Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 106

The Three Kings’ Disciple (107)

106

“How….”

Oh Jin-kyung’s eyes were filled with bewilderment.

Slam!

He raised his hand and clenched his fist, causing the Great Sea Corps members who were running to stop.

Their eyes also showed bewilderment.

Swish.

A river flowing with blood.

Numerous corpses of monsters.

“They’re faster than us?”

Those were the traces of other martial artists.

The Great Sea Corps had entered the gate the fastest and had been running without rest.

They had even skipped meal times, chewing on bigokdan pills [a type of energy pill] that provided only minimal sustenance.

“Even so….”

The traces before them indicated that the Great Sea Corps, despite their efforts, were not in the lead.

Crack.

A sound like a stone breaking came from Oh Jin-kyung’s mouth.

“It’s Eun-ha.”

A voice directed at Oh Jin-kyung.

“Elder Goo.”

Elder Goo Hyung-jin spoke with burning eyes.

“Hainan has clearly done their best. Isn’t that right?”

Oh Jin-kyung didn’t like Goo Hyung-jin for acting independently and participating in the raid, but he was clearly an elder of Hainan.

Moreover, when it came to affection for Hainan, Goo Hyung-jin was no less than Oh Jin-kyung.

“Even Hua-san wouldn’t be able to do something this bizarre.”

Goo Hyung-jin was the one who knew the most about Eun-ha among the Great Sea Corps.

“……..”

Oh Jin-kyung couldn’t ignore Goo Hyung-jin’s words.

“At this rate, Hainan will be defeated again.”

Goo Hyung-jin said as if spitting out poison.

“Are you going to let them suffer humiliation once more?”

Oh Jin-kyung turned around.

The eyes of all the Great Sea Corps members were the same.

Hainan had achieved a near-perfect victory in the war against the Iron Sword Alliance.

However, they had also gained an indelible disgrace in that war.

“We have already suffered humiliation once in the East Sea.”

Goo Hyung-jin’s voice echoed.

As one of the people involved that day, his voice sounded even more desperate.

“The Blue Sword Formation was broken by an unknown martial artist from Eun-ha, and Hainan’s elder….”

Crack.

“I, Goo Hyung-jin, was defeated and fled. I know well that this is an unforgivable sin as a martial artist.”

Goo Hyung-jin had retreated and fled.

Because of that, Hainan’s name had fallen even further.

It was because Goo Hyung-jin, an elder, had violated their teaching that a martial artist should at least fight and die.

“But I fled to seek revenge. If I had died there, would Hainan’s martial artists have been praised for their spirit?”

In the past, that would have been the case.

But in the mixed world, Earth is different.

Defeat is just defeat.

“I will raise Hainan’s name once more with my own hands. That’s why I fled. With my own hands….”

Goo-o-o-o.

“To avenge that day.”

Now was that very moment.

Goo Hyung-jin now closed his mouth and looked at the corps leader, Oh Jin-kyung.

It meant that all choices were left to him.

“We’ll chase them.”

Oh Jin-kyung’s answer was simple.

“From now on, we will not care about injuries. We will move at maximum speed. Those who fall behind, those who are injured, will not be looked after.”

His eyes, like the surging sea.

“Hainan will succeed in this raid.”

Swish.

The blue haze that rose from Hainan’s martial artists crashed like waves.

Tap!

With Oh Jin-kyung kicking off the ground, Hainan’s martial artists began to run.

Their eyes were bloodshot.

***

At the time when Oh Jin-kyung began to run with a venomous spirit.

“Hmm.”

Cheong In-woo of Hua-san also stopped and looked around.

His gaze alternated between the right and the left.

‘It’s different.’

The traces on both sides were different.

The traces they had been following so far were clearly from one group.

“The Great Sea Corps was ahead.”

There was something that Cheong In-woo couldn’t understand.

“There were no traces of Eun-ha until now.”

Cheong In-woo muttered to himself, drawing a picture in his head.

“Perhaps they were following the Great Sea while erasing their traces, or they went in a completely different direction.”

But there were no traces in a different direction, so Cheong In-woo had no choice but to follow the Great Sea Corps, even though he felt something was strange.

That was how quickly Hua-san had been chasing.

But now, new traces finally appeared before Cheong In-woo’s eyes.

The monster corpses on the right and the monster corpses on the left.

“The sword marks are different.”

The sword marks left on them were different.

The first traces to appear.

“Is it a mistake?”

Cheong In-woo thought of Lee Ro-woon.

A martial artist he had only recently learned about.

A man he couldn’t read no matter how much he looked at him.

To be sure, there were not even five people whom Cheong In-woo had not been able to read so far.

“It wouldn’t be a mistake.”

There was no way such a person would make such a mistake.

“Hmm.”

Cheong In-woo crossed his arms again, pondering.

Cheong In-woo knew better than anyone that this choice would have a significant impact on this raid.

Clap.

Cheong In-woo clapped his hands and finally made a decision.

He had remembered the purpose of this gate raid.

Through this gate raid, Hua-san wanted to thoroughly announce that Hua-san was the ruler of Korea and to crush Hainan, who was trying to keep them in check.

However, Cheong In-woo’s purpose was different.

“Lee Ro-woon.”

The man he couldn’t read.

A man with a strange sense of unease.

“I’ll follow him.”

He thought that grasping even a little of that man’s true nature was the way to go for Hua-san.

“It’s a shame.”

He said with a faint smile.

“I was going to put Eun-ha and Hainan together to see their skills, but they’re moving separately like this.”

Regret for the plan going awry.

And a smile to erase the unease he felt for some reason.

“Move out.”

At Cheong In-woo’s command, the Hua-san corps members began to move at a rapid pace.

“The Black Plum will follow the traces.”

“Understood.”

At Cheong In-woo’s command, the Black Plums [elite Hua-san members] moved even faster.

They kept finding traces of Eun-ha and were following that direction.

“Corps leader.”

Even so.

“The traces have disappeared.”

The traces that had been continuing suddenly disappeared again.

“Ha.”

Cheong In-woo sighed and shook his head.

“It’s not like they’re a goblin or something.”

Why did the traces that had been going so well disappear again?

These were things that defied reason and common sense.

They couldn’t have sunk into the ground, nor could they have soared into the sky.

Looking at the suddenly disappeared traces of Eun-ha, Cheong In-woo muttered to himself.

“This is like a dream….”

Cheong In-woo’s eyes narrowed.

Whoosh!

The aura emanating from his body.

At that, the Black Plums began to step back with fearful faces.

“Crazy.”

Cheong In-woo chuckled as if he was dumbfounded.

“Could it be….”

His aura was pushing away the space, revealing the truth.

Swish.

A hazy fog filled the surroundings.

“Are we trapped in a formation?”

* * *

Lee Ro-woon, with his eyes closed, seemed to be drawing something in the air with his hands.

Thump! Thump! Bang!

Every time his hand changed its trajectory, small sonic booms were heard.

Lee Ro-woon’s gestures were like those of a conductor leading an orchestra, or like the aimless gestures of a madman.

But when he opened his eyes.

“……..”

The surroundings were enveloped in a strange silence.

Gulp.

Even Do Mu-sung and Jung Chi-soo, the strongest forces of the Eun-ha Corps, held their breath as they watched Lee Ro-woon’s figure.

‘Just what….’

They were thinking the same thing, even though they hadn’t shared a single word.

‘How far does the Blood Demon’s power go?’

They already knew what Lee Ro-woon was doing.

-We’ll go this way.

Lee Ro-woon, who had been acting as if he had nothing to do with the gate raid.

He had been going around here and there through shortcuts, leaving and erasing traces.

All of those actions were for one reason.

“If Kang Eun-ha were here, she would have told me.”

A situation that was extremely disadvantageous.

Lee Ro-woon taught that the way to survive in that situation was not to find a way out, but to break the board.

And Kang Eun-ha understood and carried it out.

The next step.

“If you’ve created a new board on the broken one….”

Smirk.

“You have to let them know who the owner is.”

A new board.

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes were tinged with gold.

The location of the gate he wanted to see was clearly visible in his vision.

Swish.

Two corps trapped in a deep fog.

‘They’ve realized it now.’

It seemed that both corps had finally realized the truth.

That they were being played on someone else’s board, not their own.

“The Demonic Blood Demon Formation, huh.”

Even though its history had been erased and the Blood Cult was declining, there were things that remained.

Among them was the Blood Cult’s formation.

-The Blood Cult’s formations are also amazing!

As Kang Eun-ha had boasted in the past, the Blood Cult’s formations were indeed useful.

The problem was that it was difficult to properly utilize those formations.

‘The Blood Cult’s formations work by using a large amount of special blood as a medium.’

In the past, it would have been done with the blood of the Blood Cult members.

However, such things required too much preparation.

It might be good for protecting the Blood King’s Castle, but it was difficult to use in actual combat.

That’s why Lee Ro-woon.

-You… modified the formation?

He had newly changed the Blood Cult’s formation.

Knowledge of magic circles learned from his master, the Demon King, the progenitor and emperor of magic.

And an understanding and skill in Bonde’s magic circles.

“The myriad streams return to the source.”

Perhaps the words that the Eun’s martial artists liked the most.

It meant that everything eventually reached its extreme and returned to one.

Those words were not wrong.

When one reached the extreme of magic circles, formations were also the same.

The Demonic Blood Demon Formation, which had been modified in that way, had become something completely different from before.

“Jung Chi-soo.”

“Yes, Blood Demon.”

The blood of monsters imbued with demonic energy, a formation activated by that as a medium.

Also, it was.

‘Mana.’

It continued to change its form in response to Lee Ro-woon’s mana, which controlled the outside.

An absolute formation that could deceive even martial artists who had reached the extreme of the Mystic Realm.

Those trapped inside….

Smirk.

They would have to be played with as Lee Ro-woon wanted for a long time.

‘Cheong In-woo.’

His thoughts were clear as day.

Due to the nature of such a person, he had a terrible curiosity and obsession with things he didn’t know.

‘Putting Eun-ha and Hainan together, or in another way, Eun-ha’s skills….’

No.

‘He wants to see my skills, doesn’t he?’

He had no intention of playing along with that.

“Popcorn.”

“Here it is.”

Lee Ro-woon, holding the prepared popcorn, sat cross-legged.

With one arm propping up his chin, he chewed on the popcorn placed between his knees with one hand.

“Show me, Hua-san and Hainan.”

It was almost time.

“The true skills of the Eun.”

Crunch!

The popcorn crumbled in Lee Ro-woon’s mouth.

* * *

“It’s a formation.”

Oh Jin-kyung said in a hollow voice.

‘Was it a trap?’

All of this was a trap.

‘How.’

He couldn’t know or even imagine the method.

The important thing was that they had been led into a formation by them, avoiding his eyes and senses, which were called the Great Sea Sword, and that the Great Sea Corps was trapped in a formation.

Gu-o-o-o-o!

The blue aura on Oh Jin-kyung’s sword increased in color and size.

Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham!

The Great Sea poured out from the sword he swung at the empty air.

Boom!

But the aura soon collided with something and exploded.

It meant that it was a supreme formation that could not be broken even with Oh Jin-kyung’s personal power.

‘We have to get out.’

Formations were terrifying.

Like a swamp, if one made a mistake, they would only fall deeper and struggle to death.

There was only one way to get out.

“If it’s a formation like this, there will be a formation master inside.”

A formation with a size and power that could not be controlled from the outside.

“Find the formation master.”

Finding that formation master would be the only way to escape this formation.

Swish.

The Great Sea Corps members moved forward in the hazy fog.

“……!”

The Eun-ha Corps, guarding all sides, came into view before them.

Negotiation? Appealing? Such things were not needed for a martial artist.

“We’ll strike.”

Oh Jin-kyung’s blue sword poured out towards the Great Sea Corps and the Eun-ha Corps.