Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 206

The Three Kings’ Disciple (207)

206

Viper let out a hollow laugh.

Gulp.

The Iron Fist Old King.

He was a king of the lawless zone who ruled the area closest to Viper’s territory, and he was also the second oldest among the kings of the lawless zone.

In other words, he was strong enough to have survived that long.

He was on par with Viper; that was the Iron Fist Old King.

And yet, he was.

Gulp!

He was dying, spitting out blood.

The Iron Fist Old King’s fist was said to shatter buildings and tear apart flesh.

“And he dies without even using that fist.”

The Iron Fist Old King’s defeat was already decided the moment he appeared.

“Was that… a swordsmanship of a Tachi Master?” [Tachi is a type of Japanese sword]

The energy Lee Rowan had faintly felt the moment he gripped his sword.

The moment a thin line was drawn across the Iron Fist Old King’s neck, transcending space, he was as good as dead.

“Similar.”

Lee Rowan’s technique was on a level that could not be compared to that of a Tachi Master.

“There was a similar technique originally. It’s just that thanks to him, I learned a way to use it more easily.”

The Ring of the Monarch, the Moon King.

It was an attack that was difficult for the current Lee Rowan to use, as it held the moonlight and emitted a ray of light from the shadows.

However, he used it after getting a hint from the Tachi Master’s unique swordsmanship.

“I can use a degraded version of it.”

He was able to use the power of the Moon King in a degraded form.

“A degraded version….”

Viper chuckled.

The swordsmanship that killed the Iron Fist Old King without him even using his fist was just a degraded version.

‘What he showed me wasn’t everything after all.’

It was impossible to even guess Lee Rowan’s limits.

“Don’t worry too much about it.”

Lee Rowan said then.

“It’s thanks to you that I was able to deal with the Iron Fist Old King so easily.”

“Me, you say?”

“In the end….”

Lee Rowan plunged his two-handed sword into the chest of the Iron Fist Old King, who had stopped breathing.

Thump!

The dead Iron Fist Old King’s body twitched as if he had suddenly come back to life.

Swoosh!

Something began to flow through the two-handed sword.

With that, the Iron Fist Old King’s movements stopped, and he began to dry up.

“This one also has a demonic core.”

One who is dominated.

Moreover.

“It’s an old demonic core.”

The Iron Fist Old King had reigned as a king in the lawless zone for a long time, so he was greatly influenced by the power of the demonic core.

The demonic core that had grown within him gave the Iron Fist Old King great power, but at the same time.

“Now that I know the nature of the demonic core, I can weaken it.”

It could also become his weakness.

“That…!”

Viper’s eyes widened as if he had found hope.

“Then I too…!”

If there was one thing Viper wanted most, it was to take revenge on Lee Jae, who had made him this way.

However, Viper, who knew well how impossible that was, was delighted to have found a way to deal with Lee Jae, but.

“No.”

Lee Rowan was firm.

“It’s not something you can do just by trying.”

Understanding the demonic core and exploiting its weaknesses was not something an ordinary person could do.

In the first place, understanding the demonic core itself was close to impossible, and the higher the demon, the more complex the demonic core was, so perhaps.

-Understanding the demonic core is like understanding a civilization.

His demon lord master’s words might have been true.

However, he was different.

-Well, you don’t have to worry about any of that.

He remembered his master’s face as she came to him and stroked his face.

-I’ll give you everything I have.

The only demon lord of Gehenna.

The one who understood all magic and sorcery even understood the demonic core and ascended to the throne.

To Lee Rowan, who had received her power.

“I can just know it.”

He didn’t need to worry about what others said was impossible.

***

There had been several times when the Five Kings had changed in the lawless zone.

They were practically invincible within their own territories, but they were naturally replaced when they had accidents outside their territories or were eliminated for some reason.

The truth was.

-It is Lee Jae’s will.

It was according to Lee Jae’s will.

If Lee Jae wanted it, the Five Kings would change at any time.

It didn’t matter what they did or what they did, as long as Lee Jae let them be, but if they went against Lee Jae’s will, even in the slightest.

‘The explosion of the demonic core.’

It was something he could know even without listening to Viper.

However, Viper said.

-It’s something that has never happened before.

That what was happening now had never happened before.

-The replacement of the Five Kings by someone other than Lee Jae, too.

Also.

“Haa, haa….”

Viper looked at Lee Rowan.

“Thank you.”

His exhausted face was completely covered in blood.

Not only his face, but his entire body was a mess.

“That a king… defeated another king….”

Viper staggered as if he was about to fall, and eventually knelt on one knee.

“That the restriction didn’t work either….”

What was now lying in front of him was another king of the lawless zone.

Lee Rowan and Viper, who had defeated the Iron Fist Old King, moved without rest to the next area, and arrived here around the time the news of the Iron Fist Old King’s death was spreading.

“Move aside.”

Thump!

They had defeated another king of the lawless zone.

However, this time it was Viper, not Lee Rowan.

Lee Rowan absorbed the demonic core from another king of the lawless zone.

With the twitching two-handed sword still in hand.

“Endure it.”

Thump!

He stabbed it into Viper.

“Kuh-euk!”

Viper’s face contorted in pain for a moment, but then his expression began to fill with ecstasy, like someone who was high on drugs.

The demonic core absorbed by the two-handed sword, a part of it was transferred back to him.

Viper’s veins bulged.

“Haa. Haa….”

When he stood up, panting heavily.

“How do you feel?”

“Fantastic.”

Not only had all the wounds on his body completely healed, but for a moment, his eyes had turned completely black.

It was never a good idea to recklessly grow the demonic core, but Lee Rowan had set up a device in Viper’s body.

“We’ll take a short break, so do some breathing exercises.”

The measure he had taken against his demonic core.

-It’s called Blood Demon Art.

He taught him the evolved Blood Art, Blood Demon Art, and mixed Blood Demon Energy and Heavenly Demon Energy into the demonic core.

That which was imbued with Lee Rowan’s energy swelled up as if it would burst at any moment, but was soon suppressed and shrunk by Lee Rowan’s energy.

The Viper who was completed in that way.

Whoosh.

He had gained the power to defeat a king in another king’s territory.

‘This is going to be interesting.’

Viper’s goal was unwavering.

He was no longer in a state that could be called a monk, but he still wanted to return to Shaolin.

-I will eradicate the demons of Shaolin.

To eradicate the demons of Shaolin.

“You’re going to become a demon.”

He would return as a being closer to a pure demon than anyone else.

This was a kind of experiment, and at the same time, it was also for Viper’s wish.

“I’ll grant your wish.”

It would be interesting.

Lee Rowan’s work was not over yet.

“Hey, you.”

The king’s subordinate, who was pressed to the floor by Lee Rowan’s aura and was just breathing, was panting.

“Get up.”

The man rose to his feet as if Lee Rowan’s words were an absolute command.

“Your king is dead.”

Orca, whom Viper had killed, was a figure who had been building his power in the lawless zone and trying to establish his kingdom.

He forcibly tied together the outlaws of the lawless zone and created his own laws.

He was the one who forced those who came here seeking lawlessness.

With that, he built a kingdom and created thousands, tens of thousands of soldiers, but.

“The Iron Fist Old King is also dead.”

That would become poison.

The man was just trembling as he listened to Lee Rowan’s words.

A faint joy spread across his face.

Chuckling.

It was clear how Orca usually treated his subordinates.

Orca, who was constantly torturing and threatening them, treating them like beasts, not humans.

All traces of him remained here.

“I, I….”

The man mustered his strength and spoke.

“What should I do?”

Even though they had killed their king, his eyes were as if he was looking at a benefactor.

“Spread the word.”

“To whom….”

“To everyone. Orca is dead, and the Iron Fist Old King is dead.”

Lee Rowan said.

“Let it be known.”

The man who had been trembling.

He bowed his head.

And then, he began to move his heavy feet.

Slowly, slowly.

And.

Tatatatatatat!

At some point, he started running.

“Orca is dead-!”

His shouts were already beginning to echo throughout the world.

“Orca-! Is dead-!”

“The Iron Fist Old King is dead too, you know.”

But this was enough.

Lee Rowan leaned against his two-handed sword with a languid look.

“Orcaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!”

Several shouts mixed together and echoed from afar.

“Is dead-!”

Deep emotions were fully conveyed.

Communication was possible here, and they could use phones or messages.

However, everyone was cheering that Orca’s tyranny was over.

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaa-!”

They started coming out, screaming like crazy.

But they shouldn’t forget.

Smirk.

That this was the lawless zone.

They were not just pitiful people who were captured by Orca and forced into slavery.

Whoosh!

Criminals who had fled from the law.

“Kill and plunder! We’re leaving this place today!”

It was time for their true nature to be revealed.

* * *

The moment the deaths of the Iron Fist Old King and Orca, the two kings of the lawless zone, became known, it became a huge wave that swept over the lawless zone.

It had already been shown in Viper’s territory how the death of a king affected this lawless land.

“Waaaaaaaaa-!”

It was a riot.

This place, where even the one who had barely been applying a small amount of restraint, had disappeared.

“Kill! Kill! Take everything!”

It had literally become a scene of carnage.

The riot spread like wildfire.

‘That side should be fine.’

Wildfires are affected by the wind.

Originally, nature would control the direction of the wind, but.

Clang!

Now, Lee Rowan was controlling the direction of the wind.

The wind.

“Orca is dead!”

“The Iron Fist Old King is dead!”

The direction of the wind changed towards each other due to the deaths of the kings in the two territories.

As a result, Viper’s territory was safe, and only this place had become a scene of chaos.

Also, this was.

“Lee Jae is going to have a lot of trouble.”

It would be different from what Lee Jae wanted.

As much as they wanted the Five Kings War, the end would be this kind of chaos.

However.

‘At the time they want, in the place they want.’

They would want a fire that would ignite all at once.

However, the fuel was burning in the wrong place.

They would move to somehow salvage the fuel that had burned up in a situation where even fire extinguishers were not prepared.

“Not yet.”

There were still two kings left besides Viper.

What Lee Rowan wanted was a situation where only Viper and Dark Hand remained.

He had to strike quickly before Lee Jae moved.

“That’s….”

Viper brought news and said.

“It seems difficult.”

It was already a situation where he had moved to open the way.

“A barrier has been set up.”

He wasn’t talking about a physical barrier.

Whoosh.

He turned the Ring of the Monarch and expanded his senses.

Even Lee Rowan could see it.

“It’s a magic barrier.”

The activation of a huge magic circle and traces of isolation.

“I could break through it, but….”

It didn’t seem like a good idea.

‘They noticed me.’

There were traces that looked like they had set a trap targeting Lee Rowan.

If so.

“What’s the method?”

“There is one.”

Viper’s face showed distress.

“It’s a way to pass through the prohibition.”