Among the hundreds of slave girls in Amidal, she was numbered 04, while those numbered 00 to 10 were slaves exclusively belonging to the king. These eleven slave girls were exceptionally outstanding in every aspect, considered the kingdom’s most precious treasures. As the sovereign of a nation, such a noble status deserved to be accompanied by the finest things in the world.
The [Master of Life and Death], Rinne Tenki, was a slave personally trained by the king. As the king aged and his three children gradually grew up, these top-ranked slave girls were reassigned to other masters under the king’s orders. They were arranged to serve various important and honorable individuals.
Number 04, Rinne Tenki, was placed by the king beside Rumiwon as his most powerful protective force. Thus, no other slave girls were granted to Rumiwon. The king did not show favoritism to anyone. Honestly, he had hesitated to give his top-ranking slave girls to his own son because if his son used that power to kill him, although it would be worthy of admiration, he would still have to prepare to retaliate.
Fortunately, the king was the former master of the slave girls and knew all their weaknesses intimately. So he trusted Rinne Tenki to be assigned to Rumiwon.
Unless a slave girl with power rivaling the top ten emerged and was owned by his son, the king couldn’t even imagine the possibility of assassination by a slave girl.
It wasn’t so easy to scour the entire world and only find eleven top-tier slave girls, pouring in the most precious resources to cultivate them, each reaching an unattainable level of strength. Such rare beings had long since vanished.
Even with talent, it was impossible for any slave girl to rival those nurtured by Amidal, the world’s strongest nation!
Rinne Tenki’s purpose in stripping off her clothes was singular: if she didn’t, Rumiwon would immediately activate the poison inside her and kill her.
Her “Law of Life and Death” was a forbidden and terrifying power; harvesting lives was the simplest of tasks. For this reason, Rumiwon remained so cautious. Even though no slave girl under training had ever rebelled to assassinate her master, he had no intention of being the first.
The range of the “Law of Life and Death” was limited, but to perceive this limit clearly and avoid being silently killed by this dreadful power was an extremely difficult task. Death finally came soundlessly. Rumiwon could only let Rinne Tenki be completely naked so she could minimize the innate power’s range to the smallest possible extent, at least preventing him from being caught within it.
The fewer the clothes a slave girl wore, the weaker her innate racial talent became. The baseline was a three-piece set: outer garment, skirt, and underwear. So far, no researcher had explained this peculiar phenomenon; all that could be said was that slave girls were simply too mysterious.
Rinne Tenki placed her palm on Baiya’s chest. There was no longer a heartbeat, yet this slave still lived—still survived in a way that defied belief.
Baiya Ifir Klorom, the name had an annoying ring to it, Rinne Tenki thought.
Now, she was about to use one of the abilities derived from her racial talent “Law of Life and Death,” called ‘The Scales of Burial and Resurrection.’
How many had she killed using this ability? Thousands? Tens of thousands? She had lost count. Among the dozens of slave girls thrown into the battlefield, only she survived by desperately clinging to the will to live. Had her racial talent not been the “Law of Life and Death,” nor possessed the ‘Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ ability, she likely wouldn’t have lasted till the end.
Regarding the ‘Scales of Burial and Resurrection,’ Rinne Tenki’s evaluation was that it was the most intuitive killer’s ability she had used.
‘The Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ made life theft effortless.
Rinne Tenki truly couldn’t understand why Rumiwon chose to resurrect Baiya. The slave girls’ racial talent was one of slaughter, and all its derived abilities were techniques of killing—abilities befitting a killer.
Using a killer’s ability to save others was laughable.
Actually, Rinne Tenki understood Rumiwon’s reasoning: he was simply gambling on the ‘Scales of Burial and Resurrection.’ Baiya’s injuries were indeed so severe they couldn’t be healed by conventional means. The only hope lay in the slave girl’s racial talent—the most extraordinary power in this world.
Calling the ‘Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ a purely killer’s ability was not entirely accurate, because it did have a resurrection effect on the near-dead, but the chance was only one in four.
‘The Scales of Burial and Resurrection’: a three-quarters chance to steal the life of all living beings within its range, and a one-quarter chance to banish death within the same range—that’s how this ability worked.
The so-called stealing life within the range meant causing everything alive within that area to wither and die, creating a life forbidden zone with her own body.
Rinne Tenki knew how to kill herself, though that only applied if she activated the ‘Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ alone. The method was to absolutely never approach her—to shoot her from a distance with ranged weapons. In short, never get close!
Anyone who came near would die. No matter how great a person was in life, no matter how powerful, indestructible, or unparalleled, they could not defend against death that was invisible and unstoppable. Their only fate was death.
Back then, on the battlefield where the breeding gu took effect, soldiers swinging swords and rushing toward Rinne Tenki turned to bones and crumbled to dust the moment they got close. Then, before losing consciousness, Rinne Tenki killed everyone, ending the war.
‘The Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ possessed an overwhelming instant-death judgment. As if to limit its development, it also had the power to revive the near-dead.
In a way, ‘The Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ was a double-edged sword—either kill enemies to protect oneself, or revive enemies to harm oneself. That’s as simple as it got. Fortunately, the chance to kill enemies was three out of four, which seemed fairly safe.
However, the probability value of the ‘Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ was never to be trusted.
Rinne Tenki called it the “most intuitive killer’s ability” because, until now, it had never once revived an enemy.
The chance that ‘The Scales of Burial and Resurrection’ would bury the enemy was one hundred percent—without any redemption.