Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 335

-Do you know that?

A voice echoed in Lee Tae-gyeom’s head.

Wooong.

With a sound like a swarm of bees, Lee Tae-gyeom’s thoughts froze.

No.

“……!”

It was as if time had stopped.

Lee Tae-gyeom, barely able to move his eyes, saw everything around him frozen.

The great Hainan warriors, ready to charge at his command, seemed unaware of the situation, and the Blood Cult forces, Hainan’s enemies, also seemed oblivious to the stopped time.

‘What kind of sorcery is this?’

He had never heard of anything that could stop time.

And.

-Everything you’ve done to get here….

A voice was heard.

“Was in my grasp.”

Whoosh!

The stopped time accelerated rapidly and returned to normal.

“Haa!”

Lee Tae-gyeom, feeling the overwhelming powerlessness, gasped and looked ahead.

The Blood Demon in the demon mask was now at the forefront.

“Excellent.”

He said.

“You came here as I wished and desired, so you have fulfilled your role.”

“What….”

Lee Tae-gyeom, barely regaining his composure, shouted.

“What nonsense are you spouting, Blood Demon!”

The Blood Demon’s words made it sound as if he was a spy who had been in league with the Blood Cult.

As expected, gazes turned towards Lee Tae-gyeom.

“You’ve worked hard.”

“Shut up-!”

“You’ve nicely packaged Hainan and brought it before me, so now I can take it without hesitation?”

“Ha!”

Lee Tae-gyeom shouted.

“You’re spouting ridiculous nonsense!”

Lee Tae-gyeom thought the Blood Demon’s words were just to shake him.

“Are you crazy from the overwhelming difference in military strength? This is your last chance.”

Lee Tae-gyeom said.

“Kneel down and offer your neck right now. Then I will end this war with your head.”

“Don’t worry.”

The Blood Demon’s relaxed attitude and tone.

The Blood Demon’s voice, which even felt languid, was incredibly sweet.

“In the final moment, you will be torn to pieces and scattered.”

“What….”

“It’s regrettable that your sins are so numerous that they cannot be covered by merit.”

“Shut up!”

As if to say he wouldn’t be swayed any longer.

“All Hainan warriors, listen-!”

Lee Tae-gyeom closed his ears and shouted.

“In the end, those vile Blood Cult forces have not chosen to surrender-!”

Swoosh!

He drew his sword, raised it high, and shouted.

“Sweep away the Blood Cult forces and restore the righteous energy of Eun-!”

At that moment, a furious wave of energy began to surge out again.

Thud!

With the light sound of the warriors’ footsteps, the advance began.

* * *

Ninety thousand, and considering that most of them were warriors, the wave that was visible was truly terrifying.

“Crazy….”

Even if they had expected it, seeing the numbers in person was a completely different story.

Hainan warriors were surging in from all directions.

“Defensive formation!”

Choi Doo-ho and the other players shouted, raising their shields.

If there was one thing they were better at than the warriors, it was defense.

When the players, with their special skills, used them well.

Koo-ooo!

In terms of defense, they were definitely superior to the warriors.

The ground shook.

“Wall of Earth!”

The combined power of the mage players and spiritist players created a large earthen wall.

“Descend! Golden God!”

Other skills were linked with numerous players, and the rising earthen wall soon began to glow with golden light.

“Reinforce-!”

“Guardian Shield!”

The skills unleashed by over a thousand players blocked Hainan’s advance.

Kwaaang!

Their aura clashed, but.

“We’ve bought some time for now.”

It would take time to break down that wall.

This was one of the few areas where players had an advantage over warriors.

Warriors focused on individual capabilities and could combine their strength through formations, but.

-Link Skill.

Players could use skills with abilities several levels higher than that.

It was like a fight between a single large iron ball and a needle piercing it.

However.

Kwaang!

Even that wouldn’t last long.

There were players on the other side as well.

Also.

Kwaaaang!

The warriors’ power far exceeded that of the players, so they could simply break through by force.

“Get into formation! Prepare for the follow-up attack!”

At the moment the command was given, Lee San-hoo was with the players.

“…….”

Lee San-hoo had a rather thoughtful expression on his face.

“This is absurd.”

Lee San-hoo’s voice, with an unreadable expression, echoed.

“This is…, really….”

Lee San-hoo’s voice.

“This is absurd.”

There was a sense of lament in it.

Hainan’s advance had already begun a long time ago.

They already knew that they were coming towards Eunha, and Eunha had started preparing for it.

Numerous meetings and discussions.

But what Lee Ro-woon did was.

-Rest.

He had given a break to Lee San-hoo, who was called the strategist.

It was an unacceptable thing, but Lee San-hoo followed Lee Ro-woon’s will.

‘There must be something.’

Just as Lee Ro-woon had evaluated Lee San-hoo, Lee San-hoo had also evaluated Lee Ro-woon.

Lee Ro-woon, who was always languid, was a man whose thoughts were unreadable, but he was.

‘Lee Ro-woon of Dank.’

Even in his past as a player, he was someone he considered great.

‘Blood Demon Lee Ro-woon.’

The appearances he had shown so far were also literally overwhelming.

So, he thought that preparations had been made this time as well.

However.

“Nothing has been prepared!”

Lee San-hoo shouted.

“…….”

With no answer coming, Lee San-hoo said.

“What on earth are you thinking?”

Eunha, who had returned after a short break.

And what Lee San-hoo learned at the meeting that followed was.

-There’s no way.

Nothing had been prepared yet.

There was nothing prepared for how to stop the Hainan forces of over ninety thousand.

Even though it was an unprecedented large force clashing after the invasion of the past world.

-Then let’s proceed as is.

Lee Ro-woon simply said that he would face Hainan with the forces he had.

-But….

Lee San-hoo said that it was absurd, but.

-Then find a way, aren’t you the strategist?

Lee Ro-woon had only left those words and left.

He kept thinking and thinking again.

A way to overcome the overwhelming difference in military strength.

But there was a clear limit to it.

If it was just a coalition of ordinary warriors, Eunha could have found a way with its overwhelming power, but the opponent was Hainan.

There were ways to reduce damage and retreat, but.

-Rejected.

Lee Ro-woon would not accept anything unless it was to defeat Hainan and annihilate them.

This is.

“It’s a dog’s death.”

Was Lee Ro-woon a different being from what he had thought?

The past him had disappeared, and the current him was.

-Blood Demon.

Was he really just a demon who followed and pursued only death and blood, as Eun said?

And then.

“There’s no need to go that far.”

Choi Doo-ho said to Lee San-hoo.

“What….”

“There’s no need to shake us, to boost our morale.”

Choi Doo-ho said in a calm voice.

“Don’t waste your energy trying to test us and lead us at this moment.”

The expression disappeared from Lee San-hoo’s face.

He was right.

In fact, all of this was.

“We have already made up our minds. Whether it’s the Blood Cult or Eunha. We have risked everything so that we players can live a better life.”

It was just a tactic to boost the players’ morale.

To shake them with doubts and fears.

“You are.”

To show them the light in the midst of crisis.

When they were about to waver and collapse, Lee San-hoo was planning to lead them with his prepared tactics and make them rely on him.

But Choi Doo-ho was saying.

“You are the strategist of Eunha that we have decided to follow.”

Don’t underestimate the players.

That they wouldn’t collapse so easily as Lee San-hoo thought, and that they weren’t weak.

Kwaang!

“Just give the orders.”

Choi Doo-ho lowered his helmet while holding his sword.

His wrinkled face was completely covered by the shining helmet.

“Me and my players will follow them.”

“…….”

Lee San-hoo didn’t answer.

Kwaang!

At that moment, the wall that had been set up as a defensive barrier collapsed, and warriors began to rush in.

“I apologize for ignoring you.”

Lee San-hoo’s voice changed.

“Then let’s begin.”

Lee San-hoo had also acknowledged it.

That these players were different.

-Save me-!

-I’ll do as you say.

They were different from those who had endangered everyone by changing sides arbitrarily with weak wills.

“Tell me. What’s the plan?”

At Choi Doo-ho’s words, Lee San-hoo shook his head and said.

“There isn’t one.”

“Is that so?”

“I don’t have a way to win. I only have a way to endure.”

Swish.

Lee San-hoo waved his hand and drew out his magic power.

He activated an item that would transmit his will to the surroundings with the power of the A-grade item that Eunha had given him.

“The way to win….”

Faith.

“That guy will have it.”

Lee San-hoo believed in Lee Ro-woon.

Clang!

Finally, the warriors and players began to clash.

* * *

Heh.

Lee Tae-gyeom was smiling.

The story of Eunha.

The story of the Blood Cult.

‘There might be something left.’

He had been cautious because he thought that their potential was still there, but.

Clang! Clang!

In the midst of the battlefield that had begun to clash, Lee Tae-gyeom was able to be certain of victory.

“They are indeed strong.”

Eunha, the Blood Cult, was composed of powerful warriors as he had heard.

No, they seemed even stronger than what was known.

But this was.

“Hainan is the same.”

Hainan was the same.

The Hainan warriors who had moved to face the players were well-known, but the warriors who were now moving to face the Blood Cult were those that Hainan had carefully created.

-The Great Hainan Sword Corps.

Composed of a total of about a thousand people, they were those who had used not only the Soul-Devouring Pills that Hainan had given them at the meeting, but also the special elixirs made by Hainan’s special method.

Internal energy filled their bodies.

If that was all, they would be called fake warriors, but they were warriors who had properly reached the realm through diligent training and enlightenment.

Swish-!

They were beings that could be called the true power of Hainan.

They finally began to cut down the warriors of Eunha.

“…….”

The Blood Demon was not moving, but.

“Saha Sword Corps, kill them all.”

The Saha Sword Corps moved, and the executives who had been assisting the Blood Demon began to move.

The main event was.

‘It’s starting now.’

Defeating Eunha and the Blood Cult was a given.

But what was more important than anything was to catch the Blood Demon.

A being that had been passed down like a legend.

When it finally revealed itself.

“I will catch the Blood Demon.”

If he defeated it, no one would be able to ignore Hainan, or rather, himself.

Goo-ooo!

The blue light that was gathering on Lee Tae-gyeom’s sword.

Lee Tae-gyeom slowly began to take a step forward.

He would catch the Blood Demon.

And.

“Watch me.”

He would surpass Oh Jin-kyung.

“I will show you what kind of being the one who will become the head of Hainan is. Senior Brother.”

Tatatat!