Bloodline is Everything - Chapter 176

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【Bloodline is a Thug Chapter 176】

176. The End (2)

-…Brother, how did you find us?
Kwon Cheon asked in a sharp voice. Kwon Hyuk spoke casually.
-Heukcheon has known your location since long ago. We simply didn’t act because the Chairman hadn’t given the order.
Kwon Cheon’s pupils dilated slightly. In truth, he had found it strange. The Heukcheon he knew would never have failed to locate them.
-If you’ve appeared before me, Brother, that means Father has made his decision.
-That’s not it.
Kwon Hyuk flatly denied it. Confusion crossed Kwon Cheon’s face.
-Ask the woman behind you. She’ll tell you.
Kwon Cheon turned to look at Lee Da-hae. She spoke with a bright expression.
-The Chairman just visited. He said he cannot accept you back into the family, but from now on he won’t pursue you…
Lee Da-hae’s words trailed off. Then why had Kwon Hyuk appeared before them?
-That’s right. The Chairman has decided to leave you both alone. The order came down just now.
Kwon Cheon’s face began to turn deathly pale.
Such an order had been given. Yet an assassin attacked Lee Da-hae. And then Kwon Hyuk appeared.
-Your instincts are still sharp.
Kwon Hyuk spoke with a sneer.
-Father may intend to leave you both alone… but I don’t.
-Brother, if Father learns of this, he won’t stay silent.
-That’s why I came now.
Kwon Hyuk slowly spread both arms wide.
-The area beneath the lamp is darkest. Now that Father has met this woman and left, he’ll be letting his guard down without realizing it.
Footsteps echoed. More than ten Hunters entered the Hospital Room. Each carried sinister weapons in their hands.
-…Da-hae.
Kwon Cheon swept his gaze across them and spoke.
-Close your eyes.
Before the words even finished, Kwon Cheon clutched Lee Da-hae and the child to his chest and leaped through the window.
The moment his feet touched the ground, Hunters rushed in from all directions as if they’d been waiting. Kwon Cheon faced the Hunters while holding Lee Da-hae and the child, kicking them aside as he fled. After running for some distance, he set the two down.
-Go ahead. I’ll hold them here!
Kwon Cheon shouted. Lee Da-hae clenched her teeth.
She didn’t want to leave. She wanted to stay with Kwon Cheon. The desire burned fiercely, but she couldn’t be stubborn.
-…You must come back.
Lee Da-hae clutched the child and fled. Thanks to the Bloodline, her stats exceeded those of ordinary Hunters. She disappeared at high speed.
But the Hunters Kwon Hyuk had brought were far stronger than Lee Da-hae. No matter how hard she ran, they would catch up soon.
However, the hunters that Kwon Hyuk brought were far stronger than Lee Da-hae. No matter how hard Lee Da-hae tried to run away, it was clear they would catch up to her in no time.
So he had to buy as much time as possible.
—I have to survive.
Kwon Cheon muttered those words under his breath and glanced back. The hunters Kwon Hyuk had sent were closing in.
Summoning his dragon combat technique, Kwon Cheon charged toward them.

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Lee Da-hae fled with desperate urgency.
Her legs screamed with pain as if they might burst, and the lack of oxygen made her mind swim. Yet she refused to stop running.
She had to escape as far as possible while Kwon Cheon held them back.
【The True Healthy Acupoint detects intense movement!】
【Stamina and Agility increase by 0.7!】
【Stamina recovery speed increases by 300%!】
Fortunately, she was no ordinary woman. The healthy acupoint within her body aided her escape.
But for Lee Da-hae, who had lived an ordinary life until now, shaking off the hunters of Heukcheon was nearly impossible.
—I have to find a way….
Lee Da-hae changed direction toward the city. At this late hour, the streets were empty.
Even if people had been around, asking for help would have been futile. Kwon Hyuk wouldn’t be so careless. He would have already made contingencies.
Lee Da-hae was completely isolated. She alone had to find a way to save the child.
Suddenly, a medical waste bin entered her field of vision. Lee Da-hae tore off the lock and opened the compartment below.
She carefully laid the child inside.
—…I’ll be back soon. Just hold on a little longer.
She had to close the entrance and leave. But her feet wouldn’t move.
She felt it instinctively.
That she would not be able to keep the promise she made to the child.
Lee Da-hae pulled out a maternity handbook from her bosom. The child’s name was written on the first page.
—Han-ul.
Han meant “great,” and ul meant “world.”
Lee Da-hae and Kwon Cheon had chosen the name Han-ul, meaning “grow great in this world.”
—Mommy loves you so much.
Lee Da-hae embraced the child once more, holding them tightly.
At that moment, unnoticed by her, a white light rose from her body and entered the child’s.
—I promise I’ll come back.
Lee Da-hae set the child down. She fled as far from the medical waste bin as she could.
But she didn’t make it far.
A spear flew from somewhere and pierced through her chest. Lee Da-hae collapsed limply to the ground.
Five or six men descended around her corpse. As one of the hunters examined her body, he spoke.
—The child isn’t here?
The hunter shouted to the others.
—Scatter now! Find it and kill it!
-Do we really have to take the child too?
-It’s Kwon Hyuk’s order! If you don’t want to die, don’t complain!
The Hunters scattered in all directions once more.

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-Pathetic.
Kwon Hyuk cast his gaze downward. A man lay sprawled across the asphalt road.
-You haven’t developed at all. No, you’ve actually regressed.
Kwon Cheon moved only his eyes to look up at Kwon Hyuk. His entire body was so mangled that he couldn’t move a single finger.
-You probably don’t understand why I’m trying to kill you. The truth is, I could have just left you alone. But… I’m not the type to leave loose ends.
Even if Kwon Cheon was a traitor who had fled the family, having a direct bloodline member remain outside was an unbearable burden from Kwon Hyuk’s perspective.
-No, let me drop all these excuses.
But the real reason Kwon Hyuk truly wanted to kill Kwon Cheon was something else entirely.
-I’ve hated the way you’ve always been so hypocritical since the old days.
Kwon Cheon’s words, his actions—everything about him provoked Kwon Hyuk.
-Come now, I’ll give you a chance before I kill you.
Kwon Hyuk grabbed Kwon Cheon’s head and lifted it, asking his question.
-Say anything you want. You can curse me, you can hurl insults. I’m giving you the chance to speak to me.
Kwon Hyuk stared at Kwon Cheon with eager anticipation. Kwon Cheon struggled to open his mouth.
-…Brother, I’m sorry for not realizing sooner.
At those words, Kwon Hyuk’s face hardened.
-I was foolish and failed to understand what was in your heart.
Kwon Hyuk’s face twisted violently. He ground his teeth and seized Kwon Cheon’s head.
-That’s not it! Do you think I came here to listen to that nonsense? Speak! Tell me your true feelings!
Kwon Hyuk kept Kwon Cheon’s head clenched in his grip as he repeatedly slammed it against the ground.
-Speak! Say something! I said speak!
Kwon Hyuk panted heavily and stopped his hand. He glared at Kwon Cheon with blazing eyes.
Kwon Cheon’s face was already so crushed that his eyes, nose, and mouth were barely recognizable.
-Please… Father….
Still, he struggled to move his mouth.
-It’s not… your… fault….
The muscles in Kwon Hyuk’s face tensed. Kwon Hyuk seized Kwon Cheon’s throat with both hands.
-I told you to stop that hypocrisy!
Something cracked.
Kwon Cheon’s head went limp.

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Kwon Han-ul opened his eyes inside the stone coffin.
He pushed the coffin open with both hands. Slowly, he raised himself up.
The air touching his skin felt unfamiliar. The light pouring from the ceiling stung his eyes.
Suddenly, he sensed a presence behind him. Thinking it might be Joo Ha-yeon, Kwon Han-ul opened his mouth without turning his head.
“Ha-yeon, do you know what I saw? I witnessed the past.”
He couldn’t understand why he’d glimpsed such ancient memories during the bone-restructuring procedure.
His vague hypothesis was that he’d seen the memories of those who possessed the vessel.
Starting from the Demon and extending all the way to his mother.
“I think… I’ve been resenting my parents all this time.”
Until now, he hadn’t noticed it. But now he understood with absolute clarity.
Whenever he spoke of his parents, he’d consistently maintained indifference, claiming he’d never even met them.
In truth, that wasn’t genuine indifference at all. It was an expression of resentment toward parents who’d abandoned him alone.
“Living alone was so difficult. So very difficult.”
Suddenly, a conversation with Kwon Seon-woo came to mind.
Kwon Seon-woo had asked if he resented himself, the enemy of his parents. Kwon Han-ul had answered him then.
—Honestly, I don’t think much about it.
—I can’t bear danger for a father I don’t even remember.
But that wasn’t the truth.
They hadn’t abandoned him. They’d had no choice but to leave him alone. Yet both of them had fought to protect him until the very end.
And he’d received so much from them.
“What do I do.”
His waist bent gradually. Both hands covered his face.
Guilt crashed over him like a wave. Remorse became thorns that seemed to pierce his entire body.
“I spoke carelessly, knowing nothing.”

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“Ah, sorry about that.”
Odin scratched his head as he spoke.
“I’m not Ha-yeon.”
Kwon Han-ul lifted his head again. Only then did he recognize Odin.
“Ha-yeon is lying over there. Want me to introduce you? You’re going to die here anyway. I can at least grant you that wish.”
Kwon Han-ul stared at Odin without blinking even once. His gaze seemed frozen in place.
“Oh right, I haven’t introduced myself. I am Odin, a delegate of Pandemonium….”
“I’ve seen you before.”
Odin was satisfied by those words. As expected, this body’s reputation preceded itself everywhere.
“The sorcerer who murdered and abducted my mother’s family.”
But Kwon Han-ul’s words took an unexpected turn.
“The sorcerer who implanted a vessel in my mother and conducted experiments on her.”
Mana began to surge from Kwon Han-ul’s previously silent body.
“The sorcerer who conspired with Kwon Hyuk and framed my father!”
Rage ignited. Tremendous mana and energy erupted outward.
Yet even witnessing this spectacle, Odin didn’t flinch.
“Don’t waste your strength. You can’t defeat me like that.”
Odin was a delegate of Pandemonium.
By pure stats alone, he already possessed several SS-rank abilities.
The newly minted rookie Kwon Han-ul was on an entirely different level in terms of specifications.
“Just stay quiet, will you? Then I’ll make it painless….”
Odin, who had been speaking incessantly, gradually fell silent.
The aura emanating from Kwon Han-ul had grown exponentially stronger than moments before.
“What? You were hiding your power….”
The ground beneath Kwon Han-ul’s feet cracked. Objects around him flew away as if caught in an explosion. The ceiling and walls began to crumple under the force of mana.

【Rebirth Successful!】
【All stats have reached S-rank!】
【Skeletal structure has been reconstructed! All stats receive a +30% boost!】
【Mana pathways have been reconstructed! All mana efficiency and power increased by 30%!】

Tremendous power surged from within. But the changes from rebirth were far from over.
The mana I released took form. A colossal dragon coiled and roared.

【The Black Dragon Bloodline assimilation rate reaches 80%!】
【You acquire the Authority ‘Ruyi Scepter – Five Elements’!】
【The trait ‘Dragon Pearl’ is affected by the Authority ‘Ruyi Scepter – Five Elements’!】
【It upgrades to the trait ‘Ruyi Scepter – Yin and Yang’!】
【The trait ‘Toxin Immunity’ evolves into ‘Poison Incarnate’!】
【The trait ‘Flood Dragon Physiology’ develops into ‘Half-Human, Half-Dragon’!】

The Black Dragon Bloodline assimilation rate surged dramatically. A more intense draconic instinct settled within Kwon Han-ul.
“…To transform this drastically through rebirth?”
Odin felt bewildered. Aion contained all the knowledge of this world. Naturally, he understood rebirth as well.
Most who experienced rebirth became remarkably stronger, but not to this degree.
“I suppose I need to take this seriously.”
Odin drew forth a mass of curses. He never imagined he’d need to resort to this just to suppress Kwon Han-ul.
Perhaps he would have to use the 【Serpent That Slays Bloodlines】….
The moment that thought crossed his mind, Kwon Han-ul vanished.
“What?”
He lost him. Despite possessing stats far superior to Kwon Han-ul’s, he had failed to track his movement.
Suddenly, Kwon Han-ul materialized before him. His knees bent slightly, his fist clenched.
Before Odin could react, Kwon Han-ul’s fist drove into his abdomen.
Immediately after, Odin’s body crashed into the ceiling.
No—it wasn’t merely a crash. His body pierced through the ceiling and shot upward.
Odin’s form tore through ceiling after ceiling, rocketing higher. His vision spun so violently he couldn’t maintain consciousness.
“…!?”
When he came to, Odin was no longer in the Operating Room. He lay sprawled on a floor of indeterminate height.
“What… is….”
The ground directly before him gaped open. Just as he tried to peer into the abyss below, something surged up from within his body.
“Ugh!”
Blood gushed forth as if a faucet had been turned to maximum. Searing agony followed in its wake. It felt as though his organs were twisting inside him.
This was impossible.
Even with rebirth, Kwon Han-ul’s stats should cap at S-rank. So how could he overwhelm him?
“Councilman?”
At the sudden voice, he lifted his head. The Pandemonium fiend he had hired came into view.
“What happened? Why did you suddenly burst through from below?”
“You… what were you doing….”
The agony made it difficult to speak properly. The Pandemonium fiend pointed ahead.
A Black Sharp Squad member, utterly ruined, was visible.
“We were just about to wrap things up. But what were you doing, Councilman….”
Then, from the hole Odin had burst through, someone emerged.
Kwon Han-ul stared down at Odin.
“Kwon Han-ul…!”
Odin involuntarily shrank back. He drew forth as much of the curse mass as possible to prepare for combat.
“What is this now?”
At that moment, a demon from Pandemonium approached Kwon Han-ul. He thrust his menacing face forward.
“I’m asking you. What the hell are you doing….”
Crunch.
The demon from Pandemonium was crushed from head to toe. He looked like a flattened tin can.
“….”
Odin was left speechless at the sight.
He killed a demon from Pandemonium in a single blow? That was surprising, but it wasn’t the real reason.
“You… that….”
A colossal hand hovered beside Kwon Han-ul. It was the same hand that had just crushed the demon from Pandemonium.
I had seen it before.
A giant’s hand that could destroy and obliterate anything according to the user’s will.
That was….
“…the power of the Superhuman Bloodline.”

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Odin could not see it.
Messages were appearing in Kwon Han-ul’s eyes.

【You have successfully undergone Bone Replacement and Skin Shedding!】
【The assimilation rate of the Superhuman Bloodline has reached 80%!】
【The ability ‘Diamond Body’ has evolved into ‘Diamond Indestructibility’!】
【The ability ‘Overlord’s Sanctity’ has evolved into ‘Reverse Eruption of the Heavens’!】
【You have acquired the ability ‘Tyrant’s Hand’!】
【The ability….】

Countless messages flooded his vision.
But Kwon Han-ul paid them no attention. His eyes were fixed solely on Odin before him.
“Don’t even think of running.”
Kwon Han-ul spoke in a low growl. It sounded like a beast’s snarl.
“I’ll crush you without leaving a single bone.”

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