Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 443

The Open Heaven, with its long history and power, could be said to represent the entire history of the Silver.

Whoosh!

That Open Heaven was now engulfed in flames, burning fiercely.

A massive fire was erasing everything.

Kwaaaah-!

The Open Heaven, burning along with its recorded history, was being consumed by Nidhogg’s breath.

The flames were not just burning the structures of the Open Heaven.

“Kkyaaaak!”

The warriors of the Open Heaven, who had protected it, were also dying, engulfed in the flames.

There were no more Open Heaven executives or the protection of the Gae Shin Library [a library holding records and secrets] to shield them.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

They were merely prey for the raging flames.

“It’s like the setting sun.”

It was similar to the sunset that was disappearing into the annals of history.

“A massacre site is like a sunset? You have a problem if you’re that sentimental.”

Lee San-hoo said, distorting his face.

This scene was not a pleasant one for him.

The Open Heaven burning was something that could happen.

In fact, it was even refreshing.

-The Open Heaven.

In the past, they may have symbolized righteousness and cooperation, representing the hearts of countless common people, but now they were just a group of demons who had become completely corrupt.

The atrocities they had committed in the world, in Asia.

-Drugs, loan sharking, contract killings….

How many lives had been destroyed by the things the Open Heaven called their main businesses and earned income from?

Thousands, tens of thousands, no, many times more people than the countless Open Heaven members had suffered and died in this fiery torment.

So, it was right for the Open Heaven to burn.

“But….”

The countless Open Heaven members who were dying with it.

Seeing their deaths before his eyes was….

“Are you feeling sympathy?”

“…….”

Lee San-hoo did not answer Ha Se-min’s question.

“It’s better if you don’t.”

It was not a warning or anything, but a sincere statement.

“Those who remain now are all the ones who have been carefully selected.”

Before Nidhogg unleashed its breath, the Open Heaven had already been completely taken over by the Silver and had begun to be classified.

-I will decide who lives and who dies.

The criteria were the atrocities they had committed.

Fortunately, those atrocities were….

Whoosh!

All stored in the Gae Shin Library.

The Gae Shin Library was destroyed, but almost all the information and access rights that remained there were inherited by Lee Ro-woon.

Lee Ro-woon was able to clearly grasp the atrocities of the Open Heaven because of this.

-Chae Moo-jin, the number of people who were forced into debt and died from hardship was forty-five.

He was able to classify them accordingly.

Those who had ruined many people.

They remained here.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

They were destined to die engulfed in flames.

“Is it because of the memories of the Soul Spirit Doctor?”

Ha Se-min said.

Lee San-hoo was just a player now, but his predecessor and previous life was the Soul Spirit Doctor, who was known as the best doctor in the Silver.

As a doctor who did his best to save human lives, it could be difficult to see so many lives being destroyed without even being able to resist.

“Then you should accept it even more.”

Ha Se-min said.

“They are….”

Even if it wasn’t for the atrocities recorded in the Gae Shin Library.

“They are truly evil people who deserve to die, tumors that eat away at the world and its people.”

As the leader of the Hao Moon, he knew their sins in detail.

“Do you expect them to be reformed?”

Even if they were reformed.

“The sins they have already committed will not disappear.”

Therefore, their punishment was justified.

And then Lee San-hoo nodded.

Even if he was the Soul Spirit Doctor in the past, he was a player now.

“Sometimes, extremism is necessary.”

The Open Heaven was burning.

***

The name of the Open Heaven began to disappear from Asia.

The burning of the Open Heaven’s main base, which was located near Mount Baekdu, on the border between what was once called North Korea and China, was the beginning.

The news spread quickly as they watched Mount Baekdu burning.

And soon.

-The Silver attacked the Open Heaven.

The fact that the main force was the Silver and that the Silver had completely won against the Open Heaven.

-Shin-gae died, and the disciples of the Open Heaven’s leader were all wiped out.

The damage suffered by the Open Heaven began to be revealed one after another.

It was a story close to a massacre.

As the destruction of the Open Heaven, which boasted a large size, was so great, there were at least tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives in the Open Heaven’s main base.

-More than 50% died.

More than half of them were burned along with the Open Heaven.

It was an unprecedented massacre.

However, public opinion was different.

“Good riddance!”

Despite the deaths of so many lives, very few were saddened.

“Those bastards. It’s a shame I didn’t get to see them die.”

Most people were relieved and happy about the destruction of the Open Heaven.

It was a sign of how deep and dark their sins were.

Of course, not everyone was just happy about the destruction of the Open Heaven.

-Regret.

Several sects of the Silver, including the Hwasan, expressed regret over the destruction of the Open Heaven.

-The Martial Alliance will no longer stand idly by.

The Martial Alliance, which had been silent until now, also issued a statement.

Until now, no sects had been destroyed by the Silver.

However, now the Open Heaven, which could be said to be a pillar of the Silver, had been destroyed.

This was.

-The war has begun.

It was the moment when the looming war became a reality.

Kwaang!

It could also be said to be a signal flare announcing the outbreak of war.

“What’s going to happen now?”

The fight that the Silver was waging against the entire Silver.

However, what most people were worried about was something else.

“It’s the Open Heaven!”

“It’s the remnants of the Open Heaven!”

The main base of the Open Heaven had burned and disappeared, but the remnants of the Open Heaven still remained throughout Asia.

Having lost their heads, they began to run wild as if the shackles that had bound them had been released.

Those who had at least been watching their surroundings when the Open Heaven was managing them.

“If things are going to end up like this anyway, we’re all going to be ruined.”

As the Open Heaven collapsed, they seemed to have sensed their own fate and began to move to make a big score.

One day, two days.

Riots were breaking out.

Private houses were burning, and people were dying.

Just like the countries that had been engulfed in civil wars in the past, people were distrusting and killing each other.

And on the third day.

“Catch them all and kill them!”

Another riot broke out.

This was a fight between two organizations among the remnants of the Open Heaven, fighting over each other’s territory.

Originally, the Open Heaven should have mediated and divided their territories, but now that the Open Heaven had disappeared.

“We’re going to kill all those bastards and eat them all up.”

Their desires were exploding.

Whoosh!

A burning ember.

Kwaang!

A loud explosion.

Clang, clang, clang!

The noise of weapons was happening in the streets of the citizens, not somewhere else.

Those who were enjoying their usual daily lives tried to leave their places because of the sudden incident.

“You’re in the way.”

The blind blades of the Open Heaven members did not discriminate.

Slaughter.

Massacre.

Their justification was the blood revenge for the destruction of the Open Heaven, but in reality, it was just an explosion of desire.

When the citizens who had suffered damage cried out in resentment, sitting down on the streets.

Swoosh.

Black-clad figures appeared.

Black-clad figures suddenly appeared in the center of the battlefield.

“Who are those guys!”

“Who are you!”

They hesitated for a moment, seeing the clothes that looked like the Open Heaven’s uniforms.

“Clean up the trash.”

The order was given.

And then.

Swoosh!

The black-clad figures rushed out in an instant and began to sweep away the remnants of the Open Heaven.

They were remnants of the Open Heaven, but they were still famous warriors or players in the area.

Demons that ordinary people or mediocre people would not even dare to talk to.

But at this moment.

“Keo-eok!”

They began to be swept away in an instant.

“Wh, what…!”

The remnants of the Open Heaven, flustered, stepped back.

Swoosh!

However, they could only give up their necks to the following slashes.

“St, stop! I surrender!”

Even if they shouted surrender without even knowing who the opponent was.

Swoosh!

Another slash and blade soared in.

Without question.

The black-clad figures did not allow any questions or answers, they just swept away the remnants of the Open Heaven.

“U, the Silver?”

Could they be warriors of the Silver?

“The Silver’s uniforms are red!”

Then it’s not the Silver.

Who….

By the time they had such questions, the scene had already been cleared.

The remnants of the Open Heaven who had fallen.

The black-clad figures who were cleaning up behind them.

“Thank you for your help.”

They expressed their cautious gratitude to the black-clad figures.

Swoosh.

The black-clad figures only gave a silent nod, not opening their mouths.

Whoosh!

They disappeared as suddenly as they had appeared.

A little time passed.

“Ah…!”

Someone shouted as if they had realized the identity of the black-clad figures.

“The Black Lion!”

The Black Lion.

The rivals of the Open Heaven, who had been hidden by the Open Heaven, were beginning to emerge into the light.

* * *

“The remnants of the Open Heaven will be cleaned up soon.”

The Open Heaven’s sphere of influence was very large and deep.

Ha Se-min, who was worried about them running wild, had once suggested to Lee Ro-woon that he absorb the Open Heaven and make them puppets.

However, he chose to eliminate the Open Heaven rather than absorb it.

-Then, can you leave it to me?

Ha Se-min said that he would come up with a countermeasure.

And now, the results were appearing.

As large as the Open Heaven’s sphere of influence was.

“The Black Lion is absorbing the Open Heaven’s power.”

The Black Lion was also spread wide and deep.

They had tried not to be too visible, hidden by the name of the Open Heaven, but now they finally revealed themselves with the Silver behind them.

Also, their power was by no means inferior to the Open Heaven.

“The reason why the Open Heaven was feared was because of the Gae Shin Library.”

However, now that the Gae Shin Library was destroyed, there was nothing to fear anymore.

“With the help of the surrounding sects, it will be easier to clean up.”

It meant that the era of the Open Heaven was over.

It also meant that the era of the Black Lion had arrived.

“The Silver can now be said to be completely divided.”

If they were divided into pro-demon and anti-demon factions in the past, now they were….

-Pro-Silver, Anti-Silver.

Their forces were divided based on the Silver.

All of this was a change that had occurred in less than a few years since Lee Ro-woon returned.

“By the way….”

Ha Se-min said.

“Did you get anything from the Gae Shin Library?”

The purpose of attacking the Open Heaven was not only to eliminate the Open Heaven, but there was another purpose.

-The world’s stakes [metaphor for restrictions or limitations].

The key to removing the stakes that restricted the players.

The first was Cheong In-woo.

The second was confirmed to be sleeping in the Gae Shin Library.

And as a result.

“I found it out.”

Lee Ro-woon replied.

“……!”

“Cheong In-woo is the key to the stakes, the only way to pull out the stakes.”

Lee Ro-woon was organizing the facts he had learned so far.

“And what was sleeping in the Gae Shin Library….”

That vast amount of information.

Even though Lee Ro-woon had taken control of the Gae Shin Library, he could not become its perfect master, and finding the information he wanted there was a difficult task.

It was expected that it would take at least a month, or perhaps longer, to find the desired information in the Gae Shin Library.

But there was help.

-Lee Sae-rom.

His colleague, family, and lover.

She, who had been erased as a past that had to be cleared, gave her last gift.

The information he wanted to find in the Gae Shin Library.

The second key.

“It’s a map of where the stakes are.”

It was a map.