Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 523

Finally, Rowoon understood everything. He understood that he was chaos, and he understood the time he had lived through. Having understood and accepted it all, Rowoon spoke to the Sword King.

“Master.”

The Sword King asked, his heart heavy, “Will you repeat it again?”

Rowoon’s face, as he looked at the Sword King, was expressionless.

“It is a meaningless world.”

In the end.

“This place is no different either.”

Rowoon was about to make the same countless choices he had made before.

The Sword King clenched his fist.

“Do you really think so?” he asked again.

There was no way to fight Rowoon anyway. The Three Kings, the rulers of the world, who had faced chaos, had always been defeated by it. That was the nature of chaos—an absolute power that could not be confronted, the source of the world. Truly, a being most deserving of the name of God.

“As much as I do… don’t you, masters, know it well?” Rowoon said.

“…”

“The world where kings were born. What was the end result?” Rowoon continued. “The kings who were born naturally, the chaos that gave them power… and in the end, they rejected the kings, fought among themselves, and self-destructed.”

The ending was always the same. It wasn’t about being trapped in the past, relying on memories.

“You must have seen it.” The present was the same.

“Eun erased the existence of the Martial King and denied his existence.” There were those who vaguely remembered the Blood Cult, the Hao Clan, and the Martial King, waiting for him, but in the end, they forgot their king and were foolish enough to lose even their remaining power in order to seize the current power. The Martial Alliance had forgotten and buried even that.

“Gehenna fought among themselves, declaring they would become the Demon King.” There were a few who had waited for the Demon King for a long time, but that was all. Gehenna was heading towards destruction faster than anywhere else, tearing each other apart.

“What about Einheart?” What about the Sword King’s origin, Einheart?

“That place that calls itself a king and impersonates you…” Rowoon’s eyes, expression, and voice were changing. The humanity that remained after awakening the memories of chaos…

“Do you really think it’s worth it?” A voice echoed. It was the voice of an absolute being, the voice of the world.

Kwaaang-!

“This place is the same. It is a place that deserves to disappear. So…” The moment Rowoon’s eyes flashed.

Jjeoeeeeeong-!

The seal of Bondenno that had bound him shattered.

“……!” It was as the Sword King had said. The seal created by the two geniuses, the Demon King and Bondenno, who had poured everything into it, was only enough to hold the being called chaos for a single moment. That fleeting conversation was the only thing the transcendent beings closest to God had desired. And the moment that followed.

Pshoooook!

A fountain of blood erupted from the Sword King’s arm. The Sword King had already given up his will to fight, having released Espencia [his sword]. He instinctively avoided it, but lost an arm.

“It is the time of destruction.” Rowoon was truly trying to erase and kill the Sword King. The end. The last moment of the world…

Kuoohhhhh!

It had finally arrived.

“Kuh!” The Sword King, quickly stopping the bleeding from his torn arm, reached out with his other intact hand. Chaeeng-! The fallen Espencia returned and was grasped in his hand.

“Then, as always, I will struggle.” The Rowoon from before was his disciple. And the Rowoon now was his master. And a disaster named chaos and destruction.

* * *

The transcendent being called the Sword King, he could be said to be the most powerful transcendent being in this world right now. His appearance, swallowing a groan and glaring, was nothing short of a rag. A mere human being ravaged by the power of chaos that was reaching out. The existence of the Sword King was reduced to just another being in the face of chaos.

“This time too…” He could not face chaos. It was something that had always failed.

Kwaak. The Sword King closed his eyes.

“Is it a failure?” The Three Kings, they were beings who had stood against chaos.

“Why are you so passionate? You should know well. You are the same as me.” And the existence of chaos…

“It was you who tried to bring your world to ruin.” Similar humans. Thus, they were recognized by chaos and gained qualifications—to live eternally in the gap of chaos, just like chaos.

“So this world must also meet the same end.” The power of chaos was spreading out in streams. The end would now come.

“…because.” The Sword King’s faint voice became clearer. His whole face and body were covered in blood, but the Sword King stared at chaos with unwavering eyes and said, “Because you and we are the same. That’s why we are doing this.”

It was again. Deep sadness and regret. The emotions they had shown while looking at Rowoon were not fragile feelings for Rowoon, who did not even know who he was…

“Because I know how lonely, isolated, and terrible it is.” It was the face of pity he had felt while looking at chaos. That was what he was showing at this moment.

“We, who ended the world, were erased and forgotten in our world. And you also destroyed the world that revered you with your own hands,” the Sword King said as if wailing. “Aren’t you lonely?”

He was not the Sword King now. The Martial King, the Demon King. He was speaking for the feelings of the Three Kings who had shared his will. Sway. It really seemed as if they were standing next to the Sword King in the eyes of chaos.

“We are not repeating this to save the world!” The opportunity given by chaos. The reason they were planning and carrying out the plan to face chaos with it was not for some grand purpose of saving the world.

“It is to save you… to save you.” Chaos. “How long will you live in that loneliness and pain?” It was all for saving that one being.

“Now be free. Now please…!” the Sword King said. The expressionless chaos slowly landed on the ground. Pasut. Chaos stood in front of the Sword King in an instant.

“……!” The Sword King could feel it for a moment—that he was wavering. It was the first time. And that was… ‘Success… might be….’ It meant that this long fight could finally come to an end.

Jjeolkeureok. He released Espencia again. No, this time he wouldn’t even be able to grab it again. ‘Thank you for everything until now.’ He extinguished the existence of Espencia. He sensed that the moment to bet everything had come, the first time he had shown the gap of chaos. And then.

Hwaaaaa-!

The Sword King fully unleashed his power. It was then.

“Shinma!” Beyond the wall the Sword King had set up, the companions of chaos, no, Rowoon, who were struggling to rush here, burst in.

* * *

The beings who rushed in were the companions of the human named Rowoon. They were also beings who had already entered the realm of transcendence. They knew that the being in front of them was different from the being they knew. Even so.

“Shinma!” They stood guarding chaos and pointed their swords at the Sword King and Bondenno.

“……” He wavered.

“He is not the being you knew,” the Sword King said to them in a tired voice. “He is a being called chaos, a being who will destroy this world.”

Even so.

“Do you know how foolish it is to stand to protect him?”

But.

“Shut up,” Hase-min glared at the Sword King and said. “It is only because you know Shinma’s master that we are showing you respect.” Hase-min’s fist, flashing, was emitting a sharp killing intent without fail.

“You fools. You are sacrificing yourselves to protect the disaster that is about to come.” At the Sword King’s words.

“So what?” Lee San-hoo said, lowering his eyes. It was as the Sword King had said. They instinctively knew that the power emanating from Rowoon’s body, no, chaos, would destroy this world, and beyond, the Earth and everything. Kooohhhh-! They knew that they could not feel the existence of Rowoon, the being they knew.

“We chose to serve this person, and we swore to protect this person,” Porzia said. “If it is something that he has chosen, it is the duty of a knight to be with him.”

They were. “We will give everything and perish to protect our master.” Even though they knew everything, they stood against the Sword King and sided with chaos.

“You fools.” The Sword King seemed to be cursing them. However, his face was filled with pity and regret, and it was not blaming their ignorance.

“Did you see it?” Chaos. “No, did you see it?” He called out to Rowoon within him. “Look back at your memories. There were such people everywhere. It was not only those who brought the world to ruin and opposed you.”

In any world. “They are the ones who protect you, the ones who love you.” This was “Our last plan.” The plan that the Three Kings had made. In fact, it was a plan they had made by betting everything and spending all that time. Chaos was born as chaos, lived as chaos, and could not be assimilated anywhere. Sometimes, he tried to imitate humans and understand them, but even so, chaos could not understand them.

Then, “How about letting him know what humans are?” It was the Martial King’s suggestion. “Indeed…” The Sword King agreed. “Would it really be meaningful?” The Demon King was skeptical. “At least, if Chaos were to live a human life, loving, being betrayed, and being healed, he wouldn’t be lonely then.” The Demon King’s words were convincing. To make chaos human. To live a human life. That was how they bet everything and created the stage that was this Earth. And that it was the existence of Rowoon.

“Rowoon. That is your name, isn’t it?” “So please give us a chance…!” The Sword King pleaded. It was not to prevent the destruction of the world, nor was it to beg for his own life. “Please, just once, live a human life!” It was a cry, earnestly wishing that the being called chaos could become human.