Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 305

“……”

Tang Hwa-young’s eyes widened as if she couldn’t believe the report she had just heard.

“That’s….”

Her heart was pounding, and her hands and feet were tingling.

“Is that really true?”

She had been striving to avoid even the smallest mistake as the person in charge of the Silver Star.

Fortunately, the members of the Silver Star and the Blood Cult had followed her well, as she had become the temporary guild leader by Lee Rowan’s order. Tang Hwa-young also made full use of her abilities to lead the Silver Star.

The Silver Star had grown remarkably in the meantime, and it would be a lie to say that there were no difficult times.

Even during those difficult times, Tang Hwa-young had always maintained her composure and led the Silver Star steadfastly.

Thud.

Until this very moment.

“A-are you alright?”

The guild member who had delivered the report couldn’t hide their bewilderment as Tang Hwa-young even dropped the report she was holding.

“………”

Tang Hwa-young remained silent for a long time.

Finally, as if she had finished thinking, she opened her mouth.

“So, that person is now….”

“Yes.”

“Undergoing new guild member training?”

“Yes….”

Both of their faces were blank.

“Why?”

It was a natural question from Tang Hwa-young, but.

“……”

Naturally, the guild member couldn’t answer.

There was no way a guild member could know something that Tang Hwa-young didn’t.

“…No, explain it step by step.”

Only then did Tang Hwa-young realize her mistake and urge the guild member to answer.

“Today is the first training session for the new guild members, isn’t it?”

There was no way Tang Hwa-young, who knew every detail of the guild, wouldn’t know that fact.

“I stopped by the training ground to check on the new guild members, and….”

According to the story, it was like this.

Park Han-soo, who was in charge of this training, had called out to Lee Rowan, who was watching.

At that time, she recognized his face and tried to end the situation, but she couldn’t decide whether it was right to reveal Lee Rowan’s identity there.

While she was hesitating, Park Han-soo was checking Lee Rowan’s name on the list.

-What is this? There doesn’t seem to be any new members.

Naturally, Lee Rowan wouldn’t be on it.

At that moment, the guild member made eye contact with Lee Rowan.

Gulp.

He swallowed and stepped forward.

-S-special recruit.

The words he barely managed to utter.

-He’s a guild member who was specially recruited this time, but it seems the report was missed.

If it were another guild member, it would have been necessary to check again and again.

However, the guild member was a key figure in the Blood Cult from the past, and a confidant trusted by Kang Han-cheol and Jeong Chi-soo. Therefore, Park Han-soo couldn’t treat him carelessly.

-W-what did you say your name was?

He quickly stepped forward and asked for his name.

-Lee Rowan.

Lee Rowan gave his name without lying.

Twitch.

There was a twitching reaction to that name from all around.

They were about to step forward, feeling something was wrong, but Park Han-soo was one step faster.

-How spirited!

Park Han-soo, who had arrived a little late.

He had never seen Lee Rowan before.

-However, being too confident isn’t a good thing. If you’re a special recruit, you should work harder.

That’s how the situation was smoothed over.

“That’s how it happened.”

The guild member immediately came to Tang Hwa-young to report.

“What on earth are you thinking….”

Tang Hwa-young was bewildered.

“Did he say anything?”

“No. He just seemed to be enjoying the situation.”

Enjoying it?

That Lee Rowan?

Tang Hwa-young knew the Lee Rowan of the past, so she could imagine it, but thinking about the current Lee Rowan, it was absurd.

“……”

After a moment of thought, Tang Hwa-young soon spoke.

“Leave him be.”

If necessary, Lee Rowan would step forward himself, as he always had.

“He needs some rest right now.”

And for some reason.

“Was the training schedule for three days?”

“Yes, it is.”

“I should observe.”

Curiosity also arose.

* * *

Lee Rowan had a slight smile on his face, feeling a fresh sensation he hadn’t felt in a long time.

The first start was just a minor misunderstanding.

The new guild member’s uniform he had borrowed for a moment because he had no clothes to wear.

And when he was moving alone for a moment to check on the Silver Star.

-Hey, you there!

Park Han-soo had discovered him.

That was quite refreshing too.

Even if he didn’t hide his presence, Lee Rowan’s presence was currently very ordinary.

Returning to the basics.

The energy that was not revealed and was contained was not something anyone could notice.

However, that was what caught Park Han-soo’s eye.

-Come over here!

An ordinary presence that was hard to feel.

And the uniform of a new guild member.

Lee Rowan thought about ignoring it and passing by, but he changed his mind for a moment.

“……”

A strange tingling sensation in his chest led him.

The situation that followed was predictable.

He was misunderstood, and he acted accordingly, but it was something that would soon be revealed.

Since the management of guild members was the most important thing for the guild, it was natural that it would be revealed that he was not a new guild member.

That’s when it happened.

-S-special recruit.

Someone stepped forward, and Lee Rowan looked at him.

It was a familiar face.

‘I think his name was Man-seok.’

A man who had been a member of the Blood Cult since the past, under the name Man-seok.

He was especially quick-witted, and Kang Han-cheol and others liked him.

Indeed.

‘He’s quite perceptive.’

Man-seok’s perception was quite good.

He had noticed that Lee Rowan didn’t dislike this situation and was trying to smooth things over according to his wishes.

The result was this.

“Everyone will have their own weapons. Pick up the weapon you want and stand here.”

He had also become one of the new guild members and was participating in the training.

“Move quickly-!”

He knew it was a bothersome and useless thing to do.

But….

‘It’s not bad.’

For some reason, a smile appeared.

Only after smiling slightly again could Lee Rowan realize it.

A languid, expressionless face.

‘Since when was it?’

That he was feeling human emotions again.

When he had returned, he hadn’t been able to feel any emotions.

After that, he had occasionally smiled, but it was a habitual, formal smile.

The only real emotion he had felt after that was anger.

“……”

And yet, he was smiling.

Not a fake smile, but a real one.

If he were to guess when it happened, he thought he could.

-Kwon-cheol.

At that time, when he had finished what he couldn’t finish, another emotion had awakened.

“Hmm.”

It was ambiguous whether he should think of this as a good thing or not.

So.

‘I have no choice but to try it.’

There was no other way but to feel it.

“Hey, you there!”

A voice called out to Lee Rowan again.

“Are you going to move slowly again?”

By now, all the other new guild members had picked up their weapons.

“Or is your fist your only pride?”

After thinking for a moment about the question, Lee Rowan slowly approached the weapons and picked one up.

“A spearman, I see.”

A spear.

In other guilds, they could recognize the sect engraved on the uniform and guess what martial arts and weapons they would use.

However, the Silver Star had strictly forbidden mentioning one’s sect or identity during new recruit training.

They could only guess by looking at all the situations.

“Now that you have your weapons, it’s time for the next step.”

The training ground where they were standing.

Whoosh.

A wave of magical power spread out there.

At that moment, Lee Rowan was examining the spear in his hand.

‘It’s a masterpiece.’

It was just for training, but the spear was quite excellent.

It had a solid weight balance, the shaft was extremely sturdy and light.

The spearhead was sharp and seemed like it wouldn’t dull easily.

There weren’t many places that could make such things.

‘The Tang family.’

The Tang family was definitely putting in the effort.

“Are you surprised by the Silver Star’s weapons?”

A voice came from beside him.

When he looked over, a young man with a youthful face was smiling at Lee Rowan.

Judging by his age, he was about twenty-two.

‘First-rate.’

He was also someone with considerable martial arts skills.

“You must know that the Silver Star’s weapons have been famous for a while now, right?”

Lee Rowan looked around.

“Why are you looking elsewhere? I’m talking to you, you idiot.”

But as expected, the young man was talking to him.

“You’re a clueless guy. You’re a special recruit, but you don’t know anything?”

Not just the young man.

Others were also looking in his direction, though they didn’t open their mouths.

“Rumor has it that the artisans of the destroyed Tang family entrusted their work to the Silver Star. It’s probably true. The temporary guild leader is also the Poison Flower, Tang Hwa-young.”

“……”

“This uniform may look like this, but it’s said that it can’t be pierced by most monsters.”

The young man kept talking even though there was no response.

“My name is… Ah, right. I can’t say my name yet.”

The young man said.

“I’m Number 3.”

He introduced himself with the number assigned during training.

And Number 3 confidently reached out his hand.

“What are you doing? If I introduce myself, you have to introduce yourself too. Don’t you know your number?”

Pfft.

“You’re Number 18.”

It was as if he felt bad for some reason.

“Everyone, quiet!”

Park Han-soo’s voice echoed again.

“We will now begin the training-!”

The training ground had already transformed into a completely different space.

‘Barrier.’

A space created by appropriately using illusion barriers and geomantic formations [a traditional East Asian practice of arranging structures in harmony with the environment].

“It’s monster hunting.”

It was extraordinary from the very beginning.

* * *

“Hey.”

It was a feeling he hadn’t felt in a long time.

The feeling of being a new recruit and being sent to the first battlefield.

The feeling of doing something with others.

“Hey, hey.”

In the past, Lee Rowan had imagined it.

The day when players would be recognized and join a martial arts guild.

The day when he could fight alongside them.

“Hey, hey, hey!”

Or, the day when he could hunt monsters with countless players, sweating together.

But he couldn’t do any of that.

The martial arts guilds treated players as less than expendable, and the player guilds didn’t accept Lee Rowan, whose identity was unclear.

That’s why Lee Rowan created Dank.

“Hey!”

Lee Rowan turned his gaze.

“Number 18!”

“……”

There stood the young man called Number 3.

“What are you doing? We need to make a plan.”

Along with him, other guild members were also visible.

“Come over here.”

The training that had begun was monster hunting.

It was harsh for the first day of training, but considering that most of the Silver Star’s guild members were experienced, it wasn’t that strange.

The reason why the first training was monster hunting was that it was also a test, not just training.

In the barrier that was created, Park Han-soo told them to form groups.

And.

“We’re Group 3. This side is Number 7, Number 26, Number 31….”

About a dozen people.

All of them were the ones that Number 3 had gathered.

“This side is Number 18.”

“……”

It was okay to form groups or move alone.

Everything was free.

Number 3 had put Lee Rowan in his group without asking him anything.

“And….”

Smirk.

“You heard that you’re a special recruit, right? The Silver Star occasionally picks special recruits, but you know it’s rare.”

Number 3 said.

“It’s said that the special recruits are all amazing, so our group is lucky.”

Thump.

Number 3 also pointed to his own chest.

“It’s all thanks to my connections. Everyone, keep that in mind.”

Whether he was good-natured or something else.

‘He’s not bad.’

But he didn’t have a side that made him feel bad.

He was free to leave whenever he wanted.

That was his stance.

“But….”

Then someone opened their mouth.

“Why have you been speaking informally since earlier?”

As expected, when humans gather, fights break out.