Chapter 51
Chapter 51
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 051
Chapter Title: Unleashed Progeny
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The blonde youth brimmed with leisure.
“You from another family?”
It was a natural assumption, given what his words hinted at about his identity.
Considering where they were.
And knowing the opponent was a master-level powerhouse.
“No way, huh.”
The youth muttered to himself, as if he’d gone through the same past as Sein.
“I’d know any peer from another family with this level of skill.”
“Exactly.”
“But it’s strange.”
Even as Sein spoke, the youth continued muttering to himself.
“So I need to find out.”
In that instant.
Boom!
A dark nail embedded where Sein had stood and exploded.
It was the real deal, utterly different from the puppet’s version.
Sein dodged it.
Right in front of his nose.
Vmmm!
A dark nail was already primed.
Clang!
The dark nail trembled as it clashed with Sein’s swinging hand blade.
“……!”
His pupils dilated.
Boom!
The dark nail exploded in the next moment, shattering into dozens of shards that burrowed into Sein’s body.
“Gah!”
They pierced his reinforced flesh and skin.
Ssssh!
His body turned black, a curse infiltrating even with the Demon King’s heart inside.
“Fascinating. To think I didn’t know of a being with pure demonic energy like this.”
Even as Sein moved frantically, the blonde youth merely waved his hand and recited his words.
Screeech!
“Your curse resistance is believable even for a demon. A little more ripening, and you might form a antidote foundation I’ve never seen….”
Sein ran, struck, and rolled his body.
He didn’t even have time to draw his sword.
Dozens, hundreds.
Dark nails flew freely.
Boom!
Fragments scattered before he could fully block them.
The curse within those fragments.
“Urgh!”
Burrowed into Sein, continuously slowing his movements.
“Damn, thought you’d regressed.”
He could see it everywhere—those dulled by peace, their growth halted.
But.
“No such luck.”
It was true black mages had come into the light, but that was it.
The world they lived in held no trace of peace.
Especially amid the power struggles of the three great dark families.
“What are you, exactly.”
Black magic had evolved further, turning more aggressive.
Boom boom boom!
Sein was feeling it with his entire body right now.
“What the hell are you.”
In that moment.
“Curious?”
The dark nails halted.
Because Sein now stood right before the bound demon.
If Sein dodged, the merchandise would be damaged.
Merchandise worth more than the entire Contra.
“Sharp eyes and skills.”
The blonde youth had been using dark nails to lure Sein elsewhere on purpose.
But Sein evaded them and successfully reached this spot.
“You satisfied with just this?”
Sein said.
“Looks like you wanted to see more.”
The pattern etched on his chest.
Few in this world would recognize it.
Even if they did.
“I’ll show you.”
It wouldn’t matter.
Roooar—!
The blonde youth’s eyes widened at the surge of Sein’s demonic energy.
Its quality and quantity.
“Insane.”
Pure demonic energy of an intensity impossible to find.
Shhhhrrrr!
Dozens, hundreds.
No, thousands of dark nails filled the chamber.
But.
“Of course, not me, but this guy.”
Clang!
That dense demonic energy was sucked away in an instant.
Behind Sein.
Into the bound demon.
“……!”
The youth moved his hand to fire dark nails, but it was too late.
“Roooaaar!”
The shackled beast was freed.
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‘As expected.’
It absorbed Sein’s demonic energy.
Demons’ demonic energy varies greatly by individual.
Killing and devouring each other to grow it was demonic nature, but absorbing like this was another matter.
Boom!
The demon rampaged, swinging its fists.
Air tore, earth shattered with each blow.
Boom boom boom!
Even the barrage of dark nails was helpless.
The dark nails burst under the demon’s fists, and the curse within them… .
“Those were extracted from this guy, right? No wonder they’re useless.”
They originated from this demon.
Curses didn’t harm their original master.
“…….”
Sein finally caught his breath.
‘Still too early for master-level.’
Masters were at least level 25.
True monsters near max level.
The blonde wasn’t comparable to Almand yet, but he was a powerhouse who’d soon catch up to Rasiel’s master, Almand.
Facing such a guy at his current level was impossible.
‘If I poured everything out….’
But Sein had now gauged his level accurately.
Anyway, that wasn’t the point.
Boom!
The rampaging demon.
It was indeed the one called Arcane that Sein sought.
But what he truly sought wasn’t Arcane.
“Yeah, keep rampaging like that.”
The demon itself, not Arcane.
“Good, good.”
Demons had been exterminated in Sanctuary.
Occasional demon byproducts were just someone unearthing an undecaying corpse.
Otherwise, they were mere sub-species.
True demons existing in Sanctuary.
‘Only one way: tied to a player.’
The final demons.
When that life began.
“A slumbering demon awakens.”
Sein had already claimed them once.
But when that demon life ended, he tidied them up out of necessity.
“As father, so son. Better to sow more seeds, right?”
He scattered demon seeds across the world, ensuring they’d reappear.
Thinking they’d always be useful, or he’d need the materials.
And Arcane, now rampaging and pressuring the blonde youth before his eyes, was one of them.
Even if Sein didn’t remember, it stemmed from him.
“Good job! That’s it, my son!”
His own child, essentially.
“Son or daughter? Hard to tell with that build.”
“Urgh!”
The blonde youth began to falter.
The demon, infused with the patriarch’s demonic energy, went berserk with all its life force.
Moreover, the curse that had bound Arcane until now exploded as its power.
Demons were far sturdier than humans.
And with various buffs stacked.
Heh.
Even master-level powerhouses could be crushed.
“Great show! I’ve seen what I needed and grabbed what I came for.”
Sein turned away.
“Rampage and self-destruct to your heart’s content, my child. That’s your father’s first and last advice!”
“You dare—!”
In that instant, dark nails flew.
No leisure left against Arcane, yet laced with venomous intent not to let Sein escape.
However.
Clang!
Sein was different now.
He perfectly deflected the dark nail he couldn’t before.
The fragments he’d scattered.
“Hey, I’m leaving ‘cause I’m out of time, not running.”
He’d recovered the power he left within them.
Scraaaape!
Like a tattoo being etched, the pattern on Sein’s chest grew.
Overflowing demonic energy.
In this moment, Sein underwent an evolution beyond several level-ups.
“So don’t get cocky—deal with my child and live or die as you will.”
The blonde youth stared at Sein.
A massive fist and face loomed over him.
The merchandise he’d sliced and torn until now bared its fangs at him.
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Gates were a form of black magic.
Even if the entrance was lost, creating an exit was simple.
Boom! Boom!
Explosions rocked one corner of the city.
“So that’s where it was.”
That must’ve been where Sein was until just now.
Demonic energy boiled up from the shattered ground, previously concealed.
In the old days, land surging with demonic energy became a death zone uninhabitable by humans.
“Not my problem.”
Sein didn’t care.
Especially not in another family’s territory.
But things wouldn’t go as he wished.
Black mages who could control demonic energy would see it as a gold mine.
“It’ll be chaos for a while, and finally….”
Sein leaped into motion.
His business in Contra was done.
Except for one thing.
Tap.
The demon’s rampage intensified, turning one side of the city into an inferno.
Creeeak.
A door opened with an unpleasant noise.
“What the hell is this mess! Don’t tell me that guy’s involved?”
The old man muttered to himself while packing his shop’s goods.
“Damn it! It’s got nothing to do with me! Nothing!”
He seemed ready to grab his fortune and flee the city.
“Why do black mages like me always mutter to ourselves?”
The voice made the old man freeze.
“And so creepily.”
“Eeeeek!”
It was him.
“H-How are you here?”
“That? Underground demon went berserk. Don’t worry about it.”
“D-Demon?”
He didn’t know that far.
Probably, the ones who moved after were just reacting to the pure demonic energy left for the blood provider, the diviner.
“My son. Or daughter?”
“…….”
He didn’t know that much.
It didn’t matter.
“You still gotta pay.”
“Not me! I didn’t do it on purpose!”
“I believe you.”
A massive shadow fell over the old man’s face.
Boom!
Shadows flickered from the flames rising outside.
Sein looked down at the old man.
“Even if I set the stage, it’s natural to feel pissed.”
“P-Please! Please!”
“So understand.”
Stab!
One of Sein’s daggers pierced the old man’s heart.
“And that’s that.”
With this, his business in Contra truly ended.
Or was there one more?
“Flashy payback.”
Another customer was in the shop.
Precisely, Sein’s customer.
“Long time no see, partner.”
Arin Segmore.
The witch had appeared in Contra.