Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 251

The Three Kings’ Disciple (252)

251

The enemy army is coming.

What Yoo Shin-haeng did first after Lee Rowoon and Lee Shinwoo’s warning was:

“It’s true.”

Confirmation.

According to the information they had gathered, the enemy army seemed to be engaging in destructive acts under the guise of liberation without any clear purpose.

But now that they knew their purpose.

“The enemy army… is heading this way.”

Their movements were clearly visible.

That’s how information works.

When you don’t know, it’s as blurry as a foggy valley, but if you know what’s inside, it becomes quite clear.

“How many…”

Yoo Shin-haeng asked with a desperate look.

“It seems to be at least about five thousand.”

The enemy army was pouring in from all directions.

Their number reached a staggering five thousand.

Not only did it far exceed the number of the Yusan Sect, but it also surpassed the number of combined martial artists.

“……”

Despair.

They had to find a way.

“Is the council’s support still not here?”

“Well, the communication is cut off, and…”

“They won’t come.”

The council had always tended to completely ignore incidents and situations near the Philippines.

It was probably because only one of the Nine Great Sects, Jeomchang, existed there, and the Five Great Families were also absent.

Many sects had already been destroyed, and the land had become a headache due to the active resistance and liberation forces.

Still, there was one thing they could hope for.

“Jeomchang…!

Jeomchang.

They were one of the Nine Great Sects.

They were in a similar situation to them.

The gate opened in the Philippines, the ruler who dominated the entire Philippines.

Also, they were a subordinate sect to which the Yusan Sect belonged, so they could place their trust in them, couldn’t they?

“Due to the severed communication network, a messenger has been sent, but…”

But sent.

“They… won’t come.”

Clench.

Yoo Shin-haeng closed his eyes.

This was also expected.

Jeomchang would not step forward.

Except for the Manila area, which they were completely dominating, Jeomchang did not care about distant places.

Even before, they would have at least pretended to care, but.

-Heaven and Earth One Slash.

After Chunji Ilseom [Heaven and Earth One Slash], who was scheduled to become the head of Jeomchang, went into seclusion, they had not been engaging in external activities as if they had closed their doors.

“But we still don’t know.”

Yoo Shin-haeng did not give up hope.

No, he couldn’t give up.

“Send the messenger again.”

“Understood.”

Because he knew that giving up hope was only death.

The enemy army.

They were an extremely cruel group.

Only corpses, blood, and red flags existed on the path they had passed.

They called for peace, but ironically, they were the furthest from peace.

“Let’s do what we can.”

Yoo Shin-haeng made a decision.

“We will gather all our forces and confront the enemy army.”

It was then.

“Sect Leader.”

The sect leader of the Pasum Sect, another sect coexisting in the same area, cautiously opened his mouth.

His face looked somewhat uncomfortable.

“Speak.”

“Our forces are insufficient.”

“Do you not know that?”

“There will be no support from the council, nor from Jeomchang.”

Facts they already knew.

“Don’t beat around the bush, get to the point.”

At Yoo Shin-haeng’s uncomfortable voice, he nodded and said.

“There is a way.”

“A way?”

Yoo Shin-haeng’s eyes widened.

What kind of way was there?

“Let’s abandon it.”

“……!”

“Our world may collapse, but isn’t life more important than the world? As long as we are alive, our sect will continue to exist.”

“Now…”

“There’s no need to dig our own graves and wait.”

“What are you talking about!”

Yoo Shin-haeng shouted, but many sects spoke as if they had agreed.

“Let’s abandon it. Let’s head to the mainland.”

“Ha! Do you think they will accept us?”

They were already rejecting and ignoring them just because a gate had opened in a distant place.

If they abandoned their own base and went there, would they welcome them with open arms?

“At best! We’ll be ronin [masterless samurai]!”

They would just become ronin.

“If we run away without achieving anything, that’s what will happen.”

But they did not back down.

“The enemy army’s forces are powerful. But…”

Cold eyes looked at Yoo Shin-haeng.

“Isn’t there two wanted men here who are easier to deal with than facing five thousand troops?”

“Now…!”

There was no way he wouldn’t know who they were talking about.

Lee Rowoon and Lee Shinwoo.

“Really…”

Were their eyes like knot holes?

Even after seeing Lee Rowoon, did they think he was weaker than the enemy army?

Also, to attack those who were quietly staying put.

To betray those who had informed them of the enemy army’s advance, and offer them as sacrifices to escape.

‘Eun, the sects, the martial artists…’

Have they become this corrupt?

His head throbbed.

“Hoo.”

Yoo Shin-haeng sighed.

He also knew.

What their hearts were like, and how feasible it was.

However.

“If you want to run away, run away.”

“Then…”

“However! I will reject any other opinions. If you…”

Yoo Shin-haeng’s eyes flashed.

“If you run away doing things without permission, you will have to face the Yusan Sect first!”

* * *

In the end, there was no support from the council.

In the end, Jeomchang did not move.

In the end.

“They ran away.”

Many sects ran away.

They abandoned even their world, taking food and martial artists to escape this place.

The Yusan Sect could not stop them.

It was also because they could cause a loss of forces in a pointless fight.

-Go.

For Yoo Shin-haeng, it was because he had lost even the will to stop those he was disappointed in.

The result was.

“It’s annihilation.”

Lee Shinwoo told him.

They had encountered the enemy army on their escape route.

They should have been united, but they were hunted down and annihilated when they encountered the enemy army, which even had blood demons.

Their families in the world were brutally slaughtered.

The remaining forces under the Yusan Sect were about two thousand.

On the other hand, the enemies were about five thousand.

Swoosh.

The curtains were opened, and beyond them, a procession of red vehicles continued.

Meanwhile, Lee Rowoon and Lee Shinwoo had been staying quietly in the hotel.

They didn’t go outside, and no one came to visit.

Lee Shinwoo surveyed the surroundings.

Woo woong.

Lee Rowoon had been sitting cross-legged, just meditating for days.

Such Lee Rowoon.

Swoosh.

Got up from his seat and approached the window.

“What do you think?”

Lee Shinwoo’s question to Lee Rowoon.

“Does the Yusan Sect have a chance of winning?”

The answer to that was.

“No.”

It was too clear.

“They are no match in terms of numbers or quality. Unless they fight in the Yusan Sect’s world.”

This was Earth.

And.

‘He must have found it.’

Lee Rowoon was guessing how Kwon Cheol had taken another step forward.

That’s why the enemy army was strong.

The Yusan Sect facing such an enemy army was.

“It’s a certain defeat.”

They would unconditionally lose.

“……”

Lee Shinwoo’s expression darkened.

A battle with an obvious outcome.

Contrary to the approaching red procession, the martial artists of the Yusan Sect were preparing with a determined will.

It would begin soon.

A fight to kill and be killed.

“Why didn’t they run away?”

Lee Shinwoo asked.

Many sects had already abandoned their bases and fled.

But what they abandoned was not just their world.

The civilians and players living in this area.

They had all abandoned them and fled.

But the Yusan Sect remained.

Why?

“Because they have to protect.”

Protect.

“What?”

Lee Shinwoo continued to ask.

Lee Shinwoo knew.

‘Rowoon is closely connected to Eun.’

He knew their thoughts and methods.

It was something that Lee Shinwoo himself could never do.

Because they were born and raised in completely different worlds, there was a gap that he could never understand.

Lee Rowoon was one of the few who fully understood that gap.

“There must be many reasons.”

There were several things that came to mind.

But after erasing those complex things, Lee Rowoon said only one thing.

“It’s to protect the fact that they are human.”

The essence.

And.

Kwaaaang!

The battle began.

* * *

Yoo Shin-haeng had been fighting resistance forces endlessly.

Numerous resistance forces from various countries had infiltrated and existed in the Philippines, and many of them were radical.

Whether they were those who called out the name of God.

Or those who just wanted destruction.

They justified their violence under the name of resistance.

Yoo Shin-haeng had already fought against them countless times.

But he could say with certainty.

Kwaddeudeuk!

The enemy army was made up of strong people of a different caliber.

“Sect Leader!”

“Don’t back down!”

A disciple who had eaten with him until yesterday had his upper body torn in half.

Kwaduk!

The neck of a close friend he had grown up with since childhood was torn off.

“What is…!”

Yoo Shin-haeng ran out with his sword.

The qi [life force] rising from his sword emitted an even brighter light.

“What’s the difference!”

It was a word he had not been able to say out loud.

A being belonging to Eun, a subordinate sect of Jeomchang.

That’s why he couldn’t say it.

-The residents of Earth are inferior.

The martial artists said.

-Players are just butchers.

The martial artists of Eun separated and discriminated against the residents of Earth and them.

There were various reasons.

Because they were different from those who practiced martial arts with noble intentions and will.

Because they were different from themselves, who valued righteousness and cooperation, and those who valued capital and practicality.

Because they had lost the righteousness and filial piety of a teacher and disciple.

For many reasons, they separated and discriminated against each other.

But.

“What’s the difference!”

Yoo Shin-haeng knew.

The martial artists of Eun were merely discriminating against the residents of Earth because they were stronger than them.

That’s why they thought they were inferior.

But now.

Kwaddeudeuk!

Look at this sight.

A martial artist, whom they so despised, was being torn apart and crushed by the hands of a player.

Kwaddeudeuk!

Just like how martial artists trampled on the resisting residents of Earth.

Udeuk!

They were also trampling on martial artists.

Yoo Shin-haeng had realized it before.

While fighting countless resistance forces, he realized that they were no different from himself.

That’s why he could treat them equally.

Because one day, everything could be reversed.

“Dieeeeee!”

He did not discriminate.

“Huk… huk…”

Yoo Shin-haeng knocked down five enemies at once.

But.

“Sect… Leader…”

In the meantime, more than ten martial artists of the Yusan Sect had died.

Taat!

Yoo Shin-haeng took a step.

“Aaaaaaaah!”

It was a roar.

A roar against a world that had become twisted.

If.

-Eun and Earth had not been in conflict.

Numerous assumptions.

-If they had worked together.

Many things he had thought about so far.

-If they had not discriminated.

If that had been the case.

“It would have been different!”

They would not have had to see so much blood and corpses.

Even if there had been beings like the enemy army, they would not have become the mainstream.

They would have been trampled as they sprouted.

But because they discriminated and separated them, the tumor grew and threatened everything.

This was.

Seogeok!

It was a will.

The will that Yoo Shin-haeng wanted to show.

A will to show to someone who could do great things that someone like himself, who was powerless and incapable, could not do.

Even at this moment, or even in the past few days, Yoo Shin-haeng’s mind was filled with only one person’s face.

-The enemy army is coming.

The one who gave the warning.

He was, without a doubt, the strongest person Yoo Shin-haeng had ever seen.

-The one standing in the middle.

A perfect gray.

The only being who could mix martial artists, players, Eun, and Earth.

That’s why.

Kwaaaang!

It was his will to show him.

Pasuseut.

Dust rose.

The transformed blades that were rushing towards him had stopped.

There.

“Please help us.”

Lee Rowoon was standing.