Chapter 318: Everything Leads To Death

Not many of you have heard my story. Yes, I’m Morris’s Editor. I was his friend back in high school, but most of all, I’m an orphan. I grew up in a foster home. I was fairly lucky with getting picked, but even so, I always ended up back at the orphanage a minute after adoption. As handsome and charming as I was, it came with the same amount of bad luck to whoever was close to me. Accidents, murders, and even drowning in debt came to the good souls who welcomed me with open arms into their lives. So, before I came into this world, I had already witnessed countless deaths.

“That weapon… It’s not supposed to exist. I was certain that foul creation was destroyed, years ago-” Azrael prepared his authority in time and halted the speeding bullet aimed for his noggin, although it kept moving, its speed increasingly dropped.

“Good reflexes, their chicken head.” Jin had the advantage in range and weaponry, yet he chose to close in the moment Azrael saw through his attack

[The hell are you doing? Get away from him-]

Hephaestus’s warning was too late, and his avatar approached the passive ability of Azrael’s Virtue. The god shock as his reckless contractors’ act came through, unaffected by the power of Patience. Azrael was stunned to receive Jin’s clean and powerful left hook, having its damage amplified with the addition of his brass knuckles.

[System: Death’s Authority has been activated!!!

Status: Your interpretation of Death has shaped the authority to your will.

Outcome: Your authority has been granted!!! Death’s Defiance has been created! Infernal Arms has been created!

Death Sentence: Ignores anything that may impede the sentence of death to be claimed! Weapons afflicted by this status effect, and whoever wields the weapon, will be incapable of being stopped.]

“What’s wrong, chicken head? Cat got your tongue. Don’t get too surprised that your little trick isn’t working. You might have forgotten, but you’re facing the Knight of Death! And it just so happens that you’re fated to die!!!”

Azrael’s heavenly aura was spent recovering his injured body, although his skill was nothing to scoff at, he realized. That this being before him doesn’t just represent death, but death personified. Although resisting the clutches of doom was possible, in his presence the thought of such is impossible. Weapons that he could easily stop motionless passed through like his authority never existed.

“What you speak of is truth. Yet my eyes remain functional. I’ve yet to struck a clear blow. Why is it that you seem exhausted?”

The only reason why Azrael could recover his missing body part was that Jin too was facing a backlash of sorts.

’Clever mother fucker! Guess he can see right through my foul mouth. My authority allows me to bypass his power. But its jack shit if I can’t kill anything with my power, I receive a backlash of damage back. It’s still doable, it’s too early to pull out my trump card, this guy is hesitant to do anything either. Rachel did say that his only active authority is to slow things in his vicinity, so the full stop is the I need watch out for,’

“So it seems it’s time to punish thee. Try as much as you like. But my authority actively affects anything near me. Now perish,” Azrael prepared a powerful stomp, aimed for Jin’s head, gathering a large amount of heavenly aura, to heavily injured his for the moment he was most vulnerable.

[System: You’ve entered the domain of the Virtue of Patience. By the laws of [Patience] your actions have been hindered!

Status: The statuses [Follower of Patience] and [Embodiment of Patience] has become active.

[Follower of Patience]: When an enemy is within the range of Archangel Azrael, they shall followe his teachings, movement speed down by 40%, Attack speed down by 35%, Skill activation speed slowed by 5 seconds, Skill cool down 30%.

[Embodiment of Patience]: When there’s a Follower within the presence of the wielder of Patience, Movement speed up by 40%, Attack speed up by 35%, Skill activation speed is 5 seconds faster, Skill cool down reduction 30.]

“Don’t get so cocky, Church boy,” Jin felt the shackling presence of Azrael’s Virtue yet his movement never felt riggid as he effortlessly dodges his violent downward stomp

[System: [Herald of Doom] has been activated! One of the following authority [Famine], [Conquest], [War] can be awaken.

Status: [War] has been chosen! You’ve activated the borrowed authority of the [Knight of War]!

[Battle Ready Bravado]: You become unrestricted by any debuffs, but doing so makes you defenseless, making you receive 150% more damage in return]

“I have a few tricks that you haven’t seen,” The grounded shattered once it’s graced with Azrael’s foot, and the Knight of Death in turn, swung forth his axe, and sparks flew from the impact.

“Insolent attempts,”

Although Jin was no longer hindered, he’s yet to have left a wound in his foe, as Azrael swiftly calls for a holy barrier. His borrowed authority only made him immune from the confines of Virtue, but the blessings that his enemy remains active. But unlike Azrael, he wasn’t fair, for the moment he withdraw his axe, the angel felt a strong pull beneath the ground.

“When are you gonna realize that I’m a mix fighter, even though I look slow and heavy. Sucks not knowing any fighting games,” Azrael’s focus was disrupted once his balance was offset by dozens of arms dragged the feathered warrior to the ground.

[What in the world is happening? How come you’re using a different authority as of now? Weren’t you the Knight of Death?]

“I still am,” Jin hurriedly throws a bomb in the burrow where his foe remains dragged, and spreads a corrosive gas, that withered the ground of its life

“Death isn’t as simple as kicking the bucket. But the process as well. War, Famine, and Conquest. Although different, they all end in someone’s Death,” The moment when everything was within Jin’s favor, time had seemingly stopped, and in the hole rose the angel, with no bruise and exhaustion.

’Finally, the second phase… I swear time manipulation is so annoying if it’s use against you. This is why I hate regressors. Apart from their know it all attitude they wouldn’t even say anything as clear as day, all riddles and no clarity. I have no advice for your battle she says, and just tells me what the other three should do, saying I won’t win if I heard what I’m about to do,’

[Do you even have the time for all of that?]

’Of course I do. She told me that the time stop was there for a reason if I ever try to interrupt Azrael’s transformation phase. So im a sitting duck until this jackass is fully healed and ready to kickc my ass. Honestly I worked up quite a sweat and all it amounted is to get this fucker back to full health,’

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