Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 417

Clang!

It’s natural for metal to make a metallic sound when it collides with metal. However, it was strange that when metal collided with metal, one side was cleanly sliced off.

Unfortunately, that strange thing was happening above the device Kang Jin-ho was riding in.

Thud! Thud!

As the rail was cut and drooped downwards, the pulley attached to the device rolled, and the device began to plummet rapidly.

Jo Mi-hye bit her lip until it bled.

She couldn’t not know what was happening right now.

Falling.

They were falling.

She wanted to open her mouth and scream loud enough to shake the world.

Because she didn’t want to die. She didn’t want to die like this!

But she endured it.

Because Kang Jin-ho said it would be okay.

Surely, Kang Jin-ho would do something to save them. So, she shouldn’t interfere with Kang Jin-ho. Therefore, instead of screaming, Jo Mi-hye chose to hug Kang Jin-ho even tighter.

Hugging him so tightly that her arms went numb, she buried her head in his chest.

‘God, please…’

She could feel the strength in Choi Seon-hee’s hand as she held it tightly. Everyone was terrified, but they were desperately holding on, trusting Kang Jin-ho.

And Kang Jin-ho, whom they trusted, was maintaining a state colder than ice.

‘Think.’

He had experienced crises enough to be sick of them.

Recently, strange things had been happening to him, but compared to what he had experienced in the Central Plains [a region often depicted in martial arts stories as a hub of powerful clans and martial artists], what he was experiencing now wasn’t really a crisis.

What made this a crisis was not the situation, but the people.

For Kang Jin-ho, who had never once broken through a crisis while protecting others in the Central Plains, having to resolve this situation without hurting the children was a difficult problem.

Since he had never experienced this before, he couldn’t calculate how much impact the children could withstand.

“Hoo…”

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes changed.

‘Move.’

Having finished his calculations neatly, Kang Jin-ho quickly tore off a couple of seatbelts from the device and quickly tied them together to make a long belt.

Then, he wrapped the belt around the children gathered in front and his waist, tying it so tightly that their blood circulation was cut off.

It would be difficult to move, but this would prevent the children from being separated from him. He had secured them with a belt tied to his wrist, but that wasn’t enough to reassure him.

After checking that the belt was secure, Kang Jin-ho immediately hugged the children and lifted them slightly.

Perhaps because they were falling, the children’s bodies were lifted too easily. And Kang Jin-ho looked at the entrance with a stern face.

“Hold on tight!”

Since the device was already falling, it couldn’t maintain proper balance, and the entrance was tilted upwards.

It was a hundred times better than having it face downwards.

But…

‘Ah, crap!’

Only then did Kang Jin-ho realize that he had made a mistake. Because he had secured the children’s bodies, he couldn’t get out through that entrance like this.

Whoosh!

In an instant, Kang Jin-ho’s right hand was dyed black.

The moment he thought he couldn’t get out through the entrance, his body began to find a solution on its own. As Kang Jin-ho’s black hand blade was swung, the wall of the device was cut like paper.

Crack.

The cut friction surfaces opened up, and the device was instantly split in two. Kang Jin-ho released his power towards the upper part of the device. Then, the upper part of the device with the balloon model bounced upwards.

It seemed that the speed of the fall had increased slightly due to the recoil, but it was an unavoidable choice.

He was falling while riding on the lower part of the device that reached his waist.

‘Where is it?’

Kang Jin-ho’s eyes quickly scanned the surroundings.

If they fell like this, there was a limit to how much he could offset the impact for the children, even if he was fine. It might be nothing to him, but the children could die instantly. No matter how much Kang Jin-ho absorbed and dispersed the impact beforehand.

Then, he had to find something else to disperse the impact. Kang Jin-ho’s eyes lit up as he looked down.

Spires that jutted out like medieval buildings and triangular roofs.

“Hold on tight! We’re going to ride a proper ride!”

The children didn’t understand what Kang Jin-ho was saying, but they held on to his arms with all their might, as he had told them to.

“Here we go!”

Kang Jin-ho’s body kicked off the floor and leaped up. Kang Jin-ho could leap more than ten times in the air with just a single leaf.

For Kang Jin-ho, the lower part of the device was a perfect foothold. Even if it was in the air.

“Uwaaaaaah!”

Kang Jin-ho, who had jumped with all his might, realized that he hadn’t jumped as high as he had thought. The distance was not enough to reach the top of the spire he was aiming for.

And there was only one reason for that.

‘When we get out of here, I’m going to tell them to lose weight.’

The children were heavier than he had thought.

Of course, it was natural that they were heavy since there were four of them, but still…

“Kuh!”

Kang Jin-ho spun his body in the air, making the children face upwards, then pulled his legs in and kicked the air with an enormous amount of magic.

The falling body momentarily floated upwards.

‘Got it!’

Kang Jin-ho gritted his teeth.

From now on, delicacy was needed. He had to disperse the impact with the most delicate control.

Kang Jin-ho, who had hit the long, blue spire roof with his back, began to slide down, twisting his body skillfully. It wasn’t a crazy idea to use the spire roof as a cushion. He slid down the slope with only his back, being careful not to let the children’s bodies touch it.

At the same time, he pressed down on his back in the middle to apply subtle brakes. He was careful not to let the roof collapse.

“Kyaaaaaaaaak!”

The children, who had been holding back, burst into screams. They felt like their bodies were floating, and then they were crashing into the roof and sliding down.

They thought they had fallen enough, but when they looked down, they were still on the fourth floor. And there was nothing below this roof. It was just a spire. Just a round, rising tower.

“Jump!”

Their bodies, which had been sliding down, reached the end of the roof and then floated up like a sled jumping off a hill. Then, they skillfully changed direction and began to fall towards the triangular roof slope of the building next to them.

“Eheong, eheong, eheong!”

Now, no one was screaming. Everyone was crying with tears streaming down their faces.

It felt like riding a roller coaster without a safety bar. Even the children who thought they were good at riding attractions lost their minds in the face of the terrible fear and the speed that shook their bodies.

Kang Jin-ho, who had slid down the roof for a long time, gritted his teeth. He felt a burning pain in his back, but now was not the time to worry about that.

It wasn’t enough. It still wasn’t enough.

If he thought the speed had decreased enough, he would drop below the roof and try to stick his arm into the wall, but if they fell at this speed, the wall wouldn’t be able to withstand their weight.

‘What’s next?’

To mitigate the impact…

At that moment, Kang Jin-ho’s eyes lit up.

‘I thought they had done everything they could…’

Below the roof, he could see the rails of a roller coaster that had been made to go around the interior. When he first saw it, he wondered why they had made the rails so inefficiently inside, but now it was their lifeline.

“Do you like roller coasters?”

“Noooooooo!”

Kang Jin-ho immediately pushed his back up to lift his body into the air.

“Ah…”

The children were thrilled by the feeling of their bodies floating.

It was something they couldn’t experience anywhere else, but it was quite common in amusement parks. The moment when potential energy was converted into kinetic energy!

And that meant a rapid fall.

“Kyaaaaaaaaak!”

The bodies of the children, who had become one with Kang Jin-ho, began to fall directly towards the rails.

And at that moment.

Three daggers with black blades flew towards Kang Jin-ho from the darkness.

“This…”

Black magic flowed out from Kang Jin-ho’s right hand in streams.

“Euraaaah!”

As Kang Jin-ho’s right hand stretched forward, the black magic gathered like a cloud and swallowed the flying daggers. The daggers that touched the magic broke like straws and bounced in all directions.

“Worthless.”

Kang Jin-ho gritted his teeth.

Not now. It wasn’t time to be angry yet.

Kang Jin-ho kicked his legs several times in the air, releasing his power to correct his deviated trajectory.

To others, it would have looked like he was swimming in the air, but Kang Jin-ho was not in a situation to care about his appearance.

‘Good!’

Having perfectly adjusted the angle, Kang Jin-ho fell onto the rail.

Then, a problem arose.

‘Huh?’

So…

Was the roller coaster rail shaped like that?

‘It doesn’t look like a slide.’

It was more like a suspension bridge?

If a person slid down there with their bare body, they would rather scream to be thrown onto the bare ground?

Kang Jin-ho’s face twisted subtly.

“Haa…”

Bad luck.

Kang Jin-ho gritted his teeth and gathered magic into his back.

If he couldn’t avoid it, he had to enjoy it.

Whoooosh.

The gathered magic was shaped into a black form. If he had gathered this much magic into a sword, it would have become a sword aura, and if he had gathered it into a fist, it would have become a fist aura. So, what should this be called? Back aura?

The important thing was not to protect his body with the back aura, but to be careful not to break the rails the moment these destructive energies touched them. He had to focus solely on protecting his back.

And it would be nice if he could slide down well.

“Hold on tight!”

Kang Jin-ho’s back landed precisely on the rail.

Kang Jin-ho’s face contorted terribly as he succeeded in leaning his back diagonally against the rail going down.

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud thud!

It felt like his hip and back bones were hitting the rail dozens of times per second.

“Kyaaaaaaaaak!”

But thanks to that, the children were able to properly enjoy the roller coaster, using Kang Jin-ho’s body as a ride. The only way to minimize the impact was to slide his body and gradually reduce the speed.

Kang Jin-ho, who had become a human train, gritted his teeth and endured the pain accumulating in his back and buttocks.

The human train, which had been rushing at a tremendous speed, finally slowed down after completing a 360-degree rotation course. When the speed had completely dropped, Kang Jin-ho let go of his arms and slumped onto the rail.

“Y-you were so scary.”

“I’m never coming to an amusement park again. Never…”

The tear-stained children grabbed Kang Jin-ho and began to cry.

“Oppa, are you okay?”

“Oppa!”

Kang Jin-ho’s face twisted.

‘It feels like my back is shattered.’

But there was no time to lie down so leisurely. Kang Jin-ho jumped up from his spot, picked up the children, and jumped off the rail. Then, he released the belt and sighed softly.

“Just in case, go outside. As soon as you get out, find your sisters and go to the hospital.”

“W-what about you, Oppa?”

Kang Jin-ho raised his head and looked at the ceiling.

“I… have something to do.”

“What? It’s dangerous here. What are you going to do?”

Kang Jin-ho’s dry voice replied in a low tone.

“Hunting.”