Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 9

Nangseon’s Romantic Tale – 8

Thud, crunch, crunch!!

“Kuaaaaak!! A mere beast dares!!”

Huh.

I don’t hurt anywhere.

More than that, it’s noisy.

When I carefully opened my eyes, I saw an old man who had lost an arm and a tiger spitting out his arm, stained with blood.

That majestic tiger was my husband.

Sangun.

[Hwaran!]

“Yes!”

Kuaaaang!!

Sangun’s roar echoed through the cave. Perhaps because it was enclosed, Choa’s ears went numb.

When she was held by a woman and moved away, her hearing returned, and when she turned around, she saw the old man and Sangun fighting.

Bang! Crash!!

“H-How…!”

Hwaran smiled sweetly at Choa’s bewildered expression.

“Sangun-nim hid himself using a treasure called Myeongsa [Cloth of Invisibility] and ambushed him. And he rescued Sanbi-nim.”

The black cloth that Hwaran took out as she ran to Sangun was Myeongsa [Cloth of Invisibility].

It was one of the treasures Sangun had prepared, a treasure that allowed perfect stealth by making the body transparent when covered with this cloth.

A jet-black cloth using the character of ‘無’ [Mu], which means nothingness, and ‘暝’ [Myeong], which means darkness. It was made from the silk of a silkworm called Mujam [Silkworm of Nothingness], one of the four treasures Sangun possessed.

Remembering that the shabby old man was good at stealth, Sangun took out the Myeongsa, wore it, and waited for an opportunity to attack!

“B-But who is this sister?”

“I am Sangun-nim’s changgui [personal attendant]. My name is Hwaran, Sanbi-nim.”

She covered Choa and herself with Myeongsa, and even though she was covered in the cloth, she could see outside clearly.

“S-Sanbi… My husband said he didn’t like me….”

“He is a very dangerous man. That’s why he had no choice but to say that. In fact, Sangun-nim cares a lot about Sanbi-nim.”

“R-Really?”

“Of course. Otherwise, would he fight such a fearsome enemy? This is the first time I’ve seen Sangun-nim fight an enemy stronger than himself. There hasn’t been such a thing in nearly 100 years.”

I see.

That’s what it was.

It was hard to believe, but the evidence was fighting fiercely right in front of her eyes, so she couldn’t help but believe it.

Choa grabbed her chest and forcibly suppressed the rising sobs.

She tried to hold back her tears, but these tears created water at will and overflowed from her eyes, so she couldn’t hold back.

Choa rubbed her eyes with her sleeve and sobbed.

“Heuaaaang, hiccup! I-I didn’t know that, heueong! Choa will listen to you well from now on, heuaaaaang.”

Choa’s appearance, shedding tears of relief, was quite cute, but now was not the time to relax and cry.

Getting Choa out of this place was the top priority.

Sangun had bitten off one of the guy’s arms, but that wasn’t enough to be relieved. He said that guy was in the Yeonghwa [Spiritual Harmony] stage, having achieved Itong [Second Stage of Spiritual Awakening].

He’s holding on now, but that’s only because the surprise attack worked.

If the battle drags on, Sangun is in danger.

Kwang!!

Kuaaaang!

As expected, Sangun was hit by the guy’s kick and slammed into the rock wall.

“How dare a mere spirit beast challenge me!? Today, I will cut off your limbs and chew on your inner core!!”

Crunch! Crunch, crunch!!

The old man’s body twisted, and bone fragments burst out of his flesh.

With the eerie sound of drums bursting, the guy’s body gradually grew larger and his form changed.

As the spiritual pressure that had been confined by disguise burst out, even the ghost Hwaran felt goosebumps as the energy of murder mixed in.

[Keueuk…. What’s so great about a rat bastard that you’re acting like a tiger bastard.]

That’s right.

The old man revealed his true form, and it was a giant rat.

Red, bloodshot eyes, crooked whiskers, and overall the appearance of a rat, but strangely, the fur that should have covered his body was absent.

Hwaran covered Choa’s eyes so she couldn’t see, and ran out of the cave.

-Just wait a little bit. Sanbi-nim….

Hwaran, who was sending a telepathic message to Sangun, stopped abruptly.

-Not Sanbi!

Kwang! Kwaaaang!

Sangun, who was fighting as if the world was shaking, denied that she was Sanbi even in the midst of it, and tilted his head at the protruding front teeth.

Kwang!

The guy’s long front teeth slammed into the rock wall, and Sangun used his front paws to scratch the guy’s neck.

Slash!!

Blood splattered on Sangun’s face.

Just as he was about to smile with satisfaction, Sangun, feeling strangely that the guy’s blood was hot, shook his head and stepped back.

“Kikkikkik!”

The rat spirit beast, bleeding from its neck, raised the corners of its mouth and laughed unpleasantly.

Sangun’s expression crumpled at the sight.

The guy in the form of a giant hairless rat didn’t look good at all at a glance.

One of his front legs had long been torn off by Sangun, and his neck was wounded by claws, with blood gushing out.

But strangely, the guy didn’t seem intimidated at all.

‘The blood is hot, but this….’

Sangun swept his face with his front paw and licked the blood with his tongue.

[Ptooey]

‘Damn it, it’s poison.’

No wonder he was smiling so annoyingly.

“Do you know now? Puhuhuhu, but what can you do even if you know now!”

Sangun prowled around the guy, thinking.

‘Hairless rat. Poison in the blood….’

Hyeolmyeoseoja [Blood Cat Rat Fiend].

[He is Hyeolmyeoseoja [Blood Cat Rat Fiend]. A monster created from the vengeful spirits of rats killed by cats, enjoying the blood of cats, and a cruel monster with deep resentment.]

Sangun, recalling a passage from Sanhaebalsango [Famed Bestiary], clicked his tongue.

In the novel, he is an enemy who is killed by the protagonist, but he was frustrated because he couldn’t do anything about it.

Fortunately, the Hyeolmyeoseoja he remembered was a Yeonggyeol [Spiritual Binding]-level spirit beast, but now the guy was only a Yeonghwa [Spiritual Harmony]-level.

Even so, it was certain that he was an overwhelming opponent, but it would be better to face a Yeonghwa-level than a Yeonggyeol-level.

‘At least there’s a chance of winning.’

Woo웅!

At that time, a pool of blood next to Hyeolmyeoseoja made a strange noise and churned.

Those pools of blood moved as if they were alive, and soon began to take shape.

They were Hyeolseo [Blood Rats] made of blood, the size of Sangun’s front paw.

Small rat-shaped mice.

It was Hyeolmyeoseoja’s divine power, but Sangun couldn’t help but be nervous about the number.

‘Fifty…, a hundred…, it’s increasing.’

They were small rat-shaped summons created by Hyeolmyeoseoja’s divine power.

Although small in size, Sangun couldn’t help but be nervous about the increased number.

Those pools of blood were all Hyeolmyeoseoja’s. Then those rats were also made of poison.

If they were covered and bitten by Hyeolseo, the poison would spread throughout their body and they wouldn’t be able to move. The saying that you don’t know your clothes are getting wet in a drizzle flashed through his mind, and a hollow laugh burst out.

‘Damn it…. I’m really going to die.’

“Aren’t you terrified looking at my Hyeolseo [Blood Rats]? How can a tiger be afraid of rats and run away with its tail between its legs! Puhuhuhu!!”

It was an obvious provocation.

If he had stayed still, it would have been fine, but when he provoked him like that, he realized that the guy’s condition wasn’t that good.

Blood was constantly dripping from his lost front leg, and the shallowly cut neck didn’t seem to stop bleeding.

The guy was also in a hurry.

No matter how much he had reached the realm of Yeonghwa [Spiritual Harmony], he was just as anxious because he had suffered such serious injuries.

He was planning to ambush or run away while he was fighting the Hyeolseo [Blood Rats].

Sangun slowly backed away, creating distance.

In order to inflict an effective hit on the guy, he had to go into close combat, but in order to do that, he had to break through the hundreds of Hyeolseo [Blood Rats].

‘Hwaran needs to come quickly.’

He had already handed over Myeongsa [Cloth of Invisibility] to Hwaran.

All the treasures that could be used in battle were with Hwaran. The only divine power he could use could not be used twice that day.

If he missed, that would be the moment his life would be cut short!

He had no choice but to be extremely careful.

‘Still, if Hwaran is here….’

Just as he was thinking that!

Hyeolmyeoseoja [Blood Cat Rat Fiend] shouted, as if he couldn’t delay any longer.

“Just keep backing away like a scared rat!!”

The guy controlled the Hyeolseo [Blood Rats] and rushed at Sangun as if he wouldn’t even give him time to think.

The sight of hundreds of Hyeolseo [Blood Rats] rushing at the tiger was truly spectacular.

However, Sangun, who was about to be attacked by them, was terrified.

[These bastards!]

Kwang!

Several Hyeolseo [Blood Rats] scattered into the air and turned into blood.

But it was a negligible number among the hundreds. Sangun gnashed his teeth.

Clench!

In the short time he was distracted, a Hyeolseo [Blood Rat] bit Sangun’s hind leg.

The tingling sensation was fading as the rapidly spreading poison.

Sangun was startled and shook off his hind leg, dropping the Hyeolseo [Blood Rat] and stepping on it to kill it.

However, the Hyeolseo [Blood Rat], which had turned into blood, was poisonous in itself.

Sangun frowned as his sole was stained with blood poison.

[Dirty bastard.]

What kind of rat was using such intelligent divine power?

It was a cruel method of slowly killing him.

Sangun roughly scattered his front paws, which could move relatively quickly, and killed the Hyeolseo [Blood Rats].

He killed a dozen or so with his front paws, but it was difficult for him to kill all the guys who were swarming in like bees.

To make matters worse, when he hit them with his front paws, they turned into blood and stained his feet, so he couldn’t avoid being slowly poisoned.

“Puhuhu! You can’t even use a proper divine power, so do you think you can kill me, a Yeonghwa [Spiritual Harmony] spirit beast!”

It wasn’t bad for Sangun to be looked down upon.

Looking down on him meant being careless.

Sangun moved his body as much as possible to avoid the Hyeolseo [Blood Rats], and only hit them and turned them into blood when it was unavoidable.

Slowly, he couldn’t feel his front paws. His hind legs, which he couldn’t avoid, were also being poisoned.

There were many of them, and eventually, his body was about to fall over due to the lost sensation.

“Puhuhu! I will cut you in half!”

At that moment!

A black cloth suddenly unfolded from an empty space!

[Kill him!]

Hwaran, who had leaped up and climbed onto Hyeolmyeoseoja’s [Blood Cat Rat Fiend] back, raised her rusty sword.

It was then.

Flash!

The rusty, toothless sword disappeared without a trace, and was transformed into a treasured sword with the power to cut anything.

“No!!”

The guy realized Hwaran’s presence and turned his head back, but Hwaran’s sword had already been swung down towards the guy’s neck.

Slash!!

“Kuaaaaaaaak!!”

“I underestimated you!”

Hwaran frowned and jumped off the back of the raging guy.

She had cut his neck, but she couldn’t cut it off completely. For a moment, Hyeolmyeoseoja [Blood Cat Rat Fiend] strangely twisted his neck.

How he twisted his short neck like that in that short moment, if it had been a normal spirit beast, his neck bones would have broken and he would have died.

Sangun clicked his tongue at his tenacious life force.

He was doing all sorts of things to keep his half-cut, dangling neck from falling off.

[Just die already.]

Sangun moved his unmoving body with all his might.

He moved his front paws and moved his hind legs. Most of the sensation in his body was paralyzed, but he believed that he could jump once.

The moment Sangun leaped up, he raised his front paws high into the sky.

Whirr!

Blue flames were already covering his front paws. Bongak Cheonghwa [Phoenix Evil Blue Fire], the only divine power Sangun obtained after achieving Itong [Second Stage of Spiritual Awakening]!

The cave, which had been shining with Yamyeongju [Night Bright Pearl], was submerged in blue with his divine power.

[Cheongyeomhojo [Blue Flame Tiger Claws].]

The tiger’s claws, with the blue flames burning fiercely, rushed towards the guy.

“Damn tiger bastardaaaaak!!”

Kwang!!

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