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“Ugh!”
“Cho Hyung!”
Screaming sounds keep coming from behind.
It is clear that the students will not be the only ones dying.
Even so, the fact that I can’t hear the screams of those demon bastards feels like a huge pressure. ‘Hongmadae!’ Damn it.
The Jeogeummarangdan was already extremely dangerous enough, but to think they would come all the way to the Hongmadae.
Even if I wanted to feel frustrated, I don’t have the luxury to do so.
Because we can’t be sure that Hongma-dae is the end.
“If I asked you guys like a man if this is the end, would you answer honestly?” “Surely not.” He grips his limp Red Light Sword again and moves forward.
Because he is not the meat shield of the past, who was only focused on dodging and blocking swords.
Chaechaechaechang!
He simply dodges the swords and blades rushing in front of him and thrusts his sword into the opponent’s vital points.
Rustle, rustle, rustle.
I move forward, passing by those who fall like scarecrows with their pillars cut off.
The sight of moving forward is distinctly different from the sight of retreating.
Unlike the past, when I trembled all over and even forgot my anger despite countless colleagues standing before me.
Even though countless demons oozing killing intent and demonic energy are rushing in, the rage does not subside due to despair.
No, even greater anger bursts out of my grasp.
Pow pow pow!
Cut and cut again, and move forward.
With the belief that every step forward saves one more life, I move forward again and again.
Swish, swish.
Wounds appear all over the body.
The shaman’s uniform has long since turned into rags.
You cannot fight as nobly as you did in a duel in a mess like this.
It has been a long time since I gave up on dodging all of the opponent’s attacks as well.
He simply avoids vital points and deflects attacks that would lead to his death.
Nevertheless, after being struck by that utterly unpleasant demonic energy, I felt as if my internal organs were twisting.
With an unbearable cough, he gushes out a gush of blood.
“Jin Danju! Are you alright!”
A corner of five or six steps away is startled.
His shiny scalp was suddenly covered in blood.
Mind your own business.
“It is fortunate that the internal injuries are not deep. To think that it wasn’t a fatal wound even after being struck by a red spear.” It was an opportunity to clearly reaffirm that I am a different person from the past.
So I guess I should reciprocate.
Woong… … .
He unleashes the Twin Heaven Sword Technique with a sword energy extended about one length.
Pow pow! Pow pow! Pow pow!
Real swords mixed with illusionary swords devastate the surroundings, scattering the limbs of the demons in all directions.
It’s nice that they’re swarming in. It’s convenient because I don’t have to specifically single out anyone.
Nevertheless, the behavior of those who fill the empty spaces again brings an indescribable sense of powerlessness.
Yeah, they’ll keep going until we give up.
The moment your spirit is broken, your strength is broken too.
And they are the ones who know that better than anyone and use it well.
“Let’s see who gives up first.”
Rumble rumble.
Thunder and lightning shake in my hand.
Sensing something strange, the demons of the Hongma-dae hurriedly back away.
I ran forward one step, then another, and unleashed the Gwangcheon Divine Palm on them.
Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa bang!
Part of the forest bursts out, and a gaping hole appears once again.
Destructive power strong enough to make even the caster sick of it.
At this level, even the bravest warriors would find it difficult to easily obey orders…
“……
You damn Mine bastards.
However, as if castrated, it rushes in to fill the hole once again.
Actions showing not the slightest hesitation or fear.
No, going even further, the students at the academy are actually intimidated by the sight of them actively plugging the holes and rushing in.
That damn persistence brought down the Murim Alliance in a previous life.
Knowing that well, I grit my teeth.
“Well… I suppose you’re just dogs. You wouldn’t have any emotions.”
I immediately fixed the Red Light Sword.
And he assumed the stance of drawing his sword.
Baekwoljecheonsamsikje Il-sik.
Extremely fast
Although neither swordsmanship nor sword energy is used, internal energy is consumed to the extent comparable to that of the Light Heaven Divine Palm.
At that moment.
The sight of the demons, who had been charging in greedily, wavers slightly for a moment.
Along with the distortion of space, the sound of piercing is heard belatedly.
ping.
Just like an overflowing reservoir collapsing all at once.
Shhhhhhh!
The rushing demons rolled on the floor, spewing blood in unison.
“Gasp, gasp, gasp.”
No matter how hard I try to suppress it, I am out of breath.
After all that training, to think it’s only this good.
Master Baek Haegwang, are you really a human being?
Tatatatatatak.
And those Mine bastards seem tireless, charging in once again without hesitation. ‘Crazy bastards.’ But I’m not exactly sane either, you know.
It is time to put to use what I learned from Master Baek Haegwang, even while fainting throughout the break.
Baekwoljecheonsamsikje 2sikgeukgang
The official defensive formation of Baekwoljecheonsamsik.
The sword is swung at a speed comparable to extreme speed.
The afterimage of the sword energy remains in the air and begins to densely block all eight directions.
Chaechachachachachang.
The demons surrounding him on all sides swing their swords desperately to break through the sword barrier, but fortunately, it remains unbroken. ‘Master Baek is a real lunatic.’ Gritting his teeth, he executes the technique he had been performing in the exact opposite way.
Due to the intense flow of energy, the delicate blood vessels expand as if they are about to burst.
Sword energies, directed in the exact opposite direction to the energy released so far, begin pouring out at insane speeds and collide with the existing barrier, resulting in an explosion.
A defensive technique that utilizes the explosion of sword energy generated when sword energy collides.
But can this even be called a defensive move in the first place?
Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa bang.
The ultimate sword energy devours everything in the area except the caster and crushes everything.
Not only sturdy weapons, but also the fragile body.
If the sword energy emitted by the demons gets caught in the explosion as well.
Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa.
The storm of sword energy spreads out in all directions, growing larger.
Broken weapons and a storm of exploding sword energy.
Cucucucuc.
It caused the damage to spread even to the mines standing behind.
The mines that rushed in like arrows turn into a handful of flesh.
“Burp……Burp…….”
My lower abdomen is being pulled like crazy.
Just like after using muscles you haven’t used in a while at full power.
The Eight Extraordinary Meridians and Acupoints pull so hard that they feel like they are tearing the whole body apart, as if it were overloaded.
“Ugh.”
What on earth was Master Baek Haegwang thinking when he created such a sword technique?
It was only after gushing out blood once more that the inside calmed down a little.
I barely managed to hold onto my sanity and looked up at my surroundings.
“Damn it, does the Demonic Cult not have a word for ‘moderation’?”
Even though dozens of demons were reduced to a pulp and scattered all around, the demons continued to rush forward with emotionless movements.
Just how many more do I have to kill to move forward?
Just how many more do I have to kill?
Trembling
I gripped the Red Light Sword, staring directly at the charging demon, but I couldn’t put any real strength into it. ‘At least with my foot…’ To die like this after slaying so many enemies.
Even in death, it is so absurd and unfair that even the Grim Reaper cannot follow me.
I strained desperately to barely get my body to move, but the circulation of my energy was not smooth. ‘Move! Move…!!’ My dantian, which had been calming down, forcibly began to tremble again, and the flow of my energy continued.
The moment he was about to extend his sword again.
“Aaaargh!”
A scream came from right beside me. Startled, I turned around to see
“Ugh…….”
Second Daewon Geum Tae-jong took the sword blow in my place.
I desperately fired the Socheon Sword Technique, piercing the demon’s neck, and grabbed Geum Taejong as he was about to collapse to the ground.
“Cough…….”
Blood is flowing endlessly from the mouth, indicating the severity of the condition.
“What are you doing!”
“I told you a commander isn’t supposed to step forward…….”
“Just hang in there a little longer, just hold on a little longer…!”
Blood is gushing out from the gaping wound, and even the white bone is visible.
Before I could even do anything, Geum Taejong looked at his wound, spat out the blood, and grinned.
I’ll just take a short break. I can’t get too exhausted if I want to drink.
Before I could say anything, Geum Tae-jong pushed me away and collapsed to the floor.
why?
Why?
Why did you throw yourself because of me?
If I had just stayed still, I would have survived… …
I never received an order to protect me.
The demons attacking again before there is even time to find the answer to the question.
Chaechachechachang.
The Red Light Sword swings powerlessly, just like Jin So-woon in his previous life.
A complicated mind and an even more complicatedly tangled interior.
“No matter how hard I try, I cannot move. Am I going to die here? At the hands of those demons?” If so, I move, even if I have to force myself.
Bang.
As I bite my tongue, a fishy taste hits me hard, and the nerves in my body, which were falling asleep, tingle as I wake up.
The power that was draining away swirls in my hand once again, and my hazy mind returns to clarity.
Danjuga … …
do!”
“Protect Danju!
Following Lord Danju…
Run!
Amidst the chaotic battlefield, the voices of someone shouting and another answering can be heard here and there.
But I didn’t care.
No, I decided not to care.
Why we must move forward.
Why I am trying to save it.
Why I have to live.
I decided not to think about the reason or anything.
The moment I hesitate, a student dies.
A being carefully raised by each sect.
These people, who are someone’s children, someone’s brothers, and someone’s siblings, die.
So, move forward.
It keeps moving forward without resting for even a moment.
Because time to think about the reason is a luxury.
“J-Jin Danju!”
Ilgak, who had been running like crazy beside me, turns pale.
Even though you have never once shown any signs of fear until now.
Wiping away the blood obscuring my vision, I lift my head and see densely packed torches.
After killing so many people, to think it’s still at this level.
What on earth is so special about this forest that they are going to such lengths?
Or was this prepared to exterminate the academy students from the very beginning?
“Yeah… I knew it would be like this soon.”
Now that you’ve gone this far, it’s time to reveal yourself.
We also gnawed away at the mines enough to inflict damage.
They probably don’t intend to keep waging wheel warfare forever, either.
“jin……
Almsgi… … What, what do I do now?
Fallen trees and traces of a burnt forest fill the surroundings.
As if preparing for a final showdown here, they wiped out all the natural fortifications in the area.
They have created a stage where they can fight to their advantage.
“What else can I do? I just have to break through.”
“Piercing……
Are you saying that?
“Anyway, for a final battle like this, shouldn’t at least a captain show up to talk to us!”
I shouted loudly, but no one walked out from among the torches.
“This is the grave of the dormitory students! I am the one responsible for your funerals! Isn’t there anyone who can speak up boldly? Are you all mute?”
Instead of an answer, what was heard was none other than the sound of drawing a weapon.
Srrrrr, srrrrr—as if a performance had begun, the sound of weapons being drawn in unison echoes in all directions.
Only the reflection of the sword blade and Donal in the torchlight showed how many people were positioned in this area.
The greatest despair one can inflict on an opponent who has barely escaped the chaos.
You guys are exactly the same now as you were in the past.
The Demonic Cult’s unique fighting style.
The tactic of driving the opponent into a pit of frustration and despair was their favorite method.
Chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck.
The Minds approaching with long strides, as if in step.
“D-Lord Danju!”
“Alms master. The rascals are coming!”
“A-a charge? A charge?!”
Even the students who had never once backed down flinched.
Just like the Murim Alliance units of the past.
But you see,
But I.
Did you think I would fall for the same trick every time?
It is not the meat shield of the past.
He immediately took out a signal flare from his pocket.
Having packed all the extra flares.
I fired the first signal flare at the guys in the very center.
Ping
– Bang.
A signal flare exploded with dazzling lights, brightly illuminating the entire area.
Countless mines were visible under the light, motionless.
The signal flare was quickly trampled by another mine’s foot, and its light went out.
And then, as the journey continued.
Fluid.
The sound of piercing air passes over my head.
Then, a tremendous explosion erupted from where the signal flare I had thrown had gone off.
Kwak kwak bang.
I fired the second signal flare without delay.
Let the signal flare explode and light up the area.
As if in response, the sound of the explosion from earlier bursts out again.
Kwa kwa kwa bang.
The students were shocked.
“What is this… Wasn’t this supposed to be a signal flare?”
With the third signal flare.
Fluid
– Kwagwagwang.
An arrow falls into the horde of demons.
Then, the demons, pierced all over by exploding arrowheads, fall down one after another, bleeding profusely.
Thunderclap, perfected by Moyong Jaehwa during the winter break.
Although it cannot yet be compared to the Pagung of its previous life, it now possesses destructive power worthy of being called a formidable Thunderclap Arrow.
“W-what is going on, Jin Danju…….”
“Did you forget that Jaehwa single-handedly stopped those Blood Cult bastards in Sichuan?”
Then why until now?
“We can’t use our resources because of that damn natural mineral. We can only utilize this area now because those bastards cleared all the forests.”
“…….”
“Tsk, look how much that fellow has been whining about wanting to join the battle.”
It was a dangerous gamble.
If they had continued to use wheel battles, Jaehwa wouldn’t have been able to use his power in Mukrim in the end.
However, they ultimately did not abandon their habits.
Every time a flare goes off, the number of mine corpses increases.
A target shining in the dark is the best target for an archer.
Moyong Jaehwa fired thunderbolts again and again at the men running to escape the explosion.
As the three thunderbolts flew away, the demons’ movements faltered for the first time.
I kept firing flares without rest.
Jaehwa fired off a series of thunderbolts without a shred of mercy, as if venting his pent-up resentment.
An endless feast of signal flares and thunderbolts adorning the sky.
With a powerful explosion, a scream escaped from among the mines for the first time.
It was a moment of victory achieved after a grueling ordeal, but there were no people cheering at the sight.
He simply gazed at the other person’s death in heavy silence, thinking of someone who had died so easily, just like them now.
Three signal flares were fired out at the same time.
Moyong Jaehwa, hiding on a tree, began to pour out all his internal energy and arrows.
Boom!
Amidst the explosion of arrows raining down like meteors, the demons began to flee in confusion instead of charging.
At the same time, I sensed that the power of Moyong Jaehwa’s Thunderclap Arrow was gradually weakening.
“preparation.”
The fact that he inflicted this much damage with a level of internal energy just over sixty years is enough to put him in an unreasonable situation.
We can no longer rely on the Thunderclap City.
The moment they adapt to the unfamiliar city of Byeongnyeok, they will resume their attacks.
“charge!!!”
That is why it moves.
At least when the confusion among them intensified.
To avoid missing that gap.
Whoosh
– Bang.
A faint sound of something falling from behind was heard.
Moyong Jaehwa must have returned to the unit as well.
He scraped hard in his lower abdomen to draw up his internal energy.
And then he started pouring it on the mines.
Puff puff puff.
As sword energy clashes with sword energy, a storm of energy rages.
The blood, which had been cooling down little by little, boils again, making one breathe heavily.
After advancing step by step, cutting, stabbing, pushing, and breaking like that.
The number of mines began to gradually decrease.
“Aaaargh!”
After pushing and pushing again and again to break through… … .
Eventually, it breaks through.
I raised my head and looked around.
Shhh.
Mine no longer exists.
Those who had chased us all this time, even when we pushed them away and knocked them down, no longer pursued us, as if hidden behind an invisible curtain.
“Haa, haa, haa…….”
Amidst the rough breathing, a piercing cry hangs low.
Whoaah
-Grrr
In the darkness, foul-smelling red eyes are staring at us as if wary of an intruder.
It was a nightmare.
I’ve arrived!!!
“Wowwwwww!”
“Waaahhhh!!!”
Mukrim’s death zone.
Even though they had arrived at a place called the Land of Death, the Sa-Hwal-Dan let out a collective cheer.
