While the fight between the Fortress Chief and the Village Chief seemed to reach an impasse, suddenly, a butterfly flew from afar.
It flew right towards the Village Chief from behind.
Before the Village Chief saw anything, he suddenly felt his consciousness fall...
"Attack!" Teigu called out from behind, having sneaked into the village when he felt the situation was bad.
The Fortress Chief was surprised to realise that both the mantis and centipede became a lot weaker and their attacks imprecise, as if they had lost their mental power.
He didn’t waste a single more second and instead activated his own power –
All the tattoos on his body glowed with crimson light!
His arms suddenly became stronger and larger, black fur growing rapidly.
He raised his fists together –
All his power flowed into his arms –
SMASH!
The arms directly smashed the body of the Village Chief!
Everyone on the scene was suddenly stunned.
Right then, the purple light from before flew out and towards the child on the side.
It directly entered his body!
"Let him live, he will die on his own!" Teigu called out, standing on a building with his wings, looking at the scene from a distance.
The Chief only looked over for a second before turning to the two Gu. Using his fists, he smashed them easily.
Then he looked at the villages all around.
Just then, another purple light flew from Teigu’s side!
This purple light was a lot stronger. It was glowing strongly. Especially one of its wings seemed to shine brightly.
In less than a second it already entered his body!
"You-!" the Chief exclaimed, but it was too late.
In his mind, countless dreams appeared –
They were good dreams, beautiful dreams even.
The Chief had two perspectives in those dreams.
On one side he was the dreamer, enjoying life.
But at the end of each dream, this changed.
His second perspective awakened: the Wu Village Chief Demon Gu Controller!
The Chief saw how he killed himself.
A will rose in his body! He had to defend! He had to kill the Gu!
Although he saw the perspective of two, he always blurred the second perspective instinctively. He got no control over it, only seeing the slaughter better.
Each death was cruel, each time a worse version.
Finally he gathered all his strength –
With two fists, he reached out and smashed the Gu Controller down!
...
In reality, the two fists of the Fortress Chief smashed his own body.
His strong vitality didn’t allow him to die right away.
Just then, a purple thread flew over from Teigu’s side.
The thread landed on the Fortress Chief’s head, locking him to the ground.
In that moment he hit himself, he seemed to gain consciousness.
"Why! You hate them! Why!!!" he tried to scream but the band blocked his voice and even somehow disconnected his brain’s control from his body.
Out of instinct he was barely able to move his legs for a moment but even they gave way.
"Naturally it’s because you would’ve lost," Teigu replied.
"Since you would die to the Gu Controller, then your death is sealed. If I save your life, then you owe me a debt of life. If I want to take the debt right away, I should just take your life, right?
Wouldn’t it be unfair to all those before you?
They paid their debt right away but you didn’t want to!" Teigu’s thoughts were stirring.
Initially, he didn’t plan to kill. But when he thought of his advancement, he had to ask himself.
When would he get another chance to kill?
After this one, maybe he returned to the fortress. From then on, he might be able to go to the city and get opportunities to attack.
But even if he did, wouldn’t he get those opportunities regardless of what happened here?
When he was spying on this fortress, he had a total of three butterflies. Only one was caught while the other two waited outside!
The two of them worked together and attacked the messenger already. By now, he was dead.
That Shaman maybe got the news beforehand.
But before the shaman could turn, something else would already happen.
The Fortress Chief couldn’t hold on any longer and his mind fell into the dream once more.
A few moments later, he smashed his own body again.
This time he died and the butterfly flew from his body.
Teigu turned to the Village Chief’s child. It died too and another butterfly flew from its body.
This second butterfly flew into the butterfly coming out of the Fortress Chief’s body.
"Hmm, even sending the Main Butterfly Body isn’t enough to kill a Bone Refining Warrior right away. Next time I will also have to make sure they’re injured before attacking them." Teigu’s voice was cold.
From the time he had been fighting against the Wu Village Chief until today, over two months had passed.
The young boy full of resentment had transformed the fieriness in his body into a cold and calculated murderous intent!
"A total of three butterflies have entered, only four more to advance again. If this Village Chief hadn’t died so fast, it would be four."
Then he looked at the villagers.
At this point, they were like lifeless bodies.
"All of them have adult Human Birthing Corpse Gu in their bodies. Their minds have already been eaten. Is this a special technique, allowing them to reside in the body even after they matured?"
He waved his hand several times and one purple blade after another flew out.
These were spells he had realised in the dream space. Or rather, they were simple applications of combined spiritual and dream power!
Each slash hit the body and mind at the same time.
Here, the slashes directly hit the Gu’s body. The human body was halved and the Gu, having lost their controller and being attacked like this, died right away.
Finally he looked at the village.
Once again, he had killed so many.
A thought rose in his mind...
"I need another Gu. A Gu that can eat these!"
He shook his head.
Although his Butterfly Gu was good in every way, it was still a Dream Gu and didn’t eat human flesh.
"They said the west has many Gu, right? Maybe I should go west next."
Of course this was a plan for later.
Instead, he walked Southwest
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