Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 15

The Three Kings’ Disciple (16)

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“You can’t go in!”

“You dare to insult me! Do you not know who I am!”

A commotion was unfolding at the main gate of the villa.

Bodyguards in suits were blocking a small, thin old man.

At first glance, it might have seemed like the burly men were oppressing the old man.

“You dare….”

That is, if one didn’t know the old man’s identity.

“You must have a death wish.”

“Third Elder!”

The old man’s identity was Han Do-baek, the Third Elder of the Blood Cult.

His alias within the Blood Cult was Cold-Blooded Blade.

Before anyone knew it, a chillingly blue aura was swirling around the large blades in Han Do-baek’s hands.

“I need to see it with my own eyes.”

“Is this something the Left Protector has permitted! The Left Protector said that if it’s someone who hasn’t received permission….”

The bodyguard, or rather, a member of the Blood Sword Unit, one of the Left Protector’s direct forces, spoke without backing down.

“He said that even if it’s the Third Elder, we must absolutely not let you pass.”

Despite the warrior’s words, Han Do-baek’s blade was eventually swung.

Kwaaaang!

Han Do-baek’s pride, the Cold-Blooded Blade Technique, froze everything in its path.

“This is my last mercy. What sin do you, mere underlings, have? If you step aside now, I will spare you.”

“Third Elder… we are sorry.”

“Yes. That is the proper attitude of a Blood Cult member.”

Flash!

Han Do-baek’s eyes gleamed with murderous intent.

“Die.”

Just as Han Do-baek’s blade was about to be swung once more.

The great blade was tracing a path aimed precisely at the Blood Sword Unit warriors.

It seemed like it would shatter not only the warriors who stood without hesitation but also the main gate itself.

Shudder.

It stopped and trembled for a moment.

“Third Elder!”

Kang Eun-ha’s neck was stopped right in front of the blade.

“Miss, what are you doing?”

“Third Elder, what are you doing! Is this something the Left Protector has permitted!”

“……Kuh!”

Even Han Do-baek, the Third Elder, couldn’t help but find Kang Eun-ha a difficult presence.

Even if she couldn’t be compared to the Blood Demon, the priestess was an important figure in the Blood Cult.

She was above the elders and below the Blood Demon.

“Miss. Do you not know what the Left Protector is doing!”

Han Do-baek finally lowered his great blade and shouted.

“It’s an act of throwing himself into a pit of fire!”

“Third Elder.”

“It’s an act of dividing the Blood Cult, which has barely managed to unite and is trying to rise from its crouch!”

“Third Elder!”

“I cannot let that man die like this.”

“Who says anyone is dying!”

Third Elder Han Do-baek.

He had a special relationship with the Left Protector of the Blood Cult.

Their bond went back to Eun, and after Earth and Eun became intertwined, their relationship became even closer as they worked together on Earth.

That’s why Kang Han-cheol had sought out Han Do-baek.

“I must see with my own eyes.”

To see what this so-called Blood Demon really was.

“I must see if this Blood Demon Divine Art is real!”

To see if he was truly someone who could cause such a commotion.

“Then you should have come with the Left Protector!”

Kang Eun-ha’s words were correct.

But Han Do-baek had come here secretly, without Kang Han-cheol’s knowledge.

“What Elder Han Do-baek is trying to do now is treason!”

“You are indeed astute.”

Han Do-baek had no choice but to admit it.

The reason he had come to this place, where a new Blood Demon was said to be, without Kang Han-cheol’s knowledge.

It wasn’t simply to see if he was the real Blood Demon.

If he met him and found him to be an unsatisfactory existence.

‘I will kill him.’

He intended to kill him here.

Even if the result was crossing an irreversible river with Kang Han-cheol.

Even if Kang Han-cheol killed him for this.

“That is the duty I can fulfill for my friend.”

He thought it was better than Kang Han-cheol and the priestess throwing themselves into a pit of fire.

The Blood Demon of this era was the successor of the Blood Demon Art, which hadn’t appeared for several generations.

Moreover, he was someone who had ascended to the throne a decade ago, solidified the Blood Cult’s unity, and was thought to be on the verge of completing the extreme of the Blood Demon Art, the Blood Demon God.

‘Even if the person here is the real Blood Demon….’

He wouldn’t be able to handle the Blood Demon of this era, nor the power of the Blood Cult united with the Blood Demon.

In the end, the new Blood Demon, as well as Kang Han-cheol and Kang Eun-ha, who were promoting the new Blood Demon, would all have to be charged with treason.

Therefore.

“Step aside. Even if it’s you, Miss, I cannot let it go any further. If I cannot pass, both you and the Left Protector are as good as dead.”

“Third Elder….”

A strange standoff.

Just as the Third Elder was about to raise his great blade again to end the standoff.

Kwaaaang!

“Third Elder, no, Han Do-baek-! What is the meaning of this!”

Kang Han-cheol, who had moved immediately upon hearing that Han Do-baek had made a move, had arrived.

* * *

Kang Eun-ha, Han Do-baek, and Kang Han-cheol.

The three were in a standoff.

“…….”

Kang Han-cheol bit his lip.

‘I expected it.’

He had expected it when he brought up the new Blood Demon to Han Do-baek.

But he hadn’t expected him to move so urgently and radically.

“What was the rush?”

Just a little patience, just a little waiting.

Kang Han-cheol was resentful of his old friend for that.

“…There’s been intelligence that the Hwasan Sect is moving.”

“……!”

“It must be the Assembly moving.”

Kang Han-cheol closed his mouth as if he already knew.

The Assembly had found a lead.

They would probably try to eradicate the Demonic Cult.

But if Kang Han-cheol made a commotion by moving around.

“You will be the first to be abandoned and thrown to the enemies as food.”

The current situation was the worst.

In such a situation, an unprecedented event of a new Blood Demon appearing had occurred.

“I also think there’s a possibility that he’s a spy.”

It was also a thought that Kang Eun-ha had.

“How dare you-! Are you saying I couldn’t recognize the Blood Demon Art!”

“That’s not it. You know that the Heavenly Demon Cult has been researching the Blood Demon Art for a long time. The righteous sects’ vermin may not know, but the Heavenly Demon Cult has every possibility of reaching the Blood Demon Art.”

“Gah-!”

A roar like a lion’s roar burst from Kang Han-cheol’s mouth, and the ground shook.

“It’s blasphemy!”

“Even if he’s the real Blood Demon, nothing changes!”

Han Do-baek didn’t back down either.

“There are two Blood Demons who have learned the Blood Demon Art anyway! One is enough to disappear! In this time, rather than causing division in the Blood Cult….”

Sss sss sss.

A chill began to form again on the great blade that Han Do-baek was holding.

“It is the right path to kill him and eliminate him.”

“Han Do-baek. You are crossing a line that you should never cross.”

“If it’s to save my friend and the priestess, I would gladly throw away my life like a piece of straw.”

Fwoosh!

Flames began to rise from both of Kang Han-cheol’s fists.

A situation where it wouldn’t be strange if they clashed immediately.

Yet, the reason they weren’t moving was because they knew that whoever moved first would mean the real end.

But a meaningless standoff had to end.

“I will cut off your limbs and beg for forgiveness from the Blood Demon.”

In the end, it was Kang Han-cheol who was about to move first.

And the victor was also predetermined.

Han Do-baek was an extreme master, but he hadn’t reached the middle stage.

On the other hand, Kang Han-cheol’s level was the extreme of the extreme, and the difference was like a vast river that could never be narrowed.

“You might as well kill me.”

A fight between friends.

A fight where they had to harm each other to save each other.

“Why bother cutting off limbs?”

The fight between the two had no choice but to stop at the sudden voice.

“I, I greet the Blood Demon!”

Kang Han-cheol bowed down, extinguishing the flames on his fists.

Also, Han Do-baek.

Trickle.

He was sweating cold sweat without even realizing it.

‘I didn’t even… feel his presence.’

The place where Rowoon, who had just appeared, was standing was behind his back.

He hadn’t even felt his presence until he was standing behind him.

* * *

“Han Do-baek! What are you doing! Immediately report to the Blood Demon!”

Kang Han-cheol, who was bowing down, shouted, but Han Do-baek could only stare at Rowoon while sweating cold sweat.

He was right in front of him, yet his presence was faint.

If he had been targeting him, he would have been a corpse without a struggle.

‘How….’

It didn’t make sense with common sense.

He was an extreme master.

How many people in the world could deceive the eyes of someone who had reached the extreme master level right in front of them?

“Han Do-baek!”

Also, what about those eyes?

Light red hair, half-closed red eyes.

‘He’s the Blood Demon.’

He had no choice but to admit it.

“You are… the new Blood Demon….”

If he didn’t know anything, he might have thought it was an external characteristic, but if he said he was the new Blood Demon, that appearance was clear evidence of the Blood Demon Art.

“If you understand, then greet me?”

“I, I greet the Blood Demon….”

Although he didn’t feel any aura, Han Do-baek bowed his head under a strange pressure.

“And Left Protector, don’t, don’t bow down unnecessarily like that.”

“B, but….”

“Ha. Am I the Blood Demon, or are you the Blood Demon? It’s like a grandfather and granddaughter saying the same thing.”

“I apologize.”

“I only let you do it at first to tame you. I don’t like such unnecessary things.”

“I, I will keep that in mind.”

Rowoon curled up the corners of his mouth as if he was satisfied.

Still, because Kang Han-cheol was experienced, he didn’t talk back or anything like Kang Eun-ha.

“Oh, and don’t take it badly if I speak informally. I’m probably the oldest one here.”

“What… ?”

“……?”

“Over a hundred years old? Or don’t take it badly.”

Han Do-baek couldn’t come to his senses.

Clearly, unless he was an idiot, he wouldn’t think that he had come here with good intentions.

Also, there was no way he hadn’t heard the conversation he had just had with Kang Han-cheol and Kang Eun-ha.

Even so.

‘Such an attitude.’

Was he thinking of him as nothing, or was there another meaning?

“And didn’t you say the Blood Cult was going to ruin? Why are you unnecessarily cutting off the limbs of the cult members? It’s my cult, not yours?”

“That is….”

“So.”

Rowoon’s eyes turned to Han Do-baek.

“Did you come to kill me?”

“……!”

“If I please you, I live, and if I don’t meet your standards, I die?”

Rowoon was smiling with his eyes half-closed.

But Han Do-baek was feeling a chill as if his entire blood was freezing.

He could be sure.

‘I will die.’

If Rowoon had even the slightest intention, he would die.

“Hoo.”

Han Do-baek said, shaking off the chill that had seeped deep into his bones.

“That is correct, Blood Demon.”

“Hoo.”

“The current Blood Cult already serves a Blood Demon. The existence of a new Blood Demon will create a great division in the Blood Cult, which is now just uniting and stabilizing.”

“You have spirit.”

Rowoon curled up the corners of his mouth and took one step.

Thud.

He approached Han Do-baek.

The faces of the two were separated by the width of a fist.

The tall Rowoon was looking down at the short Han Do-baek.

Rowoon’s eyes took on an even deeper red hue.

“So?”

“…….”

“How is it? Do I meet your standards?”

He did.

If it was someone like this…, he could understand why Kang Han-cheol had moved with such conviction.

But even so…!

“Proof…, I need proof.”

“Proof, you say.”

Rowoon took another step back.

Before he knew it, his index finger was extended.

A drop of blood was forming on it.

The drop of blood that had formed.

Fwaaat!

Became a sharp needle and stopped in front of Han Do-baek’s eyes.

Trickle.

Han Do-baek sweated another drop of sweat.

“I greet the true Blood Demon!”

He shouted as he bowed down.

It was a completely different greeting than before.

He was also an elder of the Blood Cult.

So he couldn’t not recognize it or be confused.

That thin needle, the Blood Demon aura that was fully felt within it!

“This subordinate, Han Do-baek! For daring to doubt the Blood Demon! I will cut off my right arm to atone for my sin!”

Having shouted that, Han Do-baek raised his great blade without hesitation and was about to strike down on his right arm.

Thud!

The blood needle he had seen earlier struck the blade of the great blade and bounced it away.

“I told you not to do that, didn’t I? You’re so disobedient.”

Rowoon was squatting down, looking at Han Do-baek.