Chapter 103  

Chapter 103   . Finally Discovering the Truth“M-Milord!”

Looking at Rothschild who had his back impaled, the face of his personal guards paled .

The death of their Lord .

It was the thought of this that made fear and despair creep up on the guards .

“Dorian . ”

With a determined expression, Kang Chul-In called Dorian .

“Kill them all . Don’t let anyone out of here alive . ”

“Yeah . ”

And what followed Dorian’s agreement was a slaughter .

Showing movement that made one think of a killing-machine, Kang Chul-In with the help of Dorian killed all of the soldiers that Alex Rothschild had brought with him .

‘Drink it . ’

With a complicated gaze, Kang Chul-In looked at the ground .

‘This is my apology to you . ’

He prayed for the dead soldiers and civilians that had once been part of his territory--- the proud and powerful people of Valhalla .

As Kang Chul-In had commanded, not a single one of the 500 soldiers could leave alive . Of course, that included Rothschild’s powerful personal guards .

Though they tried to approach Rothschild who was slowly bleeding out, stabbed by Kaiforce…

“Agh!!”

It was nothing more than a last ditch effort against Kang Chul-In that went all-out .

If this was still in the past, they would have been able to ‘somewhat’ stop him .

But not anymore .

Even looking at all of the adventurers and Lords that had come over through the portal, there was not a single person that could withstand the strength of Kang Chul-In .

“Get out of my way . ”

Chopping the heads off of all the personal guards that stood in his way, Kang Chul-In walked towards Rothschild without any hesitation .

Human heads started falling onto the ground, almost like dominoes .

One, two, three, four… The ones that had stood up to protect Rothschild were all butchered mercilessly .

After a bit, Kang Chul-In was finally able to get to where Rothschild was . “Kuk… Cough!”

Thankfully, Rothschild wasn't dead just yet .

“Huk . . . Huk…”

At the sight of Rothschild gasping for breath, reminding him of a cockroach struggling to live, Kang Chul-In smirked .

“You’re going to kill him?”

Dorian asked from behind .

“Of course I am . ”magic

Kang Chul-In answered .

“Kuhuk!”

Kang Chul-In stretched out his arms and began to choke Rothschild .

There weren’t any words . There was no interrogation . Kang Chul-In just picked up scraps of metal that had fallen down during the fight, and then proceeded to slowly cut through Alex Rothschild’s neck, almost like he was slicing a cake .

“Kuk… Cough! Ugh…”

And as blood started to gurgle and splurt out of Rothschild’s neck…

Roll…

Rothschild’s head started to roll on the ground, away from his body .

“Wow… that’s violent…”And then that man… suddenly woke up .

“Cough!”

And he started coughing up blood .

“Kuk… Cough… Cough… . !”

Fresh red blood started to come out from that man’s mouth . Looking at how severe it was, it seemed that the man could die from excessive bleeding .

“Huk… Huk… Dammit… Huk…”

Alex Rothschild started gritting his teeth in frustration .

His condition wasn’t looking good right now . He had pitch black dark circles hanging over his eyes, and his lips were black from all the blood .

“Huk… Huk… You… One day, I’ll definitely kill you . ”

Though Rothschild was weakened, the madness in his eyes seemed stronger than ever .

“How dare he . . . humiliate me like this…”

After muttering this, Rothschild touched the part of his neck that was sliced through by Kang Chul-In .

It was a terrible, terrifying experience .

Who could have experience getting their head chopped off alive? What he had experienced just now was a nightmare… a nightmare that he never wanted to experience again .

“Hu…”

Inhaling deeply, Rothschild opened his Status Page .

[As penalty for the destruction of your clone, your stats will decrease by 70% . (0 clones left)]

[Lord Points will decrease by 300P, due to the sickness of the Lord . ]

[Your ranking has fallen from 5th → 105th place . ]

They were terrible losses .

Though it was thankful that Rothschild himself hadn’t died, but 10 mole assassins, 20 wraiths, and 500 soldiers had all died, not to mention his personal guards . Rothschild had just lost 20% of his territory’s entire strength with that fight .

This is significant, but… Rothschild had lost something even more important than that .

His secret, that he had tried to protect from the world forever, had been revealed .

His death, or rather his clone’s death, needed to be a hidden card left until the very end . But now that his secret had been discovered, he couldn’t stay hidden here forever .

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‘Cockroach-like bastard . ’

Finally realizing the unknown ‘specialty’ and secret of Rothschild, Kang Chul-In grit his teeth .

‘You were able to survive because you were probably hidden away somewhere, controlling your ‘puppets’, weren’t you? Even though I had destroyed you countless times . ’

“How is he still alive? Is he unkillable or something?”

Still unable to figure out how Rothschild was still alive, Dorian muttered, very confused .

“No, that’s not true . ”

Kang Chul-In shook his head .

“Then how is this possible?”

“There’s no way that he would go down 100 places in the Lord rankings just by losing 500 men or so . I’m guessing that it’s a penalty on his real body that was placed due to the destruction of his ‘puppet’ . For this kind of ridiculously powerful and useful ability, there has to be risks . ”

Kang Chul-In could perfectly tell how Rothschild had survived now .

“Aha! So Rothschild’s real body is somewhere else, and we just killed his ‘puppet’?”

“Exactly . ”

“Sigh… This Rothschild, he’s a cockroach, isn’t he? He won’t die no matter how much times you kill him . ”

“Pft . I like how you described him . ”

Kang Chul-In smirked .

“Yeah, but anyway…”

Dorian suddenly pointed at a hill .

“What do we do with that woman?”

Kim Sung-hee was still standing there, watching dazedly .

“ . . . That mosquito, she’s still here?”

Kang Chul-In muttered, as if he were startled .