Shadow Mask Group

91 - A creature named Kor

"Why do I feel the pressure of 'them' energy here? Is that just my hunch? Because there is no way they are here" murmured Emperor Xiao who was holding a meeting.

Looking at the dreamy Emperor, General Ding Bang who was standing beside the Emperor immediately said in half whisper, "Emperor Xiao, what's wrong?"

Emperor Xiao was awakened from his daydream. He shook his head, "Nothing."

***

"I.. Can't stay like this. I have to be right away.. Awaken Chen" Inner Song Quon.

Song Quon strengthened the Qi that protected his body. I feel better now than I did at the time. He walked closer with a slightly bent body.

"He seems not to have.. Showing all the aura and pressure. I need to awaken Chen immediately before he reinforces the pressure" Inner Song Quon. He again strengthened his Qi. He also used the wind element to make him able to move quickly towards Liu Chen.

A strong gust of wind whirled around Song Quon's body. Even the basin that was formed became wider because of him. "I'm risking three quarters of my remaining strength to get close to Chen."

Now Song Quon can move quite freely. He immediately ran towards Liu Chen and seemed to feel no pressure at all. Song Quon was already in front of Liu Chen.

Liu Chen immediately clenched his hands and punched towards Song Quon. The young man who was attacked instantly bent his body. Simultaneously with him dodging, Song Quon directly hit Liu Chen on the nape.

However Liu Chen immediately jumped backwards. Song Quon immediately ran over and swung his hands from top to bottom sideways.

Liu Chen did not know or see any attacks coming.

CRASHES

The invisible attack directly injured Liu Chen's stomach and made slight injuries on his body. Black smoke instantly gathered on the wound. Instantly, the wound healed immediately.

Song Quon stopped approaching. He leaped back twice and looked at Liu Chen warily.

"It seems like I should use 'it' to make her faint" Song Quon murmured. He closed his eyes for a moment. Before long, an immense force instantly radiated from Song Quon's body. The floor of the palace floor is getting damaged. The immense energy pressure clashed against each other with the pressure emanating on Liu Chen's body.

Liu Chen growled, "Ggrrhh," outflowed an energy and pressure greater than his body.

Song Quon opened his eyes. Yellow lightning flashed from his eyes. His gaze was very sharp and seemed intimidating to anyone who saw him. Her eyes turned golden. The pupils of his eyes formed a black vertical line.

***

Han Liangyi and Tao Mu who were fighting the undead gasped as they felt two huge energies collide with each other. Now, the palace building began to shake because of the huge pressure that collided with each other.

Though this palace is made of very good material and cannot be destroyed easily. Even if there is a sky-level pressure hitting it. But now, the building is shaking.

The undead directly attacked Han Liangyi and Tao Mu even more ferociously as the energy pressure grew greater. Their strength also increased.

Han Liangyi and Tao Mu were again startled by the reactions of the undead. They immediately attacked the undead more quickly. Because the undead are becoming faster and stronger.

Some time later, the palace was partially destroyed. This shocked Han Liangyi and Tao Mu who were fighting. From the direction of the palace, something shot into the sky. There were flashes of light that collided with each other and the shock of the two lightning until they flew the undead in various directions.

Flash flashes of light moved away. When the two flashes were close to Han Liangyi and Tao Mu, the two youths also bounced away like the undead.

Han Liangyi who was knocked down, instantly stuck out a sword to prevent it from rolling further on the ground. Meanwhile, Tao Mu seems to be dragged on the ground, even though he has tried to stick his sword. But it was useless because the wind was very strong for him.

Because it continues to be dragged, making Tao Mu get wounds caused by friction of his body with the ground surface. He was lying on the ground with his face facing the surface.

The shock wind from the two light flashes did not only impact the undead, Han Liangyi and Tao Mu alone. It was seen that the ground and trees were blown away. Some were even destroyed by the impact.

Han Liangyi gazed towards the two flashes of light that were getting further and further away from the palace and made the wind blow somewhat decrease. "What is that really? Very strong" Han Liangyi murmured.

The place where two flashes of light collide with each other looks broken. The ground was lifted and just crashed. The two flashes of light instantly flew high into the sky to make a hole in the clouds.

The two flashes of light now clashed against each other on the clouds. So that the impact of both flashes is reduced at ground level.

***

Meanwhile, it's in a rather dark underground somewhere. Seen a young man with clothes that look torn in some parts, like exposed to something sharp. In some parts of his body also saw some injuries. But his expression was still flat. It was Zhang Jiangwu.

Before him was a black-robed figure holding a large bluish-black scythe and the scythe also looked like a shadow. A pair of bone wings were seen on his back.

"Hmph! You won't be able to defeat me" said the black-robed figure. Part of his face was covered in a cloak. The voice of the figure sounded feminine.

Zhang Jiangwu did not say anything. What the figure said is true. He gripped his sword firmly.

Flashback~

Zhang Jiangwu left the headquarters to search for the hidden spot of a map. The map he bought during the auction of the Silver Moon Association back then. He bought it because the map belonged to his teacher.

Zhang Jiangwu knew this map was indeed not a map to show Zhao Yu's treasure hideout. But the map shows a place where a person is sealed.

Zhao Yu gave Zhang Jiangwu the task of going there and defeating the black-robed figure and saving him. Because that black-robed figure was.. The adopted son of Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu requested that Zhang Jiangwu not tell anyone this. He also told Zhang Jiangwu to resuscitate his adopted daughter. Because her adopted daughter is like entering something.

This had once happened to others when Zhao Yu was still alive. Then when he met such a person and fought against him, he was surprised to see that the person he was fighting had bone wings. There was never such a creature.

He can defeat it pretty quickly. When he had killed the person by stabbing his heart, suddenly the bone wings on the person disappeared.

Then the same thing happened to Zhao Yu's friend. Zhao Yu was sure that his friend was a human. Then, when he noticed the movements of his friend, he realized that all the attacking movements were not like his friend. He thinks his friend is controlled by someone else. He kept calling his friend's name. But still his friend did not answer everything he said.

Then, unexpectedly appeared a human figure with a robe and mask covering all his face. He helped Zhao Yu to help her friend. Initially Zhao Yu was lacking in confidence with the person who had arrived to come just like that. But it turns out that the man really helped her.

A mysterious figure swung his hand from left to right. Instantly, a black writing began to appear in blue on the outskirts of the writing that floated in the air.

The writing that the mysterious figure made did not Zhao Yu understand at all. The writing looked foreign to him.

The hovering writing started to shoot towards Zhao Yu's friend and the writing looked like an attack. However, Zhao Yu's friend directly swung the scythe he was holding and instantly shattered the writing and turned it into a faint grain of light.

Zhao Yu's friend used her bone wings and moved them to attack the mysterious figure. He also swung his scythe to attack the mysterious figure.

Zhao Yu simply kept quiet and noticed what the figure was going to do. He was silent because the mysterious figure told him to. Zhao Yu was a bit doubtful. But he tried to believe the mysterious figure.

The mysterious figure continued to attack Zhao Yu's friend until when Zhao Yu's friend was caught off guard, the mysterious figure again created a strange writing script that floated in the air. Immediately, the writing circled one of the bone wings and crushed it.

Zhao Yu's friend began to be unable to stand up straight. His eyes closed and opened with a weak look. The bone wings on his back have disappeared.

When Zhao Yu's friend was about to fall to the ground, a mysterious figure instantly caught him and gave it to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu immediately laid her friend on the ground. He checked his friend's condition. After knowing that his friend was okay, he sighed. "He just fainted."

Zhao Yu frowned when she realized something after checking her friend's condition. "The energy of his life was lost quite a lot. Now that his life span was reduced," he immediately stared at the mysterious figure standing not far from him.

"..What happened to my friend?"

The mysterious figure replied in a calm tone, "Your friend asked for 3 requests on the 'cor' with his own soul payment. When the third request is granted, then his soul will be taken by the 'cor'. The creature was free to take his soul or even his body.

While your friend had his body also wanted to be taken over by the 'cor'. If only the third request had been granted for one day ago, then his soul would have been completely taken away by the 'cor'. When your soul is taken by that creature, then you will enter into the abyss of boundless despair. You won't even get out of there forever. Whatever you do will be useless. Therefore, all souls that have been taken by the 'cor' will suffer greatly. They also would not even be able to go to the next realm.

Fortunately, your friend can still be saved. Until now he is still here. If during the whole day the 'cor' took over his body and no one destroyed the 'cor' in his body, then he could not be saved anymore."

Zhao Yu frowned cluelessly with the creature that the mysterious figure discussed. "What is 'cor'?"

The figure sighed, "I don't need to explain it to you. Because you won't understand. Clearly, you just have to destroy the 'torch' that has taken over the body of the person as long as he has not been controlled by the creature all day. You just have to cut off his bone wings."

"But I've done that to someone who's been the same thing as my friend. However it was not of any kind," Zhao Yu shook her head.

"That's because, the only ones who can destroy 'cor' are certain people like me. But in this world, either only I can do it or there are others. Clearly, people like me have the energy to kill a 'torch', in contrast to his usual energy.

When the ordinary energy that people possessed, then it could not be used to annihilate the 'cor'. But when the energy is different I mean, it can be used to annihilate the 'torch' and can also be used like ordinary energy used as an attack on others and make a protector.

You can tell people who've asked for a request on a 'torch' from under their necks. There will be a red circle with a picture of a bone wing in the center. All right, I'll go. See you around"

"Tu-"

Haven't had a chance to say anything yet, the mysterious figure had already left. Zhao Yu only sighed when she saw the figure disappear just like that.

One day, the same incident as her friend happened to Zhao Yu's adopted daughter. Her daughter now has bone wings on her back. Zhao Yu did not know what to do. The mysterious figure had already said that the one who could exterminate the 'cor' was only a certain person. While he does not have the energy meant by a mysterious figure to kill 'cor'. So, he would not be able to save his adopted daughter.

Zhao Yu decided to seal her daughter. This seal was a special seal he made for his daughter. A person sealed inside a box, would not be affected by the time in the world. That is, if the box is opened after a thousand years, then the person inside is still in the same state when he is sealed.

Zhao Yu gave a map to the place where his daughter was sealed and had Zhang Jiangwu there to find out, whether Zhang Jiangwu had different energies as the mysterious figure said or not.

Flashback end~

"Hmph! You won't be able to defeat me" said the black-robed figure. Part of his face was covered in a cloak. Her voice sounded feminine.

Zhang Jiangwu did not say anything. What the figure said is true. He gripped his sword firmly. He had already twice cut off the bone wings belonging to the woman in front of him. However, he did not manage to make her aware either. Thus, Zhang Jiangwu decided he would seal the woman back.

Zhang Jiangwu directly charged towards the robed woman. He swung his sword and started fighting with the woman.