’t even move his mouth properly.
“Guh… aaah…”
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry, Cheon…”
Cheon Ryeong wept hot tears as he held Ma Cheon close.
“I should never have let you go like that. Bla … Bla this worthless older brother.”
The two siblings prepared to part with their youngest sibling.
“The resemblance is uncanny. That’s what makes it even more tragic.”
Unlucky Cascadia?
Yeah, if I had arrived any later, I might’ve ended up hugging Arsha like that, shedding tears.
But for so reason, Ma Cheon’s resistance gradually faded during the process.
Eventually, he stopped resisting entirely, falling into silence.
It wasn’t that a miracle happened because of their sincerity.
It was rely a coincidence in an extre situation.
We handled the aftermath using the Bata faction’s troops and knights.
We disard and restrained all the martial artists from the noble family, then confined them in one place.
One by one, we also collected the corpses and cleaned up the ss.
With Ma Cheon no longer resisting, I summoned elental mana...
It didn’t take long to prepare for the cremation.
Laying the motionless body down, which no longer reacted like a stopped machine, I simply used magic to burn the body in an instant.
At this point, Ma Cheon wouldn’t even feel pain from his own body burning.
Thus, I stabilized the elental mana and aligned the formation.
A red magic circle was intricately constructed from the ground up.
[5th Circle]
[Fla]
With a snap of my fingers, the fla magic ignited.
In an instant, intense flas surged up and wrapped around Ma Cheon’s body.
And that’s when it happened.
“…Hm?”
As I watched the corpse, I felt sothing strange.
A filthy feeling, like the magic was being interfered with as it tried to reach Ma Cheon’s body.
Even before I could confirm it, I instinctively raised my head to look up at the sky.
The sky, which had been covered in dark clouds…
Had already turned red.
[The Red Moon’s Corruption is beginning.]
[The Red Moon’s Corruption is beginning.]
[The Red Moon’s Corruption is beginning.]
[The Red Moon’s Corruption is beginning.]
As if on cue, the ssages from the Librarian popped up everywhere like warnings.
[Prepare yourself.]
At the sa ti, I felt as though the red eye-like moon in the sky had moved.
This had never happened before.
Normally, when the Red Moon’s corruption begins, the cause awakens and monsters pour forth.
But it seed the corruption of the Red Moon didn’t always manifest in the sa way.
That massive eye-like moon in the sky.
Despite the overcast weather, it shouldn’t be visible during this ti of day.
That moon—the sa one that always dyed the skies red in Labyrinthos.
To be honest, seeing that thing again gave the chilling feeling that I’d never left Labyrinthos.
Eventually, the eye-moon slowly turned its focus toward .
No—more precisely, toward Ma Cheon’s body, now engulfed in flas from my magic.
“Damn.”
BOOM!!
My judgnt was swift, and so was my action.
I instantly cast defensive magic on the two siblings of the Sichuan clan, then spread a sealing spell over Ma Cheon’s body.
But from around the giant moon, red mist like flowing blood rained down like flashes of light, so of which managed to seep into Ma Cheon before I could stop them all.
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The blood-red mist, flowing at terrifying speed like a flood, devoured the protective spell I had cast and consud it entirely.
There was no point in analyzing this.
Abandoning hesitation, I gave up on Ma Cheon’s body and retreated to a safe distance.
The red mist swirled like a vortex and completely engulfed Ma Cheon.
Only I could see the Red Moon.
But everyone could witness the aftermath it caused.
“What… what’s happening to Cheon?!”
“Lord Leon!”
How would this look to their eyes?
“Prince Cheon Ryeong, how does the situation appear to you right now?”
At my question, he looked at with a puzzled expression before carefully answering.
“It looks like Cheon’s body is being enveloped by red mist.”
Ah, you can see that far?
Well, I still have to do what needs to be done.
“For now, fall ba—”
BOOM!!!
At that mont, a strange pressure swept across the area, and both Hwa Ryeong and Cheon Ryeong, the sibling pair, collapsed on the spot.
They had lost consciousness.
And from within the red mist, sothing bizarre with glowing red eyes lunged at .
This ti, I couldn’t see any future.
But even without foresight, it was clear—this thing must not be allowed to roam free.
KWAANG!!!
Ma Cheon may have only been a fifteen-year-old boy, but through special procedures and his transformation into a jiangshi, he possessed strength comparable to a master.
At his age, such power was considerable, and with the final elent they desired, Ma Cheon's power could have been further enhanced.
But the Ma Cheon before was no longer Ma Cheon.
That thing…
It was sothing that seeped into his body through an extradinsional force that flowed from the red moon.
An empty shell with its soul stripped away.
What should have been a vacant husk now housed a strange and grotesque spirit with an unidentifiable form.
What could I even call that?
Through the eyes of the Spirit Mana, the soul residing within Ma Cheon’s body seed capable of dealing imnse damage to the mind just by being looked at.
Moreover—
The thing inhabiting his body was staring straight at .
—You’re… there.
A shock struck as if my mind had been montarily twisted.
I grimaced, involuntarily stepping back from the horrifying voice.
That voice tore through my mind without rcy.
It wasn’t Ma Cheon’s.
It ca through the soul residing in Ma Cheon’s body…
The Voice of the Moon.
[#@$*^%&%&#$!]
[!@$!%$2*%&%^#$]
Suddenly, texts of the ancient script floated around , but due to the spreading red mist—or perhaps because of the eye watching from the sky—they were so distorted with noise that I couldn’t read them properly.
A strange phenonon that only I could see and hear.
Soone could easily mistake this for madness.
BOOM!!! BOOM!!!
As Ma Cheon’s body launched a fierce assault at , I remained silent, focusing on channeling my mana.
One thing was certain: this red moon’s corrosion was different from all previous ones.
Its purpose was different.
—In the end, your struggle is aningless.
—The gate has already opened.
Though the voice was directed at , it felt as though it was speaking to sothing else entirely.
A horribly twisted sensation.
The eye floating in the sky now gazed straight at .
At the sa ti, I grabbed Ma Cheon’s charging head and slamd it into the ground.
Then I forced open his sealed mouth and spoke.
“The only thing you can do now is one thing.”
CRACK!!! FWOOOOSH!!!
“Get the hell out of here, you bastard.”
I infused my voice with power.
It resembled incantation magic, but this was sothing different—it couldn’t be perford like a typical spell.
Twisting the torrent of massive power as if resisting that thing’s strength, the red mist scattered like a lie.
And in an instant, Ma Cheon’s body ignited and burned completely to ash.
The red moon vanished as if it had never been there.
It was the first ti the corrosion of the red moon had ceased on the spot.
Yet sohow, I couldn’t shake the filthy feeling that the thing had still achieved its goal.
As the traces of the red moon disappeared, all that remained was Ma Cheon’s body engulfed in the lightning of Astrape.
Its very presence was enough to overwhelm most people without even attacking…
Its presence was clearly different from the entities that had appeared through red moon corrosion so far.
“Librarian, was that thing just now related to the red moon itself?”
In response to my question, texts began to appear.
[That is fortunate.]
[What you faced just now is sothing that must not yet manifest in this world. If you sense anything similar in the future, it is highly recomnded you flee.]
“You said I’d have to deal with it, though.”
[Your survival is the top priority.]
Brushing away the floating texts with my hand, I walked over to the two unconscious siblings.
Fortunately, it was just fainting—they would wake soon.
As I moved to tend to them—
Luna approached with a stiff expression.
Arsha was nowhere to be seen in her arms.
“Where’s Arsha?”
“I put her to sleep. I need to ask you sothing.”
“What?”
“That thing just now… since when?”
“Huh?”
“When did you first co into contact with that?”
Her serious expression made think—could she know sothing about the red moon?
Co to think of it, she was once an archangel, so it was possible.
“Do you know what that thing is?”
To my question, she hesitated, then slowly spoke.
“The power that destroyed paradise… and caused its fall.”
She grabbed my arm tightly and said—
“Promise . No matter what happens, never talk to it.”
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