章節 460: CHAPTER 619
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The two men, who had a shocking 22nd match, were unconscious for over a week.
During that time, battle god Vahn stopped the progress of matches. Originally, even if an 'accident' occurred, the Great Tournament of Battle kings always continued immediately, but this time was different.
This was because Jin was the only hope for the Plutonian tribe to get out of the dead world. His death means stopping the history of the Plutonian tribe again.
"Brother 5th battle king!"
"What happened, are our brethren alright!?"
"Brethren? Hey, brother 8th battle king! Didn't you see what Jin did to the brother 10th battle king after the match…!"
"Brother 10th battle king was the first one who treated brother Jin like an enemy. It's not that brother Jin also did a good job, but brother 10th battle king should not have to go that far in the first place."
"So stabbing the unwary brother in the chest and even exploding sword energy in it? This is not an accident, it is an intentional attempt of murder."
"Brethren, calm down! Listen to what Brother 5th battle king has to say!"
Boras had a haggard face from the intensive surgery that lasted over a week.
"... both of them are fine. They won't suffer any disabilities, and their lives are not in danger. But they need extreme rest, so don't meet them until I say it's okay."
The Plutonians nodded.
Boras, anticipating any unforeseen circumstances, had separated the two individuals' hospital rooms. The Plutonians took their places in front of the rooms of the individuals they supported.
Even before the 22nd match, the Plutonians were divided and engaged in daily skirmishes.
However, there were now overwhelmingly supporters of Kaio compared to before when the faction had been split in half.
It had to be. It's true that Kaio acted as if he couldn't acknowledge Jin at first, but he didn't cross the line.
Jin, on the other hand, clearly crossed those lines. Moreover, strictly speaking, Kaio followed the traditions and principles of the Great Tournament of the Battle Kings.
Until Jin's provocation, Kaio had not directly attacked Jin.
The battle kings in front of Jin's hospital room were Linpa, Beliz, and Garmund.
Since there were less than 10 ordinary warriors, including Shaku, it clearly showed how the majority of the Plutonians felt.
However, even among those gathered on Jin's side, there wasn't an unconditional stance of supporting him.
They also believed that Jin had committed a grave sin.
Still, it was only to point out that Jin isn't expelled from the position called 'brethren'. The rest of the brethren were mostly in the favor that Jin should be expelled, and not just expelled, but that strong punishment should accompany it.
"Darn it, how did it come to this...?"
Garmund said, touching his forehead.
He felt the greatest responsibility for this incident.
He believed that if he had fought properly, the situation would not have escalated to this extent.
"Stop blaming yourself... Brother Garmund. It's not…. your fault."
"Yes, let's think about how to solve this problem. Ha, is this the extent of our brethren's unity? This way, we're no different from the stupid other races we used to hate in the past."
Those who wanted to expel Jin, and those who didn't.
Actually, they didn't have a choice. The absolute decision-making power of the Plutonian tribe rests only with the battle god, Vahn.
Vahn only stopped the Great Tournament of Battle kings, but she still did not express her intention otherwise.
Not only that, but she completely isolated herself with Lingling from everyone.
"Sister battle god should say something at a time like this."
"This is the first time sister battle god has stayed quiet at a time like this. What on earth is she thinking?"
While the concerns and anger of the Plutonians grew, Jin and Kaio woke up only two more days later.
Upon awakening, Jin immediately expressed his thoughts to the brethren who ran to him after receiving permission from Boras.
"Unless sister battle god personally disciplines me, I will continue to participate in the Great Tournament of Battle kings as scheduled. If necessary, I will continue to adhere to the same methods as defeating Brother Kaio."
It was unexpected for the brethren who had been waiting.
They naturally expected Jin to reflect on his excessive actions and apologize to enraged Plutonians.
"Brother Jin, are you crazy!? Are you going to do that again?"
Jin quietly nodded in response to Beliz's furious voice.
"Yes. The Great Tournament of Battle kings is fundamentally not just a sparring match, but a fight, sister 7th battle king. And I will prove my will and qualifications in this fight."
"Is it okay to do such things just for victory? Do you really think trampling on the faith and affection of brethren and winning is truly fair competition!?"
"I can do even more than that. If you think it's unfair, the brethren who fight against me can do the same."
"... Unlike brother Jin, brother 10th battle king suffered injuries so severe that he can no longer continue the Great Tournament of Battle kings. Brother Jin, you exploded your sword energy in his chest! It will take at least a year for him to recover. He is currently at a point where he can't even eat alone! Can't you feel anything?"
"I also almost lost both my eyes to brother 10th battle king. In the end, my whole head was about to disappear."
"But that didn't happen. Why? It is because brother 10th battle king was not able to shoot you in the end."
"That's right. Whether they really couldn't finish me off, I don't know. Anyway, brother Kaio lost, and I will win in the next match. Can't kill me because we're brethren? From the start, participating in a battle where accidents and deaths are inevitable, adopting such a withdrawn mentality is the problem."
"What...?"
"And do you think the reason brother 10th battle king didn't shoot the arrow at me was because he really cared about me? It's probably because if it's not me, the hope for the brethren to go outside disappears."
Beliz raised her arm as if to slap Jin. Then, she lowered her trembling arm again.
"I hope the brethren treat me properly. If you truly accept me as a brother, you shouldn't have denied me being Sigmund's successor just because another possibility arose now."
"Not all of my brethren did that."
"But many did. Even sister battle god did not restrain the atmosphere. And what's the result? The brethren are already divided, and most of them support brother Kaio. In a way, it's not even a division. Now that the opportunity to deny my succession, which they haven't liked from the beginning, has come, it's closer to unity."
To Jin's malicious words, the brethren by his side all bit their lips. It's to the point where they wonder if it's the same Jin that they knew.
"... I guess we might have misunderstood Brother Jin."
"I have never truly felt included in the words 'our Plutonian tribe.' Now even you, in the end, will turn away and stand on the other side. After all, the arm will eventually bend inward."
When Beliz turned around and left the hospital room, the ordinary warrior followed. Linpa and Garmund stayed for a while and looked down at Jin.
"Brother Jin…. why are you….. doing this?"
"Brother Jin! You aren't like this. It started with my fault, but now you are definitely wrong! Brother 10th battle king might have been a bit rough, but do you really think the reason he couldn't shoot an arrow at you was because he wanted to go outside?"
"Please leave."
Jin closed his eyes, and the two stood in silence for a while.
"... Brother Jin….. just remember this. If you continue like this, all the brethren might truly... turn away."
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On the other hand, the atmosphere in Kaio's hospital room was a bit heavier.
Everyone was silently suppressing their anger. If the thunderbolts had exploded in a slightly more dangerous position, Kaio's illuminating heart would have been shattered and he would be almost crippled.
"He should be banished."
"You are right! Brother Jin, Ha. Now I don't even want to call him a brother, he has crossed the line. This is clearly an attempt of murder against a brother."
"If we banish him, we won't be able to leave forever, but we can't just sit still."
Kaio silently swallowed the porridge that Battle King Baba fed him.
"Sister battle god just gave the order!"
Mouka, who had just entered the hospital room, shouted.
"What did she say!?"
"She said the Great War of Battle Kings would continue as soon as Brother Jin fully recovers."
Sighs flowed from everywhere.
Of course, they knew she would punish Jin, but it was not easy for them to accept it since it was announced that she would proceed with the Great war of battle kings.
The fact that the Great Tournament of battle kings continued again meant that Kaio would be excluded.
Kaio is now in a state where he can no longer participate in the Great war of battle kings.
"... This made it clear. Sister battle god has no intention of directly disciplining Brother Jin."
However, the Plutonian tribesmen did not think it was Vahn's favoritism.
Rather, they considered it as giving them a 'choice'. About what to do with Jin. Or, they thought it was giving Jin one more chance.
To see how he behaves in the next match and how he treats his brethren.
"Sister battle god must have the same thought. Even if it means we can't get out, we can't just get over it."
"Yes. If she meant to never punish Jin, she would have given orders never to avenge."
"Brother Jin is not qualified to inherit the battle god. Not only was he lacking in strength, but he even tried to kill brother 10th battle king by using the fact that we couldn't go outside if brother Jin died."
"When it's my turn, I'll take the place of brother 10th battle king...…."
When several members of the Plutonian tribe revealed their intentions to kill, Baba put down the porridge.
"By the way, brother Jin didn't kill brother 10th battle king in the end. Everyone, let's calm down a little bit."
"Sister 9th battle king. You mean we need to think more?"
"When brother 8th battle king did something stupid, the reason why brother 10th battle king got so angry was because of sister 9th battle god. Don't tell me you don't know that."
9th battle king, Baba.
Until their destruction, most of the Plutonian tribesmen thought that the person who will succeed Vahn would eventually be Baba.
The battle kings, including Kaio, have been struggling to defeat her all their life. Baba was the final winner in the last Great War of battle kings before the destruction.
"Ha, I know. I know but do you really want to kill Brother Jin? It could be a mistake. Besides, in fact, even if everyone says so, you don't have the confidence to banish or kill brother Jin."
"Baba...."
Finally Kaio raised his head with a hoarse voice, and everyone looked at him.
Kaio opened his eyes and said.
"If…. if Jin makes another mistake. Then you end…. him yourself."
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章節 461: CHAPTER 620
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"Are you really going to keep doing this?"
"What made Brother Jin so angry?"
"Was it so upsetting when we said that a new test is necessary when you have already become the successor of sister battle god? Enough to stab your brethren! Brother Jin can understand this if he really thinks about the situation of other brethren."
"Besides, not all the brethren claimed that he must be tested again. Even brother 10th battle king only wanted a fair Great tournament of battle kings. It's not about taking away what brother Jin has."
"Say something!"
As Baba said, even though the members of the Plutonian tribe were so angry, they still didn't have the heart to kill or banish Jin.
In Kaio's hospital room, they talked about it as if they were about to throw Jin away, but what they wanted the most was a conversation with him.
The Plutonian tribe's law that brethren do not calculate favors among themselves was still applicable to Jin.
But Jin was making things worse and worse.
The Plutonians were ready to settle things if Jin made a sincere apology, but he only dismissed all the brethren, who visited him, coldly.
As time passed, the disappointment of the Plutonians deepened. Watching Jin being increasingly cold, selfish, and ruthless, they began to question if the person they knew truly existed.
"Everything he showed us so far has been fake. How can a person change so much in an instant? We were willing to give everything!"
"Would we have ignored it if he had honestly told us not to test his ability further since he has already inherited Sigmund? Not only brother 10th battle king, but all the brethren would have accepted that."
"He seems convinced that we are causing a fuss just to take away what is his. Was it so unbearable to give equal opportunities to other brethren? If it's not me, you can't even go outside, yet now you dare to verify my qualifications? He has that kind of attitude."
"He can never become a true Plutonian. In the end, he was just a human being, the race that was always greedy!"
Sadness turned into anger, and anger soon turned into a feeling close to hatred. The depth of the rift between them was a problem that nobody could have imagined happening in just a moment.
77 individuals, adding Jin makes 78, and including Lingling makes it 79.
The city, once filled with golden glory, always exuded a lively and shining atmosphere even with these few numbers when Jin arrived. However, now it was filled with a tense and uneasy atmosphere.
"Phew."
Jin spent his time in empty houses on the outskirts of Laprarosa, away from the hall of battle gods.
Even during the Great Tournament, if it wasn't his match, he didn't visit the main hall.
'I've felt it since the last time, but it's really something that I can't do.'
Jin didn't feel comfortable.
When he provoked Kaio, when he stabbed him maliciously, and even when he continued to provoke all his brethren now. Of course, his heart was bitter and pained, as if filled with acid.
But as the situation became more serious, he became more certain that he had to go through this process at least once.
'I shouldn't leave the feeling that my inheritance of Sigmund was a reward obtained too easily.'
Hierarchy.
Except for the battle god, all the members of the Plutonian tribe were equal. However, looking back, Jin had always been in an exceptional position.
Even though he was not a brethren, he mastered the Plutonian swordsmanship, and after becoming a brethren, he succeeded Sigmund right away.
That's why, even when lining up, Jin's position is next to Vahn, and in the opening match, he battled with all the Plutonians.
All this happened in just a few years they spent together.
They never fought a life-and-death fight with their back left to others, never defended a territory, never conquered, never slaughtered enemies, never joined a war where fate was at stake.
Jin has always been here to receive. However, as Tantel said, the Plutonians were also living beings, so they had very ordinary emotions.
Even after the Plutonian tribe accepted Jin as their brethren, even after Jin was ranked next to Vahn, they always regarded Jin as someone they had to 'take care of'.
They were trapped in a dead world and their time with Jin was very short, so they couldn't treat him completely equally. In other words, the Plutonians only saw Jin as a younger brother.
Jin, as a Plutonian brethren with a second-ranked status, believed that he should be a subject not to be cared for, but a target of struggle. Beyond equal treatment, beyond equality, he believed he should be a subject to transcend.
If he had shown a transcendent power like Vahn, if there had been a time when he could do that, there would have been no need for conflict like now.
It was the same even when the Plutonian tribe was still confined in Laprarosa.
There would have been no problem as long as he was treated as a beloved youngest brother without conflict.
But in order to fight with his brethren outside and eventually control them as a leader, a real fight was necessary. Not a play that resembled reality.
After this fight, it was crucial to confirm what would remain.
It's not that Jin isn't worried at all. There was no guarantee that the results obtained after the fight would be favorable.
'I have to clear my head. Until the Great Tournament of battle kings is over, I just need to focus on training.'
Meditation and retrospection.
After waking up, Jin continued to grow at all times except for the matches.
The injuries he obtained from the battle with Kaio stimulated the sensation of battle god fusion, and Jin's training took place on a higher level than what he had done before.
The optimal paths for stabbing and slashing, the unyielding composure maintained in any situation, the sense of avoiding death, and landscapes that seemed to be seen only by those who had transcended, and more...….
In other words, the world of martial arts that only transcendent beings can understand.
In his mind, the image of that world was constantly being drawn without rest. Jin absorbed all of it astonishingly quickly, of course it's thanks to the sense of Vahn that he experienced through fusion.
But that wasn't all.
'Sister battle god's senses are of a person who has been strong from the moment they were born. Just like my father.'
Jin's own domain was being added to that sensation.
Jin Runcandel's unique domain, which he obtained through the abyss of the bottom and long despair, as well as through one death, further enriched the transcendent world.
As a result,
In the 31st match, which took place three days later, Jin defeated Nata, the 11th battle king, head-on.
Nata was very spiteful, and a fierce battle ensued, but in the end, Jin emerged as the winner.
'Did he not use all his strength when fighting the 10th battle king?'
'No, he is getting stronger. In that short time.'
'Huh, Jin must have known exactly how fast he was growing. That's why he crossed the line and became so arrogant. He doesn't think that all of it was due to the privileges obtained through battle god fusion.'
In the ensuing battle against Beliz, the 38th match, he was defeated. However, Beliz was threatened to death with right arm cut off, and Jin did not stop there, as he had warned her before.
"This...!"
Even after the victory or defeat had been decided, he thrust the sword towards her neck once more as he did with Kaio.
The Plutonian tribesmen were paying more attention to Jin than before, so fortunately, the sword did not cut Beliz's throat or there was no unfortunate incident in which Beliz fought back and killed Jin. The Plutonians shot lightning bolts and separated the two.
Jin's limbs were twisted in the process, but Beliz was unharmed. Now, even the Plutonians had no qualms about suppressing Jin aggressively.
The anger towards Jin intensified even more.
"Crazy bastard...… You really want to kill your brethren again."
"Sister 7th battle king defended you until this very morning. Now, Sister 7th battle king must have changed her mind."
Again, after Jin's recovery was over, he defeated Garmund in the 46th match, and in the 50th and 54th match, he was defeated by Baltirok and Lumora, respectively.
Every time he was defeated, he rushed forward like a demon until the end, only to be subdued. But now, no one was surprised by that sight.
Jin's body was gradually deteriorating.
Even with Runcandel's blessed body, he couldn't continue to withstand the battles against the other battle kings, which he repeated after recovering.
The other Plutonians were also accumulating injuries, but they were fighting a completely different battle than Jin.
The other Plutonians' battles were not full of bloodlust and hatred that was found in Jin's battles.
Those dark energies were consuming Jin like a parasite.
"I... cannot...… fight."
In the 60th match, Linpa, who faced Jin, said that as soon as the battle began.
She couldn't bring herself to fight a beaten-up Jin. The other Plutonians respected her decision.
Linpa was the one who stopped her brethren from challenging the gods until the very end, and she was the one who stopped talking with a sense of guilt for her failure.
'Anyway, the next battle is with sister 9th battle king.'
'No matter how fast he gets stronger, he can never win against sister 9th battle king. He's already been defeated by the other battle kings...….'
'In the end, sister Baba will put an end to it. Sister Baba, who has endured Jin's rampage until now, is now trembling.'
Baba, like Beliz, was also a person who did not give up on Jin until the end.
Even now, she was ready to forgive Jin if he held out his hand.
She hoped that Jin would not go deeper into the darkness and to a place of no return.
"You won't fight me?"
In response to Jin's icy voice, Linpa nodded and turned away.
"Yes...."
"I am warning you, Linpa. If you take one more step there, I will cut you down right where you stand. Do not avoid the fight."
Linpa continued to move forward, unfazed, and Jin...
Swung the Shadow Sword towards her back.
The cut was shallow because Linpa reacted, but there was a long scar left behind.
Red blood spurted out. The bloodstain, which seemed as if the red lines had been cut off, seemed to symbolize the end of the relationship between the Plutonian tribe and Jin.
"S-Sister 4th battle king!"
"That crazy bastard...!"
Vahn raised her hand to stop Plutonians, who were about to rush.
"He hasn't broken the rules yet. If Brother Jin kills sister 4th battle king, I will personally handle it. Will you continue, sister 4th battle king?"
"... I quit."
Tension hung in the air. Jin looked down at the fallen Linpa. When Vahn declared the end of the battle, he turned away indifferently.
And in the moment when Jin was about to leave the hall, Baba suddenly moved towards the center of the hall and spoke.
"Sister battle god."
"Speak, sister 9th battle king."
"Sister battle god, just now, you referred to Jin as a brother, but we can no longer consider him as such."
"What do you want to say?"
Baba glared at Jin's retreating figure and spoke.
"Therefore, may I kill Jin Runcandel in the next battle?"
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