Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 211

The pure white chill slowly subsided.

“Haa….”

White breath puffed out with Lee Rowan’s sigh.

“Ughhh.”

Viper trembled all over, looking around as if he had barely endured.

“…….”

A sight so jaw-dropping that he forgot the bone-chilling cold unfolded before him.

It was like.

“This is….”

It was reminiscent of the icy breath that Ainhardt’s dragon was said to exhale.

The awakened martial artists of the Northern Ice Palace were frozen again, back to their original state.

Twitch.

There were still a few who tried to move.

Thud.

Eventually, they stopped moving and succumbed to the cold that had penetrated their bodies.

“Since I froze them again, they won’t be able to wake up.”

Lee Rowan said, sheathing his sword as if it were nothing.

In his mind.

-I’m going crazy. I thought I was going to die.

Partisan’s voice echoed, but he ignored it.

“These guys were frozen by the Ice Emperor, who borrowed Satia’s power, so Satia could wake them, but….”

The Ice Emperor seemed to have taken the entire Northern Ice Palace, where she belonged, hostage to Satia.

To save her people, she made a contract with Satia and froze them all with the power of the magic stone that Satia lent her.

That’s why Satia controlled and awakened them.

“But now, it’s my power that froze them, so no one but me can melt them.”

Lee Rowan froze them again.

Of course, it wasn’t impossible to melt them if he wanted to.

“I’ve bought some time.”

It wasn’t something that could be done easily.

“I need to catch Satia quickly.”

Only then would the Northern Ice Palace be freed from the Demon Emperor’s grasp.

And.

Nod.

Viper too.

“But you seem to be getting quite used to that power?”

Lee Rowan said, looking at Viper.

While Lee Rowan was dealing with Yang Sa-hwi, Viper was simultaneously fighting dozens, even hundreds, of awakened martial artists from the Northern Ice Palace.

Viper, who had become a tattered mess in the process, had not died.

Crack.

The wounds that had been torn and cut were almost healed.

‘Magic stone.’

That was the power of the magic stone.

Especially, the power of the Blood Demon Qi [a type of dark energy] that Lee Rowan had infused into it was mixed, creating extreme regenerative power.

“But don’t be satisfied with that.”

Lee Rowan said to Viper.

What Lee Rowan wanted was not just that much.

‘Perfection.’

If successful.

“You will be my first subordinate.”

Whether he understood what he meant or not.

Nod.

Viper nodded and pointed behind Lee Rowan this time.

“They seem to be warriors of the Yang family.”

As a disciple of Shaolin, Viper seemed to have recognized Yang Sa-hwi.

A direct descendant of the Yang family, famous for their divine spear.

“But he was too ominous to be from the Yang family.”

He had become a being who had even forgotten his essence.

Lee Rowan replied to him like this.

“He’s a Jiangshi [a type of Chinese hopping vampire].”

“……A Jiangshi, you say?”

Nod.

“A Blood Demon Jiangshi.”

Sigh.

‘They want to mass-produce living Jiangshi imbued with the power of the Blood Demon.’

They could be said to have already succeeded halfway.

Yang Sa-hwi was alive, but not a living being, and he was able to create a Mystic Realm, not a Transcendent Realm, by absorbing the Soul Devouring Pill with the power of the Blood Demon Qi.

Although the technique wasn’t perfect yet, it seemed like it would be completed soon.

Of course.

“But they’re just elixirs. No need to worry about them.”

“Is that so?”

Viper nodded.

This place was now cleared.

It was time to move again.

* * *

Lee Rowan led the way.

Viper followed him without a moment’s hesitation.

“The Demon Emperor won’t be here.”

There were traces of the Northern Ice Palace’s world mixed in here.

But he didn’t feel that the Demon Emperor, Satia, was staying here.

There was no point in staying here for long.

“We’ll leave the Forbidden Zone as it is.”

The Forbidden Zone, where no one had ever stepped on and survived.

Lee Rowan spoke of leaving the Forbidden Zone as if it were the most natural thing.

“Tell me what I need to do.”

Viper trusted Lee Rowan without a moment’s hesitation.

No, he had no choice but to trust him.

He had already broken through all the conditions that made the Forbidden Zone a Forbidden Zone.

The area of radiation, the area of numbness, even the snowy field and the Northern Ice Palace.

Now, all that was left was.

Step.

To actually leave this place.

“You have to survive.”

That was what Viper had to do.

His face hardened.

He knew it too.

‘Don’t fight the Demon Emperor in the Forbidden Zone.’

It meant that the Demon Emperor was outside.

She, who already used cowardly tactics, wouldn’t be waiting without any preparation.

She had already felt the threat from Lee Rowan.

“As you might guess, Satia will be waiting outside.”

Lee Rowan said without stopping.

“She won’t be alone.”

Probably.

“She’ll be waiting with all the forces she can muster.”

Viper replied to that.

“It is known that the Demon Emperor directly manages the areas of the Dark Hand.”

The border that was connected to Ainhardt was directly managed by the Demon Emperor.

The East and South could be said to be the Ice Emperor’s territory, and the West and North were the Demon Emperor’s territory.

In reality, everything was in the Demon Emperor’s grasp, but the West and North were directly managed by the Demon Emperor.

“Maybe….”

If she was waiting with all the forces she could muster.

“Maybe all of them will come out.”

That side didn’t fit the description of a lawless zone.

Rather, it was a world ruled by a king, almost like a kingdom.

It was the true border of the lawless zone.

“I guess so.”

Lee Rowan said plainly.

“And.”

Lee Rowan paused for a moment.

Wooong!

A thin barrier could be seen in the distance.

A thin but dense and dark barrier, filled with magical power.

That was the border.

“There are only two of us.”

There were only Lee Rowan and Viper here, just the two of them.

“Can you do it?”

A small amusement seemed to be in his languid eyes.

At that moment, Viper thought.

‘This person….’

Since his time in Shaolin, Viper, Geumcheon, had done deep research on the human condition.

The martial arts of Shaolin were said to have originated from Bodhidharma, but that was not the truth.

‘So many people.’

The martial arts of Shaolin were actually born from so many people.

Criminals who had fled from all over the country, those who had been hurt by the world and wanted to cut ties, they sought Shaolin to become monks, and their martial arts were connected and passed down.

That’s why.

-Shaolin needs an understanding of humans.

The origins of each of Shaolin’s martial arts were different, and their essence was different, so it was necessary to understand humans.

From Geumcheon’s perspective, who had seen people like that, Lee Rowan was definitely different.

This person was rather.

-From now on, you are mine.

He was similar to the woman he hated so much, the Demon Emperor.

But.

‘Different.’

He couldn’t say that he was completely the same as her either.

A person whose depth and thoughts could not be understood.

An incomprehensible person, in and of himself.

Viper answered him.

“I will.”

Viper knew it too.

What he was saying now.

‘Thousands, tens of thousands.’

Perhaps even more, they were going to break through the enemy’s wall with just the two of them.

If he were alone, he would never have answered like this, no matter how confident he was.

But with this man.

“You haven’t been able to go all out until now, have you?”

Lee Rowan said.

“In the East of the lawless zone, you had to finish things quickly and concisely.”

“……….”

“In the Forbidden Zone, you couldn’t harm the martial artists of the Northern Ice Palace.”

There were various restrictions.

But from now on.

“Use the power you’ve gained properly.”

There were no restrictions.

Just.

Wooong.

Kill and survive.

That was all they had to focus on.

“Let’s fight freely.”

The moment Lee Rowan put his hand on the barrier.

Fwoosh!

The barrier disappeared as if it had been washed away.

And in front of the two of them.

Grrrrr!

Dead beasts, drooling, were waiting.

* * *

The scene before his eyes was clear, without any need for deep thought.

Grrrrr!

Dead beasts, drooling.

Grrr.

High-ranking undead mixed with zombie hordes.

Cooong.

Players, martial artists, wandering knights, and even expelled mages.

All those things.

Flicker!

With red eyes, they were looking at Lee Rowan and Viper, who had crossed the barrier.

No more words were needed.

Viper.

Thump!

He began to unleash his power, raising his momentum.

His powerful aura flowed through his body, and a red aura began to ripple.

Cooong!

The ground he was standing on was caving in, and strands of qi [life force energy] were sprouting from Viper’s fingers, like fingernails growing.

Cooong!

It wasn’t just the enemies that were growling.

“Grrrr….”

Viper was now becoming a beast.

Muscles swelled, tearing apart his clothes, and his whole body twisted.

Viper’s instincts sensed danger and stimulated the magic stone.

Finally.

Crack.

The moment a thin horn protruded from one side of his forehead.

Kwaaang!

Viper, who had shot forward as if he had kicked off the ground, rotated his whole body, creating a vortex of qi.

The result of the undead, who had lost their reason and were only obeying orders, rushing at Viper without fear.

Papapapapap!

They were just being torn apart into pieces of flesh.

Taat.

Viper, who had finished one massacre, landed and stopped.

He slowly looked at his two hands and wiped the dirty blood from his face.

And.

Smirk.

He smiled.

He was now feeling it.

What kind of power he had gained, what he could do.

Swish.

Viper briefly turned around and looked at Lee Rowan.

Seeing him standing there with a languid face, Viper seemed satisfied and stretched out his hands again.

Fwoosh!

Longer strands of qi than before surged up.

Thududuk!

The qi was also lingering on the bone-like protrusions that had popped out of his forearms.

Viper changed direction.

Now, it was time to move.

Swish.

To not block the path that Lee Rowan was taking.

The last thing Lee Rowan had decided for Viper was one thing.

-Break through.

Just break through and move forward.

Killing everything in sight, he moved towards his destination.

Lee Rowan didn’t draw his sword.

That the special forces shouldn’t reveal their martial arts? That was only something to say when there were survivors.

Now, it was just.

Swish.

He stretched out both hands and awakened the Blood Demon Divine Art.

Blood vessels flowed from his eyes, slowly seeping into his upper body and beginning to soak it.

And in an instant.

Papapapapapapapapap!

Thousands of blood needles that appeared in the air began to fly in all directions without a fixed trajectory.

Pupupupupuk!

Those that were pierced by them melted in an instant, or were deprived of all their vitality and withered away.

In that chaos.

Fwoosh!

Lee Rowan slowly moved forward and swung one hand.

Flicker!

A purple holy fire blazed in one hand.

Lee Rowan.

Hwaaaak!

He scattered it without any trajectory.

Hwarurururuk!

Everything that the holy fire touched turned to ashes, and those that were even slightly touched by the fire cried out for help, even though they were already dead.

Lee Rowan was moving through that.

Before he knew it.

Crack.

Lee Rowan lifted the large two-handed sword with one hand and dragged it on the ground.

And.

“Moon King’s Descent.”

A beautiful white light engulfed the world.