Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 413

Fernando, who had lost his head, was lying flat on his back.

‘No, since he has no arms, it’s not the “大” pose but the “人” pose.’

Either way, he wouldn’t die from this.

He was a guy who regenerated like a monster even when his body was cut in two. He wouldn’t die just because his head got lopped off and both arms cut.

That was why Su-ho had called Lust—because he didn’t want to keep up this meaningless fight.

Just like Grid was doing, Lust would also be sticking close to the guy and watching the situation.

At that moment, Fernando’s body wriggled and moved again.

He was trying to regenerate.

Su-ho took a step back and patiently waited for the guy’s regeneration.

Soon, unlike when he’d been split in two, this time new arms and a new head sprouted directly from the body.

Once the regeneration ended, the guy got up as if nothing had happened.

Su-ho asked with an impassive face.

“Lust?”

“No, it’s me.”

Well, damn.

The moment he heard the voice he felt it for sure—the being in front of him wasn’t Lust but Fernando.

At the words “not Lust,” Su-ho knit his brows.

“Why, did your master tell you to keep fighting?”

“Kuhuhu. You sure have a pretty way with words.”

Then, red energy began to gush out from the guy’s body.

Both eyes also filled with a red glow, like a Samguija’s.

“I’m the first Player to contract with a Great Demon. I was a bit surprised earlier, but it’ll be different now.”

At that moment—

[ Cloud Severance is activated. ]

Shhk!

A severing sound.

At the same time, a sword mark traced across the guy’s neck, and then it shot up into the air.

Thwok!

Blood spurted up as well.

It all happened before the guy could even finish his next line.

Su-ho recovered his sword and took a ready stance.

Seeing that, Fernando laughed like a demon.

His head was already bouncing along the floor, but that only made him look more grotesque.

“It’s useless.”

Fernando sneered.

Su-ho didn’t answer.

Instead, he answered with a different sword art.

[ Cutting the Ring is activated. ]

The sword swept out.

The technique used was Cutting the Ring.

Sword marks were engraved into Fernando’s body.

Seeing that, Fernando sneered once again.

“Are you stupid? I told you it’s useless, plain and—”

Right then, Fernando’s eyes, mid-sentence, went wide.

“How...!”

Su-ho smiled at the guy’s reaction.

“What, did you think I was just going to keep slicing up your body forever?”

It’d be great if everything in the world could be resolved nicely with words.

But half of them are brutes who don’t understand words—like these bastards.

When it comes to that, there aren’t many options.

The best of them is to completely snap what they believe in.

Su-ho had faced a fair number of Great Demon Players in his previous life.

Their common point was regeneration bordering on immortality.

But that regeneration wasn’t truly immortal or infinite.

It was one of the powerful authorities the Great Demon grants to a Player—“Authority of Regeneration”—and a common authority enjoyed by most Great Demon Players.

‘Whenever a Great Demon Player commits the sin their contracted demon pursues, that power surges.’

Lust of Lechery’s sin was, of course, lust.

Every time the Player indulged their lust, that power accumulated—and naturally, it didn’t build up well by ordinary means.

A Great Demon wouldn’t choose an ordinary guy as their successor in the first place.

In that sense, Fernando was a severe paraphiliac.

In particular he was a sadist called a practitioner of sadism; a sadist is a paraphiliac who gains sexual pleasure by inflicting physical and mental pain on others, and even among them Fernando was a severe case.

‘Among those, he was a maniac for what’s called amputation paraphilia, Acrotomophilia, plus pleasure killing, and cannibalism.’

That was why his main weapon was a chainsaw.

Rather than a normal spear or knife, a chainsaw that tears a person apart was the best choice for a sadist and acrotomophiliac like him.

And for Lust, Fernando was likewise the best choice.

No wonder—Mexico was a very old conflict zone, and under the plausible banners of mafia extermination and Mexican independence—and the mask of justice—he could very rationally and amply dissolve his desires.

Fernando had grown that way.

He raised his level by killing people, and even without bothering to enter Gates he explosively increased his strength by borrowing the demon’s power.

It was a growth method possible only for Great Demon Players.

But surprisingly, even with such an appalling growth mechanism, the wretched reality of Mexico ironically turned him into a hero.

‘And thanks to his “effort that wasn’t really effort,” New New Mexico almost did drive out the Calavera Family.’

But in the end, they didn’t drive out the Calavera Family.

Because the one called the hero of New New betrayed at the very end.

It was the same reason as the last “suicide squad” members who had smacked Su-ho in the back of the head.

If the mafias truly disappeared from Mexico, Fernando would no longer be able to legally vent his lust.

“Grrrrk...”

Fernando, his neck severed and fallen, showed his agony.

He surely still had plenty of demonic power left, yet the Authority of Regeneration was no longer activating.

It had to be that way.

He had used Cutting the Ring precisely for this.

“What... what did you do to me...!”

Fernando, his neck cut, asked between ragged breaths.

At that pitiful sight, Su-ho grinned and said:

“I cut the cord linking you and Lust. There wasn’t any other way, was there?”

“What...?”

“Put simply, think of it as severing the umbilical cord. You didn’t know, did you—about how you receive power from the demon.”

It was literal.

All contractors with demons receive power from their demon through an invisible cord like an umbilical cord.

What Su-ho had cut with Cutting the Ring was that.

Unlike other successors, contractors with demons don’t build up power directly themselves—they are “supplied” power from the demon.

The reason the structure is like this is simple.

Demons, by nature, don’t know how to share what’s theirs and are a greedy breed.

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