Descent Of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 1889

“Hoo… Hoo… Hoo… Hoo!” Cold sweat poured down like rain. The loud siren blared in his ears, mixed with the occasional explosions.

The stench of blood was so thick it numbed his nose.

‘How could this happen…’

It wasn’t exactly a new sight.

For those who lived by the sword, it was a scene they had all witnessed at least once. They were the ones who had to accept living in such battlefields as a matter of course.

Yet, the reason he couldn’t accept this situation was that this wasn’t a secluded mountain or a private property where civilians were restricted, but a building in the middle of the city.

‘This is insane.’

Liu Quan reached out with a trembling hand and grabbed the floor.

This shouldn’t be happening.

The Hong King faction and the Chang King faction had been at war for decades, and recently, the General Assembly and the Hong King faction had engaged in large-scale battles, but all those wars had one absolute principle.

Do not involve civilians.

Keeping the martial world and the ordinary world separate wasn’t just a principle agreed upon. It was an absolute rule that the martial world had to abide by to survive.

But that madman was slaughtering people in the middle of Shanghai in broad daylight, as if such a principle never existed.

He was indiscriminately killing martial artists and civilians inside the building.

“Hoo… Hoo!”

There was no way to stop him.

This was already the 30th floor.

Half of those on the lower floors had already been beheaded.

The other half?

The other half must have escaped somehow. This building had nearly twenty elevators and several emergency exits, as wide as it was.

Unless they blocked the entrance on the first floor and killed everyone coming down, it was impossible to kill all those who escaped.

No…

‘He should have just killed them all!’

If he had, at least those who hadn’t entered the building wouldn’t have seen this carnage!

Those who had lost their minds had fled outside the building, and thanks to that, everyone around them knew something was happening inside.

Thanks to that, he could clearly see the public security officers rushing in from outside the window.

‘Can this be salvaged?’

But that wasn’t his concern.

What he had to worry about was his own life. The Divine Spear, who had just stabbed and killed the last person blocking his path, was leisurely walking towards him.

“Pathetic.”

Clack!

The spear’s blade lightly scraped the floor.

The hard marble was cut as if it were tofu.

“You’re supposed to be a martial artist, yet you show your back to the enemy.”

Thud, thud.

The Divine Spear, who had walked over leisurely, chuckled.

“Well, in this day and age, it’s strange to even talk about martial artists. It’s like admitting you’re a relic of the past.”

That crazy bastard…

Liu Quan’s eyes began to tremble as he turned his head.

This was twisting the world.

No matter how bold one was, if they committed such an act, they should at least show some restraint, or at least some excitement, but that madman’s face was just calm.

“But before worrying about being pathetic as a martial artist, aren’t you pathetic as a man?”

“Pitiful.”

The Divine Spear quietly raised his spear and aimed it at Liu Quan.

And just then.

“Hands up!”

“Drop your weapon!”

The steel door that had been tightly closed on one side of the hallway slammed open, and a mobile strike force, armed with bulletproof helmets and vests, rushed inside.

“Oh?”

The Divine Spear turned his head to look at them.

“Drop your weapon! You’ve been warned!”

“Get on the ground!”

The Divine Spear shrugged his shoulders.

“The public security has changed a lot. Back in the day, they would have just opened fire without asking any questions.”

“…I said drop your weapon! This is your last warning!”

“That laxity is what brings death.”

Swish!

At that moment, the spear in the Divine Spear’s hand cut through the air.

“Ga…”

Swish!

At the same time, the heads of the public security officers who had been aiming their guns flew into the air. It was a surreal scene, as if watching a movie.

But it was clearly happening in reality.

Thud! Thud!

Thump!

The severed heads fell to the floor, and the headless bodies collapsed.

Those who had been watching the scene with wide eyes screamed with all their might.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The submachine guns fired in rapid succession.

Liu Quan was terrified and curled up into a ball, covering his head. But his actions were meaningless.

Because not a single bullet could penetrate the Divine Spear. The Divine Spear simply neutralized the barrage by lightly spinning the long spear in his hand.

“This isn’t enough.”

The Divine Spear, who had been spinning the spear, pulled it slightly towards himself and then thrust it forward as if pushing it away.

Clang!

A dull roar was heard, and then the mobile strike force, who had been firing their guns, screamed and collapsed to the ground.

The Divine Spear had deflected the bullets flying towards him back at the public security officers with a simple motion.

“Guns…”

Grrrk.

The spear’s blade, touching the floor, made a strange sound.

“Good weapons. They’re weapons that allow anyone, whether it’s a child, a woman, or an old person, to kill someone with just the strength to pull a trigger.”

That convenience was enough to change the world.

“But that strength is limited. No matter how hard you try, strength with a set limit has no appeal.”

The Divine Spear, who had been spouting incomprehensible words, quietly approached the public security officers and thrust his spear forward.

Dozens of spear shadows appeared at once and flew towards the public security officers. And those spear shadows pierced the necks of the public security officers, who were groaning in pain, all at once.

Thwack!

The sound of a dozen necks being pierced rang out simultaneously, sounding like one.

Thump! Thump!

But the sound of the dead falling to the floor was not heard together.

“Hah…”

The Divine Spear, who had retrieved his spear, smiled faintly and approached Liu Quan.

“I guess we should finish what we were doing?” Liu Quan gasped for breath.

“You… you crazy bastard!”

“Oh?”

The Divine Spear let out an incomprehensible exclamation as he heard the frantic scream.

“It seems like you’ve gained a little courage? Are you angry because your comrades died? How typical?”

But then he shook his head.

“There’s no way martial artists and public security officers are comrades.”

Liu Quan grabbed the floor.

There was no way to escape from that madman anyway. If death was inevitable, he should at least curse him out.

“Do you… do you know what you’re doing?”

“Of course. I’m killing people.”

The Divine Spear smiled.

“Did someone who mastered the art of killing suddenly become a humanist?”

“There’s a time and place for everything, you bastard!”

Liu Quan’s eyes were bloodshot.

“Killing people in the middle of the city! Killing civilians who have nothing to do with it! And now you’re even attacking the public security?”

Liu Quan shouted as if spitting blood.

“How do you plan to clean this up, you bastard! You…”

“You’re the stupid one.”

The Divine Spear quietly approached Liu Quan and looked down at him.

“Why would I have to clean it up? You’re the ones who have to clean it up. It’s not me, but you who want to maintain the balance of this world.”

“Do you understand?”

The Divine Spear had a bitter smile on his face.

“We just do what we want. We don’t hold back, and we don’t care about anything. If we want to kill, we kill, and if we want to attack, we attack. Then you guys have to clean up the mess we make, that’s what I’m saying.”

Liu Quan stared at the Divine Spear with a blank face.

“Do you… do you even know what the consequences will be?”

Hundreds had died in broad daylight in Shanghai.

An entire building was stained with blood.

Even the public security officers who had come to resolve the situation had been massacred.

Could he even imagine how big the aftermath of this incident would be? No matter how powerful the Chinese government was, it was impossible to just bury this incident.

The boundary between the martial world and the ordinary world, which martial artists had desperately maintained for hundreds of years, would collapse through this crack.

“You don’t understand.” The Divine Spear shook his head.

“That’s not my problem.”

“You idiot…”

“And…”

Thwack!

The Divine Spear’s spear pierced Liu Quan’s neck.

“Ggrrrk…”

“It’s not your problem anymore either.”

Liu Quan, who had not taken away the resentment in his eyes until the very end, fell to the floor with his eyes wide open. His breath had already stopped, and his blood had begun to cool, but his eyes would not close.

The Divine Spear, who had pulled the spear out of Liu Quan’s neck, bared his teeth.

“I told you, you can’t reason with them.”

The world had pushed the martial artists into a cage.

No, the martial artists had entered that cage themselves.

At first, for coexistence, and then for survival.

And now?

‘To prolong their lives.’

As time passed, the martial artists had come to take it for granted that they were trapped in a cage, and they began to fear going outside of it.

And from that moment on, they could no longer be called martial artists.

Just as a wolf that has lost its wildness becomes a dog,

a martial artist who has lost their freedom was no longer a martial artist.

Weeeooo! Weeeooo!

The sound of sirens blared loudly from outside the window.

“Hmm.”

The Divine Spear calmly walked towards the window and looked down.

The large road was packed with cars with sirens and black small trucks that were rarely seen.

And even at this moment, more cars were gathering.

“It’s like a festival.”

No, saying it was like a festival was strange.

It might not be for them, but for them, this was literally a festival. The Twelve Vipers, including the Divine Spear, had been waiting for this moment.

For that long, long time.

So, let it ring out more.

Let it shout more splendidly!

Clang!

The sound of breaking glass and metal rang out at the same time. The Divine Spear slowly lowered the spear that had been covering his face.

“If you thought you could catch me with a sniper, I’m a little disappointed.”

The spear, which had been pulled back slightly, was thrust forward at lightning speed. The aura that shot out from the tip of the spear flew at an invisible speed and embedded itself in the opposite building where the snipers were hiding.

Crash!

“One…”

Crash!

“Two, three, four… Hmm, only four teams? That’s not enough.”

The Divine Spear, who had blown away even those who were preparing to snipe, clicked his tongue quietly.

Then, he spun the spear and retrieved it, before moving towards the upper floors.

Desperate screams were heard from above, and shouts from the strike force entering from below.

A space where despair, fear, anger, and hostility were mixed and running wild.

‘I missed this.’

The Divine Spear smiled softly and gripped his spear.

But he wouldn’t miss it anymore.

Soon…