Origin Point

“Kkumul, water.”

Lee Mina, who was chewing on popcorn, suddenly said, her throat parched.

In an instant, her skin dried out, and she became extremely thirsty.

The black shadow wriggled and spat out a bottle of mineral water from its mouth.

“Thank you.”

Lee Mina opened the lid, tilted her head back, and poured water into her mouth.

Just a drop of water barely moistened her tongue.

“???”

Lee Mina widened her eyes and looked at the water bottle in her hand.

Even though it had just been opened, there was no moisture visible inside the bottle.

It wasn’t difficult to find the cause of this bizarre phenomenon.

Lee Mina’s gaze turned to the stairs a little further away.

Heat haze rippled from a person’s body.

It was as if space itself was crumpling.

Demon of Heaven, Namgung Soyu. She was the source of the heat.

Lee Mina groped her own body with her hands.

She crossed dimensions and absorbed people.

At first, she felt a little repulsed, but she soon got used to it.

She had her own criteria for absorption.

[People who caused Inho pain]

She only threw such people to the shadow as food.

Every time she fed the shadow, she felt herself getting stronger.

Her five senses, reflexes, strength, and even the ability to create something with the shadow…

And here, feeding it knights and soldiers, she could feel it becoming even stronger than before.

However, she still couldn’t match the two women in front of her.

With each step the Heavenly Demon took, the stairs melted, and the nun’s body burst into flames.

Even the nun, who seemed about to turn to ashes and disappear in an instant, returned to her normal state and swung her sword at the Heavenly Demon.

“What monstrous women…”

Lee Mina muttered in a daze, and the shadow nodded its head emphatically.

Hell of Heat.

It was one of her ultimate techniques, concentrating all energy into the body and emitting intense heat.

If you get close, your body burns, and even if you move away, all the moisture evaporates, killing you.

Maria was steadfastly enduring this technique, which did not distinguish between allies and enemies.

Under normal circumstances, she might have praised her will, but now she felt more disgust than praise for her opponent.

Perhaps the heart of a woman with a lover took precedence over the heart of a martial artist.

The more Maria endured, the more the surroundings crumbled.

The stairs had long since melted beyond recognition, and the vegetation on the ground they stepped on was dried up and crumbled.

Everything around them began to collapse.

Slowly losing its shape, like a cake left out for too long.

Even as her body burned with Black flame, her blue eyes were fixed on her.

Those eyes continued to irritate the Heavenly Demon.

“Fine, I’ll just destroy this world itself.”

She said, raising the heat even further.

-Rumble

At that moment, a loud thunderclap was heard.

Drip, drip, drip

Something began to fall on the ground.

Little by little, rain began to fall.

The raindrops fell and soaked the ground.

The temperature around them began to drop.

-Swish

The rain, which had been falling little by little, turned into a downpour.

At first, the raindrops evaporated before they could even reach her, but as time passed, they began to soak the Heavenly Demon’s clothes.

“…Rain?”

The Heavenly Demon looked up at the sky at the raindrops falling on her hand.

And she thought.

Did the rain come at such a perfect time?

Or did someone bring the rain at such a perfect time?

“As expected, Saint is protecting me. I believed it!”

With a beaming smile on her face, Maria reached out her hand towards the sky.

Gritting her teeth at her innocent appearance, the Heavenly Demon asked.

So, what has changed?

Even if it rains, does that mean that woman can beat her?

“What’s so funny?”

The Heavenly Demon asked Maria.

Maria, still smiling, looked at the Heavenly Demon.

“Look. Saint brought rain for me.”

“Inho?”

The Heavenly Demon, unable to follow the flow of the conversation, asked back.

“Then is that not it? Saint brought rain to quell your evil flames!”

Maria said with a face devoid of even a hint of falsehood.

“Inho brought the rain? Do you think that makes any sense? That child is just a human. He’s never even learned any Taoist arts.”

“This isn’t the rain that Saint brought??”

This time, Maria asked back.

“Do you have any proof that that child brought the rain?”

“Proof? Why would I need that?”

“What?”

“I know Saint’s heart for me, his love for me, so why would I need proof?”

“…What?”

“Is your love such a ‘vain’ love that you can only believe it when you see it with your own eyes?”

“…Ah… what a pitiful sinner. A love that can only be felt when you hold something in your hand… when you feel something with your five senses…”

Maria sincerely pitied her opponent.

The Heavenly Demon bit her lower lip at that expression.

“Your love is truly vain and pathetic.”

“I’ll kill you without leaving a single shred of reason.”

The Heavenly Demon gnashed her teeth and growled.

Stomping her foot hard and leaping forward, the Heavenly Demon reached out her hand towards Maria’s eyes before she could even react.

Soon, she would be able to extract Inho’s blue eyes and hold them in her hand.

However, a giant pillar of light separated her and Maria.

The Heavenly Demon and Maria squeezed their eyes shut at the dazzling light.

“What is going on…”

A desperate voice was heard from within the pillar of light, as if someone had seen a house in complete disarray.

When the pillar of light disappeared and the glare faded, the Heavenly Demon and Maria saw the being who had separated them.

“You!!”

Neat hair, calm impression.

The Inquisitor General wearing silver armor.

Maria’s eyes widened as the Inquisitor General, whom she had clearly cut down with her own hands, reappeared before her eyes.

“Lee Mina. What is going on?”

The Heavenly Demon, her momentum broken by the appearance of a disturber with an unusual aura, looked up at Solari and called out to Lee Mina.

However, there was no answer to her call.

“Lee Mina?”

She called out again, but Lee Mina’s presence could not be felt.

“That bug-like bitch!!!”

The Heavenly Demon, who had been feeling uneasy throughout her clash with Maria, screamed as she grasped the situation, and Solari flinched slightly at the mortal’s rage.