Dark Curtain Hunt (5)
General Ju Ling was a powerful man who was considered one of the most powerful in Hongsan Province.
The Iron Lady, who rose to the highest position a nobleman could attain at the age of only mid-thirties and has held that position for over twenty years.
The only value she pursued was becoming stronger.
‘This can’t go on like this. There is no development without struggle. In order to become stronger than we are now, we need to be supported by an appropriate environment.’
Thanks to her high level of cultivation, she has the appearance of a well-maintained middle-aged woman even though she is over sixty years old, but her life has been filled with fierce struggles, from the time she started out as a practitioner with nothing to the present.
‘Peace that continues by inertia only limits and dulls human potential. This is proven by the fact that the number of active astrologers during the Hundred Years’ War reached double digits.’
Her eventful life story of rising to the rank of general as a woman was like a heroic tale to the people of Hongsan Kingdom.
It reminds me of the now legendary ‘Brain Emperor’.
···The problem was that her name value was far too low to really compete with that.
‘War. That extreme environment is the best stage for humans to push their potential beyond their limits. Just like Brain Emperor did decades ago.’
The Brain Emperor, who had been active before the Great General was born, was the person she respected the most, but also a mountain she had to overcome.
But the higher the mountain you have to climb, the bigger the shadow it casts. This is the law of nature.
If things continued like this, no matter how much she struggled, she would never be able to escape that shadow.
‘Heroes are born in chaos. The war that is about to break out will surely elevate me to greater heights.’
Brain Emperor was a great man who reached the top of the world in less than fifteen years after entering the chakra.
A warrior among warriors who not only made all the astronomical practitioners active at the time, regardless of whether they were practitioners of Hongsan or Cheonghae, kneel, but also held a demonstration of force in front of the palaces of the two great powers and forced them to sit down at the peace agreement table.
Isn’t there even a record of her having fought and defeated several astronomers on her own?
‘But I have to waste my time on such useless things because of some idiot who can’t even handle a simple task properly. In this busy time…’
General Zhou Ling, who was inspecting the border region of Hongsan Kingdom, let out a deep sigh.
However, it was a task that required concern about external gazes and could not be completely ignored.
Because General Bu-ryeong, who had touched Seongcheon Yun-ga with ‘personal deviation’ and then suffered in return, was practically in a position similar to her right-hand man.
“Oh, everyone is here?”
In the midst of all this, the strange-looking intruder who suddenly appeared couldn’t help but feel very unnatural.
“Hahahaha! Maybe because there are so many people gathered, I found it easier than I thought!”
A giant man with a big smile and a body full of vicious muscles approached me with brisk strides.
With a hearty laugh that matches his appearance, he bursts out in a refreshing way.
“What the heck? You! Do you know who these people are and dare to do so!”
One of the officers who stepped forward frowned and rebuked him.
It was in name only a general’s procession.
Naturally, the level of those who stuck by her side and tried hard to flatter her was by no means ordinary.
The atmosphere created by the numerous generals and their elite units was so oppressive that it was hard to even breathe properly, but the large man who suddenly appeared didn’t care about that at all.
“Hey! How on earth did you control it so that the savages could approach here?”
“I’m sorry. I’ll try to sort this out as quickly as possible.”
“The military discipline is a mess. Why are you acting like this in the presence of the General? When you go back, you’ll all be punished.”
“···I have no face to show.”
One of the generals who had been following her scolded his men.
But even in the midst of all the commotion, General Zhou Ling just looked at the intruder with a strange expression on his face.
‘What is this ominous feeling? I definitely don’t feel any particular chakra···.’
Her intuition, which had been through repeated struggles on the edge of a cliff, was telling her.
That weirdo is something that should never be taken lightly.
And it didn’t take long for her to realize the true nature of that feeling.
“Huh, huh… How can you move so casually…!”
“You punched lightning? What the hell is that monster!”
“Wait a minute, step back and reorganize your position… bang!”
Starting from elemental classes such as fire and ice, to physical powers including swords.
No attack worked on the unidentified man.
No matter what laws stood in his way, he tore the world apart with his body and roared loudly.
“Hahaha—! This is it! It’s refreshing to be running wild after such a long time!”
10 minutes… no, maybe 5 minutes?
It was the time it took for all the officers who had been farting around to fall out and roll around on the floor.
The general, who had been watching the one-sided violence with a frowning face, slowly opened his mouth.
“What are you? Are you from another world?”
There was no other way to explain it.
It wasn’t something just anyone could do to turn an elite unit of deep practitioners into a mere bowl using only pure physical strength without even a chakra.
Furthermore, it would have been impossible to repel the already manifested chakra with one’s bare body without the intervention of another supernatural power.
“Anyway, the fact that you’ve come this far means that there’s something bad going on with me. Even if this looks funny, it seems like you found it really funny.”
A faint smile spread across her lips as she twisted her neck this way and that.
After ascending to the rank of general and becoming the talk of the town, she lived with a suppressed temper, but violence was her preferred means of communication as she enjoyed fighting.
‘How long has it been since I’ve felt this excited?’
I never thought such an enemy would appear before a proper war even began.
Violent chakras rose from her body.
The struggle of astronomy and the violence of the depths.
If he had not held a government post, he would have been branded a demon practitioner and would have had nothing to say about his rough demeanor.
“Okay, then let’s hang out and have fun!”
“Hahaha! I like that grandma, it’s so refreshing!”
“···Sixty is still the prime of life! You bald punk!”
Two people, teeth bared fiercely, rushed at each other.
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and···.
Kwaaaaang—!
That day, a small mountain on the outskirts of Hongsan-guk completely disappeared.
It was a major incident that occurred not long after the Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty was kidnapped.
***
“Huh!”
The commander, who suddenly came to his senses, got up from the leather covering on the floor.
Then, he quickly grasped the situation while holding his dizzy head.
‘···prison?’
A stone wall densely engraved with iron bars and all sorts of unrecognizable patterns on one side.
I could tell just by looking at it.
That it was created to limit the practitioner of astronomy.
She frowned and slowly recalled her previous memories.
It wasn’t that complicated of a problem.
I fought with all my might, but in the end I lost and lost consciousness.
‘···I lost. I, General Chae Mi-hwa, was defeated by a man I have never heard of or seen before. Who on earth is that man?···Could it be that he was instigated by the Cheonghae Kingdom?’
There weren’t many forces with the motivation and ability to do something like this.
Suddenly, the face of her business partner appeared in her mind.
He wasn’t a person I really liked, but I thought that I needed to compromise for a while to achieve my goals.
“Kursi, there’s no way that guy would hit the back of my head like this….”
“You called me? Your Majesty the General.”
She paused as she muttered to herself.
Then he quickly turned his head in the direction where the voice came from and tilted his head with a blank expression.
“···Prime Minister Kursi?”
Looking closely, I saw that there was another old man with a haggard look locked up in the prison across from me.
I thought I was alone because I didn’t feel any movement, but it seems my senses were dulled by the barrier here.
After staring blankly at each other for a while, she opened her mouth first with difficulty.
“···What? Why are you here?”
“Well, maybe it’s for the same reason as you?”
“······.”
“······.”
A suffocating silence continued between them.
When we actually faced each other like this, both sides couldn’t help but feel complicated.
But fortunately, that awkward atmosphere didn’t last long.
Rattling—
With the sound of a heavy iron door opening.
A group of people approached the prison cell where they were being held.
I could see the prime minister of Cheonghae and the general of Hongsan with their eyes wide open and their heads turned in that direction.
A familiar figure confidently walks at the forefront of them.
The entity believed to be the mastermind behind all of this.
“It was you after all, Black King···!”
“Oh, your liver is swollen. You must have gone crazy because you’ve been treated like the king of the underworld while leading the demonic practitioners.”
“Do you think he’ll stay still if you come out like this? You won’t be safe either!”
“I don’t know how they managed to lure those beings out, but….”
As their angry voices erupted one after another, the middle-aged man with the face of a rat, the Black King, stopped walking.
Then he looked at them locked up in prison and raised the corners of his mouth in a bitter manner.
At that moment, he opened his mouth and was about to say something with his cunning tongue.
“Mr. Sook, why don’t you hurry up and get in? You let me walk on my own. Should I carry you myself?”
“Ahem, sorry about that. It’s been a while since I’ve seen some familiar faces. I’ll go right in.”
At the sound of the murderous threat coming from behind, his face instantly changed from mean to cowardly.
Then, as if avoiding a muscular man who had come up behind him, he quickly moved and slipped into an open prison cell.
Clank! Click—
And then he closes the door and locks it himself.
At that sight, the two people who had been pouring out crude criticisms toward the Black King quietly shut their mouths.
“······.”
“······.”
If I say anything here, it’ll just make me feel more embarrassed.
Just when that uncomfortable air was starting to settle in.
“Hoohoohoo – Alright, I finally got everything together. Then shall we get started?”
In contrast to the rough voice of the man, a sweet and beautiful woman’s voice resonated softly inside the prison.
A selfish appearance that shines as if it were lit by a filter alone in this dark and gloomy prison far from the good scenery.
“The last remaining black curtain hunt.”
A representative of the magic practitioners, one of the two people who captured the Black King.
Hela looked around at the baits trapped in us with a bright smile.
***
Even though Hela alone would have been enough, the fact that Harley was added as an additional force was an expression of the will to finish this matter quickly.
No matter how great the Demon King’s powers were, the physical limitations of having only one body were unavoidable.
‘If those who sense something start making different moves for no reason, you never know how things will turn out.’
The kidnapping of the Prime Minister of Cheonghae was not news that could be hidden from the beginning.
The same goes for the case of General Hongsan, who even blew up a mountain.
In the end, it was best to rush everything at once before it became public knowledge.
The intention has been progressing smoothly so far.
“Hmm, you mean the chakra of delusion?”
“That’s what has been revealed. The power is put into a specific object and spread to the people who are assigned to the mission, but it’s so secret that you can’t even sense it at a deep level. You gradually fall into the mind without even knowing it.”
Hela made a subtle expression as she watched the Black King eagerly revealing information about ‘him’ in front of her.
He, whose words and actions were not befitting of an astronomer, was a person who immediately sensed the difference in power when she first came to see him and chose to surrender unconditionally.
That’s why, unlike others, I was able to come here in good health.
‘I just can’t believe it.’
It was inevitable that I would not trust him because of his frivolous attitude.
Why is that guy called by such a grand nickname as the Black King? Really…
Anyway, what’s important now is that even though we separated the three and cross-validated them, nothing unusual came out.
In the first place, it would have been impossible to lie during an interrogation using the “Seven-Colored Eyes”.
‘At least that means they believe it’s true… even if it’s not true in reality.’
Hela, with her legs crossed, was lost in thought, touching her plump lips.
Almost everything else was similar, but the only problem was that the method of contacting ‘it’ was different for all three.
Looking at his overly cautious steps, it didn’t seem like it would be easy to catch him.
‘Chakra of delusion, delusion.’
At that time, she was deeply lost in thought.
Bam-
Harley opened the door, came in, turned around, and frowned.
A reaction that comes from an inevitable instinctual level.
Then, Hela, startled, uncrossed her legs and sat down quietly.
‘I didn’t know this when I was moving my body in the first person…’
Natural behaviors that arise from the avatar’s disposition are often not properly recognized by the individual.
Just as people don’t pay attention to when they blink or swallow.
‘But when I look at it from a third party’s perspective, it’s a bit… difficult.’
Hela’s feminine side, as seen through the eyes of Harley, a man among men, could not help but be unpleasant.
After all, the one inside that kernel was himself.
From the beginning, it is an inevitable problem since they were born to deceive others.
‘Hmm? Wait. You call it a delusion?’
Harley looked at Hela again.
A female demon queen of succubus mixed blood, full of ideals to the point of being unrealistic.
Its very existence could be said to be a culmination of delusion.
‘Which is stronger, the chakra of delusion he uses or Hela’s charm?’
And what happens when those two collide?
No, if only I could use that to my advantage.
The two avatars, who had been standing there with their arms crossed and thinking seriously for a moment, nodded at the same time.
‘This is really···.’
I might become a demon king who will swallow up the world.
···He is already a real demon lord.
