Divine Artifact III

"I can't give you the key."

Iwan said with a crying face.

'How should I tell her that I don't even know where the key is?'

Iwan was nervously looking around for the kay that he had lost somehow in the scuffle. He didn't even realize when he had let go of the key.

"Is it because that key is the last memory of your father? Remember that man you called your father left you on your birthday. He betrayed you!"

The Crimson Raven pulled back her crimson chill and tried to reason with Iwan.

"Or, do you remember the good times with your little pet who has also left you?"

Crimson Raven reached for Iwan and touched his face with her soft hands.

The coldness that the Sect Leader of the Ice Raven Sect was gone, only the beautiful lady who had listened to every part of Iwan's past remained.

Iwan looked right at the lady. He could indeed see the smile on the Crimson Raven's face. The beautiful lady was back, and Iwan knew that this was his chance to make the right choice.

'The right choice would lead me to death. The wrong choice will also lead me to my death. So, it's better to be open. But, I shouldn't let the other bastards know of this.'

Iwan didn't even have to ponder his choice anymore since he didn't even have the damned key. In the end, telling the truth was what Iwan had stopped on.

"Nice try, lady."

Iwan grabbed the hand of the lady that was on his face.

"I will give you the key."

Iwan pulled the Crimson Raven closer, who looked like a maiden and nothing else at the moment and whispered in her ear.

Crimson Raven smiled; thus, none of the elders of the Ice Raven Sect stepped forward and watched.

"I dropped it, I THINK. I will give it to you after you help me find it."

Iwan said with a confident tone.

"I see."

Crimson Raven stepped an inch away from Iwan and showed him a smile.

Her beauty dumbfounded Iwan. It was the most beautiful smile that he had seen till now.

"Not even my mother has shown me such an expression, Phush~."

Iwan told the Crimson Raven while blood suddenly gushed out of his mouth.

His eyes rolled down, and what he found there shocked him as pain arose from right between his chest.

Crimson Raven had already left a hole in Iwan's chest with her Ice Claw.

"You-"

"I won't give you the key even if you find it for me."

Iwan told the Crimson Raven with a decisive look.

"I see. I don't have any need for a piece of trash like you. That artifact was what kept you alive for so long in my esteemed presence."

The lady's body slowly convulsed, and her height increased slightly.

She stood six feet tall, while her peaks and curves became smaller and smaller as if they were a balloon with a hole.

Only an older man with a bony structure was left there in seconds. It was the same old man that Iwan was talking to at the start at the wrecking yard.

"Old man. No, You con man."

"Only fools are convinced with beauties. You must feel like a little shit. Hohoho~"

"Old man, I will let the whole world know about the truth behind the Crimson Raven."

Iwan shouted with a bloody mouth.

Ice Raven Sect was famous because of the Crimson Raven. One of the three heavenly beauties of the Martial Society, The Crimson Raven with her Crimson Chill. But, elders knew the reality of the Crimson Raven and how their old Sect Leader acted like a young maiden with unparalleled beauty.

"Oh, you will? I will wait for that to happen."

"Let me show you how I work."

The Crimson Raven stabbed Iwan with another Ice Claw and left a hole in his stomach.

"Elder, kill all the disciples here."

The Crimson Raven commanded, and instantly, head after head, fell on the dirty ground of the wrecking yard.

Only sixty-nine people were left out of the eight hundred eighty-eight members of the Ice Raven Sect. Coldness covered the wrecking yard and the dead bodies of the sect's disciples.

"Why would you kill your own?"

Iwan forced words out of his mouth, and dark bulks of blood forcefully flowed out of his mouth.

"They knew too much. Hahaha~"

Crimson Raven told Iwan while bringing his old wrinkly ace right in front of his face.

He didn't even bat an eye after killing eight hundred nineteen disciples of his sect.

So, what was Iwan in his eyes?

"I hope you never find the key. I would never let you, an old ugly deceiving bastard, have it if it was on me. Not even over my dead body."

"Search the wrecking yard. There must be a red key somewhere here. Find it but don't touch it."

Crimson Raven ordered the elders while smiling at Iwan.

Iwan was barely breathing while coughing out blood every ten seconds. That is how ugly the old man in front of him was.

At the last of his breaths, he got flashbacks of his life.

His father and mother.

Their betrayal and his disappointment.

The journey with the little bear in the old truck.

Everything flashed like lightning in his head.

Iwan barely turned his head and looked at his truck with that last look that a person had before dying.

"Hah. Goodbye Toyoda-Chan. At least you will have your last in your country of origin."

Iwan, who knew what the truck meant to him and his father, couldn't meet his end without bidding it farewell.

"Khuk~"

Crimson Raven undoubtedly received a mental shock when he heard how Iwan was talking.