Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 264

“Is there another one?”

At Lee Ro-woon’s languid question, the wolf nodded.

“……”

The expressions of the group slowly hardened.

“Just now….”

Lee Ro-woon spoke lightly, so it could be taken lightly, but the content was anything but light.

“Did you say another one?”

Hase Min asked with a serious face.

“That’s right.”

Lee Ro-woon replied.

“The one I was looking for isn’t this one.”

At first, he was confused, but now that he faced it, he could tell.

The wolf, the king of the Black Orcs and revered as a god of the Beast Palace, was definitely the power Lee Ro-woon was looking for.

‘A fragment of chaos.’

It was an entity that possessed a fragment of chaos, but it was different from what Lee Ro-woon had felt.

“The one I was looking for….”

Lee Ro-woon narrowed his eyes and said,

“Is a much denser power than this.”

That’s why he was confused.

He thought the power he felt in Bohol was one, but a large energy was concealing a smaller one.

The smaller one was this guy.

“Could it be….”

The larger one was what Lee Ro-woon was looking for.

“Are you saying this wolf isn’t the king of Bohol?”

The king of Bohol.

They were talking about the cause that turned the Philippines into a land of death, the culprit that made Bohol a place where humans could not set foot.

“I guess so.”

No one denied Lee Ro-woon’s answer.

It was then.

“That is correct.”

The one who called himself the Grand Elder of the Beast Palace stepped forward to speak.

“What you are talking about seems to be the Black Lion.”

“Black Lion?”

“The beast of destruction.”

The Grand Elder of the Beast Palace said.

“The Guardian Wolf protected us against the beast of destruction, and because of that, he is trapped here, unable to even move freely.”

The Orcs also nodded.

“So please….”

The Black Orcs had come to find Lee Ro-woon.

They also treated Lee Ro-woon with respect and invited him.

Because he was the guest of the king.

Because he was the king of humans.

Of course, they expected there would be complex reasons….

“Will you help us?”

They never thought it would be this.

“The Guardian Wolf has become infinitely weak. Also, the beast of destruction will recover from the wounds it sustained from the Wolf and begin to move.”

The true king of Bohol was moving.

“This time….”

The Grand Elder of the Beast Palace said,

“We might all have a hard time surviving.”

Hase Min bit his lip at the unexpected turn of events.

However.

“There are no lies.”

It was Lee Shin-woo who took their side.

While Hase Min had only gathered information about the relationship between the Black Orcs and the Beast Palace, and the martial arts used by the Black Orcs, Lee Shin-woo had investigated the other humans living there.

The people coexisting with the Black Orcs were not all warriors of the Beast Palace.

Players and ordinary residents were mixed in.

The reason they were not visible was because they could not withstand the high concentration of magic power that permeated the entire Bohol and were living in safe places.

Lee Shin-woo had met them briefly and talked to them.

“Most of the original residents of Bohol were massacred by the beast of destruction. The same goes for the players, and most of those who entered to reclaim Bohol….”

The beast of destruction.

The Black Lion.

“They say they were defeated by that, not by this wolf or the Black Orcs.”

“……That’s….”

Everyone looked at Lee Ro-woon.

The wolf’s voice echoed.

-I ask for your help.

The wolf also bowed his head and asked Lee Ro-woon for help.

“The reason.”

Lee Ro-woon said, looking at the wolf.

“Why are you trying to protect them?”

To others, this Guardian Wolf might have seemed special.

He was the king of the Black Orcs and the god of the Beast Palace.

He was also an entity with a fragment of chaos and a majestic power.

But in Lee Ro-woon’s eyes, he saw the essence of the creature.

‘A wolf.’

This guy was just a wolf.

He was just a wolf born in the Beast Palace, with some internal energy and unusual intelligence due to their special abilities.

He was just lucky to survive, obtain a fragment of chaos, and grow.

From the beginning.

‘He wasn’t born a king or a god.’

It was just the circumstances that made him that way.

So.

“You have no responsibility.”

The wolf had no reason to protect the Black Orcs, the Beast Palace, or even the residents of Earth.

But he had put up a barrier over the entire Bohol, blocking those who came from the outside, and preventing the beast of destruction from escaping Bohol.

“Why do you want to protect them?”

He was trying to protect everyone at the cost of his own body and life.

He was curious about the reason.

-I am merely not ignoring the given mission.

A mission, huh?

-The fact that I, who was just a mere beast, was given this power, and that there are those who follow me. That must be some kind of mission.

Was that really so?

But the wolf’s thoughts seemed firm.

-To use that power for those who want to protect it. That is all I think my mission is.

A faint smile spread across Lee Ro-woon’s lips.

This guy was an idiot.

There was no such thing as a mission like that.

He was just a strong life among his species, and he was just lucky.

Yet.

Swoosh.

He thought of it as a kind of fate and mission.

But that was the answer.

A wolf who was born as neither a king nor a god, but who became a king and a god as a result.

His thoughts.

-Will you help me?

A voice asking for help.

In any case, all choices were up to Lee Ro-woon.

* * *

Several days passed.

During that time, the group, including Hase Min, spent time doing what they wanted.

“The martial arts of the Beast Palace allow you to synchronize with beasts.”

Those who spent time with the Grand Elder of the Beast Palace.

“We call this resonance.”

“Resonance?”

“A beast is born and raised, and from a young age, they become a partner, sharing internal energy.”

Information about the Beast Palace remained in the Silver Moon, but their secrets did not.

How the Beast Palace was able to use martial arts on beasts.

And how they were strong enough to be included in the forces called the Three Outer Palaces.

“The internal energy created by the special mind method of the Beast Palace dwells in the beast, and if the beast that shares the same wavelength with the warrior of the Beast Palace resonates….”

The Grand Elder of the Beast Palace said,

“The internal energy is amplified and exerted. It is not like adding one to one to make two, but like one and one meeting to make ten.”

Their martial arts were special and different from those of the Silver Moon.

“However, the warriors of the Beast Palace also have weaknesses.”

They shared everything without hesitation.

“If you lose a beast that has been sharing wavelengths for a long time, the warrior of the Beast Palace will also weaken rapidly.”

“In other words, if you deal with just one, both will be unable to function.”

“That’s right.”

The Beast Palace had passed on that special internal energy mind method to the Black Orcs.

At first, it was impossible, but the Black Orcs gradually began to learn the internal energy mind method.

“The Beast Palace is already on the verge of annihilation. When the gate opened, there were less than ten survivors, including myself.”

The Beast Palace lived with beasts.

They were naturally beings that needed vast lands and abundant food.

But as the world was fragmented, in a limited space, they….

“We had to abandon our families and friends, so our downfall was inevitable.”

To survive, they had to eat their families and friends.

The beasts.

Having lost the beasts that were their foundation, the Beast Palace began to lose power, and it became a vicious cycle that eventually led to a situation close to annihilation.

“When the gate opened, we met the Black Orcs, and we, who could communicate with them, saw new possibilities.”

The Grand Elder of the Beast Palace smiled, raising his wrinkled lips.

“Hashman.”

War Chief Hashman.

“He is the current Palace Lord of the Beast Palace.”

“……!”

“It was an unavoidable choice to continue our lineage. Also, the Black Orcs accepted us into their tribe in return.”

In the end.

“Coexistence, then.”

It could be said that a form of coexistence had been completed.

Nod.

That was the secret of the Beast Palace and the current situation.

Hase Min could realize.

Many in the Silver Moon were after the secret of the Beast Palace, but.

‘It won’t be of much practical help.’

It seemed difficult to expect any special changes just by knowing their secret.

Two people had to be a pair, and even if monsters could learn martial arts, it seemed to be limited to the Black Orcs.

“However….”

The Grand Elder of the Beast Palace said,

“There seems to be something we can help with.”

“……?”

“When I look at you, I smell the scent of beasts.”

The scent of beasts.

“The feeling of firmly locking away an instinct that seems about to explode and letting it go. Especially….”

His eyes were filled with fear.

“Your king and master seems to have something unimaginable dormant within him.”

Hase Min’s face hardened.

He had already seen it.

“Something black and dark, incomparable to the Guardian Wolf….”

Lee Ro-woon had called it.

-Chaos.

That which he called chaos.

The story of that which would bring about the destruction of the world.

“The Beast Palace resonates with beasts and can borrow the power of beasts. Even their instincts.”

“……!”

“Then.”

The Grand Elder of the Beast Palace smiled.

“Wouldn’t there also be a way to suppress that instinct?”

This was it.

* * *

Lee Ro-woon was with Chilabao, the tribal chief and high priest of the Black Orcs.

He had come to find Lee Ro-woon, who was resting under a tree.

“Excuse me.”

Chilabao was an Orc, but he was like a warrior.

His polite attitude and the way he clasped his hands.

“What is it?”

“I have reviewed my battle with you.”

Chilabao said without hesitation.

“I could not win a hundred times out of a hundred, and I could not win even once out of a thousand or ten thousand times.”

Lee Ro-woon chuckled at Chilabao’s words.

Chilabao had tried countless times to assume he could win against Lee Ro-woon.

But an insurmountable wall.

That was Lee Ro-woon.

“I have also fought the Guardian Wolf.”

Chilabao said.

“It is the role of the high priest to accept him as our king and acknowledge him as a god to follow.”

The god of the Black Orcs changes from time to time.

What they revered was not a specific entity.

The strong one.

A strong leader who can lead the entire tribe.

They served that person as a king and regarded him as a god.

-The high priest is.

That was also what the Demon King Master had said.

-The strongest warrior. A warrior who is qualified to fight on behalf of the tribe.

That was why Chilabao would have fought the Guardian Wolf to make him their king and god.

“A hundred battles are a hundred defeats.”

Chilabao said.

“But now, I can win one out of a thousand battles.”

“That’s a funny thing to say.”

Lee Ro-woon laughed.

“Your power is the power that the Guardian Wolf has. What good would it do if you could defeat the Guardian Wolf with that?”

Chilabao smiled.

“So, what’s the reason you came to find me?”

He did not seem like someone who would come forward to try a battle with no chance of winning.

Even if he had that kind of personality, it was not now.

“Do you know about the Blood Flower?”