Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1925

“What’s the Hong King faction saying?”

“They say they still haven’t located them.”

“Still?”

“…I apologize.”

Sun Chaoyang sighed deeply.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand.

Finding the elusive Black King faction in this vast China was like finding a needle in a desert. At least a needle doesn’t move from its spot, but those guys run away as soon as someone approaches. How could they possibly find them?

He wasn’t an expert in martial arts, but he knew that someone with lower martial arts skills would have difficulty sensing someone with higher skills. So, no matter how hard they tried, it would be impossible to detect their presence.

“What about our side?”

“…I’m sorry.”

The person sitting at the desk slightly lowered their head.

“We are tracking them based on the CCTV footage we have secured, but it’s proving impossible to find them…”

“I wouldn’t even mention it if they were only going to secluded places.”

Sun Chaoyang’s face flushed with anger.

“But they are entering the cities openly! Their behavior is different from any martial artists we’ve seen before! And yet, you can’t even find their trail!”

“…I have nothing to say.”

The secretary bowed deeply.

China is one of the countries with the most CCTV cameras in the world. Especially in urban areas, crime surveillance through CCTV is most active. If even China couldn’t track them, it meant that they couldn’t be found anywhere in the world.

“What about the satellites? Did we launch them just to use them for hot pot?”

“We tried tracking them, but…”

“I have no words.”

Sun Chaoyang chuckled and leaned back in his chair.

“They are practically human weapons, ignoring all laws and regulations, walking around in broad daylight, and we can’t even attempt to restrain or subdue them, or even find out where they are? Even with all the resources of the People’s Republic of China?”

“At this rate, it means they could just walk in here and kill me, and no one would even know.”

Sun Chaoyang chuckled.

It was a joke, but after saying it, he realized it was no laughing matter.

The biggest reason why the martial world and the government had been able to coexist was that they hadn’t crossed the lines they had set for each other.

When the government was first established, China didn’t have the resources to deal with them. In the meantime, the martial world itself had been careful not to reveal themselves, tracking down and killing those who caused trouble, thoroughly separating the two worlds.

Since the existence of the martial world had the advantage of eliminating extreme criminals in advance, they were left alone, and eventually, it reached a point where trying to remove them would cause too much damage.

So, while they were watching the situation, that damned Black King faction started acting crazy.

If this continued, coexistence would become impossible. The only thing left was to eliminate them with all their power, no matter what it took.

But….

“What the hell are we supposed to do?” Sun Chaoyang took out a cigarette.

He tried to refrain from smoking during meetings, but now he had no choice.

“It’s not hard to catch a mosquito in a room. You just turn on the light and look for it. It might hide in a corner once or twice, but eventually, it will be caught.”

“The damage we’ve suffered is no different from being bitten by a mosquito. What’s the big deal about a building collapsing? A few people dying is not a big deal if you look at it coldly. But…”

Click.

Sun Chaoyang lit his cigarette and chewed on the filter.

“This isn’t a room.”

“There’s no way to catch a mosquito outside the room. Damn it, a mosquito that’s nothing in a room becomes something impossible for a human to catch outside. And if that mosquito carries malaria, all you can do is beg it not to bite you. Damn it!”

Crunch.

The filter tore, and Sun Chaoyang angrily threw the cigarette into the ashtray. Then, he took out a new cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit it.

“Contact the Hong King faction! Let’s find a way to cooperate. Tell them to send someone from the working level over here!”

“Will they listen?”

“They’ll have to! They’re not mosquitoes!”

The Black King faction was beyond the government’s control. But the Hong King faction was different.

Until now, they had been trying to avoid conflict with the Hong King faction for their own safety and well-being, but if the situation became so twisted that their position was threatened, there was no reason to tolerate their atrocities.

“If all this happened because of their incompetence, they should at least come and bow their heads!”

Sun Chaoyang was about to grab the cigarette that had just burned out when—

Bang!

The door was violently opened, and Sun Chaoyang’s eyes narrowed.

“Who told you to come in during a meeting?”

“S-Secretary! I-I have something to report.”

Sun Chaoyang closed his mouth when he saw the pale face of the person who had rushed in. Even a fool would realize that something serious had happened by looking at that face.

And of course, Sun Chaoyang was not a fool.

“What is it?”

“J-Just now, we received word that the Minister of National Defense has been assassinated…”

Thud!

Sun Chaoyang jumped up, and his chair fell backward, hitting the floor. But Sun Chaoyang couldn’t care less about the chair.

“…What did you just say?”

“The Minister of National Defense…”

“Was assassinated?”

For a moment, Sun Chaoyang was stunned, but he quickly regained his composure.

“Who did it? No, how?”

“I don’t know! We just received the news, and we haven’t received any related videos or information yet. However…”

“Speak quickly!”

“W-Well, I heard that he was beheaded on the street…”

Sun Chaoyang grabbed the edge of the desk.

‘Those crazy bastards finally did it.’

If the target had been an ordinary person, a political rival, a criminal seeking money, or someone who had a grudge against the Minister of National Defense, an assassination might have been possible.

There is no such thing as perfect security.

But those people would try to kill someone with a gun or a knife, not by beheading them on the street in broad daylight.

No, even if they had the intention, there would be no way to carry it out.

This was clearly the work of a martial artist.

“Black King faction, those… those crazy bastards.”

Sun Chaoyang’s vision blurred.

He was the one who thought they had to respond to this absurd situation.

But those crazy bastards were making the situation worse even faster.

From the moment they openly assassinated a high-ranking government official, the Chinese government and the Black King faction could no longer coexist under the same sky.

“How the hell are they going to clean up this mess, those crazy bastards!”

“That’s not something you need to worry about.”

“What?”

Sun Chaoyang quickly turned his head left and right.

His sharp mind instantly recognized the identity of the voice. But this place was absolutely impossible for anyone to enter. And the only people around him were those he knew.

Then where did this voice come from?

At that very moment.

Thud!

With a sound like hitting a large ball, the glass behind Sun Chaoyang shook violently.

Crack!

At the same time, a spiderweb-like crack spread across the glass.

“Th-That…”

Those who saw the scene opened their mouths in disbelief.

The glass in this building was not ordinary glass. It was specially made, 20-centimeter-thick bulletproof glass. No sniper rifle in existence could penetrate this glass.

But now, they could clearly see a finger-sized hole in the middle of the glass.

“Th-That…”

The gazes of those who were looking at the spiderweb-like cracked glass and the hole in the middle naturally turned to Sun Chaoyang, who was standing in front of it.

The first thing they saw was the red blood splattered in front of Sun Chaoyang.

With trembling eyes, they moved their gaze upward and had no choice but to confirm the scene they had expected.

Forehead.

Red blood was dripping from the black hole in Sun Chaoyang’s forehead. At the same time, Sun Chaoyang’s body fell forward.

Thud!

Sun Chaoyang’s body, which had hit the desk, slumped and fell to the floor.

The people in the room stared blankly at the scene with faces that lacked a sense of reality, as if they were watching a scene on a screen.

Only when the blood flowing from Sun Chaoyang had soaked the desk leg did they finally come to their senses and rush towards Sun Chaoyang, shouting.

“Secretary!”

“Damn it! Doctor! Call a doctor! Call an ambulance right now!”

“Secretary, please come to your senses!”

“Chase them, you bastards! Chase the sniper outside! What are you staring at!”

At the moment they rushed in, everyone already knew.

There was no way to save a person with a hole in their head.

But that didn’t mean they could just stand by. Those who rushed to the corpse to prove their loyalty were the brave ones. Most of the people in the conference room were lying flat on the floor, trembling.

There was no guarantee that the sniping would end with just one shot.

From the moment they realized that neither the walls nor the glass could protect them, this place was just the middle of a battlefield.

“It’s over there!”

Someone pointed to the window. But it was a meaningless gesture.

The spiderweb-like cracked glass did not provide any visibility. Moreover, the opposite side of this building was separated by a large road, making it impossible to chase after someone on foot.

“Contact the Public Security Bureau and seal off all the buildings across the street! Don’t let a single ant escape!”

“Yes!”

But both the one giving the order and the one receiving it understood that it was a hollow cry.

Who could have penetrated bulletproof glass that even a sniper rifle couldn’t penetrate and assassinate Sun Chaoyang?

“Black King faction… those…”

The one who killed Sun Chaoyang had probably already left the scene.

“…Damn it.”

The gazes of the crowd turned to Sun Chaoyang, who was lying on the floor. The hole in his forehead, where his heart had already stopped and was growing cold, made their fingertips tremble.

“What the hell are we supposed to do…”

Those words represented the feelings of everyone here.

One thing was certain.

From this moment on, the world they lived in would never be the same.

The world where boundaries had collapsed began to shake the very standards of ‘safety’ they had known. A world where no place was safe, a hellish world, was engulfing them with the death of one man.