< Episode 112: Situation (4) >
“Total military force! Total military force!”
Jeongjeongmaeng’s guest house.
Zhuge Daoyang, the first military officer in charge of the Military and Intelligence Department of the Justice League, opened his eyes and came to his senses.
When he opened his eyes, what he saw was Jeong Hyeon-moon, the leader of the Justice Alliance, covered in wounds who was trying to stop the bleeding from his severed leg.
“Hawk, leader…”
“Are you okay? Are you out of your mind?”
“It’s okay… it’s okay. How… How could it be… Wow.”
Zhuge Taoyang massaged the back of his aching head.
His head must have been broken, and he was feeling blood on his hands.
As he was touching it, Zhuge Daoyang remembered what had happened.
-Wow!
[Vice-lord? What is this?]
[well. What is he doing?]
It was a VIP house that served envoys from the royal palace.
The moment the door closed, the vice-leader, Manji District Prosecutor Su-hyeon, suddenly cut off the envoy’s head.
Then, not only did he overpower the man who was right next to him with overwhelming inaction in an instant, he cut off his legs and struck him in the back of the head.
Thanks to that, he was losing his mind.
After recalling the memory, Zhuge Daoyang spoke in an exasperated voice.
“Vice leader! “The vice-lord sent the envoy…”
“Take it easy. I tried to hurry as much as possible, but it took time to subdue him and I lost a lot of blood. “I need to do some luck now.”
Hearing these words from leader Jeong Hyeon-mun, Zhuge Daoyang also realized that his condition was not that good.
The bleeding must have been so severe that I felt dizzy and had a hard time breathing.
However, right now, the situation where his vice-lord suddenly killed the Shinigami was bigger than his own condition.
“Lord. Now is not the time to worry about me. The vice-lord…”
“I know. “After moving you to a safe place, we will go straight to the conference hall.”
“You can call someone and do it. This situation could not have been better…”
“It could cause a conflict between the imperial palace and the main alliance. “It seems that the vice-lord, or rather, Sang-wi-hyeon, was aiming for that.”
The leader, Jeong Hyeon-moon, also seemed to have predicted this to some extent.
At this, Zhuge Daoyang spoke with a serious look on his face.
“How on earth could a vice-lord do something like this?”
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.
Vice leader Gwawi-hyeon was a thief and hero who had run the Justice Alliance for a long time.
It was difficult for Zhuge Daoyang to understand that he, and not someone else, had done this.
Then, leader Jeong Hyeon-moon showed him something soaked in blood.
“that?”
Zhuge Daoyang’s eyes widened.
As expected, it was a wooden tablet used by members of the Heaven and Earth Association.
This card was made to be easily broken so that it could be destroyed at any time. I learned about it while capturing Cheonjihoe members who had infiltrated the Justice League.
“······Before Wi Tak-hyeon died, he put this in his mouth, chewed it, and tried to swallow it.”
“If you do this, the vice-majority will…”
“It seems like it had something to do with the Cheonjihoe.”
“ha······. How could this happen… “The vice-lord is a member of the Heaven and Earth Council…”
“We will have to investigate further, but for now, it is very likely that the vice-lord was instigated by the Heaven and Earth Council.”
Zhuge Daoyang’s complexion darkened at the words of Lord Zheng Xuanwen.
Even among the high-ranking officials of the Meng, there have occasionally been cases of people who were connected to the Cheonjihoe, but this was very shocking.
The fact that the vice-leader of the Justice Alliance was none other than the Ganja of the Heaven and Earth Association…
‘for a moment.’
Zhuge Daoyang, who was unable to understand it, suddenly remembered that his vice-leader, Wei Wei-Hyeon, had been particularly opposed to clashing with the Heaven and Earth Association every time a point of contact arose.
It was he who took a hard line against the Four Leagues Alliance and took the lead in making peace with the Cheonjihoe.
At the time, it was thought that it was simply because the vice leader, Suyanghyeon, lost his bloodline in the war with the Four Alliance Alliance and had a greater resentment towards them.
By highlighting this, it became difficult to assert that he was not closely related to the Cheonjihoe.
To this, Zhuge Daoyang spoke.
“Lord. “Even if we’re not sure, if we have physical evidence, there’s nothing we can do for now.”
“You’re saying there’s nothing you can do?”
“······It is not a situation where we can determine for sure whether or not the Vice Lord has contact with the Cheonjihoe.”
“What does that mean?”
“The way to avoid conflict with the imperial palace right now is to send the vice-lord’s supply and demand and his cards to the imperial palace and prove that this situation was caused by a rift between the members of the Cheonjihoe.”
“······Rather than reveal the truth, are you trying to put out a fire with a dead vice-leader?”
“That is not enough. The imperial family will not relent from this alone. At the very least, if we want to express our sincerity, we must be prepared to clash with the Heaven and Earth Association.”
“With the Heaven and Earth Association?”
“yes.”
“However, if we collide with the Cheonjihoe now, it won’t end as a small conflict.”
The leader, Jeong Hyeon-moon, was worried.
If they clashed with someone else under the pretext of trying to cause a war with the imperial palace by planting the vice-lord as Ganja, war was inevitable.
In response to his concerns, Zhuge Taoyang, the commander-in-chief, shook his head and said as if there was nothing he could do.
“Conflicting with the imperial palace negates everything that Meng has built up to this point, including the friendly peace with the government officials.”
“······ Are you saying that’s the only way to stop this? “If we clash with the Cheonjihoe, the Four Leagues may also move and it could turn into a civil war.”
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“The only way is to first persuade the imperial palace with the body of the vice-lord. “If that doesn’t relieve your anger, you have no choice.”
Hearing his words, leader Jeong Hyeon-moon closed his eyes and let out a groan.
In the end, it was time to choose between the imperial palace or the Heaven and Earth Association.
How did things come to this?
He was silent for a moment, lost in thought, then opened his eyes and stood up.
“I understand. You are right. If the imperial palace and the main alliance collide, the ones who will benefit the most will be the groups outside Sima Ma, such as the Heavenly Earth Association and the Four Leagues Alliance. “It has to be stopped.”
“you’re right. What they are aiming for is the profits of fishermen. That’s the only thing that needs to be stopped. Lord, hurry up.”
“First of all, you…”
“Please call someone. “I will take care of this place, so the leader must hold a meeting as soon as possible to resolve the situation.”
“Are you sure you’ll be okay?”
“it’s okay. Please go quickly.”
“······I understand. “If you do that, I’ll send someone, so you have your luck.”
“All right.”
Just like that, leader Jeong Hyeon-moon stopped as he was about to leave the VIP hall.
Then he pulled out a sword with a colorful pattern engraved on the floor.
“that?”
“It’s a ghost sword, Hojak sword. “Now it is a sword that has lost its owner.”
“Ahhh.”
Zhuge Daoyang sighed as if he was sorry.
Meanwhile, Lord Jeong Hyeon-moon said as he put the Hojak sword into its scabbard.
“I need to retrieve this sword first. “If I just leave it here, it will cause trouble.”
“That’s right. But… Are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“······Sword.”
Jegal Doyang was suddenly surprised to see the leader Jeong Hyeon-mun casually holding the magic sword.
It was a magical sword that would cost a great price if it was held by someone other than its owner.
Then leader Jeong Hyeon-moon shrugged his shoulders and answered.
“I am suppressing my sword spirit with true energy. “Don’t worry.”
At these words, Zhuge Daoyang nodded, thinking he would do so.
An ordinary swordsman might not know it, but leader Jeong Hyeon-moon was a member of the Seven Heavens, the pinnacle of the current martial arts world, and an unrivaled master called the Great Master.
I thought that his deep true energy would be able to suppress even the magical sword.
“Then I’ll hurry and go.”
“That’s right.”
Just like that, leader Jeong Hyeon-moon left the VIP hall.
When he left, Commander Zhuge Daoyang tried to correct his posture in order to pray for fortune.
Before his eyes, he saw the body of his vice-majority chief, Manji District Prosecutor Sowi-hyeon, who had passed away.
His body was also covered in blood, as if he had fought fiercely.
His jaw was pulled out, and one of his eyes was missing, probably because the leader stole the tile he was trying to chew and swallow.
‘Did you gouge out your eyes?’
Zhuge Daoyang frowned.
The leader, Jeong Hyeon-moon, was a person who advocated integrity to the extent that he was called a righteous swordsman.
He, who never crosses the line even to his enemies and has never shown excessive handholding, even gouged out the eyeballs of a colleague who shared righteousness with him not long ago.
Are you that angry because of the sense of betrayal?
For something like that… There’s something about his hands that isn’t like him.
* * *
A cliff with no end in sight, as if looking down into a distant abyss.
There was a large, middle-aged man lying comfortably on top of the cliff, his head supported by one arm.
Although he was covered with clothes, the middle-aged man’s entire body was full of muscle.
A middle-aged man who was trying to sleep with his eyes closed opened his eyes due to a faint tremor.
-Sigh!
The middle-aged man opened his eyes and slowly moved his head to look at the bottom of the cliff.
A cliff filled with only darkness.
A blue light flickered in a place where nothing was visible.
OK,
-Kurrr!
At that moment, the cliff he was lying on began to shake as if there had been an earthquake.
Because the ground was shaking, he might have woken up anxious, but the man just stared at the cliff without moving a single inch.
But from within that cliff, a blue light radiated even stronger.
That moment,
-Kurrrrrrr!
The ground began to shake in a way that was incomparable to the tremor just moments ago.
In response, the middle-aged man, who had been looking down motionlessly, pushed off the floor with one hand and stood up, then quickly took steps and approached the place where something was piled up on one side.
There were about twenty sharp wooden pillars piled up, and each one had something like a scripture engraved in red letters.
-widely!
A middle-aged man placed his hand on one of those wooden pillars.
Since the tree was literally a log, it seemed difficult to lift even with four or five adults.
-Useojeok!
The middle-aged man’s fingers distorted the wooden pole, then lifted it up.
It was an incredibly amazing sight.
The middle-aged man, holding on to a wooden pole, soon walked up the trembling cliff and looked down.
Then,
“Whoa.”
As he took a deep breath, the middle-aged man’s body immediately turned red, and soon something like steam began to rise from his entire body.
The middle-aged man exhaled and inhaled again, and this time his skin turned from red to black.
Then the middle-aged man said,
-Paaaaaaaaa!
A wooden pillar with a red scripture engraved on it was thrown down the cliff.
The moment the man threw it, strong waves arose wherever the wooden pillar passed, as if it were penetrating layers of air.
-phut! phut! phut!
The middle-aged man looked at the wooden pillars that were gradually becoming dots.
Eventually, the wooden pillar became invisible to the eye.
That moment,
-Quaaaaaaaaa!
A red flash spread out from below along with a roar.
with him,
-Kwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
Tremendous wind pressure surged upward, and an ear-piercing roar was heard from below the cliff.
The eyes of the middle-aged man looking at this narrowed and his gaze became sharper.
‘You’re getting stronger.’
It was becoming increasingly difficult to suppress.
There were not many left of the blue tree with the red scripture engraved on it, but the power of that trapped being was growing stronger.
I thought about waking up once in a decade, but this is already the second time in a month.
The cycle is getting faster.
‘Is it since then?’
The middle-aged man thought of the ominous three-eyed man who was the first person other than his family to break into this place.
This has been happening since he came here.
It wasn’t a very good thing.
Maybe it could lead to the worst situation.
Then I heard someone running in a hurry.
He was a young man as big as a middle-aged man, and he was none other than the monster Yu Mu-jin, who competed with Mok Gyeong-un in Sacheondanga.
“father!”
Seeing him like that, the middle-aged man called father, or rather Yu Mu-jeok, frowned and said.
“Didn’t I tell you to be quiet until I completely dispel that strange energy in your heart?”
“But right now, at the entrance of the valley…”
“Why are you doing that?”
“I think you should go.”
Accordingly, Yu Mu-jeok and his son Yu Mu-jin ran towards the entrance of the valley.
As Yu Mu-jeok arrived at the entrance, his expression hardened.
That’s right, at the entrance to the valley, which couldn’t be entered due to the encampment law, there were so many strange beings that it was hard to count them, or rather, monsters and demons, who were encamped there.
At this, Yu Mujin spoke in a serious voice.
“What the hell is going on?”
A phenomenon that had never happened since their family protected this place was happening.
< Episode 112 Situation (4) > End
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