The Last Battle of This Story – 2

There’s something one must not forget when facing a Jiangshi. That is ‘persistence.’ As a child, the Heavenly Demon learned this from the previous generation’s Yomryun Skill practitioner.

According to her Master, they are tough and feel no pain, so you can’t win if you think of them as facing a person.

[Then Master, how do you get rid of such beings?]

When young Namgung Soyou asked her Master, the Master unfolded her fan and smiled slyly.

With a fox-like smile, slight wrinkles formed between her Master’s brows.

[They are monsters close to immortal, but they should still have human bodies. Even if we can’t kill them, we should be able to immobilize them, shouldn’t we?]

Her Master’s teachings were truly concise.

[That seems like a simpler method than I thought.]

[Truth is always simple. It’s just that those who love embellishment add words and confuse the path to truth.]

Her Master stroked her head.

[However, while the method is simple in theory, putting it into practice will be difficult.]

[Why is that?]

[Well, because it takes a lot of time. You know how troublesome it is to sever each joint and muscle in a human body. Now, imagine doing that to dozens, hundreds of Jiangshi.]

[Indeed… it seems like it would take a lot of time.]

[That’s right. That’s why persistence is important.]

‘That whore… she’s useless to the very end.’

She frowned, recalling her old Master, whom she wouldn’t feel sorry for even if she tore her to pieces again.

More than the unpleasant feeling of suddenly remembering someone she hated, the fact that she was driven to such a point upset her.

“Persistent, aren’t you.”

She spoke calmly, standing tall on the earth, while the gray and gold woman staggered to her feet on the ground.

How many times has this situation repeated itself? The Heavenly Demon gave up counting.

“Why don’t you just give up now.”

If it were a normal person, they would have touched the gates of the afterlife a hundred times over.

“Even if your bodies recover, you still feel the pain, don’t you?”

The way they charged at her even after having their heads blown off or eyes gouged out reminded her of the Jiangshi she faced as a child.

She mocks them, pretending to be concerned.

“My pain receptors are already blocked. You won’t get the reaction you’re expecting.”

“Do you think we would abandon our faith over this little bit of pain?”

The doll and the fanatic answer her mockery.

“I’m not asking about your will. I’m just telling you to give up.”

“Don’t you realize I also expressed ‘rejection’?”

The gray woman retorted to the Heavenly Demon’s words without backing down.

Since bearing the name Heavenly Demon, no one except Kang In-ho had ever talked back to her.

But here, there were too many people who acted ‘rudely’ towards her.

“That guy promised to live happily with me until we die together. Another woman is unnecessary between him and me.”

As if to melt the ground, crimson Black flame blazed in her hand.

“I have a duty to protect Master’s happiness. My goal is to protect him and find a woman who suits him.”

Isis, having finished analyzing the data obtained from the battle, repaired her body with nanomachines and took out new armaments.

Blue electricity emanated from her body.

“Then there’s no need to try so hard, is there? I am the woman who suits him.”

Even seeing Isis glowing blue, the Heavenly Demon didn’t pay much attention.

“That’s precisely why you must be excluded. Because you are the one who makes him unhappy.”

Crackle, crackle, blue electricity bared its teeth and growled.

“What?”

One of the Heavenly Demon’s eyebrows rose.

“Are you trying to deny it? Or are you just trying to ignore it?”

The blue light of lightning flickered in Isis’s gray eyes. As Isis reached out her hand, a blue lightning bolt shot out in a straight line.

The Heavenly Demon reflexively deflected the flying lightning spear. The spear’s trajectory was bent and disappeared, leaving a tingling sensation in her hand.

“You failed to protect Master. Twice.”

Isis fired a second lightning spear. It flew towards the Heavenly Demon’s head.

The electric shock slightly dulled the Heavenly Demon’s movements, causing her to react a little late to the second spear.

The Heavenly Demon bent her back to avoid it, and the blue spear, emitting ominous electricity, grazed the tip of her nose.

Isis’s words hurt the Heavenly Demon more than the paralysis and pain from the lightning spear.

“If you stay by Master’s side, he will face death again. That’s why you don’t suit Master.”

Isis rushed at the Heavenly Demon, emitting electricity. The Heavenly Demon watched the approaching opponent with red eyes.

A storm of blue electricity swirled around the gray woman’s body.

“……..”

To attack the main body, she had to break through the storm of electricity, but she couldn’t see a good way to do it.

And even if she managed to break through the storm and land a effective hit, that detestable doll would quickly recover and start lecturing her about her disciple in a monotonous voice.

“Didn’t all of you here fail to protect him? What right do you have to judge me?”

The Heavenly Demon twisted her lips into a sneer.

The Heavenly Demon, who had distanced herself by placing her palm on the ground, stomped her foot, causing stones to fly up.

She struck them and sent them towards Isis. The rapidly flying stones struck Isis’s body, but they didn’t stop Isis’s charge.

The Heavenly Demon stomped her foot once more, and dust instantly filled the surroundings.

“Do you think you can block my visual sensors with dust?”

Just as Isis was about to pinpoint the Heavenly Demon’s location by expanding her sensing range, she detected a huge object flying from behind.

Without even turning around, Isis focused her defense on her back. Nanomachines moved and deployed a barrier.

As the object touched the barrier, a thin scream erupted. Isis realized that the owner of the voice was the nun.

The Heavenly Demon, who was not caught by the visual sensors, and the nun who suddenly flew in.

Isis, thinking that she was approaching her by using the nun’s body as a shield, turned her body.

As Maria entered the electric field that Isis had deployed, the flow of the electric field began to become tangled.

Organic matter that entered the electric field would be reduced to ashes and burn away, but Maria continued to recover her body and interfere with the operation of the electric field.

“Reboot required due to electric field overload.”

The time required to remove Maria, who had entered the range, and re-energize the electric field was less than 1 second.

Just as Isis was about to release the electric field and distance herself from Maria, someone grabbed her shoulder and pressed down hard.

“Looks like you didn’t know this.”

“It’s a shame I didn’t tell my disciple about the time I caught and killed a ‘Brain Ryun Gong’.”

The Heavenly Demon said.

“I didn’t catch you on my sensors.”

Why is she suddenly faster? Isis wondered.

“I got a little serious.”

As the Heavenly Demon exerted her strength, Isis’s body sank further into the ground.

“I’ve fought that fanatic over there before.”

The Heavenly Demon gestured towards Maria with her chin. Maria, who had returned to her original form, was struggling to break free from the paralysis.

“Both you and that woman… you’re both very good at recovering your bodies. So I thought about it.”

Countless warning alarms began to sound in Isis’s system.

“I figured you wouldn’t be able to recover if you didn’t have a body to recover in the first place.”

Black flames were burning in the Heavenly Demon’s hands as she wore a deep smile.