<h4>Chapter 72: Vol1 Ch72: There is no such thing as hope and warmth</h4>


    Trantor: La0o9 Editor: La0o9


    Standing on Conner’s shoulder, Cadiz Moreg began to emit an aqua blue aura from his body. As he jumped from Connor’s shoulder, he drew the long spear from behind his back and thrust it directly towards one of the Hales members.


    “A useless attack, our original form cannot be seen, and what is imperceivable cannot be attacked!” The Hales memberughed as hepletely ignored Cadiz’s spear and thrust the ceremonial de in his hand towards Cadiz.


    Cadiz’s spear directly went through ck One’s body, but his body was like a phantom. While surrounded by the ck mist of the ck Abyss, his form was imperceivable, and thus could not be truly harmed. At the same time, ck One’s ceremonial de directly pierced through Cadiz’s armour and stabbed into his body.


    “It’s over, there is poison on our ceremonial de to remove the ash, time to be our sacrifice” ck One indifferently dered, all lives that tried to prevent the return of the ck Abyss should atone for their sins in death.


    “What nonsense are you spouting?” Cadiz grinned and swept his spear across, ck One’s body was sent flying with blood spraying from his wounds.


    As he looked down at ck One who staggered standing up, Cadiz threw the ceremonial de aside,pletely unfazed by the bit of ck liquid flowing from his wound. He was disying an excited expression: “When you attack, there’s a short period where you enter a vulnerable state”


    “Your body is already dead?” ck One also noticed Cadiz’s current state.


    “This fight is going to be very interesting” Cadiz said with a smile: “You’re usually in a state where you can’t be attacked, while my body basically can’t die. Both of us have no choice but to look for the hidden weaknesses of the other party in order to win”


    “But I’ve already discovered one of your weaknesses. Whenever you try to attack other people, I can attack you. Although there’s a lot more resistance than normal, I still managed to do it. So what are you going to do now?” Cadiz asked in a wicked manner.


    “That thing breeding in the castle is very important to you, isn’t it? If you try to run away, I’m going to destroy it”


    ck One patted the dust off his body. The eyes under the ck mask were extremely cold. He could ept his own death, but he could not ept the return of the ck Abyss being prevented.


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    On another side, the tall fat man, Connor Kenway, released the weapon on his back onto the ground. It was a thick iron chain attached to a huge sphere. He wasn’t slow, but he wasn’t nimble either, so he simply chose to remain stationary.


    ck Two charged forward, but because of Connor’srge size, his attacks weren’t doing much besides tickling him, unable to cause any noticeable harm to Connor at all. And whenever ck Two tried to turn around to help hispanions, then Connor would move towards the castle.


    This behaviour made ck Two understand that he couldn’t deal with Connor, and that he couldn’t leave either, otherwise, he would only cause the Evil Spirit ritual to fail.


    The huge ball and chain hit ck Two directly, but as he was surrounded by the ck smog of the ck Abyss, all of Connor’s attacks simply went through the body dealing no damage. Connor no longer tried to attack, but if one had special vision, then they would notice a purple aura starting to gather around his body.


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    Thest member of Hales, ck Three, was the most unlucky one as he faced Jack the Killer who had a kind smile practically stered onto his face. Jack’s posture was very flexible so all of ck Three’s attacks were being responded by either being blocked or evaded.


    “What should I call you, brother?” Jack was holding a dagger upside down as he blocked ck Three’s ceremonial de while a white mist drifted around his body. Not getting a response from ck Three, he didn’t mind and continued to speak: “Seeing how honest you look, I’ll call you... Little Noodly!”


    Jack’s words made ck Three’s movements stiffen briefly, then his subsequent attacks became more and more violent.


    “Oh, I’m sorry if I hit a sore spot. Really sorry about that, please forgive me, because I’m going to do it again and in even more ces” Jack once again rolled away from the ck Three’s attack and continued to taunt him.


    “If we get a chance, I’ll introduce you to a friend of mine, his name is Nil Jiji” Jack evaded again and said with a smile: “I’m sure the two of you will have a lot to talk about”


    “By the way, can I ask you about something?” Jack’s dagger moved and shed towards ck Three’s crotch, but it simply went through without hitting anything. “There is a thing called ‘living while saving the crotch’, so why didn’t you do that instead and join Hales? Even your ‘little woody’ has be a ‘little noodly’ now1”


    “Asshole, die!” ck Three’s attacks became even fiercer, Jack’s cheap words were constantly stimting him and stirring up his emotions.


    “So you are angry, just as I thought” Jack’s dagger danced around and blocked all of ck Three’s attacks, then his voice suddenly became serious: “The so-called Hales is just a group of defeated dogs after all”


    “After failing until you had nothing left, you could only direct your so-called resentment towards the world itself. You obviously desired the light and fire, but because you couldn’t obtain your hope and warmth, you wanted everyone else to lose them as well”


    “What do you know!!” ck Three attacked Jack in a frenzy. The ck smog on his body began to swirl and shrink, then gathered on to the dagger in his hand, revealing ck Three’s scarred body.


    It almost couldn’t be called a human body anymore, huge patches of his skin were torn off, several ribs were removed from his chest, with iron nails littered throughout his body. As he held the ceremonial de coated in ck smog, there was nothing but desperation in his tone: “Do you really think my scars were made after joining Hales?”


    “Do you really think I don’t want to obtain hope and warmth?” ck Three rushed towards Jack, since his body was no longer surrounded by the smog of the ck Abyss, he was no longer immune to attacks: “But the only people who could bring me hope and warmth are no longer there!!!”


    “How tragic” Jack’s smile quickly faded, the originally white mist around his body had turned blood-red at some unknown point.


    The ceremonial de and Jack’s dagger shed. The ceremonial de d in ck smog directly cut through Jack’s dagger, then through Jack’s neck. Jack maintained his grip on the broken dagger, shed forward with his momentum andpletely missed ck Three’s head, if the dagger hadn’t been broken, this attack would have cleanly cut through the upper half of his face.


    But ck Three’s body started falling backwards in an upright manner, his gaze under the mask gradually became unfocused, some auditory hallucinations even resounded in his ears.


    “Father, I’m going to the inner city to beg, I won’te back at noon today”


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    “A little boy between seven and eight years old? I haven’t seen him. I advise you not to look for him anymore. A few people would go missing just like this every year, none of them is ever found”


    “But if you really want to find him, go to the garbage dump of the noble area. If you are lucky, you may be able to find the body”


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    “Those mongrels really can’t take a beating at all, they all die too easily”


    “Guards, catch this mongrel! He dared to try and assassinate me, don’t sentence him to death, I want him to regret his actions”


    “That little cur should be honoured to be killed by me. Now that your wretched ‘root’ is gone, you’re not even going to be able to make any more little curs”


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    “There is no such thing as hope and warmth!”