Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 311

Thump, thump, thump.

The sound of helicopter propellers echoed.

Chik.

A radio crackled, and a voice resonated through the helicopter.

-What’s going on?

It was a transmission from the Unryong Clan below.

-This is Haenam’s territory.

Within Asia, the Association had divided territories among the Nine Great Sects and equivalent powers, granting them dominion.

While each country’s government ruled and governed, in reality,

‘It’s like they’ve been granted autonomy as lords or vassals.’

Thus, they possessed immense control and autonomy over their respective territories.

-The Silver Star is requested to state its purpose of visit and land the helicopter at the designated location.

The unexpected visit of the Silver Star was unwelcome to them.

Especially a visit by helicopter, not by land.

However.

Chik.

-The Silver Star will land at the Unryong Clan. Clear the landing area and prepare.

The Silver Star’s pilot simply delivered a one-sided notice.

-What…! What are you doing….

Naturally, an angry voice erupted from the Unryong Clan, but.

Click.

The pilot cut off the transmission itself.

Thump, thump, thump!

The helicopter’s propeller sound grew more intense as it descended.

In Lee San-hoo’s view, countless martial artists and players were gathered outside the helicopter window.

Realizing that the Silver Star’s visit was not for friendly reasons, they had to prepare for something.

Swish.

-I repeat. If the Silver Star’s helicopter does not leave this place immediately….

They amplified their voices with internal energy, nocking arrows on their bows, and glared at the helicopter.

-We will fire.

Arrows from martial artists who had mastered archery were more powerful than guns.

Since the helicopter had been magically treated, it could not be destroyed by ordinary guns or anti-aircraft guns, so only arrows imbued with internal energy could shoot it down.

Thump, thump, thump!

The helicopter descended even further.

It was then.

Swoosh!

With a sound piercing the air, an arrow grazed past the side of the helicopter.

It wasn’t a miss.

-Next time, I will hit the helicopter!

A warning shot.

However.

Thump, thump, thump!

The Silver Star’s helicopter ignored everything and continued to descend.

Once more.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The sounds of air being pierced echoed.

Still warning shots.

-This is the last… warning.

The next time, arrows would truly target the helicopter.

There was a reason why the use of helicopters or airplanes was restricted in Asia.

Unlike the Einheart side, which could safely protect the aircraft they were riding with magical barriers, magic, or skills, martial artists were vulnerable to the concept of protection.

They only trained their own bodies, making their own flesh a weapon.

“……”

They were not good at protecting and defending something.

If they wanted to protect something like a helicopter, they would have to infuse the helicopter itself with internal energy and wrap it in a form like sword energy or strong energy, but there were few martial artists who could maintain a protective barrier on a moving helicopter while handling that immense internal energy.

That was why only the Nine Great Sects and equivalent powers, where safety was assured, used means of flight.

However.

Swoosh!

The Silver Star was ignoring all of that.

Twitch.

The moment Lee Rowan’s hand touched the helicopter seat, he felt something twitching on the helicopter’s exterior.

In the following moment.

Thud.

The fired arrows were falling to the ground without any force.

Protective energy.

It had been applied to the entire helicopter.

It was something that was impossible for ordinary martial artists, something that required immense and vast internal energy.

Even though the helicopter was still high in the air.

Click.

The pilot opened the helicopter door.

Whoosh!

A powerful wind, as if it would sweep everything away, was raging inside the helicopter.

However, several of the Silver Star’s martial artists stood quietly, receiving Dang Hwa-young’s gaze.

Swoosh, swoosh.

They stood at the door, unfazed, even in the turbulent helicopter.

“Descend.”

The moment Dang Hwa-young’s voice came out.

Swoosh!

They jumped out of the open helicopter door without any hesitation.

The same was true for the other helicopters.

An act similar to suicide without a parachute.

But they were martial artists.

And.

Crash!

They were the Silver Star’s martial artists.

Lee San-hoo was watching all of this.

-What do you think?

Before coming here, Lee Rowan had asked for his thoughts inside the helicopter.

The Silver Star, which had wiped out the Guisan Clan in an instant.

They were heading to the Unryong Clan.

And Lee San-hoo had answered Lee Rowan.

-The Unryong Clan….

A single answer.

-Will be wiped out.

* * *

The power of the Silver Star.

There were many stories about it.

Some said that the Silver Star was just lucky and only had the power of a mid-sized sect, while others said that they truly had the power to take a seat at the bottom of the Nine Great Sects.

Some said they were equal to the leaders of the Nine Great Sects, others said they were equal to the Association….

Everything was just rumors.

Therefore, there was one fact that could be known.

-The power of the Silver Star is unknown.

That no one could accurately judge the power of the Silver Star.

And generally, those kinds of people….

-Are likely hiding more power than is known to the world.

There was a saying in the Silver Star.

-Hide 30% of your power.

A saying to avoid revealing oneself in preparation for any urgent situation.

A saying to prepare the last resort to overcome any crisis.

If that saying was applied to the Silver Star.

-At least mid-tier among the Nine Great Sects.

The power of the Silver Star could be evaluated as truly immense.

-The Unryong Clan.

They were certainly a mid-sized sect that had been steadily growing its power under Haenam.

It was also true that they were a large sect with top-tier skills in South Korea, excluding Hwasan, the Silver Star, and Haenam.

Therefore, even if they took advantage of the element of surprise, the fight between the Unryong Clan and the Silver Star was thought to be difficult.

Based solely on the information available.

“……”

However, Lee San-hoo’s thoughts were different.

-The Unryong Clan will be wiped out.

He had a premonition of the Unryong Clan’s defeat.

As a player, it was not easy for him to gauge the level of martial artists.

He could only guess how strong Dang Hwa-young was or how strong the Black King was by listening to stories, but he could not know exactly how much of a gap there was between them and the Unryong Clan’s sect leader or corps commanders.

However, there was something Lee San-hoo believed in.

‘Special recruit.’

Lee Rowan.

Lee San-hoo was someone who liked to evaluate and judge people.

It was more of a habit that had developed to survive as a player than a hobby.

The time he had spent training with Lee Rowan.

He knew that Lee Rowan was special.

However.

‘A special guild member, huh.’

He didn’t know that Lee Rowan was the person in the rumors.

The one who had even deceived his own eyes and senses.

And the confidence he had shown.

-The Unryong Clan is definitely strong, it’s a fight that can’t be won with just this much force.

Lee San-hoo hadn’t simply predicted the Unryong Clan’s defeat.

He had explained his own calculations and process.

-But the Silver Star’s leadership isn’t stupid.

Dang Hwa-young, including him, the Silver Star’s leadership.

The martial artists who had been deployed in this operation.

-Looking at the Silver Star’s actions, they are different from martial artists who value reputation and throw away their lives.

They.

-Practicality.

They moved while calculating realistic gains.

-Even if you have a great position in the Silver Star, for the Silver Star’s guild leader to head to the Unryong Clan without any objection means that he has that much faith.

Therefore.

-The Unryong Clan will lose.

What Lee San-hoo believed in was Lee Rowan.

Or rather, he believed in the Silver Star that he wanted to be a part of.

Smirk.

Lee Rowan had smiled at that time.

Thump, thump.

The sound of propellers echoed.

Contrary to the worry of whether they could even land at the Unryong Clan.

Thud!

The helicopter stopped with a jolt on the roof of the Unryong Clan.

-Then how can we easily subdue the Unryong Clan?

Lee Rowan had also not asked Lee San-hoo about the result.

The process.

He had asked how they should go about the process.

-Martial artists, players, knights too.

Lee San-hoo had said.

-In the end, they are all human, so they can’t be different.

Lee San-hoo had answered like this.

-Overwhelming power. You have to start with that.

The martial artists who had gathered, wary of the Silver Star.

The noisy and chaotic helicopter landing area was now eerily quiet.

Swish.

Those who had approached the helicopter door.

The Silver Star’s martial artists stood as if they were escorting the helicopter, and Dang Hwa-young and others naturally began to get out of the helicopter.

Then, one by one, they got out, and Lee Rowan got out.

“What are you doing?”

Lee Rowan said to Lee San-hoo.

“Aren’t you getting out?”

“……”

“It’s the base of the people who tried to kidnap and kill you.”

Lee Rowan said.

“If it weren’t for me, you would have died. Are you afraid to see them in person?”

At Lee Rowan’s words, Lee San-hoo bit his lip.

It wasn’t that.

When he was kidnapped by the Guisan Clan and Lee Rowan had come to find him, Lee San-hoo could feel it.

That from now on, he was stepping into a world he had never known before.

And now, the moment he got out of this helicopter, he knew that he was not just stepping into the world.

What Lee Rowan had done was a test.

And the act of running towards that result, it was no different from having his whole body straddling another world.

“……”

Lee San-hoo looked at Lee Rowan and those who had gotten out of the helicopter.

And.

“Damn it.”

The choice had already been made.

Thud.

Lee San-hoo stepped out of the helicopter.

He could see the same scene he had seen at the Guisan Clan.

A helicopter landing area stained with blood.

“Did you kill them all?”

A question directed at Lee Rowan.

“Well, I guess they would have if they resisted.”

But.

“We’re not murderers.”

The martial artists, bound and writhing in a daze, far away.

The other helicopters were also landing, pouring out martial artists.

Movement was constantly being detected inside the building.

“Are you going to stay like this?”

Lee San-hoo said, knowing that they would be surrounded if they stayed like this.

“Tell me.”

Lee Rowan said.

“What should we do?”

“What?”

“We’ve arrived at the Unryong Clan. The forces are….”

Whoosh.

Something twitching was felt around Lee Rowan.

“Ten times, or more than that.”

In that moment, he had grasped all the forces of the Unryong Clan present in this building.

“The level?”

“It’s the act of a novice to gauge the level of a martial artist with only internal energy.”

No.

Lee Rowan probably knew exactly, he just wasn’t saying it.

“……”

Lee San-hoo’s mind was racing.

The effects of the poison had long since disappeared, and Lee San-hoo seemed to be concentrating on his thoughts, even forgetting that the Silver Star’s leadership was nearby.

The more time passed, the fewer options there were.

And the responsibility for that….

Tick.

Would be his own.

Although he was in a sudden and unwanted situation.

“Command.”

Lee San-hoo said, not losing his composure.

“We have to collapse the command structure.”

A typical answer.

At that, a hint of disappointment flickered in Dang Hwa-young’s eyes.

Anyone could give that kind of answer.

What Lee Rowan wanted from Lee San-hoo, what was special about Lee San-hoo.

It was when that was not felt at all.

“That’s only if you want the Unryong Clan to be destroyed.”

“……!”

“But if you’re looking beyond that, you have to do it differently.”

Having said that, Lee San-hoo sat down in a cross-legged position.

“Wait.”

He said.

“Until people come to capture the Silver Star.”