Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 183

-Hmph.

Everyone stops moving, staring blankly.

Thud.

Kang Eun-ha falls.

Everything happened in an instant, too fast to react to.

“Blood… Divine Maiden.”

Everything happened in a moment when they were unable to move under the Guardian Dragon’s pressure.

-I don’t know how a monkey escaped my fear, but they’re still just monkeys.

Kwaang!

Another laser breath is fired at the fallen Kang Eun-ha.

-Daring to speak in front of me will be the greatest achievement of your monkey life.

Lee Ro-woon.

He also looked down at Kang Eun-ha while listening to the wolf’s words.

Gulp.

She was still moving, seemingly alive, slowly reaching out towards Lee Ro-woon.

“I’m… glad…”

Her eyes were fading.

Even at that moment, she seemed happy that Lee Ro-woon was not hurt.

“……”

Guardian Dragon.

Now, Lee Ro-woon was looking at the wolf.

He knew that it was preparing a laser breath and that it would pierce his body.

He was confident he wouldn’t be hit.

“How foolish.”

Yet, Kang Eun-ha, who had blocked it, was utterly foolish.

It wasn’t something he wanted, just unnecessary meddling.

-You….

“To throw away your life for something so pointless.”

-Are you free from the fear’s influence?

Lee Ro-woon had originally intended to draw the Guardian Dragon in.

Rather than facing a foe too far away, it was better to injure it slightly and bring it closer.

Everything was as calculated.

“Do you think I’d be intimidated by the likes of you?”

-You monkey…!

The appearance of the Zhuge Clan was also expected.

Everything was.

‘I calculated it.’

Except for this.

Thud.

Kang Eun-ha’s hand, reaching for Lee Ro-woon, falls helplessly.

That Kang Eun-ha would overcome the Guardian Dragon’s fear and come to save him.

“Shut up.”

-How dare a monkey tell me what to…

“I said shut up.”

The moment Lee Ro-woon’s eyes turned to the wolf, time seemed to stop.

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes were turning black.

The wolf couldn’t do anything at that moment.

“What did I misunderstand?”

Lee Ro-woon muttered to himself.

The power that had been pressing down on everyone had disappeared.

However.

Thud, thud.

Another power was crushing everyone.

“Human.”

A massive power emanating from Lee Ro-woon.

No, a fear that cannot be called power was crushing everything.

“Did I misunderstand humans?”

***

Humanity.

There was a time when he believed in such things.

Director Kwon Cheol emphasized humanity more than anything else.

-Humans must help other humans.

He taught that there was altruism and consideration in human nature.

Then he went out into the world.

Without realizing it, Kwon Cheol’s teachings had seeped deep into his bones.

That was why.

Even though he didn’t walk the path of a righteous army, he tried to help others for that reason.

-Ro-woon.

But as time passed and he gained more experience, the teachings that had been engraved in his bones disappeared.

-I’m sorry.

Humans are different from what he thought.

They are endlessly selfish, beings with no altruism or consideration.

Those who have the means take care of others.

But those who don’t.

-I’m sorry!

They always abandon others to survive.

He didn’t intend to blame them.

He just accepted it.

And.

-Sorry.

When he was betrayed by everyone, Kwon Cheol’s brainwashing finally left Lee Ro-woon’s body.

Humans are selfish.

If pushed to the limit, they are beings who will abandon everything except themselves at any time.

That thought became even more solidified during his time with his masters in the chaotic world.

-We are….

His masters were no different from him.

A series of betrayals, their very lives were denied.

And he returned.

-Martial King?

His masters were forgotten beings.

Their efforts to quell the chaos in the chaotic world for thousands of years were forgotten.

No one remembers.

“Humans are…”

That was why.

Beings who cannot be saved.

He turned off all affection, interest, everything for them.

Whether it was players oppressed by Eun or anything else, he didn’t pay much attention.

“Because humans are…”

All the same.

Even before being oppressed by Eun, humanity waged wars for their own sake.

They dominate someone and kill their opponents for their own gain.

Isn’t it absurd for such people to complain about being the subject of domination?

That was why.

No matter what happens.

‘It’s okay if they all perish.’

In this terrible world of evil, hope only existed in his masters.

But.

Swoosh.

Lee Ro-woon lifted the lifeless Kang Eun-ha.

They think they are forcibly controlled by the Blood Art [a technique that manipulates blood].

But as he regained his power, Lee Ro-woon loosened the control of the Blood Art.

Only one thing.

‘Don’t aim for my life.’

Except for that, he was going to let them betray him.

In other words.

“Why did you do something so foolish?”

Kang Eun-ha didn’t sacrifice her life forcibly, but tried to save him of her own free will.

-Sorry.

Unlike her back then.

That was why.

That’s why.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

“Why do I feel so bad?”

Forgotten, hidden emotions awaken.

-You’re not just a monkey… I see.

The wolf, freed from the pressure, growls.

“Jeong Chi-soo.”

At Lee Ro-woon’s call, the energy pressing down on Jeong Chi-soo disappears as if washed away.

“Yes, Blood Demon Lord.”

“Take her and retreat.”

He hands Kang Eun-ha to him.

“The rest of you too.”

The pressure disappears.

“But the Zhuge Clan is…”

Moyong Hu said, looking at the Zhuge Clan blocking their rear.

Gulp.

Along with the illusion of the world’s light fading.

Gooooooo.

An indescribable sense of fulfillment is felt within his body.

“Kill them.”

“……!”

“Kill them and get out.”

The Zhuge Clan’s martial arts, magic, and formations.

A way to overcome all of that and escape.

“Charge.”

The method writhes within his body.

-You bastard!

The wolf, finally completely free from the pressure.

-Are you ignoring me!

The wolf raised its front paw, about to rush at Lee Ro-woon and tear him apart.

Kwaang!

Through the hazy dust, the wolf’s figure rolled helplessly on the ground.

“I told you to shut up.”

Lee Ro-woon, standing on the wolf’s right cheek, was looking down at the wolf.

* * *

Kwaang! Kwaang!

-Ugh!

The wolf’s groan echoes.

Even if it tries to open its mouth to use a laser breath.

Kwaang!

As soon as it opens its mouth, Lee Ro-woon’s fist flies in.

-Kuhhh!

It feels excruciating pain in its cheek.

To be sure, this kind of pain was something it had never felt even tens of thousands of years ago, a memory that was even unfamiliar.

Although it was in a polymorphed state, its body was that of a dragon.

A dragon scale that even a Grand Master’s aura flame and human mages’ 9th circle magic could not penetrate.

Charrrr!

That which had immense resistance to all attacks.

Kwaaang!

It bursts.

-Cough. Cough.

This can’t be happening.

Even though it couldn’t use even half of its true power due to an imperfect intervention.

-This can’t be happening!

This was nothing short of impossible.

Shouting, the wolf swung its front paw.

The space distorted as if torn, heading towards Lee Ro-woon, but.

Kaang!

Lee Ro-woon tilted Namgoong Mu-hun [his sword] and deflected the attack.

Furthermore, there was something that didn’t make sense.

-You are….

Those eyes.

-What are you?

Looking at the black pupils, fear seeps in.

Just as all beings except dragons feel instinctive fear when looking at them, the wolf also felt it.

“You started this without even knowing that?”

Namgoong Mu-hun moves diagonally.

-N, no…

The trajectory of the sword, too fast to see, bends.

-No way.

There was no need to even count the time until the strike landed.

Chaaaaaa!

The wolf’s side is split open, and a fountain of blood gushes out.

-Cough! Cough!

It was the first time.

It didn’t even know that such pain existed in the world.

-Cough, cough.

It had to get up, but it couldn’t even lift its body.

-Poly…

It had to live.

“Trying to undo the polymorph?”

A voice is heard from above.

“You can’t do it anyway.”

Kwajik!

He and his sword, which had fallen, pierced through and embedded themselves in its spine.

“It wasn’t a proper intervention, was it?”

-H, how can a human…

“So, let’s just die quietly.”

-What…

“Why?”

He smiles.

“It might be more comfortable than you think?”

The sword piercing through its spine, the heat rising from within.

-Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!

The wolf felt like it was losing its mind from the excruciating pain.

“Khehehe. Kheh.”

The laughter is clearly heard.

The touch of the guy who was hacking it to pieces was also clearly felt.

“Kyahahaha!”

At that bizarre laughter, the wolf was experiencing true fear for the first time.

* * *

It’s dark.

Whether he opens his eyes or closes them, what he sees is the same.

“Shit.”

He seemed to know where this was.

Then, light began to shine on the world.

A bright red light.

Chaaaaaaa-!

It was drawn all around, filling a space of thousands of pyeong [a traditional Korean unit of area].

Bizarre patterns, the patterns were drawn three-dimensionally and continued to spread.

In a way, it looked like iron bars to imprison something.

“Haa.”

In fact, this was a prison to imprison something.

[Hehe. Hehehe.]

A sound that was hard to tell whether it was a sob or a laugh was heard.

Lee Ro-woon covered his face with his hand and sighed once more.

This red prison.

-It’s everything to me.

It was a sealing magic circle created by sacrificing everything of his demon king master.

This doesn’t exist in the material world.

“I’m screwed.”

It was his inner self.

[Hehe. Hehehehe….]

Lee Ro-woon couldn’t see the thing crying, hidden by the red light.

It was the same in the past, it was the same now, and it would be the same in the future.

That was it.

“Should I say it’s been a while?”

Chaos.

The monster that the kings of the world had devoted thousands of years to, and that he had completed and imprisoned.

He seemed to know what had happened.

After encountering the Guardian Dragon, Lee Ro-woon’s inner energy and mana had bottomed out.

It would slowly recover, but it wouldn’t be enough to face the Guardian Dragon.

The reason he didn’t think of defeat was because of.

‘Chaos.’

Because that power existed.

A control method created based on the Yin-Yang Mind Technique [a martial arts technique].

If he used the method of splitting and dividing the power of chaos and using only a part of it, Lee Ro-woon could use endless power.

However, a problem arose with Kang Eun-ha.

Her sacrifice, and her death, awakened something that had been dormant within Lee Ro-woon.

Feelings of anger, sadness, and pity.

That was the trigger.

‘I lost control.’

He had to split it with all his concentration, but the boundary of the Yin-Yang Mind Technique had collapsed.

As a result, the world reversed and the guy had awakened.

[Hehe…. Hehehehe….]

Fortunately, it hadn’t regained its senses yet.

“I didn’t want to see you again.”

Lee Ro-woon’s hands and body were trembling.

He had already experienced it once, but the guy still presented him with primal fear.

But it was fortunate that.

“Let’s not see each other again.”

He had created another safety device not long ago.

Urrrrrr!

The space vibrates.

-I, I can’t believe it….

A voice is heard.

“Don’t talk nonsense and get me out of here quickly. It’s hard for me to hold out here too.”

-……Alright.

With Partisan’s voice, Lee Ro-woon’s body began to freeze.

Just as Lee Ro-woon completely disappeared and turned his head.

Paeng!

In a place Lee Ro-woon couldn’t see, a thin red thread snapped.

[Hehe. Hehehe.]

From the place where Lee Ro-woon had escaped, the sob was spreading out as a clear laugh.