The Growth of a Titan
Chapter 207- Is It That Big Of A Deal?

Chapter 207: Chapter 207- Is It That Big Of A Deal?

"Brother Sol, you don’t have to do this. We should be the ones to handle our Sect’s matters. If you kill an Elder of the Academy for our sake and then something goes wrong..."

Dae Han shook his head.

He just didn’t see why Sol should be the one to do this.

"That’s right Sol."

Mar-Dule said.

"Do you even understand what you’re suggesting?"

Mar-Dule placed his hand next to his mouth and whispered loudly.

"You want to kill an Elder of the Academy! That seems crazy to me Sol."

Seeing how everyone was worried about him Sol smiled warmly.

"Then how can we get back the Yin and Yang Celestial Stones? I don’t see another way."

"First of all, let’s get something out of the way first. Do we even need to get back those treasures? Is it worth the risk? We already have to be careful because of what’s going on outside."

Yoon-Jae asked, and Dae Han immediately retorted.

"Of course it’s important we get them back! They’re one of our Sect’s Founding Treasures and probably the only ones remaining."

"Not my Sect."

Mar-Dule muttered under his breath, and Yoon-Jae frowned at him.

"Why do we have to sit back and watch as they’re stolen again? I can’t take it, and I refuse to allow that bitch to leave this City with them."

Everyone could see that Dae Han’s grudge against this Elder Hyun-Joo ran deep. It might even be more than just the fact that she stole the Yang Celestial Stone from him.

She had also chased and tried to kill him for two weeks even after getting it.

Sol nodded.

"We’re in this together, all the way. Whenever someone from the group faces a problem we tackle it together as friends."

"We just met each other though. I don’t know if I want to be involved in killing an Elder of the Academy for treasures from a Sect I don’t know about."

Yoon-Jae turned to glare at Mar-Dule.

"Then just leave. At this point you might as well go and tattle on us."

Mar-Dule turned to glare back at Yoon-Jae.

"Bastard, who do you take me for? Do you think I would do something like that?"

"Well, then just shut up. You’re not the one taking any risk in this plan, Sol is the one offering to kill an Elder."

"Guys stop, what are you doing?"

Sol said as he stepped between Mar-Dule and Yoon-Jae.

"I think we should think of another way to get the Celestial Stones back."

Cheong-San chimed in after seeing how the situation was devolving into a mess.

Sol turned to him and shook his head.

"I’ve already thought of every possible solution. There’s no other way than this path."

Byeong-Ho who was off to the side with his arms folded, thought about his brother. Maybe if he got involved he would be able to pressure Elder Hyun-Joo in giving up the Celestial Stones.

However, just as this thought ran through Byeong-Ho’s mind, he suddenly heard Sol say.

"And we have to do this alone. We can’t risk asking for outside help. The fewer people that know about our full situation the better it is to keep it a secret."

After saying this, Sol glanced at Byeong-Ho.

Byeong-Ho paused before he nodded his head.

Somehow Sol knew what he was thinking.

"Sol, are you sure about this?"

Cheong-San asked once again.

"I don’t mean this in a bad way, but this is not the same as killing a Spirit Beast, it’s killing another human. Have you even killed someone before?"

To him, Sol didn’t seem like someone who could kill a person.

However, Mar-Dule thought back on that one time when he first saw Sol fight in the Martial Hall Pagoda.

Back then he estimated Sol’s strength to be above his... he still held that opinion, especially after what happened in the Dimension. But one thing he noticed was that there was more to Sol than what he was showing everyone.

He had another side of himself that was spiteful and unashamedly aggressive.

Mar-Dule didn’t know how to describe it, he just preferred Sol stay the way he was now. Seeing someone like him get angry just puts him on edge for some reason.

Mar-Dule also suspected even Yoon-Jae didn’t know about this side of Sol. Probably no one knew.

However, that would slightly change.

In response to Cheong-San’s words, Sol smiled, though his smile was slightly off.

"Cheong-San... are you looking down on me?"

All of a sudden everyone felt the temperature in the room plunge to freezing levels. Their skin crawled as a terrifying aura wafted from Sol to sweep over them.

Mar-Dule looked at Sol with a terrified expression, and instinctively took several steps back.

He felt it was hard to breathe next to him.

Yoon-Jae also instinctively took several steps back as did everyone else.

Cheong-San feeling the brunt of this aura had his body shake and his face go pale.

Sol seeing this immediately stopped releasing his Killing Intent and began to panic.

"Sorry, sorry! I release too much, this isn’t what I intended."

Sol rushed over but Cheong-San took a step back from him.

Sol stopped in his tracks and deep regret rose in his heart.

"Sorry, I was a bit upset but I wasn’t angry or anything. I wanted to reassure you guys that I’m fine going through with this."

Cheong-San released a breath to calm his racing heart before saying.

"I-It’s okay, I’m fine."

Sol played with his fingers and felt even more guilty when heard Cheong-San’s stutter.

Abdu looked down at him and said.

"That’s not something you should mess around with brat."

"I’m sorry..."

Everyone mostly recovered and questions began to form in their minds.

"What was that aura? It was similar to what Second Brother released when he first came."

Cheong-Su asked and Dae Han who was looking at Sol with a weird expression replied.

"It’s Killing Intent."

"Killing Intent?"

Yoon-Jae looked at Sol in surprise.

"Since when were you able to release something like that?"

Sol sighed.

"Just now was the first time I tried releasing it."

"What?"

Dae Han furrowed his brows.

"That amount of Killing Intent was too potent. How was that your first time releasing it?"

Sol turned to Dae Han and nodded.

"It’s really my first time, I just copy what you did. But maybe I shouldn’t have tried doing something like that when I wasn’t proficient in it."

Dae Han’s entire body froze, and he looked at Sol like he was looking at a monster.

After grabbing his head and Dae Han staggered a bit while saying.

"Wait, wait, you’re telling me you just released Killing Intent to that degree after only seeing me do it just once? That’s... Are you fucking with me, Sol?"

Dae Han’s politeness went through the window.

"Why are you having such an over-the-top reaction? Is it that big of a deal?"

Mar-Dule asked while looking at Dae Han who seemed out of it.

"Of course it is! Do you know how long it took me to master Killing Intent? What do you think Killing Intent is?"

Mar-Dule genuinely started thinking about the answer.

"Isn’t it just Bloodlust?"

Dae Han scowled and immediately spat out.

"Bloodlust is something you cultivate by killing enough people. But Killing Intent is the intent to kill, THE INTENT TO KILL!! It’s something that has to be cultivated!"

"Huh? What are you even saying, that’s basically the same thing."

"Fuck, this bastard! I’m saying you can’t just get up one day and decide you want to release Killing Intent damn it!!"

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