When Vahn's gave an order, the Plutonians began to clear the banquet hall in perfect order.
Just as Jin was about to organize the table, 5th Battle King Boras approached him.
"Haha, Brother Jin, stay still. Let's hang out together."
"Brother Boras."
"As you may have already felt, sister Vahn firmly believes that Brother Jin will overcome the first chaos. The faith of the great Plutonian tribe has never gone astray...… No, it got wrong a couple of times. Hmmmm."
"Oh, really."
"Anyway, don't worry too much. I will make a very nice Chaos Extraction Aid for you."
That's why Vahn said she needed some preparation before starting the chaos cleanse.
Boras, the greatest blacksmith in the history of the Plutonians and the 5th Battle King. It was because he had to make something to help Vahn.
"Chaos Extraction Aid?"
"It's a device to assist the sister battle god in extracting chaos from you more easily. It also increases stability."
"Is the sister battle god capable of extracting the chaos of others? Even if that is the first chaos?"
"Yes, she is."
Boras' eyes were filled with sadness. He was thinking of the brethren who were stained with the first chaos before perishing.
"Of course... Will there be any side effects? Like the brethren said earlier, like becoming a bug."
"That's right. We also expected the side effects when injecting sister battle God's blood. But the result was perfect. Brother Jin, you are a man who is good at tests and trials, so you will do well this time too."
Jin decided not to ask for more details.
In fact, it was because there was no choice. The moment Jin refused purification out of fear of side effects, the only future left for Jin was death or a more disastrous outcome.
'I need to find out more, so it only bothers me. If I am going to attempt purification anyway, I have to trust my brethren and follow them. And anyway, if the sister battle god has a way, when they can get out...… Other people will be able to be cured too.'
It is unknown when the Plutonian tribe can be taken out in the human world. In addition, there were serious side effects, so it might not be of much help to other infected people in the human world.
'I hope I can find a way to reduce the side effects through my chaos purification.'
The banquet hall was finished.
Except for Vahn and Boras, the rest of the Plutonians and Jin moved to the training ground.
They drank all night, but it didn't matter at all in the training ground.
"Let's decide who will compete first with Brother Jin, using rock-paper-scissors."
"Rock-paper-scissors, it is not fair!"
At the words of ordinary warriors including Shaku, Baltirok shook his head.
"Brethren, this time only the battle king brethren like me will check Brother Jin's skills."
"Are you going to do this in a disrespectful way, the battle king brethren?"
"Sister battle god told us to check Brother Jin's skills, not training through sparring with him. Therefore, this sparring is an inspection process for purification."
"Ugh, something is unfair."
"If it's unfair, the other brethren also fight. Kyahaha. If you check Brother Jin with the skills of ordinary warriors, only useless accidents can happen."
'Teto,' The 12th battle king said, sticking out his tongue as if making fun of ordinary warriors.
Seeing that, 2nd battle King 'Lumora' struck Teto in the back of the head.
Bam-!
There was a sound like a piece of metal cracked.
"How many times do I have to tell you to speak nicely, brother 12th battle king? Then you get hated by our brethren."
"Ugh! I just told the truth. And I have no brethren who hate me. Everyone knows that I just talk without thinking anything."
"Anyway, brethren. It's not that the brother 12th battle king was wrong. The ordinary warrior brethren will just watch, and the battle kings will take turns examining the skills of the brother Jin."
Lumora pushed Teto on the back.
"Starting with the brother 12th battle king. The rest of the battle king brethren gather here, let's play rock-paper-scissors."
"Kekeke, of course! Even if you beat me often, you think of me because you're the best."
Teto gently rotated his spear and moved his steps toward the center of the training ground. He was the one who used spearmanship among the Plutonian tribe.
During the first and second training sessions, Jin did not face Teto many times.
However, one thing was clear.
"I'll tell you in advance, I'm the weakest among the battle king brethren."
Jin lets out a laugh. It was the reason Lumora put Teto in the first place.
"I know, Brother Teto. I heard that you became a battle king with pull-ups."
"Even so, Brother Jin will not be able to come to his senses from my flashy spearmanship."
Shaak-!
As soon as he finished his words, Teto stretched out his spear.
The blow, which was clearly aimed at the neck, could have led to death or fatal wounds if Jin was not careful enough to avoid it.
Brethren never cripple or threaten each other's life. Teto's attack violated that principle, but none of his brothers pointed it out.
Everyone was convinced that there was no way Jin would fall for Teto's surprise attack. Even though it wasn't a regular warrior, it was a surprise attack by 'The Battle King'.
"Kyakyakya! As expected, you've become stronger, Brother Jin!"
"You'd better be more serious, Brother Teto."
Jin replied in a cold tone, but he seemed to be excited about the fact that he had finally been recognized.
The only person who can engage in sparring with the Battle king in this way is only the battle kings and the battle god.
'Even during the last training, the battle king brethren were just playing with me like children. It's completely different now...….'
Fuzz!
Sigmund's thunderbolt flashed. After the first battle started quickly and lightly, the entire training ground was stained with the lightning of the two before even five moves had passed.
Since the audience is the strongest fighting race in history, the shock wave was no problem.
The thunderbolts of battle kings and the ordinary warriors formed a thick protective shield over the entire training ground.
Of course, as long as it's not really violating the rules of sibling rivalry. The two cannot use their own skills such as their decisive killing moves and secret moves.
It would be possible if either side had more overwhelming skills, but the difference between Teto and Jin was not that much.
Therefore, the two had to fight using only the level of energy that would not kill each other.
Naturally, it was inevitable that it would be a battle of technique against technique, not power against power.
"I can't use my lightning bolts properly, so I'll lose if I'm squeamish."
"It's over if the brother Jin takes the distance once."
"It seems almost impossible to get that distance."
As he said, Jin couldn't close the distance with Teto. As the battle lengthened, the range of pressure from Teto's spear increased, and Jin's area narrowed.
'I expected that the difference would be less than this if we fought with pure weapon skills at a similar level of usable power.'
It wasn't.
The spear of Teto, who described himself as the weakest, was difficult to come to his senses as he first predicted.
"Kekeke, this time to the left! Actually right!"
The scars increased.
"Left, right, left! left! Strong, medium and weak! oh, good block. But you couldn't avoid the thighs, right? Oh, it's too bad. Brother Jin, you have a cut on your thigh and then on your right cheek!"
Teto's nasty expression and way of speaking made it seem like the heat was spreading.
It is not an illusion.
Jin actually felt like his anger was about to explode all of a sudden. And each time his anger deepened like a snowball, Jin's eyes were opened and body became lighter.
Cagan!
The sword and spear stuck close due the attraction of the Plutonian sword Oppression, which the two men simultaneously opened.
Teto deliberately used oppression together to further weaken Jin while keeping their weapons attached.
With the weapons tied this way, both would be forced to exchange punches with their free arm.
"Brother Jin is a little weak in hand-to-hand combat, right? So right after we became real brothers, you challenged the brother Shaku to hand-to-hand combat and ended up getting a lot of kicks. And I, of course, have bigger fists than brother Shaku!"
Puck, puck!
Teto pulled the spear stick and slammed his fist into Jin's chin. Jin also punched out for a counterattack, but there was a gap in Jin's and Teto's physical strength.
It was the part that the brothers found strange.
'Why doesn't he use Multa's runes? Brother Jin isn't a person who passes the victory so easily.'
'The unique demonic nature is not revealed. Doesn't it look like he was beaten almost aimlessly?'
Anger.
After the sparring with Teto started, demonicization suddenly began to progress. Jin was unable to focus on the battle because he was resisting that very thing.
To be precise, he wasn't paying attention at all. Jin had already lost his reason.
All of the battle kings except for Teto recognized this fact.
"It seems unreasonable to check Brother Jin's skills any longer. I'd like to stop it for now."
As Beliz was about to step out, Baltirok grabbed her by the shoulder.
"No, let's watch a little longer. Sister 7th battle king."
"The lightning bolts that form Brother Jin's oppression are rapidly fading, Brother 1st battle king. The 12th battle king brother is not aware of Brother Jin's condition, so he is careless. If Brother Jin lifts the oppression, Sigmund will stab Brother Teto in the chest."
"Still, I want to trust Brother Jin. Sister battle god must have foreseen this situation...…."
Baltirok, who had been talking until there, threw himself hastily.
It was the same with the other Battle kings. What Beliz feared happened.
In the end, Jin's oppression was released, and Sigmund was flying into Teto's chest with the lightning bolts that exceeded the law of brethren duel.
No matter how fast the battle kings were, the speed was unstoppable. In the first place, the distance between Jin and Teto was only one step.
"Hup!"
The reason Teto was unaware of Jin's condition unlike the other battle kings was because he was so focused.
Also, as his brother, he had faith in Jin. Teto only spoke meanly as he expressed himself, but he loved and trusted his brethren more than anyone else.
Teto was confident that no matter what happened during the sparring, Jin would never stab him.
"Ho, ho, Whoo...…!"
Fortunately.
The brethren rushed forward, confirming that Jin's sword stopped right before stabbing Teto in the chest.
Jin barely regained his senses and gasped for breath, and the battle king brethren who rushed in also sighed in relief and wiped their hearts.
Limp!
Jin, who reflexively threw away his sword, was sweating as if it were raining.
And while his brethren surrounded him and hugged him and gave words of comfort, Jin was thinking about one thing.
Teto's spear, which had been burdensome, was clearly visible the moment when demonicization began.
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'It was a similar feeling to when I dealt with Sir Ron, who fell into demonicization....'
Jin had a similar experience in the abyss of Glyek. At that time, Jin felt his powers growing as chaos and shadow force mixed together.
That power seemed to disappear after the fight with Ron, who had fallen into demonicization, but it remained as a stain in the form of encroachment and harassing Jin.
Jin's heart was thumping as if it was about to explode.
He couldn't hear the voices of his brethren surrounding him and Teto. Jin's head buzzed as if he were submerged in water, and in the meantime, the strangely sharpened senses formed an unwanted fighting spirit.
Jin just almost mortally wounded his brother, but he wants to keep fighting.
It was not easy for him to suppress that feeling, as if he had been on a strong drug. Jin might not have been able to stop his sword if the person in front of him was stranger rather than brother.
Since the end of the sword emperor battle, Jin has never fought an opponent strong enough to awaken his demonic nature. He didn't even warm up from the battle with Qwaul, so he just didn't go through the same condition now.
Good and evil, righteousness and apostle, light and darkness.
Such conflicting desires were causing wild ripples inside Jin.
Jin thought he had managed to keep it under control, but his demonic energy continued to wriggle like a ferocious snake.
'If I use this power, I can enter the transcendental state at once....'
As a martial artist, there can be no sweeter thing than that.
It just seemed that if he decided to 'do so' just once, his body would be filled with immeasurable power like the great sea.
It was to the point where he felt that someone had blessed him. It seemed that even the uncontrollable nature unique to demonicization would disappear if he fully accepted its power.
'Why should I reject it?'
When the stream of consciousness reached that point, Jin's demonicization was further amplified.
The brothers' voices were no longer heard as if they had been crushed. Even the figures of the brethren were seen as black shapes.
To the point where Jin regretted throwing away the sword.
The brethren, who began to appear as black figures, began to feel menacing. Jin felt like he had to protect himself from those evil spirits right now.
"Ahhh...!"
Jin screamed and shook off one of his brothers' outstretched hands. It was Beliz's hand.
Since Jin shook it with all his might, Beliz's hand would have been cut off or pulled out if it had not been for the Battle King of the Plutonian tribe. Beliz was unfazed and grabbed Jin again.
Beliz's physical strength is among the top ranks of battle kings. Even so, she had to do everything in her power to hold Jin's arm.
"Hold on to Brother Jin!"
The rest of the battle kings were also participating in the suppression. The reason why they were able to steadfastly subdue Jin despite being hit with fists and kicks with monstrous power was because they were the battle kings of the Plutonian.
"Brother, wake up!"
The suppression led to a very rough situation. It was a situation where they had no choice but to break his limbs and to hold him down so hard that his body was crushed.
Jin vomited blood and screamed, but recovered in an instant. He even went so far as to grow stronger with each recovery.
As the harsh suppression continued, some of the ordinary brethren seemed to close their eyes tightly as if they could not bear to see it. It was because it was difficult for them to bear having his brother's body broken by other brothers.
Jin had no choice but to stop himself. The suppression of the battle kings was limited. Because they don't know how long Jin's body will last.
"Brother Jin!"
"Cheuk, kuh...!"
Soon, Jin coughed up black blood and stopped the rampage. At the last moment when the demonicization was going to the extreme, the blood of Battle God was once again holding on to Jin.
Even after that, the battle kings could not loosen their hands holding Jin for a while. Everyone felt like they were carrying a bomb that was about to explode.
"Are you okay?"
Jin lay face down and looked up at his brethren's worried faces. At that time, the brethren let out a sigh of relief, but Jin felt that his heart was breaking at his apologetic heart.
"Brethren...."
"Kekeke, Brother Jin. Don't feel guilty!"
As the brethren chose their words, Teto was the first to shout.
"It is poison. What's inside, brother Jin? Mind? Anyway, things aren't very good right now, so if you're wrapped up in guilt, you're probably going to be weaker, right? Then, naturally, the will to push back the encroachment of chaos will weaken. So, we have to get rid of those feelings even for efficiency reasons."
"Oh, why is brother 12th battle king talking about something plausible? Will the brother 2nd battle King's hardships finally shine?"
"Brother Twelve battle King is right. You need to get some peace of mind, Brother Jin."
Jin made eye contact with his brethren for a few seconds before nodding his head.
Instead of guilt, he chose to be grateful. He almost killed his brother, and it was no different that he could have such a heart so easily even if it was a nuisance.
Brethren do not count silver.
It was because Jin was also a person who followed the order of the Plutonian. If the target he almost harmed was another companion, it would not have been easy for Jin to take it lightly.
"Huh, thank you. Brethren."
"Here, drink a glass of cold water."
"Okay, let's think plainly, plainly. If it were us, we would handle Brother Jin like this, what would have happened if it was the human world?"
"I don't know how many times my limbs were broken."
"Well, you were cut dozens of times when you first came. In a way, it's better than then."
Instead of becoming serious, Jin and the Plutonian led the atmosphere lightly. Then, Jin felt the remnants of the demonisation quickly sinking.
It's not the first time that a Plutonian is experiencing a case like Jin.They knew exactly that the mental part had the biggest impact on demonicization.
"Brother Jin."
"Yes, Brother 1st battle king."
"My brother, you are doing rehabilitation training right now, so to speak. Then he fell once, and he may fall again and again in the future."
Baltirok put a hand on Jin's shoulder.
"Every time the brother has to do something, just like now, just quickly brush up and get up. You shouldn't be concerned about why you fell or whether you hurt anyone by falling."
"And our job is to keep reaching out and lifting our brother up whenever he falls."
"It's amazing, Brother Teto keeps saying the right things...?"
Jin nodded. It was such a good thing to have warm and reliable brethren and a hometown.
"So... grab your sword again and take your stance."
It was just a few minutes ago that he almost stabbed Teto. The brethren seemed completely oblivious to that fact.
"You mean right now?"
"You shouldn't be afraid of going crazy again. Sister battle god must have foreseen this situation, and nonetheless told us to check your skills and condition."
"That means that the sister battle god believes in the brother Jin just like the other brethren, and it probably means that nothing will happen if you continue to run wild...…?"
"Maybe?"
It is true that Jin loves and trusts his brethren so much, but he was sometimes embarrassed by such insensitive behavior of the Plutonian.
"Brother Tantel! Brother, hurry up and ask sister battle god. Now that the situation is like this, can we continue?"
At Garmund's words, Tantel left the training ground. Tantel quickly returned and nodded his head.
"Go ahead!"
"So it is. Come to think of it, we made a little fuss. Sister battle god told us to do it."
"That's right. The sister battle god told us to do it, so everything will be fine, right?"
"Well, everyone is saying it as if they are not sure. Are you really okay?"
"Who was next? The one who won rock paper scissors earlier? Oh, it was me!"
"Brother Garmund, why are you lying? The brother 12th battle king was followed by brother 2nd battle king. Next came the brother Baltirock, and the rest... Damn, what was the order?"
"You can't even remember everything anyway, invalidate it and decide again with rock-paper-scissors."
"Are you not going to let us in? The battle King brethren."
"Oh, even after seeing the situation! The ordinary warrior brothers should keep watching until Brother Jin's chaos is purified. Instead, let's watch the audience a little closer. If the brother Jin goes wild again, we all have to quickly subdue him together."
There was no time to refuse. Jin held Sigmund again and continued to fight.
* * *
The sparring continued for four days after that.
During that period, Jin continued to fight with the battle kings except for sleeping (they even slept together at the training ground to prepare for a losing control rampage).
And he went through over 20 rampages.
When Jin fell into the most severe outrage, he rioted to the point of destroying the training ground in half, and when he fell the weakest, he ended up getting hit on the chin twice.
'I have no energy in my body....'
He had been fighting so intensely that even the chaos seemed to drain its energy. He was in a state where he didn't even have the strength to run wild.
Demonicization was not really over.
Just as Dante opened the door due to Glyek's temptation, there was always a door in Jin's heart that could be opened.
A door of temptation that convinces you that you can become comfortable and strong if you just open it.
The battle kings also showed signs of being a little tired. It wasn't just sparring, but whenever Jin ran out of control, they held onto Jin, so they had no choice but to be exhausted.
'If I haven't heard from Dante about the temptation of chaos... And if I hadn't suffered the tragedy of the Sword Emperor Castle. I might have opened that by now.'
Jin trembled and a grinding noise came from the teeth that collided. Jin stretched out his trembling hand and gripped the sword again.
"Who... is next?"
The battle kings coughed and avoided Jin's gaze. The battle kings, who had made such a fuss saying that they would fight first, were now subtly handing over their turn to each other. The ordinary warriors urged the battle kings to come forward one by one, as if they were chanting spells.
In the end just as Teto, the youngest battle king, was about to raise his battered body, a voice of salvation was heard from the other side of the training ground.
"The Chaos Extraction Aid is complete, brethren!"
It was the voice of 5th battle King Boras. What happened while making the replacement extraction aid, so that his whole body was also tanned.
The battle kings tried to honor Boras, hoping that they would finally be able to rest, but they corrected their posture when they saw the strong eyes of the battle god Vahn standing next to him.
And half said a word like this.
"Keep doing what you're doing, brethren."
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