The Heavenly Demon Destroys the Tower - Chapter 91

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Chapter 91
‘Wait—Mother, how did you suddenly…? How are you here?’
Yu Yi-su, who had been missing for years, stood before him.
Yet her face was exactly as he remembered, and she wore a radiant smile.
Though her clothing wasn’t modern in style.
‘……It looks like the robes of a low-ranking initiate.’
Similar to the black martial garb Cheon Ga-hyun had worn—the kind that seemed ripped from a wuxia novel.
But the fabric of her outfit was smoother than what Ga-hyun had worn.
With golden patterns woven subtly throughout, it gleamed with unmistakable refinement.
And embroidered on the collar in crimson characters was the Hanja for Demon.
“Mother, surely you’re not connected to the Cheonma Divine Church……?”
“My, really. Look how you’ve grown.”
Yet Yu Yi-su’s face radiated satisfaction as she smiled.
“Still, our son is remarkable—staying awake and enduring even in this state.”
So Mother had been behind all of this.
Lee Kang-han couldn’t believe his eyes at first.
Even after hearing from his father that his mother was a demon.
Even after hearing the Demonic Energy-saturated voice of his mother in the training grounds of Cheonma Valley.
It had only been her voice.
Some part of him had desperately hoped she had no connection to the truth.
‘But now…… it’s clear.’
Lee Kang-han studied his mother Yu Yi-su intently.
The black Demonic Energy rising from above her garments.
It was the pure Demonic Energy he had witnessed in the First Tower.
“What on earth……?”
Ten years ago, the three-person family had been a happy household.
Even after Lee Kang-han contracted the Sleeping Sickness.
His parents poured endless affection and attention upon him.
And they did everything they could, praying for his recovery.
Lee Kang-han, fourteen at the time, understood better than anyone
how sincerely his mother had cared for him.
So when his father said his mother was a demon, part of him had never truly believed it.
“Why…… are you doing this?”
Lee Kang-han’s voice trembled as he asked.
The short-haired girl standing beside Yu Yi-su opened her mouth slowly.
“We should hurry. Otherwise he’ll actually wake up.”
“Yes. Begin.”
Shing.
A blade withdrew from its sheath with a metallic whisper.
The girl now held a long sword in her grip.
‘……What is this?’
Was she going to stab him?
Lee Kang-han tried desperately to force his body upright.
“It’ll be over soon.”
Whoosh!
The blade trembled once, then
thrust forward rapidly toward his chest.
[The Tournament Prospect Bracelet detects an abrupt threat.]
[Barrier activated.]
The Barrier flared to life simultaneously, attempting to block the blade.
Screeeech……!
The azure Barrier tore apart like tissue paper against the sword.
‘The same Barrier that blocked bullets……!’
The bracelet’s Barrier had deflected a hail of gunfire with ease.
Yet the girl’s blade neutralized it without effort.
As Lee Kang-han’s eyes widened in shock,
Slash!
His t-shirt tore open instantly.
“Ugh……!”
Something was carved into his chest.
“As expected of a Priestess. The character is inscribed beautifully.”
The mother smiled with satisfaction as she looked at the mark.
“A Priestess, you say……?”
Lee Kang-han studied the girl more closely.
She appeared to be a middle or high school student, with a youthful face and slight frame.
Dressed in a pristine white robe, she bore the same crimson character inscribed on her collar as her mother did.
The garment bore a certain resemblance to the attire of a Priestess spirit.
“So there was a connection to the Cheonma Divine Church after all.”
“Impressive, my son. Enduring this with a Stat under twenty.”
Tap.
Yu Yi-su flicked her finger against Lee Kang-han’s chest.
A brilliant flash erupted.
Crimson light poured forth from the point of contact.
Then.
Swish.
Lee Kang-han’s entire room flooded with a blood-red hue.
Across the walls and floor, ceiling and furniture alike.
Patterns of blood-crimson light manifested everywhere.
“What is this……?”
“It is what the Church calls the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation, necessary to complete the Heavenly Demon.”
The Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation.
So such a formation had been inscribed within the house all this time?
As Lee Kang-han gazed at the blood formations materializing around him in shock.
Yu Yi-su curved her lips into a smile.
“It’s nice that you succeeded and are moving away…… but what will you do about leaving the formation behind?”
“How did you find out about the move……?”
“There are many ways to know these things.”
The move had only been decided within the past few days.
Obtaining such information would have been no trivial matter.
How could she have known beforehand?
As Lee Kang-han pondered this mystery.
Flash.
The character inscribed upon Lee Kang-han’s chest.
Began to glow with crimson light.
And then.
From the patterns manifest all around, heat shimmer began to rise.
Drawing inward toward the character marked upon Lee Kang-han’s flesh.
“The character inscribed on your body will absorb the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation. You’ll fall into a deep sleep for some time…… so rest well during that period.”
With that, Yu Yi-su waved her hand.
The figure emanating waves of black Demonic Energy from her entire body.
Bore no resemblance whatsoever to the kind and benevolent mother of Lee Kang-han’s memory.
Before she could leave, Lee Kang-han asked.
“Mother…… are you a demon?”
He sought to verify the words his father had spoken.
Then.
“A demon……?”
Yu Yi-su’s smile warped in an instant.
“Where did you hear such nonsense? From your father? Or from an angel hiding beneath the LA Association building?”
“……!”
She knew about the angel too.
Lee Kang-han’s eyes widened.
Swift.
Yu Yi-su approached where he lay and gripped his shoulder firmly.
“Kang-han, we are the origin. The Cheonma Divine Church is the origin. We followed the will of the divine first!”
“…….”
“Are you planning to tell him the full story?”
As Yu Yi-su opened her mouth to continue.
The girl in Priestess attire interjected from beside her.
Yu Yi-su’s expression shifted immediately.
She spoke again, her voice now measured and calm.
“I’m sorry. I got a bit carried away there…… Son, if you truly become the Heavenly Demon, then you’ll be able to know the real truth.”
“Truly become the Heavenly Demon…….”
“You’re still far too inadequate. Focus on becoming the Heavenly Demon for now, and don’t call your mother a demon—she lives only for you. Do you understand?”
A gentle whoosh.
Turning her back, his mother then said:
“Priestess, I’ll head out first. Son, see you later. By then, I hope you’ve grown into something far more worthy of the Heavenly Demon, something that will astound your mother.”
A brilliant scarlet light burst open—!
She opened a red portal and stepped inside it.
‘What on earth…….’
His mother radiated demonic energy so openly, yet she flatly denied it when asked if she was a demon.
And from what she’d said, it seemed she wanted to raise Lee Kang-han into a more perfected Heavenly Demon.
Both his mother and this Priestess.
Were they perhaps members of the Cheonma Divine Church all along, doing all this to complete the Heavenly Demon?
As Lee Kang-han pondered this,
“…….”
the girl who’d been quietly watching him
bent her head close to his ear.
“Do you remember what happened in Cheonma Valley?”
“What are you talking about?”
“I thought as much. You don’t remember.”
The girl spoke in a flat, expressionless tone.
“I was originally first. You were second, Heavenly Demon.”
She was telling him that she had originally been first.
“Well then, good luck.”
A soft rustle.
The girl turned and began to walk away.
“Wait—are you…… a Priestess of the Cheonma Divine Church?”
Lee Kang-han called after her urgently,
but
she glanced back at him with a sidelong look.
Step. Step.
She came close to him again, placing her mouth near his ear.
“Yes. I’m a Priestess, and your mother…… despite what she says, she’s closer to being a demon.”
“……Is that so?”
What was this?
Her expressionless face carried such a chill.
He’d never have expected her to answer so readily to his questions.
Especially about his mother being a demon—he hadn’t even asked about that, yet she volunteered the answer.
Lee Kang-han regarded her with an odd expression.
“…….”
A soft rustle.
Just as she turned to re-enter the portal,
“Ah.”
she approached Lee Kang-han once more.
“But if your mother’s a demon, we’re in the same boat. So let’s just say she’s not a demon.”
“……You answer quite frankly.”
“I’m not your enemy. Rather,”
A soft metallic whisper.
The girl drew a blade from its sheath.
“I’m humanity’s savior.”
She answered bluntly, her face utterly blank.
Humanity’s savior, no less.
Speaking such cringeworthy lines in all seriousness.
“……You stabbed through my chest and call yourself a savior?”
“What? You’re getting stronger in the Cheonma Divine Arts because of me. You should be grateful.”
Even as the portal remained open, she didn’t step through,
continuing to speak to Lee Kang-han.
“I really should go now.”
The portal his mother had opened began to shrink.
Only then did she turn away.
First, standing before the portal, she.
Whoosh.
‘…Again?’
She glanced back at Lee Kang-han once more.
“You’ll get bored while I’m absorbing the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation.”
A soft metallic whisper…!
She drew her blade from its sheath once more.
Slice. Slice. Slice.
She carved her sword through the empty air, again and again.
Wherever the blade passed, a crimson line etched itself into space.
The marks of the sword lingered where they had cut.
“Watch this while you wait. This is the moment I give up first place.”
Swish!
Then, coolly, the girl stepped through the portal.
As she disappeared inside.
The crimson portal faded away.
“…What in the world is she?”
To look at her face, you’d think she wouldn’t waste a single unnecessary word.
But she’s completely chatty.
‘I can’t trust everything she said, but I did pick up some useful information.’
Lee Kang-han turned over what the girl had told him.
Whoooosh…!
As the energy from the surrounding blood formation surged into his chest.
He suddenly felt his body growing lighter.
‘If this keeps up… I might be able to move.’
Lee Kang-han tried to sit up.
Whoosh!
His body, which had been completely immobilized in bed, sprang up as if launched.
* * *
‘…Except for the character for Demonic Energy etched on my chest, there’s nothing obviously wrong.’
Lee Kang-han assessed his condition.
Apart from those characters.
His body hadn’t changed.
The system window and status screen were intact.
His movements caused no problems.
Except.
‘I can’t leave the house.’
He could move around inside.
But outside, the blood formation lay too thick to pass through.
Even when he tried to force his way through.
Crack-crack…!
“Gahhh…”
Red sparks erupted as the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation hurled his body backward.
‘At this rate, the Presidential Office guards should’ve noticed something… but can they see it from outside?’
Lee Kang-han picked up his phone.
But only a black screen appeared—the phone wouldn’t turn on at all.
Now that he thought about it, the lights wouldn’t work either.
It seemed no electricity was reaching this house.
‘Is this all the blood formation’s doing? Remarkable…’
It seemed the message was clear: stay locked inside until he’d absorbed all of it.
Lee Kang-han attempted multiple escape methods.
Crack-crack-crack!
No matter what he tried, a rising tide of crimson current kept him back.
‘Direct assault won’t work.’
Breaking through the Heavenly Demon Sacred Blood Formation drawn across the entire house with bare hands was impossible.
Which left him.
‘Maybe I should try entering the tower?’
He considered taking an indirect route to attempt tower climbing.
[Tower entry is currently unavailable.]
The system message confirmed that tower climbing was also impossible.
“This isn’t going to work…….”
So I’m stuck here until I’ve absorbed this entire formation?
It was then that Lee Kang-han’s brow furrowed.
‘That’s…….’
He caught sight of a crimson sword mark left behind by the girl.
‘That Priestess gave me this to look at so I wouldn’t get bored.’
Contrary to appearances, she’d been quite talkative.
In the end, she’d even worried about his tedium.
She’d mentioned it was the scene where she’d supposedly given up on first place, despite originally being number one.
But.
‘How am I supposed to see it?’
Lee Kang-han approached the sword mark still hovering in the empty air.
Arms crossed, he studied it carefully.
When mere observation produced no change whatsoever.
Slowly…….
Lee Kang-han tentatively reached out and touched it.
Then.
Flash……!
Light blazed across the sword mark.
Whoosh!
The traces of the sword gathered together, forming an enormous rectangular screen.
‘……Is it even possible to do this with a sword?’
Lee Kang-han’s eyes widened at the screen that had suddenly materialized.
Against the black background of the screen.
[The scene where the savior of mankind really gives up first place in a special way]
Brilliant white text appeared.
The Heavenly Demon Demolishes the Tower (Serialized)
Author │ Yeom Bi
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ⓒ Yeom Bi 2025
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