Chapter 391: Divine Kingdom
"Ah, I'm tired..."
"[Sage], do you have any way to cancel this contract of yours?"
"You should also be very clear, you are dead."
Yu Huaxin twitched numbly. He lay among a large number of corpses, the smell of blood soaking his whole person.
The twisted black-and-white sky above had no change. One couldn't tell the passage of time or where exactly this place was.
Yu Huaxin didn't expect he would eventually die in such a place.
Kaito Shirogane saying he was tired was of course a playful remark, but he was indeed a bit bored.
Repeatedly killing a target who lost the ability to resist made him feel like a butcher in a slaughterhouse, constantly bleeding pigs one by one.
This kind of slaughter, besides giving him a meager Killing Intent Wave, had no fun at all.
Therefore, he pinched Sage's cheek, trying to make this Reincarnator who was very hard to kill actively give up hope of living and be killed quickly by him.
He wouldn't let Sage go. This person's ability was indeed disgusting in a sense. Moreover, in the battle on the outskirts of J-City, Sage utilized that substitute death ability to very coincidentally snatch several preys that should have belonged to Kaito.
The [Chaos Sage] team was almost wiped out by him, it was true, but he didn't get many Crimson Drop Cards. This was a loss Kaito couldn't ignore. He must make Sage spit them out, using his own Crimson Drop Card!
"So many sins of killing, you are crazy... Mercenary Tao..."
Sage spoke dazedly. He truly confirmed at this moment that this madman Mercenary Tao intended to kill him continuously, eventually making all plot characters contracted with him die completely, and he would eventually be killed.
Such a thing... couldn't even be described as crazy anymore.
No slaughterer in history could kill so many people with their own hands.
Kaito was almost amused by Sage's words.
A Reincarnator who committed all kinds of crimes actually cared about sins of killing.
And... after all, Sage who used that ability was the root cause of those plot characters' deaths. Yet the opponent seemed to try creating a moral kidnapping dilemma morally: You can't kill me, otherwise you are the executioner slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people.
"Tsk, really not clever enough."
Squelch!
Kaito hammered Sage to death again.
Another corpse appeared. Kaito continued torturing Sage expressionlessly.
But as he killed the opponent more and more times, he could feel the aura of [Spirit] in this space becoming richer and richer.
Some twisted power also became more and more obvious.
At first, it could only be faintly detected, but now it appeared clearly in his perception.
Kaito turned to look around. In the black-and-white Spirit World, space was inherently twisted. But at this moment, within this twist, some ripple-like things appeared.
It seemed the resentment and souls of these wrongfully dead, and this twisted form of death, were giving birth to something new.
Kaito disregarded everything, continuing to hammer and kill.
Those ripples became more and more numerous; the aura of Spirit became more and more intense.
Kaito wasn't afraid but killed even more diligently.
Evil Spirits, Vengeful Spirits, Cursed Spirits—these things might be a challenge for ordinary Reincarnators, but for him, they were pure power fragments~
Especially now, with the [Myriad Tribulations Yin Spirit Yellow Spring Body] gradually awakening true characteristics, his efficiency in utilizing those spirit bodies in his body became higher and higher.
This time, with Sage shattering his Astral Body barrier, he could even release all spirits in his body and let them move at positions very far from his body.
With this characteristic, as long as he could fully master it, Kaito could truly achieve [One-Man Army] in the future.
He didn't need any teammates at all, let alone distributing resources to strengthen teammates.
He could completely kill powerhouses in mission worlds and absorb their souls.
Eventually, like Gojo Satoru and Uchiha Madara now, whether by coercion or inducement, make these powerful existences serve him.
This was much cheaper than painstakingly killing the opponent, relying on probability to extract abilities, and then spending more resources to enhance ability levels.
At least, for a Reincarnator to obtain [Six Eyes] plus [Limitless Cursed Technique] and enhance it at the Goddess's Abode to the extent enough to cast Domain Expansion, the cost in Singularities and Dimensional Points was conservatively estimated to be around Double A and nearly 100,000 Dimensional Points.
And that was far less than Gojo Satoru's own Cursed Energy intensity.
While Kaito was pondering, he could already start hearing the murmurs of certain voices.
That was a voice of the soul.
"Why..."
"Why..."
...
He heard clearly; they were questions one after another.
Kaito paused slightly. Lifting Sage's head, whose consciousness began to blur, he looked at those blurry figures.
"Hey, Sage, hear that? They are asking you."
"Why... why kill me..."
Kaito teased Sage without any psychological burden, but the latter no longer had much reaction.
His nerves were about to break. Too many deaths, too frequent pain of death—some boundary in his heart was about to collapse.
The smile at the corner of Kaito's mouth grew wider. Perhaps he discovered another way to destroy [Immortality].
Constantly repeating death cycles could make those immortal existences gradually suffer mental demise. Losing spirit and will, what remained was only an imperishable shell.
Of course, in his view, this form could only kill those guys with fragile spirits.
"Why..."
Those questioning voices became more numerous and louder.
Kaito suddenly stopped the killing action, tilting his head to look into the distance.
In the black-and-white Spirit World, there was no such thing as sound. The so-called sound was actually a fluctuation.
Now, that fluctuation of Spirit was echoing and coming from an unknown distance.
"Why..."
It was the same question, but the voice was grander, as if hundreds of thousands of voices were questioning and interrogating together.
Kaito looked back around Sage. There were over a thousand scattered corpses. Although looking very exaggerated, it definitely didn't reach such a scale.
He remembered Fubuki's description. On the day of the Spirit Disaster in Seasoning City, the vast majority of residents in the city eventually suffered death or disappearance.
Kaito's heart moved. Lifting Sage, he moved quickly towards the place where the fluctuation came from.
From the surrounding buildings, strange roars came out from time to time, but he didn't care.
And behind him, those thousands of blurry figures also moved towards there along with Sage's body.
The Spirit World was a very counter-intuitive place. Distance, space, and direction were all completely disordered. The physical laws of the real world completely failed here.
Following the fluctuation, Kaito didn't know how far he traveled, but suddenly, he felt he passed through a barrier.
The black-and-white world faded like a thin film.
He entered a bright world with brilliant sunshine.
Beep beep!
He suddenly appeared on the road, causing the driving driver to honk furiously and curse.
Kaito turned his head and saw a huge neon sign—[New Seasoning City].
And by the roadside, he saw many people wearing cloaks distributing flyers. A gust of wind blew, and Kaito caught a flying flyer.
[(LOL) Cult, grants you eternal peace].
Another flyer flew over, covering Sage's face directly. Sage's breathing immediately calmed down bit by bit, and bit by bit... disappeared.
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