Vol.3 Ch.144: Showdown with Ren 3

Showdown with Ren 3: This is the hundred and forty-fourth chapter of Volume 3 of Tower of God. It continues the fight between Ren and Baam, with Ren unveiling his secret ability.

Synopsis
After the reveal of the male side of Lo Po Bia Ren, Twenty-Fifth Baam compliments him on his looks, which Ren responds with saying he prefer look more monstrous. Ren proceeds to attack Baam with a caterpillar-like leech that wraps tightly around the left arm of Baam and uses the connection to strike Baam into the ground. Ren is surprised that Baam is able to maintain his Shinsu Orb throughout the attack, as most people when attacked will lose their concentration and advanced techniques as Orbs will dissipate. Baam attacks Ren several times while being flailed around by him, but Ren blocks by sacrificing his Shinheuh. Baam pulls himself closer to Ren using the leech and attack him, but Ren just dodges his attacks. Due to the presence to The Serpent Master Baam feels the need to finish the fight quickly and uses a large Shinsu attack, which activates Ren's ability Mouth of Despair. This ability causes Baam's left arm to blow up and a small human to appear at the end of the leech, which Ren calls Ling.

Ling seems to recognize Baam, calling him the Slayer Candidate and saying she did not expect to see him so soon. Baam appears to have completely lost his left arm, but does not feel any pain and it feels like his arm is still there. The unusual situation makes Baam question what Ren did to him, which Ren is happy to do. Ren's shinhue is a special kind of leech that can be used to paralyze and take over their senses and is only available to the Lo Po Bia Family. The leech lives inside of Ren, who is its host and master, and is able to create a clone of Ren. Due to leeches being hermaphrodites and Ren being united with the leech since before he was born, he was born with characteristics of a hermaphrodite. Ren has one personality shared between two bodies, one male and one female, with them being connected by the leech and both being referred to by most as Ren. However, Ren himself refer to the male side as Ren and the female side as Ling. Usually only one side is present at any given time, but when one side suffers enough damage they switch bodies and the other side will find someone to absorb flesh and shinsu from in order to restore the other body. This is the process that is currently happening with Ling using only Baam's left arm at the moment, but will be fully restored when the whole of Baam is consumed. Ren laughs maniacally, while Baam calmly says "So the only way you can fight is with dirty tricks, huh?".

Lo Po Bia Lilial Zahard is seen walking away from the body of Lo Po Bia Keoyeop together with the serpent master, claiming that with the help of the serpent master she can kill anyone.