The Dark Demon Lord - Chapter 81

Arnin silently watched as the two cultivators attacked each other as if they were mortal enemies. The man who was named Jia seemed to have just broken through to Essence Manifest – Sky, however it seemed like his strength was a little higher than the woman named White.

Arnin wasn’t too surprised by this. Other than him, there were many others who could also fight people who were on a higher realm. ‘Judging from the way this White woman is speaking, this Jia guy must have been slightly weaker than her before breaking through, but now he is stronger.” Arnin smiled at this.

He could tell from the way the man fought that Jia did not spend too much time stabilizing his realm, or rather he didn’t get the chance to. If he did stabilize his realm, then he would most likely be more than just a little stronger than the woman.

This, however, didn’t really matter to Arnin, rather, it worked for him quite well. Since both of the people fighting were around the same in strength, there was a high chance that they would fight until both of them were tired. The man having a slight advantage, but overall, both of them would become extremely tired and run out of energy at the end. This created the perfect opportunity for Arnin to strike.

The only problem that Arnin could see was both of them giving up. Because of how aggressive both of them were, the chance was low, but it was still there. If they began to feel that fighting would do them little good, there was a chance that Jia and White would leave, and not continue fighting. If this happened, then Arnin would not be able to strike them when they were weak. He would have to either leave, or fight one of them alone, since fighting them both would not be a wise choice.

With his strength, he would technically be able to fight both White and Jia, and even beat them, but that would waste a lot energy and essence that he did not have to spare. He was already becoming weaker by the second, and there was also the bun haired girl he needed to keep an eye on.

‘This is becoming interesting.’ He smiled slightly when he thought about the situation he was placed in. Everything would depend on whether the two people would fight till the end, or leave midway.

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White was a sword wielder. She had long silvery hair with extremely pale skin. Her clothes were not like the normal robes that cultivators wore, rather she had a luxurious blue dress with grey footwear. She looked like a snow goddess.

Jia, on the other hand, was very muscular. Rather than using a hammer or any other large, blunt weapon people would expect a person of his size to use, Jia held onto a rather thin staff. This staff was half black and half yellow, with a crystal sphere on the tip. It was transparent, but within that sphere, one would be able to find a yellowish substance that looked extremely chaotic.

Jia had black hair which was dusty like his brownish yellow robes. From the way he fought and defended, Jia was more of a long distance fighter than a short distance. White was able to overtake him completely in close combat, and his defense was barely able to keep himself safe.

When Jia would get far away, a yellow streak of light would be released from the crystal sphere, attacking with light speed. Instantly, one could tell that the power of the yellow chaotic substance was lightning, although weaker than what one would normally see in nature.

“White, just give up. In the past, I was on par with you, but now that I have reached the same realm as you, I can beat you with ease.” Jia was laughing maniacally, however the arrogance of his words was actually not seen on his face. He was sweating, and his bronze skin seemed to be pale. He was struggling.

“Haha! You really jest, Jia. Have you seen how you look? You are sweating more than a pig. Don’t act all high and mighty in front of me. Once I slash you with my blade, then we will see who is stronger.” White replied with her own arrogant words, but even she found it difficult to keep up.

Although Jia was not yet a lightning cultivator, as he had yet to make an elemental seed, he was still extremely quick, much quicker than her. This forced her to chase him with all her might, making her lose even more energy, however she knew that once she caught up, Jia would be in for one hell of a beating.

Both cultivators continued to fight as if there was no tomorrow. White would slash at Jia, but miss because of his great dodging speed. Jia would aim his lightning staff and shoot his bolts, with only a few of them reaching White, but not causing large amount of damage.

Although the injuries weren’t detrimental, Jia did not mind because his goal wasn’t to cause life threatening injuries with his bolts. His lightening was not the extremely brutal type, rather it was like a snake with numbing poison. Whatever was hit would be numbed for a period of time.

White was lucky that she knew about this. If she did not, then the situation would have been much more dire.

Arnin was standing far away, watching with interest and patience. He completely ignored the bun haired girl, however he did not once let go of the unconscious sister.

The bun haired girl was also watching the fight, but she payed more attention to Arnin. She wasn’t going to attack him since she knew that nothing good would come out of it, but she was still looking for an opportunity to take her sister and escape.

Although she knew the gap between herself and Arnin was significant, she truly did not have any other option. Death was certain whether she followed Arnin or not, so she hoped to use any chance to escape the clutches of such a demonic child.

She looked at her unconcious sister, and couldn’t help but sigh. ‘Why aren’t you waking up? I need you awake so that we can do this.’ Although she thought this, she did not actually wish for her sister to wake up now. If she did, then Arnin would most likely knock her out once again, or possibly even do something worse. That was not her goal.

The fight progressed for another two hours. The two fighters were breathing heavily, however the fighting intent in their eyes did not lessen one bit. They looked hatefully at each other, as if trying to kill with just their eyes,

‘I wonder what caused these two to hate each other so much. Normally, cultivators leave when they know that a fight will result in nothing, with only mortal enemies continuing on until one side dies.’ Arnin was somewhat curious, and wanted to know what ignited such a fight.

As the two exhausted fighters stared at each other with great hate, White straightened her body and slowly made her way towards Jia. Her sword dragged across the damaged ground, make a small cut as she moved forward.

“Jia, we both knew that this would be the result if we fought. You may be stronger than me now, but you did not have enough time consolidate your realm. Your essence is unstable, while mine is not. Plus your attacks required you to use more energy than my own. You lose, Jia.” White spoke with an exhausted smile, however that smile suddenly froze.

*BLEUGH*

She, for some unknown reason, spat out a mouthful of blood. Her hand that held the blade loosened as the sword fell to the ground with a clank. Both of her hands, and even her legs began to tremble, as if they were unable to support her weight any longer.

She fell to her knees, and her arms held from falling to the ground, however because of the weird reaction, her arms were only able to hold her up for a short period of time before also giving in and making her face hit the ground.

“J-Jia, what i-is this?!” White lifted her head, and looked at the fallen Jia with confusion and hate.

The latter suddenly got up, and also made his way towards White. A wicked smile on his face, sweat pouring down the side of his eyebrow. “Haha! You really are so pitiful. Do you really think that you would win? If I were to lose to you even after breaking through, then I should have died the day I was born!” Jia wildly laughed, however his laugh was short due him running out of breath.

“Cut the crap! What did you do to me?!” White did not care about the ramblings of Jia. She wanted to know why she was in her current state.

“You really don’t know anything, do you?” Jia shook his head, before lifting his staff and shooting out another bolt of lightning towards White. This bolt didn’t do any serious damage, rather it seeped into her arms. “These bolts of mine are not meant for killing, rather they are used to weaken and numb… ” He began to slowly explain.

The more White listened, the more shocked she became. She always thought that the numbing effect of the bolts was low, and never thought that they would cause her four limbs to become unusable. “When? When did you get the time to make your bolts so strong?!” White was feeling panicked. She knew that nothing good would come of the fact that she could not move.

Jia looked hard at White, before taking out a small object from the inside of his robe. When he pulled out the small, stick like object, White couldn’t help but frown. “What is th–” Suddenly, the object expanded into a large staff, about the same size as the current one he was using.

“Y-you have two staffs!?” White was extremely shocked.

“Jia smiled before shooting another bolt of lightning towards White, but this time he used the staff he just pulled out. “Do you feel it? The numbing effects are just like what you remember right? Well, this is the staff I used to fight you in the past. It is much weaker than this new one.”

“W-why, didn’t you use it before? If you had such a staff, then you could have finished me off a long time ago. Were you trying to make a fool out of me?!” The more White thought about the situation, the more angry she got.

“That isn’t the cas–” Jia was just about to explain when he heard a voice.

“I can explain that to you.” Both White and Jia turned and looked at the person who said those words. All they saw was a child around the age of five or six. He looked very handsome for his age, however his red hair and purple eyes gave him a demonic charm.

“Who are you?” Jia was the first to ask, however he was extremely calm. He investigated Arnin’s aura, and felt that it was only sitting at Orb Birth – Hell, plus it seemed to be quite weak. He wasn’t nervous in any way, but what made him look at Arnin a little weirdly was the fact that he was holding onto the throat of a young girl, and dragging her across the ground.

“I can answer that after my explanation.” Arnin smiled slightly. “This man, Jia, did not use the staff because of his own inability, not because he was trying to make a fool out of you.” Arnin spoke out with no fear.

Jia narrowed his eyes, and looked at Arnin with a hardened look. “Little child, I am not so nice that I will leave you alive because of your age. You better scram if you know what’s good for you.” Jia knew that everything in the battlefield was dangerous. There was no need to show mercy to anyone, not even a child who was much younger and weaker than him.

“Why are you so aggressive? I am just speaking the truth, right?” Arnin looked at Jia with a calm gaze before turning his head towards White. “So White, as I was saying, this Jia person was not strong enough to use the staff, and now he is, simple as that.”

“Then why is my body like this?!” Although White did not completely trust Arnin, she still couldn’t help but ask.

“Are you really asking such a dumb question?” Arnins words made White extremely angry, but she didn’t say anything, and only continued to glare at him. “Whatever, dumb people still need to be taught, am I right? Basically, the bolts of lightning are weak, yes, but they get stronger as they begin to gather in an area. This Jia person looks like a muscle head, but he is actually very calculating. He made sure to repeatedly hit you in the same spots in order to increasing the numbing effect until you were unable to use any of your limbs.”

Arnin looked at Jia and gave him a nod of approval, however this made Jia more angry than happy. White, however, fell silent. She began to think back to the fight and also remembered how every attack hit either her arms or her legs. There was no attack directed towards her vital spots.

“You really are a calculative person, Jia.” White spoke with more hate, however she couldn’t do anything else. She was already in such a dire situation.

“Child, since you love to explain so many things to others, why not go to the afterlife and explain what you know to the dead? They will love listening to you.” Jia walked towards Arnin, holding his stronger staff in one hand and the weak one in the other,

Arnin shook his head, and waved his hand in the air. Suddenly, a shadow rushed out from the bushes.

The person who came out was the bun haired girl. “What do you want? I am only here to give you information. Why are you making me fight? This was not a part of the deal.” The bun haired girl flared up as she angrily spoke to Arnin.

*UNNNNGG*

The girl in Arnin’s clutches began to painfully moan, as she knit her eyebrows, and her body trembled slightly. “Do you want to really question me?” Arnin looked at the girl calmly.

“Alright, alright. Stop hurting her, please.” The bun haired girl panicked when she saw her sister’s pain filled face.

“Remember this, you follow what I say. The more you question me, the faster your sister will approach death. Plus, I now decided that you are going to be my scout. You will go forward first, and tell me if all is safe.” Arnin spoke with a smile, however his smile was anything but friendly.

“B-but, I am weaker than you. Me going in will do you no good.” The bun haired girl quickly tried to reason with him. She knew that this was Arnin’s way of giving her a death sentence.

“That’s fine, if you don’t want to do it, then I can just make your sister go in for me.” Arnin began to slowly lift up the unconscious sister.

Seeing his actions, the bun haired girl grit her teeth, and began to walk forward. “Ok, tell me what you want me to do.”

Jia watched all of this happen, and his anger was reaching its peak. Ignored. He was completely ignored by Arnin.

Suddenly, Jia saw Arnin point towards him while looking at the girl standing beside him. “Go and fight that man. You just need to fight him for a short duration.” Arnin’s words shocked both Jia and the bun haired girl.

“Y-you want me to fight him?” The bun haired girl’s fingers pointed at Jia as her face twitched. ‘This little sh*t!’ She couldn’t help but curse Arnin.