Evil Mage Cultivation: The Immortal Enslavement Path Chapter 78

Since childhood, all he could do was follow behind someone else.

"Big brother, wait!"

Han Suwen had never been able to keep up with Han Shi. During training, his brother outpaced him every time, surpassing him in strength, speed, and skill. Whenever that happened, he would return to his mother for comfort.

"It’s alright, my son. Not everyone needs to become a great warrior," Han Jei would say, understanding him better than anyone.

She had once been a warrior herself. But the gap between her and her husband had been too wide, so she chose to become a housewife. Sometimes, people simply wanted to tend the home instead of charging ahead.

"Your brother may be the guiding light, but our clan still needs someone to keep that light burning. You can aim for that instead. There’s no need to push yourself so hard."

That day, the two brothers walked different paths.

Han Shi trained until he broke his own body in pursuit of strength.

And what about him?

Han Suwen gave up.

That was the day he understood the world was too vast, so vast that even their father could no longer keep them safe.

He could not even protect his own mother.

So there was no need to become strong. Being relevant in the town was enough.

That was what he believed, until he met her.

"You damn brat! If my brother had your level of talent, he’d be a hundred times better!"

It was a friendly exchange competition arranged between clans in the city.

He had entered without much expectation, but he ended up facing one girl in particular.

She was fierce and blunt, nothing like the polished daughters of noble families.

Yet her words, and her stubborn persistence, stayed with him long after the match ended.

And it was largely because she kept challenging him every single day after that.

At first, it was easy for him to beat her.

After all, he was still the second son of the second strongest clan in town.

But as time went on, she finally defeated him once.

"Haha! I won!"

Wu Meiyi shouted with pure joy, thrilled that she had finally beaten the lazy young master of the Han clan.

"This..."

It felt like a hard slap to the face.

He had lost to someone outside his own clan, and it was not even a Luo.

If he was this weak, how could this town remain safe?

"Come on, now you have to keep your promise. Hand over your clan technique, right now!"

Her outrageous demand, her stubborn determination, her fierce personality.

It was like a stray spark landing on a dying touch.

Since the day his mother died, he had been drifting.

But not after that. Not anymore. And absolutely not now!

"I’m going to kill you!"

Han Suwen’s power surged as his mind became focused. His twin blades blocked Wu Han’s speeding spear, pushing him back before following up with a grand swing.

--

Helix Tail Swipe!

His body spun and sliced down, all the momentum focused onto the blade.

Twin Headed Dragon Style, one of the most treasured techniques and the hardest to practice.

Not only did you need extreme talent in sword arts, you also needed to perfectly control both hands.

Cloud Trace Arts!

Wu Han sliced his spear back to stop the attack, but Han Suwen anticipated it and utilized his strongest point, he had two swords.

Dragon Bite!

He blocked the spear with one hand and attacked with the other, forcing Wu Han to conjure up a spell.

Rank 1 magic, Shield!

The sword was blocked by a hexagonal barrier. Still, Han Suwen spun off and charged in again with crossed blades.

Twin Bites!

The swords sliced into an X-shaped arc.

"Hmp!"

Sky Piercer!

Wu Han answered in kind.

His spear stabbed into the center of the X, perfectly blocking both swords at the same time.

Han Suwen was surprised by the level of precision, but he stayed determined, pushed forward with his strength, and continued his follow-up attacks relentlessly.

--

His blades was far move powerful than any attack he face and time goes on, it became heavier as the element was base on water, while his speed start to deceased overtime due to his base element was wind.

Rank 1 Magic, fire bolt!

--

Wu Han created distance by shooting out flame from his hand.

The fire forcing Han Suwen to leap back.

He twisted in midair and landed cleanly, but the moment was enough.

Space opened between them.

"Let me try something new," Wu Han said.

He drew in a deep breath and pulled the spear back to his waist.

Han Suwen’s instincts screamed.

The air around the spearhead began to vibrate.

Han Suwen immediately withdrew both swords and settled into a defensive stance, blades crossing before his chest.

His feet dug into the earth.

"Wrong answer!"

Tempest Edge!

The wind spiraled into a massive tornado at the tip of the spear and shot forward.

It devoured the ground as it moved. Stones lifted and shattered inside the vortex. Trees bent toward it, their bark peeling away before snapping apart.

Han Suwen roared and drove both swords down.

Dragon Breath!

Water qi erupted from his blades, forming two coiling waves that wrapped around his swords as he slammed them down like a tidal wave crashing onto the shore.

The wind slammed into the waves, creating a massive torrent that engulfed the area in destruction.

The earth beneath Han Suwen’s feet collapsed inch by inch as he was pushed backward, his boots carving trenches through the soil.

His arms trembled. Blood seeped from his palms where the sword hilts bit into his skin.

The vortex shrieked louder.

Wu Han stepped forward.

"If only you had some combat experience, you might hold on a little longer."

The greatest strength of Tempest Edge is that it can evolve over time.

While creating momentum is the power of the water element over time, wind can accelerate endlessly depending on the amount of energy you feed it!

Qi poured down his arms and into the spear, tightening the spiral.

The outer winds contracted into a long emerald drill, piercing through the wave.

Han Suwen’s defense cracked.

One dragon dissolved. The second thinned, scales of water breaking apart into mist.

He clenched his teeth and changed his stance at the last instant.

Instead of holding, he turned and dodged at the last second.

But he made the choice too late. The maddening wind blasted through and tore apart one of the dragon heads, his right arm.

"Suwen!" Han Meiyi tried to help, but she was blocked by Hong Qing.

"Tsk!" She decided to fight on, but Hong Qing was no slouch either.

She took a defensive approach since Wu Han didn’t want interference, and it wasn’t her job to increase the risk for him.

And her decision turned out to be right.

While Han Meiyi had created a powerful martial art for deflecting and counterattacking, it was awfully weak at striking.

If only she had time to refine that aspect, it would have been far more terrifying.

"Huff... Huff..." Han Suwen was injured. He had depleted his Qi in a confrontation, thinking he could endure it, he took a gamble and lost.

"Rule one of fighting: dodging is always better than tanking," Wu Han had learned from a knight.

He sat down across from Han Suwen, who was kneeling on the ground.

Han Suwen took the opportunity to strike, but Wu Han’s obisdian spear flew through the air and blocked the attack mid-swing, disarming his remaining sword and leaving him weaponless.

"People would kill just to have your position, and you wasted it all away, your talent, your wealth, even your family."

Wu Han looked down at him with disdain. "I met your family. Your father was a very good man, even better than Luo Chen. While he might have been too absent with you and your brother, he had a pure heart and wanted the best for everyone."

Han Rui was simply a good man who was good with a sword.

His lack of fathering ability could stem from the fact that he was only human.

Everyone has a first time, and he too was a first-time father.

Now, having lost his wife and needing to lead the second most powerful clan, he didn’t have the time to take care of them and teach them properly.

"Still, you could have always asked. Unlike Luo Lan, you two had a choice. And your big brother made much better choices."

While Han Shi was too harsh on himself, Han Suwen could be considered lazy and a waste. But both of them had choices, unlike Luo Lan, whose only choice was to be confined in her own hell underground, away from everyone.

"What do you even know about him?! You’re a lazy loser!" Han Meiyi shouted, defending her husband’s honor.

Wu Han was a lazy, womanizing bum who always ran away from opponents every chance he got.

How dare he insult him!

"Even if you got a miracle doctor as your master, you’re still the same, an insufferable cockroach!"

She bit her lip, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get past Hong Qing.

"Hahaha! True, true. But you misunderstood one thing."

Wu Han laughed as he stabbed the spear though Han Suwen’s heart.

"No!!!" Meiyi let out a cry as she watched her husband fall to the ground.

She ignited her life force and pushed Hong Qing away with everything she had, rushing toward Wu Han. She cried tears of blood, losing everything, from her family to the man she loved, to a single person.

"You people never learn, did you..." Wu Han shook his head and flicked his finger.

Rank 2 magic: Wind Blast.

Bang!

A powerful force slammed into her and blasted her away.

"Ugh!" She was injured and tried to pick herself up, but Hong Qing seized the opportunity and stabbed her, pinning her to the ground.

"I’m sorry I let her get past me," Hong Qing apologetically said.

But Wu Han waved it off. "It’s okay. You did well." He seemed not to care about what he had done or her despairing screams at all.

All Han Meiyi could do was cry and try to move away, only drawing more blood from her wound.

Even Hong Qing’s heart began to waver, since she understood what love was.

"Since you’re going to die anyway, let me reveal something to you."

So did Wu Han.

"I’m not Wu Han."

Wu Han stood up as he stared back at Meiyi’s vengeful gaze.

"I never was."

Then he killed himself.