Chapter 138 - Blood Steam Battle - 3 (2/2)

Jin-Sang knew he couldn't escape - he was the Red Devil, the most feared of the Pirate Generals. Even before acquiring his fame, he had always been a contemptuous and self-confident person. Throughout his life, he had concentrated on martial arts offensive techniques since he was only interested in killing and annihilating his enemy. He had never bothered to study distraction techniques to use during an escape. After all, never before had he thought inside his head about escaping. However, now that the time had come, he didn't have the ability.

Jin-Sang's speed was faster than Ho Ri-Na, but the Goddess of Steam had the Gas Law - Steam, on her side. The Steam part of the Gas Law allowed martial artists, in addition to having insidious attacks, to increase their speed significantly, thanks to the characteristics of this Elemental Law. Therefore, regarding the speed, it could be said that the Steam Goddess and the Red Devil were equal. But Ho Ri-Na wasn't alone, so escaping was something impossible. Jin-Sang could only make his way by force as he always had - and his efforts paid off.

Ryuk‌ ‌Gyeong-Su was seriously injured, and with the expenditure of energy resulting from the previous clash and his cultivation as a second stage spirit soldier, he was the first to have to leave the battlefield. The situation seemed unfavorable for Ho Ri-Na and Won Byung-Chul. Fortunately for them, Ryuk Gyeong-Su's withdrawal was also the signal that Hei and Lian were waiting for.

From the section in the sky where they were meditating, the two youths got up and headed at high speed towards where the last remaining spirit soldiers, Won Byung-Chul and Ho Ri-Na, were fighting Jin-Sang.

The expression of the Red Devil, who had regained confidence after knocking out one of his opponents, darkened again when he saw Hei and Lian approaching.

”Brats! You will pay me for everything you have done. For destroying my dream!” Jin-Sang screamed angrily as his eyes turned crimson red.

In an instant, he passed over Ho Ri-Na and Won Byung-Chul to head up against Hei and Lian. Since this move was too sudden, Ho Ri-Na was taken aback but recovered quickly and went in pursuit, followed by her right arm, Won Byung-Chul. However, before she could reach Jin-Sang, the Red Devil would have had time to launch his attack against the young couple of martial artists.

The attack of a sixth stage spirit soldier!

Although weakened and injured, Jin-Sang remained a sixth stage spirit soldier. It wasn't something Hei, Lian, Xing, and Ye could receive without problems since the pirate was using all the power he could generate. But Hei also predicted that situation.

”Xing, Ye. It's up to you, my two little sisters.”

'Leave it to us!' (Xing)

'That bad dude will surely remain with his mouth open wide when he sees that his attack has been in vain.' (Ye)

The two little divine beasts weren't merely watching the fight while Hei and Lian were meditating. Xing had started making silk within her spinneret while Ye was concentrating on hardening her body as much as possible with the Law of Metal. The same act of meditation by Hei and Lian was to maximize their survival chances from a direct attack by the Red Devil.

Xing spat out all the stored silk and created a silk cocoon around her and the others. Lian quickly moved her ribbons and created a further layer of the cocoon followed by another layer formed by Hei's hair. To top it off, Ye increased her size just enough to cover almost the rest of the area inside the cocoon and cover Hei, Lian, and Xing with her body.

Peng! Screech!

The blades of Jin-Sang's blood came down like a guillotine preparing to execute the evildoers. However, this time there would be no execution.

Xing's silk layer received the full impact of the technique and was the first to break. Having more space, Hei then moved his hair forward, embracing Lian's ribbons, and the two layers together ended up dispersing the physical power of the attack. However, there was still the damage resulting from the transmission of Jin-Sang's spirit power.

The users of the Law of Blood could, in fact, transmit their spirit power, as if it was a liquid, inside objects and people. When parrying the blow of a martial artist having the Blood Law, one had to always pay attention not only to external wounds but above all to the internal ones. In a sense, the Law of Blood represented similarities to the Law of Water, but the effects of lethality in the latter were less.

Ye, therefore, acted as a metallic shield and assumed the violent charge of Jin-Sang's spirit power. The divine beast snake had prepared herself enough to resist the impact and, although it was more violent than she had anticipated, it was still not enough to intimidate her. After all, most of the technique had been nullified by the previous protective layers. As the daughter of the Spider of Nightmare and the Snake of Darkness, there was no way the remnant of a technique could defeat her.

When the layers of ribbons and hair dissolved, revealing what was inside, Jin-Sang's evil grin became frozen. He couldn't believe it, even if he was seeing it now with his own eyes. His strongest attack, the move with which he had killed his strongest enemies. Although he was weakened and had lost much of his power, it should have been enough to cut those first-stage brats into slices. Yet the reality before him was very different.

From inside the now flaked cocoon, Hei smiled, revealing a series of sparkling blue teeth. Jin-Sang wanted to scream against him, but before he could do anything else, he was reached by the Steam Goddess. Ho Ri-Na took advantage that Jin-Sang had just launched an attack and was temporarily exposed to end the fight.

”Steam Kiss!”

As with Hong Shin, the Steam Goddess put her lips against those of the Red Devil. Won Byung-Chul instead came from behind Jin-Sang to prevent him from waving his arms and hitting Ho Ri-Na during his attack. The Red Devil realized that he had screwed himself and tried to free. But everything he did was in vain. Won Byung-Chul blocked him from behind while Ho Ri-Na was attacking him from the front. Even his feet were being blocked by Lian's ribbons as Hei attempted to skewer him in the stomach and reduce his defensive layer of spirit power.

And it was in that strange tangle of people that the Red Devil finally lost his life. The most feared of all four Pirate Generals, as well as the pirate martial artist most highly rated to become the next Pirate King. He was said to be a descendant of the Pirate King Hae Seong and to have inherited his talent. But despite all these appellations, the final truth was that the Red Devil had ended up losing.

The great battle of piracy was over. The winner was the one and only Steam Goddess - Ho Ri-Na. The last remaining of the Four Pirate Generals. No, from now on, she had fully and deservedly assumed the title of Pirate Queen. The Age of the Steam Queen was about to begin. However, how long would she manage to retain her power, it was something that only time could know. The fact is that from today she was the one who commanded the pirate scene of the Forgotten Ocean.