V2 Chapter 36
“I will devour your blood! Youngling!!!” the Bloodhole Gang leader cried out hysterically.
“…say it after you beat me, third-rater!”
Before their voices finished echoing, they clashed once more.
Against Cian who controlled the vectors beneath his feet and charged, the Bloodhole Gang’s leader spread his three pairs of blood wings and flew almost twenty meters to the center of the road. Cian swept his arm in front of him and slashed through the air, totally taking control of the airflow vectors. Boom! Bang!! A hurricane with wind speeds of a 120 meters per second blasted towards the Bloodhole Gang leader like a cannon shot.
“?!” Waving his dexterous blood wings, the Gang leader tried to avoid the attack, but a *click* sound reached his ears. Looking down, he found that Cian had already closed the distance between them. Before the Gang’s leader could even figure that out, Cian thrust his right hand towards the latter’s chest. Seeing Cian’s assault, the Gang’s leader immediately retracted his wings to protect himself. When Cian made contact with the blood wings, they immediately disintegrated into countless drops of blood and stopped the attack.
Boom! Accompanying gale winds, the six blood wings behind the Gang leader instantly recovered their forms. “My Blood is eternal. I don’t know how you are destroying things you touched but even if you destroy them, as long as blood exists, they will still reform and would never be truly destroyed!”
A material made of blood, even if Cian destroys it, it will still remain as blood. Just like how one destroys water and make it scatter, it is still water and when gathered together, will merge together to form into one entity once again!
Faced by these blood wings that seemed to be indestructible, Cian’s will was not shaken. Who cares what they are? They will all be shattered by his ability to manipulate vectors. “OK, then I’ll blast you apart along with your ‘blood’!” Cian snorted coldly.
“Kekekeke, I will devour you first!!” Leaping up onto the air, while releasing a deranged laughter, the Gang’s leader charged towards Cian. Swiftly arriving before his opponent, a great mace appeared in his hand. Its surface was covered in crimson red blood stains. This mace had obviously killed a lot of people, being drenched by blood numerous times.
The Gang leader was going all out!
Everyone present who witnessed this scene was fully aware that he was incomparably angry, so he didn’t hesitate to use his Blood Tyrant skill and summon his magical artifact. Obviously, he had no intent on holding back at all. “No matter who attempts to destroy my Clan, I will kill them all!” he emerged from within the building and flew up in the sky. He did not need to borrow external strength in order to stand within the air. His sharp gaze was like a hawk and his cry resounded throughout the entire city.
Swish! From the collapsing roof, five figures charged out. Each of them relied on their dense magic power in order to stay afloat in midair. These five lights occupied a different direction, yet, they were all facing a black-clothed masked youth.
“That’s the Leader Gochang of the Bloodhole Gang and those with him were the experts of his Clan, they are actually facing a single man…just what is happening here?!”
"There is even the Blood Princess Palaer is even there...! What is going on in the Bloodhole Gang?! Who dared to tug its whiskers?!"
“What are they doing? Just where did that youth come from? And the leader of the Bloodhole Gang, he has such a terrifying demonic energy!”
Countless people hurriedly look at the sky where several people were fighting against a single man. The Gang’s leader’s display of power also caused many experts from within the entire City to be stunned.
"What frightening strength this person has…"
The hearts of some experts sank upon seeing this blood figure. Although they were unable to sense the Bloodhole Gang leader’s exact strength, it was obvious that the strength of this person was among the strongest within the Northern Border.
However, to the Gang Leader’s attack, Cian simply glanced at her coldly before snorting disdainfully. Fwoom! The six blood wings blew up a gale wind towards Cian. Cian used his reflection to subdue the wind while trying to figure out his opponent’s aim. Looking closely, he found the Gang leader’s smiling. “Try deflecting this…!”
“!?” When Cian heard that he tried to dodge, but the six blood wings had already begun to strike. However, unlike before the six blood wings were used solely as blunt weapons for hitting. A series of *gacha gacha* sounds exploded out from Cian’s body. And Cian, who could reflect all vectors, was blown over 10m away, hitting one of the trees on the sidewalk. The thick trunk of the tree got snapped by that one blow.
“Oof…!?” Cian’s eyes widened in shock.
“Can you reflect this?” The Gang leader’s blood wings spread soundlessly. Cian flew up to a rooftop, but the over twenty-meter long wings aimed at him like giant swords to strike him down.
This guy… Cian frowned as he immediately realized what was going on. [Absolute Defense] is not a simple defense barrier as it is completely different from magic based barriers that deflect all kind of things that attacked the user. It was made of magic, thus normal barrier magic can block everything in this world. However, Cian’s [Absolute Defense] is different. It was like establishing a filter that Cian sees everything as harmful or not, and use his reflect to push away anything that could harm him. This depends on his godly calculation ability.
Just like how he reflects sound then he wouldn’t be able to hear anything, and if he reflects physical objects then he would also be unable to hold anything. Only those he knows would he be able to use deflection! That is how [Absolute Defense] work. After all, he wouldn’t know which vectors he would deflect if he didn’t know what it was. This might be a downsized to his abilities—back in Earth, this ability might be one of those you can [Invincible] and [Absolute] but here in this world where magic is present that can easily defy logic and ignore physics, [Absolute Defense] weakness would become quite apparent…!
Though, Cian’s [Absolute Defense] can still be considered the strongest barrier in this world as it was extremely versatile offensively and defensively; not needing conscious control. Cian may deflect or redirect simple magic like fire, wind, lightning and etc… that strike him or the pressure wave of an explosion without requiring his awareness of the threat.
In this world, where even with Magic, most magic spells still follow the law and aspect of nature, such as the elements, Cian’s [Absolute Defense] is still his most fearsome defense and offense power. However, time like this, where these laws were altered into something unknown to him, just like this blood that had something he still couldn’t understand, Cian was on a disadvantage…
He could see that he was able to repel the blood attacking him, however, something was still able to bypass his defense and hit him—though because of this, even though he was hit, the damage received was reduced to less than half. What an annoying old man…
Just what was with this old man…? Cian wondered in annoyance.
“Where did your arrogance go now?”
Faced with this taunting, Cian snorted in contempt. Then, he controlled the air flow and made four tornadoes behind him. Clash! Cian’s tornadoes swept away the Gang leader’s wings, and the latter’s blood wings blew apart Cian’s tornadoes. The buildings around them were trembling from the blast waves and shook continuously. Suddenly, the two were no longer where they had been. The two of them continuously attacked each other in the night sky at an extreme speed.
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“Old man...it seems like you have misunderstood something about me…” As the Gang leader as laughing creepily for being able to contend against Cian equally, suddenly at this moment, a cold voice rang out from behind him, causing his body to suddenly stiffened in shock. What?! When the Gang leader was about to turn around, what greeted his eyes were the expanding leg that had smashed his face. The latter spit out the blood in his mouth as he was sent flying away, blowing apart the chimney on top of a house. “Did you really think, this is the only thing I can do…? Stupid…”
Cian blew apart the roof and walls of the building around the area with a casual kick. Rocks and tile roofs scattered in the air. In which, Cian kicked them using a karate kick. Boom! A loud explosion rang out. The vectors of the rocks and pieces of tile roofs were changed and fired off faster than a bullet but vanished after a few millimeters. However, the pressure waves did not vanish, and the attack felt as if it would tear the very air apart. But, the Gang leader had managed to recover in that instant and hurriedly put strength into his blood wings and scattered the attack. The waves of attacks between the two clashes against one another sent a ‘tsunami’ of air throughout their surroundings and blew houses and buildings into the air., causing another commotion.
However, not one guard or person dared to stop them—after all, aside from the fact that this was the Demon World, where battles like this almost happen every day, the one fighting there was the leader of the Bloodhole Gang!
“Damn you, you monsteerrr!!” The Gang leader cried out in fury. Suddenly, blood burst out from his body and formed many large blood pillars. The blood fog spread, and a dense bone-chilling aura slowly swept out in all directions from the Gang leader’s body!
A cold and sinister aura swept away from the Gang leader’s body like a storm. The blood of those within his aura boiled at this moment, regardless of whether or not they were civilians or subordinates from his Clan. Immediately, one could hear a "bang, bang, bang" sound as countless numbers of bodies exploded. A pool of bloody pulp dyed the ground until it was incomparably red. This indiscriminate killing by the Gang leader naturally shocked many people and a terrified commotion instant occurred, desperately running away from where the two were fighting.
"Pull back the Thousand Illusion people. This fellow experiences mood swings. In any case, it would be suicidal for an ordinary army to get involved…" The Thousand Illusion Gang leader, the temptress hiding in the dark knit her brows and ordered in a deep voice. She came here to fish during troubled waters but if this goes on, they would suffer casualties in vain.
"Understood." The two people by her side nodded when they heard her command. They quickly relayed her orders to swiftly withdraw all their people outside of the area. Other who shared the same goals also immediately issued similar orders.
Within a short instant, the entire area had become empty.
Cian suspended in the sky frowned as he watched the Gang leader randomly cause a person's body to self-destruct. An expression of contemplation flashed across his eyes. “As expected of the other world, this blood manipulation ability is terrifying…” Cian looks at the red fog inches away from his body and felt it more terrifying. If used properly, this guy is one hell of a trouble…
“Good, let’s spare you and take you alive… you can at least be useful…” Cian muttered with a grin. Then, he muttered to himself, “I guess, I need to finish this soon… or else, Big Sister would surely run towards here, looking for me. She should have noticed that I went out tonight…” Cian shrugs his shoulder.
“You will be devoured in this Sea of Blood!!” The Gang leader studied Cian. An ugly smile rose onto his face as he lifted his hand and violent clenched it in Cian's direction. The space in front of the Gang leader immediately became distorted after he clenched his hand.
“RaAAaaa! LaAAAA!” The Gang leader let out a shrill cry. The cry of discordant notes echoed in the world and the area around them were instantly dyed red like blood, while the walls and roofs beneath them started to pulsate like a living being. And from the dark shadows that spread rapidly throughout the entire place, pillars that took on the shape of serpents erupted from its depths to attack Cian.
While dodging the attacks, Cian muttered to himself: “Oh, for you to also have this trick up your sleeve. Commendable!”
“Continue speaking as you will be devoured in the end!” The Gang leader grinned coldly.
“He he, did you devour every life in the vicinity to create these demonic creatures…? Superb…you can really be useful!”
“Silence you half dead monsterrrrr!!!!” The Gang leader’s cry spawns blood serpents and scorpions from the blood fog that launched their waves of attack on Cian and drowned him under their numbers. Cian who was in the midst of the thousands of snakes that engulfed him muttered his thoughts out loud: “Do you know anything about…vibration…?”
“…what?!”
“Do you know vibration can be extremely deadly…?!” Cian had responded flatly and that caused the Gang Leader to have a very bad premonition about what was to come. Lifting his fist up high, Cian simply punched the space in front of him that had been dyed blood red by the blood demonification. And in an instant, hundreds and thousands of blood serpents and scorpions were pounded to dust and had dispersed back into a cloud of crimson fog around Cian that disappeared as quickly as it was created. Following that, the entire space around them began to shake violently and the nearby buildings and walls crumbled, bringing the rubble together with the fourth floor to crash into the third story and until the ground.
“……How can…What the heck is this? Just what kind of monster is this?!” The Gang leader who stood in the skies gave off a shout that seemed to be angry and yet terrified at the same time.
Standing on the air nonchalantly, Cian looked up with displeasure evidently splashed across his face as he accosted the Gang leader: “Oi, Boss your majesty, could it be that this is the last trick up your sleeve?”
“……Uu……!” The Gang leader’s body started trembling and felt terrified, “Just…just what did you do!!”
“What did I do? Extremely simple—these fella’s you created are not truly living creatures. In fact, all of them are just made up of Fog of Blood like sands building a sand castle, isn’t it? And so, before they could truly materialize, once the space around them was disturbed, they would crumble like a sand castle with just a poke!” Cian grinned coldly. In fact, what he used almost caused his mind to break and the pain was already killing him. However, he wasn’t someone who would show pain to an enemy no matter how much pain it really was…!
It seems like controlling by increasing the vibration rate of subatomic vectors around him was still something beyond his capabilities. Although he can do it easily by touching things but expanding the range was quite a taxing action…
But then again, for some unknown reason, the pain was slowly subsiding after a cooling wind-like sensation was emitted from [Night’s Eye] which startled Cian, giving him a pleasant surprised. His disturbed and wrecked mind from the pain was slowly subsiding and turning into calm. For [Night’s Eye] to have this ability as well was really a pleasant discovery…!
“You…you monster!!” The Gang leader cried out in anger. Other than fear in his eyes, there was also humiliation.
He has always been prideful and dominating. In this Demon City, even if he saw he wasn’t the number one but he was still able to stand atop most people, that even nobles and proud demon aristocrats wouldn’t dare touch him at all! His power and status were above that of normal demons—he was an elite! However, he has been easily defeated by the black-clothed masked man in front of him with much ease. This filled his heart with shock and disbelief.
“Well then Boss your majesty, let’s carry on. The power of a Gang leader from a top faction shouldn’t be only up to that extent right?”
Cian gave a frivolous taunt. However, the Gang leader will to fight had almost withered to nothingness. In fact, he was also hit by that strange invisible attack and felt his body and soul trembled violently, causing him to vomit out blood, one after another.
“YOU MONSTEEEERRR!!!” Dozens of blood weapons formed around him and immediately shot towards Cian.
“Heh! The same trick won’t work twice, you know!” Cian muttered as he punched and kicked incoming blood spears and lances. The moment they crashed on his knuckled and leg, they broke into pieces and crumble. During that time, the Gang Leader, with his three pairs of blood wings, had been flying behind Cian, waiting for an opportunity to land an attack.
“Don’t be so arrogant!”
“I will return those same words back to you!”
The Gang Leader held his great mace in a single-handed grip while swooping forward in a fast movement and Cian had chosen to launch a kick to counter by rotating his lower body to add to the centrifugal force. Though the Gang leader may have barely blocked the attack with the Mace, the force was still too strong to be negated and he was sent flying back some distance away—crashing back into the walls of the Bloodhole Gang’s base building.
That blow was so great that even with his timely block from a direct impact; it was still able to make him feel nauseous and off balanced. Without waiting anymore, Cian leaped forward and caught up to the Gang leader within a moment. "Gaah-!?" Without giving the Gang leader any more chance to counter-attack, Cian immediately flew towards him. He sent a barrage of fist at him in frenzy, wanting to end the battle immediately.
His eyes heated up as his left eye was burning intensely.