Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 597

Part 306 of Season 2 – Special Side Story 23

A Wounded Beast.

What better way to describe himself?

Looking at Woo Gu-jeong, Seo Hwang-mo left Sang-hee beside her and stared blankly at the sky.

“It has been a long, long time.”

Waiting for him.

Setting up arrangements, enduring things and insults she didn’t need to.

Everything is part of the process of revenge.

For a more perfect revenge.

She had spent a really long time for a more cruel and sweet revenge.

“Woo Gu-jeong is a miraculous sealing tool. But I know best that it won’t be able to do anything to Geumcheon with just that.”

She doesn’t think that the Celestial Emperor and Geumcheon will lose their minds with just this.

Besides, if it ends with just this, wouldn’t the days of sowing seeds for so long be too futile?

He will soon break it and come out.

But that moment is enough. Now is the only time to tie up that hateful man and the Celestial Emperor, who might interfere with her, at once.

“It was a divine move to leave you alone. I can’t believe you brought his woman to me.”

Seo Hwang-mo raised the corner of her mouth as she looked at Sang-hee, who was tied up.

“The reason I took Oh Ryong’s body was partly because of the deep wounds, but partly because he cherishes her. I heard he adopted her as his daughter? He even swallowed his woman with such a body, so what kind of expression will he give me when he finds out about this?”

Seo Hwang-mo laughed out loud, as if she was happy just imagining it.

“Why….”

“Don’t you know why I have been taking Geumcheon Island every ten thousand years and falling into a long sleep over the past years?”

How could she not know?

The phoenix, who suffered a great injury, had no way to heal it, and was barely surviving with the energy of Geumcheon Island.

She had been doing that for so long that people were talking about who had left such a wound on Seo Hwang-mo.

“My wound was made by Geumcheon Jin-gun.”

“…You are not the Seo Hwang-mo I know.”

In the timeline that Sang-hee knows, he, called Geumcheon Jin-gun, has never harmed Seo Hwang-mo.

So she must have been wounded by him in the distant future.

Originally, she is an impossible existence, but she exists in this place after paying a great price.

“Can’t you stop now? No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand Seo Hwang-mo.”

“I’m not doing this hoping for understanding.”

But Sang-hee asked again and again.

Please stop.

Revenge breeds revenge.

Eventually, it will lead you to the path of destruction.

Such words only fueled Seo Hwang-mo’s anger. Before she knew it, her hand was grabbing Sang-hee’s slender neck.

“Since my current body is Oh Ryong’s, even if I give it a little strength, a weak child like you will burst. Don’t provoke my anger.”

But even so, Sang-hee shook her head and pleaded with tears.

“I don’t want Seo Hwang-mo to get hurt. If you just stop….”

“Ha, anyone who hears you would think you have a trump card to stop me.”

“Yes, I do. But if that happens, Seo Hwang-mo will be deeply hurt.”

So she shakes her head as if she doesn’t like it.

Seo Hwang-mo’s eyebrows narrowed.

“I don’t think you’re talking nonsense…. How can you stop me?”

“Seon said so. If you choose the wrong path, I may have to make a choice.”

When she becomes a tiger and an enemy.

Which side will Sang-hee take?

The choice was left to Sang-hee.

To help her choose, he told her one thing.

“That’s….”

Seo Hwang-mo’s gaze stopped at the golden paper Sang-hee was holding.

“Are you saying you can stop me with that piece of paper?”

She snorts.

Red letters are written on the golden paper, but it’s not a big deal.

She wondered how great it was, but it’s nothing special, so she can’t help but laugh.

“He told me… when Seo Hwang-mo thinks differently from me and Seon, and when you want to stop you, tear this paper.”

Then no matter what happens.

She will stop her.

“What…?”

What the hell is that that he was so sure about?

Seo Hwang-mo’s eyes narrowed.

Then, after examining it carefully, she was startled and opened her eyes wide.

“That can’t be….”

And right then.

Sang-hee tore the paper without hesitation.

Tearing!

Immediately, Geumcheon’s fire bloomed.

It gave off a small heat.

In the golden wave spreading like a wave, a flame bloomed in the center and released a man.

“What…!”

A man appeared, fluttering a black and blue robe. The man with black hair and golden eyes shining brightly embroidered the whole sky with gold.

“Seon!”

The man was none other than Cheonbeom.

“…….”

Seo Hwang-mo just lost her words and watched his appearance.

Then she let out a hollow laugh and asked.

“How far did you see?”

A question of how far he had foreseen.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to do this.

It was a pointless question, but she couldn’t help but ask.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Where should I start? That you were actually hiding your hostility towards me? Or that you’re going to hit me in the back soon? Or that you’re taking away Tamhwa’s body and daring to challenge the sky?”

“…….”

“There are so many that I don’t know where to start.”

Cheonbeom shrugged and joked.

“Woo Gu-jeong is a sacred object made of nine phoenix feathers. How can you get out of it by tearing a piece of paper you made?”

“It was definitely a great thing.”

If it was easy, he would have broken it with his own power and came out.

But since he couldn’t do that, wouldn’t he have come out only after using the arrangement he had given to Sang-hee in advance?

“But this won’t work for those who have never held a phoenix feather.”

“What…?”

Cheonbeom was holding a familiar feather in his hand. It was the sacred beast he had used from the lower world. It was a phoenix feather.

“If you know the origin of the power you wield, the range of spells you can wield will also be limited.”

Seo Hwang-mo opened her mouth with an astonished face. His words came into her ears, but her head couldn’t accept them.

“Ten thousand, no, it will be over ten thousand…?”

Clearly, there is a limit to what is based on feathers, and there is a limit.

But if you combine them, the number of cases is vast. If you count the numbers, it will be infinite.

“What.”

Cheonbeom shrugged.

It’s definitely not easy, but it’s not impossible. And there was enough time.

“3,000 years is enough.”

“………….”

Seo Hwang-mo clenched her fist tightly.

As her expectations collapsed from the foundation, the anger she had been holding back began to boil like a volcano.

“When did you notice?”

“From the beginning.”

“But I guess you didn’t guess that Oh Ryong would surrender to me?”

Cheonbeom responded with ridicule.

“Why are you laughing? Is it funny even though your daughter’s body is now mine? You were always so relaxed. You were always like that no matter what the situation!”

“I’m laughing because it’s funny. And when did Tamhwa become yours? Didn’t you think you were mistaken?”

Seo Hwang-mo paused for a moment.

But she shook her head and clenched her fist tightly.

What she needed was time. She only needed a moment, not a long time.

“Nonsense! Oh Ryong’s body and mind are already under my control. If I’m given a little time, even that will be erased.”

“Do you really think so?”

Cheonbeom looked at her as if he really felt sorry for her.

Seo Hwang-mo was upset by the gaze looking down, but she didn’t rush in easily.

He was making the wrong decision now. He should rush in and subdue her right away, but he was leisurely spouting nonsense.

He will regret it soon. While he is being so relaxed, his adopted daughter and his woman will melt into this body!

“Who do you think I am? I am Seo Hwang-mo, who rules the western sky.”

“So I’m asking. Seo Hwang-mo.”

Did you really have Tamhwa?

“Hmph, useless words…!”

“Tamhwa.”

It was then.

Thud!

Suddenly, Seo Hwang-mo’s hands moved on their own and began to strangle her neck.

“Keuk! You, you! What are you doing!!”

“I didn’t do anything. I just called Tamhwa.”

Controlling Tamhwa’s body and mind?

What a joke.

Tamhwa’s existence, like Cheonbeom, has achieved endless growth while enduring all kinds of hardships and years.

Besides, Tamhwa is Tam’s bloodline.

“Do you think she will be swayed by the existence she ate?”

No way.

The predator in the stomach is just waiting to become the prey’s nutrients.

What else can she do?

“That can’t be! You were acting! Geumcheon! Was this also your doing!”

“Then would Tamhwa have done it herself?”

Tamhwa is Cheonbeom’s daughter.

And the only Seonbon-gi [a unique spiritual energy or essence].

It is an armor that protects itself.

Whose orders would such an existence listen to and move?

“The prank is over.”

* * *

“Tamhwa, I think it’s time to wake up now.”

Tamhwa, who opened her eyes, looked around and closed her eyes again.

And she said to her.

“It wasn’t my father calling.”

Then she dropped her head as if she was about to go back to sleep.

“I wasn’t tied up.”

“Tied up? What? Huh? What is this? I didn’t even know it was hot.”

Tamhwa shook it off as if she had a bug on her body, but the phoenix flame did not go out easily.

But Tamhwa gave up and closed her eyes as if she didn’t care if it didn’t go out.

“I didn’t need to come in.”

“My father told me. Leave it alone. And he said he would call me when the time comes, so come out then. So until then, I’ll just be like this. It’s comfortable.”

If she stays like this for a while, he will call her and bring her food because she is hungry.

And a moment later.

-Tamhwa.

His call was heard.

Tamhwa’s eyes flashed open.

* * *

“Kuaaaaaak!! Geumcheon, you bastard!!”

“You underestimated Tamhwa too much.”

Soon, Seo Hwang-mo’s body transforms.

She is trying to return to her original form.

At the same time, her flames soared, and Tamhwa’s entire body, in the form of Oh Ryong, burned blue.

But that’s it.

Soon, even the flames opened their mouths and ate them, and it became quiet.

After a while, Cheonbeom, who stroked the head of Tamhwa, who had turned into a girl, took Woo Gu-jeong floating in the air and asked.

“What happened to Seo Hwang-mo?”

“I locked her up.”

It seems she locked her up in her stomach.

She will slowly become Tamhwa’s food.

“Huh?”

“Why is that?”

“She disappeared.”

“Are you talking about Seo Hwang-mo?”

“Ung [yes].”

She’s good at it. I didn’t think she would disappear so easily. Even though she is Seo Hwang-mo, I expected that she might have made some arrangements.

Cheonbeom, who was holding Woo Gu-jeong in his hand, felt the energy of the Celestial Emperor inside and pondered for a while before putting it in his arms.

“If she disappeared, I’ll have to chase her.”

There’s no point in leaving any future troubles behind.