Records of the Weakest Emperor - Chapter 202

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Just as system notifications flooded Calvin’s vision…

The deformed man snapped with his fingers and the expressions of the three women suddenly paled.

The candles on their heads sunk into their skulls as their shrill screams filled the air.

Calvin furrowed his eyebrows.

He wasn’t even done reading the system notifications that appeared right in front of him, yet when changes came over the battlefield.

“Come out, Mortician!” Calvin exclaimed in his heart as his shadow throbbed.

The figure of a cold and distant young man holding a scalpel and clad in a hospital gown manifested behind him.

The Mortician’s eyes landed on the three women. His expression turned a little serious.

It seemed that he felt the foul strength coursing through the veins of the three women right now.

“What? Are you scared?” Calvin smiled.

The Mortician glanced at him in confusion.

He had no idea what to feel seeing Calvin’s laidback attitude in the presence of these five monsters.

Stephanie was included, of course.

After all, it didn’t take a genius for one to find out that Stephanie was already losing control of herself. The sight of the deformed man alone was enough to make her anger boil over as she rushed at the deformed man in hopes of capturing him and ending his life in her own hands.

“Sigh… She’s hopeless.” Calvin whispered into the air, “Mortician, you go and handle those three women.”

The Mortician stared at Calvin, but he didn’t say anything.

“Are you trying to say that you cannot handle them?”

“Well, I understand… I mean, I know that you’re still not that confident about yourself.”

“But come on, you’re stronger now.”

“Also, I’m not really expecting you to defeat them. I just want you to hold those three back while I assist Stephanie in her battle, do you understand?” Calvin patiently explained.

The Mortician looked as if he understood what Calvin had said, but now. His eyes gleamed with doubt.

It was as if he was saying…

‘Just how can this weakling assist such a monster in battle? Does he want to die?’

He was about to say something when he suddenly remembered the humiliation that he had suffered back in the asylum.

The Mortician’s gaze went cold.

He didn’t try to think about giving Calvin a warning anymore as he turned around and walked towards the three women.

Calvin chuckled in his heart.

‘This guy… I never knew that he’s that type of a person who’s cold on the outside but hot on the inside.’

‘Nevermind. His attitude is working out for me in the end, so why would I bother changing the status quo? But knowing his personality, I now have no idea if I can still safely talk to him about that after all of these…’ He sighed in his heart.

The battle between Stephanie and the deformed man was heating up.

Having used his Authority as the disciple of Pestilence and Famine, the deformed man’s strength soared to greater heights. But this increase in strength didn’t come without a drawback.

The moment he revealed his true power, an immense hatred and rage overcame his senses and reasoning.

He wanted nothing else at this moment but to kill.

“AAAHHH!”

The deformed man rushed at Stephanie, the cloud of pests protected his body from all directions as Stephanie flew backwards in order to dodge the attack.

A seemingly annoyed expression appeared on Stephanie’s distorted complexion as she repeatedly jumped backwards to widen the distance between her and the deformed man.

But the deformed man would never let Stephanie escape from his clutches.

He glared at the latter and audibly chanted.

“Our Lady of Pestilence and Famine, the representative of hunger, and the origin of sickness.”

“Thou heart is ruthless.”

When his words fell, an indescribable presence washed over the battlefield.

Stephanie’s flying ability seemed to have been restricted by this indescribable presence as her speed came to a screeching halt.

“Heh…” The deformed man coldly snorted.

He leaped over to Stephanie’s side and sent an attack towards her head.

The force that his attack carried was enough to pulverize Stephanie’s skull into dust.

But there was something even faster than the deformed man’s fist.

It was an object that looked to be a medallion of a crow basking beneath the sun.

Bam!

The deformed man’s fist collided with the medallion and the strength of his fist instantly crushed it into ashes.

“What?”

He exclaimed in shock.

It was because the medallion had managed to absorb almost the entire force of his attack, giving Stephanie enough time to collect herself as she slammed both of her palms onto the ground and took flight once more.

“Shit, shit, shit!” The deformed man violently cursed.

He whipped his head in Calvin’s direction and there he saw the young man holding a Slingshot in his hand.

A mocking smirk was on Calvin’s face and it further incensed the deformed man, “I should probably kill you before anyone else!” He cried out in anger before he made a mad dash towards Calvin’s location.

The deformed man chased after him, but Calvin wasn’t so stupid as to wait for the deformed man’s arrival. As soon as the deformed man focused his attention on him. He made his retreat and lured the deformed man away from the village center.

Stephanie seemed to have regained some of her senses as she didn’t chase after the deformed man.

Instead, she carried an attack on the three women along with the Mortician.

“FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!” The deformed man noticed the disturbance happening at the village center. His anger against Calvin was now so towering that it could probably pierce through the heavens, “You slippery cunning bastard. I’ll deal with you later. Once I’m done with those cheeky companions of yours, I’ll make sure that you’ll wish you were dead!”

He then turned around and assisted the three women in their battle against the Mortician and Stephanie.

Calvin smirked as he laughed to himself.

The scenario that was happening right now was what exactly he wanted to happen.

Calvin was the weakest of them all, but that didn’t mean that he was easy to kill.

His experience gave him enough knowledge to the point that he could probably escape the deformed man even without his abilities and mana, so long as he had legs.

Summoning his Slingshot once more, Calvin randomly picked a rock off the ground and he would occasionally send stones flying over to the battlefield.

Calvin was using nothing else but pebbles.

This shouldn’t deal enough damage, no?

Yes.

The pebbles all turned into ashes the moment they collided against the deformed man.

But one had to keep in mind the corruption that the Sinister Heart had over those that dare to stand in its presence. Anyone would find it hard to manage their anger under the influence of the Sinister Heart’s corruption.

What’s more, Calvin had ruined the deformed man’s plans, so the latter’s anger at him was probably stronger than the Kingdom’s desire to eliminate slavery and erase the poverty line.

In short, the deformed man found it hard to suppress his anger whenever Calvin attacked him with pebbles.

He wanted to rush at Calvin and pluck his head off his shoulders so bad, but he knew that he had to remain steadfast. The three women had already transformed into Corpse Eaters under his command. In short, there was no way that the ceremony could be continued anymore. But the deformed man didn’t look that disheartened.

It was because he had a back-up plan.

He hadn’t prepared all of these for so long without multiple back-up plans.

In case the main ceremony failed, the deformed man was prepared to forcefully fuse the Sinister Heart into its vessel.

Even if the Sinister Heart wouldn’t be as powerful as he wanted, then at least it would still be usable. He could then reason out to himself that his plan hadn’t failed. He could convince himself that his plan had been successful, albeit he had encountered some roadblocks preventing him from realizing the true peak strength of the Sinister Heart.

The deformed man gnashed his teeth.

A complicated light flitted across his eyes at this moment as he glanced at the three women. The three were currently locked into a battle with the Mortician. They had just transformed into monsters, so they were naturally at a disadvantage against the experienced Mortician.

His cuts and slices accurately struck where it hurt and the three women couldn’t stop themselves from crying tears of blood from the pain.

The deformed man leaped into the skies as the cloud of pests around his body surged in numbers. With a shout, the cloud of pests flew towards the Mortician and Stephanie. The swarm that the deformed man had gathered was so thick that the Mortician seemed to be being overwhelmed.

Stephanie wasn’t spared.

Her wings became filled with bloody holes as she audibly grunted in pain.

Another stone came flying towards the deformed man at this moment.

“Are you really thinking that the same trick would work at me twice?”

He smirked in disdain as he raised his arm and caught the stone in his hand.

Crunch!

While staring at Calvin, he crushed the stone into ashes but Calvin seemed unperturbed.

In fact, there was a mysterious smile on his face at this moment as a whisper came out of his mouth.

“Arb… Gawas, release.”

When his words fell, the deformed man discovered a piece of paper in his palm.

That piece of paper shone in a relatively dimmed light as a shockwave burst forth and sent him crashing towards a nearby abandoned house.

Bang!

A loud explosion occurred.

The deformed man’s surprise caused him to lose his focus as the pests swarming around Stephanie and the Mortician froze in mid-air.

Both took advantage of this opening to escape, the Mortician even sent a parting gift in the form of a Steady Slice towards the frozen locusts, wasps, and mosquitos.

Calvin stared at the abandoned house where the deformed man landed.

A pensive look was on Calvin’s faces as the deformed man slowly stood up.

“I’m done…”

“I’m done with you all…”

“I don’t care anymore…”

“Even if the results aren’t what I wanted them to be, I don’t care anymore… I just want you, and your companions dead!”

Intense killing intent radiated from the deformed man’s bloodshot eyes as he stared at Calvin.

Spreading his arms wide, he seemingly disappeared amidst the cloud of pests before reappearing behind the Sinister Heart’s vessel. Then, without any pause. He held the Sinister Heart in his hand and forcibly stuffed it into the body of its vessel.

“You madman!”

Calvin cried out, “Are you not afraid of the consequences of doing that? Don’t you want to control the vessel of the Sinister Heart? Why are you doing that?!”

The deformed man’s methods basically skipped a few steps that were necessary if he wanted to have absolute control over the Sinister Heart.

“Hahaha…” The deformed man bleakly laughed, “Do you think that I would do this if you didn’t force my hand? You’re the one that made me do this! You’ve sufficiently angered me and now, you will suffer the consequences…”

A serious expression appeared on Calvin’s face.

Being unable to control the Sinister Heart meant that it would probably follow its instincts and go on a rampage where people concentrated.

In a way, if the deformed man had planned on using the Sinister Heart to cause chaos in Ashmelion. Letting it go berserk also had similar results as if he was controlling it.

In other words, this wasn’t such a bad deal for the deformed man.

But it spelled bad news for Calvin.

There was no way that he could stop the deformed man anymore since the Sinister Heart was already inside the vessel.

The only thing that he could do right now was to distance himself from the Sinister Heart and watch.

Yes, watch.

He was watching intently, hoping that a rejection would occur between the Sinister Heart and the vessel.

But he was bound to be disappointed.

It was because—in the very next moment—the vessel of the Sinister Heart had opened her eyes!

“Hehe…”

The vessel of the Sinister Heart that was once the Queen of Plague let out a creepy laugh.

Upon successfully absorbing the Sinister Heart, it was now a monster at the Mid-Purveyor Rank. Considering that Stephanie wasn’t even at the Purveyor rank and the fact that Calvin was even weaker than Stephanie, fighting against this monster was a hopeless endeavor.

However, just because it would be a hopeless battle didn’t mean that Calvin would be willing to let someone go.

A resolute look flashed across Calvin’s face as he ignited the Emperor’s Veil once more and rushed towards the deformed man.

No matter what…

As a confirmed disciple of Pestilence and Famine.

…He had to die!