Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 400

“What you should ask is….”

In his trembling voice, Je Gal Shin-jae’s eyes shone clearly.

His soul had recombined, and his mind was sound.

“Your secret.”

That meant it wasn’t nonsense.

Kwaang!

Lee Ro-woon threw Je Gal Shin-jae away.

“Master!”

“What are you…!”

They were briefly startled by Lee Ro-woon’s sudden action.

But Lee Ro-woon had already moved.

He slammed Je Gal Shin-jae into the wall, pressing down on his neck with his elbow, his eyes sharper than ever.

“So….”

Haah, haah.

Small breaths.

They came from Lee Ro-woon’s mouth.

“You’re saying I should ask about my secret?”

Je Gal Shin-jae didn’t answer.

No, he couldn’t answer.

Tuk.

Je Gal Shin-jae had already fainted. As Lee Ro-woon released his grip, he slumped and lost consciousness.

“…….”

Everyone was bewildered by Lee Ro-woon’s unfamiliar behavior, unable to move.

It felt as if they needed permission even to breathe.

“What on earth….”

Ha Se-min barely managed to speak, his face pale.

“What on earth is going on….”

The conversation with Je Gal Shin-jae had touched a nerve in Lee Ro-woon.

Lee Ro-woon had never shown such agitation before.

Even with Kang Eun-ha’s death, he had calmly endured and suppressed his anger.

But now, he was.

Goooh!

He looked dangerously close to exploding.

Swoosh.

Lee Ro-woon’s gaze turned towards Ha Se-min.

“……!”

Ha Se-min felt his breath catch.

Lee Ro-woon, who always spoke softly with languid eyes.

“I….”

Ha Se-min involuntarily knelt on one knee under his gaze.

“Plea…se….”

The immense force pressed down on his entire body.

The power Lee Ro-woon had shown so far was not everything.

“Ha.”

Then, Lee Ro-woon sighed.

“What am I doing to you guys?”

Lee Ro-woon ran a hand through his hair, then picked up Je Gal Shin-jae, who was unconscious on the floor.

The overflowing energy was drawn into Je Gal Shin-jae, pulsing through his meridians.

“Kuh-uk!”

Je Gal Shin-jae barely woke up.

However, his face was contorted with pain, as if his internal organs were damaged and his bones were broken from the previous attack.

“I thought it was strange.”

Lee Ro-woon spoke to the awakened Je Gal Shin-jae.

“I….”

Such a question had been on his mind for a long time.

“Because I was different from my masters.”

His three masters.

The Martial King, the Sword King, and the Demonic King.

They had one thing in common.

They had challenged the chaos by becoming the end of the world, the kings of the world.

But he was different.

“I was a bug who couldn’t even take care of myself, let alone become a king. That’s me.”

A fate where he was trapped in the Mount Hua corpse disposal site, not knowing when he would die.

And yet, he….

“Why I ended up there.”

Why he had faced chaos in a place where the kings of the world had gathered.

“That’s all.”

Lee Ro-woon spat out each word as if chewing them.

“Is that what you, the Je Gal family, are saying?”

And then.

“Just….”

Je Gal Shin-jae answered through his pain.

“We only… accelerated the flow….”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Sreung.

With a clear sound of a sword, anger manifested in Lee Ro-woon’s hand.

“Then did you predict what would happen next?”

Lee Ro-woon’s blade touched Je Gal Shin-jae’s Adam’s apple.

“Master!”

They hadn’t yet learned the secrets of Mount Hua or the world from Je Gal Shin-jae.

“I couldn’t… no, I can’t….”

Je Gal Shin-jae answered as if he feared nothing.

“Because the Je Gal family has lost the Heavenly Mandate.”

* * *

Lee Ro-woon did not kill Je Gal Shin-jae.

-Because they lost the Heavenly Mandate.

The Je Gal family had lost the Heavenly Mandate.

“As a price for witnessing the great truth, as a price for reversing that truth…, the Je Gal family lost the Heavenly Mandate.”

The divine artifact, the Heavenly Mandate, which they had created over their long history, no longer existed within the Je Gal family.

“We could only know up to when the flow began. We couldn’t know the results after that.”

Before him, Je Gal Shin-jae looked at Lee Ro-woon.

“But now, having seen the results….”

A faint smile spread across Je Gal Shin-jae’s lips.

“I have no regrets.”

“You crazy bastard.”

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes twitched again.

“Who knows about this fact?”

“The Je Gal family… and….”

Only Je Gal Shin-jae’s lips moved.

“…….”

Lee Ro-woon seemed to have finished thinking for a moment.

“You’ll have to tell me that story separately. If not, I’ll erase the name of the Je Gal family without leaving a single speck of dust.”

“It doesn’t matter. But I can tell you anything, since you’ve made such a great sacrifice.”

Ha.

Lee Ro-woon let out a short breath and said,

“The secret of Mount Hua.”

What he needed to know.

Not his own secret that he had witnessed, but his original purpose.

“The secret of the world.”

Lee Ro-woon was cold.

“Tell me everything you know. If the Je Gal family doesn’t move you.”

In an instant, Lee Ro-woon’s eyes turned black.

“……!”

Je Gal Shin-jae, who had never shown much agitation before.

“Wh-what…!”

He shouted in panic for the first time.

Chaos.

It was the power of the fragment of chaos that he had drawn out through Kang Eun-ha.

“Did you say the Je Gal family did this to prevent the world from being destroyed? Then you know that I can destroy the world with my own hands.”

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes returned to their original color.

“You’d better speak properly.”

Je Gal Shin-jae thought that the Je Gal family had made great sacrifices for the world.

They said that they had lost their divine power and were losing their sense of justice, but that everything was for the sake of the world.

But if the end result was failure, their sacrifices would be in vain.

Lee Ro-woon was threatening him with that.

“I will speak….”

Je Gal Shin-jae said, sounding exhausted.

“The secret of Mount Hua is me.”

Je Gal Shin-jae finally opened his mouth.

“I, the founder and designer of the Assembly, and my sworn allies. Mount Hua is the one who instigated the betrayal against them.”

“Indeed.”

Ha Se-min nodded as if he had expected it.

“To be precise, it’s that Mount Hua betrayed even Mount Hua.”

That made sense.

“The Plum Blossom Divine Sword, Mu-jeong.”

The undead who had been imprisoned with Je Gal Shin-jae.

“And Tae-cheon as well.”

Although not the Plum Blossom Divine Sword, Tae-cheon, who was a candidate for the Plum Blossom Divine Sword, was also exiled to the Mount Hua corpse disposal site.

They had already noticed their division.

The righteous sect that valued justification.

Although justification had become meaningless in the present day, it was still important.

The reason they were accepting and embracing the demonic nature of Mount Hua was also because of justification.

“The division of the Nine Great Sects will accelerate.”

Ha Se-min said excitedly.

“We can expect a clear division even within Mount Hua. The Assembly… and Eun….”

With just the existence of Je Gal Shin-jae.

“It will be divided into two.”

This massive force was being split in two.

Indeed.

“The secret of Mount Hua, and the secret of Eun.”

There was a reason why they built the Mount Hua corpse disposal site to imprison Je Gal Shin-jae and why they exiled him there.

But.

“Then why didn’t you kill him? Why did you leave the risk of leaving behind evidence of your existence?”

Ha Se-min said sharply.

“Certainly….”

Lee San-hoo also nodded.

“If he was such an important figure, someone who could divide the Assembly, they should have completely eliminated him and destroyed the evidence.”

Why did they keep him alive?

And.

-It might not be the whole reason, but it’s also about me, the reason for the children of Je Gal. Because they wouldn’t have any affection for Mount Hua or the Assembly that betrayed me.

The Je Gal family seemed to think he was already dead.

“Why?”

A question.

“It must be because of the second question.”

It was Lee Ro-woon who answered.

“Tell me. The secret of the world.”

The reason he was alive.

“Do you know about the world’s stakes?”

* * *

The light in Je Gal Shin-jae’s eyes faded.

Eventually, Je Gal Shin-jae’s eyes completely lost their light and turned a cloudy white.

No more.

“Is he dead?”

Je Gal Shin-jae was no longer alive.

From the beginning, resurrection was not something that could be considered omnipotent.

The resurrection of the Dang family was possible because their souls were intact and their bodies were also perfectly preserved.

On the other hand, nothing about Je Gal Shin-jae was perfect.

His soul was shattered, and his body was decaying.

Also, it had been too long.

“It’s been over a thousand years.”

The time allotted to Je Gal Shin-jae had already passed long ago.

At least.

“He can’t be resurrected anymore.”

The power of the Soul Deity would not be able to resurrect Je Gal Shin-jae.

Because there were limits to everything, or at least most things.

The end.

“Wasn’t it too easy to let him go?”

Lee Yong-jin said, sounding dissatisfied.

“He said everything was for the greater good, for justice….”

Lee Yong-jin kicked Je Gal Shin-jae’s limp body, showing no mercy or sympathy.

“In the end, isn’t it this bastard who made the world like this?”

The Je Gal family.

“Isn’t this the bastard who made Master like that?”

A terrible person.

“Anyway… the world’s stakes.”

Everyone present had heard Je Gal Shin-jae’s words.

Although there was a part where he spoke separately with Lee Ro-woon, everyone had heard about the secret of Mount Hua and the secret of the world together.

-The world’s stakes.

That was the secret of the world that Je Gal Shin-jae knew.

The secret that Mount Hua and the Assembly wanted to erase.

And this great secret was not just about the Assembly.

“To suppress the power of the players and suppress their awakening… stakes.”

Even Ha Se-min’s voice sounded bewildered.

Twitch.

Lee San-hoo’s forehead twitched.

Although his original self was the Soul Deity, Lee San-hoo, who now occupied and owned this body, was a player.

“What is justice, what is the greater good?”

The biggest victims, the players.

“These bastards….”

They had stolen and sealed what they should have had.

As a result, the martial artists had trampled and abused the players.

That secret had finally been revealed.

“I….”

It was when Lee San-hoo was about to approach the dead Je Gal Shin-jae.

“There’s no need for that.”

Lee Ro-woon stopped them.

“There’s too much they’ve done to find peace so easily.”

Lee Ro-woon’s hand gripped Je Gal Shin-jae’s head.

“The Assembly they painstakingly built, everything they created to save the world.”

Goooh!

The black energy emanating from Lee Ro-woon’s body was drawn into the corpse of the dead Je Gal Shin-jae.

Je Gal Shin-jae’s body, which had regained some flesh thanks to Lee San-hoo, began to rapidly dry up.

His organs melted, and the blood from his entire body flowed out towards Lee Ro-woon.

“It’ll be a punishment for this bastard to destroy it with my own hands.”

Whoosh!

A black vortex began to swirl around Je Gal Shin-jae’s body.

The heavy energy filled the room.

The energy gradually faded, and it was all drawn into Je Gal Shin-jae.

-Haa….

A sound like scraping metal was heard along with the thick black mist.

“Is it because the original was good?”

Lee Ro-woon said, stepping back as if satisfied.

“I was just going to make him a suitable undead.”

A black skeleton stood before him.

Disgusting blood vessels sprouted on it, and it began to regenerate its skin.

“An Arch Lich.”

It was a martial artist’s body.

Lee Ro-woon had not wished for anything, but he had hoped that he would become a fitting undead.

-Master….

What was born was not a Death Knight, but a Lich.

Moreover….

-I greet my master.

A higher form of Lich, an Arch Lich.

“You are my second undead.”