Chapter 14
Chapter 14
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 14
Chapter Title: I've Figured Out Your Forms
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1.
Half-Demon Gorge's story mode usually doesn't last more than 30 seconds.
Yokai whose impulses overrode reason, half-yokai who inherited their blood, or dregs who couldn't even reach that level.
All the enemies that appeared were such existences. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "New bride, look upon me." However, the Silent Swordmaster's story mode was different.
The bosses weren't machines spitting out fixed scripts—they revealed their desires like living beings. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "What do you think of me?" "Don't you want to serve this sturdy groom?" 📜 INTERACTION CHOICES 📜 [To the half-yokai's temptation, you...] 1. Yes, my lord. (Unlock Half-Human Half-Fish Bloodline)
2. Who's the woman in the prison?
3. (Demurely remain silent.)
4. (Silently point your sword.) Its body wasn't bloated like the water ghosts.
Nor did she have any intention of going off to marry it.
Let alone that horrific hybrid of a fish's upper body attached to human legs.
As a woman,
Even before that, as a person, it held no appeal.
'They look different, but they're no different from the power holders in the martial world.'
They casually lock women in prisons and drool over beauties, endlessly adding to their concubines.
Even if one offered her purity, could there be love in a bond forged by lust?
Could that love endure once youth faded?
'No need to look that far ahead.'
Wasn't there a woman screaming from the prison right now? ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Save me! I don't want to be with this disgusting monster even for a moment!" A voice like a scream carried on the wind.
The half-yokai trembled with rage at the betrayal. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "You ungrateful trash! You're done for. I'll swallow you into my body so you can never escape again." Women's arms and heads burst from the half-yokai's upper body, forcibly prying open the bars.
If she stayed put, the woman in the prison would end up as fish food. 📜 CHOICE SELECTED 📜 ▶ (Silently point your sword.) Shing.
The half-yokai halted at the chilling ring of steel.
Its eyes, turning back, brimmed with betrayal. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "You're rejecting me too? I gained power to win women's love, defeated villains, yet not one loves me!" ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Fine. Then I'll forcibly embrace you. Once we're one body, you can't escape!" Whether the half-yokai had its own circumstances.
What kind of life the woman in the prison had lived.
None of that mattered anymore.
With the half-yokai’s ferocious cry, her senses returned. [Player Mode] She had only seen strategy footage for boss patterns during the tutorial.
There was no prior knowledge whatsoever about the field boss of the Blood Pool Water Prison, ⚔ FIELD BOSS ⚔ 【Half-Yokai Water Ghost Captain】 Splat!
Boom!
Along with sharp sounds tearing through the air, a barrage of whips battered the walls, floor, and surrounding prison bars.
Thinner than the Executioner's axe, but getting struck by those razor-sharp whips would tear flesh and snap bones without question.
'For most, an unfamiliar weapon like this would make it hard to find a counter.'
Hae Eung-eung was different.
The Imperial Palace of the martial world was a den of demons no less fierce.
It teemed with countless palace experts,
and among them was the emperor's second consort.
After the emperor fell for Hae Eung-eung at first sight.
It didn't take long before the second consort, a martial artist herself, pulled out a whip laced with killing intent under the guise of sparring. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Aaaah, this is the best. Just imagining having you gets me excited!" The half-yokai wildly swung its whip, body shuddering in frenzy.
Even in this scene of what seemed like a glaring opening, Hae Eung-eung didn't bite.
The timing she awaited wasn't now.
Clang! Clang! Claaang!
Amid bending and shattering iron bars, her foot flicked up a broken bar shard. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "You bitch! How long do you think you can keep running? Come serve your husband now!" The whip lashes intensified.
As bars and even walls exploded, sending up clouds of dust.
The bar shard in her left hand pierced through the whip and embedded in the wall.
'The weakness of the whip. It's easier to neutralize than close-range weapons like swords or spears.'
A whip is strongest when swung.
Fix it so it can't swing anymore, and the weapon is instantly neutralized.
The half-yokai frantically tugged at its whip in panic.
As she closed the distance, her sword severed the arms protruding from the half-yokai's upper body.
After the slender arms blocking the way,
Next came the grotesquely swollen fish-man's two arms.
Slash.
"Kaaaaagh! How dare you, how dare you cut off my arms!"
The moment she raised her blade toward the writhing half-yokai in agony, her body froze like a clock without batteries.
2. [Story Mode] The half-yokai's body explosively swelled, its bulk surging.
The instant she stepped back, something erupted violently from its abdomen.
Boom!
Split floor.
Impaled there was a rope-like twist of women's torsos and limbs. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Save me..." "Kill me..." "It hurts so much..." Heads of women buried in the torsos, pleading for help.
Their eyes rolled back all at once. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Didn't you realize when you saw the water ghosts?" "Why there were only males among them." "Because all women become one with this body as brides." "Don't be too jealous." "I'll make you one soon enough!" With horrific vitriol, the women's bodies retreated into deep darkness. [Player Mode] The fight with the Executioner had honestly been closer to enjoyment.
Thinking, Modern games can make AI this advanced, huh?
This field boss was different.
She'd started the game out of curiosity first, then greed for inner force advancement.
Yet now,
She couldn't contain her fury toward that fish-headed fiend walking the path of demonic heresy, treating human lives like tools.
'I didn't want to rely on external aid, but I have no mercy to spare for such an evil spawn.'
Even in the three consecutive Water Ghost extermination battles, she hadn't used it.
She who had fought solely with pure martial arts.
Hae Eung-eung's inner force began rotating fiercely. 💬 Comments — Viewer1 Ugh, fuck, what the hell is all that? — Viewer2 That pattern wasn't there originally, right? — Viewer3 No fr, even pro gamers haven't seen this pattern? — Viewer4 Phase 2 is entirely new patterns? — Viewer5 But it looks fucking strong, isn't this tough? — Viewer6 Silent Swordmaster has stamina limits too. — Viewer7 Yeah, the fight's gone on too long. A single player can typically handle one large-scale battle per run.
The body doesn't tire from intense combat,
but the brain directing it feels the fatigue.
Even veteran players max out at two.
Yet Hae Eung-eung had soloed three such battles in a row. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "First, I'll smash those arrogant legs!" Poison Lord Dugok-seong.
The evil sect overlord who used poison humans like water ghosts.
His decisive battle had been just like this. The world has plenty of women with yin energy, even if not Nine Yin Vein Blockage Blockage. Unlike innate Nine Yin Vein Blockage Blockage that constantly regenerates yin, these defectives deplete quickly. What happens to defectives? They're used as tools, of course. The human body is amazing—even without innate qi, it's perfect for poison experiments. The villain who treated women's lives like tools.
The evil sect overlord had said to her: I'll tell you something good. Every three days. That's the cycle for cycling through defectives so far. If you offer your body to me for three days, one woman survives. Hold out a year, over a hundred live. Ten years, over a thousand. Refuse me, and over a thousand women become defectives. So, what will you do? Stimulating conscience with hostages.
Agitating emotions to induce mistakes.
Settling with meticulously planned counterattacks. [Current Assimilation Rate]: 40% (Upper Limit Reached) [Current Assimilation Rate]: 30% [Current Assimilation Rate]: 25% Heart burning hot, mind ice cold.
As she recited the martial world's creed,
the assimilation rate plummeted terrifyingly fast.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Flesh masses hurtled in, churning the ground like a torrent.
A massive bio-whip crafted from human women's bodies.
A reckless charge would have been overwhelmed by the assault filling the passage.
'These screams...'
As the tip of that loathsome weapon smashed into the wall,
a woman's death cry followed.
It was the scream from the woman at the very end of the bio-whip.
If she didn't want to become part of that horrific creation,
she had to sprint up the stairs behind her right now.
She didn't flee blindly. [Current Assimilation Rate]: 25% [Current Assimilation Rate]: 40% (Upper Limit Reached) 'Half-yokai. I've figured out your forms.'
In a warrior's battle, recognizing the opponent's forms.
This can be the turning point deciding victory or defeat.
Counter form.
A perfect counter technique that only one who comprehends a specific form can create.
Because it can be wielded in real combat.
Of course, typical counter forms are for practice sparring.
They lack real combat viability.
However, if a supreme expert sets their mind to it.
No counter form in the world is impossible to create. [Current Assimilation Rate]: 40% (Upper Limit Reached) [Current Assimilation Rate]: 40% (Upper Limit Reached) [Current Assimilation Rate]: 40% (Upper Limit Reached) 'What I need now is a body that can endure one counter form.'
Her restricted breathing.
Her restricted heartbeat.
The limits of her restricted meridians.
For one moment.
One form.
One breath, she transcends the constraints.
Even if the foe unleashes inhuman bio-demonic arts.
If there are constraints of flesh
and patterned attacks.
Then in one moment,
one form,
one breath, the battle can be overturned. ⚡ OUTBREAK! ⚡ Strong mental fortitude temporarily breaks assimilation limit! [Current Assimilation Rate: 90%] The bio-whip vanished into the darkness.
It charged back, smashing through the passage.
She activated her meridian pathways where inner force flowed,
exerting superhuman strength as if artificial muscles had formed,
surpassing her body's limits.
As the half-yokai's bio-whip reached the limit of its attack range
and could advance no further, ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Kyaaaaagh!" "Why are you tormenting us?!" "S-save... glurk!" Women swallowed into the bio-whip,
reduced to mere appendages—not human, not monster.
Immense external force shattered their bodies. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "It's because of you. If you just die, we won't hurt anymore!" "You monstrous bitch!" "Die!" Appendages flailing, resisting with outstretched hands,
thrashing wildly,
thus unable to unite their strength. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Damn it! What are you doing? Obey your husband now!" By the time the half-yokai belatedly tried to reassert control,
over ten appendages had been swept away,
and over twenty more thrashed in pandemonium.
Her sword strikes undulated like waves,
unhindered by fleshly resistance,
spraying blood in their fluid paths. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "At this rate, all my brides will die!" The half-yokai's weakness: unable to relinquish the spoils—women enslaved within its body.
This led to the act of recalling the bio-whip to its body.
The returning arms,
most of the women comprising them dangling dead.
As the half-yokai gnashed its teeth at the massive sacrifice, ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ "Th-this is...?" Torsos of women without heads,
especially frequent in the arm sections,
sensory blind spots where even a person slipping in wouldn't be noticed.
In that gap,
a sword burst forth, slicing through flesh.
'White Wave Piercing Wave?'
Like white foam hiding a thief amid blue waves,
Hae Eung-eung naturally infiltrated the enemy's assault.
The interval between extending for attack and retracting,
that long distance and short time containing
what eyes couldn't confirm,
composed of countless women turned into spoils—
the bio-whip.
A counter form that completely discerned its nature. 💬 Comments ⭐ Top Comment — Viewer8 Whoa... — Viewer9 This works? — Viewer10 You break it like this? Hae Eung-eung's ambush pierced the half-yokai's head. ◇◇◇◆◇◇◇