The twenty-four poisons 6
“Are you okay, Hwa-eun?”
“It was just a slight scratch. Don’t worry, I’ll just apply some ointment once the bleeding stops. So-ryong.”
Hwa-eun, who had been wrapping the back of my hand in a cloth, answered my question as if telling me not to worry.
But he grabbed Hwa-eun’s wrist and checked the wound, wondering if it was because he didn’t want to worry her.
“Let me just take a look.”
“Cow, little dragon.”
Hwa-eun is a little embarrassed because she was holding onto Seol’s wrist even though they slept together for several days.
I carefully removed the cloth and examined the wound. As she had said, it was only a slight scratch on the back of my hand.
“Well, I’m glad this is enough.”
“I told you so···.”
As Hwa-eun said, the bleeding had almost stopped, so I smiled awkwardly and checked to see if any of the other kids were hurt.
“Are you guys hurt anywhere?”
-Tsurut!
-Kkuku!
-Kissit!
The guys who answer my questions loudly.
Among our family members, only Hwa-eun was injured, but there were quite a few others injured as well, so Grandpa Man-dok-shin was taking care of the injured.
“Ugh···.”
“Now that the broken arm has been fixed, let’s fix it with wood.”
“I’m sorry. I made you look so ugly.”
“I’m sorry, but I couldn’t avoid the attack, and who knew the stone would bounce like that? Take care of yourself.”
“thank you.”
One of the Tang family’s warriors broke his arm after being hit by a large, bouncing rock, and one of the Beast Palace’s warriors suffered a fairly deep wound to his leg, completely putting him out of action.
As I turned my head at the sound of my grandfather’s voice, I saw wounded people with big and small injuries tending to each other’s wounds.
And Seol Nui, who had been checking the situation of the Beast Palace warriors, came towards us and spoke with an expression of disbelief.
“I didn’t know you were that strong…. They said you were the strongest of the twenty-four in the Tang family, was that why? Is Yong and Hwa-eun okay?”
“Yes, Sister Seol. It was just a slight brush.”
Our first try with the scorpion was when he jumped into the water to attack Hwari.
Although it is a long valley, there are only about three points deep enough for Hwari to live there.
I sat down in one of them and waited for the guy to appear.
The gist of the plan is to make a net out of jungle vines and fairy threads to trap the creature in the water, then weaken its strength and capture it.
The vines were meant to stop him for a moment, as I knew they would tear, but the real thing was a net made of fairy thread.
But I never imagined that the guy would fly up with the net weighted down with rocks over his head.
Normally, I thought that all creatures couldn’t fly when covered in a net, but this guy’s flight mechanism felt different.
It was almost like a superpower.
“Wow! You can fly like this!”
“I knew it would fly!”
And I thought it was going to run away because it was just going up into the sky with the net over its head, but it just crashed down on the ground.
-bang!
Suddenly, a guy flying high in the sky approached, and everyone was startled and dodged, but the problem was that the guy’s huge body, which was over six meters tall, was stuck in the ground, and stone fragments were flying in all directions.
The guy’s charge was fast enough that I could dodge it, but the rocks flying in all directions were a different story.
Even for the Tang Dynasty warriors who were accustomed to rapid memorization, the stone fragments bouncing back as they broke were at a speed they had never experienced before.
That’s why, after the guy’s three consecutive clashes, my grandfather quickly retreated the main force.
“Everyone step back!”
From the third time onwards, everyone was able to avoid the rocks flying around since they were all just one person, but it seemed like the formation had already been broken up in the two previous clashes and there were many injured people, so it seemed like they wouldn’t be able to catch the guy in this condition.
If it was to catch and kill the guy, no, if it was to take some damage, then it might not be impossible to catch him since Grandpa Mandokshingun was there.
But if you get hurt while catching the guy, then it’s putting the cart before the horse.
Poison is somehow helpful to the Tang family, but I can’t afford to lose the Tang family’s precious warriors in the process of catching poison for my hobby.
After a while, when we finished treating the injured person, the old man came towards us.
My grandfather spoke in a reflective voice.
“I think we let our guard down and were unprepared after seeing what he did over the past few days. Thinking back to the time of Qingbanwu Gong, even the lower tiers were strong, so of course we had to be careful when we were at the top of the upper tier.”
A head that naturally nods to grandfather’s words.
As I made a face that seemed to agree with my grandfather’s words, a question was directed at me.
“By the way, what should we do now? Does Soryong have any good ideas?”
Perhaps you need my opinion as an expert after your first failed attempt.
But what was needed now was not the appearance of a poison expert.
The guy is completely different from any creature I’ve ever known.
The professional knowledge I have is not working for him.
So something different was needed.
“Let me think about it for a moment.”
‘Are you saying that I have to think beyond the common sense I have had so far?’
Flying through the sky, crashing down like a missile, throwing debris around, these are not things that the creatures I knew from my previous life could do, so now is the time for something different.
“hmm···.”
It was when I was lost in thought for a moment after hearing my grandfather’s question.
A thought that stopped at one point while continuing to worry.
‘I have to catch an unknown creature that I’ve never caught before… The known pattern is that it floats in the air and crashes down… Huh? A pattern? Oh! Right! Now that I think about it, it feels like I’m doing a new boss raid in the game?’
After thinking about it carefully, it occurred to me that what we were doing was probably raiding a new boss that had appeared in the game, and if this was a boss raid, there was only one thing we had to do.
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I quickly snapped out of my thoughts and spoke to my grandfather.
“I think we need to analyze this guy more closely.”
“Analysis? Divide and divide? What does that mean?”
I feel like it needs to be explained because it’s a word that isn’t used in this day and age.
“You should check how the four guys act during a fight, how their attacks work, and things like that. If you know the principles and the way they act, you’ll be able to deal with them.”
“Hmm. Know your enemy and know yourself. Is that something like that?”
“That’s true, but for example, didn’t the guy fly off today with the net wrapped around his body?”
“yes?”
“I analyze things like how that happens. I figure out if there are any habits the guy has when he attacks. I figure out what the order is and how to avoid it.”
“It’s similar to the mindset you should have in a fight where your life is at stake.”
“Yes, so what I’m saying is, let’s get to know him better, starting with this and that.”
What we need now is pattern analysis.
It was when the idea of the Heavenly God being the game boss was suggested that we analyze the raid pattern.
The grandfather speaks as if he knows why the guy is flying.
“Ah, if it’s something that flies, then there’s something suspicious about it.”
“Doubt? What is that, Grandpa?”
Hwa-eun quickly asks back when she hears that there is something suspicious.
In response to Hwa-eun’s question, her grandfather spoke with a puzzled expression.
“I wonder if it’s a case of the King’s spirit being shaken….”
“What are you talking about?”
“Sir, are you talking about the Eogichungso?!”
“Hey, what’s up!”
“What the hell!”
People are shocked when they hear the words “aegichungso” coming out of their grandfather’s mouth.
Grandfather nodded his head in response to their reaction.
“I can definitely feel the flow of energy around him as he flew up. Also, that’s all there is to explain why he just floated up without doing any movement.
“Because if it weren’t for that, it would be something that can’t be explained.”
When he looked at Hwa-eun as if asking for an answer, asking what was so surprising about the sudden change in behavior, Hwa-eun nodded.
Hwa-eun explained to me about the Eogi Chungso.
“Eogi-Chung-So is one of the light-hearted techniques, no, I guess you could call it light-hearted. Usually, when you perform light-hearted techniques, you usually activate your muscles and legs the moment your feet touch the ground, and jump forward and upward, right?”
“Right?”
The lightness exercise I learned was certainly as Hwa-eun said.
It’s like playing a rhythm game, giving impact to your internal energy to the beat.
“However, the Aegichungso uses the internal energy of the entire body to lift the body up using only the internal energy. To put it simply, it’s like grabbing the collar of your own body and lifting it up using only the internal energy.”
“What kind of nonsense is that···.”
“So, if you don’t have tremendous internal energy, you will never be able to use it.”
Hwa-eun’s words are an explanation of how she can visualize her own internal energy while standing still, and then use that internal energy to grab her own collar and lift her up to the sky.
Even I, a young child with no military experience, could tell how great it was, so I asked in a surprised voice.
“So you’re saying that guy has incredible internal energy?”
At my question, Grandfather Mandokshin, Sister Seol, and Hwaeun all shook their heads and answered at the same time.
“No. It’s not internal energy, it’s internal energy, and it’s a dragon.”
“It might not be internal energy, but internal stamina.”
“There will be an internal strife. Dragon.”
“My name?”
If it’s Naedan, it’s a type of elixir that is full of energy that was in the body of Qingbanwugong’s mother and that made Hwaeun eat it and improve his martial arts skills by leaps and bounds.
‘Hwaeun, who ate the lower level, surpassed the realm in one go, so if she eats that higher level Naedan···.’
At the word Naedan, everyone’s eyes turned towards the valley they had retreated to earlier, and people’s voices continued.
“Hmm… I guess there’s now one more reason why I have to grab this?”
“Little Dragon, you have to catch that no matter what.”
I could understand why people were so excited about the word ‘internal energy’, but why would they go to the trouble of cutting open the stomach of a precious person when they could just build up their internal energy?
‘That’s not right, it’s a shame.’
However, if it is absolutely not possible, it will be difficult to persuade people.
He spoke in a cautious voice, as if he was about to tell the guy to catch and kill him right away.
“Still, we have to catch that guy alive.”
“Why, Ryong-ah?”
“Why, Little Dragon?”
“There’s not much known about the spirits, right? If we want to find out how they create internal strife and such, we absolutely have to keep them alive. Do you know? Is there a way to remove the internal strife while alive, and is there a way to remove it as soon as it’s created?”
A mention of what might be the goose that lays the golden eggs.
My grandfather nodded at my words and said.
“So, Little Dragon, what should we do now?”
The story got wind of the internal conflict, but we had only one thing to do to analyze the pattern.
‘When taking on a new boss, there’s always one raid formula: headbutting.’
“We need to keep trying to attack the guy to see all his habits and attack patterns.”
There was nothing special.
The original boss that appears first is the one that will hit your head until you figure out the pattern.
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Our 21st Heavenly Shrine Tri.
‘Check the collision pattern.’
“Avoid!”
-Shaaaaah!
-Bang!
Gravel flew everywhere as the guy landed on the rocky ground, emitting a warning sound.
As people quickly moved away from the flying rocks before the collision, the guy shook his head and tried to rise into the air again.
I couldn’t let it just float away, so I immediately shouted at the old master.
“The old master!”
As promised, the old man rushes to the guy as he shouts down from the rock.
As the old master came into range, the guy didn’t even try to come up and immediately flew away.
-Whoaaah
The guy’s body shot up like a spring and narrowly missed the body of the old guard.
‘Is this the start of the tightening pattern?’
“Get out!”
I held the guy back once to prevent him from rising, but this was crucial. If I didn’t dodge quickly, he would flip his body around and wrap himself around the person he passed by.
What I found out after 20 tries was that it was not a venomous snake, but a python.
It is a type of snake that kills its opponent by constricting it with its body rather than biting it when attacking.
That’s why the moment when the guy brushed past was the moment when I had to be most careful.
At first, I didn’t know that, so I almost got crushed by the old guard.
“Poisonous Blood Lord!”
“yes!”
The old master quickly flew out and escaped, and the person I gave the signal to was the poisonous master.
As the guy’s head chased the old lord, the poisonous lord quickly approached the guy and kicked him from behind.
-Pfft!
-Shaaaaah!
Then, the guy who immediately reverses his body.
The guy’s gaze shifted from the old master to the poisonous master.
Next up is aggro ping pong, with Grandfather, Hwa-eun, and Seol going in that order.
As the raid leader, I was up on a high rock, coordinating this raid.
I may seem like a timid person, but there was a reason why I had to be this way.
Because our raid party didn’t have a single tank, healer, buffer, or debuffer.
There were only dealers.
‘Who organized the party?’
A situation where you might end up cursing at the party’s gathering bastards.
But I was the one hosting that party, and it was my responsibility.
‘The party is not going well.’
The Poison Blood Lords, including Grandfather Mandokshin-gun, Hwa-eun, and Gu-pae Lord, were a type of thief-type dealers with poison damage, and Seol’s sister and the two Lord-level warriors of the Beast Palace were hunter-type dealers who dealt damage like beasts.
A party consisting only of thieves and melee hunters?
A crazy, deathly, icy raid where you have to trade extreme aggro ping-pong between paper dealers even though you are a party of 8.
That was the raid and pattern analysis of the Heavenly Lord.
