Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 242

Two figures blocked the path between the Blood Monk and Yi Rown.

In front of the Blood Monk.

“Stop it!”

It was Beopsan of the Shaolin.

“Please stop.”

In front of Yi Rown stood a young knight.

A knight who had clearly not been seen anywhere before.

“Kuh-huh….”

The Blood Monk, as if having lost his reason, howled like a beast.

His red eyes exuded an even deeper murderous intent.

However.

Beeeep-!

A sound close to an ultrasonic wave, which ordinary people could never hear, rang out from somewhere.

“Kuh-heuk!”

The Blood Monk groaned and twisted his body.

“Stop…! Do it.”

Following Beopsan’s voice, the Blood Monk’s eyes gradually began to return to normal.

Yi Rown, leaving that scene behind, was looking at the knight in front of him.

At that moment.

-Well, it seems the entertainment is enough for now.

The Duke’s flustered voice was heard.

-I will end the duel here.

The Duke declared, ending it.

The party hall was filled with silence.

The martial prowess the Blood Monk had shown was still vivid in their eyes.

The heated atmosphere also did not easily subside.

However.

“I apologize for daring to block your path.”

The Duke’s command was absolute.

The party hall seemed to gradually return to its original atmosphere.

And Yi Rown.

‘I found it.’

He curled up the corners of his mouth as he looked at the knight in front of him.

A young knight who had not been seen anywhere before.

And it was this young knight, not anyone else, who had blocked his path at a crucial moment.

The other nobles did not seem to notice.

Either they didn’t have the eye for it, or….

‘It’s magic.’

Perception interference, and a high-grade magic at that.

The magic circle suppressing this entire party hall was, in fact, a means to hide this perception interference magic, or so it seemed.

And it was to hide this knight.

Everything existed for one person.

There was nothing more special than that.

If something had such specialness….

‘The Duke.’

The Crimson Duke.

Woong.

Also, though he wouldn’t feel it, Yi Rown’s ring was rotating and resonating.

The knight in front of him, or rather, the real Crimson Duke, would think it was simply the aftereffects of the battle.

“I have shown you an unsightly sight.”

Beopsan stood next to the stabilized Blood Monk and bowed his head.

“A martial artist is someone who lives and dies by their competitive spirit. It seems he was excited to meet an opponent of equal skill after a long time.”

Beopsan spoke, leaving the still red-eyed Blood Monk behind.

“I apologize.”

-It’s alright. It was a great spectacle, so I thank you for your efforts, Eun.

“Thank you.”

Beopsan was showing perfect composure, enough to be made a noble of Einheart right away.

“Excuse me….”

It was when the knight was about to disappear again.

Yi Rown quietly closed his eyes.

“……..”

The plans he had been conceiving in his head.

And the things that would happen.

-When preparing for one task, you must make several plans.

The teachings ingrained in his body.

And.

-However.

A memory surfaced.

-You can’t always act according to plan. At crucial moments, the right judgment….

Sword King Master had said.

-You are to build your empire.

Yes.

He would erase all the plans he had made.

He would also return the things that would happen after that to nothing.

Swoosh.

Yi Rown opened his eyes.

The hall was being tidied up.

“Who decided that?”

No one heard Yi Rown’s small murmur.

Except for one.

“……!”

It was the Blood Monk.

It was a mysterious experience for the Blood Monk as well.

A feeling as if the world, everything, was erased, and only Yi Rown and the Blood Monk existed.

A feeling as if the world was submerged in darkness, and the only light was what Yi Rown was emitting.

“What….”

The Blood Monk spoke to Yi Rown with a tense expression.

“You have learned well.”

Unlike the Blood Demon Corpse he had faced before, the Blood Monk had truly learned his master’s teachings.

At least in terms of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, he could be said to have achieved considerable progress.

However.

“What you have learned is beneath me.”

Yi Rown said.

“You….”

The expression on Yi Rown’s face was contempt and scorn.

“You have a knack for ruining perfection.”

“What are you talking about?”

The Blood Monk was drawn into this mysterious situation.

It was a feeling similar to the enlightenment the Blood Monk had felt when he had broken through a wall in the past.

“Originally, the master’s teaching would have been to accept perfection as it is and make it your own.”

Yi Rown gradually approached the Blood Monk.

The Blood Monk was still motionless, only listening to Yi Rown’s voice.

“But you have perverted it by seeking ways to control it and thinking of developing it.”

Yi Rown was already behind the Blood Monk.

“That is your downfall, and the reason why you can never surpass me.”

Swoosh.

Yi Rown’s face came close to the Blood Monk’s face.

“I’ll release you.”

“……!”

“Go wild to your heart’s content.”

At that moment.

Whoooosh!

Light began to fill the world that had been filled with only darkness.

That light was not the bright and warm light of the sun.

“Kuh….”

A deep, blood-red light, like a setting sun.

Within that.

“Kuaaaaaaa!”

The Blood Monk let out a cry with his eyes completely reddened.

That was the Blood Monk’s world.

In reality.

Kwaaaak!

The Blood Monk knocked Beopsan’s head away and was charging towards the knight.

* * *

Kwaang!

The Blood Monk, who had charged towards the knight, grabbed the knight’s head and slammed him into the wall.

“Kyaaaaaaak!”

As expected, screams were heard.

“What are you doing!”

The knights’ bewilderment was heard.

And.

-Subdue him!

Even the Duke’s command.

Everything was perfect.

Indeed, it was like a painting, befitting the name Einheart.

The reactions were cliché and predictable, but their response was certain.

Chaechachaeng!

The knights who had drawn their swords stood to protect the nobles.

Woong!

They barely moved their suppressed mana and emitted aura blades.

In the meantime.

“Krr-rrr.”

The Blood Monk had become a beast, searching for his next target.

“O-he’s coming!”

It was not a human.

A monster.

A single beast.

Kwaaang!

The Blood Monk, who had charged at a knight, crushed another knight.

Sword strikes imbued with aura blades poured towards him.

Whir!

Blue flames burned the aura blades.

Kaang!

The sword strikes that had lost their aura blades could not make a scratch on the Blood Monk’s body.

Kwaaang!

Another one was crushed.

Kwajik!

Another one.

This time, his head was grabbed by the Blood Monk’s large hand and crushed like a potato.

“Krr-uaaaaa!”

The beast was moving towards its next target, as if it was still hungry.

A place to commemorate the truce between Silver and Einheart, and to celebrate the birth of a new noble.

That place had become….

“Kill him!”

A scene of carnage where blood and flesh were rampant.

“…What is this…!”

Pille, who had rushed over, stood as if to protect Yi Rown and said.

“What on earth is happening!”

Pille had spent a lot of time with Yi Rown.

And what she had learned was.

-The incomprehensible and the unknown.

Yi Rown was next to it, and the cause was also Yi Rown.

“The Batella Knights, help with the evacuation!”

“Yes!”

Pille looked at the Blood Monk and gripped her sword.

Shudder.

Her sword was trembling slightly.

“This energy is….”

Explosive and destructive power.

A terrifying murderous intent and fear that made her flesh tremble just by facing it.

And darkness.

And this was.

“…….”

Similar to Yi Rown’s.

But it was not the same.

If Yi Rown’s was a well-refined and distilled expensive bottle of water, that was muddy water.

“I’ve been thinking.”

Yi Rown, who was standing next to Pille, said.

“Since I returned, all the pieces were already set.”

Silver and Einheart were already repeating their alliances and conflicts, and in the meantime, new forces were infiltrating, and the board was somewhat set.

Yi Rown also squeezed into that gap, regaining the Blood Cult and subduing some of the Nine Great Sects and the Five Great Families, but the overall trend had not changed much.

The appearance of the Guardian Dragons.

The Dukes of Einheart.

And.

-Gehenna.

Everything was a board that had been set to the point where it was impossible to do anything about it since Yi Rown had returned.

Or rather, from the beginning.

“It’s a board that was set even before I met my masters.”

“Kuaaaa!”

Yi Rown spoke in a relaxed and languid voice, as if he had one foot in a completely different world from this chaotic scene.

“I could forcibly change it, but that would be tedious and….”

He spoke like his master.

“Annoying.”

He spoke in his own tone.

Yi Rown was.

He was smirking.

“So, I’ll have to reset the board.”

The starting point.

“What I will do from now on is that.”

“What are you….”

“The peace between Silver and Einheart. It starts from there.”

A place to commemorate the truce.

A place to celebrate the birth of a new noble.

This was the starting point.

Yi Rown was.

“Peace is not helpful to me.”

Kwaaaang!

He was planning to break the truce.

“……!”

Pille stepped away from Yi Rown.

She felt that the man in front of her was different from the one she knew.

Or perhaps.

‘This might be… his true self.’

Whatever it was.

Shudder!

What she felt from this man was more than the fear that the Blood Monk gave.

Even though he was not emitting any energy, the fear that his very existence gave made Pille’s whole body stiff.

Swoosh.

Yi Rown passed by Pille as if he had no interest in her.

And.

“Let’s see your skills.”

He said, looking at the young knight who had been slammed into the wall.

The young knight, who had become like a half-broken toy in the Blood Monk’s hands.

He slowly pulled himself out of the wall and stood up straight.

Fwoosh.

A small spark.

That was also the beginning.

Whir!

Flames covered the young knight’s entire body, but they soon died down, only burning his hair.

As if a red tail had appeared, the young knight was….

“The Crimson Duke.”

No, the Crimson Duke was standing there.

“How vexing.”

His tone had changed.

His eyes had changed.

What was there was….

“It’s been a while. Since I’ve had to endure such hardship.”

An absolute being.

He slowly walked forward and reached out his hand.

Whir!

Flames flickered in his hand, and a sword appeared.

It was a beautiful and destructive form in itself.

The Crimson Duke also reached out one hand.

Whir!

A sword appeared there as well.

A blue, icy sword.

And the Duke.

Taat!

He had disappeared and appeared behind the Blood Monk.

The moment the swords crossed in an X shape aimed at the Blood Monk’s neck.

“……!”

The beast, who had lost his reason, felt a threat to his life and quickly crossed his hands.

The X met the X.

Woong!

The world resonated.

Kwaaaang!

It exploded.

“Is this the power that ‘he’ possesses?”

The Duke said.

The Blood Monk and the Duke.

Yi Rown turned his gaze once more.

“…….”

There was Beopsan and the Shaolin, bewildered and not knowing what to do.

Beopsan, who was holding his arm that had been shattered by the Blood Monk, was just staring with wide eyes, as if he could not understand this situation at all.

‘I have to choose.’

He could see what he was thinking, and how he would act next.

He was at a crossroads of choice.

Regarding the Blood Monk’s treatment, and the choice regarding his treatment.

Yi Rown was.

Swoosh.

He was going to help him with that.