Demonic Pillows [C116]

Put in such a situation, the Nascent Soul expert was enraged, "To think that I, Jin Qiu, would be put in a crisis against a pillow!"

The pillow was as big as a house, yet it could move as fast as him, how was he supposed to fight it?

Raising his sword, he slashed toward the pillow once again; he didn't know how many times he already slashed, but he would not give up.

*Frr*

With the sound of something lacerating, the pillow suffered a cut, however, it regenerated as if it was nothing, needing less than a second.

Suddenly, the pillow moved. Rolling toward Jin Qiu, it attempted to overwhelm him whole, as if wanting to restrain his movements.

Jin Qiu seeing this move was not surprised and speedily jumped away, he clearly experienced this attack many times.

However, the pillow suddenly changed behavior.

*Pop!*

Exploding, the enormous pillow separated in over twenty parts, all rolling toward Jin Qiu.

Startled, he chanted a defensive magic.

"I order thee;

Create the greatest defense;

Earth Wall!"

Once the chant was completed, in front of him the earth quaked, and an extremely sturdy wall raised quickly from the ground.

Its toughness was most likely almost at the same level as the one created by Aura Azusa during the war, yet its size was way smaller, comprehending barely 20 meters of height and 20 of length.

As if uncaring of the wall, one pillow directly slammed onto it.

*BOOM*

The wall shook, however it didn't crumble. Seeing its resistance, Jin Qiu sighed in relief… at least until he saw the next scene.

The numerous pillows slammed onto the wall, however, the wall wasn't destroyed… it was pushed toward him instead!

"WHAT?" Jin Qiu was shocked, how was this possible? Only after a better look did he notice that while the wall was resisting, the ground below already vanished preventing the wall from holding onto it!

Jumping toward his right, he quickly evaded the incoming wall, but he then noticed that he was surrounded by pillows! Never would he have thought that pillows could be this scary, he believed to be fighting against demonic pillows instead!

Feeling to be inside a horror fight, Jin Qiu jumped high, while chanting, "Fireball!"

In front of him, a small red flame appeared, which slowly became bigger, until he threw it toward the pillows!

*Frruu*

Taking fire, the cushions began to burn, however merely an instant later, the flame quieted down as if it was scared of the pillows and vanished completely.

Suddenly, a pillow touched Jin Qiu's right foot.

Startled, he tried to kick it away, but he noticed that no matter how he kicked it, the pillow stood stuck at his foot, not separating at all.

As if it wasn't enough, suddenly more than twenty pillows touched multiple parts of his body, binding him completely.

Terrified, he knew that unless he broke the Illusion Realm, only death awaited him.

Focusing completely on breaking the Illusion Realm, he noticed some small particles everywhere that tried to stop him, however uncaring of their attacks he continued to break the Illusion Realm.

*Tck*

Shattering completely, the Illusion Realm finally unveiled, and he was free! He could not believe it, being sure of dying there, however now that he broke the Illusion Realm, Shu Himo should be suffering the backslash so it was the best moment to attack!

Rejoicing due to this, he turned around, only to notice something moving quickly, and stabbing through him.

"Wha...t?" Even while dying he could not believe it, how did Shu Himo manage to move immediately after the destruction of the Illusion Realm?

Shu Himo, looking at his lifeless body falling on the floor smirked, "You didn't manage to break the Illusion Realm, I was who broke it."

Looking at the status of the Scythe of Doom, Shu Himo had a smile on his face, 'Three out of ten... finally a new worthy kill!'

"So, what are you going to do?" This was the voice from the King, he didn't have anymore his authoritative tone, after being pressured by Aura Azusa just by her gaze to the point he couldn't move, he didn't have any confidence in himself.

Shu Himo was surprised, how he didn't know what was going to happen? "I'm obviously going to kill all of you and take control of the Remir Kingdom, you didn't expect this when you dared to attack my Shu Kingdom… did you?"

The King could not believe it, such a… weak Kingdom actually had a monster like this? Knowing that he would have no way to resolve this situation, he stared deeply at Shu Himo, "Can you please let my family live? They weren't involved at all in the decision of going to war, it was all my idea!"

"NOO!" Hearing him, his wife quickly hugged him, "Please let him live!" Pleading toward Shu Himo with watery eyes, she hoped that this nightmare would end quickly, and return to their happy days.

Ignoring her, Shu Himo stared at the King and fell in thought for a moment.

Suddenly, in front of the King's family, appeared a display.

[Contract: Cease Hostilities.]

[Due to the King's plead, you will be given a chance. Discard the life of the King and never try to do anything against the Shu Kingdom. Anything that can be counted as harmful to the Shu Kingdom will result in the failure of the Contract, comprised asking someone to kill anyone in the Shu Kingdom, or even to badmouth it.]

[Difficulty: C-]

[Contract Reward: You will not be killed by Shu Himo.]

[Contract Failure Penitence: Instant Death]

[Will you accept the contract? Y/N]

[Once accepted, you can read again the contract anytime by thinking 'Contract'.]

[Warning: Any attempt to reveal the existence of anything related to the contract will immediately kill you. No matter if the attempt is by talking, writing or something else, anything will be punished with instant death.]

While they were reading the contract, Shu Himo stared at them, waiting for their decision.