Disciple Of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 32

The Three Kings’ Disciple (33)

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Like embers in the ashes, the sparks that remained after living as a slave in the Hwasan Guild.

One of them was Bondenno.

“……”

I saved him.

Bondenno looked hesitant, as if he still didn’t fully trust Lee Rowoon.

‘I guess so.’

A completely changed appearance.

Moreover, seeing him nullify the magic circles, he must know that I’m not a player [a person from Earth who has gained special abilities in this world].

It’s hard to believe easily in something that defies common sense….

“I’m ready. Lee Ro…woon.”

The last name was a small voice that no one could hear.

“Huh?”

“Why?”

Bondenno said.

“Isn’t it about abandoning Armo? The way we can survive now.”

At Bondenno’s words, the corners of Lee Rowoon’s tightly closed mouth began to rise.

“Ha, hahaha.”

“What’s wrong?”

Bondenno wasn’t doubting his identity.

He believed the words that he would be saved and was already contemplating what choice he had to make.

“You’re just as stubborn as ever.”

I felt better.

The Archmage, a genius obsessed with magic circles.

That’s how geniuses usually were.

They were so fixated on one thing that other parts of them were broken.

If not that.

‘It must be intuition.’

A genius ability to see something that ordinary people can’t.

Bondenno was probably both the former and the latter.

That’s why he risked his life to save me, someone he didn’t even know, in the past.

“Abandoning Armo. Are you okay with that?”

“There’s no other way.”

Bondenno said.

“Even if you have a power I don’t know, it will be difficult to escape the dungeon. Because Haenam will already be waiting outside.”

The Six Martial Heroes’ subjugation force was just a scouting party.

By now, additional subjugation forces would be waiting for the scouts.

“The, Dungeon Lord….”

At that moment, one of the old mages cautiously came forward and spoke.

“What are you talking about? Abandoning Armo.”

“Jikil, there’s no other way for us to get out of here alive anyway.”

Bondenno calmly said to the old mage.

“The second wave of enemies to destroy Armo will already be waiting outside. How else can we do it?”

“But, but… we can’t abandon Armo!”

As if agreeing with the mage named Jikil, other mages came forward.

“Everything we have is in Armo! The magic circles that have been with Armo’s history….”

“Tsk.”

Lee Rowoon clicked his tongue briefly.

‘Same as them.’

They probably didn’t fully grasp the current situation.

The reason was the same as the elders of the Blood Cult.

‘Those who haven’t experienced the outside.’

Those who had only lived in this dungeon and had not adapted to the expanded and changed world.

“If they are the ones who have received grace from the Dungeon Lord, then together…!”

“Be quiet!”

Bondenno’s loud voice echoed through the chamber.

It was unexpected.

‘He’s quite temperamental.’

Armo, with whom he had spent time in the past, though not long, could be called a natural mage.

He was merciless when facing enemies, but endlessly gentle to his own people, or rather, a pushover.

“How can you tell them to risk their lives! These people, no, this person risked danger for us and came all the way here! What more do you want!”

“But….”

“As Jikil said, what will change if we break through the subjugation force with them? The location of the dungeon has been exposed! Admit it.”

Bondenno’s voice, which had been excited, gradually calmed down.

“We don’t have the power to protect Armo.”

His voice was filled with a deep sense of pain.

“Are we all going to die here?”

The one named Jikil closed his mouth.

“Isn’t the annihilation of Armo’s mages the end of Armo’s history?”

“……”

“Don’t worry, Jikil.”

Bondenno showed a small smile.

It was a sad reality, but it was to give hope.

“Armo’s history.”

Tap, tap.

Bondenno tapped his head with his finger.

“It’s with me.”

The old mage named Jikil finally lowered his head.

“But…!”

However, it seemed that not everyone was convinced, as another mage raised his voice.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand.

Mages were obsessive people.

Moreover, the obsession of those who studied the non-mainstream field of magic circles was truly indescribable.

It was natural that they couldn’t give up easily and couldn’t let go.

“Don’t be mistaken.”

Lee Rowoon said in a low voice to such a mage.

“It’s not a suggestion.”

“Y-you.”

“I’m going to save Bondenno. Other than that, I don’t care what happens to me.”

The mage trembled.

He couldn’t handle the killing intent that Lee Rowoon emitted.

“Let’s go.”

Bondenno started walking ahead as if he didn’t even care about such a mage.

***

Bondenno took the lead, and Lee Rowoon and Jung Chi-soo followed.

“You’re planning to destroy the dungeon after all.”

Kang Cheol-woo, who was following behind, said in a low voice.

“Why, do you also dislike destroying the dungeon?”

The destruction of the dungeon.

And the result would be reported as the annihilation of the subjugation force.

That meant.

‘All of them will be treated as dead.’

If anyone survived, the survivors would be questioned about what happened in the dungeon.

They all had to be dead.

It meant that all the lives they had built up and lived were over.

“Of course not.”

Kang Cheol-woo replied in a voice without a hint of falsehood.

“I know this is the only way we can survive.”

“Of course not.”

Lee Rowoon said with a smile as if amused.

“There’s one more way to survive, isn’t there?”

“……”

Kang Cheol-woo realized what Lee Rowoon was talking about and hardened his face.

“You can run to Haenam and tell them everything that happened in the dungeon. The strange bastards of the Dark Shadow Guild, the group of the one called the Blood Demon, killed the Six Martial Heroes.”

“……!”

“Moreover, the Dungeon Lord of Armo, who saw him, said the name Dank.”

“Th-that….”

Kang Cheol-woo’s face turned dark.

“Armo was destroyed, but the mages survived, and the Dungeon Lord escaped with the Blood Demon. If you say that, you can survive, right?”

Kang Cheol-woo hurriedly waved his hand.

“I don’t want to live in fear.”

Is it because he’s a guild leader?

“If we do that, we’ll pay the price someday.”

“Wouldn’t Haenam protect you?”

“Haenam?”

Pfft.

Kang Cheol-woo laughed.

“They will surely kill us for letting the Six Martial Heroes die.”

“Good that you’re not stupid.”

Lee Rowoon said again as he walked.

“So, why are you saying this to me?”

Thud.

Kang Cheol-woo, who had been walking, stopped.

Then, he lowered his body and bowed his head to the ground.

It was a shameful thing for the players, who were residents of Earth, but in Eun [the world they are in], this was how they made a desperate request.

“Didn’t you say you would show us a way to live?”

“……”

“Then, I beg you. If we stay like this, we’ll all die anyway. Even our families will die.”

Even if they were treated as dead due to the destruction of the dungeon, they did not have the ability to hide their identities and live.

In this small South Korea, where would they hide?

‘Even crossing the border by Eun is strictly controlled.’

It was impossible to leave South Korea.

“Perhaps….”

Kang Cheol-woo cautiously raised his head and said.

“Are you… a righteous army?”

A righteous army.

“I’ve saved some righteous armies before. I’m doomed if Haenam finds out about that anyway. Then, please bestow grace upon us as well. We will do anything we can.”

Bondenno and Jung Chi-soo also stopped and looked at Kang Cheol-woo with Lee Rowoon.

“Okay, get up. I don’t like leaving you to die like that anyway.”

Lee Rowoon said that and turned his head as if he didn’t care.

“Th-thank you.”

Kang Cheol-woo hurriedly got up and followed.

Bondenno smiled faintly and started walking again.

“You haven’t changed.”

“What?”

Lee Rowoon said as if he didn’t understand Bondenno’s words.

He couldn’t find any trace of his past self.

What exactly hadn’t changed?

“Just… my hero.”

Bondenno said that and finally stopped.

The center of the dungeon.

In the Blood King’s Castle, it was like the Blood Pond, the deep core of the dungeon.

Woo-oong.

Mana resonated and cried out from all directions.

A superimposed magic circle, as if created by dozens of mages at the same time, was located there.

Inside it, an old, worn-out book was enshrined like a sacred object.

“That’s the core of Armo.”

It was the core of the dungeon.

***

“Wait, it will take some time to deactivate the magic circle.”

As it was protecting the core of the dungeon, those magic circles were the essence of the study of Armo’s magic circles.

Even Bondenno, who was called an Archmage and was said to be one in a hundred in Ainhart [a region or country in this world] in terms of understanding magic circles, needed quite a bit of time to deactivate the magic circles.

“Move.”

Lee Rowoon passed by such Bondenno and went forward.

“What are you trying to do?”

Bondenno’s voice followed.

“That’s different from the sacrifice magic circle or the superimposed magic circles that the mages made earlier!”

His voice was dumbfounded.

“It’s rated as a thousand-level by Eun’s standards, but if you don’t deactivate it properly, it’s close to a dragon-level! Are you even listening to me?”

Lee Rowoon stood at the beginning of the magic circle without saying anything and half-opened his eyes.

“Shut up, Bondenno.”

“You…!”

The moment Bondenno was about to approach Lee Rowoon in panic.

Whoosh!

Blood vessels began to gush out from under Lee Rowoon’s feet.

“Wh-what….”

The blood vessels spread out like spider webs and began to take shape.

The sight of the light emanating from the magic circle illuminating the blood vessels was mysterious yet bizarre.

They were all mesmerized by the sight.

“N-no, no way!”

Bondenno, who was the first to realize, screamed in horror.

“A counter magic circle?”

There was something that was the simplest yet most difficult thing to do when deactivating a magic circle.

That was the counter magic circle.

A magic circle that was symmetrical to the magic circle and induced the annihilation of the magic circle.

It was called symmetrical, but one magic circle had complex formulas and axes, and there were also invisible three-dimensional structures and hidden formulas, so creating a magic circle that was perfectly symmetrical required a long period of analysis and study.

Moreover….

“It’s a superimposed magic circle!”

That was a superimposed magic circle.

Superimposed wasn’t just about having several magic circles lined up.

It was made several times more complex than the existing structure by being intertwined countless times.

But he created a counter magic circle in an instant?

“I can’t activate it. You do it.”

“Wh-where did you learn something like this?”

Learned, huh.

This was a bit different.

“It was imprinted.”

By the Demon King, who was called the progenitor of magic.

“I-it’s real.”

Bondenno was already looking at the counter magic circle that Lee Rowoon had created, not even paying attention to Lee Rowoon’s words.

Even for him, who was called an Archmage, it was impossible to create a counter magic circle in such a short time, but he had the eye to be sure that the counter magic circle was real.

“I… I’m Armo’s greatest genius….”

Bondenno, with a crying face, went to the starting point of the magic circle and reached out his hand.

“I… I worked hard too.”

Bondenno, who really had tears in his eyes, began to infuse mana into the magic circle.

“Shit… this dirty world….”

Whoosh!

The magic circle began to shine and break.

Clang!

Inside the completely broken magic circle, Lee Rowoon went towards the core of the dungeon.

In that place filled with awkward silence and Bondenno’s crying, it was the moment Lee Rowoon touched the core of the dungeon.

“……!”

Lee Rowoon’s face contorted.