## Chapter 1049 – A Man of Many Questions

“You son of a bitch! Who the hell are you?!”

I immediately pointed at the puppet-like cultist and shouted. I don’t know what kind of bastard it is, but he’s seizing that cultist with some kind of energy, looking at me through his eyes…!

—Lich!

Is it really that Lich!!!
Is that Lich son of a bitch looking at me!

—Drip.
—Driiiiiip.

Black blood trickles down the cultist’s throat.

「…」

A sound, not of human origin, faintly emanates from the depths of his throat, but he’s currently unable to speak.

“If you’re going to communicate, don’t dilly-dally, you frustrating bastard!!!”

This son of a bitch was definitely putting on airs just now, saying, “So, it’s you…” in a voice that seemed to echo. Whatever the case, the fact that he tried to open his mouth like that means he clearly had some kind of purpose in trying to communicate with me.

But goddamn, if he’s dragging his feet like this, how can I not be frustrated…! Seeing that he can’t speak, I’m going crazy with frustration!!!

—Chzzzz.

Did my wish get through?

Finally, a sound is heard.

「Insignificant… interference…」

—Tzzzzzzzz!!
—Chijijijik!!

The cultist, whose lower jaw has dropped, is spewing black smoke from his eyes and shaking erratically. A sound is coming through, but the communication isn’t good, and the words are cutting out and stuttering.

What the hell is that bullshit…!

“Speak clearly, you fucking bastard!! Can’t you even talk properly! You’re so old and have no social skills! Huh! You’re the Lich, aren’t you! You’re that goddamn Lich bastard! You son of a bitch! I know you’re there!!! Speak quickly, you bastard!!!”

Unable to suppress my anger, I pounded my chest and shouted repeatedly! What? Insignificant? Interference? He couldn’t have been trying to communicate with me just to say something like that…!

—Chijijijik!

「…」

With a strange dissonance, the sound cuts out again.

This crazy bastard…!
I’m about to go insane.

“Why did you suddenly shut your mouth, you fucking whore! Are you scared! Are you scared, you bastard! You’ve been doing all sorts of goddamn things until now, but you can’t say a single word in front of me!!!”

—Gaaaaah!!!!!

I was sure that my voice was being heard by him!

Just tell him to fuck off now!

Since that bastard doesn’t seem like he’s going to tell me anything, I’ll just shower him with taunts and provocations!

Let that little kid cut off the communication, go home, lock himself up, and vent his frustration! That’s the Lich’s true fate and future.

No one takes the side of the evil Lich, no one loves him. He’s just a being who has to put his bony fist into his bony mouth alone in solitude, trembling and shedding artificial tears. Let him drown in tears and make his own bone broth.

“You fucking piece of shit, you bastard!!!”

Bone broth that no one will eat…!

“Ah! Calm down! Please!”

A flustered Liztina grabbed my body.

“Sis. Just a moment! If not now, there’s no chance!!! Only now is the only timing to insult him and attack his mentality! You have to deal damage when you can!”

If not now, I don’t know when I’ll have another chance to curse at him like this. Cursing is something you have to do until the other person disconnects or blocks you.

“If I can’t extract information, I’ll at least mess with that magician’s mind!”
“Ah! I thought you were just being crazy, but you had a strategy like that! You’re really Katter!”
“I’m a man who acts strategically!”

I immediately strode towards the cultist.

Now the cultist seemed to have been reduced to a mere medium for biological communication, as if he had lost all his life. That son of a bitch is treating his subordinates like this, like a Lich would.

It’s so evil that it makes me want to vomit.

“You bonehead…! All of your Death Knights were trash!”

Anyway, he couldn’t exert any influence on me now. Collecting the souls of the Great Evils? Seeing that he didn’t come directly for such an important task and sent an army that seemed to be full of power, he must be unable to move or be very cautious.

But that army was a disaster.
I pointed that out.

—Chijijijik.

Communication flows out again.

「Not… knowing… your… place… rampaging… is…」

Not knowing my place and rampaging?

“Hehehe. You’re the one who doesn’t know your place, you rotten, decayed skull bastard. Do you know that your bone powder is so rotten that it can’t even be used as fertilizer?”

I mocked the Lich by doing the gesture that the elves of the Elven Forest used to taunt us in the past, pressing my temples with both hands, shaking my eyes like I was cross-eyed, and turning my neck in a strange motion.

“I am your mother!!! Now, confess your purpose to this mother in detail!!! You eunuch without a dick!!!!”

—Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!

Then, unable to bear my anger any longer, I punched the cultist’s corpse, which was still floating in the air, wrapped in energy.

—Thwack!
—Kwaang!
—Kugugugung!

An extremely impulsive attack.

—Thwack thwack thwack thwack!!

The fist I shot out bursts flesh, pierces through, and turns it into rags. With that, the cultist’s lower body falls off and his upper body is tattered. Even so, he was still floating as if tied to a string.

This son of a bitch is still acting like this without knowing his place…!

“You’re still messing with this mom even after this!!!”

Screaming, I immediately picked up one of the cultists writhing on the ground, tore off all his clothes, grabbed his side, lifted him up, and shook him in front of the Lich’s eyes.

“Enjoy your subordinate’s dick and balls, you bastard!!!”
“Geeeeeeh…!”

—Shake shake!!

I’ll shake it like crazy!

The Lich is a Lich, so he has no dick or balls. That’s why he harbored hatred. That’s why he’s trying to take revenge on the world. But his subordinate has a dick and balls that he doesn’t have?

He can’t stand this.

“He has a dick, but why don’t you have one!!! Where did you lose it! Huh! Mom always told you to take good care of your things!!!”

I shook the cultist hard.

“Dangle dangle!!!”

Aiming the dick accurately at the Lich’s eyes.

「Insignificant thing…!」

Soon, a voice filled with emotion was heard.

—I was able to figure it out with this.

He was a mortal who could not be free from emotions. Unless he was a truly transcendent being or immortal, he would inevitably be affected by emotions in some way. He just showed emotion, and it was anger at being mocked.

I got you.

I succeeded in disguising my taunts and uncovering his identity.

The Lich was a mortal being who could not be free from emotions.

Then there’s no way I can’t kill him.

No!

This Kim Katter can kill him!!!

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

I can’t stand it anymore!!!! Bursting with joy, I threw away the cultist I was shaking and immediately spread my hand like an axe and chopped the cultist, who was still floating, in half from the head.

—Chwahaaaak!
—Crack!

The cultist, split in half like that, fell, spewing black blood and guts.

Only then did it seem that the communication with the Lich was over.

—Tsupat.

Silence descended on the scene.

—…

Quiet.

My expanded senses made me realize that some kind of magical signal had been cut off. To communicate like this from such a long distance… I was curious to know what kind of magic he used.

Anyway, he’s gone.

“No one!!!!”

That’s how I roared.

“Will ever be able to achieve their evil purpose!!!”

Lich.

The leader of the bastards who have been doing goddamn things until now.

I must exterminate him for the sake of Fusion Confucianism…!

“This Cheonma Kim Katter, the guardian of love, justice, and peace, will stop and crush all conspiracies!!!!!”

—Hwaaaarururuk!!

What was burning inside me was clearly the power of mana, and the rapidly rising energy was the true power of Fusion Confucianism. I felt my power being strengthened in real time at this moment.

—I will kill the Lich!

With that, I will straighten the spirit of Hongik Ingan and make this world more beneficial! Thus, I will fulfill this seeker’s duty!!!

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!”

But first of all, the biggest achievement was making the Lich, who might be somewhere out there, angry. Son of a bitch. Anyway, my existence was already known to him. In the circumstances, everything I’ve done so far has been interfering with their conspiracies.

They must have figured it out.

In the meantime, nothing will change just because I picked a fight.

Maybe the Lich is cracking his bones and trembling right now. It’s a gloomy and shitty move, as expected of that bastard. It’s good for your health to harass those bastards until they die.

“Anyway, stop screaming! Quickly interrogate these guys! I’ll go get Karin and Claudia!”
“Okay, sis! I’ll leave it to you!”
“Then!”

—Kwaang!

Liztina, who kicked off the ground, ran almost flying.

With that, the only things left in this space were me and the cultists scattered on the ground. And the machine parked over there.

“Hey. You.”
“Keeeuek…!”

I immediately grabbed the cultist’s neck and started interrogating him.

“Can you. Speak our language?”
“Kieeeek!”

This bastard.

“Daoc! Daoc!”
“Speak like a human, you fucking bastard.”

He spewed out a language that was unique to the cultists and incomprehensible, but I already knew. These cultists can speak our language. I’ve seen it several times until now.

Of course, there might be some who can’t, but not all of them here can’t.

“Daoc! Daoc!”
“Bullshit.”

So I twisted the cultists’ crushed joints and tortured them by punching them.

—Drip!
—Squeak! Squeak!

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!”

A true piece of shit.

His joint bones were already crushed into powder, but if you grabbed that part tightly, twisted the skin and muscles, and squeezed them, no one could withstand it. The cultists screamed, rolled their eyes back, and spewed foam from their mouths, but no one could escape because I woke them up every time they fainted.

As I was doing that, everyone came this way.

“Hey, what the hell is this scene? What’s that machine?”
“I’ll explain it all later. Let’s do this first. But sis, are you hurt anywhere?”
“Would I get hurt? A few more attacked after you left, but it was nothing.”
“That’s a relief.”

That’s true.

“Where’s Claudia?”
“Yeah. She’s okay.”

Claudia seemed to be doing better than I thought.

“Hehe, there’s not much of a problem, but Katter told Karin to protect me.”
“Hehehe, was I too worried?”

Anyway, that was the situation, and we gathered together and tortured the cultists.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!”
“Kkeuaaaak!!”

Torture was carried out under the assumption that they would eventually open their mouths if we made them scream. Most of the cultists never awakened our language, but one of them finally opened his mouth.

“I, I’ll talk!!!”

Good.

“Okay, you bastard. Let’s start the interrogation.”

I have to torture them like this to get them to talk.
They’re such tiring bastards to live with.

“What’s that. What’s that machine?”

First, I asked about the machine.

“It’s a tool to bind and store the souls of the Great Demons! We were ordered by him… to bring the souls of the Great Demons!!!”
“Was it all planned?”
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!”

I can’t believe everything he said.

I continue to torture him and ask the same thing over and over again, and only when the same answer comes out continuously do I judge it to be reliable information.

Of course, this is not a repetitive task either. It is a technique to induce him to spit out the correct answer by constantly throwing words that are subtly scattered. If he lied, there would be a contradiction. This is a bit of a difficult method, but I’ve done it so many times that it was too simple.

Anyway, the effect of the torture was perfect.

“That’s right!!! That’s right!!! It was all his order, and we were prepared!! The location of the Great Demon… and even his death! He told us everything!”
“Oh.”

As expected.

This was thoroughly planned.

“What is the identity of the black monument? What is it?”
“A tool to cut the border with Pandemonium…! It was used to open the Demon Gate! I don’t know more than that! I didn’t prepare it! He gave us all the tools!”
“Are you talking about the Lich when you say ‘he’?”
“About, about him…”
“Oh. You don’t have to say it, you bastard. Instead, I’ll make you beg to be allowed to speak.”
“Uwaaaaaaaaaak!!”

So I continued the interrogation while torturing him.