Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 469

“A-are you awake?” The voice, though clearly Korean, was raspy, like it was scraping against his throat.

Thud!

As soon as Lee Rowoon opened his eyes, he instinctively grabbed the speaker’s neck.

His defensive instincts kicked in, his hand clenching, ready to snap the neck.

Crack.

If it had been a human, it would have been dead, but…

“Th-thank goodness….”

The creature was not only alive but also making sounds.

“Thank… goodness.”

A voice filled with joy.

“…….”

Slowly, Lee Rowoon regained his senses and released his grip.

“Cough, ke-cough.”

It was alive, but it seemed to be in pain, coughing dryly as if it had been injured. Even so, it didn’t lose its joyful expression as it prostrated itself before Lee Rowoon.

The creature spoke in a human voice, in Korean.

However.

“I have been waiting for you to awaken.”

Its appearance was completely different from that of a human.

A hunched back, and insect-like wings protruding from its back.

Its hair, instead of flowing, looked more like a biological organ.

Lee Rowoon easily recognized its identity.

“A lower demon?”

Demon.

A race similar to humans, yet distinctly different.

“Y-yes, that’s right.”

It was a demon.

It was then.

“Did you wake up?”

At the indifferent voice, Lee Rowoon turned his gaze.

A familiar energy.

“Partisan?”

Partisan, one of the guardian dragons of Einheart, whom he had met in the Moyong family, was standing there.

“What, did you think I was some other guardian dragon?” Partisan frowned as he spoke.

“What a mess this is.”

It was a very casual tone for a being who had lived for thousands of years, steeped in the history of Einheart.

“It’s Partisan.”

It was definitely Partisan’s tone.

Lee Rowoon had encountered Partisan in the Moyong family.

Since then, Partisan hadn’t been resting. He was struggling to regain his lost power and was also using his power to check on Einheart’s situation in order to contact the other guardian dragons.

That was why he, who had been unable to move outside of Japan where the Moyong family was located, was now in front of him.

“Why are you here?”

“And with a lower demon.”

The sight of him with a lower demon was so strange it felt like a dream.

“Get your….”

Partisan approached Lee Rowoon and said,

“Head on straight?”

Saaaah.

A cold energy emanated from Partisan’s whole body.

The lower demon trembled and froze at the cold energy, as if he were an ice dragon.

“…….”

Lee Rowoon felt his head clear.

“Kuh.”

A severe headache assaulted his head.

And one by one.

“……!”

He widened his eyes as his memories returned.

Kwaaaah-!

Energy, fused with anger, began to explode from Lee Rowoon’s whole body. No, it was an energy mixed with complex emotions that were too complex to be called anger.

“Kuh-uh-uh!”

The lower demon, who had been freezing from Partisan’s energy, was now melting again from Lee Rowoon’s energy, letting out even more extreme cries of pain.

“Calm down.”

Partisan’s voice.

Even without that.

“…….”

Lee Rowoon slowly regained his reason.

He remembered.

‘Shaolin.’

He had gone to Shaolin to pull out the stakes that were sealing the players, and the reason he had gone there wasn’t just for the stakes.

‘Teacher.’

To meet his teacher, Shin Yeoul.

And the teacher he had faced.

He.

“Kuh.”

Was killed by chaos.

The terrible feeling he had felt at that time began to pierce his heart again, causing pain.

Soon, the image of Beopcheon came to mind.

-This place is….

His voice seemed to be heard clearly again.

The place where the stakes were driven, and the place where his teacher existed.

That place is….

-It is the Gate of Hell.

Gate of Hell.

The hazy consciousness became clear again, and Lee Rowoon began to properly recognize the whole situation.

What Beopcheon had opened was the true Gate of Hell.

And the place where he had fallen was.

“This is Gehenna.”

That it was another invaded world, Gehenna.

* * *

Three moons floating in the sky, and a purple sun.

Barren land.

Even the alien air and energies.

This place is.

‘Gehenna.’

Lee Rowoon could tell that it was Gehenna, which he had only heard about from his teacher and seen only in his teacher’s memories.

There were a total of three worlds that had invaded Earth.

One.

‘The world of warriors, Eun.’

They were the first to open and the first to mix. Their worlds were connected in the form of gates, and they were the ones who traveled between worlds.

And another one.

‘The world of magic and knights, Einheart.’

The Empire. They invaded the world in a slightly different form than Eun. There were places where gates existed, but most of them were a mixture of worlds. It was as if the same space was being used by two dimensions at the same time.

And the last one.

‘The world of demons, Gehenna.’

Gehenna. Their invasion was clearly a known fact. It could be said that it was because of the appearance of demons and devils in the early stages of the world’s invasion. They mixed among the people and created discord, and occasionally committed massacres.

However.

‘No one knows where the gate to Gehenna is.’

Also.

‘It is not known in what form Gehenna has invaded.’

Everything about Gehenna was vague.

Lee Rowoon had searched for a gate to Gehenna to find the Demon King Berzena, but in the end, all he could find were pits that could be called the dregs of Gehenna.

It was said that Einheart and Eun were at war with Gehenna, but nothing was known about Gehenna itself.

“Shaolin was guarding that gate.”

Shaolin was guarding the gate to Gehenna.

Lee Rowoon also recalled the scene at that time, remembering his memories.

The gate was not only in Shaolin.

‘Two.’

Another gate was open in another place.

And now.

Shudder.

The scene unfolding before his eyes was the landscape of Gehenna, and a lower demon was trembling.

“Damn it.”

And Partisan, the guardian dragon of Einheart, was cursing.

“Why are you here?”

At Lee Rowoon’s words, Partisan’s face frowned even more.

“What…? What did you say? That now…!” Partisan, who seemed angry, emitted a cold energy again.

“You…! Isn’t it because of you!”

Partisan seemed to be burning with anger inside, unlike the name of an ice dragon.

“You don’t know what kind of relationship you and I have, do you?”

“Master and servant?”

“Kuh…. Well, it’s not wrong. I’m subordinate to your soul.”

Partisan said.

“When you crossed the wall of the world, I was also drawn here by you. Damn it.”

“Ah.”

The general situation was understood.

No, that’s why.

“…….”

Lee Rowoon also frowned.

“Subordinate, and came here?”

If so, what about the others?

The Blood Cult, the whole of it, was connected to Lee Rowoon’s soul, small and large.

Then, were they also in Gehenna?

“That’s not likely.”

Partisan spoke as if he had read Lee Rowoon’s mind.

“This is a special world.”

“…….”

“Eun, and Einheart too.”

Partisan, who had experienced both worlds.

“The walls of the two worlds have collapsed. Especially the wall of Einheart can be said to have completely collapsed.”

Eun and Einheart had invaded the world called Earth. In doing so, they lost the barriers that protected their worlds at the same time.

However.

“Gehenna is different.”

This place, Gehenna, is different.

“The wall is intact. The reason they can come and go to Earth is because of the small cracks in the wall, not because the wall has collapsed.”

Partisan said.

“Crossing the wall of the world is not something that can be done at an ordinary level. Especially for humans, the limit is clear. Humans who are not like you or me would not have been able to cross the wall even if they were subordinate to you.”

That meant the Blood Cult would remain on Earth.

“That’s, a relief.”

At Lee Rowoon’s words, Partisan let out a sigh.

“Didn’t you understand what I said?”

Lee Rowoon looked at Partisan, who was speaking as if he was frustrated.

“No.”

Didn’t understand?

“I understand that we’re trapped here.”

Crossing the wall of the world would not be easy, so it meant that they had to find a crack. Finding that crack would not be easy. In the end, they were trapped.

And one more thing.

“The announcements of Eun and Einheart were not wrong.”

They said.

-The war with Gehenna has entered a truce.

They had been at war with Gehenna for a long time, and because of that, they had even made a truce with Einheart and even formed an alliance. However, there were many who questioned the reality of that fight.

But that much was true.

“That the wall has not collapsed.”

Lee Rowoon said.

“That means they are constantly breaking down the wall and creating cracks.”

Gehenna.

“I also understand that Gehenna is trying to invade the world called Earth even at this moment.”

“Tch.”

Partisan closed his mouth as if he was unlucky.

“But.”

He had grasped the general situation.

However, there was one thing he still didn’t understand.

“What the hell are you?”

The strange lower demon who was still trembling in front of him. What was he?

“I, I am….”

The lower demon bowed his head even more and said,

“I am a servant sent by Count Forgia….”

“Count Forgia?”

“Yes…. Yes! That’s right!”

The lower demon spoke as if he was feeling pain at every word Lee Rowoon said.

“She is the lord who rules this area!”

The lower demon raised his head.

“Did she tell you to come get me?”

“Yes…! N-no! Not to come get you….”

The lower demon said.

“She sent me to ask you to stop…!”