233 Kid (1/2)

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”So that's what's going on.”

Raven chuckled coldly as he calmly evaded the charging butchers. Instead of playing around with them, Raven went past them and lured them inside the slaughterhouse where they obviously followed.

Once inside, Raven's nose was immediately assaulted by the pungent smell inside but he ignored it, he then purposefully made a commotion upon his entry, attracting another two butchers who were inside the first room. Raven checked every corner of the room with his observation skills to see if he missed any butchers. Seeing that there's only five of them here, Raven then went to confirm if his guesses are correct.

*Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!* *Boom!*

With one mighty swing of his hammer, five phantom fists descended and smashed the butchers into meat pastes. After the deed was done, Raven unfolded his observation skills once more and watched their regeneration with rapt attention.

What's left of their bodies, started wriggling like jelly. Blood started coagulating and forming a human shape, next came the bones and innards as they mended themselves, then the skin and finally their breathing. After they opened their eyes, they glared hatefully at Raven, something that was clearly different from what they showed earlier.

”Hoh?' Raven sneered, ”Hate that I found out your secrets pretty fast? Well, that brings me joy so come! Want to kill me right? Let's see if you have the ability to do so.”

The four butchers, yes four, charged at him with malice, raising their cleavers to hack down on him.

Raven already unfolded the mystery behind their so called 'Immortality'. The concept was pretty simple. No matter how much one kills them, it would be useless unless they do it in batches. These butchers are not genuine immortals, their bodies just don't rot and their blood doesn't dry off nor being absorbed by the ground whenever they died, it is manipulated by the consciousness present at the slaughterhouse, a will that yearns for endless slaughter and carnage.

Through that Will, their bodies will reform and they will once again, but this Will cannot go against the Heavenly Laws and could only bypass them through some loopholes.

Inside this so called First Demon Room, there is in fact, only one Demon Butcher. The 'Will' of this slaughterhouse turned them into an artificial humans, capable of cloning themselves. But once all of the clones died at the same time, they will lose one clone. However, the strength of the lost clone will be evenly dispersed throughout the rest of the reforming clones. This will go on until there's only one left, which the original Demon Butcher.

At this state, this Demon Butcher will have recovered it's original strength before the cloning procedure, making them more challenging to face but could also genuinely die in this state.

This is the secret behind this 100 Demon Slaughterhouse.

”Human!” The Demon Butcher called out after going back to it's original state. ”I hate you!!!”

It's roars were treated like nothing by Raven, in fact he even smiled and said: ”Aww, that's so sweet of you. Thanks.”

”I will kill you!”

*Boom!*

Before it could even move, Raven swung his hammer down and smashed it into a meat paste.

”Noisy.”

Raven uttered with a dense chill in his voice. He then saw what's left of the Demon Butcher dissipated into the wind. The smell of rot and decay dissipated on the First Demon Room as well as the thick bloodlust accompanying it. Raven sighed and sat down to recover.

He didn't lose too much energy dealing with the first Demon Butcher, nevertheless he still ought to be careful. At first, he doubted if the name of this place is just an exaggeration, but seeing that there really is One Demon Butcher at the First Demon Room. It should be a trend moving forward to this place. If this continues, then his battles would be harder so he have to make sure that he stayed at his optimal condition all the time. He can never be too careful amongst these creatures.

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”Haah…”

Paul exhaled a mouthful of foul air. He shook his head and cleared his mind off.

As he go through the Immersion Forest, the illusions he was facing were becoming more and more troublesome. His usual attitude, which is goofy and active, is now nowhere to be seen. There's only solemnness in his voice as he walked forward while keeping watch of his surroundings.