Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1195

They surge forward.

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes gleamed as he watched the endless wave of enemies approaching.

Isn’t it strange?

In his countless days of battle, in those long days of killing and being killed, he had never witnessed such a scene. He had fought against more opponents before, but facing such a number with perfect resolve, all alone, was a first for Kang Jin-ho.

His heart pounded like crazy.

As if telling him to keep killing and killing without rest, his heart continued to pump.

His body temperature had long since overheated, threatening to cook his brain. In that absurd exhilaration, Kang Jin-ho bared his teeth.

This is battle.

This is the land where he lives.

Adrenaline exploded like crazy, and a sense of euphoria, as if he were on drugs, surged endlessly.

“Dieeeeee!”

The swords fly.

The swords thrust in.

The hostility in their eyes pierced Kang Jin-ho even before their blades did.

These were people he had never met before.

It was a battlefield where those who had no connection or grudge could burn with endless hatred for each other.

A cliff where all the intellect humanity had accumulated was mobilized to kill the opponent, a savage land where the most forbidden act for humans, murder, was justified.

The battlefield was where reason and instinct coexisted.

And when the ferocity of the battlefield cut into his flesh, Kang Jin-ho finally felt that he was alive.

Clang! Clang!

The swords that flew at him were broken by Kang Jin-ho’s blade. Without a moment’s hesitation, he slashed the necks of those whose swords had broken. Bodies that had lost their heads, without losing speed, crashed into Kang Jin-ho’s body before collapsing to the floor.

Kang Jin-ho’s sword, carrying a dark aura like a wave, slammed down onto the floor.

Kwaaaaaang!

The dark aura shattered the ground. It shattered everything it touched. Within it, neither flesh nor soul could maintain its form.

The shattered flesh scattered in all directions. Fragments of bodies, torn apart by the dark aura, pierced the bodies of those who followed.

“Kkeueueuk!”

“Uwaaaaaaaa!”

Even in the pain of being pierced, the warriors did not stop advancing. There was no turning back anyway. Their only goal and path to survival was to cut off Kang Jin-ho’s head and tear out his heart.

Their waists were split in half.

But even with their waists severed, their brains still functioned. Knowing that they were going to die anyway, they did not stop moving even with their waists cut. Those who had been thrown into the air twisted their swords with all their might towards Kang Jin-ho.

Kwaddeudeuk!

The swords, unable to penetrate the flames of the dark aura, were ground away.

But even if they couldn’t cut through his flesh, the impact was fully transmitted to Kang Jin-ho’s body.

Their consciousness shifted from ‘kill by risking their lives’ to ‘inflict at least some damage by throwing their lives away.’

And that led to a terrifying tactic.

One of the charging men threw the katana he was holding at Kang Jin-ho and then slid onto the floor.

Kwaduk!

He stomped on the man who flew at him, bursting his stomach.

“Keureureureuk!”

But the man, with half of his body blown away, grabbed Kang Jin-ho’s leg with bloodshot eyes.

It wasn’t just one.

More than a dozen warriors rushed at Kang Jin-ho’s legs, disregarding their lives. Kang Jin-ho’s entire body was covered in dark aura, and just touching it would melt their hands.

But even as their arms melted to the point where bones were exposed, they never let go of the legs they had grabbed.

Madness.

It was an obsession that could only be called madness.

And as everyone knew, when it came to madness, Kang Jin-ho was second to none.

He pushed away those who rushed at him by swinging the Red Dew, and then slammed the Blue Dew into the ground.

Puk!

Those who were pierced convulsed.

The trembling man raised his head and looked at Kang Jin-ho.

Darkness.

His face, which was nothing but darkness, was overflowing with a bloody glow. Even while looking at that sight, the man with his back split open gave a bloody smile.

“I’m going first…”

At that moment, shadows that had sprung from the darkness grabbed Kang Jin-ho and caused an explosion.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

Kwaaaaaaaang!

The explosions that followed turned those who had rushed at Kang Jin-ho into a bloody mist in an instant.

The area within a 3-meter radius around Kang Jin-ho was literally reduced to nothing. The katanas they were holding were flung away by the force of the explosion, embedding themselves into the bodies of those who had rushed at him.

“Kkeueueuk!”

“You bastarddddddd!”

Even with swords embedded in their bodies, they did not stop their charge.

They charged, foaming at the mouth, instead of retreating, even as they clearly saw with their own eyes how those who charged were cut down, blown up, and caught in the explosions. Everyone was swept up in the madness of the battlefield.

At this moment, their will, loyalty, and even their desire to survive had disappeared.

Only the hatred to kill their opponent was turning their brains black.

The visibility was sufficient.

The bombs they used did not come with the fiery blast like in movies. They only delivered the full force of the impact. They could clearly see the monster covered in black flames staggering.

As the fact that the enemy was injured was transmitted to their brains, all thought stopped.

“Killllllllll!”

Jumping into a well is suicide.

But what if dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people jumped into the well?

No matter how big the well is, it will be filled with corpses. Then, the well can no longer drown people.

They were definitely exchanging their lives to inflict damage on Kang Jin-ho, one by one. The wounds that were initially just scratches gradually widened, bleeding, and soon exposed bone.

Beasts rushed from all directions.

Beasts rushing without looking back or forth.

For a martial artist of Kang Jin-ho’s level, dealing with those rushing from all directions at the same time was not that difficult. But dealing with those who kept rushing even after being killed was another matter.

Especially…

Chwaaaaaaaak!

The man whose shoulder and side had been cleanly cut off crawled on the floor and stabbed the katana he held in his remaining hand into Kang Jin-ho’s foot. The venom in his eyes was enough to make even Kang Jin-ho flinch.

They were not strong.

Each of the rushing men was not strong at all. But their spirit was different from any of the masters Kang Jin-ho had faced so far.

The determination to rush forward, disregarding their lives.

That boiling bloodlust was even assimilating Kang Jin-ho.

“Hwaaaaaaaa!”

Kang Jin-ho screamed and cut down those who rushed at him again and again.

A rough and wild style.

Shadows rushed into the gaps of that style.

Kang Jin-ho, who had split the shadow that appeared behind him in half from head to crotch, released his dark aura.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

If you know where and how it explodes, you can defend against it. Defending doesn’t mean there’s no damage, but it’s much less than being hit without knowing.

Throb!

Kang Jin-ho gritted his teeth at the sharp pain he felt in both arms.

It was a strange feeling.

It was clearly different from the impact he received from martial arts. Nothing was transmitted, only pain was felt.

A feeling that something was empty.

But this empty pain was definitely eating away at his life.

‘It’s endless.’

They rushed.

They rushed again.

Even after seeing him unharmed after being stabbed by swords and caught in explosions, they rushed without the slightest hesitation.

White foam was forming on their lips, and their eyes were burning with madness.

Like madmen.

They looked more like zombies than living people. Anyone would be terrified to see thousands of madmen bending their stiff bodies and rushing from all directions.

But Kang Jin-ho laughed instead.

He never thought.

In this world…

He never thought he would have such an experience in this world where savagery and madness had disappeared.

Malice was transmitted.

The malice of wanting to kill him no matter what.

The determination to exchange a wound for a life.

Who would be standing when this battle was over?

Would it be the wounded Kang Jin-ho, or the few remaining of them?

Kang Jin-ho threw the Red Dew and Blue Dew forward. The two fiercely rotating swords cleanly pierced through the front like a scythe cutting through ripe rice.

“Hoo!”

At that moment, a flash of light appeared in Kang Jin-ho’s eyes.

Both fists, filled with explosive dark aura, punched, grabbed, and tore apart.

In an instant, everything around him was torn apart, creating space.

But that was only for a moment.

“Dieeeeeeeee!”

Someone fell from above.

Three people popped up from the floor at the same time.

Turning them into a pulp?

It wasn’t difficult.

But that was largely meaningless.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Explosions erupted in succession.

Two around Kang Jin-ho, and one in the middle of the rushing warriors.

He kicked one away, but he couldn’t avoid the other two. The pain, like being hit on the head with a hammer, momentarily blurred his consciousness before it returned.

“Heu…”

Strangely, he laughed.

They would say he was crazy.

The feeling of his life hanging by a thread. In this situation where he was suffering from pain all over his body, he was laughing.

Kang Jin-ho couldn’t understand himself either.

But he couldn’t stop the laughter that kept coming out.

It was at that moment.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh

—– Swoosh, •

With a sound like the rustling of clothes in the wind, someone appeared right in front of Kang Jin-ho.

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes turned cold.

Tsukikage had appeared before him. Instinctively, he tried to reach out, but Tsukikage’s speed was beyond Kang Jin-ho’s expectations. If his body was fine, he could have caught him, but not now.

Tsukikage, who had quickly retreated, threw something with both hands.

More than a dozen objects wrapped in brown material flew around Kang Jin-ho.

The identity of those objects was obvious.

Long wires connected to the ends of several bombs were connected to a switch held in Tsukikage’s hand. Kang Jin-ho saw that scene clearly.

‘Cut the wires…’

“Farewell.”

Before he could even react, Tsukikage’s hand pressed the switch.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!

With an earth-shattering explosion, a terrifying aftershock swept through the surroundings.

Those who had been rushing in a frenzy were unable to withstand the aftershock and were thrown backward.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaang!

The building shook, and the earth cried out.

A terrifying destructive power.

The ground, which had been instantly overturned, raised a huge cloud of dust, completely obscuring the view.

Thud!

Even Tsukikage couldn’t withstand the shock and rolled on the floor.

It was more explosive than he had expected.

“Tuh!”

Tsukikage, who spat out the blood that had formed in his mouth, quickly got up.

He must be dead.

Of course, he must be dead.

If he could survive such an explosion, he was not human. No matter if he was a martial artist or not, if he was a human made of flesh and bone, he could never survive that explosion.

‘He must be dead, right?’

His head was certain.

But his heart was not certain.

He could never be at ease until he confirmed the corpse of that monster with his own eyes. It was doubtful whether he could even leave a corpse in that explosion.

The dust cloud slowly cleared, and the scene where Kang Jin-ho had been was revealed.

Tsukikage’s eyes widened slightly.

‘He’s gone?’

He didn’t even leave a corpse…

It was then.

Thump.

Tsukikage shuddered at the feeling of something grabbing his leg.

Someone burst out of the ground, grabbing Tsukikage’s neck.

Kwaddeudeuk!