Chapter 586

"'Almost' without any warning?" Jianmen narrowed his eyes and pushed the meat cleaver a hair width deeper: "What warning signs did you see?"

"It's it's it's - it's a plea! Her plea!" Durkahn Kaksar immediately answered: "She once pleaded to me that she would like to offer anything else to have her option of leaving a legacy back. But I refused, and I enforced our covenant after this. I did not expect her to go to this kind of length to break it, if she would just stack more as offering - "

"I see. " Jianmen thought for a brief moment, then he scoffed: "Well, looks like you are going to get involved no matter what. For it's your deal that prompted this tear and rift in the world, and it's the breaking of your deal that introduced the breakage - believe or not, the first target of the Defilers that were just lining up and sharpening their swords behind that tear would be you."

"Defilers!? I don't believe you!" Durkahn Kaksar shivered for one slightest of moments, but then shouted at Jianmen: "It's not possible!"

"How long have you got your hands on this godhood of yours, huh? How much have you ventured into the depth of the knowledge of the world without indulging your false sense of grandeur and wisdom? How deep have you looked into the frailty of the world and the universe that formed the paradoxical nature of godhood itself?" Jianmen raised his voice while pointing at the Hellinger Castle base: "It's not a fruit for you to pick or a prize for you to win. It's a badge of your alliance with the Will and your responsibility to it. The breakage of order is literally right in front of you, yet you are so blind and impotent to not see it?"

Durkahn Kaksar went silent, for a period of time that was quite long for beings at its and Jianmen's level, during which he sent a small stream of his power of mind and will towards the underground area of the barely noticeable Hellinger Castle, where it finally sensed the presence of the black orb, and the orange and golden energy that trapped it in its place.

"It's not aiming at me - you are trying to trick me!" Durkahn Kaksar was not ready to accept what Jianmen just told it: "Why are you doing this? What do you want?! "

"Motherfucker - " Jianmen unleashed a finger strike at Durkahn Kaksar's neck, delivering enough pain but not to injure it too much: "Listen here you pathetic fuck - I am not you, nor am I someone with a godhood as distasteful as yours. This is bigger than you and me - and like I keep telling you, whether you like it or not, you are in this with the rest of the world. And I'm telling you, you are in it deeper than I am, so once again. Are you going to help me deal with this - you can be just another fallen god thanks to Defilers, or you can join the fight, what say you?"

"You, are, TRYING TO TRICK ME!" Durkahn Kaksar yelled once again: "Who are you to tell me - "

"Well, then apologies, find me and try to exact your vengeance on me when this is over. "While Durkahn Kaksar was still growling and whining in disbelief, Jianmen's meat cleaver dug deeper into its forehead, the energy infused on the meat cleaver gushed into its body and instantly isolated the core of energy, cutting it off from its "true self". The body of this cowardly god immediately started to crumble and turn into smaller particles and dust. Jianmen immediately cast another spell and conjured up an orange and golden energy shell to capture the rest of the body, then he started writing and writing in the air with both of his weapons.

The energy core and the brokeen body of Durkahn Kaksar, Lord of Night Terror and Sleeplessness, under the effects of the various spells Jianmen cast and the aura radiating from thee orange and golden verses of scripture written in the air, slowly shed their impurities and became extracted, filtered and condensed.

The whole process did not take very long for the other beings and entities residing inside and around Hellinger Castle - it was only a matter of a few minutes, no more than ten. Nor was it glamorous or flashy in any way - it was just like the squeezing of a lemon or an orange, the only difference is that the skin and pulp of lemons and oranges would not crumble and dissipate into the air. But for Jianmen, it had already cost him more power and time than he was willing to spend.

When Jianmen was done with what he was doing, all the energy collected from the avatar of Durkahn Kaksar was made into a dimly glowing coin radiating a cold blue light. Then he descended to the ground and caught up to the creature he was dealing with initially, the somehow sentient and living curse of the Hellinger Castle.

"I have lost quite a bit of patience, so I am going to ask this one time: " Jianmen pinned the head made of dark red liquid to the ground, quite a distance away from where he tossed it to before dealing with the god that intruded to this realm: "I am willing to make this deal really simple: you will be the first barrier against the creatures waiting behind this rift, I will track down the remaining members of the Hellinger family scattered out there. And I will, to the best of my abilities, make sure they will have their fair shot to leave legacy behind. Just tell me, do we have an agreement?"

"Yes." The head said: "But, I would want you to swear, and make a covenant on the level of the gods."

"Clever, you heard us." Jianmen nodded with a smile and raised his right hand with his index finger pointing up: "But rest assured, I wouldn't even offer you this covenant, if I want to stay away from what was about to come. May the Will be my witness - I promise you this, as Jianmen Yu, a cultivator."

Orange and golden lighting shot from the vast space and struck Jianmen's right index finger, a deal was made, sworn before the Will.

Without letting the head made of dark red liquid say anything else, Jianmen pressed the dark blue coin onto its forehead. Smoke arose as the head and all the "limbs" made of the same dark red liquid started trembling and shaking, while every part of its body slowly expanded and flattened as if they were being molded by an external force into some kind of architectural shape.