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Chapter: The Unleashed Calamity
The young man wondered in his mind: Why is the System telling me this? But he continued walking, paying it no mind. The window appeared again with the same question. This time, the boy stopped and asked: "If I say yes, what will you do?"
[System]
Do you wish to fight demonic monsters?
"Yes," Jin said coldly, contrary to the burning rage smoldering deep within him.
He stood still for moments, then a small dimensional portal opened beside him. A Goblin stepped out! Jin stared at him for moments—did he look a bit taller than usual? No, he had evolved physically; his body was upright, not hideous like a common Goblin. He wore a black formal suit, a fedora in the style of the Italian mafia, and transparent glasses. What was this now?
The Goblin: "Greetings, I am Jibo."
Jin stared—this Goblin seemed old, but wait... did he just speak? This isn't the language of monsters, is it?
Jin (Astonished): "How do you speak our language, Jibo? Wait a moment, how did you even become like this? Who are you?"
Jibo: "I am one of the overseers of the Tower's lower floors. Just a lowly creature, do not mind me. I have only come to escort you to your heart's desire."
Jin looked with suspicion; he was about to rip his head off, but he restrained himself. "What do you mean by my 'heart's desire'?"
Jibo (With a kind yet suspicious smile): "Did you not want to unleash your rage? The Tower will transport us to a place outside; it is perfectly suited for you."
Jin thought for moments: A Tower Overseer? They rarely appear away from floor-climbing. Very well.
Another portal opened before them, and they entered. They emerged into a terrifying place—the same place Captain Kalion had visited before! They were standing on the flat peak of a slightly elevated mountain. Jibo spoke:
"Do not concern yourself with anything. Unleash your rage. Even if you lose consciousness, I will return you to the Tower."
Jin hesitated for moments, but his anger was blazing, and he could hardly restrain himself. He looked ahead and found a multitude of demonic monsters! Hounds, ghouls, wolves, distorted giants—all of them were monsters from the Demon Realm! Jin looked below them and found a giant, perhaps 8 meters tall. He looked at Jibo and said: "I do not know what this cursed Tower wants, but I will not waste this chance."
The boy advanced and leaped. He did not draw his sword; he clenched his fist, reinforced it with energy, and crashed down upon the monster with force. He crushed it completely! He rose and looked again—an endless tide as far as the eye could see. He rushed at them and did not stop his thinking again.
Fists, palms, claws—everything was random and violent. He grabbed one of the monsters and tore it into two halves with his bare hands alone! He was screaming in his mind:
To hell with all this! How can I be this stupid? I learn the history of Planet Earth, yet I haven't looked at the history of this other cursed planet even once?!
He continued tearing through the monsters before him. Fifteen minutes passed in which he did not stop for a single moment. His body was drenched in the blood of monsters. His mind screamed again:
"Why is everything around me strange? Who in the heavens am I? Why is one of the Sword Thrones manipulating me? And why is Borin, whom I placed my trust in, hiding from me the truth of my father? Who is my father, in essence, for all this to happen?!"
The boy continued fighting with extreme violence. He leaped toward another giant. The monster clenched its fist and threw a punch; Jin returned it with another punch that shattered the monster's hand completely. The monster fell to the ground, and Jin continued raining down blows with violence until its head was entirely pulverized, and it died!
His mind screamed once more: Am I truly a good person? I am not fit to be a friend, I am not fit to be a father, I am not fit to be a husband at all. To hell with my life.
His rage increased intensely, and suddenly... the System window appeared.
[System]
The Story {Sin of Wrath} is taking control of you. All stats increased by 40%.
The boy paid no heed and continued fighting without pause. His exhaustion decreased because of this, and his abilities increased significantly. He continued crushing monsters again, tearing some and pulverizing others. A whole hour passed! His face was boiling with anger, overwhelmed by sorrow.
"Why? Why am I like this? What did I do for all this to happen?"
He kicked another monster until it crashed into a giant rock. He rushed toward it with immense speed and punched it in the stomach with enormous force. The rock cracked, the impact site shattered, and that part of the monster pulverized as if it had never existed.
He continued killing and killing. Another hour passed without stopping. He was consuming potions relentlessly. Jibo watched from his position: "This... what happened to make him this angry?"
The boy was drowning in questions: What is this world? Why do the powerful manipulate it? Why does everyone drown in petty, selfish desires? Why do they kill? Why do they love money? Why do they boast of lineage?
He asked in his heart: Why do they tell me my lineage is extraordinary? What family are you bastards talking about?!
He screamed in agony—a scream that pained the Overseer even as he watched him. Both his eyes slowly turned the color of darkness. A swarm of monsters rushed from around him, and he was buried under them! Yet, he did not stop! A thundering wave of energy pushed all the monsters away from around him.
He emerged, his clothes torn, his chest completely bare. He raised his right hand; fire formed around it, then the flame turned to the color of darkness as well!
The System window appeared again.
[You have acquired the skill (Dark Flame)]
The boy clenched his hand tightly and bit his lips until they bled profusely. He rushed toward another giant, raining dozens of lightning-fast punches upon it until the monster's body crumbled and another massive rock shattered. Tears fell from his eyes onto his face, which was scorched by rage.
"Why is all this happening to me? I never wanted any of this!"
He continued crushing monsters—tearing, pulverizing, and smashing. His rage increased even more!
The System window appeared again, but he did not see it this time due to the intensity of his anger.
[System]
A Story deleted from history is partially returning.
The Story {Wrath} is partially returning.
All your abilities have increased by 100%.
The boy was not thinking; his anger ignited. In that moment, his mysterious instinct led him to do something new—he didn't even think about it, he executed it directly.
He brought his hands together, then a color of dark energy surged between them. He opened them slowly as the energy continued to accumulate. Then he clenched his hands quickly as if clapping.
The aura exploded from between his hands. A beam of dark aura rose more than twenty meters above him! Jibo grew tense and broke into a sweat as he watched this scene! He wondered, terrified: Who is this person? How was he able to master a Combat Soul skill so suddenly like this?
Then suddenly, another portal opened beside Jibo. A man stepped out—the same man who had visited Borin in the past, with the same dark cloak and wide hood, and the blindfold covering both his eyes. He approached Jibo slowly, leaning on his cane. Jibo knelt immediately upon seeing him.
The old man interrupted him: "Don't speak. Ask the Tower to open a rift to the Demon Realm if it can. This young man must face a powerful enemy that exhausts him; I will not allow him to reach more than this."
Jibo executed the order immediately, pressing quickly on a System window before him. In that time, the thundering aura wave that had emerged from the boy ended. He emerged with markings extending across his arms, forehead, and chest; they resembled black magic symbols from the Eighth Circle, but they were not! They weren't even runic letters; they were symbols without a language, dark and organized in an extremely grand manner.
The boy rushed and grabbed one of the monsters by its foot and threw it with force; it collided with a swarm of monsters, scattering them all.
In a nearby place, a rift opened! Two hands were placed on the edges of the rift and widened it. Slowly, a hideous creature with two horns emerged. It was a Baron of the Demon Realm. He laughed hysterically: "Ah, finally, I have emerged into the human world." The demon felt something and smiled with excitement and malice: "It seems I have found my entertainment."
He turned toward that feeling, and time didn't even help him move. At that moment, Jin arrived before him with a sharp, terrifying gaze. The boy arrived before the demon with his hand in front of the demon's face. In that instant... it was parts of a second, but... the demon saw something beside him. It was powerful enough to make him tremble in his place during those brief parts of a second. A giant golden eye. Its color was a deep, very heavy gold, filled with minute details, and a perfectly serious pupil. The demon saw nothing at that moment but Jin before him, the eye beside him, and blackness everywhere around them!
Jin grabbed the demon's face quickly and crushed it into the ground! The earth shattered for a giant distance around them; rocks flew into the air from the intensity of the collision. At that moment, another Baron arrived and attacked quickly! Jin blocked the punch, placed his hand on the back of the other's head, and crushed him into the ground like his predecessor!
The first rose, screaming with disgusting demonic pride. Jin spoke in a terrifying tone: "Why does your disgusting pride lead you? This gives nothing but humiliation and will end with your death!"
He exchanged punches with him rapidly. The other also rose. Jin leveled them before him without them realizing and delivered a barrage of heavy, fast attacks. Dozens of punches per second from all sides—they were like phantoms in the air. The earth continued to crack and shatter beneath them. Whenever ordinary monsters approached them, their bodies were torn apart by the intensity of the energy resulting from the clashes!
They continued for 40 full seconds without stopping!
The boy's body was wounded and bleeding from the previous fights, and the blood of monsters drenched his entire body to the point where he could barely see. Yet, he did not care and felt neither pain nor exhaustion!
His power was doubled by 250% from his natural state—a terrifying jump in level. He had suffered against one Baron in the past, and now two of them were suffering before him.
The boy screamed: "You lowly creature, do you dare stand before me all this time?"
The System window appeared again.
[{Sin of Pride} is taking control of you!]
The boy didn't see it either! The dread of his aura increased; it was as if he were fighting orcs, not real demons! He retreated back quickly and drew his sword from his storage throat. In two seconds, he had sliced one of them into dozens of pieces. And before the demon could regenerate... Dark aura condensed around the sword, and Jin plunged it with force into the demon's heart. It stopped regenerating and its body began to evaporate at that very moment!
The other was terrified! "You monster! I will kill you here!"
Even the demon saw him as a monster! The boy continued delivering fast hand attacks after throwing his sword. His enemy would regenerate and then continue his attack until Jin pulverized his body again.
The old man was watching from his position, a heavy gaze whose intensity appeared even from under his blindfold!
The Baron rushed toward the boy with all his might. And Jin? His hand ignited with Dark Flame, and he stood in his place waiting for the collision. In the end... the Baron's body fell upon the young man's body, which stood as upright as it had been.
And his right hand... had pierced the monster's chest and come out. Jin was clutching the heart of his enemy, which he had ripped out of its body; he gripped it tightly with his burning fist until the heart exploded.
The Baron spoke, his strength failing and his disgusting blood flowing from his mouth: "You... you are the true demon!" And his body slowly evaporated.
The boy sat on his knees. The markings disappeared from his body. Blood flowed from his frame.
The System window appeared.
[Story deactivation complete] You have returned to your natural state.
Congratulations, you have acquired a new title: {Demon Slayer}.
The boy looked on, breathing with difficulty and gazing at the window. His cold, heavy facial features did not change. He felt a sharp chill covering his body and slowly closed his eyes from the intensity of the exhaustion. In the end, he lost consciousness in the same sitting position.
End of Chapter.