The Cursed One : The Darkside of The World

The Unbelievable Power

The guards from all over the city start to flood the front yard of the city hall, the place where the commotion occurred. They instantly know the person that making the commotion and all of them start to encircled Jin. Over than a hundred guards are now ready to attack Jin from all directions.

Jin sees the situation is not in his favor. With the number of guards, he would not be able to hold himself for not to kill or not to make the guards severely wounded.

"Remember, you are the one who asks this fight. Don't blame me if you die or losing part of your body." Jin said while he lows down his sword. He circulates his inner energy and prepares for a powerful attack.

Everyone around Jin can feel the pressure of the inner energy that Jin emanates from his body. The guards are also able to sense Jin's strange energy, not like the usual energy that is released by the other martial artist. The energy that Jin's body emanates is cold and dark.

Jin's inner energy is different from the other people's energy because the energy flow inside Jin's body is reverse compared to normal humans because of the black devil curse. Jin's teacher, Baek Ma, didn't remove the Black Devil Curse from Jin's body because the curse can not be healed. Although The Black Devil curse still exists inside Jin's body, Baek Ma had taught Jin a technique to control and release reverse inner energy flows. After training for years, Jin has been able to manipulate the reverse energy flow inside his body to perform any technique that he wants. Someone who manages to control the reverse energy flow can release inner energy output several times stronger than any normal human using the same amount of inner energy. That's why Baek Ma become the greatest warrior of his era because he also has the Black Devil Curse inside his body and he can control it.

On the brink of the battle, Kamcik tries to persuade his commander to negotiate with Jin to avoid any casualties because he knows if Jin is fighting seriously, they are the ones who will suffer the most. "Commander, how if we ask him first for his reason to come to this place." Kamcik suggested.

"No need, an intruder like him must be taken down immediately otherwise he will become big-headed." Kang Han Bak refused Kamcik's suggestion while giving a code to his men to start attacking. The guards obeyed Kang Han Bak's order and slowly creating a formation to trap Jin inside.

Kang Han Bak's refusal makes Kamcik more suspicious of his commander. But right now, he can not do anything to stop the guards from attacking Jin because the highest command is still on Kang Han Bak. Suddenly, an idea appears inside his brain, while his commander focused on the battle, he gives a code to the informant who watches the fight secretively to send the secret message to the Blue Wind's main palace to send a special team to this city. Either Kang Han Bak and he has the right to ask for help from their headquarter during special circumstances, and this time is a special circumstance. The informant doesn't care whether it was Kang Han Bak or Kamcik who give the code, he just doing his task to immediately sends the SOS message using a special pigeon who can travel from Ajwa City to The Blue Wind palace 5 times faster than using the human messenger.

Meanwhile, Jin has been encircled inside the dozens of guards formation. "This will be a riot." He feels as if he was underestimating Ajwa City guards a little bit.

10 guards start attacking from all directions while behind them another 10 guards are ready to attack if the first layer has failed, that layer of guards will immediately be replaced by another layer that is ready behind them if they failed.

Jin doesn't want to waste his time by fighting inside the guards' formation. He Intended to break the formation all at once. He channeled strong inner energy and released it around his body, this makes the guard's weapon unable to reach Jin's body as if a strong and invisible shield is covering Jin from all sides. No matter how hard the guards were trying to push, their swords were unable to penetrate the invisible shield because the inner energy gap between Jin and the guards is too big. Meanwhile, inside the invisible shield, Jin gathered a big amount of energy inside his body, he planned to explode it to throw all the guards away from his surroundings.

"That's a crazy amount of energy, what is he gonna do with it?" Kamcik gazes and he asked his commander.

The commander, Kang Han Bak, is also in gaze. He couldn't believe a young man can achieve that level. He feels some regret as he pick the wrong opponent this time, but everything is too late for him to turn back now, he has to keep going at any cost. If necessary, he will all out to fight Jin although he has to put his life on the line. Right now, he doesn't want to help his underlings because he knows the amount of inner energy that gathered around Jin's body was very powerful, he can get hurt if that energy is exploded. He wants to wait for the perfect moment before attacking Jin. He believes Jin will run out of energy after releasing such a powerful attack.

The guards keep trying to penetrate Jin's invisible shield without knowing the danger that will happen to them. 'Dddrrrrtttttt!!!" The ground around Jin starts to tremble. This make the guards afraid, they thought an earthquake is happening right now.

Kamcik knows what will happen next, he wants to warn all the guards and asks them to move as far as possible to minimize the casualties but he doesn't dare as the highest command is still on Kang Han Bak. Kamcik looks at Kang Han Bak but Kang Han Bak doesn't seem to care about his men's safety and this fed-up Kamcik.

Kamcik can not hold himself any longer, he shouts at his men to go away from Jin. "Everyone! Go away now!!!"

All the guards looking at Kamcik, but it was all too late. Jin screams and releases the inner energy that he had gathered in all directions.

"Kabooooommmm!!!" A big explosion occurred with Jin as the center. The shockwave of the explosion is very strong that pushes away everything around Jin's body. All the guards were thrown away in all directions, many of them are fainted and badly injured because of the strong pressure, luckily, none of them have died. Kamcik and Kang Han Bak having a difficult time standing up against the shockwave, even Kamcik was almost thrown away if he didn't stab his sword on the ground and hold on to it. The entire Ajwa City is shocked because of the explosion that is continued by a strong wind from the shockwave, the citizens are in a panic situation as this is something that they never felt before.

Meantime, outside Ajwa City, a group of women and children just arrived after the explosion, they are the group of children and women from Jiling city with Airi and Rumia as the leader, they want to ask for justice and to get their family back. At the front of the gat, they found the city gate is opened but without any guards, because the two guards, who are left at the city gate, immediately rush and run to the Center of the explosion to see what has happened, they abandoned their post as they think the explosion is a much more urgent matter to check. Although she doesn't know why no guards at the city gate, Airi decided to enter Ajwa City with the group without waiting for the guards to come. All of them immediately heading in one direction, Ajwa City Hall to help Jin ask for justice. At this moment, they don't know if their arrival will not help Jin, and even will put him in danger.

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AJWA CITY HALL - FRONT YARD

The shockwave after the explosion has completely gone, only Jin is now standing at the center of the explosion. Hundred of guards that previously encircled Jin are now scattered everywhere, laying on the ground. Many of them have passed out, while the others are moaning because of broken bones. The building around the explosion center was also heavily damaged, including the city hall.

"I can't believe this, one man can defeat hundred of guards with a single attack." Kamcik was shocked to know all of the guards has been down. He knows if the attack will hit hard on the guards but he was expecting the explosion half strong and half of the guards will survive, but now he witnessed that all the guards have been down.

Kang Han Bak, who was previously only silent, is now taken out his sword and rushes forward to attack Jin. He jumps and slashes his sword from above to cut Jin in half. "Die now!" He shouted while launching his powerful strike.

"Jdooooom!!!"

Another big explosion occurs when Kang Han Bak's sword collided with Jin's sword. The strong pressure from above makes the ground around Jin is wrecked. The shock wave of the explosion spreads to the entire city and makes the citizens more panicked. They wondered what was happened to their peaceful town.

The dust that flying around the collision area makes Kang Han Bak unable to see Jin's face. He is very sure his attack was powerful enough to shatter Jin's body who he thinks has run out of energy.

"Isn't this too much just to welcome one person who was asking for justice? Couldn't we just talk?" Jin said amidst the flying dust.

Kang Han Bak is shocked after knowing Jin is still fine. He immediately jumps backward to make a gap between Jin and himself. "Damn it! Is he really okay? Or just pretending to be okay?" He questioned himself. "But why he did not attack me? He had a good chance for a counter-attack, is he running out of energy? Yes, that's the only explanation." He was confused by Jin's action.

Kamcik, who sees the sudden attack from Kang Han Bak, getting more suspicious because Kang Han Bak didn't do anything when his subordinates were in danger before. He suspects his commander is using the guards to depleting Jin's energy.

"Don't be cocky. I know you had runs out of energy after that last attack. Let's see if you can hold this or not." Kang Han Bak wants to attack Jin again.

Right before Kang Han Bak moves, Kamcik tries to stop him once again. "Wait, Commander! Please stop! I think we should hear his request first. The casualties on our side were too big. We are lucky no one is dead." He persuades his commander.

"What?! You just shut up! He is the intruder, you should attack him, not defend him. No need to negotiate with any intruder like him. Do you want to betray this city?" Kang Han Bak said something that Kamcik couldn't refute. He doesn't mean to betray Ajwa city or the Blue Wind sect, but he feels what his commander did was not right.