Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 167

The Three Kings’ Disciple (168)

167

-What on earth….

A massive voice echoed from the iceberg.

-What have you brought!

The voice, like a roar, reverberated through the world.

“Master…?”

Mo-yong Hoo’s bewilderment was short-lived.

Krrrrrr!

The massive iceberg began to shake.

Crack, crack, crack!

Soon, large cracks appeared, and the iceberg began to shatter.

Craaaash!

When it finally broke into pieces.

“What is it?”

Thousands of icy spear tips were pointed at Lee Ro-woon, who remained motionless in his original stance.

A voice came from within the shattered iceberg.

“You are….”

The voice grew closer.

A blurry figure appeared before Lee Ro-woon, reaching out with both hands.

“What on earth are you!”

The two hands, as if wearing ice gauntlets, lunged forward with a destructive force that seemed capable of crushing Lee Ro-woon.

Swoosh.

However, Lee Ro-woon remained calm, dodging one arm and.

Grab.

He seized the other arm.

Crack, crack, crack!

Lee Ro-woon’s hand, which had grabbed the ice gauntlet, began to freeze.

The rapidly penetrating cold traveled up Lee Ro-woon’s arm, reaching his shoulder and neck.

“Master, why are you doing this…!”

“Shut up!”

The strange being snapped at Mo-yong Hoo.

“Did you betray me?”

“Master!”

“What… what have you brought?”

The story returned to the beginning.

However, the situation was different from the start.

Mo-yong Hoo couldn’t hide his bewilderment, and half of Lee Ro-woon’s body was completely frozen, his breath forming white clouds.

And the strange being was displaying complex emotions towards Lee Ro-woon that were hard to describe.

“…….”

His skin was as white as ice, and his hair, equally pale, hung down long.

Taller than the quite tall Lee Ro-woon, with distinct features.

But more than anything.

“You made a promise to me.”

He didn’t feel human.

Not just his unrealistic appearance, but also his aura and gaze.

His eyes were like those of a beast, not a human.

“That until I regained my strength, you wouldn’t let anyone in here!”

It was a shout directed at Mo-yong Hoo.

“In return…!”

“Master! It’s not like that….”

“Who is your master!”

The strange being looked at Lee Ro-woon.

“Bringing… this….”

The strange being’s face began to crack as he spoke.

Stagger.

The strange being staggered backward, clutching his head and groaning in pain.

“Calm down.”

The strange being’s pale white arm was stained as if red flowers were blooming.

Crack!

The ice on Lee Ro-woon’s frozen half of his body shattered.

Fwoosh!

Lee Ro-woon, his body flushed red, looked down at the strange being who had knelt on one knee.

***

“Ughhh…. Ughhh.”

The strange being groaned in pain.

His condition seemed critical.

Crack, crack!

His body was constantly cracking, and white light was emanating from within.

“What are you doing!”

Mo-yong Hoo shouted at Lee Ro-woon.

“He is my master!”

This was not what Mo-yong Hoo had wanted.

“It doesn’t seem like he thinks that way?”

Lee Ro-woon said to Mo-yong Hoo, but he blocked Lee Ro-woon’s path and spoke to him.

“The fact that I received teachings from him does not change. Even if my master does not acknowledge it, I am his disciple.”

Lee Ro-woon nodded at his words.

The relationship between master and disciple.

“There’s nothing more important than that.”

Lee Ro-woon had no intention of ignoring it either.

That’s why.

“It’s not because of me.”

“Then…?”

All Lee Ro-woon had done was prevent the cold from penetrating further.

The current state of this strange being was.

“It’s because of your master’s singularity and….”

The arm that had been stained red was slowly returning to its original color.

“My singularity.”

“Haa. Haa.”

The strange being’s rough breathing echoed.

The strange being’s complexion, which had finally improved, and the cracks in his body began to disappear.

“This is….”

Another emotion appeared in the strange being’s eyes.

His condition seemed better than when he first saw Lee Ro-woon.

“It’s the power of a dragon.”

At Lee Ro-woon’s words, the eyes of the strange being and Lee Ro-woon met.

“…….”

Unlike the strange being, who did not express his complex feelings, Lee Ro-woon spoke in a relaxed voice.

“It seems like you recovered by reacting to the dragon’s power within my body?”

“The power of a dragon is within your body…?”

Lee Ro-woon’s current body.

‘Dragon Bone Physique.’

The most special dragon body among the Silver Spirits [a type of powerful being].

Lee Ro-woon had obtained it.

“Aurgolas.”

“……!”

“I devoured that power.”

The strange being’s eyes widened.

“That child….”

A complex feeling was once again revealed on his face.

However, there was no longer any hostility towards Lee Ro-woon.

“I see.”

The strange being seemed to realize something and stood up.

“The reason I felt anger towards you, yet also longing, was for that reason.”

Mo-yong Hoo’s master.

“Did you bring mana’s rest to that child?”

At his words, Lee Ro-woon nodded slightly.

Sea Dragon Aurgolas.

It was said that it was a young individual among the dragons, a disaster-level monster.

It could not survive the separation of the world and met its death, but due to the special nature of dragons, it could not die and became an undead.

Although it was said to have been hunted and ended up in a corpse disposal site, that was not a perfect rest for a dragon either.

As long as the dragon’s mana remained.

‘Endless pain.’

That spiritual body would continue to suffer.

One might think that Lee Ro-woon had taken Aurgolas’s power, but in reality, he had given Aurgolas a proper rest.

Also, his spiritual body.

Swoosh.

Still remains.

“Do you know about dragons?”

A question directed at Lee Ro-woon.

“It’s not like I don’t know.”

He couldn’t not know.

‘Silver Dragon.’

Dragons also exist in Silver [a world or realm].

‘The Dragons of Einheart.’

In Einheart, those beings move directly and reveal their intentions.

‘The Demonic Dragons of Gehenna.’

Dragon species exist in every world.

He couldn’t not know about their existence.

Lee Ro-woon had learned about them.

“You seem to know quite a bit about dragons.”

The strange being asked.

“Then, can you tell me why I feel anger towards you?”

He was much calmer now.

However, deep within his eyes, an unbearable emotion was swirling.

It was a vortex of emotion that the strange being could not suppress, no matter how hard he tried, if it weren’t for the aura of Aurgolas that Lee Ro-woon possessed and the aura that covered it.

“You were….”

Lee Ro-woon said.

“Created to kill beings like me.”

“……!”

“Isn’t that right?”

Lee Ro-woon looked directly at the strange being.

Mo-yong Hoo’s master.

A strange being who didn’t feel human.

His identity was.

“Ice Dragon Partisan.”

He was the Ice Dragon Partisan, one of the twelve guardian dragons of Einheart.

* * *

“Have a seat.”

A dwelling was prepared inside the iceberg.

Cleanly arranged furnishings, sculptures that could be called works of art, and the owner’s taste were evident everywhere.

The strange thing was that everything was made of ice, and.

“This tea is quite delicious.”

That the cold was not felt at all.

Steam.

Even though the hot tea was in an ice cup, the cup did not melt.

This could be said to be the ability of the beautiful strange being before them, the Ice Dragon Partisan.

‘A perfect controller of cold.’

The cold could never escape his will.

If he wished, the cold would not harm anyone.

“I will do it, Master.”

Mo-yong Hoo kept trying to step forward, but.

“Who is your master?”

Unlike how he treated Lee Ro-woon, Partisan spoke to Mo-yong Hoo in a rough voice.

“I told you that our relationship is a contract, not a master-disciple relationship, right?”

“But….”

“Remember. I, Partisan, a dragon….”

His eyes split like those of a lizard, emitting a white light.

“Have no intention of being called by a name like master by a filthy human or a monkey from another world.”

“…….”

Mo-yong Hoo eventually bit his lip and smiled bitterly.

Even so, Mo-yong Hoo did not seem to erase his respect for Partisan.

“Hmph.”

Ignoring Mo-yong Hoo, he sat in front of Lee Ro-woon.

“It’s my first time seeing a living dragon, and it’s different from what I thought.”

“What do you mean?”

“I heard they were goal-oriented or selfish….”

Lee Ro-woon glanced at Mo-yong Hoo.

“You seem quite affectionate.”

“Wh, what are you talking about.”

“Or not.”

When Lee Ro-woon shrugged, Partisan quickly handed Lee Ro-woon a new teacup.

Since his intention to shut him up was obvious, Lee Ro-woon changed the subject.

“What happened?”

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes looked at Partisan and Mo-yong Hoo.

Partisan was one of the twelve guardian dragons of Einheart.

They were known to exist but were seen as a kind of transcendent being that did not greatly interfere with the world.

Not the head of the Nine Great Sects [powerful martial arts groups].

‘Immortals.’

Like those behind them.

However, the existence of the guardian dragon that he directly saw was very different from Lee Ro-woon’s thoughts.

“What’s with that state?”

Clearly, Partisan’s power was beyond common sense, but its limits seemed clear.

“What happened to the two of you?”

Also, even his relationship with Mo-yong Hoo.

Lee Ro-woon had not heard anything about this.

Just.

‘Draconian School.’

He noticed that the school of magic that Mo-yong Hoo had learned was from the Draconian School, which was derived from dragons, and guessed that there was some kind of relationship.

The Draconian School was not something that could be learned by just learning, but a special school of magic that could only be learned by being chosen.

It was a school of magic that went beyond the existing concept of circles and progressed in the form of imprints.

“I….”

It was Mo-yong Hoo.

“May I explain?”

He asked for Partisan’s permission and spoke.

“Go ahead.”

When Partisan waved his hand as if he was annoyed, Mo-yong Hoo smiled and said.

“As I mentioned, due to the Five Great Families, the world of the Mo-yong family and Partisan Master….”

“I’m not your master!”

“……and the world of the Ice Dragon were merged.”

Mo-yong Hoo smiled.

“However, the merging of the two worlds did not go as planned, and there were major side effects.”

You could tell by looking at the state of the Mo-yong family.

“It was a side effect of both worlds.”

They tried to determine the superiority of the world.

However, it was impossible with the gate fusion device created by the Dang family.

It was more appropriate to say that the two worlds were just crushed together.

As a result, Partisan suffered an indelible wound, and the Mo-yong family was the same.

“So….”

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes looked behind Partisan and Mo-yong Hoo.

The dwelling inside the iceberg.

But inside it, there was an even larger iceberg.

A huge figure revealed in the transparent window of the pure white ice.

It was incomparable to the huge Sea Dragon Aurgolas, which was about the size of a building.

“So that’s what happened.”

It was the body of a dragon, like a sculpture.

“The one here now is a body created by magic.”

Partisan and Mo-yong Hoo nodded.