Lust Exchange System - Chapter 77

Aster could really tell the change in their dedication as they could even react faster to his points of teleportation. They could not guess it but they can quickly issue an attack to wherever he appears next.

Pretty Face is someone who had prior experience in attacking his spot of reappearance, so he was the one to dish out blades that attacked him. The cool gangster is probably the weakest and youngest among the vices but his loyalty towards Rat was not any less than his devoted seniors.

Aster stopped his facade of dodging the cool gangster’s weakling attacks that were only equal to the middle levels of the Initiate rank or mote specifically Initiate 6 in which Aster had a considerable advantage against. Pretty Face dished out three blades so he also deflected with three blood blades of his own.

“It is a challenge, then!” Pretty Face somewhat expected his attack and wanted a battle of attrition towards his blade power and Aster’s own blades. Before he could throw out another set of sharpened blades, Aster had already disappeared from the spot and reappeared behind him.

It was like mingling into a rat group as the other rats tried to defend against their rat companion. Cinder was quick on his support as the cigar man threw a powered cigarette stick which had traces of mana compared to what he threw earlier.

Aster smiled from sensing the mana-laced attack and disappeared from the spot. He wanted another friendly fire scenario like Alioth and Velnor.

“Stop!” Cinder realized Aster’s plan but had nothing much to contribute in trying to cease his attacks towards Pretty Face. His attacks were not basing and controllable by the spirit like Batter’s metal balls but a pure throw and kill method like Gunner’s bullet.

‘My boyfriend!’ Ganda was not one to stay idle as he returned with a kick to the ground and propelled himself towards the fast-moving kill stick that could essentially kill his boyfriend if it made contact. He was too late but the willful Tank was there to disrupt the heavy cigar stick with a similarly heavy punch.

The weird attack was as powerful as a peak Initiate ranker’s full-powered punch that it completely broke through the crumbling earth wall.

The gay man with pink hair extensions immediately broke his quick propulsion by anchoring his feet on the ground. He glared in complete annoyance towards the fooled cigar smoker while the cigar smoker looked towards the glare with apology and guilt.

“Where is he?!” Pretty Face did not realize his brush at near death as he tried to locate his target. Only when he saw the gaping hole on the earth wall that he knew something fearsome happened behind him.

Their slight interactions such as being distracted by the broken wall, anchoring on the ground; glaring and eyeing one another just went into Aster’s advantage as he reappeared on Pretty Face’s side and killed the pretty boy with gruesomeness that is characteristic of his kills.

Aster sliced up with a molded blade of blood and defaced Pretty Face. Like a melon sliced in a pretty apparent lopsidedness, his entire face slid down and brains with hollowed skull became his new look in death. A fitting end for the thug that spread his infamy with the use of his looks.

Women who fell for his charms and suffered would have rejoiced if they knew about his end. The gay lover and all the other vice-level members realized what happened and got frenzied due to their carelessness.

‘That… is too cruel!’ Ganda despaired as he saw his new lover’s dead body fall head first towards the floor. The corpse would have face-planted but there was no face to plant at all. In between Pretty Face’s feet, was the shocked expression of the cool gangster. It strangely did not fall splashing the floor with blood but it instead melded on the flat surface. It looked like his face was meant to connect to the solid ground in the first place.

“You will pay!” Ganda hid his womanly weakness as he used it to apply vengeance towards the killer. Aster still stood on the spot where he killed and that was where Ganda propelled himself to unleash a blow of devastation that is fuel by his wrath of passion.

“Klotsia tou alogou!” People in Tellus learned a bit of the language of magic and Ganda’s attack was literally translated as Kick of the Horse. A spiritual image of a horse could be heard neighing as the gay man delivered a kick filled with horse power.

Aster would have winced and subconsciously teleport away from receiving a surprise hit but this was not surprise hit at all. He anticipated the gay man to be the one to launch at him. To prepare for the attack, Aster went for his own body cultivation and kicked against the horse-like kick.

The two kicks collided as a mana-less kick and a mana-laced kick met at their intersection point. Left leg to left leg connected by the sole of their shoes. The tension was built in the air as gust spread from it.

Aster buckled from being weaker in cultivation and could not help himself but be blown back. He massaged his aching thighs as he sighed in his thoughts. ‘That proves it! The Eternal Physique is useless without a healing option for the body.’

His opponents also looked at him in a new light as they had enlightenments flooding their pressured minds. Rat’s eyes were especially glimmering with madness as he yelled in delight. “Fucking fraud! This brat can easily be rendered powerless with greater cultivation levels. Why did I not see this before?”

‘Well, my facade and enigmatic invincibility have been seen through. A smart move to actually test the Origin Body Art in a life and death fight. No point in dwelling on the failure.’ Aster commented in his head in sarcasm towards his careless kick fight. Outwardly, he smiled towards the remaining Unkillable Rat, and arrogantly looked down on their intelligence. “Haha! You guys are really smart from realizing that after having a thousand of your goons die.”

“What gave my invincible powers away? Is it because your powerful attacks did not even have the chance to hit me? Hehe! Now that one of your attacks made a hit, you found out too late that you could have easily overpowered me with your high cultivation levels.” Those words made the remaining thugs feel that their intelligence was lacking for the first time. His teleportation and calculated counters should have made them see the truth of the matter but they seemed to influence their minds into thinking that he was more powerful than them.

Aster had another laugh from giving them the most important fact that they neglected. His tone was of a curious person but the sarcasm was marginally present. “Was your boss too scared from seeing me kill the Alioth dude? Any other fool with a sensibility to mana could tell that I am only on the middle levels of the Initiate rank. How come you guys were too scared to act? Or were you actually dumb enough to not notice this fact? Or maybe you tricked yourselves into thinking that the mana output I am giving is a fluke?”

Rat was the one who felt himself being slapped in his rat-like face from not noticing such an important detail. The whole truth of the matter is that they had not much time to dwell on his cultivation level because of the continuous shocks he gave them.

Anyone else on their position would have no time to logically strain things with him blinking from one place to another. He had to shock them with his body cultivation. He just had to make them feel dread with killing a lot of people with his inexplicable soul-devouring. He just had to render their mass killing move with ease. He just had to fucking control the flow of battle that it was hard to tell what from what.

“You… monster!” Ganda stuttered in his retort. His words were a reflection of what the others were thinking. It took a monster that did not fit normality to be able to achieve such a feat.

The heartbroken vice leader, who just had his love life end by such manipulative means, continued his onslaught with doubled frenzy. Anger and heartbreak powered his every step as it broke the cemented floor and the whole block of cement that was considered to be the elevated stage.

“To alogo. The strutting of the horse.” Ganda was stimulating the image of a horse that is pacing itself for a great run and also intimidating its enemies.

‘It is not any different than Grappler ripping his clothes off to intimidate an enemy that does not fear him at all.’ Aster sighed as the man coming towards him was just unnecessary wasting his move. He shook his head and said something that interrupted the horse strut of Ganda. “If you want to intimidate someone, make sure that that someone does not know an intimidation method greater than what you have.”

“Eh!” This was what the gang men collectively uttered when they heard his comments. Their doubts were eventually answered as one of the most intimidating skill of Aster came into effect.

“Murderous Will.” The handsome youth said those words slowly as killing intent flooded his enemies. They were not weak-willed people at all but Aster’s spiritual influence was too great from having accumulated the murdered spirit of more than a thousand people.

Looking into his eyes made them feel like he was something that should not be offended. A prey would feel an inherent fear towards its greatest predator. It made them feel like his weak cultivation was not a problem for him at all as their end would always be in death when offending him.

The spiritual horse that Ganda used dissipated from the monstrous influence of the murderous spirit. Ganda experienced a backlash as his will became damaged from the spiritual break. Before any of them could react, the artificially pink-haired man had his head cut off by a blade of blood. Only a couple of horse heads are taxidermied but the head that was just removed could be perfectly used in such practice.

“Poor guy! He is clearly has a horse for his spirit animal. Why did he have to join a group that likens themselves to rats?” Aster with his killing intent said in pity but his current look just demeanor made his pity seem fake in their eyes.

Tank was the closest to Ganda and also closest to the center of the killing intent the emanated from Aster. The closest a diffusing substance is to the source, the denser the effect of the substance becomes.

It would have been okay if it was perfume but this was something that further damaged the already beaten up self of Tank.

The muscular man had no time to help Ganda just as he had no time to react with his death. In a different manner, the stiff man had his heart pierced by the blade to crush his courageous heart.

“Another man that did not fit with the Unkillable Rats. The one called Ganda should have been a horse while this one is not fit to be a pesky thug because he would have shined in the military.” Aster made his comments audible to all as he eyed the stunned audience he had. “I left you guys last because you are the ones that perfectly fit the description of scummy rats. My presence here is to prove that rats could be killed after all.”

Rat and Batter felt chill and sweat drench themselves at the same time. Aster had another target mind as he teleported himself in front of the cigar-smoking man. This time, Cinder did not get cut to death first because the first thing to be targetted was his characteristically bent cigarette that mystified Aster all this while.

“This thing did not seem to be running out at all but still alit. To think that its mystery of endlessness was just a farce.” Aster commented as the lit cigar got cut off by his blade and fell to the ground.

At the same time that the cigarette hit the ground, Cinder breathed his last breathe as his body dissipated like ash on an ashtray.