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< Way of revenge >
“Coolook!”
A handful of blood came out as he coughed. His normally neatly combed hair was disheveled, and his neat clothes were torn here and there.
Namgung Jeongcheon, the Heavenly Sword.
His face, which always showed a leisurely smile, was distorted in pain and sweating like rain.
“This, cowardly, gnome···!!”
Namgung Jeongcheon swung his sword, literally spitting out blood.
Phew!
The black sword cut through the air without a trace. Normally, if I wanted to, I could pull out up to one sheet of energy, but now, I could barely maintain the shape of energy above the blade.
Namgung Jeongcheon’s condition was not that good.
“Are you a coward?”
The man laughed and asked back.
Unlike Namgung Jeongcheon, he looked clean without a single scratch.
The man prepared a lot for today.
The opponent is one of the best martial artists.
Because this was an opponent we could have easily defeated if we had neglected our preparations.
I installed a magic barrier that sealed the opponent’s magic power, and I also used all the artifacts that could cast curse magic.
A silence spell was placed to prevent any sound from leaking outside, and an illusion spell was even cast to prevent anyone outside from noticing the abnormality in the guest house.
Even if a bomb exploded inside, no one outside would know about it.
The man shrugged his shoulders as if to appease his opponent.
“If you were willing to negotiate, I would have been willing to do the same. Well, I observed you for a few days and knew you were definitely not the kind of person to do that.”
Through wiretapping and surveillance cameras, and through ledgers and documents found in the secret vault, Daein learned just how vile a person Namgung Jeongcheon was.
It wasn’t just the Geomhwangmun bloodline. Namgung Jeongcheon sacrificed countless innocent people and warriors to increase the power of the Se family and to raise his own reputation.
“That’s why I prepared more thoroughly. It’s unpleasant for such trash to even touch my body with one finger.”
“How dare this guy!”
Namgung Jeongcheon lunged forward with a roar. Although he was very tired, his momentum was still as ferocious as that of a wild beast.
However, the great man simply avoided the attack by taking a few steps to the side. Then, he swung his sword without fail at any opening his opponent revealed.
Choaaaak!
A wound opened on Namgung Jeongcheon’s side and Shinhyeong staggered violently.
A fatal gap. But the man did not come any closer.
“Where do you sell medicine?”
Because I knew it was a deliberate opening, I aimed the hand cannon in my left hand instead.
Phew!
A hole the size of a coin was made in Namgung Jeongcheon’s side. He couldn’t block the attack with his self-defense skills, which were less than half of his usual strength.
“Ugh!”
Namgung Jeongcheon stepped back, blocking the bleeding wound. He deliberately kept revealing his weaknesses, but the man never fell for it.
The great man did not rush. Slowly, surely, and persistently, he drove the weakened Namgung Jeongcheon into a corner.
‘The more skilled a person is, the more he tends to keep a few secret moves hidden.’
Things like bloodletting techniques that instantly increase your stat, secret weapons hidden in unexpected places, and invisible poisons.
In addition, you should also be careful of the so-called ‘Donggui-eojin’ (同歸於盡) diet.
“So, don’t even dream of a reversal.”
“Ah! I’ll kill you!”
Namgung Jeongcheon couldn’t do anything due to the great man’s thorough preparation.
The secret weapon that I always carried in my arms was completely blocked by the Great Man’s shield.
The intangible poison was meaningless in front of the anti-poison artifact.
Donggwi Eojin’s herbivore didn’t even have a chance to be used.
And every time Namgung Jeongcheon’s attempt fails,
Phew! Crunch! Bam!
As the wounds on Namgung Jeongcheon’s body piled up, his movements became increasingly dull.
Namgung Jangcheon, who finally decided that he could not defeat Daein, shouted.
“I’ll catch him! Go and tell the head of the main house about the situation here!”
If this happens, it’s a do-or-die situation.
He’ll never let himself go.
‘Then rather···.’
If, while he was holding the guy back, one of the black-masked men who came with him ran to Namgung Se-ga to call for support, the situation would change.
At Namgung Jeongcheon’s command, the black-masked men fled in all directions. Some ran down the stairs, while others broke the windows and jumped out.
“I will kill you!”
At the same time, Namgung Jeongcheon rushed at Daein. It was to buy time for the black-masked men to escape.
also,
‘If he panics, there will be an opening. If you take advantage of that, there will be an opportunity for a reversal…’
However, the man was not fazed by the black-masked men’s escape attempt.
Because not a single one of them will be able to escape the barrier.
“Ugh!”
A single scream burst out from the mouth of the masked man who was running away from the front. He looked at the sword sticking out of his chest.
“Where are you going?”
The owner of the eerie voice was old man Jin.
Old Man Jin, who had been hiding in a hidden space in the barrier, jumped out at the same time as the black-masked men ran away.
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When Old Man Jin blocked their path, the black-masked men who were trying to run away all stopped.
Old man Jin said to them.
“Some of you may have attacked the text 15 years ago.”
“······.”
Old Man Jin thought of his fellow monks and priests.
A strict but affectionate elder brother, a priest who followed him around and pestered him, young disciples who learned martial arts from him and grew up with him…
Each and every face came to mind clearly.
“The day has finally come to comfort your souls.”
Old Man Jin walked towards the black-masked men. An incredible murderous aura rose from his body, suffocating the masked men.
“Today, I will receive the price of your blood a thousand times, ten thousand times.”
The Lion Sword Jin-Chung roared and jumped in.
“Khuuuuuuu!”
Old Man Jin leaped like a hungry lion into a flock of sheep.
They tore off the limbs of their enemies, ripped out their internal organs, and willingly drank their blood. The black-masked men, whose powers were sealed in the barrier, were no match for the rampaging beasts.
“Bar, run to the other side!”
Some of the black-masked men ran away from the old man.
But before they could get very far, they came face to face with a girl with a cold face.
“I don’t remember you. Just as I don’t remember my father or mother.”
Slurp.
Namgung Hyun pulled out his sword. The cold blade was bathed in moonlight.
“That’s why I can’t forgive you. You made it so I can’t even remember my parents’ faces.”
Namgung Hyun was coldly angry. Every time the sword light flashed, a heart was pierced.
After a while, all the black-masked people who tried to escape turned into cold corpses.
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“f*ck···!”
Namgung Jeongcheon’s face distorted like an evil spirit as he realized that everyone had been tricked. He was still being pushed back unilaterally, and there was not a single wound on the great man’s body.
Kyaaang!
Namgung Jeongcheon shouted as he swung his sword strongly and pushed the man away.
“Wait! Stop!”
The man did not stop his sword. He clung to Namgung Jeongcheon persistently and harassed him. Namgung Jeongcheon shouted, gasping for breath.
“If I die, you won’t be safe either! Do you think you’ll be safe even after turning the Five Great Sages into your enemies! ···Gasp!”
The Heavenly Sword flew towards Namgung Jeongcheon’s face, whose breathing was ragged.
Choaaaak!
Namgung Jeongcheon’s lips were torn all the way to his cheek. Blood flowed out of his face as he cried out in a pleading tone.
“Wait, just listen to me for a moment! I will support the reconstruction of the Sword Emperor’s Gate as you requested! And I will give you anything you want! Martial arts, elixirs, money… Kkwak!”
The Heavenly Sword cut off Namgung Jeongcheon’s left arm.
Namgung Jeongcheon, with fear in his eyes, hurriedly stepped back.
“Apologize, do you want an apology? I will! I will go to the leader of the martial arts world and tell him everything… Kkaaaak!”
Choaack!
The Heavenly Sword cut off both of Namgung Jeongcheon’s legs.
Namgung Jeongcheon fell backwards and dragged his body backwards with his only remaining arm. A long bloodstain left a trail on the floor.
“Hey, save me···.”
Only then did the man open his mouth.
“You should have said it that way from the beginning so that it was easier to understand.”
The more you have to lose, the more mean you become in the end.
A man who has not hesitated to take countless lives for his own ambitions, and has deceived the world by wearing the mask of a knight.
“trash.”
Although he was a strong man who was called one of the top ten masters in the world, in the eyes of the great man, he was nothing more than trash.
The elder turned to look at Jin No-in and Namgung Hyeon, who were behind him, and spoke.
“I’ll leave the finishing up to you two.”
In fact, this fight was not between two people.
Somehow, I interrupted it, and I found it like a dog like a dog, but I decided to kill it.
The final issue was one that the two parties involved had to resolve.
“···Thank you.”
“Thank you, brother.”
“Save, save, save···.”
Leaving behind the three people who had a lot to talk about, the Great Man came out carrying the masked man who had collapsed in a corner on his shoulders.
He was a virgin.
A shadow that has been handling all of Namgung Jeongcheon’s dirty work for decades.
The Great One had already chosen Biyoung, and at the beginning of the fight, he had placed Ma-hyeol in a corner.
“Hey. Wake up.”
The man put Biyoung on the floor and slapped her cheek to wake her up.
“eww···.”
Biyoung slowly opened his eyes. He blinked his only eye and looked at the man.
It only took a short while for Biyoung to figure out what had happened. Soon, Biyoung sighed, giving up on everything.
“Kill him.”
“If you were going to kill me, why did you wake me up?”
“···Are you planning to torture me?”
“That’s wrong too.”
“···?”
Daein spoke to Biyoung, who was looking at him with puzzled eyes.
“I will kill Namgung Jeongcheon, but I have no intention of killing you.”
“···Why?”
“Because you know the most. The real face of Namgung Jeongcheon. And all the dirty things he’s done. Only you and the General know that, right?”
Daein bugged Namgung Jeongcheon’s room for several days. Thanks to this, he was able to figure out the power structure of the Namgung family.
If the general was Namgung Jeongcheon’s right-hand man who was exposed to the sun, Biyeong was Namgung Jeongcheon’s left-hand man who handled all kinds of dirty work in the shade.
Aside from the two, Namgung Jeongcheon wore a mask and acted like a swordsman even in front of his children. Even the heads of the five great families did not know all about his dirty side.
“There are other places where it can be used.”
However, even though she was told that she would be spared, Biyoung’s expression did not brighten.
“If my lord dies, I will die too. There is loneliness inside my body. If my lord dies, the loneliness inside his body will die, and the loneliness inside me will also···.”
“I know. So open your mouth.”
The man forcibly opened Biyoung’s mouth and poured a small amount of the antidote potion into it.
The antidote potion that the Great One brought from Earth was of the highest quality.
That too, was taken from Abraxas’ Lair a while ago.
Any poison made at the level of the martial arts world can be detoxified, and of course, even loneliness, which is a type of poison, can be easily dissolved.
“T, how is this···.”
Biyoung opened her eyes wide as she felt the loneliness melting away inside her body.
To Biyoung, who was dumbfounded, the man smiled wickedly and said.
“You won’t die alone anymore. But it’s too early to feel relieved.”
“······.”
“Because if I make up my mind, I can die easily.”
The man took out a piece of paper with a tattoo from his bag.
I stuck it on Biyoung’s stomach like a patch. And when I took it off, the tattoo was absorbed into his stomach and it felt cool.
“What, what is this weird thing···.”
To Biyoung, who was terrified by the unknown phenomenon, Daein spoke in a gloomy voice.
“It’s an ancient spell. With just one spell, I can cause you to die slowly and in excruciating pain. Let’s try it out.”
“Oh, no! Please don’t do that!”
Biyoung was terrified. He had already seen countless magic displays from the Great Man.
It makes it impossible to use internal energy, slows down the body, and makes you see ghostly figures, even though it is not a mountain spirit.
Even the loneliness that could not be eliminated by any means was simply melted away.
Biyoung looked at the man as if she was seeing a ghost.
‘Pacheongeomje… Not only was he a supreme master, he was also a sorcerer with incredible abilities!’
It was natural for Biyoung to think that way.
In fact, what the Great Man had put on his stomach was just a simple tattoo magic with a location tracking function.
But it was enough to terrify Biyoung, who knew nothing about magic.
‘This man is a monster worse than Namgung Jeongcheon. We created a monster 15 years ago···.’
Bi-yeong did not dare to resist and knelt before the man. His body trembled.
“My lord, I will serve you as my lord.”
After losing one eye to Namgung Jeongcheon 15 years ago, Biyoung was not truly loyal to him.
Moreover, his own life is now in the hands of the Pacheon Sword Master.
There was no hesitation in changing lords.
The man smiled as if he was satisfied.
“It’s good that he’s a guy who communicates well. If I had held out for loyalty or something, I would have had to start with torture, so I would have been tired.”
‘Indeed. A personality that is so cruel that it gives you goosebumps···.’
Biyoung couldn’t even think of betrayal. He said, hitting his forehead on the floor.
“I will do my best!”
“First of all, I’d like to ask you a few things.”
Daein asked questions about Namgung Se-ga and Namgung Jeong-cheon, and Bi-yeong answered honestly to the best of her knowledge.
When the person had almost satisfied his curiosity,
“Thank you for waiting.”
When the story was over, Old Man Jin brought Namgung Jeongcheon’s cut head.
As the man had said before, his face was relatively intact. Although he was extremely frightened, it wasn’t cut off or anything.
“How does it feel after getting revenge?”
The old man smiled bitterly at the man’s question.
“It’s refreshing and disappointing. No one will come back alive just because of this, but… a lot of the accumulated tension has been relieved.”
“What about Hyun?”
“···I don’t know. But I think I did well.”
The man simply nodded at the two people’s reactions. It wasn’t his taste to meddle in other people’s revenge.
‘From now on, I just have to take care of what I need to take care of.’
The man looked back at Biyoung.
“Biyoung. There’s something you have to do.”
Biyoung straightened her posture and prostrated herself before the man.
The first command of the lord with a fearful mind. It had to be carried out perfectly.
“Give me the order. I will carry it out with my life.”
The man took out his doppelganger’s mask from his bag and said with an evil smile.
“From now on, you will be Namgung Jeongcheon.”
“···?”
< Way of Revenge > End
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