Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 56

Do Cheon-hoo’s massive greatsword began to emanate a chilling blue aura.

It was the realm of a master, where energy transcended mere luminescence and took on a tangible form.

This was the aura of a master, a power that could cut through anything, now manifested in Do Cheon-hoo’s blade.

“Ughaaaa!”

Do Cheon-hoo’s distorted face and explosive energy were not all he had to offer.

His world, Do Cheon’s Fortress, had been turned into a sea of fire.

The future he had envisioned was now as good as gone.

This was the power he had held back even during his fight with the Nine-Form Formation.

Kukwaaang!

The blue energy of his blade intensified, taking on an even darker hue.

This massive greatsword, the Do Cheon Blade, was the core that sustained Do Cheon’s Fortress.

Using the world’s essence, he was now unleashing all of its power in a single, explosive burst.

A suicidal attack, a mutual destruction with his enemy.

“Dieeeeee!”

Do Cheon-hoo swung his greatsword, pouring all his rage into the attack aimed at Lee Ro-woon.

The shockwave distorted the flames, and the warriors of Do Cheon nearby were torn to shreds.

Even if Lee Ro-woon had faced the Blue Sword Formation alone, there was no way he could survive such an attack at point-blank range.

‘I will kill him.’

That was the single thought behind his desperate strike.

Tuk!

But the sound that followed was not what Do Cheon-hoo had expected.

Lee Ro-woon’s crimson left hand had effortlessly caught the blade of the Do Cheon Blade.

Throb.

Veins bulged on his crimson left hand, as if it were sucking something in, like swollen blood vessels.

“Ma….”

He could feel all the energy that had been swirling around the Do Cheon Blade being sucked into that left hand.

“Demonic Art….”

It was Demonic Art.

A demonic path that deviated from the righteous way.

A vile martial art that could break common sense and even the human spirit.

“That’s right. It’s Demonic Art.”

His mind grew hazy as his power was drained away.

Do Cheon-hoo began to crumble.

Thud.

His knees buckled.

The world that had surrounded Do Cheon-hoo had completely changed.

This was no longer his world, Do Cheon’s Fortress.

Goooh!

A red castle.

Surrounded by countless warriors, they stood before it.

An incomprehensible realm that defied common sense.

Do Cheon-hoo gave up trying to understand.

Then, a strange light flickered in Do Cheon-hoo’s eyes.

He recognized familiar faces among the warriors who had surrounded them.

The warriors of Do Cheon who had been guarding his son, Do Sang-mok.

“Lord.”

They slowly approached and spoke.

“Do not worry too much. The people of Do Cheon will live under the grace of the Blood Demon.”

The Blood Demon.

“Is that so?”

Eun-ha.

They were not Do Cheon’s lifeline.

They were the jaws of a demon that would uproot Do Cheon entirely.

“Do Cheon-hoo.”

Lee Ro-woon’s voice reached Do Cheon-hoo, who had closed his eyes, sensing everything.

“There is no path for you to live.”

You will die with your sins.

Lee Ro-woon’s right hand grabbed Do Cheon-hoo’s head.

Throb.

All his life force and energy began to be sucked away by the Blood Demon Absorption.

***

The world of Eun was shattered into many fragments that drifted through dimensions after its destruction.

However, not all of Eun’s world was broken and divided from the beginning.

Some parts remained in Eun, maintaining their existence for a long time, while others were shattered early on and drifted through the dimensions.

Even if the dimensions were shattered and divided at the same time, it also meant that the time experienced by the divided worlds was different.

‘Do Cheon.’

They were divided relatively late, and they were not a force that had wandered for a long time.

A case where the door opened only about ten years after the world was split.

It was a force of about a thousand people who had survived.

That Do Cheon was merged into the Blood King Castle.

A world the size of a small village.

“Designate the area and have it managed.”

“We will make sure there are no concerns.”

Those who were called the people of Do Cheon’s Fortress were also forcibly confined to the Blood King Castle.

Some of those who mainly operated outside the world and those who had committed clear crimes became nourishment, while those who were relatively innocent or had only been inside the world survived.

Whether they wanted to or not, they would learn Blood Arts and become Blood Cultists.

Of course, those who had been Do Sang-mok’s guards would quickly help with that process.

Do Cheon would slowly be absorbed and become a part of the Blood King Castle.

“We have a message from the Divine Maiden.”

Han Do-baek, who was traveling between the Blood King Castle and Earth, approached Lee Ro-woon and said.

“She says the cleanup is complete.”

He was informed that the Iron Sword’s matter had been concluded.

The Iron Sword troops, who had retreated to the Iron Sword building that Eun-ha had occupied with Cheon In, were defeated after suffering in the trap prepared by Eun-ha and betrayed by Cheon In.

Most of them would become nourishment for the Blood Cultists, paying for the Iron Sword’s sins, but those who survived and became prisoners were destined to come to the Blood King Castle and become Blood Cultists.

It was a long time, if you could call it that.

However, considering that the massive force of the Iron Sword Alliance had been dismantled, it was over in a short time.

“Cheon In still has value.”

As Cheon In was originally the one who controlled Gyeonggi Province, they would lead the way in helping to organize the forces.

And when that value was exhausted.

‘Cheon In will also have to be integrated.’

Kang Eun-ha had not lied to Cheon In-mok.

The lineage of Cheon In would be maintained.

“…….”

Lee Ro-woon looked down at the Blood King Castle.

The Blood King Castle was moving more busily than ever before.

In a short period of half a year.

“It’s finally starting to look decent.”

The power of the Blood King Castle had doubled, or even more.

It was still far from regaining its past glory, but the changes in the Blood King Castle, which had seemed to be in a state of constant decline, were satisfactory.

“Blood Demon.”

Kang Han-cheol, the leader of the Blood Cult, bowed deeply and said.

“Thank you.”

His voice was filled with genuine sincerity.

* * *

The war was over.

In the end, Haenam succeeded in devouring Chungcheong and Gangwon and planting their flag.

The forces that had controlled Chungcheong, Samshin, and the forces that had controlled Gangwon, Hwangpae, were completely dismantled, and some were absorbed into Haenam.

In particular, Hwangpae, whose guild leader and sect leader Hwang Gi had been captured, was in a situation where even their world would be destroyed or taken away.

‘The internal strife of the Iron Sword is also over.’

The war between Cheon In and Do Cheon.

And the dismantling of the Iron Sword.

Everything was over with Cheon In’s victory.

Cheon In gave all the glory of the victory to Eun-ha and declared that they would rule Gyeonggi Province together with Eun-ha.

It was the moment when someone whose name had not even been heard until recently became a massive force that controlled Gyeonggi, which had become a key point in South Korea.

Many people were anxious at the sudden news.

‘Haenam and Cheon In.’

The question was whether Haenam, which had risen to power, would leave Gyeonggi Province alone.

The longer the war dragged on, the more damage would be inflicted on the general public and the players.

They were focusing all their attention on Haenam’s actions.

And then, an unbelievable thing happened.

-Haenam acknowledges Eun-ha’s rights.

They, one of the three major forces in South Korea, or even in Asia, had agreed that Eun-ha would control Gyeonggi.

Furthermore, they stopped their northward advance and declared the end of the war.

Now, the attention turned elsewhere.

‘Hwasan.’

In fact, everyone knew that the Iron Sword Alliance was under the protection of Hwasan.

If Hwasan did not recognize Eun-ha, there was a high possibility that Hwasan would move instead of Haenam, which had retreated.

And the answer was silence.

“Isn’t it practically the same as acknowledging that Eun-ha controls Gyeonggi?”

“That’s right.”

The silence of Hwasan had many meanings.

However, most people thought that Hwasan had acknowledged Eun-ha’s rights.

It was truly over.

The Eun-ha Guild, which had been established less than a year ago, had come to control half of Gyeonggi Province.

“She must be a puppet put up by Cheon In.”

“She can’t possibly eat up all of Gyeonggi by herself.”

People thought that all of this was a rebellion that the Cheon In Guild had been planning for a long time, and Eun-ha was treated as a secret weapon that Cheon In had raised.

However, no matter what anyone said, the fact that Eun-ha had the right to control Gyeonggi did not change.

“Namgoong Mu-jin has even provided excellent after-sales service.”

Ha Se-min said to Lee Ro-woon with his usual expression.

“He handled the matter with Hwasan well. Although Gyeonggi is said to be the wall of Hwasan, it is not that important to them.”

When Lee Ro-woon nodded, Ha Se-min continued.

“Anyway, you really did it.”

Ha Se-min also had an unbelievable look on his face.

He had drawn the picture while investing in the Blood King Castle, and he had predicted what Lee Ro-woon was planning by watching his actions.

However, the probability of success that Ha Se-min had actually thought of was less than half.

The massive force of the Iron Sword Alliance, although inferior to Hwasan and Haenam, was not small at all.

But the Blood Cult had done it.

No.

‘Lee Ro-woon.’

This man had done it all by himself.

Ha Se-min, who had supported the Blood Cult, knew.

The Blood Cult was actually in a state of ruin that was impossible to recover from.

The poison of the elders had penetrated too deeply, and the man who had become the Blood Demon, Blood Soo-baek, was a man consumed by madness.

Even if Blood Soo-baek had reached the realm he desired and had come out into the world.

‘It would have been nothing but destruction.’

The reason was simple.

The Blood Cult knew too little about the world.

They didn’t even know how far the realm that Blood Soo-baek desired would be applicable in the current world.

Perhaps they would have succeeded in erasing the Iron Sword Alliance, but what would have happened after that was obvious.

‘Mutual destruction.’

The villains who had erased the Iron Sword Alliance would have been erased in the name of Hwasan, Haenam, or the Assembly.

That was the future that had been predetermined for the Blood Cult.

However, it was this man in front of him, Lee Ro-woon, who had changed everything.

And the biggest difference was.

‘He knows the world.’

That Lee Ro-woon was a player.

And the unknown power he possessed and his complete control over the Blood Cult had made the impossible possible.

“What’s the big deal?”

However, Lee Ro-woon had the same expression as usual.

Languid and sleepy.

“This is just the starting point.”

At those words, Ha Se-min laughed as if he was dumbfounded.

“What on earth are you planning?”

In a short period of time, he had turned the Blood Cult into one of the three major forces in South Korea, or rather, he had done it without even using the name of the Blood Cult.

But he said it was just the starting point.

“Are you really thinking of going up against the Assembly?”

No way.

Ha Se-min’s face gradually hardened.

“Was it real?”

Lee Ro-woon had definitely said it before.

‘Eun is mine.’

That he would devour Eun.

Was that not just a joke or an ambition?

“I don’t have a hobby of saying useless things.”

“Are you crazy?”

He was serious.

This man, he thought he knew the world quite well, but it seemed that the world he knew was not enough.

“Ha.”

However, Ha Se-min closed his mouth because he knew that it was useless to try to stop him.

‘I need to see that person.’

Replacing the Iron Sword Alliance and going up against the Assembly were two very different things.

It was something that could shake the very existence of the Black Market.

Even so, Ha Se-min thought that he needed to hear what that person had to say.

“What are you going to do now?”

Even so, he was curious.

What would be this man’s next move?

“The annoying work is over.”

Eun-ha’s guild leader, Kang Eun-ha, had grown.

He had provided the framework, so it was her role to expand that framework.

Now, what Lee Ro-woon had to do was.

Clench.

“I’m thinking of going into seclusion.”

“Seclusion?”

Seclusion at such an important time?

“I told you, I’m going to get back what’s mine.”

The enemies he would have to face from now on.

They would be real, unlike the fakes he had faced so far.

He had to prepare for that to some extent.

“Find out what I told you to find out. The most important thing is….”

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes shone.

“The emergence of a new world.”

A world where his masters might be sleeping.