THE CURSED ONE - THE BOY WHO CHALLENGE DESTINY

Baotan's Soul Absorbing Technique

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Wun Cheon and Min Cheon who are still fighting with Hyung Jae do not understand Baotan's plan, they remain focused on his opponent Hyung Jae who is now in the upper hand.

Hyung Jae continues to press Min Cheon and Wun Cheon who have lost their arms respectively. Hyung Jae has also used the secret move from his teacher, The Iron Body Technique, this move makes the inner energy into a kind of thin and invisible protective layer of the body with extraordinary density so that it can protect the body from attacks by all sharp objects that hit the body, and make the skin unscratchable and. Impenetrable. 

Min Cheon and Wun Cheon's claw attacks that hit Hyung Jae's body were completely unable to injure Hyung Jae because of the iron body stance. This made the two of them start to get frustrated and attack at random.

"Thanks to this iron body skill, I can suppress them. But I won't be able to use this iron body move for too long, my internal energy is draining quickly. I must finish this battle immediately and help Princess Imma." Hyung Jae said inside his heart.

Hyung Jae realizes that the weakness of this iron body move is that it is wasteful in the use of his internal energy because he has to constantly creating the protective innner energy layer all over his body. Hyung Jae doesn't want to run out of steam in here because he has to immediately help Princess Imma, therefore he intends to defeat Min Cheon and Wun Cheon as soon as possible. Hyung Jae doesn't know that at this time it's Baotan who is pressured by Princess Imma.

Baotan, who was close to the location of the fight between Hyung Jae and his two subordinates, was surprised when he saw that the two men were under pressure from Hyung Jae's attack even though they had changed their shape, they had even lost their right hand.

"Dammit, apparently there are two monsters that we fought. I didn't think some ordinary humans were able to fight our god-given power. I can't allow this, I have to defeat them both here even if it costs the lives of two of my loyal guards." Baotan spoke in his heart as he continued to dart towards Hyung Jae.

Hyung Jae doesn't notice Baotan's approaching presence, he's too focused on pressing his opponent to finish the fight. Hyung Jae only realized Baotan's presence when Baotan's steel claws were right in front of his face, Hyung Jae doesn't have time to dodge, the claws hit his face directly. The sound of Baotan's claws hitting Hyung Jae's face is like the sound of two metals clashing, Hyung Jae is lucky because his iron body moves are still active so they protect him without getting hurt at all.

The sudden attack forced Hyung Jae to take a few steps back, Baotan is now standing between Hyung Jae and his men, Min Cheon and Wun Cheon.

"Ah, I see now why you guys have a hard time dealing with this guy, he's mastered the legendary iron body jutsu." Baotan said after feeling strange when his claws hit Hyung Jae's face.

"Master, why are you here?!" Min Cheon asked in surprise when he saw Baotan in front of him.

"Right, Master, you don't need to intervene, we can both handle this guy." It was Wun Cheon's turn to speak up.

"Shut up! I saw for yourself that both of you were in a state of urgency by this person, after all, look at the condition of your hands, how could you lose your hands like that?!" Baotan lectured two of his men.

"This... We're just not on our guard, Master." Min Cheon tried to defend himself in front of Baotan.

"That's enough! I'll fight him. You just stay put in there." Baotan said as he walked towards his two men who were standing side by side.

Hyung Jae who saw Baotan's arrival at that place suddenly felt worried that Princess Imma had been killed by Baotan's hands.

"Has Miss Imma been defeated?! No way! But this person can be here, how is this!?" Hyung Jae said to himself in confusion, moreover, he had previously seen a bright light and a big explosion from the direction of Princess Imma and Baotan's fight.

Before Hyung Jae realized what was going on, suddenly Baotan grabbed the necks of the two men and lifted them in the air with his hands. Min Cheon and Wun Cheon who did not expect the baotan action could not do much because they were almost out of breath.

"W... Master, why are you doing this!?" Min Cheon asked Baotan in the last of his life.

"Your sacrifices are needed to make me the strongest in the world, just accept your destiny, and become part of my power!" Baotan answered Min Cheon's question.

"Y... You're going to... Do that to u... us masters?!" Min Cheon continued to ask with the rest of his breath, his consciousness fading away from running out of breath.

Baotan did not answer the last question from Min Cheon, suddenly from the mouth of Min Cheon and Wun Cheon came out a kind of black air that was shaped like a human face in pain, a lot of faces of pain that came out of their mouths and into their mouths Baotan. Hyung Jae, who saw it directly, was horrified by the sight in front of him, moreover, the condition was accompanied by a high-pitched shrill voice, like the screams of people in hell.

"What's that?! So terrible!" Hyung Jae is still standing alert and watching Baotan's actions without even blinking.

Baotan continued to suck all the power in the form of souls that had been sucked in by his two men until nothing was left, including the souls of the two of them. Min Cheon and Wun Cheon's bodies turned into wrinkles as if they were only bones and looked black. Finally, Baotan finished sucking their souls and threw his subordinate's soulless bodies on the ground like useless trash.

Baotan's body gave off a purple aura again and his armor which had been badly damaged slowly began to be restored.

"That person's armor is similar to my iron body moves, but that armor turn to physical presence and can be seen by n***d eye, what kind of terrifying f*******n skill did you learn?!" Hyung Jae wonders about Baotan's technique even though he doesn't get an answer.

When Baotan's body began to be wrapped in armor again, Princess Imma arrived at their place and immediately stood beside Hyung Jae.

"Miss Imma, thank God... I thought you had lost. And this...???" Hyung Jae is happy to see that Princess Imma is still alive, and he is surprised to see Princess Imma's transformed body covered in blood tattoos and her eyes burning like red flames.

"No time to explain, Mr. Hyung Jae, what happened to that guy?! How did his armor come back intact?!" Princess Imma asks Hyung Jae.

"He killed two of his men and absorbed something terrible from their bodies, it seems that the source of their power is the human soul, I don't know how many human souls they sacrificed to get that power." Hyung Jae tries to analyze what happened before his eyes.

“What a dangerous force, Mr. Hyung Jae, it looks like we have to kill this guy before he absorbs more souls and inflicts more destruction. Dispel any doubts in your heart and fight with all your might to kill him.” Princess Imma advises Hyung Jae.

Hyung Jae is amazed at Princess Imma who can read the doubts in his heart because he hasn't killed anyone directly. So far he will only paralyze his opponents because he always thinks that every human being, even though an evil one, deserves a second chance. But right now he felt that Princess Imma was right after seeing Baotan's terrible deed that had no compassion at all even for his own subordinates, he must made up his mind to kill Baotan right now in this place for the safety of many others.

"Ahh... Doing 'this' always feels good, it's addicting to feels the taste of other people's souls, now my body feels very energized. Too bad those two idiots weren't able to properly use divine techniques like this, at least they were useful by being part of my godly power." Baotan talks to himself loud enough for Hyung Jae and Princess Imma to hear.

"What a disgusting man, he enjoys the murders he commits." Princess Imma cursed Baotan's actions. 

"Listen, Mr. Hyung Jae, I can't maintain my body state for too long, even though this technique makes me have strength and speed that exceeds the limit, but it is weighing on my body, I only have about a quarter of an incense stick before my strength returns to normal, we need to do the strongest possible attack from the start, I feel our current enemy is several times stronger than before after eating the souls of his two companions."

"I see, Miss Imma, let's kill him here." Hyung Jae immediately punctures a few blood pulse points of his body intending to open all the energy barriers in his bloodstream so that he can unleash all his inner energy potential.

Princess Imma can feel a very strong internal energy emanating from Hyung Jae's body. "Impressive, your inner strength is amazing, Mr. Hyung Jae, but we still have to work together because I feel our opponent is still stronger, I don't know where that man learned that kind of demonic technique, it doesn't seem like it's a technique from this world." Princess Imma compliments Hyung Jae.

The princess then gives the code to Hyung Jae to attack and do a distraction because she will muster the energy to do his strongest attack 'Light blast'.

Hyung Jae understands the Princess's request and immediately rushes to attack Baotan who is still admiring his new strength. Hyung Jae doesn't want to waste time with weak attacks, from the start he attacks with full strength. His body shot out with his seven-star sword in a stabbing attack stance, from the tip of the blade powerful energy emerged that made the ground along the trajectory of his attack erode causing a long hollow even though he was only grazed by the sword's energy.

Baotan is surprised to see Hyung Jae's attack, but he doesn't dodge at all and takes Hyung Jae's full force sword stab. The attack hit Baotan's armor-covered stomach and knocked him back several dozen steps. The trees and the ground were crushed by being hit by Baotan's body which was pushed by Hyung Jae's powerful attack.

Baotan's body finally stopped being pushed, but there were no scars at all and his armor wasn't even pierced through. Two Baotan Hands held the tip of Hyung Jae's seven-star sword and pushed the sword away from his body, and even threw Hyung Jae and his sword to the side.

Hyung Jae doesn't think that Baotan's strength was so powerful and able to throw a grown man's body just by lifting it from the tip of the sword even after Baotan eceived one of his powerful attack directly.