Myst, Might, Mayhem (Novel) - Chapter 252 - Ma (1)

Chapter 252 – Ma (1)

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Translated by Jinmu

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[All this old one can see in him is a jade throne stained with blood.]

[A jade throne stained with blood?]

If it was a jade throne, was that not the symbolic seat occupied by rulers such as kings, emperors, and feudal lords?

What did it mean that a human who was demon itself had something to do with a jade throne?

No, to be precise, he had said a jade throne stained with blood.

‘Stained with blood…’

The fact that the seat symbolizing the peak, the jade throne, was stained with blood carried immense significance.

It meant there would be fierce bloodshed before anyone could sit in that place.

The timing still felt vague, but those words at least narrowed the range considerably.

‘It is not that old man Zhou.’

He had fallen wholly into lust and drink, but how could an old man already one step from death fulfill her wish?

No, more fundamentally, how could a mere human possibly grant her wish in the first place?

She was full of doubts, but that old man had been little different from an immortal.

He would not speak nonsense.

[Jiang Shang. I pray your words are not wrong.]

Thus the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox concealed herself in death and left the country, and long ages passed.

At first she simply watched in search of the human from the prophecy.

But no such human appeared.

At one point she even thought that bastard might have deceived her and took out her anger on all sorts of Daoists.

Then she changed her thinking.

If she could not find him, she would make him herself.

So the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox changed methods and, as if in play, corrupted those called rulers one by one.

That did not stop with the feudal lords of the Central Plains but extended as well to all the surrounding lands, such as Dongyi, Dongying, and Xizang.

Even so, not one among them brought her what she wanted.

They merely fell and brought their nations to ruin.

‘A human who is demon itself.’

Judging from this brat’s memories alone, he was certainly close to evil and demon.

But he had little to do with any jade throne.

Then was he simply an evil human by nature?

If she examined this brat’s memories to the very end, she would be able to see how such an evil disposition had formed.

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox burrowed deeper into the depths of Mok Gyeong-un’s memory.

-Srrrr.

Among the flowing fragments came something rather interesting.

‘Oh? Look at this.’

So that raccoon bastard had been here?

He had strutted around calling himself the Sea-Slaying King or whatever, making himself sound grand despite lacking the proper stature, and yet to think he had been trapped in a place like this.

But had this brat absorbed that raccoon bastard’s demonic power?

Fragments of memory were literally just that, fragments.

So they appeared broken and disconnected, yet no matter how she looked at it, that raccoon bastard seemed to have had part of his demonic power absorbed by this brat.

‘What is this?’

How could a human absorb the aura of a demon, no, of a creature among demons and monsters?

Come to think of it, as she burrowed deeper into his memories, this brat was even absorbing the aura of the dead.

How could such a thing be possible?

Living beings simply could not coexist with the aura of the dead.

The more of this brat’s memories she saw, the more astonishing things came into view one after another.

‘Is this really even a human?’

Then, after going back quite some time, she saw the death of Mok Gyeong-un’s grandfather.

For the first time, a violent fury emerged.

It seemed that at that moment the evil that had been barely suppressed burst out.

Even so, because it had only been something long repressed, it seemed she would have to see the fragments of memory before that point to understand the more fundamental part.

‘Show me. Show me your root…’

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox burrowed deeper into Mok Gyeong-un’s memories.

But while doing so, in the darkness she came upon a gigantic wall that blocked the entire space.

‘What?’

For such a wall to exist within the mind, within memory, meant that something had been artificially sealed off.

Seeing it, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox became intrigued.

What was there, hidden behind this barrier of earlier memories?

She did not know whether Mok Gyeong-un had done it himself or whether it was a restriction imposed by someone else, but

‘Reveal yourself.’

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox tried to force her way through that wall of memory.

For one who had lived for thousands of years, this was not difficult.

Just as she was in the act of breaking down the wall of memory,

-Wooooooosh!

At that moment, from within the cracking, shattering wall of memory, a fierce and unspeakably evil aura began to pour out.

‘Well now?’

How was it that, the moment she tried to break through the sealed memories, such a sinister aura began to surge out?

Was this brat truly human at all?

That violent aura was trying to stop her from penetrating his mind.

It felt as though it were a living existence inside him.

‘Good. Let us see which of us wins.’

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox raised her demonic power even further.

If something was trying this hard to block her, then there had to be something within that could not be shown.

Did it think such resistance could stop her?

-Shwaaaaaa!

Though this was inside the mind, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox manifested in her original form.

With nine golden tails reaching a full seven zhang in length, her form as a golden fox was majestic enough to suit a Great Spirit Beast that bore the titles of demon and king.

As she opened the mouth of that original body, immense demonic power gathered and formed a colossal sphere.

-Wooooooooong!

It was bright enough to make even the darkness of the mind dazzling.

-Then try stopping me.

-Paaang! Kkwakwakwakwakwang!

The sphere of demonic power instantly slammed into the wall of memory.

Continuous explosions erupted, the wall the sphere had struck collapsed, and a huge opening appeared.

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox did not miss the chance and entered through that opening.

Now that a hole had opened in the sealed memories, it would soon be possible to see what kind of fragments lay within.

At that moment, a bizarre sight began to appear within the fragments flowing in.

It was

-Kwa-drrrrk!

the sight of the intact sky twisting apart.

And through the crack, masses of black flame rose as if from an erupting volcano and then plunged down to the earth.

‘!!!!!’

What in the world was this?

How could such a sight exist inside the memories of a mere human?

Then another fragment flowed in.

-Srrr.

In a huge pit, black flames blazed fiercely, and someone looked upon them with reverence before suddenly prostrating himself.

That someone was none other than this brat’s murdered grandfather.

Why was that old man acting like that toward black flames?

As she wondered,

‘What?’

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s golden eyes trembled violently.

From within those black flames she felt a gaze.

Were they not just flames?

No, the ominous, pure aura flowing out from those black flames was not something that existed in the mortal world.

Fierce, savage, evil. No matter what word one used, it was difficult to define them.

It was as if that existence itself…

-Flinch!

It happened then.

The gaze felt from within the black flames met the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox’s eyes exactly.

‘What?’

This was a memory.

Then how could that thing possibly look back at her?

She was nothing more than a third-party mental presence peering into those memories.

As she found the situation incomprehensible and bizarre, it happened.

[Leave.]

A voice echoed through the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox.

At the same time the black flames suddenly spread in every direction, instantly engulfing the dark space where the memory fragments floated.

-Hwaaaaaaaar!

At that moment the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox could not hide her bewilderment.

These should have been only memory fragments, yet the heat felt as though it had become real.

And the black flames were gradually surrounding her.

Looking at them, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox opened her mouth.

-What are you exactly? How can an alien existence like you possibly exist inside a mere human?

She believed this being was not simply sleeping in his memory but truly alive within him.

Otherwise, it would not be able to influence even the mental world like this.

Yet there came no answer to her words.

-Hwaaaaar!

The black flames simply tried to envelop her as though they meant to devour the space itself.

Then the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox roared and released her demonic power.

-Do you truly think you can do anything to me?

Brilliant golden demonic power burst out from her transformed original body.

That golden demonic power collided against the black flames.

-Shwaaaaaaa!

Her golden demonic power, raised to its utmost, forcefully pushed back the black flames that sought to swallow her and displayed the majesty of a Great Spirit Beast numbered among the Six Demons.

Even the Binding Badger Tengu Sea-Slaying King, though weakened by sealing, could not withstand it. But the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox was different.

Rather, she pushed the black flames back and tried to peer even deeper into the fragments of memory.

-For something trapped inside a mere human, do you really think you can stand against me?

As the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox raised her demonic power still higher, the black flames shook violently.

The corner of her mouth lifted in her original form.

She did not know what this thing inside him was, but could it truly stand against one who had accumulated demonic power for thousands of years since the age of antiquity?

At once she would uncover its true iden…

-Thrust.

At that exact moment, the golden eyes of the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox quivered.

It was not because of the struggle taking place inside the mind.

Her consciousness suddenly split in two and she found herself seeing both the world within memory and reality at the same time.

In reality, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox still had both hands placed on Mok Gyeong-un’s head, maintaining the state in which she had entered his mind.

And yet,

“You…”

Mok Gyeong-un moved.

He should have been incapable of moving with his consciousness suppressed, but he had moved just once, and the stimulation from where they were joined was so intense that her concentration could not help but split.

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox looked at Mok Gyeong-un’s face.

‘This is…’

Vitality had returned to the previously dazed, unfocused eyes of Mok Gyeong-un.

But together with that vitality something else had changed.

His pupils had turned entirely black like obsidian, and in them there was a savagery just like that of the black flames.

‘Was it you, the one trapped beyond the wall of memory, who seized control of that body?’

So by stimulating the body in reality, it intended to drive her out?

Did it really think she would be taken down so easi…

-Pak!

“Haak!”

At that moment Mok Gyeong-un’s lower body moved roughly.

At the same time, the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox involuntarily let out an erotic cry.

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox glared at Mok Gyeong-un with trembling breaths.

“Haah… haah… you…”

-Pak!

“Hk!”

Each thrust of Mok Gyeong-un’s waist stirred her so strongly that it felt as if her mind would split apart.

Perhaps because of that, the black flames that had been getting pushed back by her golden demonic power within the mind suddenly surged in strength.

The golden eyes of the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox trembled.

Her transformation had already come undone, returning her to her original form, and yet he was showing this rough movement toward her.

That meant it was not his original self.

It was that fierce, savage self within the black flames.

-Tap!

So she tried to push Mok Gyeong-un’s body away.

Simple contact was one thing, but if he kept stimulating her this roughly, her concentration would split too much in the contest within the mind…

-Pak!

“Ah!”

At that moment the slender back of the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox arched backward like a drawn bow.

Her head thrown back, her breathing grew ragged.

‘What is this?’

-Ssssss.

Because of the struggle within the mind and the arousal from his stimulation, she had not noticed until now, but her demonic power was being absorbed into the hand of Mok Gyeong-un that gripped her chest.

At the same time, within the mind the black flames were not merely recovering momentum. They were growing larger and pushing the golden demonic power back instead.

‘…At this rate I am at a disadvantage.’

Mind, stimulation, and absorption. Pressure was coming at her from all three sides strongly enough that even she found it difficult to deal with.

The speed at which her demonic power was being absorbed was also increasing.

In the end she judged that it was impossible to view the root memory any further for now.

So then,

-Srrr.

She withdrew the mental body that had synchronized itself inside him.

At the same time she cupped Mok Gyeong-un’s cheeks in both hands and pulled him in for a kiss.

Her tongue and his intertwined softly, and her demonic power spread from within Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth into his head and through his whole body.

Then,

-Sss.

the black coloration that had dyed Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes like obsidian faded and his pupils returned to normal.

‘!?’

Coming back to his senses, Mok Gyeong-un frowned.

And with reason, for he was joined as one with the Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox.

He had not expected that he would even be kissing her.

-Pak!

Mok Gyeong-un forcibly broke them apart.

The Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox licked her lips as if savoring them, then gave a playful smile and said,

“Did you come back to yourself, darling?”

“Darling?”

“Since we are doing something this hot together, I can at least call you that, can I not? Or should I call you something else?”

-Clench!

Ignoring her words, Mok Gyeong-un tried to pull his body away.

But because she had wrapped both legs around him, he could not.

He was about to draw up demonic aura, but instead she clung to him even more tightly and whispered in a meaningful voice into his ear.

“I thought of calling you righteous, but that does not suit you either.”

Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes sharpened.

Whether he reacted or not, she embraced him tightly and said,

“I do not know about the jade throne, but you may truly be the human who is demon itself that I have been searching for. Ah, yes. The title that really suits you is Ma.”