The Dark Demon Lord - Chapter 78

A smile that caused others to shiver uncontrollably was plastered on the face of a five year old child. From all sides, three groups of people were launching themselves towards this child.

Triplets that held onto a large spear, a beast thrown by his partner, its sharp fangs releasing a white liquid, and a couple with their fists flying with great speed, all attacked Arnin from each side. They showed no mercy even though Arnin was much younger than them, and also seemed a lot weaker.

Although his name was resounding throughout the battlefield as the infamous ‘Demonic Joker’, it was still somewhat of an overkill to send a group of people who were at least around Orb Birth – Hell, with the highest being at Essence Manifest – Earth.

Of course, this was only true for normal Orb Birth – Hell cultivators, and Arnin was anything but normal. To him, these mice were just giving their lives to him as a gift.

“Come, all of you come!” Arnin suddenly began to laugh maniacally The three groups were somewhat startled, however their attacks did not falter.

The first of the attacks to reach Arnin were the two fists from the lovers. With great agility, Arnin dodged the two incoming fists, however he didn’t allow the two lovers to leave just yet. He grabbed the woman and tossed her towards the triplets’ spear, while the man was tossed towards the fangs of the flying beast.

All of this happen in an instant, not giving either of the parties a chance to react. “NO!” The woman was the first to react. The spear was extremely sharp, and the power it contained was nothing less than her ultimate fist ability. Quickly, the spear pierced her back and came out from her bellybutton.

The man saw the horrifying sight of his lover being pierced, however he didn’t have the time to do anything as he quickly entered the mouth of the beast. Even though the beast wasn’t able to swallow him, it’s razor sharp teeth were easily able to pierce the man’s hip, releasing the white liquid into his body.

“AHH!” The white liquid entered his body, and began to corrode his insides extremely quickly. The pain he felt, however, was not only felt in his hip. A unique quality of the white liquid was having the ability to travel through his bloodstream and spread throughout his whole body. Although it wouldn’t kill him, it would still cause heavy damage.

Arnin watched all of this with a smile. Since he tossed the woman towards the spear, the triplets were not able to reach him, and the same went with the beast that was tossed toward him. ‘These little pests really like giving me great gifts. I should be able to recover to the peak of Orb Birth – Hell if I absorb all of their blood.’ Arnin thought for a moment before slowly walking towards the triplets.

The beast was the strongest support for the beast partner, so that he would not run away without his beast. The man was not able to move for a period of time because of the corrosive white liquid that was spreading throughout his body like wildfire. The woman was also heavily injured, so she would not be able to make a move for a while, leaving only the triplets that could cause slight problems.

As Arnin walked towards them, the three looked at Arnin with shock, horror and confusion. They were confused because of the turn of events, and how it happened, while they were shocked by the speed with which Arnin delivered his attacks. This speed and power also contributed to frightening them greatly.

Of the three, the girl with the bun walked forward first. She took a deep breath before her eyes began to burn with fire, “Demonic Joker, you have been killing people so viciously! You don’t deserve to live, so either kill yourself, or be killed by us!” The girl had a heroic aura around her when she spoke.

It was true that Arnin’s methods were extremely vicious, so vicious that even the higher ups felt disgust towards his actions. Arnin, however, didn’t really care. He smiled, and continued to walk towards the three girls. “If you want to kill me, then please do. I would love to see myself die, it would be an eye opener. Haha.” Arnin couldn’t help but laugh wickedly, causing the three girls to shiver.

The three knew that Arnin was extremely strong, however they felt that there was a chance to defeat him if they worked together. Their power, when combined as one, was as strong as the two lovers. Although Arnin was able to quickly handle the two lovers, and even cause them serious injuries, they felt that it was all because of luck.

The three picked up the spear which had its head covered in blood. They pointed it towards Arnin, who continued to casually walk towards them.

The three girls didn’t dare to move right away. They had to wait for the right moment. They had to find an opening in which they could attack Arnin and finish him in one shot.

Arnin could already tell what the three girls were planning, however it didn’t matter to him. He was able to handle the lovers with ease, so the two girls in front of him were nothing more than bugs.

Slowly, Arnin walked towards the bloodsoaked spearhead. The woman was lying on the ground, close to the triplets, her stomach bleeding profusely. Arnin smiled towards the girls, slowly releasing his aura.

His aura showed that he was barely at Orb Birth – Hell. It may have seemed that his movements were easily conducted when he was attacked from all three sides, but the truth was that Arnin had to use some of his essence in order to fight back.

“Big sis, this guy is only at the early level of Orb Birth – Hell. I think that what he did before was most likely a fluke.” The short haired girl looked towards the bun hair girl.

“Don’t be so stupid. Whether it was a fluke or not, we need to get out of here!” The sister with the bun spoke with fear in her eyes. Her previous heroicness dissipated, and what trapped her was the feeling of fear.

The other two girls were shocked. The girl with the long hair couldn’t help but questionably look at her sister. “Why do we need to run? Didn’t you say that we would kill him, and that what he did was a fluke as well?”

“You girls really are too naive! I only spoke those words in order to try and frighten him, even a little if possible, but it didn’t work. Those two Essence Manifest cultivators are severely injured, while even the beast had one of his teeth broken. The beast’s partner is weak and useless, so what can we do against this monster?” The girl with the bun hair spoke with great intelligence. She could tell that although Arnin was below them when it came to essence and cultivation level, he was still countless times stronger than them in strength.

At first, she truly did believe that Arnin was able to injure the two Essence Manifest cultivators because of a fluke, but the more she thought about it, the more she found that to be impossible.

If Arnin had dodged the two lovers’ attack, but in turn got hit by either the beast or the triplets’ attack, then she would have thought that Arnin was only able to dodge because of luck, but Arnin did not do that at all.

He only slightly the dodged the lovers, but he didn’t let them go either. Instead, he used the two lovers to block the other incoming attacks. This was not something that could be based on luck alone. Arnin had frightening skills that they could not confront.

The two sisters thought for a moment before looking at the two injured lovers and the beast with his broken tooth. They couldn’t help but look back at Arnin, who walked towards them without a scratch.

“T-then what should we do? How should we escape from here?” The three knew that Arnin was most likely faster than them just by the speed of his dodging.

“We have to buy some time for the other two to recover. If they can get back up, then they will most likely fight again, however that is only if one of the two recover. If both of them get up, then there is a high chance that they will escape together.” The girl was extremely smart with her analysis.

She could tell that the two lovers did not have a superficial relationship since the woman kept frowning when she saw the man’s condition, and the same went for the man when he looked at the woman.

From this alone, the bun hair girl was able to tell what would happen if one of them got up, or if both.

The three girls whispered this amongst themselves, however they didn’t know that Arnin was able to hear everything that they said. Even Arnin felt that the girl with the bun was extremely smart for such a quick analysis of the situation. He couldn’t help but feel that she might have some more use for him.

‘I have yet to figure out who the real powerhouses are in this battlefield. This girl can be of some use if I want this information.’ Arnin suddenly thought about what he was lacking at the moment.

Information. He could slowly increase his powers by absorbing the blood of the people he killed, however not everyone was willing to tell him what he wanted. Plus, most of the people he killed only knew the bare minimum about the place.

Arnin thought for a moment before suddenly sitting down onto the ground. This sudden action of his caused the three girls to open their mouths, but also become more tense. Such strange actions worried them because they didn’t know what Arnin was planning.

“Girl with the bun, I have a proposition for you.” Arnin smiled when he said this. Then all of a sudden, Arnin vanished into thin air from his sitting position.

“AH!” The girl being addressed heard a scream from her left and looked over quickly, only to find that her sister with the short hair was missing.

“Let go!” Another scream came from her right, and she found that her sister with the long hair was now missing as well.

“Over here!” Suddenly, she heard Arnin’s voice from the place he was sitting before. She looked over, and to her horror, she found her two sister being held by their throats by Arnin.

Anger boiled inside of her as her face became vicious, “Demonic Joker, let go of my two sisters!”

She didn’t move from her spot because she knew that Arnin had control over the lives of her sisters. She could do nothing at the moment except watch and scream.

“Do you want your sisters back? Then listen to my proposition.” Arnin didn’t have to go through the process of taking the two sisters as hostage, since girl would most likely still listen.

“Speak!” The bun girl began to feel impatient when she saw her two sisters’ faces becoming blue.

Arnin slowly laid the two girls down to the ground and pulled out a knife. He stacked the four hands onto one another before moving the knife towards the top of the pile. “N-!” The remaining sister couldn’t scream in time. Arnin pierced the four hands with the knife like a kebab, and stabbed them into the ground. Then, he quickly numbed the arms and legs of the girls, however he left their hands so the two girls could feel pain.

“M-my hands! Get them out! Get them out!” The two girls couldn’t help but scream from the tops of their lungs, but because their arms were numbed and they couldn’t get up, their mobility with only their hands to rely on was very weak.

“Y-you! Why did you stab them! I was going to listen to you!” The bun girl couldn’t help but tremble as she could barely hold herself from attacking Arnin with all of her might.

“Just a precaution.” Arnin smiled before sitting on the back of the long haired girl. He found it to be more comfortable than the solid ground. “Now then, shall we discuss?” Arnin looked at the girl in front of him with an innocent look. ]

Since he was still in the body of a five year old child, the innocent smile looked even more adorable, however to the bun girl, it was similar to the smile of the devil.

“Let go of my sisters first!” She felt extremely angry when she saw Arnin sit on her sister’s back, however there wasn’t much she could do. She could only ask for him to let them go, since she could tell that he wanted her for something.

Arnin continued to smile before reaching out and grabbing the hair of the long haired girl. “You want this back? But she is so useless.” Arnin used the girl’s hair to continuously smack her face on the ground. The girl’s forehead began to bleed, and she even fell unconscious.

“STOP IT!” Seeing her sister fall unconscious, she couldn’t take it anymore. She grabbed her spear and rushed towards Arnin, however the latter smiled before grabbing the skirt of the girl. He slowly began to pull it up.

“Are you sure you want to come over? If you do, then sure, you will get a first class seat for when I begin to tear your sisters clothes to shreds and begin to play. Haha!” Arnin laughed wickedly as he reached his hand deep into the skirt,petrifying the bun girl. She quickly halted and looked at Arnin with dagger like eyes.

“O-ok, stop! I won’t come closer!” She couldn’t help but scream, her eyes becoming red.

Arnin placed the skirt back into its original position, however he didn’t forget to tap the girl’s bottom before looking back at the bun girl. “Are you calm now? Will you listen like a good girl?” Arnin spoke like an elder teaching a little girl a simple lesson, however the way Arnin spoke only irritated the bun girl even more, however she kept her mouth shut, only nodding at him slightly.

“Alright then. What I need from you is some information about the people in this battlefield. I will also need you to follow me for a period of time.” Arnin did not ask her anything, rather he commanded her.

Not only that, but he spoke while stroking the long haired girl’s hair with his hands. This causal action was more than a simple reflex, rather it was a threat.

The bun haired girl looked at her two sisters before turning her head back to Arnin. “If you release my sis-” Before she could finish speaking, Arnin grabbed the neck of the long haired girl and

*CRACK*

“N-n-no! L-l-little sister! NO!” The bun haired girl screamed loudly as her eyes filled with tears. She looked hatefully at Arnin, and rushed towards him with her long, sharp spear. “I will kill you, Demonic Joker! Kill you!”

Arnin slowly got up and walked towards the third sister, the one with the short hair. He then sat on her back and grabbed her neck. “Listen here. I was never asking for your opinion. I wasn’t looking for a trade. This is not a bargain, this is a command!”