Chapter 242: Half Time (4)

Seeing her monsters were no longer under her control, Cheol Su-ryun could not hider shock.

My father-in-law, Sima Chak, who had been cutting them down one after another, looked at me, wondering if the monsters were now under me.

-What happened? Why are they following you?

I replied to the curious Short Sword.

‘... her internal qi and heavenly authority has been absorbed inside me.’

-Heavenly authority?

I had also absorbed Blood Demon’s Will, his sword technique, and True Evil Sword’s Will and her technique into my body in the past.

The power of the flame and the Will maintained a strong desire to exist. That was why the Will held every memory.

-But that woman is still alive?

I didn’t know the reason either. She was definitely a living human being.

With one technique, she used her art to transfer her soul into mine to attempt to steal my body. However, her Will had been absorbed into mine instead.

‘Ah!’

At that moment, a lot of her knowledge entered my head. Looking at what I saw in my mind, I managed to grasp her technique through her memory despite never having learned sorcery.

-What is it?

I think I understand now.

-About what?

Unlike the Will, the soul belonged to the body. When a person died, the soul would return to the realm of spirits.

This was because the soul was a spiritual existence and belonged to a higher plane than this world. Yet, this woman was alive.

If the body was alive, the soul would still be anchored to it. According to the laws of nature, it would return to its original place.

-Why is it so complicated?

To put it simply, her soul entered my body and was absorbed into the Heavenly Authority, which controlled the flame. Her soul had been forcibly bound without being able to return to the spirit realm.

Clench!

Her claws were digging into my neck as she asked in confusion.

“What have you done? Why are my children obeying your orders?”

“... are you asking me this because you don’t know?”

“You are trying to play with me! Inside your body, the... the....”

She could no longer speak properly, and I could figure out why.

In that instant, I snatched away the wrist which was holding my neck.

“How dare you!”

She raised her hand to prevent me from doing anything, but, to my surprise, her hand was trembling.

“What?”

I was also shocked when I showed I had more strength than her. She seemed unaware of just how much internal qi my body had taken from her.

Papapal!

She grabbed my wrist and tried to break it as I was pushed back. Shockingly, I could see how her technique would work inside my head.

Taking advantage of the time I had, I reversed her hand technique and grabbed her wrist to throw her away.

Thud!

She frowned in pain as she landed on the ground but soon bounced back as she stood back up and took a stance.

“To think that your internal qi suddenly increased in such a short period of time.”

She mumbled in confusion as she struggled to understand what was happening.

“That is what I was saying. Or maybe you are just weak?”

“What?”

Only then did she check her internal qi.

As she checked her own dantian, she seemed puzzled at the large disappearance of qi.

“Just how is this....”

-Is she pretending to not know? Does she not know?

It seemed like she didn’t know. Her attempt to take over my body also seemed to have taken some of her memories.

Something must be wrong with her as her Will had been absorbed. Without being able to see within, she turned to me in disbelief and shouted.

“What did you do to me?”

“I didn’t do anything.”

“Nonsense! You didn’t do anything? Then why is my internal qi so...”

With that, she touched her forehead and frowned as if in pain.

“What is this? Why can I not remember... I...”

She looked visibly confused. The soul’s Will was part of the desire that a person held.

Judging from her reaction, it seemed that most of her Will’s memories were also lost.

“Why... why can I not remember? Why!”

She held her head.

Without missing this chance, Sima Chak stepped forward.

Swish!

His iron balls struck near both of Cheol Su-ryun’s ankles. She was forced to kneel as her bones cracked.

“Euk!”

She had definitely lost her internal qi; otherwise, she would not have been pushed back to this extent. She had easily avoided Sima Chak’s attacks before, so this only showed how weak she had become.

Sima Chak, confirming that she was now weak, said to me.

“You bought us a chance.”

“I was just lucky.”

“Du Gong had said that your vision was strange as he could not see your heavenly qi. However, it seems that you are gifted.”

‘Du Gong?’

I’ve heard that name somewhere... Ah!

-What is it?

Du Gong!

“No way. Those half-timed things?”

“You just believed in these things and tried that?”

Snap!

And I lightly snapped my fingers.

The seated monsters quickly surrounded the men. As they were following my orders, those brothers must feel this was an absurd situation.

She then shouted at them.

“Just go! They are not people you can deal with!”

“Mother!”

They were saying it to this strange child.

Imagine calling this young child as a mother.

I idly thought that a mother-and-child relationship was really one made of pure emotions.

“Cheol Um-yu. You have been assisting this woman for so long, right? So don’t you know where her real body is?”

Hearing this, his eyes trembled.

-What do you mean?

There was a coffin somewhere out there that contained her real body.

The fact that she had created so many followers and honed her skills meant that she was trying to preserve her body.

“... just how?”

The man was shocked when I said something that no one else should ever know. Who could even predict that I managed to steal her memories?

Even Cheol Su-ryun showed signs of anxiousness when she heard these words from my mouth.

“What the hell are you? How can you know that!”

I smiled at her and said,

“I know a lot more than you think. That the body you have now is the child you gave birth to.”

‘...!!’

Hearing this, her white eyes trembled. Even if I couldn’t see it, I knew she was going through extreme emotional turmoil.

I approached her and bent down to her eye level.

“Your body is no longer able to bear children, but you forcibly took over other women’s bodies and tried to give birth, so you wouldn’t get punished.”

Her eyes went blank.

She mumbled as if she couldn’t understand.

“Why... why did I just forget?”

Because I had her Will.

Losing her Will seemed to have caused her to lose many things. She looked confused as I told her.

“You don’t even know that there is no way you can survive if the body is burned. So speak.”

“You!”

This was her last secret.

Even if she was using this body as she pleased, she could do nothing if her real body was burned. I then continued speaking without turning my gaze away from her.

“Tell me where it is. I will break the seal placed on you.”

“What?”

Cheol Um-yu’s eyes trembled further at my words. All of these children had been sealed by her.

That was why they ended up following her even though they had been kidnapped. She then shouted.

“Children! Do not be fooled! None can take away Mother’s spell!”

She must have been afraid that they would give up her location.

“Mother is right. He is trying to sway us.”

“That’s right, hyung.”

Aside from Cheol Um-yu, the others were also trying to convince him to not be shaken. He regained his composure and considered the credibility of my words. I simply snapped my fingers.

Snap!

At that moment, one of the men in his 50s grabbed his head and screamed in pain.

“Kuaaaakkk!”

The veins on his forehead swelled, making it look as if it would burst. The rest of them were shocked.

“Cha Sang!”

“Kuaaaak!”

Cheol Um-yu shouted.

“Mother! Stop this! Cha Sang will die at this rate!”

In response, she simply shouted.

“Kkakakakaka!”

This had to be how she cast her spells. However, the man’s pain did not stop.

His veins burst, and his face was covered in blood.

“W-why is it not working?”

She could not hide her shock when her skills no longer worked.

“I guess it doesn’t make sense. Should we do it again?”

Snap.

This time, the man in his 30s who stood next to Cheol Um-yu grabbed his head.

The veins on his forehead also swelled.

“Jong Man!”

“KUAKKKKK!”

Seeing this, the rest of the brothers looked at me in shock.

“H-How can you learn the secrets of mother, Blood Demon?”

They couldn’t believe it.

It was because I was using the Revolting Mother’s skills.

I smiled and said,

“Because it belongs to me.”