4. Western Sword Queen (5)
4. Western Sword Queen (5) – Powerful and strong output, my name is Nosim-level internal energy drive
“It’s a strange feeling to be standing on top of a big rock.”
Mokjin nodded and spoke. Mokjin was currently standing on a small, nameless asteroid. If Hwagyeong and two other absolute masters fought, it was impossible to guarantee that even the best non-wireless ships would be unharmed, and even though the Western Sword Queen was a large passenger ship, it could not handle the aftermath of a non-wireless attack, so this was a special measure taken.
“It’s different from the immortal world in legends, but if this isn’t the immortal world, then what is? If you just turn your eyes, you can see the vast universe, and it’s incredibly magnificent.”
While Seocheon Swordmaster Kim Yeonhwa’s subordinates were busy working on the temporary terraforming of the asteroid, Mokjin was busy admiring the scenery of the pitch-black space. For Mokjin, an ancient being with no knowledge of scientific principles, the fact that a small asteroid, only a few dozen kilometers in size, could breathe, had a suitable temperature, and had gravity was not that surprising.
Miss, how did I end up in this situation? Se-ryeong was groaning, holding her head next to Mok-jin.
It was just one day. The time it took for all these events to happen: discovering Mokjin on Earth that had become a garbage planet, destroying the Demonic Cult’s Red Wolf Squad, chasing the Black Panthers of the Green Forest, defeating the Black Panthers of the Black Panthers and the Palcheok Fighting Ghosts in succession, and then engaging in a duel with the Seocheon Sword Marquis. It was the most dynamic day Seolyeong had ever experienced.
It was only yesterday that I was struggling because I didn’t have enough credit to pay for the spaceship insurance, but now credit is no longer a problem. How could I possibly see the Seocheon Sword Master’s secret battle right before my eyes?
‘No, it’s not that credit isn’t the problem.’
The client of three million credits who was currently being protected in a half-dead state on her spaceship. Se-ryeong shook her head as she thought of the small shareholder of Cheonryong Sangdan. If she could just finish the current task well, three million would fall into her hands. Of course, she would have to divide it among the crew members, but even considering that, it was still a huge profit.
Seolyeong glanced at Mokjin. She knew he was a master since he had subdued her in an instant, but she had never thought he would be an absolute master who could surpass even the Seocheon Sword Master. A man who looked like a vain old man, but who was fierce enough to put a demon cult to shame. Seolyeong had no idea how to deal with this man.
Because of the unrealistic background of an ancient person from two thousand years ago and the turbulent first meeting, he has treated her as an old man and said all sorts of things he shouldn’t have said, so now he is treating her as a great senior in the martial arts world and treating her with respect. The only positive thing is that Mok-jin, the person in question, seems to like Se-ryeong’s current attitude.
After this is over, I think we should have a serious talk. That was when Seolyeong was just making up her mind.
“Excuse me. Could you please sign this document?”
Seocheon Sword Master’s secretary, who appeared in front of the two, held out a terminal. To be exact, he held it out to Mok Jin, but Mok Jin, who was dumbfounded and had no idea what she was holding out, accepted the terminal instead. Secretary Hobeop blinked.
“Why, Yeom Hwa-kwae-geom?”
“This guy has only been awake for a day, so he’s not even registered as a martial arts person, let alone a martial arts lawyer.”
Above all, she doesn’t even know how to read the alphabet. Serin didn’t bother to say anything. Secretary Hobeop nodded at her words.
“If you will act as my agent, I will convey this to the Crown Prince.”
“How did I end up acting as an agent······. Huh? Consent form for filming a secret video?”
Seol-ryeong tilted her head after seeing the documents presented by the secretary.
“So is this considered an official match?”
“Yes. Your Majesty thinks so. Of course, if Your Majesty doesn’t want it, you don’t have to agree.”
Seolyeong looked back at Mokjin as if asking what was going on. Mokjin tilted his head to the side.
“What is that?”
“What is filming? Of course······Ah, I guess I should explain this first. So······It’s to preserve the contents of the non-fiction so that other people can see it too.”
Whether it was during the Demonic Cult or the Green Forest, things happened so suddenly that it was common to film videos of non-combat combat and make a decent amount of money. Seocheon Sword Master, who was about to fight Mokjin and Non-combat, also donated a lot of videos of non-combat combat to help train future generations.
However, for Mok Jin, who lived in an era where it was common for martial arts training, let alone martial arts, to be invisible to outsiders, this was truly a bolt from the blue.
“What? Showing your martial arts skills to outsiders? What kind of crazy talk is that?”
“I don’t know what it was like back then, but it’s commonplace these days. Do martial artists live off of dew? Since all they have is martial arts, they have to at least sell the image of using martial arts.”
Anyway, since you can’t find any weaknesses in martial arts with a video that doesn’t even come out to 300 frames per second, there’s no need to worry too much. Mok-jin’s face hardened after hearing Se-ryeong’s words.
“So are you telling me to show off my skills in front of people who don’t even know about my martial arts?”
I knew this would be my reaction. Serin put her hand on her forehead.
“Oh really, why do people twist words like that? I told you, it’s a normal thing these days. If you don’t like it, just don’t agree.”
“Even if you don’t agree to the video being made public, if possible, could you please consent to the filming? Since His Majesty enjoys watching the video after the match and reviewing his martial arts skills······.”
“What are you talking about? Are you reviewing martial arts instead of playing Go?”
“Ha, let me explain. So······.”
As if he was afraid that someone might say he was unmanned, Seolyeong explained the whole story when Mokjin reacted to the words of the secretary’s protection method. It was said that among absolute masters, there are many cases where they separately record the high frame rate video of the secret martial arts and review the contents of the secret martial arts.
“Hmm.”
Hearing that, my heart starts to pound. Mokjin folded his arms and looked deep in thought. Certainly, if he calmly looked back and reviewed the martial arts he had performed, there would be no doubt about the effectiveness of his training. On the other hand, he also began to feel curious about seeing his martial arts from a third party’s perspective.
Mokjin, who had been thinking and trying to convince himself for a while, suddenly raised his head as if something had occurred to him and asked.
“Come to think of it, I heard from my robot that there’s something called streaming. Is it possible to do that?”
“Huh? Suddenly?”
Seolyeong and Bimuhobeop opened their eyes at Mokjin’s casual remark. What on earth made the gentleman who had been raging about not liking clowning just a moment ago suddenly bring up streaming? Bimuhobeop nodded and answered.
“Of course, I’m sure Your Majesty the Swordsman won’t refuse, so it’s possible if the Great Swordsman agrees······. Do you really want the fight to be broadcasted live?”
“But that’s true.”
“No, you said you didn’t like it just now?!”
“I have my own thoughts.”
Seolyeong made a dumbfounded expression at Mokjin’s words. Mokjin ignored her reaction and looked at Bimoohobeop. Bimoohobeop received the terminal, tapped it a few times, and then handed it over again.
“If you sign like this, the contents of the secret battle will be streamed in real time on Gangho Net. Of course, the broadcast frame will be fixed at 250 frames, so you don’t have to worry about the information of the martial arts being leaked.”
I don’t care about such trivial things. Whether it’s a time-honored technique or an ignorant one, how can you understand his martial arts? Mok-jin picked up his pen at her words.
“Yeah, you’re talking about here? By the way, the brush looks strange.”
Wow, he’s signing in Chinese characters. Seolyeong muttered absentmindedly as she looked at Mokjin, who was signing in one stroke with the tip of a pen as if he was doing calligraphy.
The three-character name Lee Mok-jin (李炑晉) written on the terminal screen.
Now, everything was ready for the ultimate showdown between the two absolute masters.
On top of the asteroid, which seemed to have been swallowed by the pitch-black space, a black and white man and woman finally stood facing each other.
The one wearing the black martial arts uniform is the Cheonma Lee Mok-jin who was resurrected from ancient times, and the one wearing the white cape is the Sword Marquis of Seocheon, Kim Yeon-hwa.
The two greeted each other lightly and introduced themselves according to the etiquette of the martial arts.
“This is Kim Yeon-hwa.”
“It’s Lee Mok-jin.”
With a swoosh, a dark sword came out of its scabbard. Mokjin took a natural stance with the sword hanging down. For him, who had reached a point where even the most basic of actions were meaningless, there was no more ideal stance than the natural stance.
Yeonhwa held two swords. She took a unique stance, stepping back with her left foot and stepping aside, then extending only the sword in her right hand forward. Mokjin, who briefly admired the pure white blades as if looking at snowflakes, opened his mouth.
“Do you use two swords?”
“That’s right.”
“It’s a good sword.”
There is no sense of elegance or violence, which only a sword made by a master craftsman can give off. Instead, there is a sense of skill that has been polished to the limit and a solidity that will not break no matter what happens. Sharpness and sturdiness. It was the highest praise for a sword.
On the other hand, what Mokjin is holding is an ordinary dark-colored carbon steel longsword borrowed from Seolyeong. It is not bad, but it is not a sword that can dare to compete with Yeonhwa’s sword under equal conditions.
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However, for Mok Jin, who was not restricted by the quality of the sword, that was enough. Mok Jin quietly waved his hand at her.
“I’ll give you three meals. Come.”
A relaxed attitude, like a master fighting a rookie. How long has it been since he took up arms against someone so distant? Yeonhwa nodded lightly and said.
“······Then, I will go without hesitation. The name of this herb is Chilseomshipye (七晱十藝).”
A sword ring forms at the tip of the right-hand sword she holds up in front. The pure white sword ring gathers like milk droplets. Mok-jin, who sees this, also has a dark-colored sword ring form at the tip of his sword.
“Hot!”
The sword of Yeonhwa, flying towards Mokjin, stabbed straight in. Mokjin’s eyes lit up. He raised his sword and stabbed Yeonhwa’s sword. As the white ball and black ink ball met in the air, a loud noise like ships colliding erupted.
For a split second, Yeonhwa felt it. Black and white were intertwined to form a Taegeuk, but soon the black was swallowing up the white.
“Tch!”
The winner was Mokjin’s dark-colored sword ring. Yeonhwa, who flew backwards before it was too late, bit her lips.
Although he retreated quickly and suffered no internal injuries, his desperate move was blocked too easily. She thought that Mok-jin was indeed a man worthy of being called the best in the world.
At first glance, it may look like a single stab, but in reality, it is seven stabs so fast that you can’t follow them with your eyes, and in that split second, the left-hand sword slashes in ten directions, taking advantage of the openings that occur. I was confident that no one among the absolute masters could take this attack head-on, but he was easily defeated by Mok Jin’s hands.
“It is a sharp martial art worthy of the name Chilseom. But······.”
Mokjin’s eyes narrowed. His gaze turned to Yeonhwa’s left-handed sword, or more precisely, to her left hand.
“The right-handed technique is excellent, but the left-handed technique is incomparable.”
The rapid stabbing attack with seven thrusts led by the sword ring is flawless, as if it were proof of countless training sessions. However, the initial technique of the left-handed sword seemed to be lacking in many ways, to the point where it seemed as if it was performed by the same person, and it was not even close to being a martial art of the same level.
The flow of internal energy is so rough that it is hard to break out of the frame of a beginner and is too crude to be considered a master of the flower world. It is like······.
Yeonhwa said with a faint smile, as if she had known this would happen.
“As expected, you can’t fool the eyes of a senior. That saying is true.”
She took off her white cape without hesitation. What was inside the white cape that looked like a priest’s robe was a black suit that was so tight that it showed off the curves of her body. It would have been easy to look at the body of a mature woman without realizing it, but Mokjin couldn’t take his eyes off her left arm, not her body.
“Organization······?”
It clearly has the shape of a human arm, but it feels like a cold, artificial object with no life at all. Yeonhwa, holding up the mechanical prosthetic hand in front of her eyes, smiled bitterly and opened her mouth.
“It’s just a reckless act from my childhood. Although it’s a good thing in its own right, it can’t be helped that it doesn’t look good when shown to the great swordsman.”
“Why do you insist on this sword? It might work on the lower classes, but not on me.”
It is not possible to grow back a severed arm, so it is natural for one-armed people to learn martial arts suitable for one-armed people. Is it really necessary to rely on such an organ and insist on a double sword? Mokjin said, pretending not to hide his discomfort. He felt as if he was being looked down upon as a warrior, swinging a sword with a fake arm that could not even properly perform martial arts against him.
Mokjin couldn’t hide his disappointment. He had high expectations because he was a master of Hwagyeong, but in the end, he was just a swindler who relied on a crude mechanism. The only reason Mokjin didn’t get angry right away like he did with Elena was because he had the bare minimum of respect for a warrior who had reached the realm of Hwagyeong.
However, he had taken the future two thousand years too lightly. He had made a hasty judgment about what the core-level internal energy drive, which unleashed internal energy of a scale that the unmanned people of the era he lived in could not even imagine, meant to an absolute master, and what kind of results the integrated internal energy operation system that operated that enormous internal energy would produce.
“As you said, it might be better to learn martial arts using only one sword. However, I did not want to give up the martial arts that I had dedicated my entire life to learning.”
Yeonhwa applies strength to the hand holding the external internal energy drive attached to her left arm. The custom internal energy drive that was only used to create internal energy for the left-handed sword detaches from her left arm. Yeonhwa throws the external drive away without hesitation and continues speaking.
“It may have been my foolishness not being able to let go of what I lost. However, if I could not let go of that obsession and practiced martial arts for a long time to finally achieve the answer, would you believe me, Senior?”
As soon as Yeonhwa finished speaking, a red light leaked out from her danjeon that could be seen even through her suit. It was a phenomenon where the output of her core-level internal energy drive reached its peak. Mokjin’s eyes, seeing her like that, contained an unmistakable surprise.
“Ugh.”
A sigh of admiration escaped me without me knowing. Even though it was something I couldn’t see with my eyes, I could feel the flow of energy and understand it at a glance.
“Have you reached the realm of ‘Igi-eogeom (以氣馭劍)’?”
The pinnacle of swordsmanship, a realm that only masters who have achieved the union of the body and sword can reach. Who could not acknowledge her, who has surpassed the realm of flowers and is now standing before her eyes on the mysterious realm?
A sword in the left hand, a sword ring in the right.
A feeling of joy bloomed in Cheonma’s eyes as he saw a wondrous sight that was previously unimaginable and could only be created by a massive, core-level internal drive.
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The matches that are the level of absolute masters are usually held on nearby planets or asteroids, not on a wireless network, unless they are events. If the planet is not terraformed, the environment, such as air, gravity, and temperature, are temporarily adjusted to be as close to a terraformed environment as possible through various devices. The price of the adjustment devices is quite expensive, but absolute masters can afford that level of money.
The events so far have happened in just one day.
Serin’s spaceship insurance premium was three months overdue. If the insurance agent hadn’t been Serin’s friend, it would have been a headache.
Usually, when you reach the level of an absolute master, you carry around a secretary who handles various office work. Since a secretary must have a decent level of martial arts skills, as well as knowledge of various administrative tasks, some martial arts laws, and criminal laws, it is a very high-spec job.
The unemployed usually hire a personal lawyer, or even if they don’t, they carry around a business card of a lawyer. It is convenient to have a lawyer notarize the official documents for formal meetings. The cost of hiring a lawyer varies greatly, but it can be very cheap.
Seol-ryeong’s lawyer is replaced by Sun-ja.
People in the martial arts world usually report to the martial arts league and register as martial artists. It doesn’t really matter if you don’t do it, but you won’t receive any benefits, and you won’t receive any protection when you get involved with government agencies, so it’s best to register as a martial artist.
It’s a sad reality, but Mokjin is a cosmic illiterate who doesn’t even know the alphabet.
Usually, it is common for a formal martial arts competition to film a martial arts video with professional equipment and upload it to Gangho Net. The reason is, of course, because it makes money. The money that is sponsored by ordinary people who admire martial arts is more substantial than that of martial artists. Since the advertising revenue is also quite decent, martial artists usually upload martial arts videos to cover their food, lodging, and transportation costs. A martial artist cannot live off of dew alone.
Of course, if the parties do not want to be filmed, or if there are some unofficial or accidental confrontations, we do not film them. If there is no mutual consent, the video cannot be uploaded, and if a video is uploaded without mutual consent, the video will be immediately taken down, and the Murim Alliance will fine you, or in severe cases, put a bounty on you.
It goes without saying, but filming and reviewing martial arts videos is a very effective martial arts training method for those above a certain level, and even for beginners. Some retired veterans have obtained martial arts analysis licenses and provide martial arts lessons to beginners by watching martial arts videos and giving advice.
Since there are cases where the secret technique of martial arts is revealed by watching the secret technique video, although filming is allowed, streaming is often reluctant. Of course, since there is a maximum transmission frame limit, it doesn’t mean much to the experts, but for the beginners, it is a big blow to know each secret technique, so they edit the secret technique or the name of the season appropriately and upload the video. Sometimes, they use this strategically by hiding the secret technique when streaming.
In this era, since most martial arts are databased, even if a video of a supernatural attack is leaked, it doesn’t mean much. What’s important is the fine-tuned supernatural attack data code that can be used in the supernatural attack download interface.
The herb data code is text data, but its size is in the terabyte range. This is because each martial arts skill contains all sorts of detailed adjustment data.
Absolute masters tend to upload non-combat or martial arts videos frequently due to corporate sponsorship, but among them, Seocheon Swordsman is particularly active and often streams. Of course, he doesn’t always win against the same absolute masters, so a video called ‘Seocheon Swordsman Humiliation Collection’ is popular on Gangho.net.
The carbon steel sword that Serin gave was just an ordinary ready-made sword. On the other hand, Yeonhwa’s sword was a custom-made sword made by a prestigious blacksmith shop.
In the Seven Swords and Ten Arts, the left-handed sword’s slash is an attack that is carried out through thorough calculation and coordination using a custom-made external internal energy drive and a custom-made mechanical artificial hand. In a similar realm, it is an attack that exploits the gap created by blocking or avoiding the sword ring stab of the superior sword, so it is sufficient to that extent, but for someone with the strength to receive all seven frontal stabs like Mokjin, the level of the attack is bound to be lacking.
Yeonhwa uses dual swords because her left arm was cut off in the past, but she uses the left sword on her prosthetic left arm as a secondary weapon and the right sword on her right arm as her main weapon.
Yeonhwa’s outfit, without the cape, is a sci-fi black suit that clings to her upper body. Her lower body is just a plain black uniform.
Casting a sword ring on one side and using a sword on the other side is crazy by the standards of the martial arts world of the past. The difficulty itself is not particularly hard, but the amount of internal energy consumed is insane.
Even before reaching the stage of life and death that transcends Mokjindo’s internal energy, he cannot maintain that crazy behavior for even 10 minutes.
The Igi-geom that Yeonhwa can see is at the beginning stage of the Su-eo-geom (手馭劍) where the extent of movement around the body is limited. Yeonhwa is still using the unstable Igi-geom to supplement the accuracy of the prosthetic hand. The internal integration operation system is in charge of the detailed adjustments.
Yeonhwa has reached the end of Hwagyeong and is facing the wall of Hyeongyeong.
