The Bloody Screen

"Toyoda-Chan? Young fool, did the beating cause you to lose your senses and descend into the weeb dimension?

Old Raven made fun of the dying Iwan, who had innocently bid farewell to a part of his life.

Crimson Raven slashed away a part of Iwan's skin right around his left thigh with the ice claw.

The coldness caused Iwan to feel a severe burning that not even pouring molten lava on him would have caused. Iwan couldn't even feel his whole left leg from this point on.

Iwan's eyes reddened as he could bear being made fun of but not his truck.

"Toyoda-chan isn't just a truck."

Iwan was going crazy with anger, but the pain didn't even allow him to move an inch.

Toyoda chan was something his great grandfather of Japanese origin had made back in 1934.

"I see. But bidding farewell to a truck. Hahaha, ~ Child, you are indeed a masterpiece."

'Phush~'

Another hole was left in his stomach by the ice claw.

Iwan groaned in pain while more blood flowed out of his mouth and wound.

"Old Bat."

"That truck is older than you. It's the only one in the whole freaking world."

"Oh."

Crimson Raven was intrigued.

'Maybe, the truck is also a divine artifact.'

He wondered, but getting the key and dealing with Iwan came first for now.

"My great grandfather had made it with his own hands. He spent three years making the truck and eleven years to complete its key with his blood and sweat."

Iwan couldn't stop himself from crying as he remembered what he rarely mentioned or told anyone.

'GGF made the key after he melted an inch of femoral bone from his thighs. What a legend.'

The thoughts of Iwan showed the origin and reality of Toyoda-Chan and the key.

The truth that not even Pudin, who had spent the most time with Iwan, knew.

Iwan didn't tell everything to the old bat in front of him. But it wasn't on purpose. His voice wouldn't just come out.

"Master, we have found the key."

While Iwan was losing consciousness, he heard a voice.

"Heard that."

Crimson Raven taunted Iwan with a big smirk that covered most of his wrinkly face and then looked at one of the elders who had just spoken.

"Where is it? Guide me. I want this fool to see me holding the key before he dies. What a befitting end to the life of this talentless garbage."

"Hahahahaha~"

Thundering sounds of laughter echoed around the wrecking yard while blood flowed from Iwan's ears.

He was going through unimaginable pain, but he only worried about the key falling into the old man's hand even in this condition.

"Master, it's under his foot."

The elder pointed at Iwan's left foot.

Half of the key was stuck under Iwan's foot, while the head of the red key was still barely visible.

"Ho~"

Veins popped out of Crimson Raven's forehead while his rage boiled to another level.

"While my elders were running around the wrecking yard, the key was under your foot all this time."

Crimson Raven felt like the biggest fool in the world, while Iwan was shocked.

'What is this key doing here? Til the end.'

Since the elder found the key under his foot, Iwan knew that he would be getting another hole that would be extremely painful.

He looked down to see the condition of his body. The thick muscles had been holding him together, but that was it.

His body had six holes that caused him to look like a beehive. It would just be a matter of time before the bees gathered here.

"Move your foot, and I will end your pain."

Crimson Raven told Iwan while holding back his hand still covered with sharp ends of crimson ice.

"I will move my foot."

Iwan had given up.

'So, what if I am worried about the key falling in his hand? Why does it even matter if he is just an ugly old man instead of a goddess? I was going to end this miserable life in the end anyways.'

"Damn, I am going to move my foot right now."

While vomiting out another mouthful of blood, Iwan told the Crimson Raven.

Crimson Raven couldn't have been happier.

Crimson Raven was satisfied after seeing the look of a loser on Iwan, who had finally surrendered in front of his insurmountable strength.

( PROVE YOUR WORTH: RESIST WITH YOUR ALL. PROTECT THE DIVINE ARTIFACT! )

"GET LOST."

Iwan shouted as he looked at the bloody screen in front of him.

"Did you shout at me? After telling me that you will move your foot?"

Crimson Raven was taken back.

'Can't he see the screen?'

The same red screen that had caused Iwan to fall before appeared right between the faces of Iwan and the old man. But Iwan couldn't care less.

A minute passed while Iwan looked down. He couldn't move his left leg no matter how much he tried.

Even his wrist won't move an inch, so moving his permanently damaged left leg was out of choice.

"You won't escape in the condition you are. My elders nor I would bow to grab the key, so pick it up and pass it to me. Or, move your leg."

"I am trying."

'Bastard, if you hadn't sliced off my skin before...he is lucky. I am not ready to scold an old man before dying.'

Iwan complained while the contents on the red screen in front of him changed.

"WHAT NOW?"

"Did you just shout at me again?"

"You bastard. How dare you raise your voice in front of our esteemed Sect Leader?"

"No. Can't you this shit?"

While the Crimson Raven and the elders of the Ice Raven Sect shouted at him, Iwan told them as he looked right at the red screen.

( RESISTING FOES STRONGER THAN YOU: ACHIEVED! )

( PROTECT THE KEY FOR 100 SECONDS: 60/100 )

While Iwan looked at the timer on the screen, to the others, he was looking directly at the Crimson Raven.