Descent of The Demon Master [EN]: Chapter 755

“Doctor! Get a doctor, you bastards! Now!”

“Yes!”

“Move it! Before I kill you all, you fuckers!”

Lee Hyun-soo was almost out of his mind.

He knew he had to remain as calm as possible, but Kang Jin-ho’s condition had instantly shattered Lee Hyun-soo’s reason.

“Oh, what should I do? What!”

It hadn’t even been a minute since Kang Jin-ho had boarded the ship. Yet, the deck was already soaked with Kang Jin-ho’s blood. How could he remain calm when he was calculating how much longer a person could endure in this state?

“Press it! Press there, you bastard! There! Hold the bleeding area, you useless fools!”

Lee Hyun-soo roared, and the pale-faced men rushed to grab Kang Jin-ho’s body in various places.

“Th-this… this damn it! This!”

Lee Hyun-soo was at a loss for what to do.

The preparations had been thorough. They had a doctor on standby on the deck, and just in case, they had even set up a simple operating room since the ship had departed.

It wasn’t a proper operating room, but it was sufficient to maintain his condition.

However, all those preparations were forgotten the moment he saw Kang Jin-ho’s bloodless face. Everything collapsed. Everything.

“Doctor! How much longer? Bring the doctor! Doctor!”

A soft voice reached Lee Hyun-soo’s ears as he screamed in desperation.

“Calm down first.”

“How can I be calm right now!”

Lee Hyun-soo’s body, which had been on the verge of flipping out, twitched and stopped.

Wiggins was looking at him, clicking his tongue. But the reason Lee Hyun-soo stopped wasn’t because it was Wiggins who had spoken.

“M-Master… your arm?”

“Hmm.”

Wiggins said as if it were nothing.

“Losing an arm is a small price to pay for saving someone from that monster.”

The wide robe was drooping. Wiggins’ left arm was not visible. The blood flowing down the robe told the story of what had happened to Wiggins’ arm.

“Y-your arm?”

“It’s fine.”

“We need to recover your arm to reattach it!”

“I said it’s fine.”

Wiggins narrowed his brow.

“There’s nothing to recover. There would barely be a few pieces of flesh left. It wasn’t cut off, it was crushed.”

“Ugh…”

Lee Hyun-soo trembled.

Just a few seconds.

Wiggins had stayed there for just a few seconds to save Kang Jin-ho. The price was an arm. It made him realize how hellish that place was.

“N-no…”

Lee Hyun-soo was at a loss, caught between his master who had lost an arm and the dying Guild Leader.

“Th-this damn it.”

Frustration, helplessness, and unbearable anger towards himself brought tears to Lee Hyun-soo’s eyes.

The doctors rushed over. But even the doctors turned pale when they saw Kang Jin-ho’s condition.

“C-can we…”

Save him?

That’s what they were asking.

Lee Hyun-soo, fully understanding the emotion in their eyes, gritted his teeth and said,

“Gentlemen.”

“Yes?”

“If this man dies, everyone here dies.”

Lee Hyun-soo’s voice dripped with murderous intent.

“Don’t think you’ll be able to rest peacefully in the West Sea. The moment this man dies, you will truly see hell. I will make sure of it…”

At that moment, Wiggins smacked Lee Hyun-soo on the back of the head with his remaining arm.

Lee Hyun-soo bit his lip and said nothing. He was furious, but he couldn’t talk back to the master who had given up his arm to save the Guild Leader.

“How can they treat him well if you threaten them like that, you fool?”

Wiggins smiled at the doctors.

“He’s just saying nonsense because he’s agitated. Don’t worry. I will guarantee your safety.”

“Ah…”

“And this man may look like a corpse right now, but he’s more resilient than most people. If you just stop the bleeding and treat him well, he will surely survive, so please do your best.”

“B-but it’s not possible here. We need a blood transfusion and sutures. We need to move him to the operating room.”

“Of course.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than people tried to lift Kang Jin-ho. But Wiggins’ heavy voice grabbed them.

“Don’t touch him.”

Wiggins’ words had power in themselves. Everyone stepped back, unable to touch Kang Jin-ho’s body.

“Tsk.”

Wiggins reached out and levitated Kang Jin-ho’s body into the air. Right now, even the slightest touch would be a burden on his body. It was best for him to move him himself.

After carefully moving Kang Jin-ho to the operating room, the doctors rushed in.

“Blood! Pour in the blood first! Draw it now!”

“What good will pouring blood do here! We need to suture the blood vessels first!”

“He’ll die anyway if he doesn’t have blood!”

Wiggins, seeing that their hands were moving sharply despite their words, quietly closed the door. From now on, it was their domain. Now, it was up to the doctors.

“…Master.”

Wiggins chuckled as he saw Lee Hyun-soo standing behind him.

“Calmness isn’t easy. Isn’t that right?”

“Those who believe they are calm have simply not encountered an event that can fluster them.”

“…Yes.”

Lee Hyun-soo could only bow his head at Wiggins’ soft voice.

He had prided himself on being the hidden brain leading the Assembly, but these events had made him acutely aware of how powerless and pathetic he was.

He couldn’t do anything.

He hadn’t foreseen Hong King’s intervention, nor had he considered that Kang Jin-ho could be in danger in China. The reason he had readily agreed to Kang Jin-ho going to China was because he had judged that if Kang Jin-ho drew attention in China, the Assembly would be safe for that time.

It was obvious that they would not care about the Assembly and would only target Kang Jin-ho, but he had overestimated the prestige of the Assembly he had built.

This was the price.

Kang Jin-ho was hovering between life and death, and Wiggins had lost an arm. Moreover, to save Kang Jin-ho, the Lee Myung-hwan members had walked into the path of death themselves.

Not everything was entirely Lee Hyun-soo’s fault.

But he couldn’t say that he had no responsibility either.

Lee Hyun-soo raised his hand and covered his face.

‘Damn it.’

He felt like biting his tongue. What made him even more ashamed was that Wiggins, who had jumped into the fray to save Kang Jin-ho according to his plan, was calmer than he was.

“Are you going to repeat your mistakes?”

Lee Hyun-soo raised his head at Wiggins’ voice.

“You can regret it anytime. It’s not a bad experience to wallow in self-loathing. But right now, you have things to do, don’t you?”

Wiggins was right.

He had things to do right now. If he couldn’t do his job properly because of the shock of the Guild Leader being on the verge of death, what would Kang Jin-ho say when he woke up?

Lee Hyun-soo couldn’t bear the look of disappointment in Kang Jin-ho’s eyes when he looked at him.

“Will he be okay?”

“Is he the type to die like that?”

“…No.”

“Then what are you worried about?”

Lee Hyun-soo nodded vigorously.

Kang Jin-ho was not someone who would die here. For the sake of those who had risked their lives to save him, Kang Jin-ho could not die here.

Lee Hyun-soo turned around.

Then he had to fully secure what Kang Jin-ho had created even in that state.

“Pull them up!”

“Yes!”

The situation was a complete mess.

Originally, this ship was supposed to wait for the Mado [Demon Followers] in international waters. Once they arrived, the goal would be considered achieved just by loading them onto the ship. But as the situation became urgent, Lee Hyun-soo boldly pushed the ship into Chinese territorial waters.

The decision itself was correct. If Lee Hyun-soo hadn’t boldly rushed the ship, most of the Mado, who were exhausted, would have drowned in the sea.

It was a decision that would have killed most of the Mado if the direction had been wrong, but for Lee Hyun-soo, Kang Jin-ho’s life was more important than ten thousand Mado. Even if he was morally condemned, even if he was called a demon, he didn’t care. Lee Hyun-soo became a ghost and carried out his will.

Fortunately, they were able to encounter a group of Mado swimming towards the ship. But there was no time to load them one by one. So, Lee Hyun-soo threw all the nets and buoys they had on the ship into the sea and let the Mado climb up on their own.

Many Mado climbed onto the ship on their own, but there were also those who were too exhausted to climb. The rescue of those people was currently underway.

“Which bastard is it!”

Then, the anger of the Mado who had climbed out of the water exploded.

“You crazy bastard! Which bastard moved the ship with people hanging on! Hey, you bastard! Do you know how many people died?”

The Mado instinctively knew that Lee Hyun-soo was the one in charge. They expressed their anger at him.

But Lee Hyun-soo didn’t care.

“So what?”

“…What?”

“What do I care how many died?”

The Mado were taken aback by Lee Hyun-soo’s fluent Chinese.

“Don’t act so tough, you bug-like bastards. Do you think I came to save you? If it weren’t for the Guild Leader, I would have abandoned you.”

“Y-you… you…”

Lee Hyun-soo pointed to the containers stacked on the deck without another word.

“If you crawled up like cockroaches, shut up and stay put. I don’t have time to listen to your complaints right now.”

“I’ll kill you! You son of a bitch!”

“Kill me?”

Lee Hyun-soo glared at the Mado with murderous eyes.

The Mado were suppressed by his force.

“Considering that the Guild Leader was hurt because of you, I’m holding back from tying you all up and throwing you into the sea. Disappear from my sight before I lose my mind. I really want to kill you.”

“That’s right.”

“Elder!”

Jang Min staggered over.

He hadn’t expended much energy, so he wouldn’t be exhausted from the sea, but he was completely drained from pulling up the exhausted Mado one by one and moving them to the ship.

“How is the Demon Sovereign?”

Lee Hyun-soo couldn’t help but answer Jang Min’s question. He could sense that this man was a big deal just by looking at him.

“He is currently being treated.”

“I see…”

Jang Min said firmly.

“The Demon Sovereign is being treated. I will not tolerate any disturbances. We have not yet reached the promised land. Do not let your guard down.”

“But Elder!”

“Did you not hear me?”

The Mado flinched at Jang Min’s voice. His voice was filled with deep murderous intent and anger. It was a voice they had never heard before.

“Who wouldn’t be saddened by the sacrifices! If the Demon Sovereign hadn’t stepped forward, if these people hadn’t stepped forward, everyone would have died! Do you really intend to defy the Demon Sovereign’s will?”

“No, sir.”

“…Move.”

“Yes!”

Jang Min had settled the situation. Lee Hyun-soo sighed as he watched the scene.

But there was still one person who hadn’t been dealt with.

“Where is the master?”

Bator staggered over from the side.