Chapter 118 : Asura cry!
The abyss demon entered the body of the death warrior easily, without a prior warning.
Like an inflated balloon which had reached its limit. The death warrior who got invaded by the abyss demon swollen up all of a sudden.
Boom!
In seconds, the strong body of the cultivator blown to pieces after being inflated.
The abyss demon which entered into his body was flying, right at the centre of this blast, while bring in the energies into its body.
A faint red corona was illuminated on the black body of the abyss demon, which disappeared shortly.
Thick viscous fluid in black and red, got spilled to the surroundings.
Which then contacted dozens warriors around the site of burst.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Few silhouettes in black robes started rushing towards mark.
The infected death warriors along with those that weren't had started dashing towards him at high speed.
In seconds, these approaching infectees started to inflate like crazy, and seemed bursting any moment from now.
" Fuck! They'll die at this rate! "
Looking at the six baggages behind him, who were staring at the swollen body of the death warriors in fright.
Mark was left with no other choice but to employ his force and push their bodies to a corner.
Bang!
With a single swing from his hand, mark smashed the six behind him and pushed them to the direction, away from incoming death warriors.
If it was for him alone, he didn't necessarily had a fear in facing these death warriors.
But things might be complicated if the six behind him were to be dragged in his mess.
So mark didn't necessarily had a choice that moment, and had to employ his force in pushing them to a side, even if they were to suffer injuries in this process.
Now that the death warriors are before him, and he didn't necessarily have a fear of the six getting involved.
Mark gave a smirk in excitement, as he could now fight these death warriors violently, without enough trouble of protecting the six at same time.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Gritting his teeth mark had to sacrifice hundred of his intelligence, for activating the way of strength again.
Unlike cultivators, mark didn't necessarily have a need to sit in cave, meditate and transcend his limits.
As long as he kills or defeats them, he gets experience.
And as long as he gets enough experience, he could become an expert overnight, trampling over his offenders easily.
Comming back to the present, with the small build of Mark, moving through the gaps of these warriors was not much difficult for him.
As and when he displace to a side, Mark swung his blades to their legs, crippled them fast by slicing their tendons, to stop their movements.
For those who were infected, Mark had to drain their mana by darkness extract and tear their tendons the same way, to prevented the explosion from occurring beforehand.
Without enough mana, the infected persons doesn't generate enough force for bursting.
This is also a reason why, the abyss demon never bothered with the commoners, as they didn't amount to much.
Even if millions of commoners were to be infected only some handful with good body constitution will fall prey to its curse.
So as long as the person was a born waste. He wouldn't necessarily be affected by its curse to begin with, as he didn't had the mana which created the inner turbulence.
In either way mark wasn't killing his enemies, nor saving them either.
To reduce the complications of the battle, he had to reduce the death toll, as little as possible.
Because the abyss demon before him could devour the blood essence of the cultivators after their death.
The level 90 abyss demon was already difficult for him to deal with, let alone level 95 which would seem impossible, considering his current fire powers.
So mark had to prevent that outcome from occurance, as he couldn't bear that consequences there after.
Roar!
The abyss demon roared out in mid air.
It had finished assimilating the blood essence of the death warrior it killed earlier, and opened its little monochromous black eyes.
Roar!
It spotted the little figure of mark, who was preventing it's plan from ripening out.
Under anger it shouted out yet an another ear piercing roar before rushing towards him at high speed.
Whoosh!
The little figure of abyss demon started a killing spree on it's way to mark.
Since it couldn't count on normal measures, the abyss demon started killing the death warriors, to directly accumulate the blood essence from their bodies.
" Asura cry! " Since the time this skill had been unlocked, it had been rusting in his blade, unused.
Mark had never bothered using it before, as he was not sure about it's characteristics.
But since it had a prefix of asura, he was sure that it wouldn't just be some random mediocre skill.
While the abyss demon was absorbing the blood essence from surroundings, it couldn't exert much of its strength and was ideal to mark for slaying it.
Some may start question the fact that, couldn't this abyss demon stop absorbing the blood essence for a moment, and finish off mark before its absorbing process?
The answer for this question would be that It couldn't!
Once it starts absorbing the blood essence of a person, it could not stop the process.
As it would cause more harm to the demon than good, and severely impair it's fighting capacity or even down grade it's realm from suffering backlash.
Whoosh!
Mark's body sparkles with threads of lightning, which completely engulfed him in a mystic aura of white.
A silhouette of battling asura was projected over Mark, which shortly disappeared with the white aura that encapsuled him earlier.
As if his whole body had undergone some rapid transformation, his brows turned silvery white.
Not just his brows but the whole of his hair started turning pale, which slowly deepened it's colour, matching his brows.
His skin turned darker than normal, with occasional tattoos in red, that made him look inhumane.
The black pupils of him turned white, while a pair of vertical lines in the same colour, started flowing from his lower eye lid to the bottom of his neck, which was distinctly making him look different.
" Wait! Why do I feel myself getting taller? "
Mark questioned himself only to spot that his muscles had tightened and become compacted, while his bone frame had expanded a little than before.
" Haha! I feel myself getting stronger! " Mark exclaimed internally, with an excited face.
Boom!
By this time the abyss demon was standing before him and tried entering his body.
But the body of him seemed more than what it's capable of!
Not only had it managed to fend off this invasion, it had clearly damaged the demon to a certain extent, where it had to lie over the floor in cries of agony.
Roar!
Under pain the abyss demon fell to the floor, the hand which contacted mark skin started burning in flames of white, which was about to spread to the main body.
Slice!
The abyss demon though was in its infancy, it's intelligence was clearly rivaling a matured person, some times even better than them to begin with.
So it clearly decided to slice off it's arm, to protect its main body.
The hand which fell to the floor shook violently like a headless chicken, as if it had a life of its own.
Roar!
The abyss demon roared out before regenerating the lost arm, as if it amount to nothing.
Whoosh!
Generating a blood red glow over it's body, that looked more of some cursed rusted metal, it formed a red aura cloak over it's body.
The abyss demon decided to form a protective covering over it's body, before pouncing back towards mark with a killing intent.
Boom!
In this clash, the abyss demon was able to get the upper hand.
It managed to push mark by few feet, but the skin of him which contacted it's arm was left only with a tiny bleeding scratch, not affecting his body by much.
Roar!
The abyss demon gave out an ear piercing roar and moved towards mark at high speed, leaving two tails of red rusted metallic shadow from it's claw like palms.
Whoosh!
Mark who had activated the skill, asura cry, wanted to know more about it!
So he took his pair of cherished blades and pounced towards the little demon before him, leaving behind tails of white light from his shining blades.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Arcs of white and red shadows got intermeshed, leaving a dense amount of shock waves around.
These waves had sended the approaching death warriors, flying away from their fight, even the blood which spilled after inflating had been blown away by it.
" What a terrifying character is he? "
" Milton's, he's sure a promising youth from Milton's! Good thing that we have acquainted with him. "
" Haha! We struck rich! How about we become his followers? " looking at his friends the figure in brown uniform exclaimed out.
" Keep dreaming! The person of his calibre would definitely have thousands of followers that are many times stronger than our palace leader itself.
If not for his women that were bullied, or the courage of Rover that impressed him, would he bat an eye towards us? "
A friend of him, who was seated next to him on the cracked up floor answered back.
" If others were to misunderstand us for being his followers, those characters of vice generals or even generals themselves have to behave humbly before us, not dare at making things hard for us in the palace right? " He questioned back
" Our lives are such, we were born to serve this damn place and die in these damn grounds to begin with.
Unless a miracle occurs, we cannot escape from this place and live out our lives freely, on outside? " Rover that was lying over the floor exclaimed back.
In the attempt to save him, Mark exerted his force to push them back, but unfortunately it worsened his condition and he seemed like he was about to die any moments from now.
His only regret was to be born in this palace, he wanted to soar freely, outside the western warlords palace, and live a life of an adventurer with excitement in his journeys or mysteries unfolding before his eyes.
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At Aaron's mansion.
Cilinda took the wrapped body of Rudia to her quarters.
" Stop struggling, it's futile! " The blond hair Cilinda exclaimed out.
Though Rudia struggle vigorously, she wasn't able to escape from Cilinda who has a cultivation base higher than her.
Few minutes later.
The sedatives started to kick high, and rudia wasn't able to further her resistance.
Her temperature started to rise a bit, with her skin which developed a hue of red, as if her blood was boiling this moment.
Her breaths became irregular and heavy.
Rudia was involuntary releasing hot breaths of air, which made Cilinda feel awkward.
" You can have my body, but not my soul! " Muttering it to her ears she fell half asleep.
" Fuck!
You can have my body, but not my soul?
I am not interested in women's body damn it! " Cilinda exclaimed internally, and she was a bit angry with her.
But judging from the vapours she released, Cilinda could sense some traces of sedatives in it.
" All men are bastards! It's the same trick damn in! "
Cilinda cursed senyou, who used the same method her father employed, to trick her into pleasuring a guest.
Though Rudia didn't clearly know what happened later on.
She knew one thing for sure that the women named Cilinda was not a bad women to begin with, at least for now.
After taking a hot tub bath, she was given a change of clothes, and was currently lying over a comfortable bed warmed with a cozy blanket.
Creak!
The wooden door opened slowly and a beautiful blond haired women entered the room.
Right now the time was night and the interiors of the room are illuminated with a floating ball like fluffy figures in yellow, and few portraits of royally dressed nobels were hung on the walls.
Sitting on the soft bed, Cilinda glared at the doubt full face of Rudia.
" Haha! Young maid, I am interested to know your past! " Cilinda exclaimed out laughingly with a clear face.
Unlike her nobel status, she was sitting cross legged over the soft bed, wanted to know the past of Rudia eagerly.
When the word "past" came out her mouth, Rudia's body jolted all of a sudden, and she hid the frightened face of her beneath the cozy blanket.
Her body started to shiver, and beads of sweat ran down her pretty face.
Cilinda wanted to know the forbidden past, which Rudia tried forgetting.
Several unfortunate incidents which occurred in her life relapsed all of a sudden.
The death of her family, the death of her friends, the betrayal of her lover, and even the present where she was about to be turned into a slave for senyou got relapsed.
" You nobles could not understand the pain we commoners had to suffer, because of your stupid atrocity. "
Rudia finally opened her mouth only to shout at Cilinda,
" We are just disposable tools under your palms! Framing us, plundering us, murdering us, slaving us and even using us for your personal pleasures! "
" What more do you want me to say, when you already know the answers beforehand? " Rudia asked her angrily.
The time she was abducted, Rudia thought that she would never have a better end.
She was mentally prepared to meet her doom and not willing to die like a maid!
She gritted her teeth and answered Cilinda right at her face, as if she doesn't care her own life any more.
But contrary to the bold words that came out her mouth, the frightened face of her's tells an another picture.
She was emotionally depressed, any more and she may start crying the next second.
Looking at the frightened face of Rudia, Cilinda became worried.
She wanted to simply have a proper conversation with a lady, who made her Cilinda, remember of her hard past.
" Sigh! Seems like I should better take the initiative! " Cilinda exclaimed it internally.
Cilinda gave a small laughter, and exclaimed " Do you think that only commoners had to suffer, and we nobles are living in the life filled with blissfulness? "
" Well, young maid... " before she could finish her words a voice interrupted her, which said " Rudia... Rudia is my name! "
Glaring angrily at Cilinda with teary eyes, she bellowed back.
" Ok then... Rudia! How about I say my past then you could say back yours? "
Cilinda exclaimed with a simple smile on her face.
Pulling the blond hair behind her ears, with an excited face Cilinda continued stating
" Of course we'll keep these matters a secret between us! "
" A secret between us women! "
Though Cilinda was cheering on outside, she some how felt hurt on the inside, when she wanted to say her hidden past.
She wasn't sure how she stumbled on this topics of pasts!
When she saw Rudia, she involuntarily wanted wanted to share the past memories with her, and reduce the burden weighted within her heart.
Being in the bounds of her mansion, no ordinary people picked the interest of her.
They would either speak too humbly in fear or fall down unconscious in fright, thinking of offending a person of her high status.
But looking at Rudia, who paid no heeds to hierarchy and roared back angrily, she felt that it wouldn't be bad to share the past memories with her.
After a brief moment of pause, Cilinda opened her pinky lips and started spelling out her words.
Though she was a bit hesitant at the beginning, her words flowed like water after her initial hesitation went off.
" Well... I wasn't... originally from this... place to begin with. And I wasn't meant to be in the position I am standing today! " Taking a deep breath she then continued stating.
" My origin is from a rich Nobel family, named Heidi! You should have probably heard about them right? "
Looking at the face of Rudia which was unchanged, she got her answer that Rudia was unfamiliar with that name.
" Ok let me be frank, though my father is the current head of the second class noble family named Heidi, it wasn't the same for my mother.
My mother is from a humble background, who barely managed to become fathers maid by luck, when she was young! "
Unlike the demeanour of a Nobel lady, she chuckled a little before catching the pretty face of Rudia tightly, at close, and exclaimed
" We nobles have to deal with struggles since young.
Fight amongst our siblings, face enemies while the own family might instigate a civil war or even betray us!
Just like how you said we treat commoners, the high dukes and emperors family treat us lower nobles as trash, not even worth their attention.
Even if these huge powerhouses were to commit atrocities, we lower nobles have to bend out head and accept their wrongdoings, for us to be born as such! "
Making a serious face she continued stating " The term nobel lost's its meaning, in fact it would be better to call it a bastard!
As families never dare avenging us out of filial love!
Even if their very grand son were to be killed brutally in agony, they wouldn't cry a tear for him, so as to not offend the powerhouse that killed him. "
Rolling down a small bead of tear from her right eye, she said depressingly
" If the old bastards didn't find profit in avenging their people, or felt threatened of loosing their family name, they wouldn't move out their place.
They wouldn't even bother spatting a glance at the cold corpse of their very kin, as if it'll stain their eyes, or bury with ancestral tombs... too detestable! "
" The thing called filial is lost even before we took birth.
So considering the difficulties we face, some times we nobles think... Wouldn't it better being a commoner than some pitiable lesser nobel that had to face these harsh circumstances? "
With a troubled face, Cilinda stood motionless for a moment, before releasing her breath and exclaimed.
" Che! I'm not feeling well today, how about we continue this conversation tomorrow? " She got down the soft bed and started moving towards the exit.
While Cilinda was moving out, she was able to hear a voice which startled her.
After hearing those heavy words Rudia felt some how interested.
After knowing the fact that the mother of lady Cilinda used to be a humble maid, she wanted to know further. What happened to Cilinda for her to cry out those words earlier.
" I want to know more? Didn't we had a promise to share our pasts? "
Authors notes:
Abyss demon weakness : can't fight to its level best when it's absorbing blood essence.
Cilinda's back ground :
Father = current head of Heidi family, a second class Nobel family, more like Marquis in European system.
Mother = A former maid of her father.
Another note:
My exams have already been started and this little author had been finding time in writing chapters earlier.
But now I am writing this another note because to inform readers that, I am taking a small break from writing and would not be able to write chapters till Feb 16.
Yes a whole one week because my core exams are starting from Monday and I wouldn't want to take chances.
When my exams are over, I'll promise to write 4k words per chapter or more to compensate it.
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