Possessing Nothing

Chapter 184.2 – Mayhem (6) cont.

Translated by : betterdays

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The rumbling explosions and eerie screams within the city, shocked Rubia and the Crazy Heavenly Demon.

They had simply come to the city to enjoy the scenery and night atmosphere for a change of pace on their break. But, something was seriously wrong right now.

Rubia grabbed the Crazy Heavenly Demon’s hand, frightened and scared.

“It’s all right.”, the Crazy Heavenly Demon patted Rubia’s head calming her down.

At first, the Crazy Heavenly Demon didn’t want to be caught up in this mess at all. He was planning on going back to the forest through a portal where Lee Sungmin was supposedly training.

If only he didn’t hear the voices of the citizens running away.

“Chusung is back?”, a citizen muttered in anger as they brushed by the Crazy Heavenly Demon, running away.

The moment he heard the name ‘Chusung’, the Crazy Heavenly Demon stopped walking.

Not hearing what the citizen said, Rubia tilted her head and looked up at the Crazy Heavenly Demon who had suddenly stopped walking.

Suddenly a fierce killing intent that was being suppressed for the past week, while they all had trained in solitude, burst out from the Crazy Heavenly Demon in vast amounts.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon looked down at Rubia, who realized what was going on and tearily shook her head at him, pleading him not to go.

“……go back alone.”, the Crazy Heavenly Demon said in a cold tone.

“What?”, Rubia cried out as tears streamed down her cheeks.

“I’m sorry.”

The Crazy Heavenly Demon mumbled and put his hand on Rubia’s shoulder.

Rubia got emotional and grabbed the Crazy Heavenly Demon’s wrist and asked, “Where are you going?”

“Chusung is here.”, the Crazy Heavenly Demon spoke coldly, staring at the street and the fleeing citizens.

Rubia paled at the response but, more or less expected it seeing his sudden change in demeanor and oozing killing intent. She grabbed his wrist with both hands, pleading once more, “Please don’t, don’t go.”

“Nothing will happen.”, the Crazy Heavenly Demon said emotionlessly, blatantly spitting out a white lie.

“How do you know that? At least wait until I’m with Lee Sungmin……!”, Rubia pleaded, trying to buy time for her to escape and find Lee Sungmin so she could be safe and have Lee Sungmin try and talk him out of it.

“This is something that can’t be avoided.”, the Crazy Heavenly Demon muttered in a low voice.

He turned away, shaking off Rubia’s hands that were holding his wrist. As he turned around, Rubia shouted something from behind him, but it didn’t even register in the Crazy Heavenly Demon’s mind.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon burst out in the direction of the disturbance with a light step.

The humans and monsters that were fleeing and blocking the way weren’t a problem for him so he jumped up, and ran on the roof to run faster.

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When the Crazy Heavenly Demon arrived, everything was on fire.

Buildings burned and corpses sizzled like charred meat. In the middle of this massacre, Chusung was laughing crazily as the ash and embers flew around him.

The fear that was eminent in the bodies before dying, flew around in their incorporeal states and gathered around Chusung, strengthening him.

Chusung was feeling full and satiated without even physically eating the fear. He laughed maniacally and smacked his belly with his hand in satisfaction.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon saw a vision overlapping with the flames. Even though he had not seen the massacre of the tribe with his own eyes, the overlapping vision was so vivid as if he were there.

The burning huts, the screams of the tribesman, the falling branches of the forest and the charred bodies.

Did his beloved Dersia die like that? In that gruesome manner? The mere thought of it enraged the Crazy Heavenly Demon as he burst his killing intent all around him and struck out.

Kuongg!

A bloody red aura sprang out from underneath the Crazy Heavenly Demon’s feet and he screamed in rage, “AHHHHH!”

The aura burst out in all directions together with his scream.

The huge gust of aura blew away all the burning flames surrounding the area.

The sudden strong aura that coursed through the area and blew away the flames made Chusung stop his laughter and narrow his eyes. He noticed that this wasn’t just some wind that blew around and extinguished his flames, it was someone’s power.

Chusung turned around and saw the source of the power emanating all around the surroundings. The Crazy Heavenly Demon stood there with a hell-bent glare as a scarlet glow wrapped around him.

“What are you?”, Chusung asked the Crazy Heavenly Demon who caught his eye.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon completely ignored him and instead of answering, he roused his internal energy to the max and Blood Rings started to materialize around him.

Looking at the Crazy Heavenly Demon who was surging with a murderous aura, Chusung knew instinctively that he was by no means an easy opponent.

Shinggggg!

The skin on Chusung’s arm, that he started to raise up, turned black and metallic.

Gwa-ang!

With a loud noise, Chusung’s body was suddenly flung back.

“AHHHH!”, the Crazy Heavenly Demon roared.

He clenched his palms and struck out at Chusung with a fist.

The bloody aura swelled around him into his right fist.

Chusung immediately widened his eyes and covered his whole body with steel skin, but by the time he had already seen Byuk Won-Pae, Byuk Won-Pae was flinging a barrage of unending strikes at him.

Gwa-a-a-ang!

Chusung’s body lowered and his knees bent from the pressure of the attacks. The ground beneath him cracked and sank.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon twisted his waist and started to coalesce more of his internal energy into his left fist.

The left fist dug under Chusung’s arm and into his ribcage.

Bang!

Chusung’s body bent inwardly and his body floated up in the air from the hard strike.

Chusung’s body was extremely heavy. Aiming at Chusung’s body that was flung upwards a few inches off the ground, the Crazy Heavenly Demon extended his palms and struck out with the blood rings.

KA-BOOM!

Chusung’s body, caught in a red storm of aura, flew backwards from the impact and smashed into a burning building that was crumbling down.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon took a deep breath and ran towards the building where Chusung was buried, continuing his relentless charge.

He didn’t have the slightest thought that Chusung would have died just like that as he burst forward.

He was right.

Qua’ang!

The explosion inside the building caused the whole building to explode in pieces as debris flew out.

Debris flew out and some were flying at the Crazy Heavenly Demon. He swung his palms at the debris and swiped it away.

Chusung, who rose up as flames surrounded his body, contorted his face while looking at the Crazy Heavenly Demon.

“You mere human bastard!”, Chusung spat out, unveiling his sharp and jagged teeth.

He felt utterly embarrassed by the sudden attack.

Not only that, he was utterly surprised at how strong his assailant, the Crazy Heavenly Demon was. There were only a few in all of Eria that could attack him on par like this.

But it was not only for the case for Chusung, but also for the Crazy Heavenly Demon.

When Henemy was still the leader of Predator, Chusung was second only to Henemy and the other elders of Predator.

Since Yana, the nine-tailed fox, had appeared, he was now only second to her. Always being the number two.

The constant dissatisfaction of being number two however, didn’t mean that Chusung was weak, in fact it only meant he was that strong to be able to contend against those monsters in the first place.

“You cheeky bastard!”, Chusung yelled and emerged from the fire, this time completely abandoning his human form.

His size, which before, was already bigger than the Crazy Heavenly Demon, was now twice as big. All the clothes he was wearing were burned in the emergence and surge of the flames wrapping around Chusung’s body.

But no resemblance of human skin could be seen. Chusung’s body was covered head-to-toe in black scales, and his face was no longer that of a human’s but that of a complete monster.

His eyes were bloodshot red and his scales shined brightly in the vibrant flames.

Chusung was no longer going to play around in his weak human form, and took the Crazy Heavenly Demon seriously for the first time. Chusung really did look like a dragon, as he opened his elongated mouth and a burst of flames came out like a Dragon’s Breath.

Chusung’s entire demeanor and aura was much more prominent and powerful as a violent energy surrounded his body.

‘You won’t be able to handle Chusung as you are right now.’, the Crazy Heavenly Demon recalled what Yana had told him back in the detached house.

She was speaking the truth. Although the Crazy Heavenly Demon was one of the best martial artists in the Peak Realm, it was not nearly strong enough to kill Chusung.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon knew it already.

But even though he knew, he strode forwards and continued to attack Chusung. Even if it was too much for him to handle, even if he might die… it had to be done.

He was not going to pretend like Chusung hadn’t slaughtered the people he called family and his beloved Dersia.

This was vengeance. Stubborn as it may be, matters of the heart couldn’t be taken lightly.

Feigning ignorance and not facing Chusung here and now was like denying the tribe and Dersia’s very existence as living people.

The Crazy Heavenly Demon, wrapped in a blood-scarlet aura, rushed toward Chusung through the flames as the two shades of red auras clashed within the dark night of the City.