Chapter 91
Chapter 91.
'Huh, Mother suddenly... how did she get here?'
Mother Yoo Eesu, who had been missing for several years already.
However, she was smiling brightly with the same face as before.
But her attire was not modern clothing.
'......It's similar to the attire of a Lowest Grade Disciple.'
The black martial robes similar to what Tian Jiaxian wore, like something that would appear in a martial arts novel.
However, the fabric material was smoother than the clothes she wore.
The golden patterns were subtly engraved and glowing, making it look much more luxurious.
Moreover, the red Chinese character embroidered on the collar was Ma魔.
"Mother, don't tell me you're connected to the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect......?"
"Oh my, really. You've grown so much?"
Even so, Yoo Eesu smiled with complete satisfaction.
"But as expected, our son is amazing, enduring without falling asleep even in this state."
To think that Mother was really behind this.
Lee Ganghan couldn't believe his eyes at first.
Even when he heard from his father that 'your mother is a demon.'
Even when he heard his mother's voice full of demonic energy in the training hall of Heavenly Demon Valley.
It was just that the voice was similar.
In one corner of his heart, he hoped it had nothing to do with his actual mother.
'But today...... it became clear.'
Lee Ganghan observed his mother Yoo Eesu carefully.
The black energy rising above her clothes.
That was the pure demonic energy he had seen in the First Tower.
"Why on earth......?"
Ten years ago, the family of three was a harmonious household.
Even after Lee Ganghan contracted the sleeping sickness.
His parents poured out endless affection and attention to Lee Ganghan.
They did their best hoping his illness would be cured.
Especially how sincerely his mother cared for him.
Lee Ganghan, who was 14 years old, knew this better.
That's why he didn't really believe it when his father said his mother was a demon.
"Why...... are you doing this?"
Lee Ganghan asked with a trembling voice.
The short-haired girl next to Yoo Eesu slowly opened her mouth.
"Let's hurry, he might really wake up at this rate."
"Yes. Begin."
Slurp.
Then came the sound of a sword being drawn from its sheath.
A girl holding a long sword.
'......What?'
Could she be trying to stab him?
Lee Ganghan tried to get up somehow.
"It'll be over quickly."
Swish!
The sword tip wavered.
Then it quickly stabbed toward Lee Ganghan's chest.
['Arena Promising Player Bracelet' detects a surprise threat.]
[Barrier is activated.]
At the same time, a barrier activated to block the sword.
Chiiiik......!
The blue barrier was torn like paper by the sword.
'The barrier that even blocked bullets......!'
The bracelet's barrier that had deflected all bullets with room to spare.
But it was too easily neutralized by the girl's sword.
When Lee Ganghan's eyes widened seeing this.
Chiiik!
Lee Ganghan's t-shirt was immediately torn.
"Huh......!"
Something was carved into his chest.
"As expected, Divine Maiden. The character Ma魔 is well carved."
Seeing the character, his mother smiled with satisfaction.
"Divine Maiden......?"
Lee Ganghan looked closely at the girl.
A young face that looked like a middle or high school student with a small build.
She wore pure white mourning clothes, and just like his mother, had the character Ma embroidered in red on her collar.
Clothes that showed some similarity to the Divine Maiden ghost's attire.
"As expected...... you were connected to the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect."
"Son, amazing isn't it? Your stats aren't even 20 but you're enduring like this."
Trump.
Then Yoo Eesu flicked Lee Ganghan's chest with her finger.
Paaaaaat......!
Red light leaked from there.
Then.
Ssssss......
Lee Ganghan's entire room was dyed bright red.
Without exception, the walls, floor, ceiling, and furniture.
Blood-colored patterns appeared in every location.
"What is this......?"
"This is the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation天魔聖血陣 of the Divine Sect, to complete the Heavenly Demon."
Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation.
So there was such a formation drawn inside the house?
While Lee Ganghan was bewildered seeing the blood formation that appeared everywhere.
Yoo Eesu smiled.
"It's good that you're successful and moving, but...... what will you do if you leave the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation behind?"
"How did you...... find out about the moving?"
"There are ways to know everything."
The moving talk came up only in recent days.
It wouldn't have been easy to obtain this information.
How did she know in advance?
While Lee Ganghan was puzzled.
Flash......!
The Ma carved into Lee Ganghan's chest.
Red light began to rise.
Then.
Haze rose from the patterns created everywhere.
And was sucked into Lee Ganghan's Ma.
"The Ma carved into your body will absorb the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation. You'll fall into a long sleep for a while...... so rest well during that time."
Yoo Eesu waved her hand.
Her appearance, emanating black demonic energy from her entire body.
Was the complete opposite of the kind and loving mother in Lee Ganghan's memories.
Before she left, Lee Ganghan asked.
"Mother...... are you a demon?"
He wanted to confirm the truth of what he heard from his father.
Then.
"A demon......?"
Yoo Eesu's smiling face instantly contorted.
"Where did you hear such nonsense? Your father? Or the angel hiding under the LA Association building?"
"......!"
She even knew about the angel.
When Lee Ganghan's eyes widened.
Whisper.
Yoo Eesu approached him lying down and gripped his shoulders tightly.
"Ganghan, we are, the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect is the origin. We followed God's will first!"
"......"
"Are you planning to tell the whole story?"
When Yoo Eesu was about to say more.
The girl in Divine Maiden attire interrupted from the side.
Then she quickly changed her expression.
And spoke again in a calm voice.
"Sorry. I got a bit excited...... Son, when you become a true Heavenly Demon, then you'll be able to know the real truth."
"True Heavenly Demon......"
"You're still too lacking. For now, focus on becoming the Heavenly Demon, don't call the mother who lives for you a demon. Understood?"
Sign.
Then his mother turned her back.
"Divine Maiden, I'll go first. Son, see you later. By then, grow into an existence more befitting the Heavenly Demon than now, and surprise your mother."
Paaaaaat......!
She opened a red portal and entered it.
'Ha. What the hell......'
His mother, who emanated demonic energy like that but thoroughly denied being a demon when asked.
Moreover, from what she said, she seemed to want to raise Lee Ganghan into a more complete Heavenly Demon.
His mother and this Divine Maiden.
Turns out they were members of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect, and were they doing this to complete the Heavenly Demon?
When Lee Ganghan was thinking this.
"......"
The girl who had been quietly looking at Lee Ganghan.
Lowered her head to his ear.
"Do you remember what happened in Heavenly Demon Valley?"
"What are you talking about?"
"As expected, you don't remember."
The girl said this in a dry voice.
"Originally, I was 1st place, 2nd place Heavenly Demon."
She said that originally she was 1st place.
"Well then, good work."
Sseuuwik.
The girl turned her back to leave.
"You, are you...... a Divine Maiden of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect?"
Lee Ganghan urgently asked her.
Sseuwik.
She turned her head to glance at Lee Ganghan.
Sseuuk... sseuuk..
Then approached him again and put her mouth to his ear.
"Yes. I am a Divine Maiden, and your mother...... even if she says that, she's an existence close to a demon."
"......Is that so?"
What.
Her expressionless face felt so cold.
He didn't expect her to kindly answer such a question.
Especially she answered about his mother being a demon without even being asked.
When Lee Ganghan looked at her with strange eyes.
"......"
Sseuwik.
She turned her back again and was about to enter the portal.
"Ah."
She approached Lee Ganghan again.
"But if your mother is a demon, then we're the same. So let's say we're not demons."
"......You answer so readily."
"I'm not your enemy. Rather."
Sseureurung.
The girl who drew her sword from its sheath.
"You could say I'm humanity's savior."
She answered shamelessly with an expressionless face.
Humanity's savior.
She's saying such a cringeworthy line with a straight face.
"......You cut my chest and you're still a savior?"
"Huh? Thanks to me, your Heavenly Demon Divine Art is getting stronger. Be grateful."
Even though the portal was open, she didn't enter.
The girl who was talking to Lee Ganghan.
"Now I really have to go."
When the portal that his mother had opened became smaller.
Only then did she turn her back.
However, the girl standing in front of the portal...
Whew.
'......Again?'
…Looked at Lee Ganghan once more.
"You'll be bored while absorbing the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation."
Sseureurung......!
She drew her sword from its sheath again.
Swish, Swish, Swish.
And slashed the sword several times in the air.
Then red lines were carved where the sword passed.
The traces of the sword continued to remain in that place.
"Watch this in the meantime. It's the scene of me giving up 1st place."
Sseuwik!
Then the girl coolly entered the portal.
When she went inside.
Only then did the red portal disappear.
"......What's with that woman?"
Just looking at her face, she seemed like she wouldn't say a single unnecessary word.
But she's a complete chatterbox.
'I can't believe everything, but I still got some information.'
Lee Ganghan pondered the story the girl told him.
Paaaaaat......!
When more energy from the surrounding blood formation was sucked into his chest.
He suddenly felt his body becoming lighter.
'With this...... I should be able to move?'
When Lee Ganghan tried to get up.
Hweok!
His body, which couldn't move at all from the bed, immediately sprang up as if bouncing.
***
'......Except for the Ma carved on my chest, there's nothing else strange.'
Lee Ganghan checked his condition.
Except for the character Ma.
His body was unchanged.
The system window and status window were all the same.
There was no hindrance to his actions either.
However.
'I can't go outside.'
He could move around inside the house.
But outside, the blood formation was thickly positioned so he couldn't go out.
Even when he tried to push through with force.
Pajijik......!
"Huh......"
Red sparks flew and the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation bounced Lee Ganghan's body away.
'With this much, the Presidential Office security guards should have noticed something strange...... can't they see it from outside?'
Lee Ganghan opened his phone.
But only a black screen appeared, and the phone wouldn't turn on at all.
Come to think of it, the lights didn't work either.
It seemed like electricity wasn't coming into this house.
'Is this all the work of the blood formation too? How strange......'
It seemed like he shouldn't leave the house until he absorbed all of this.
Lee Ganghan tried various methods to escape.
Pajijijik!
Whatever means he used, red electricity sparked.
'A frontal breakthrough won't work.'
He judged it impossible to break through the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation drawn throughout the house with his bare body.
Then.
'Yeah...... should I try entering a tower?'
He also thought about tower climbing as an indirect method.
[You cannot currently enter a tower.]
The system message informed him that tower climbing was also impossible.
"Nothing works......"
So he had no choice but to stay in the house until he absorbed all this blood formation?
When Lee Ganghan frowned.
'That's......'
His eyes saw the red sword marks the girl had left.
'That Divine Maiden earlier said to watch this since I'd be bored.'
The Divine Maiden who was talkative contrary to her appearance.
At the end, she even worried about Lee Ganghan's boredom.
Certainly, she said it was a scene where she, who was originally 1st place, gave up.
But.
'How am I supposed to watch it?'
Lee Ganghan approached the sword traces still floating in the air.
He crossed his arms and observed them carefully.
However, when just looking brought no changes.
Sseuuwik......
Lee Ganghan carefully touched them with his hand.
Then.
Paaaat......!
The sword marks flashed with light.
Sseuuwik!
The sword traces gathered together, creating a huge square screen.
'......Is this possible with a sword too?'
While Lee Ganghan widened his eyes, the screen suddenly appeared.
From the black screen background.
[The scene where humanity's savior really specially gives up 1st place]
White letters appeared.