NOVEL NEXT Chapter 56
Chapter Fifty-Six: The Red King (Requesting Subscription)
“Come, give it a try.”
Bai Luo pulled out a piece of chocolate from his pocket and handed it to Tzudoki.
“Meow?!”
The Cat Girl’s eyes widened in surprise.
“That’s my chocolate!”
In one leap, the Cat Girl transformed into her human form, startling both Rengoku Shingetsu and Tzudoki.
“Ahem.”
Bai Luo quickly calmed the Cat Girl down with a smile. “Let me introduce you. This is my personal guard, Yuno Masami, you can call her Cat Girl.”
“And Cat Girl, this chocolate is for Tzudoki. I’ll make more for you when we get back.”
The chocolate was made by Bai Luo himself; there was no such thing in the Shadow World, and he hadn’t asked the Golden King for it either.
“Uh…”
Cat Girl looked disappointed as she lowered her head but still gazed expectantly at Tzudoki.
“Hello.”
Tzudoki smiled gently, breaking the chocolate in half and offering the larger piece to Cat Girl. “Would you like to share?”
“Can I?”
“Cat Girl wants!”
Without using her hands, Cat Girl lunged forward and snatched the chocolate from Tzudoki’s hand. “Delicious!!”
“You should try it too; this is something our Host made with his own hands!”
“Mm-hmm.”
Tzudoki had never seen chocolate before. She first brought it close to her nose to sniff.
The fragrance of chocolate, its sweet aroma, reminded Tzudoki after two and a half years of the allure of human food.
“Mm!”
As the chocolate melted in her mouth, Tzudoki’s eyes lit up immediately. “It’s a bit bitter but also sweet, yet very delicious!”
“She really ate it!”
Rengoku Shingetsu watched this scene with both astonishment and joy.
He sincerely rejoiced that Tzudoki could find relief.
“Truly, I am deeply grateful to you.”
Tzudoki thanked Bai Luo, wanting to repay him but unsure how.
“You are no longer human, but you cannot be called an evil ghost either.”
A ghost who doesn’t eat people is less an evil ghost than a completely new race —— the Ghost Race.
And Tzudoki would become the new Ghost King of this race.
“According to my agreement with Tanjiro, I will help him resolve your issue and deal with Kibutsuji Muzan altogether.”
Bai Luo shared his thoughts and what he intended to do with Rengoku Shingetsu and Tzudoki.
“Killing Kibutsuji Muzan is easy.”
Bai Luo said this as if he were talking about killing some cats or dogs instead of a thousand-year-old ghost king: “The difficult part is how to handle the remaining ghosts.”
“When the Ghost King dies, the evil ghosts should disappear too, right?”
This was the common belief held by Rengoku Shingetsu and the Demon Slayer Corps, and reality indeed matched this expectation.
“That would be a waste.”
Bai Luo shook his head. Since he had come, he certainly couldn’t leave empty-handed.
Rengoku Shingetsu was startled for a moment, then realized that Bai Luo wanted to obtain the power of the evil ghosts.
“Forgive me for saying so, but those evil ghosts…”
The elder tried to dissuade Bai Luo, but the latter lacked patience for this.
Explanation was Bai Luo’s right, but he wasn’t obligated to explain everything clearly.
“Everything has value; the question lies in where it should be placed.”
Bai Luo had his own ideas about the evil ghosts in the Demon Slayer World: “I will kill those with heavy sins, but those with lighter sins will have a place suitable for them.”
“I plan to build a prison in my world, and the evil ghosts will make excellent jailers.”
The problem of evil ghosts eating people can be easily solved.
As long as Bai Luo transforms Tzudoki into the Red King and lets the evil ghosts join under her command, becoming subordinates of the Red King.
With the power of the Sacred Domain covering them, all the evil ghosts will undergo evolutionary changes in their bloodlines.
Tzudoki’s characteristics of being unafraid of sunlight and eating normally will naturally cover the components of Kibutsuji Muzan in the evil ghosts.
Thus, the fundamental conflict between evil ghosts and humans will cease to exist.
“Jailers, huh?”
Rengoku Shingetsu understood. He could feel the gap between himself and Bai Luo.
The young man before him might as well be considered a deity from another world.
The will of the gods is not something mortals can control.
“So, Tzudoki, what are your thoughts?”
Bai Luo said, “Now you have two choices: one is to abandon this lineage and return to being a human girl.”
“This, I can help you with.”
Bai Luo quite liked this ghost princess Tzudoki.
Cute, obedient, thrifty, and skilled at taking care of others, she was truly a model of a virtuous wife and good mother.
Once Tzudoki becomes his Red King, with the traits of violence and anger added, she might leap to become a powerful combat strength second only to Alpha.
“I want to repay you.”
Tzudoki did not choose the first option, even though she indeed yearned to return to a peaceful life.
Thinking of her brother Tanjiro’s current situation,
he joined the Chat Group, and in the future, he might encounter various dangers.
Of course, there was Bai Luo, and Tzudoki hoped to gain the strength to repay him.
“Repay, huh?”
Bai Luo did not intend to deny Tzudoki’s thoughts.
To gain strength for protection, to gain strength for gratitude.
Some might think that only gaining strength for oneself leads to true strength.
But Bai Luo thought it was pure nonsense!
No matter the reason, as long as one firmly believes in becoming stronger, that’s enough.
“In my name, I bestow upon you the authority of the Red King!”
With Bai Luo’s declaration, Tzudoki suddenly felt a surge of fiery heat within her body.
“Boom!!!”
“What is this?!”
Rengoku Shingetsu, standing nearby, immediately felt waves of heat rushing toward him, and everything in front of him turned blood red.
His sharp nose seemed to enhance his spiritual senses, allowing him to see countless images from the blood-red flames.
Anger, roars, upheaval, repeated oppression!
Slaughter, conquest, destruction, vanishing civilizations!
War, battles, devastation, countless deaths!
Finally, all the images converged into one.
That was a chilling mountain of corpses and blood, with a stunning woman draped in the crimson sunset standing on a mountain of bones.
“Tzudoki…”
Instinctively, Rengoku Shingetsu muttered the name of the woman.
However, the moment these words left his lips, the woman on the mountain of death opened her eyes.
Her gaze fell, and the old man instantly caught fire without any flame.
Not just his body, but even his soul seemed about to burn out entirely!
“Welcome to the ranks, my Red Queen!”
A magnificent Dammocles sword floated above Tzudoki’s head, and the buildings that had previously blocked everyone’s view had already turned to ashes and vanished.
[Zaotan Tzudoki]
Gender: Female
Age: 14 years
Race: Ghost King
Ability: Perfect Creature, Power of the Red King, Law Breakdown, Spirit Rank War (Inactive)
Overall Evaluation: Seven-digit Number (Mid-phase)
Tzudoki’s transformation was indeed somewhat unexpected for Bai Luo.
After all, even Alpha and Xue Ji, when they first obtained the power of authority, were merely at the early stage of seven digits, nearing the middle phase.
Yet Tzudoki not only surpassed Alpha and Xue Ji but also gained special abilities that Bai Luo had never seen before.
[Spirit Rank War (Inactive)]
Description: The budding fragment of the spirit rank waits to be completed. Once completed, it can upgrade the Red Sacred Domain to the Red Divine Domain.
Activation Condition: The individual breaks through six digits.
Divine Domain.
Bai Luo glanced at it and immediately understood what this thing called spirit rank was.
In short, the spirit rank can also be called the divine rank.
Only different from the general divine rank, the spirit rank does not require faith; it itself is the recognition of the life hierarchy of a certain existence.
And as Tzudoki obtained the war spirit rank, Bai Luo, as the sovereign, naturally also received this power.
Moreover, Bai Luo’s war spirit rank was complete.
“So, the spirit rank is the essential condition for breaking through six digits?”
According to Bai Luo’s speculation, the seven royal authorities likely each represent a kind of spirit rank…
These spirit ranks will manifest during the middle phase of seven digits.
The holders of royal authority gradually fill them in until they break through six digits, making the spirit rank fully integrate with the sacred domain, transforming into a divine domain.
In a sense, the royal authority holder who obtains the divine domain is no longer a king but a god.
“I can break through six digits because I obtained the authority of the Black King.”
The authority of the Black King itself should contain a special spirit rank.
In terms of the Western fantasy worldview, the authority of the Black King is equivalent to the combination of the Creator God and the Destroyer God, akin to the spirit rank of the omniscient and omnipotent God.
The reason it isn’t displayed is that it can’t be shown.
After all, you can’t label a spirit rank as omniscient and omnipotent, spirit rank god, or simply attach a god tag, right?
Omniscience and omnipotence aren’t attributes, and the definition of a god seems somewhat misleading.
After all, Bai Luo is far from reaching the level of invincibility.
“The world’s hierarchy is five digits, and gods are the managers of the world, possessing a six-digit hierarchy.”
The gods mentioned here are truly the main gods who control a certain concept, not the pseudo-gods imagined by humans.
“How do you feel, Tzudoki?”
Thinking about this, Bai Luo extended his hand and helped Tzudoki up from the ground.
The strange phenomena earlier were witnessed by Rengoku Shingetsu, and Bai Luo and Tzudoki noticed them as well.
Unlike Rengoku Shingetsu, who was worried in his heart, the two showed no concern and acted rather casual.
“This power is incredibly strong.”
Tzudoki had never felt the gap between herself and Bai Luo so clearly before.
Because she reached the mid-phase of seven digits and awakened the fragment of the spirit rank, Tzudoki could now see more.
The power granted by Bai Luo was but a tip of the iceberg compared to his own strength.
And even this tiny bit of blessing allowed Tzudoki to reach the limit that the Demon Slayer World could tolerate.
“Let’s go, I’ll take you to meet Tanjiro.”
Bai Luo didn’t inform Tanjiro that Tzudoki had already awakened.
The Demon Slayer Corps’ evaluation was a great trial.
Therefore, before that, Bai Luo didn’t intend to distract Tanjiro.
“By the way, Mr. Rengoku.”
Bai Luo didn’t forget the elder. He said, “Regarding my matters, you can write a letter to the head of the Ubuyashiki family. After the Fujise Mountain evaluation ends, I’ll go talk to him.”
After speaking, Bai Luo didn’t wait for Rengoku Shingetsu’s response.
With his current strength, humility was acceptable, but he couldn’t lower his posture too much, lest some people push their luck.
Of course, Rengoku Shingetsu wasn’t such a person.
He clearly understood what Bai Luo’s presence meant.
A deity descended from another world, capable of helping the Demon Slayer Corps solve the millennium-old calamity of Kibutsuji Muzan.
“Old man, I will convey your will to the Lord.”
“Mm-hmm.”
Bai Luo continued walking forward with his back turned, while Tzudoki bowed deeply to the elder before following Bai Luo’s steps.
“Meow~”
Cat Girl quickly ran up and leapt onto Bai Luo’s shoulder, affectionately rubbing against his cheek.
Soon, the two figures disappeared from Rengoku Shingetsu’s sight.
“This is truly… “
The elder was overwhelmed with melancholy, uncertain whether Bai Luo’s arrival was a blessing or a curse.
The only certainty was that Bai Luo harbored no ill intentions towards humans or the Demon Slayer Corps.
On the contrary, Rengoku Shingetsu could hear Bai Luo’s admiration for the Demon Slayer Corps.
For countless years, hidden in the shadows, battling evil ghosts, protecting humans from threats.
No matter what purpose the demon hunters had for killing demons, they remained heroes of humanity.
“Let’s leave it to the Lord to decide.”
Rengoku Shingetsu sighed. But just as he was about to return to his room to prepare a letter, he turned around and saw the damaged wooden house.
Alright, before that, the elder decided he should repair the house first: “I hope it doesn’t rain these next few days…”