Volume One: The Nature of the Devil Does Not Change, and the Heart of the Dead Devil Regrets Nothing"
Ikalat spoke coldly and angrily as he looked at Lin Yuan:
Are you trying to cause trouble, you? -
And suddenly, Ikalat raised his hand toward Lin Yuan, and black chains erupted from the ground and bound Lin Yuan, while Lin Yuan shouted in a loud voice as he tried to break free from the chains:
Move away, idiot!! Behind you!-
Ikalat's instincts screamed for him to move—and indeed, he moved quickly and dodged the attack that was aimed at him: a gigantic dagger, as large as several houses, that completely destroyed the area in front of him. It was a black dagger with a silvery color, with chains attached to it, and suddenly it was pulled back again.
When the trio—Lin Yuan, Ikalat, and Scarlet King—turned around, they saw a massive blue space-time gate, as large as the entire village.
From the gate, about 11 enormous golems emerged. The smaller golems wore armor and carried weapons like daggers, swords, spears, and more. Each golem was 200 meters tall, and the largest among them had a stone crown on his head and was twice as big as the rest. He was unarmed, using only his fists, with a mocking smile on his face. He spoke coldly in a huge voice:
Ikalat, you bastard who fled from the Sect of Chaos Creatures. Hahaha. This is a hard-to-reach dream—stealing the sect's treasures and selling them to the enemies is a crime whose punishment is execution.-
Ikalat spoke coldly as he raised his hand, forming chains shaped like daggers. He threw them at one of the golems, pulled it with force, and hurled it into another golem:
I didn't steal anything. This is all just slander from that whore, the daughter of the eleventh sect leader.-
The leader spoke with intense anger when Ikalat insulted the sect leader's daughter:
How dare you insult the young lady!-
The leader moved toward Ikalat and was about to strike, but Scarlet King suddenly appeared at his side and landed a blow that shattered the left side of his face like broken glass, dropping the leader to the ground. Scarlet King moved again, shattered one golem's spear with his elbow, and threw another punch into the face of the spear-wielding golem.
But a sword-wielding golem moved and was about to strike Scarlet King—when chains appeared and restrained its movement, caused by Ikalat. Then a red beam pierced through the sword golem's head—this was from Lin Yuan. Scarlet King jumped with such force that he smashed the golem's body into fragments, then returned to his place beside Ikalat and Lin Yuan.
And with a swift movement, the leader appeared behind the three and struck them, sending the trio flying into the air. The leader moved and delivered a powerful blow toward Scarlet King, sending him flying and slamming him into the mountain with force, making him spit a lot of blood. Lin Yuan crashed into trees, and Ikalat ended up in the leader's hand. The leader spoke in a loud, mocking voice:
Thank the heavens—if not for the Law of Dimensional Power Lock and the narration of this story that binds me, this dimension would have been destroyed by that strike. I am currently not using even a single speck of my true power, as a servant of the Chaos Creatures.-
Scarlet King thought coldly to himself:
(Unfortunately, there were many benefits in taking the primitive stones inside the golems, but I failed.)
Lin Yuan was coughing violently due to his destructive fall, spitting a lot of blood onto the ground, thinking to himself:
( Damn it, what is happening? I was supposed to complete my mission, which is to find out why the villagers disappeared—but what is this now? )
While Ikalat was being crushed in the leader's hand, he thought with anger and frustration:
( Damn it… 500 years of running, and I was caught so easily. It seems I must accept defeat. )
Suddenly, Scarlet King leapt from the mountain and threw a punch at the leader with immense force, destroying the right side of his face and knocking him back, which allowed Ikalat to escape from the leader's hand. Scarlet King shouted at Lin Yuan and Ikalat:
Deal with the smaller golems, and I'll handle the leader myself!-
Lin Yuan appeared and fired a red beam at one of the golems, while Ikalat grabbed a golem smoothly and threw it into another golem, destroying them both. Meanwhile, Scarlet King began delivering thunderous strikes to the leader—he barely managed to block them—then the leader threw a punch at Scarlet with his fist that slammed Scarlet into the ground, but fortunately Scarlet King managed to block it with his hand.
Suddenly, the shadow appeared behind the leader and struck his head with a powerful blow that made him fall to the ground.
Scarlet King jumped with force and began to descend like a cannon shot toward the leader's head, which shattered when Scarlet King collided with it.
But the leader moved his arms powerfully and clapped Scarlet King between his palms—only for both of the leader's palms to be shattered in response. Here, Scarlet King shouted at the shadow:
Swallow him!!-
The shadow grew in size and dragged the leader into the sealed world of shadows. Scarlet King returned to see what had happened to Lin Yuan and Ikalat, and found that they had finished off the last golem and were moving toward him, smiling—except for Scarlet King, whose face was expressionless. No sound remained except the cold wind, until Lin Yuan spoke to break the silence:
I think we're an excellent team now.-
Ikalat answered as he sat on the ground from exhaustion, speaking while panting hard:
I must thank you… hah… without your help, I would've been dead today.-
Scarlet King replied coldly as the shadow returned again:
You're welcome. Now give me all the primitive stones in your dimensional ring.-
End of the chapter.