Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 208

The Three Kings’ Disciple (209)

208

Players use magic power.

Military artists use internal energy.

The knights and mages of Einheart use mana.

These were mixed in the current special situation, but originally, they were absolute realms that could never be invaded by each other.

However.

‘Demons of Gehenna.’

Their power is different.

The demonic energy of Gehenna.

The power of the demonic essence.

‘Anyone can use it.’

If only they make a contract.

The Ice Monarch before him was clearly a powerful martial artist to begin with.

However, she accepted the demonic essence by contracting with a demon named Satya.

Swaying.

Her bangs, ruffled by the blowing wind.

The small horn that grew on her right forehead was proof of that.

“I know about Viper’s situation.”

The Ice Monarch said.

“I also know about the changes happening to his body.”

It was the Ice Monarch who called him to this realm.

Although Viper wasn’t here right now, it was clear that she had been watching him.

“I will hide what’s happening to him from Satya. So….”

Her voice was earnest.

“Please, save me.”

Lee Rowan’s lips twitched slightly.

“Impossible.”

“What…!”

“What Viper and the others suffered was a forced contract. It’s an unorthodox contract through a curse of domination.”

So, there’s a loophole.

“But what you did was a perfect contract.”

There’s no need to even look into it.

The demonic essence horn doesn’t appear on just anyone.

“That means there’s no gap.”

“…….”

“You wanted to make that contract, didn’t you?”

Also, the contract she made wasn’t forced, but something she desired.

“And now you want to take it back?”

He chuckled.

“Not even a con artist would do that.”

Her body twitched.

“But maybe the con artist is on this side too?”

The moment Lee Rowan’s hand, his index finger, touched the Ice Monarch’s forehead.

Saaah.

Lee Rowan’s hand froze white.

“Is it you that you want to save?”

Lee Rowan asked.

“Or is it something else?”

Depending on the answer, Lee Rowan’s response would change.

Gooong.

Her body slowly rose, and the Ice Monarch suppressed her trembling body and answered.

“I don’t care what happens to me.”

“Then that’s fine.”

As he said, saving her was close to impossible.

But to be freed from Satya.

“I’ll show you a way to live.”

Hwaaaaaak-!

The Ice Monarch’s whole body bent backward, and her body twisted strangely.

More than anything.

Sssseuuu.

Her small horn slowly began to grow.

The Ice Monarch’s body, which was that of a small girl, swelled and grew until it was about Lee Rowan’s height.

Once again, her bangs were ruffled by the wind.

Her eyes, which were revealed within, were dyed black.

“It’s you.”

The Ice Monarch smiled and reached out her hand.

***

The surroundings were pressed down, and a stuffy feeling arose.

This was one of the phenomena that occurred when the demonic essence was released.

Lee Rowan.

“It’s you.”

He stimulated the demonic essence within the Ice Monarch and awakened it.

“It was you who called me.”

The Ice Monarch smiled and reached out her hand.

“It was you who gave this child false hope.”

A hand so white that all the blood vessels could be seen was already near Lee Rowan’s neck.

Lee Rowan didn’t avoid or move, and he was looking at the Ice Monarch without paying attention to the approaching hand.

“What are you….”

A chilling and dark voice slowly invaded his mind.

At the same time, the moment her hand grabbed Lee Rowan’s neck.

Sseuk.

As if her hand was a ghost, it passed through Lee Rowan.

“Did you think I wouldn’t know that this is inside the mental world?”

Lee Rowan said.

A space that was suddenly moved while breaking through the radiation storm.

There was no way that was possible when no kind of true form or trace was felt.

Also, the zone of numbness that Lee Rowan had experienced.

That was.

‘A passage to the mental world.’

In other words, this place wasn’t reality.

“……What are you?”

The Ice Monarch, or rather Satya who had taken over the Ice Monarch’s body, said.

“Why do I feel the energy of the Guardian Dragon from you?”

Satya stepped back.

“Moreover, silver internal energy and… a circle?”

Feeling something, she distanced herself a little from Lee Rowan.

She had a hunch.

‘It’s dangerous.’

There was something about Lee Rowan.

And.

‘I don’t know.’

The fact that she herself didn’t know what Lee Rowan was, was the most frightening thing.

“What the hell are you…!”

At that moment when Satya shouted in shock.

Sseusut.

Lee Rowan’s figure scattered like a mirage.

The moment Satya quickly spread her hands to create a blizzard.

“I’ll ask.”

Lee Rowan’s voice came from behind Satya.

“What’s your rank in Gehenna?”

“……!”

Satya, who quickly turned her head, turned her right arm into a sword made of ice and pierced Lee Rowan’s body, but.

Sseuk!

Again, her arm just passed through like a ghost.

“Did you interfere with Namgung Cheon’s matter?”

The voice was heard again.

“How-!”

Satya shouted in shock.

As Lee Rowan said, this place was the mental world.

Therefore.

“You must have thought that this was the most advantageous space for you.”

“Ugh!”

The chains that flew from all directions were already binding Satya’s body.

Demons are a race that lives forever unless they are killed.

Among them, a small number of demons live longer than dragons.

What those demons can boast about is.

“Demons are known for their outstanding mental strength.”

Mental strength.

The mental strength that has been honed over a long period of time can become even stronger than the body that has been built up over thousands of years of fighting.

That’s why the power that demons are most proud of is mental strength.

And the place where that power is most greatly exerted is here, in the mental world.

Satya wouldn’t have known.

“Kkyaaaaaak!”

That she would be chained here and feel the pain of her limbs being torn apart.

“How! A human!”

That she would encounter someone with a mental strength superior to her in the mental world.

“You wouldn’t have thought of that.”

Lee Rowan stood in front of Satya and said.

“Demons who mainly use domination and mental attacks, especially those who have lived long lives, right? Ten thousand years? Twenty thousand years?”

Lee Rowan’s languid eyes began to shine eerily.

“How much time have I spent?”

“No… way….”

From the beginning, she had misjudged the battlefield.

Even if Lee Rowan stimulated the demonic essence and awakened her, she shouldn’t have appeared.

“I’ll ask again. What’s your rank?”

Kkwaaaak!

The chains that bound her tightened as if to crush her.

“Are you involved in Namgung Cheon’s matter?”

And.

“Get lost-!”

She shouted.

Jjaeeeeeeng!

The roar from the chains.

At that moment, Lee Rowan took out his two-handed sword and thrust it at her.

Puk!

Just for a moment, the tip of the sword entered slightly.

“I’ll kill you! I will never forget this humiliation!”

Her body, shouting, turned into smoke and disappeared.

She had escaped with all her might.

Lee Rowan was left alone.

“I’ll see you soon.”

He didn’t let her escape.

He let her go.

* * *

As Satya, who had possessed the Ice Monarch’s body, escaped, the snowfield began to melt.

It could be said that the mental world she had created was collapsing and returning to the original world.

When all of those processes were over.

Taat.

Lee Rowan returned to his original spot with a ripple of energy.

There.

“Did you… return?”

Viper, looking exhausted, was trapped inside the energy barrier, looking haggard.

The first thing Lee Rowan asked was.

“How many days have passed?”

Viper’s dry lips parted and answered.

“F…five, five days have passed.”

The few hours that Lee Rowan spent in the mental world had passed as five days here.

During that time, Viper had done nothing but endure, surrounded by the energy barrier as Lee Rowan had told him.

If he had tried to erase the energy barrier and escape.

‘He would have been attacked by Satya.’

Satya, who had noticed him, wouldn’t have left him alone.

“What… happened? You were just standing there, still.”

Lee Rowan answered Viper’s question.

“I met your enemy.”

“……! Then….”

The ruler of the lawless zone, now.

Another one who shares the title of monarch with the Ice Monarch.

“The Demonic Monarch.”

Satya.

She was one of the monarchs.

Anger filled Viper’s wide eyes.

“Then…!”

So far, only the Five Kings have returned alive after meeting the Demonic Monarch unscathed.

Everyone else died unless they knelt before the Demonic Monarch and became her slave.

But Lee Rowan had returned alive.

“She escaped.”

“……!”

Viper couldn’t hide his trembling pupils.

“Really….”

Lee Rowan had the power to defeat the Demonic Monarch.

“No, it would be more accurate to say that I let her go on purpose.”

“Why….”

“Because catching the Demonic Monarch isn’t my job.”

Lee Rowan’s eyes turned to Viper.

“It’s your job.”

The way to maximize the benefits of catching the Demonic Monarch, Satya.

That was to follow the laws of Gehenna.

The most important part of that preparation was now complete.

“This time will be a little different.”

Lee Rowan said, looking at Viper.

“I am ready.”

Viper also seemed to have sensed something and nodded with a heavy face.

Sseuk.

The two-handed sword in his hand slowly pierced Viper’s energy barrier.

Puk!

It was embedded in his chest.

What was contained in the two-handed sword now was.

“It’s your master’s demonic essence.”

A genuine one, not a cheap one given through a contract.

Part of Satya’s demonic essence.

Even if it wasn’t the entire demonic essence, if he had just a part of it….

“Devour it.”

With that, Viper would be able to undergo a change close to evolution.

Perhaps.

‘A demon might be born.’

Demons are beings that are subordinate to and bound by Gehenna.

They can only interfere with other worlds through contracts or restrictions.

Within Gehenna, the power of demons is several times, or even tens or hundreds of times greater than on Earth.

But what if a demon that is not restricted is born?

“Kkeueuk! Kkeueueuk!”

Perhaps a new species might appear.

Something that seemed impossible.

But Lee Rowan was.

Twitch!

He was making it possible.

“How is it?”

Viper’s figure flickered in the hazy smoke.

“Kkyaaaaaak!”

Viper rushed in, screaming.

His hands were swung wildly to tear Lee Rowan apart.

Clearly, what he was using was the Great Vajra Palm of Shaolin [a powerful martial arts technique], which boasted a brilliant golden light.

Bwaaaak!

Now, a black aura was draped over his fingers, tearing through space.

Bwaaaak!

Viper rushed in like a bear that had lost its reason.

Lee Rowan avoided all of those attacks by slightly moving his toes.

Right now, Viper was just rampaging.

He was trying to suppress the newly acquired power and the changed mind that he couldn’t overcome.

And finally.

“Huk! Huk!”

When the rampage ended, Viper stood still, breathing heavily.

His appearance, which was close to middle-aged, had changed into that of a young man.

The black hair that had grown wildly had become glossy silver hair that fell down.

His height seemed to have grown by a hand span.

“Congratulations. On being reborn.”

What Viper had just experienced was a metamorphosis.

It could be said to be a metamorphosis caused by the demonic essence.