'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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